Back in the barracks, Hu Xiaoyan handed over the captives to Wang Tingjiao and had a deep conversation with Wang Tingjiao, Zhang Shaozeng and others.

Hu Xiaoyan actually didn't understand what the Boxers did, and there was nothing wrong with 'helping the Qing to destroy the foreign', but was it not wrong to use this as an excuse to kill compatriots who were also Han Chinese? Just because they're Christians? Just because they learned Western science? That's ridiculous. What is the difference between this approach and the practice of the great traitor Wu Sangui and others in the last years of the Ming Dynasty? Throughout the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the total number of Han Chinese killed by the Manchurians was less than half of the number of Han Chinese killed by the traitors!! The only difference between the Boxers and the big traitors is that Wu Sangui confirmed his identity as a big traitor after defecting to the Manchu Dynasty, while the Boxers did the traitor's business in the name of loyalty and courage!

It has never been difficult to fight the country, but it is! And the most difficult of them is the most complicated with the human heart. At the most tense juncture of wars and foreign invasions in the land of China, there has never been a shortage of traitors who have betrayed the country and sought glory throughout the ages.

So political education is important! The Russian Red Army is very good, he wants to let his soldiers know who they are fighting for and what they are fighting for?

Is it for Hu Xiaoyan? Don't be kidding, what if Hu Xiaoyan goes to the position of emperor? Can he eat better and dress warmer than he does now? Hu Xiaoyan's assets were at their highest than his father, who died early. If it's just for enjoyment, even Elizabeth (it looks like Elizabeth II wasn't born yet?). It won't be better off than he is! Beauty? With so much money, what kind of beauty can't be found? Love? No kidding, when Elizabeth II grows up, with Hu Xiaoyan's knowledge and wealth at that time, even if she seduces the future Queen of England, she may succeed. What kind of love can resist the wealth of the enemy country?

The army is never fighting for someone, nor is it fighting for some dark force. They're fighting for themselves! Without them fighting on the front lines, their children would have to accept to become slaves of the country, to be humiliated and killed by the occupying forces at any time, just as the Boxers were doing.

The Boxer Rebellion is a ready-made example.

After the introduction of instructors in Soviet Russia, the biggest problem was the shortage of non-commissioned officers, in the Soviet Russian army, the commander died in battle, and the instructor could also temporarily command the army. An instructor who does not understand military affairs is not a qualified instructor.

It's a pity that Hu Xiaoyan's rise was too short, and the Eight-Nation Alliance came too quickly.

"Incorporate the Boxers as soon as possible, and organize those with the highest level of bloodshed within the Boxers into death squads. The regular army tries to maintain pure and high-intensity combat effectiveness, and instructors are selected from among non-commissioned officers and students. I would have Major Andrew's military school try to compress the curriculum as much as possible. Didn't Peiyang University Hall also come over? If it really doesn't work, I will pick some of the short-term training courses that will be sent to military academies from this group of college students. Hu Xiaoyan finally made a decision.

The military academy has ideological and moral education, which Hu Xiaoyan rewrote by comparing some memories with his own views. This new ideological education book has some brainwashing content, but the most important thing is reasoning. At this time, the students did not have the impetuous and beating heart of the later generations.

"Yes!" Wang Tingjiao, Zhang Shaozeng, Li Shirui, and Jiang Yanxing received orders at the same time. Jiang Yanxing has been working here to maintain the security of the airship base.

"My lord, lately, Lord Sheng Xuanhuai has often come to visit. This is a prayer post. Without waiting for the others to sit down, Wang Tingjiao handed over a letter of worship.

"Sheng Xuanhuai?" Hu Xiaoyan was a little puzzled, he didn't have much friendship with Sheng Xuanhuai. There is a point of hatred.

"It's about Peiyang University." Wang Tingjiao reminded.

Hu Xiaoyan suddenly realized. Peiyang University Hall was established by Sheng Xuanhuai! It was also mainly used to train people for his Hanyang Iron and Steel Works and Daye Iron Mine. Don't look at the main class of Peiyang University, either mining or prospecting. There are no basic education subjects in mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. It's better to say that it is a university than a junior college. Peiyang University Hall is really not as good as those junior colleges in later generations.

"Ignore it, if he comes, say I'm not there." Hu Xiaoyan put down the post and replied indifferently.

Peiyang University Hall is about to be decided. No way, who told him that his current foundation is too shallow! If you give him ten years, no! Even if it takes five years of development, it really doesn't look down on the current Peiyang University Hall!

In this day and age, a university that doesn't even have a basic natural science subject is a fart university!

It's just that there is no professional university in China at all, which makes Peiyang University the only university in China. But now that there is Shanghai Chengxin University, Beiyang University Hall can only hehe. Don't look at the original fundraising, Ye Chengcheng and Zhu Baosan and others were disdainful of Peiyang University Hall.

Compared with Hu Xiaoyan's plan and investment in Shanghai Chengcheng University, Peiyang University Hall is really not enough. Hu Xiaoyan has invested more than 1 million taels in terms of money alone, and he will have to pay at least 100,000 taels of silver every year in the later stage, which is still under the same investment of the Ye family, Zhu Bao, Sanyu Qiaqing and others, and the annual operating expenses of Shanghai Chengxin University alone exceed 500,000 taels of silver!

You must know that the total capital of the champion businessman Zhang Jian's Dasheng Yarn Factory is only 100,000 taels! And the annual cost of Shanghai Chengxin University is five Dasheng yarn factories! The most expensive thing is the salary of foreign teachers and the cost of various physical and chemical experiments, as for the food and drink of 10,000 students? That's really just a small amount. The salary of each foreign teacher is two to three times that of their home country, and the professorial level is directly five times higher. And the average word of a professor in the United States is more than ten dollars a day. At $10, a professor is $3,600 a year. Five times is $18,000. Converted into silver, it is about forty-five thousand taels of silver.

Think about what this concept is! It's a pity that even so, Hu Xiaoyan failed to recruit a few professors. No way, China is recognized as a scientific desert, and even if those professors stay in the United States, no matter how low their salaries, they may be able to produce some results. And what about when they came to China? Do they still have the confidence to produce results?

It's all tears! And the recruited people are also very old, it is impossible to go further in the field of science, and even old guys with many wrong views, they only come to China to get a vote. Hu Xiaoyan knows this situation and is still willing to pay, why? Is it not because China does not have talents in the natural sciences? Didn't you see the invention of a smokeless gunpowder, and the most powerful chemist in China, Xu Jianyin, went into battle in person? As a result, in history, he was killed by his own gunpowder.

China simply doesn't have any talent in the field of science! If you look at the majors of students studying in the United States, you can see that they rarely choose basic natural sciences. Without natural science teachers, how can we train the next generation? They and their students can only spin in one field at most. However, the development of science was explosive between the time of the First World War and the end of the Second World War.

Why did Hu Xiaoyan dare to go to war directly with the Eight-Nation Alliance when he had an airship? Because in this era there was simply no such anti-aircraft machine gun that could really threaten the airship. Anti-aircraft machine guns are good for fighting airplanes, but the altitude of airships is difficult for anti-aircraft machine guns to reach. Similarly, there were no laser-guided missiles in this era. Airships are invincible in this day and age! The best way to effectively shoot down an airship is to launch a guided missile. Whether laser-guided or infrared-guided, they all need chips, which in turn involve early tubes and code languages. If you want to have an electron tube, you must have advanced materials science, which is simply a high level of physical and chemical knowledge. The earliest electron tube was not invented until after 1904, and it was still early for the tube to be used in actual combat!

The airship cannot be a long-term effective weapon, the key is actually in the airship itself! Its power and specific gravity! The power of the diesel engine has not been fully developed in this era, and it cannot meet the needs of actual combat at all, and it is still far from the 130KG/H speed of the Hindenburg, which was launched in 30 years.

And the specific gravity is even more problematic, because the overall specific gravity of the airship is lighter than the air, so it is deeply affected by windy weather, and thunder and rain are even more fatal to the airship. Hydrogen is flammable! And airplanes are much better than airships.

Hu Xiaoyan officially wrote the book on the supremacy of science and technology from the beginning, and he hoped to use the power of the gentry throughout China to promote education on a large scale. And not on his own.

Under Sheng Xuanhuai's hands, Peiyang University Hall can only be said to be a pearl secret investment, and under Hu Xiaoyan's hands, I believe that with Hu Xiaoyan's investment ten times that of Sheng Xuanhuai, Peiyang University Hall will truly become a veritable university. What about turning his face with Sheng Xuanhuai for this? It's just an incompetent guy who will eventually be eliminated by history!

Hu Xiaoyan waved his hand and asked Wang Tingjiao and the others to go out to work, while he wanted to go to the back hall to see the child. Before he could walk out of the door, he was stopped by Liu Zhensheng.

"My lord, Mr. Yan Youling and Mr. Sheng Xingsun are here to visit!"