Wu Wenbin was transferred from the position of foreign minister to the ambassador to the Great Qing Dynasty, although there was no resistance, the psychological loss was still very great, at least the position was different, and the gap in administrative level was also very large. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he arrived at the Qing Dynasty as an ambassador, he didn't expect that there were so many things that needed to be dealt with, so miscellaneous, and he was busier than when he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, it seems that His Majesty consciously exercised himself, besides, his ability level was still worse than Hua Guoqiang, and he hoped that he could make up for some of it through training, so Wu Wenbin took out all his energy and devoted himself to the complicated work.

Due to the small number of personnel sent and the territory of the Great Qing Dynasty was so large, it was necessary to send people to establish consulates in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Mukden, and the personnel were even more insufficient, so they had to recruit auxiliary staff in the Great Qing Dynasty. The first requirement for recruiters is not to have political leanings, and the second is to have skills, such as knowing a foreign language, being proficient in arithmetic, good at writing, bookkeeping, organization, foreign affairs, business, etc.

After Zhang Wei learned the news, he asked him to recruit teachers, teachers of all subjects must be recruited, and then after a simple training of teachers sent from Beijing, they can take up their posts, and all the newly built schools must use the textbooks compiled by the Ministry of Education of the Lanfang Kingdom, so that it is convenient to select students, and they can quickly adapt to the teaching here when they come to study in the Lanfang Kingdom.

Zhang Wei knows that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many outstanding talents in China, among which he admired Hou Debang the most, when he took the Tsinghua exam, he scored 1000 points in 10 courses, and 10 were full marks.

Waiting for the establishment of schools in Fengtian, Tianjin, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places, plus the Fudan Preparatory School co-founded with Ma Xiangbo this time, we will strive to catch all the outstanding children of the Great Qing Kingdom, and all of them will be netted into the bowl of the Lanfang Kingdom.

In these schools, Zhang Wei's order is to only look at the grades, not to rely on the relationship to come in, the school not only free tuition, books and room and board fees, etc., but also has a monthly subsidy of 2 taels of silver, and there are certain scholarships for mid-year and year-end exams; When it comes time to study in Lanfang Kingdom, the scale of the scholarship will be even larger, which is to make everyone believe that as long as they study well, they are not afraid of not being able to afford to go to school, and even supporting their families is more than enough.

Fortunately, Ma Xiangbo originally set up a Fudan School, this time it is just to expand the scale, everything is easy to do, this year will definitely enroll students, the first phase of the student union will be less, and the scale and influence will gradually expand in the future. There are teachers sent from the Lanfang Kingdom, and there are teaching materials and financial assistance provided by the Lanfang Kingdom, which makes Ma Xiangbo full of energy, and he has been engaged in education for so many years, and he feels that only what he is doing now is really to run the education cause wholeheartedly, and in the past, he only compromised with each other, restrained each other, and intrigued with each other.

Zhang Wei asked to recruit teachers, and another meaning was to see if these intellectuals had talents to create, if they were really talented, they could go to the Lanfang Kingdom for further study, which would also shorten the time for talent training, and would not bury these talents. In China's civil war in the following decades, I don't know how many elites were wasted their youth.

With sufficient funds, coupled with the support of the local government, several middle schools and high schools have now been selected, the courtyard walls have been erected, and the construction of classrooms, offices, canteens, dormitories, etc. has begun, which will definitely not delay the enrollment in August and the start of school in September.

Now that the floods in the south of the Qing Dynasty are still continuing, after the immigration delegation returned, newspapers and other channels quickly made detailed and continuous reports on the life of the immigrants in the Lanfang Kingdom, so that the people who want to emigrate in China can settle down.

Sheng Xuanhuai, Rui Fang, Zhang Zhidong and others listened to the report of the members of the delegation, and breathed a sigh of relief, if the Lanfang Kingdom really sold these people into slaves, their lives would also be a big stain, looking at the current results, these people live very well in the Lanfang Kingdom, this is their own political achievements, and transferring all the unstable factors to the Lanfang Kingdom is a good thing for the victims and the court.

The grain trade of the Lanfang Kingdom stabilized the grain prices of the Qing Dynasty, and the grain prices in Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Wuhan were not high, which was not only recognized by the officials of the Qing Dynasty, but also supported by the vast number of victims, but only made those grain merchants miss an opportunity to make a lot of money. The price of the grain shipped from the Lanfang Kingdom is cheap, and the quantity is huge, which also makes many merchants see greater business opportunities, the merchants of the Lanfang Kingdom only do business in a few big cities, and other cities are their opportunities, as long as they buy grain from the grain sales points of the Lanfang Kingdom in these cities and transport it to other places, they can make money.

The refined salt trade is relatively poor, but the salt bought by the citizens of the above five cities is the refined salt of the Lanfang Company, which is good, the salt is sold in the grain store, and the local government does not dare to take care of it, and the citizens of the city buy salt, they don't care, if they buy salt and take it out of the city, they will deal with the people who buy salt for various reasons. Now Zhang Guihua is discussing with Wu Wenbin to cooperate with officials from all over the Qing Dynasty to sell refined salt, so that the salt market of the entire Qing Dynasty will be quickly opened, but it is not very big, after all, the Qing Dynasty has mortgaged the salt tax to other countries, and it is likely to cause international disputes at that time.

Although the number of immigrants continues to increase, Wu Wenbin is not as busy as he was at the beginning, and the hired people who can settle accounts and are good at organizing can work in a mess. These people can make some contributions to the victims, I feel very proud of it, many of them are capable, and there is no way to serve the country, and they are very grateful to the Lanfang Kingdom for providing them with this opportunity to serve the people.

The consuls in Shanghai and Wuhan were in charge of the immigration work in the south, and with the assistance of these hired people, Wu Wenbin was relieved to return to Beijing and work at the embassy in Beijing, which was his main job.

After learning that Wu Wenbin had returned to Beijing, Yuan Shikai immediately sent his staff to contact Wu Wenbin, hoping to purchase rifles, bullets, and artillery from the Lanfang Kingdom. After Wu Wenbin contacted Zhang Wei by telegram, Zhang Wei asked him to sell it and send Yuan Shikai 100,000 sets of spring and autumn military uniforms of the Beiyang Army afterwards.

The price given by Zhang Wei is 50 taels of silver for each Mauser G98 and 50 silver taels for pointed bullets, which is an ultra-low price. Wu Wenbin directly told Yuan Shikai's staff that this is friendship and sponsorship, who will make everyone Chinese, just earn some freight.

Hearing such a cheap price, Yuan Shikai bought 50,000 rifles at one time, which was enough to form 4 towns.

For artillery, Yuan Shikai chose the 1898 Krupp 105mm light howitzer and prepared to establish an independent artillery association; Caliber: 105mm; 16 times caliber; High and low emission boundary: -10 degrees ~ +40 degrees; Horizontal firing boundary: 0 degrees; Projectile weight: 15.8kg; Muzzle velocity of ammunition: 302m/sec; Weight: 1225kg; Maximum firing range: 6300m; I asked for a total of 36 doors.

For the town support artillery, the German 1898 Krupp 75 mm mountain gun was chosen, with a length of 1050 mm and a caliber of 75 mm; Bolt form: wedge; Make-back and re-entry form: liquid spring type; Gun mount style: two-wheeled single-legged type; Firewire height: 662 mm; Weight: grenade 5.3 kg, muzzle velocity: grenade 280 m/s; Maximum range: 4300 meters (23 degrees); Rank full weight: 405 kg. The choice of this gun was mainly due to the terrain and backward transportation conditions of the Great Qing Dynasty at that time. A total of 48 doors were purchased.

These two types of artillery were very advanced artillery pieces in China at that time.

Since Hua Guoqiang sent a telegram prohibiting the sale of grain to the Japanese in batches, Wu Wenbin guessed that the war with the Japanese was about to start, and if Taiwan and the Ryukyus were to be recovered, and if even the Korean Peninsula was recovered, what should the Japanese army in the northeast do? How can we make the Qing Dynasty have some blood?