Section 116 Trip to France

It is also popular in France, but the warm and romantic French people seem to be more interested in the relationship between Yang Chao and Elena, and all reporters can't avoid this issue. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The French official was also very active in contacting Yang Chao, but Yang Chao refused at this time, and it was not the right time.

Yang Chao said that all French enterprises that abide by the contract and guarantee the construction on schedule are welcome, and the steel group really only wants to make quick money, indiscriminately build a railway that can be used for more than ten years, and can recover the loan and interest, and they are not interested in building for the Chinese in a hundred years.

But now Yang Chao has qualified engineers under his command and will closely supervise them, which makes them feel embarrassed.

However, Yang Chao told them that their operation in China was not a one-shot deal, and hoped that they would not cut corners like the Belgians did when they built the Luján Railway, which would damage their country's credibility and business reputation.

The Belgians did not intend to build the Luján Railway, because the contract with the Qing government was like that, they built them to operate, and after recovering the loan, they handed it over to the Qing government. The Belgians received the proceeds of the loans, as well as the sale of steel during the construction process. There are no additional privileges, which should be mutually beneficial, but there is no incentive to operate for a long time, so Belgians are not in the mood to build good projects. Unlike the Germans who built the Jiaoji Railway, which was really intended to be a century-old project, the sleepers were all steel sleepers.

The French finally agreed, because in addition to the Zhengtai Railway, they also had a greater interest, that is, the Chengdu-Kunming Railway that Yang Chao had promised earlier, through the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, the French believed that their commercial interests would be able to reach Sichuan, China, which was a rich province with no loss of importance to Jiangnan, and if the French could gain benefits here, they would be able to compete with the British, who controlled the Yangtze River.

The Chengdu-Kunming Railway will employ a joint team of French and Chinese engineers to carry out exploration, design and construction, and the equipment and materials procured will give priority to France in the event that China cannot produce.

Well, the Chengdu-Kunming railway is a big cake, with a length of about 1,000 kilometers, and the Guangdong-Hanzhou railway that the Americans wanted, the Tianjin-Pudong railway that the British were responsible for, and the Luján railway built by the Belgians, are all large projects of thousands of kilometers, not to mention the economic interests and commercial benefits, just the construction of the railway itself, it is a huge benefit, and the investment is less than 100 million francs, which is impossible.

Yang Chao gave the French such a big cake, of course the French government wants to talk to Yang Chao, the railway construction problem is a lot to do, you must know that although Yunnan-Guichuan is poor and the transportation is very underdeveloped, but the minerals are extremely rich, the opening of the railway, is it necessary to let the French give priority to mining?

But Yang Chao still refused to give the French contact.

Instead, I went straight to a meeting with international students.

There are still a lot of international students studying in Paris, and after Gengzi paid the indemnity, more than 1,000 students have been selected so far, and there are only about 10,000 in the whole of Europe.

Yang Chao's subordinates in Paris were Wang Qiu and Li Sidi.

Wang Qiu studied organic chemistry at the École Polytechnique de Paris, and Li Sidi studied business administration at the London Business School.

It doesn't take much to choose a major for Li Sidi, but Wang Qiu's major is really difficult to choose, this guy is passionate, too radical, he is a typical revolutionary student of this era, if he is allowed to study law and other knowledge, he will definitely not be a good lawyer, but will become a radical reformer, China's affairs must not be radical, or all huge countries must not be radical, because the involvement is too big, the car can turn around very calmly, can the train? Where is the tonnage, if you are in a hurry, you have to overturn.

If Wang Qiu is asked to study rigorous industry, it is also not a good thing to venture in, and what industry needs is meticulous and serious, and it must be impatient and impatient, and the impatient and impatient are doomed to poor foundation and quality, and the Chinese in later generations will suffer too much of this kind of loss.

In this era, the mainstream is to study coal chemical industry and petrochemical industry, from which some macromolecular materials are extracted and decomposed, such as phenol and other chemicals extracted from coal, and in the upper layer is directly used in petroleum to call chemical fiber.

"Why do you think I'm working with the Russians?"

What Yang Chao didn't expect was that his own efforts in the recent period were regarded as traitors by these students.

Wang Qiu and a group of others all lowered their heads and looked aggrieved.

Wang Qiu did feel very aggrieved during this time, and after arriving in Paris, he saw a modern industrial city, and the excitement made him feel that he had not gone abroad in vain.

At first, he felt that the French were very friendly, and he was very polite to contact them, and even one of his classmates introduced his sister to him. But soon he felt uncomfortable, because the enthusiasm of the French was entirely due to the fact that he came from a foreign country, not because he was an equal man.

He found that these people were talking to him as if they were talking to their own cats, half coaxing. People don't treat you as an equal, and this kind of thinking makes him feel unusually terrifying.

This kind of thinking also made him start to work hard, not only to study, but also to organize activities, to strengthen the country and enrich the people's concept is also firmer, if you are poor and backward, people will think that you are barbaric, uncivilized, and even do not treat you as a person.

He actively traveled to Paris and France, using the funds given by Yang Chao, and even went out to work by himself, bought a printing press, and often printed some pamphlets for international students in France. The French branch of the Powerful and Prosperous Society was opened, and began to actively recruit members, and at one time one-third of French students joined them.

Of course, he has always praised Yang Chao as a leader, believing that Yang Chao will definitely lead them to achieve their ideals.

But in this Russo-Japanese War, Yang Chao disappointed them too much.

Because all the international students are supporting Japan, because in their opinion, Japan is helping China to reclaim Northeast China.

Yang Chao was doing foreign affairs in Shandong, especially the matter of using the railway to compete with the Germans, and they felt happy from the bottom of their hearts.

But suddenly the Russo-Japanese War broke out, Yang Chao sold arms to both sides, and the arms dealers also counted it, and they also transported troops to the Russians, which was unacceptable, and Wang Qiu's appeal ability was extremely reduced in an instant, and those students abandoned him one by one, and they were unwilling to participate in the activities he organized, and did not accept his bloody slogan.

Wang Qiu felt that his faith was about to collapse, when you revere a person, you will think that that person is perfect, everything about him is immaculate, you can't tolerate any flaws in him, at this time, that person himself is actually no longer important, he has actually become a symbol, a definition of perfection.

Yang Chao was already close to this symbol in Wang Qiu's heart, but it suddenly collapsed.

When I came to the meeting today, only about 20 people came, and even Wang Qiu was not passionate.

Especially when Yang Chao publicly admitted that he had indeed helped the Russians transport troops.

"Do you think that if the Japanese defeat Russia, Northeast China will be able to return to China?"

"You're not children anymore, and that's naïve."

"You have already gone abroad, so you should look at the problem from an international perspective."

"Don't you look at the French newspapers, how they comment on the Russo-Japanese War, interests! They discuss the interests of the French in it, don't you understand. All countries are concerned about the benefits they can get from the Northeast. ”

"What happens if the Japanese win, behind the Japanese there is Britain and the United States. The Russians have France behind them, do you think it is easier to take back our Northeast from Britain, the United States and Japan, or from France and Russia? ”

The international students began to think about it, and they actually knew these truths, but they were more emotionally inclined to Japan, because the Russians hurt China more deeply.

"Adjournment! A bunch of. Let me tell you, within three months, China will rely on its own strength to reclaim the Northeast! ”

The international students were shocked, and Yang Chao had already slammed the door and left.

Everyone was stunned at the scene: China wants to take back the Northeast!

But Yang Chao has already left, and he can't ask anyone if he wants to.

But the political enthusiasm of the international students has risen again, and they have begun to care about newspapers and international reports.

Three days later, there was a truce between Japan and Russia, and they reached an agreement.

Japan withdrew from Sakhalin and got Dalian, but it could not garrison a commercial colony, and the Japanese had the right to send officials to manage it; Russia retained Arthur, but could not send a fleet, and the size of the army was limited to 10,000 men; Japan recognized Russian power in the Northeast; Russia recognized Japanese power in Korea; The parties do not claim compensation from each other.

In the end, Russia got the whole of Northeast China, and Japan got all of Korea.

But at the same time, the people of both countries were not satisfied, and without a single reparation, the Japanese turned the sky upside down, behaved with the Chinese, scolded the negotiator as a traitor, smashed his house, burned his house, beat his old and young wives and children, and went to Hibiya in droves.

Russia was already in turmoil, and the bloody Sunday incident caused by the Ba workers in St. Petersburg had a very bad international impact and caused sentiment against the Tsar and the government at home, and the workers of St. Petersburg had already built barricades in the streets to confront the army.

The Tsar moved out of St. Petersburg to Moscow, and asked the prime minister, who had negotiated with Japan and Russia from the United States, to carry out reforms.

Prime Minister Witte began to announce the entry into the constitutional process, which will restrain part of the imperial power and strengthen the power of the State Duma over the law.

But the Russians are a people who are not good at compromise, and they are led by a large number of groups, and they are not willing to accept reforms, in fact, they are just thinking about it, and they themselves do not know what they need.

All the big cities of Russia were working in the bar, with the participation of more than two million workers, and the social order was completely limited to chaos, but what was even more terrible was that two-thirds of the countryside also launched violent actions against the landlords, and the peasants smashed the landlords' estates and wineries.

Werther tried to persuade the noble landlords to give the peasants a portion of the land, but failed.

The whole world is waiting for the next move of the Russians, and they are all preparing for the reshuffle of the Russian government.

At this time, Yang Chao said that he wanted to talk to the French.