Zhou Fu is also a Western-style faction, Li Hongzhang's confidant, he has been the governor of Shandong for a year, and he has still done many things that the Western-style faction should do, such as the Shandong University that Yuan Shikai originally did, and Zhou Fu also did it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhou Fu also used the team of Wenhui Academy to form a new university, hired several American teachers, and completed the first batch of students last month, the scale of 100 people, this first batch of students, basically recommended by others, including Zhou Fu's nephew, Yuan Shikai's nephew and others. There are also students recommended by Western-style officials in various places, many of whom are old scholars, and basically have a talent and fame.

Obviously, this Shandong University has a strong flavor of Westernization, to be precise, it is the Huai school system.

Obviously, the students who will go out of this university in the future will also go to their careers one by one, take over the guns of Zhou Fu and Yuan Shikai, and continue to rush forward.

In addition to this university, Zhou Fu also organized ten primary schools and a preparatory school. Needless to say, primary school is a primary school, and a preparatory school is actually to help the old literati learn scientific and technological knowledge, so that they can reach the learning ability of university, and then go on to university.

Therefore, this preparatory department can be said to be the high school of later generations, but unlike high school, the preparatory department can graduate without the college entrance examination and directly enter the university. Of course, the preparatory department also has to be examined, and you can only enter the university after passing the exam. Therefore, this is a bit of a meaning of independent enrollment in later generations. In fact, this is all about learning from Sheng Xuanhuai, Sheng Xuanhuai is also engaged in this set in Nanyang College, when there is no complete education system from primary school, middle school to university, you can only do this.

As for the other Westernists, Zhou Fu didn't have it, he didn't do it like Zhang Zhidong to overhaul the railway, because the Germans were more active than him in building the railway in Shandong, as for the Western-style enterprises that built the Hanyang Iron Works, Zhou Fu had no ability, Shandong was not as wide as Hu, Shandong was a poor province in this era, there were many people and few places, and the people were extremely poor, otherwise the Boxers would not have been the first to break out from Shandong.

But for running a business, Zhou Fu did not have the idea of rejection, he just had no money, and he didn't want to borrow foreign money like Sheng Xuanhuai, because Zhou Fu was different from Sheng Xuanhuai, he thought that borrowing foreign money was to drink to quench his thirst, Sheng Xuanhuai because he borrowed a loan from the Japanese, and as a result, Hanyang Iron Works was subject to the Japanese everywhere, and the iron ore under his name could not supply the fine ore to the iron factory, but all of them were sent to Japan's Yawata Iron Works.

Sheng Xuanhuai may not be able to see this, but comparing the resumes of Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhou Fu can find the difference between the two, both of them once worked as Shanghai Customs Road, Zhou Fu was eight years, Sheng Xuanhuai only served for two years, when Zhou Fu died, he only left a field worth 200,000 taels of silver to his family, and Sheng Xuanhuai left more than 20 million taels, it is said that he only made more than 5 million taels during the customs road, and bought a large amount of real estate in Shanghai.

Some people may still think that Sheng Xuanhuai has a strong ability to make money, and Zhou Fu is caused by the old literati who don't know how to operate. But in the Tongzhi years, looking at Sheng Xuanhuai's salvage of the sunken tribute ship in Yantai, he only handed over a part of the tribute and detained a considerable part of it. After the incident, his adviser wrote him an excerpt and played it to the imperial court, saying that the people of Yantai were poor and hoped to set up a Yimin pharmacy with the newly salvaged tributes, and turned the privately held tributes into those that had just been salvaged and had not had time to report. This pharmacy is Guangren Pharmacy.

Li Hongzhang commented that Zhou Fu is not greedy for money, but he can make 200,000 taels, which does not mean that he is not greedy for money, but can only say that he is not very greedy, and at the same time proves that he is not as black-hearted and fat as Sheng Xuanhuai.

The reason why Sheng Xuanhuai borrowed foreign money again and again, especially in the case of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, was that he wanted to borrow loans from the United States despite the opposition of Chinese businessmen in the three provinces. Later, when the imperial court wanted to take back the railway shares in the hands of the Sichuan people, but did not refund the Sichuan people, the Sichuan people raised the road protection movement, Sheng Xuanhuai let the army suppress it as soon as possible, after the Xinhai Revolution, Sheng Xuanhuai was the first to go to Japan, and the relationship between him and the Japanese is needless to say.

Zhou Fu is not as black-hearted as Sheng Xuanhuai, he doesn't want to be disadvantaged to the country because of his personal interests, he is unwilling to harm the public and private interests. It can only be said that Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhou Fu are both traditional Chinese officials, but Sheng Xuanhuai is the kind of selfish and unscrupulous guy, and Zhou Fu is somewhat of a scholar for the country and the people.

Yang Chao has always believed that the spirit of Chinese scholars and doctors, like the spirit of Western aristocracy, is the essence of national culture. It is the elite people cultivated by Confucian culture, gentlemen are like jade, and these people are real jade. And Sheng Xuanhuai has nothing to do with Confucian culture, they are opportunists. Reading the same sage book is different people, it can only be said that they chose it themselves, Xiang Ma Tengfei suffered so much, he chose to see that society was good to him, so he was a person with a conscience in his heart.

As for the anti-Confucius, there is a deeper reason, it can be said that it is an ideological dispute, and it has nothing to do with the quality of Confucianism itself, Confucius and Mencius taught people to do things in principle, 'benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, faith, gentleness, courtesy, frugality', who can see that it is a backward and decadent feudal ideology?

Yang Chao feels that the only mistake is that Confucianism is used to govern the country, this is a set of self-cultivation, self-cultivation philosophy, you take him to govern the country is not wrong, so since the Qin Dynasty, the organizational ability of Chinese society is not as good as the generation, it is because of this reason, when it comes to governing the country, then you have to play the game, although the Qin law is indeed stricter, just revise the law, so that even the entire social system of the operation of the law will not change, this is a typical overkill because of choking and waste food.

Speaking of Zhou Fu, he is unwilling to borrow foreign money to make money, but he still has to do what he should do, so running a school is what he is best at, and it is not costly, how much can it cost to recruit hundreds of thousands of students every year? Where is there a lot of throwing into the black hole of the Hanyang Iron Works. In addition to running the school, he also appealed to the imperial court to open up the two commercial ports of Jinan and Zhoucun, Zhou Fu's purpose was to boycott Qingdao of the Germans, and he hoped that Jinan and Zhoucun could compete with Qingdao. This is just like the large-scale development of Hainan in later generations, and it is as naïve as trying to compare Taiwan with others.

In fact, the Germans would like to open more commercial ports.

With this kind of thinking, Yang Chao's expansion of Yantai and the construction of railways were strongly supported by Zhou Fu.

This time Yang Chao set up a factory, Zhou Fu had no reason to refuse, he only made one request, that is, not to borrow foreign money.

Zhou Fu told Yang Chao that borrowing foreign money must be subject to foreigners, and doing foreign affairs is to master the skills of Yiyi to control them, if they are controlled by foreigners, then it is better not to do it.

Although Yang Chao disagrees with this concept, the purpose of Yang Chao's factory is industrialization, and later generations regard Western civilization as industrial civilization, in fact, there is no reason at all, what is the West before the Industrial Revolution, who doesn't know, pirates running around are not poor, people are industrialized first, so their culture is also high culture? It's just that Westerners took the lead in seizing the opportunity of industrialization and completed the country's magnificent transformation to modernity.

The Chinese may not have had such opportunities at the end of the Song and Ming dynasties, but they just missed them.

Although he didn't agree with Zhou Fu's concept, he still agreed with his spirit and character, so Yang Chao agreed that he would never borrow foreign money, in fact, he didn't plan to borrow it.

After getting Zhou Fu's support to set up an arsenal in Laiwu, Yang Chao rushed to the Germans' ball.

What is surprising is that the presiding officer of the ball turned out to be the famous Krupp family member Gustav Krupp, this arsenal is mainly built by Krupp and Mauser Arsenal, and the technicians are also from two families, but Mauser only sent an engineer, or an engineer who is working locally, obviously not enough attention.

And Krupp's attention is obviously not in the arsenal itself, because for them, the benefits of this arsenal are not very big, the construction investment is invested by the Kaiser, they dare not make the Kaiser's money, the future operation is nominally the Chinese government, and it has little to do with them, and the Chinese government's workers' wages, whether it is Krupp or Mauser probably do not look down on it.

So Mauser's reaction was normal, just a humble engineer, but Krupp's reaction was abnormal.

Of course, this Gustav Krupp is not a member of the Krupp line, he was born in a family of financiers in the Netherlands, because he married the daughter of the Krupp family, so he modified Krupp to join the Krupp family, but later he supported Hitler, brought Krupp to unprecedented glory, but also to the end, so he is the most famous Krupp after the old Krupp.

The reason why the Krupp family sent such a number one person is, of course, outside the arsenal, and it is still a railway, not a railway.

Krupp is not just an arsenal, like Boeing in later generations, it does not just produce fighter jets. Krupp's civilian production is also very developed, and even the output is much larger than that of munitions, after all, although munitions are lucrative, but when there is no war, in fact, most arms enterprises are in a state of loss.

Krupp's civilian use is mainly to produce train parts, and their train wheels are world-famous, and many train manufacturers have proved their quality by adopting Krupp wheels.

Qingdao's Sifang locomotive was originally an assembly plant attached to the Jiaoji Railway, since the agreement with Yang Chao, according to Yang Chao's requirements, the factory intends to directly produce, so the consortium behind the Jiaoji Railway handed over the Sifang locomotive to Krupp to operate, and Krupp cooperated with Talbot Locomotive Factory, another famous locomotive manufacturer in Germany, to jointly operate the Sifang locomotive.

Talbot Locomotive Factory is one of the most famous locomotive factories in Germany at this time, the quality of the trains manufactured, the technical advantage has been maintained until the era of high-speed rail, the later Bombardier production of the EMU is the introduction of Talbot's technology, and Bombardier and the later generations of Sifang locomotive cooperation to introduce the EMU to China, and at this time Talbot invested in the Sifang locomotive in advance, can not but be said to be a beautiful coincidence.

Because it is the majority shareholder of Sifang Locomotive, the Krupp family has a reason to send someone to China, after all, Sifang Locomotive received an order for ten tons of gold.

But the order has already been completed, and there is no need for Krupp to communicate with the customer for an outdated business, so Krupp has another purpose for this trip.

"What? Help me build a steel mill! ”

At the reception, Krupp took the opportunity to tell Yang Chao that Yang Chao almost couldn't believe what he heard, that the Germans would export their own industry?

After that, Yang Chao understood that the Germans were not without other purposes, and Krupp put forward new requirements.

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