Yang Chao assured the soldiers that they would definitely send their daughters-in-law back to their homes, otherwise these people might not be able to resist being deserters, last time they were separated from the Germans at night, and this time they wanted to escape from the German barracks, it was not so easy, and it would be too unjust to be caught and shot as a deserter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, the ship was much slower, and it took two days to reach Qingdao.

After Yang Chao went ashore, he immediately asked to see the governor of Qingdao, and the governor was also one head and two big, more than 100 Hua Yong soldiers went to Beijing and brought back more than 100 daughters-in-law, he could not refuse, he could only tell Yang Chao that he didn't know anything, and then transferred the colonial carriage to Yang Chao.

It took two days to send their daughters-in-law back according to the address given by the soldiers, and there were still a dozen or so left who had no home to go to, Yang Chao entrusted Yuan Shikai to help settle these women in Jinan.

Yang Chao only then had time to find the spaceship.

When Yang Chao went to Beijing, Lao Jiu dragged the spaceship thousands of miles away to find the remaining parts of the spaceship, so he lost contact with each other for all these times.

In the absence of contact, the robot will only blindly execute the order, and the order given to him by Yang Chao is to collect the wreckage parts, and the robot has been collecting, and after the collection is finished, he will lie on the bottom of the sea and turn off the fire.

After Yang Chao returned to Shandong, after the signal could be contacted, the robot was activated immediately, and Yang Chao's watch sounded an alarm, and he immediately gave an order to the robot to drive the boat back.

After doing all this, Lao Jiu finally returned to Qingdao and lay the spaceship on the bottom of the sea outside Qingdao Port.

"The auxiliary power components were found; Liquid Navigation System; air flight systems; Land Mobile System..."

A valuable component is just a set of auxiliary power components.

The core power of the spacecraft is a nuclear fusion power system, and the auxiliary power is a radiation energy system.

When exploring the universe, the acceleration is done with a nuclear fusion system, but when cruising, the spacecraft uses the radiation energy of cosmic rays, and the most important thing is the energy of stars, which is solar energy on Earth.

As for other liquid navigation systems, air flight systems and land mobile systems, to put it bluntly, they are some mechanical devices, and the repair robot has long been repaired, but there has been no energy supply, and only relying on the energy source on the robot Lao Jiu is not enough to make the spacecraft operate normally, and the movement has always relied on Lao Jiu's drag or sail.

Now, after the Radiant Energy system is repaired, the ship will be able to maintain its daily operations and be able to carry out amphibious movements on land, sea and air. Flying is actually similar to the way of a hovercraft, which can only move close to the sea or the ground, and cannot fly high at all, and in order to really fly high in the sky, the nuclear fusion power system must be restored.

"It's not bad, at least it works."

"Excuse me, Commander, if you want to start repairs."

Lao Jiu asked.

"Wait, help me translate this thing and print out the text first!"

Yang Chao didn't rush to let the robot busy repairing, first took out the material he got in Beijing, and after the robot scanned it, a machine immediately began to move.

In fact, the translation is very fast, the spaceship's computer has all the major languages on the earth, with the computing power of the spaceship, it doesn't take any effort to translate it all in the blink of an eye, the trouble is to print it out, there is no paper on the spaceship, Lao Jiu can only use the atomic-level separation power of the spacecraft to separate enough substances from the air, pile them up into paper on the earth, and write words on it with ink.

But even so, Yang Chao only waited for less than a quarter of an hour, and the translation documents of various texts continued to be printed.

"English! German! French! Japanese! Spanish! Hindi! Malay..."

"Enough is enough!"

Yang Chao ordered, there are a few main languages are enough, the Eight-Nation Coalition actually speaks five or six languages, there is no need to even translate Malay and Hindi, Malaysians and Indians show them what is the use.

"Now you can start fixing it."

The robot began to repair the ship's power system with all its might, and Yang Chao left the ship.

After thinking about the plan again, I set off for Jinan.

The situation in Shandong is much better than that in Beijing, there is no war, and it is the best for the people.

Yuan Shikai warmly received Yang Chao last time, and told Yang Chao that Li Hongzhang failed to change the foreigner's request for an apology in the end, of course, he did not take this issue seriously, he was more concerned about the issue of compensation.

After the issue of reparations was decided, because the temporary government did not have a supreme leader, the Western powers demanded that all local governors sign to guarantee the validity of this treaty, and Li Hongzhang divided the indemnity into different shares and held a showdown with the whole country.

In the face of the apportionment of indemnities, the governors of all provinces have explained their difficulties and asked for less or no bearing, and only Yuan Shikai took the lead and took the initiative to bear the apportionment of 900,000 taels in Shandong. And Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi said with great fanfare that the result of this discussion and peace was not beneficial to the country.

Yang Chao didn't know why Yuan Shikai told him these inside stories, in fact, it was not a secret, but Yang Chao had no channel to know. But Yang Chao smelled a strong political flavor from it.

Obviously, no matter how you look at it, Li Hongzhang can negotiate a peace result that does not cede land, which is the best result. In history, Cixi did reward Li Hongzhang with this and affirmed Li Hongzhang's merits. However, in the Jiangnan Governor's Fuzhong, the senior officials headed by Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi were very dissatisfied with the results of this peace meeting.

But Yang Chao knew that Zhang Zhidong and others just wanted to create a general trend, that is, the result negotiated by Li Hongzhang was nothing remarkable, and tried his best to smear the result of the negotiation into a stain on Li Hongzhang.

The reason is very simple, Li Hongzhang is the leader of the Huai group, while Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi are in the Hunan army system, and they were mixed with Zeng Guofan in the past. In the past, the Hunan and Huai forces sometimes united and sometimes confronted each other in political struggles. For example, they all strongly advocated the Westernization movement, and they were called Westerners. But the political struggle between Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong has not stopped, of course, this is also for Cixi to see, so that Cixi knows that these are two factions, so that they will not be targeted.

But these are really two factions, at least two political forces.

It is possible to engage in foreign affairs together, but one faction will never allow the other faction to eat them.

But Yang Chao can be sure that Zhang Zhidong will sign in the end, they take the overall situation into account, they agree with Li Hongzhang to be president, but they must make Li Hongzhang not too comfortable, president, everyone takes turns to do it, if Li Hongzhang does too well, there will be something in the Hunan army system in the next term.

And Yuan Shikai was the first to stand up and support Li Hongzhang, for a simpler reason, because Yuan Shikai is a person from the Huaijun system.

It is not yet time to sign the agreement, and the great powers have only drawn up an outline for the peace proposal, and Li Hongzhang must get the governors of all parts of Jiangnan in Jiangnan done before signing the agreement, and let everyone sign it, otherwise the negotiations will be meaningless.

Yuan Shikai also told Yang Chao that he bought him a yard in Jinan, and Yuan Shikai's wooing Yang Chao was willing to laugh at it, but he offended Yuan Shikai by not accepting it.

However, Yang Chao was not in a hurry to go to his yard, but communicated with Yuan Shikai, and he hoped that Yuan Shikai would do him a favor.

"You want to join the Apology Mission?"

Yang Chao nodded: "That's right, but I want an official identity, the last time I walked on the prime minister's yamen, I didn't want to be it." ”

Yuan Shikai also knew that Yang Chao was not satisfied with Li Hongzhang's arrangement, because Yang Chao did not go to work for a few days at all, and clearly expressed his dissatisfaction.

Yuan Shikai put down the teacup and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, don't worry, Li Zhongtang will still give this little face." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Then Lord Lao bothered." ”

As he spoke, he took out a few silver tickets.

These silver tickets were touched on the corpses of Li Lianying and others, and they were all silver tickets of various large ticket numbers in Shanxi.

Historically, when Cixi fled west with a large number of nobles of the Eight Banners, she passed through Shanxi, and these princes and nobles took out silver tickets, and Shanxi merchants paid them one by one.

Yang Chao felt that this didn't mean anything, the first ticket number that could make these princes and nobles deposit was definitely a big ticket number with a background, and the strength was there; Second, Li Lianying and these people have silver tickets, don't they try it?

Yuan Shikai believes that these silver tickets are in Yuan Shikai's hands, and those old people in Shanxi also do not dare to repay their debts.

Yuan Shikai was also disrespectful, and accepted the 10,000 taels of silver with a smile.

Yang Chao has been living in Jinan for more than ten days.

Li Hongzhang finally settled, or said that the tacit understanding between the Hunan and Huai forces was sufficient, and the Hunan faction had enough smear the Huai faction's face, and then they all signed, but Li Hongzhang never refuted himself.

Yang Chao thought that Li Hongzhang had made a sacrifice for the presidency, but strangely, Li Hongzhang never announced his inauguration as president.

In November, Wadsey presided over the signing of the treaty, which was named the Beijing Protocol.

The Russians, under diplomatic pressure from the British, reluctantly signed the treaty.

The treaty stipulated that China would pay 450 million taels of customs silver to the foreign powers and punish the guilty officials in the Boxer Rebellion. sending princes and ministers to Germany and Japan to make amends; The Chinese government explicitly forbade Chinese from establishing and participating in various organizations to resist the invasion of the army; Set up an embassy area in the area of Dongjiaomin Lane in Beijing, where countries can station troops and Chinese are not allowed to live in the area; the destruction of the Dagu Fort and the fort from Beijing to Haikou in Tianjin; Countries can station troops along the railway line from Beijing to Shanhaiguan.

It is worth noting that the word "China" is not used in the treaty, but the word "China" is used throughout, from which it is not difficult to judge that foreigners are also very skeptical about whether the Qing Dynasty government can survive.

This treaty is not much different from the historical Xinchou Treaty, except that it was signed a year earlier, which was presumably influenced and promoted by the deaths of Cixi and Guangxu.

The treaty was based on the great powers or the British conceived, and the British formulated the amount of indemnity on the basis of China's customs revenue, and the purpose was naturally to use customs duties as collateral, and the purpose was very simple, the British wanted to continue to control the Chinese customs. The plan was so well planned that the Chinese government could not get off this hook, because the British planned in detail to the extent that everything was taken into account for the Chinese.

The indemnity was 450 million taels of customs silver, and China could not afford to pay it anyway, so it was easy to do, borrowing from the West, plus the interest of the British, and paying it in 39 years, and the principal and interest finally reached 980 million taels of silver.

But Yang Chao was really reluctant to accept this indemnity, which was tantamount to sticking his neck into the lock handed over by the British.

Yang Chao hopes that his plan will succeed, at least partially.