Yang Hao made up his mind that if Sheng Xuanhuai said the name of Yuan Shikai or a certain old guy, he would turn around and leave without saying a word. I'd rather go back and resist the Manchus than help a group of bastards earn military merits.

Sheng Xuanhuai was overjoyed in his heart, leaned forward with his hand on the table, stared at Yang Hao with burning eyes and asked, "So, you agreed?" ”

Yang Hao's chin raised: "I am also conditional." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai laughed and said, "Any conditions can be discussed." Plus, you don't have to worry about seeing people you don't like. Brother Boxing, come out! ”

With a touch of shame on his face, Li Jingfang turned out of the back hall and gave Yang Hao a long look: "Fang Jingfang is hidden in the back hall, is there a place, please ask Mr. Yang to repeat Haihan!" ”

Yang Hao held his hands weakly and said with a hearty smile: "It turned out to be Li Qin's envoy, I knew it was you, and I didn't have to spend so much lip and tongue." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai and Li Jingfang had a big stone in their hearts landed, and this matter was done. At that moment, the two of them laughed in unison, and the expression on their faces immediately looked much better.

Yang Hao didn't feel bad about Li Jingfang, and he had a good impression of this person's boldness and ability, and felt that he was a person who could be co-opted and at least become an ally. It's just that Li Hongzhang has been holding down this godson all along, not letting him make the slightest move, and he can't make a calculation even if he has an abacus.

Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected change today, obviously because of his appearance, which led to a series of butterfly effects. Even if he is as shrewd as Li Hongzhang, he is also worried about the unpredictable future, and finally made up his mind to release Li Jingfang to practice.

The two biggest problems are solved, and the rest of the words are easy to say.

Li Hongzhang's meaning was very clear, and the imperial court tried to train a new army. He had to be in his hands. Hu Liao, the former chief Lu Yanyun envoy who was in charge of this errand, was originally a person from his Huai family. Offered to hire a German instructor from Hannagan. He is also an advisor to Li Hongzhang.

The intention of sending Li Jingfang out was to let him concretely master this new-style armed force. In view of the fact that the new army is still just preparing at the moment, Yang Hao's people were directly called into battle, and Li Jingfang took the risk of being the general of the town, and first put up the shelf, and the name was also occupied.

In this way, it is not easy to say much about the large number of ministers in the court who impeached Li Hongzhang and appointed private individuals. Yes, Li Zhongtang promoted his eldest son to be an official. Obviously, there is a meaning to continue to control the Beiyang. But as long as Li has fallen, will the skin be attached if there is no hair? It's not hard to clean it up.

The key person is leading the troops to the front line to kill the enemy, and the business of carrying your head to work, which of you is not convinced, come and try it?

What's more, Li Hongzhang emphasized that if he didn't do this, he would never be able to persuade Yang Hao to go out if he changed someone. This link is one after another, and others can't solve it at all.

In the final analysis, the Qing court's group of Qingliu civil officials are okay to play tricks, and it's not bad to make small calculations. But I want to fight with Li Hongzhang. They're all a big difference. Old man Li also had an abacus, and he saw that Yang Hao's methods were extraordinary. As long as you are willing to play, winning is guaranteed. When the time comes, Li Jingfang has military exploits, who can move him down?

How many things are involved inside and outside here, Yang Hao's head can't calculate at all.

Li Jingfang's attitude is very clear, he is a nominal child. He listened to and paid attention to the specific arrangements of the troops, how to command and how to fight the battles, and never intervened.

What kind of grain, equipment, and materials does Yang Jiajun need, Sheng Xuanhuai is here to support with all his might, as long as the Japanese army can be intercepted in Dalian, he can't delay by smashing pots and selling iron.

Yang Hao and his own think tanks have long calculated that they will definitely not suffer losses in this trip, and they also need to take this opportunity to correct the name of the army and declare to the world that they have saved their merits. As long as the Japanese army is defeated, how to make internal filth in the future depends on whose means are more clever. Forced to use force, who is afraid of whom!

After he finalized his words all the way, Sheng Xuanhuai said very generously: "What conditions Mr. Yang has, please feel free to say it bluntly." As long as it doesn't interfere too much with the overall situation of the imperial court, Lord Zhongtang will definitely try his best to fight for it. ”

Yang Hao smiled and said lightly: "I don't have too many requirements. Shanda must know that I have a steel mill and a shipyard in Qingdao. ”

How could Sheng Xuanhuai not know? The Yang family made that big move, and no matter how much the officials of Laizhou Mansion ate, he had to report it and take himself out first. There are more than two factories there, and you kid made a whole county construction site the size of a county, and others don't know?

But he couldn't tear his face now, he nodded indifferently.

Yang Hao said: "The design capacity of that steel plant is to smelt 500,000 tons of steel a year!" ”

"Half a million tons?!"

Sheng Xuanhuai almost jumped up! This figure is too amazing, you must know that Zhang Zhidong got the Hanyang Iron Works, and invested four or five million taels of silver before and after, which is only a production capacity of three or fifty thousand tons. After four years of tossing, it has just started, and there are still some that have not been cooked. It's good for you to open your mouth is 500,000 tons, when the construction doesn't need money, how to drop?

Yang Hao turned a blind eye to the disbelief on his face, and directly put forward his request: "The first phase of the steel plant has a capacity of 200,000 tons, which requires a large amount of coke and iron ore. I don't plan to import from abroad, but I have recently found a suitable mine in Luzhong, and I plan to build a railway from Qingdao to Jinan, connecting the required mines along the way. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai's brain was beating when he heard it! His eyes were staring at Yang Hao very unkindly, and he couldn't wait to pierce two transparent holes through his body.

Such conditions are simply embarrassing, just kidding!

In order to decide whether to build the railway or not, the Great Qing Dynasty debated for 30 years before reaching a preliminary conclusion. However, foreign funds are still strictly guarded, which is rather not repaired than transferred.

In fact, there is another real reason, wherever the railway goes, the people who have been closed and fooled by them for hundreds of years will immediately come into contact with the outside world. It will be very difficult to continue enslaving them. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was fundamentally for the needs of its own rule, and would rather hundreds of millions of people in the entire country continue to be fools.

The length of the railway demanded by Yang Hao almost exceeded the total number of railways that had been built intermittently in the previous two or three decades. The total investment is conservatively estimated to be around 30 million taels of silver. Such a huge business, together with the surrounding mineral resources, set off a storm that could almost turn the Qing Kingdom over.

This is bound to cause a series of uncontrollable troubles. In the name of local investment, the Yang family uses Yanhua Bank to do it, so won't the foreign devils lend money to the local money bank ticket number and follow up the investment? At that time, the hands of the great powers will be completely stretched in, and this opening will not be easy to open!

In fact, Sheng Xuanhuai also knows that building railways is the trend of the times, and it is not something that anyone can stop by stretching out their hands. In this Sino-Japanese war, the court has made a series of scandals, which has fully exposed all kinds of previous shortcomings, and reform is imperative. Yang Hao's move is very likely to become the fuse that triggers a full-scale debate!

Frowning, taking a deep breath, Sheng Xuanhuai said solemnly: "This matter has too much to do with it, and I can't agree to it out of the blue." But rest assured, your request will be truthfully and quickly submitted to Fu Xiang, and within a few days, there will be a clear answer. ”

Yang Hao smiled: "Then I will wait for good news." ”

He was not worried at all that Li Hongzhang and the Qing court would not agree. At present, the face of the entire Great Qing Kingdom is about to be swollen by Little Japan, and if it wants to be maintained, someone must come forward to turn the tide. At present, the only one who can stop the Japanese army is his Yang Hao's armament. Regardless of whether it is legal or not, it can only be said that he can only be pushed up and resisted.

In the future, even if he wins the war, repairing the railway will not be a matter of a day and a half, and if he finds a reason to make some contradictions, he can drag him for three years and five years. This kind of means is the most lacking in officials.

Of course, Yang Hao's conditions are real. He wants to build a civilized country and start the people's wisdom to revitalize industry, and the best way is to do it than this kind of big project.

Rail, road, sea. Trains, cars, ships. These three things represent the achievements and benchmarks of modern civilization, and only those that have independent production and construction capabilities are qualified industrial countries. Only by solving the problem of transportation can it be possible to further solve the more troublesome problem of civilization shaping.

The two sides reached a verbal agreement in such a crisp way, and Yang Hao went back to discuss with his team and make various mobilization preparations.

Sheng Xuanhuai and Li Jingfang jointly invited Li Hongzhang to relayed the negotiation process and Yang Hao's conditions in detail.

Li Hongzhang was not surprised at all by the request to repair the railway, and said with a smile: "The old man has long expected that sooner or later that kid will have to put his hand on here." It's just that he didn't expect that his appetite is so big, it will take a thousand miles to come up! Promise him, the court will naturally be divided by the old man. ”

Turning his head, he told Li Jingfang separately: "You still lack experience in the matter of military strategy, so go to Dalian this time and pay more attention to the inside affairs of the Yang family." As far as the old man knows, the armament used by this son is not even a foreigner, and there are many strange ones. If you can see it, it's a great credit! ”

Li Jingfang couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, so he agreed to come down.

Two days later, Sheng Xuanhuai sent people to the American Concession to inform the imperial court that it had agreed to transfer troops and the terms it proposed, and Sheng Xuanhuai agreed to handle it as one.

Yang Hao immediately asked Song Yunsheng to be the leader of the negotiation of the business group, organized a preparatory team of more than 100 people, and announced the news of the Jiaoji Railway to the world through the "Guowen Daily", and even held a huge press conference in the US concession at a later date!

As soon as this news came out, not only was the world in an uproar, but the foreigners of the great powers who were planning to fight in the war between the two countries could not take care of the troubles, and countless organizations in China sent people to the Beiyang Yamen one after another, and immediately sent a telegram to inform the country and organize personnel to discuss countermeasures.

On November 2, when the Japanese army launched an attack on Jinzhou, Yang Hao's regiment of soldiers and horses also arrived in Tianjin by ship for review. (To be continued......)