As soon as Zhang Zhidong was told, Zhang Zhidong was naturally happy and promised to let Yang Chao negotiate with the Americans immediately, but the imperial court had no money, and hoped that Yang Chao would persuade the Americans to wait until next year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, there was no problem with this, and Yang Chao immediately discussed with the Morgan consortium through Thomas, saying that he would sign a contract first, and the contract stipulated that Yang Chao had the right to take back the right to build the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway next year. What the Americans gained was the right for the Yantai Iron and Steel Works to supply rails to the Cantonese-Hankou Railway, as well as attached steel components.

On the Belgian side, Zhang Zhidong said it himself, and it was easy to reach a compromise, and the Belgian agreed after asking for 300,000 pounds in interest.

The Belgians don't dare to offend Zhang Zhidong, the Luhan Railway that is being built now can be supported by Zhang Zhidong, even if it is repaired, the Belgians will still operate it.

In the end, he only lost 300,000 pounds in interest, which is a good thing that this matter can be satisfactorily resolved.

The news soon spread, and the Chinese businessmen in the three provinces of Huguang were naturally elated, and some people made a special trip to Yantai to meet Yang Chao, hoping to start construction as soon as possible.

Not as soon as possible, the first Yantai steel mill has not been put into operation, and the second Zhan Tianyou has not yet repaired the Yanji railway, the timing is not right.

Telling these businessmen to wait another year, and then the Chinese built the railway themselves, these people took a round trip on the Yanwei railway, which had already been opened, and left with joy, and they were also looking forward to it.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, Yang Chao has to go to Beijing, which is really reluctant.

No way, the emperor summoned him.

I don't know why I summoned me, but I just happened to send a batch of arms to Beijing.

Yang Chao made a special trip to take Ma Tengfei this time, and in addition to a few soldiers on board, there were also two women.

This is Ma Tengfei's family.

The group of palace maids that were grabbed at the beginning, after one person each, there were more than a dozen leftovers, but everyone lived in the big stone house, and after a long time, soon these dozen palace maids also found someone to marry, like Ma Tengfei, and married another one, well, a concubine.

This time he brought Ma Tengfei's wife and concubine to Beijing together, he planned to let Ma Tengfei stay where, Yang Chao felt that he would be very passive about the unclear situation in Beijing, for example, this time he went to Beijing, he didn't know what Zaifeng meant.

Qingdao Port, not only Yang Chao is going to set off, but also a group of people are going to leave.

Wu Peifu and Li Sidi, all the members of the Qiangguo Fumin Society, set off together, and there were also a group of Western-style school students recruited from Shanghai and Tianjin.

They are going to Britain, France, the United States and Germany and other countries, Wu Peifu is going to enter the Berlin Army Military Academy, this is not through the quota asked by Yuan Shikai, the scholarship of the Germans does not include military schools, this is through the places of Krupp and Mauser Lane, these two families and the German Army basically wear a pair of pants, and it is not too easy to get a place in a military school.

Let Wu Peifu go to study military affairs, Wu Peifu himself doesn't quite understand, he is a showman, although he did serve as a soldier, but that was because he was convicted and fled to Beijing to join the Huai Army in desperation, and soon was admitted to the Kaiping Military Academy, and soon dropped out of school, and then entered the police station, when Yang Chao recruited staff, he was already a police squad leader, no matter how you look at it, he has a bright future, but he still came to Yang Chao as a staff, the first is to be able to return to Shandong, and the second is because he really doesn't like to be a soldier.

He explained to Yang Chao, but as soon as Yang Chao flickered, he immediately had a hot brain, took it as his responsibility to strengthen the country, and agreed.

Li Sidi went to London to study financial management and finance, and Yang Chao planned to turn him in the direction of business, because this kid had learned a long-sleeved fickle skill since he was a child, and it would be a pity not to make good use of it.

Other students are going to learn science and technology, for Yang Chao, the most important thing is to cultivate the technical ability of his subordinates, and the humanities of management ability do not need to worry, after all, science and technology are hard knowledge, if you don't understand it, you don't understand, you can't find it, and humanities are soft knowledge, and you can understand it by learning from others.

But they don't just go to learn.

"Go over there and get our organization up and running as soon as possible. It's not easy for you over there, and I'll give you 10,000 marks a year if you have the money. You should call on all international students to take the responsibility of strengthening the country and enriching the people, study hard, and be able to serve the motherland in the future. Of course, your own knowledge can't be left behind, it's not easy to go out once, if you don't learn your knowledge, I'm sorry for my father and mother, I'm sorry for the country. ”

Before boarding the ship, Yang Chao also mobilized these people, they didn't all go to Germany, France, Britain have, Li Sidi has been appointed as the branch director of the Chinese power and rich people in Europe, these students are scattered, to actively promote the concept of strengthening the country and enriching the people, attracting international students to join the society, the purpose, of course, Yang Chao is hoping to get this group of top people to his side in the future.

Now there are not many students studying in Europe, and Yuan Shikai's latest data is 3,000.

Yang Chao hopes to recruit at least 1,000 people to work in Shandong in the future, after all, after returning to China, these people will either go to foreign banks or enter the government.

Those who enter the foreign bank can only use their foreign language ability, which is too wasteful, let alone those who enter the government, it is completely idle, just like Zhan Tianyou going to drive a warship.

Hu Shi said one thing, he said that the Chinese students studying in the West are only slightly worse than the Jewish students in terms of grades, but as soon as they graduate and enter the society, it is completely different.

This was not only the case at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but also among Chinese students in the 21st century.

After watching Wu Peifu and them pedal on the ship, Yang Chaocai and Ma Tengfei got on the cargo ship, and almost drove out of Qingdao Port.

Also delivered in Tianjin, after handing over the weapons to Zai Zhen and Yuan Keding, Yang Chao got off the ship and took the train to Beijing.

The fact that the upstarts of the Eight Banners wanted to kill Yuan Shikai had subsided at this time.

At that time, after Yuan Shikai hid, not only Zhang Zhidong was anxious, but Zaifeng was anxious, for fear that Yuan Shikai would rebel.

So after private contact and compromise between the parties, an agreement was finally reached, and Yuan Shikai continued to be the minister of Beiyang and the governor of Zhili, but withdrew from the military aircraft department.

This is not a loss, the real loss is that Yuan Shikai was forced to hand over the new army of two towns, and the strength of his troops changed from six towns to four towns, while the Praetorian Guard in Zaifeng's hands changed from two towns to four towns, and the strength of the two sides was equal.

Yang Chao guessed that Zaifeng's purpose for letting him enter Beijing was probably because of this incident.