Zaifeng finally agreed with Yang Chao to build a railway from Yantai to Weifang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Yang Chao does not need to borrow money from foreigners, nor does he need foreigners, to build a railway built entirely by Chinese and operated by Chinese, which does not seem to him to be a bad thing, although it is in the hands of merchants, but it is better than in the hands of foreigners, after all, merchants do not have strong ships and cannons, and can threaten the imperial court.

After all, Zaifeng is not Cixi's old witch who would rather be friends than house slaves.

At the same time, Zaifeng immediately sent a telegram to Tianjin in accordance with Yang Chao's request, and ordered Zhan Tianyou to enter Beijing immediately.

Zhan Tianyou, in China in later generations, no one knows and no one knows.

But in the Qing Dynasty, there was a sense of uselessness for heroes.

In 1872, Zhan Tianyou, who was only 12 years old, was selected by the Qing government to study in the United States.

He was exposed to Western technology since he was a child, and eight years later, he was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Yale University in the United States to study railway engineering.

Later, the policies of the Qing government were repeated, and Prince Gong lost the power struggle with Cixi, and the young children who studied in the United States as the results of the Westernization Movement became victims and were recalled halfway. At this time, the Qing government sent a total of 120 young children to study in the United States, but because of this recall, only two people graduated, and one of them was Zhan Tianyou.

After Zhan Tianyou returned to China, he still did not get reused. If the Qing government had vigorously built railways and set up Western industries at that time, there would have been no shame in the First Sino-Japanese War. But after Zhan Tianyou was called back, he, a top student who graduated from Yale University, was sent to the Shipmaster School established by Shen Baozhen in Fujian, and he did not teach, but studied. Learn to sail a ship, and soon got on the Nanyang Fleet in Fujian, soon the Sino-French War broke out, the Nanyang Fleet suffered heavy losses, fortunately Zhan Tianyou did not have an accident, otherwise China would have lost a great figure.

It was not until 1888 that Zhan Tianyou was able to apply what he had learned and was sent by the Qing government to Tianjin to serve as the assistant engineering department of the newly established China Railway Corporation.

Only Zhan Tianyou participated in the construction of the Jingu Railway and the Jinyu Railway, both of which are not special in themselves, they are both very short railways. However, during the construction of the Jinyu Railway, Zhan Tianyou showed his academic attainments at Yale University for the first time, and when the Luanhe Bridge was built, the British engineers who undertook the construction of the railway failed to build a bridge over the Luanhe River due to the turbulent water flow and deep sediment, and later the Japanese and Germans contracted the bridge to attack the city, all of which failed.

At this time, Zhan Tianyou stepped forward and persuaded the British to let him try, Zhan Tianyou used Chinese methods combined with Western engineering, let local craftsmen dive into the water to work, and used the compressed air caisson method to solve the bridge pier problem, and finally made the bridge build successfully.

But after that, Zhan Tianyou didn't have any chances, and often just cooperated with foreigners in construction until he was ordered to come to Beijing this time.

Zhan Tianyou is better than foreign engineers, and the solution to the Luanhe Bridge problem has been heard of among Westerners and recorded in history in later generations, but in the Qing Dynasty, few people know about it, because no one in the country cares about this matter at all, especially among officials, few people know Zhan Tianyou.

Zaifeng was curious about this Zhan Tianyou, and sent someone to check Zhan Tianyou's resume, only to find that there were engineers who knew railways in the Qing Kingdom. Soon Zaifeng met Zhan Tianyou.

"Minister, help the engineering department Zhan Tianyou knock on my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

After Zhan Tianyou saw the emperor, he kowtowed respectfully.

Then the emperor asked Zhan Tianyou some questions, mainly the problem of the Western railway, the question is very simple, nothing more than which country has built how many railways and so on, as for the advanced professional questions, Zaifeng don't understand, let him ask him I don't know where to start.

Therefore, the conversation between the two was very lonely, and it ended quickly, Zaifeng asked Zhan Tianyou to wait in the post house, saying that he was going to send him to Shandong to build a railway, and there was no obscurity that Yang Chao introduced him.

Zhan Tianyou was very curious, he had heard of Yang Chao's name, but he didn't know Yang Chao, and he didn't know how Yang Chao knew him. To this day, Zhan Tianyou is still just a nobody. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which made him famous, is not planned to be built yet.

But Zhan Tianyou still waited honestly, because he felt that his opportunity had come, and he was finally valued by the high-level.

In order to get this opportunity, he waited for 20 years after returning to China.

Yang Chao actually lives in the post house, but he is not there at this time, otherwise he would have been able to see Zhan Tianyou for the first time.

Where did Yang Chao go?

Church!

After persuading Zaifeng to let him build the railway, Yang Chao thanked him and left, but when he finally kowtowed, he was caught by Zaifeng that he had no braids, and said bitterly, saying something 'Although you were born in Nanyang and grew up overseas, but the ancestral system cannot be violated' and so on, let Yang Chao continue his hair well, and when his hair grows, he will keep braids.

Although he was unwilling, he could only agree, and then left the palace and took Ma Tengfei to see the orphans.

Seeing a large number of orphans, although they still look thin, they are no longer as skinny as before, and there is a smile on their faces, and they have come out of the war.

But Yang Chao's mood was a little heavy, because he saw that these children, under the arrangement of the church, all strictly followed the religious behavior, and it was obvious that when they grew up in the future, these children would inevitably be devout believers, but how should they integrate into Chinese society.

Yang Chao couldn't help but be a little worried, and began to negotiate with various churches, as the first initiator of the adoption of orphans, Yang Chao knew the bishops and priests of the cathedrals.

In fact, these churches are also under a lot of pressure, because since the troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance withdrew from Beijing, they immediately lost a lot of money, and the pressure to feed tens of thousands of children was too great, and despite the various fundraising, they still could not feed the children.

But they still couldn't agree to let the children go with Yang Chao, and Yang Chao was worried, and the church was expecting these children to become believers and help them preach in China.

"Children should be reintegrated into society. We should find them a parent and let them grow up like ordinary Chinese children. That's what's best for them. ”

"But in doing so, the children are far from the bosom of the Lord."

"Rest assured, if the children are really connected to the Lord, I will not deny them to be close to the Lord. You can rest assured that I will try to help them. Build them schools and educate them. At the same time, you are allowed to visit them at any time. I'm sure you don't want to see them grow up and be out of step with Chinese society. Just like their parents, they were regarded as an outlier by the Boxers, and in the end, tragedy happened. If they can grow up among the Chinese and at the same time they accept the glory of the Lord, don't you think they are a bridge between God and the Chinese people? ”

Yang Chao finally persuaded several of the most devout priests, and finally agreed to let Yang Chao take some of the orphans away, but they asked Yang Chao to ensure that these children were properly cared for, that the children should be fed and educated well until they became adults, and they said that they would definitely send people to visit the orphans regularly, hoping that Yang Chao would keep his promise and not hinder them. Most importantly, Yang Chao had to promise that he could not stop the children from going to church if they wanted to.

Yang Chao traveled around various churches all day, so he missed the first time to meet Zhan Tianyou, and it was not until the evening that he remembered Zhan Tianyou and hurried back to the post house.

"Yo, Lord Yang, you're back! The minions have been waiting for you for a day. ”

A little eunuch was aggrieved when he saw Yang Chao.

"It's hard work!"

Yang Chao took out a pack of oceans very familiarly, which was hundreds of yuan, and the little father-in-law immediately smiled.

"Lord Yang is polite. Serving you adults is what minions should do. Yes, it's time for the slave to go back to the palace to resume his life, that Zhan Tianyou is still waiting. ”

Yang Chao immediately sent away the emperor's father-in-law, the red man Xiao Chengzi, and then strode into the post house.

As he walked, he shouted: "Zhan Tianyou, Lord Zhan!" ”

When Zhan Tianyou heard the voice, he had just finished his last bite of food and immediately ran out.

"Who is this lord?"

Seeing Yang Chao wearing a three-grade official uniform, Zhan Tianyou asked after clasping his fists and saluting.

Yang Chao laughed and said: "In Xia Yang Chao, I have admired the name of Master Zhan for a long time." ”

Zhan Tianyou continued to be modest: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”

Yang Chao grabbed Zhan Tianyou's hand enthusiastically and left immediately: "Let's go, let's go to the Beijing Hotel with this official to eat and talk." ”

Beijing Hotel is not a good hotel, Chinese will not take this name, Beijing hotels are what eight buildings, sixteen bureaus and the like, not only can eat, but also with church performances, storytelling, singing is extremely lively.

During the period when the Eight-Nation Coalition was stationed in Beijing, these two people figured out a plan to make a fortune, first next to the French barracks, and later moved to Wangfujing.

I don't know if these guys are here to fight or if they're still doing business.

However, business was good at the beginning, because a large number of eight-nation allied troops were stationed in Beijing, there was a lack of Western restaurants in Beijing, Westerners were not used to eating Chinese food, and French food was very popular, and after the eight-nation alliance withdrew from Beijing, the hotel was naturally deserted, and Chinese could not go to such a deserted place.

However, the Beijing Hotel that Yang Chao and Zhan Tianyou saw was not so dilapidated, because the French were not stupid, when the Eight-Nation Alliance withdrew, they hired a lot of cooks, and it is said that there were old imperial chefs who ran out of the palace, focusing on the combination of Chinese and Western, and the business gradually improved.

Of course, if you want to pick up the food, you can't compare with those big restaurants in Qingyun Building, Yang Chao chose here, the picture is the name, and this is a place to receive foreign guests in later generations.

"Brother Zhan, what do you think?"

Ordering a large table of dishes, Yang Chao asked Zhan Tianyou.

Zhan Tianyou couldn't help but scold, he had just eaten a stomach full of brown rice in the post house, and now he couldn't eat it when he looked at this big table of dishes.

But Zhan Tianyou still nodded his head to express satisfaction: "Very good, very good!" ”

Yang Chao smiled: "That's good." Don't be stunned, move your chopsticks. Let's eat and talk. ”