In addition to the above two items, Wang Yi also made three additional small requirements.

The first is that the imperial court lent all the books in the Imperial Palace's Ouchi and Hanlin Yuan for the Great Shang Culture to print and publish all over the world. After that, the proceeds were profitable, and everyone added two to five, and half of the family. Dashang promises to use all the proceeds of this income to develop education.

The second king asked the Imperial Palace Ouchi to regularly lend some national treasures to the Dashang Museum for the world to visit. The proceeds are also half of the family, and Dashang promises to use the proceeds for public welfare.

The most simple one is that Wang Yi asked the court for three people: Yan Fu, Zhan Tianyou, and Tang Shaoyi.

In the end, Li Hongzhang said in his recital to Cixi: "The king holds a heavy army in one hand, and its momentum has been achieved, and it can be solved without sword soldiers." The treasury is empty, and it is useless to start a war and spend money on the imperial court. Moreover, this person is patriotic and xenophobic, and if he stays in Fengjihei and Inner Mongolia, he can resist Tsarist Russia from looking eastward, and second, he can block the Japanese from looking westward, and the actual benefits outweigh the disadvantages......"

After Cixi saw it, she pondered for a while, and then said with a smile: "Wang Yi, this slave, is really a businessman, and he still wants to partner with the mourning family to do business......

Li Lianying said with a smile: "This is also his good vision, Lafayette is a blessed person, he can get a little blessing casually, then he will be able to prosper financially." ”

Cixi smiled and nodded. "As long as you don't have a white-eyed wolf!"

Li Lianying was frightened and didn't dare to answer again.

After consulting with the courtiers, Cixi agreed to Wang Yi's request. As for where the five million taels of silver came from, it was not a matter for Lafayette to worry about. And the matter of the two partners doing business, Cixi was assigned to Li Lianying. At first, Gonggong Li didn't pay much attention to it, but later found out that the money was really a lot. After reporting to Cixi, Lafayette can be regarded as seeing money, but later he thinks that Wang Yi is a very good person.

Five million taels is also a lot of money for the big merchants, and the imperial court really couldn't come up with so much silver at once, so only two million were given to the big merchants, and the remaining three million became the commercial loans of the big merchants, and the collateral was thirty percent of the income from the original mining deposits of the big merchants. Now it is directly returned to the big merchants, until the three million even the capital is paid off.

Zhang Jingxiao got five million taels of silver, and his face was like a chrysanthemum, happy! However, the dock was not enough, so two more branches were opened directly in Lushun and Huludao. Holding orders from the North and South Oceans in hand, a total of seven warships.

In addition to his happiness, Zuo Zongtang is also happy, if all the warships of the Dashang Shipyard come out, then the strength of Nanyang will surpass that of Beiyang. Li Hongzhang is also in a good mood, don't look at the fact that Nanyang has more ships than Beiyang, but the two ships in Beiyang are directly in hand, while the warships in Nanyang's hands need to be paid in full before they are under the command of Nanyang Control. At the current rate of repayment, I am afraid that it will take three or four years to be able to do so.

Of course, Wang Yi came to such a moment, although he did not really come to the capital to seek to usurp the throne. But it did make a group of Manchu nobles frightened, and then transferred Beiyang heavy troops and Mongolian cavalry to defend Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan, which was relieved. In fact, they also knew that Wang's insurance team could fight inextricably with the Tsarist Russians, and it was impossible for them to win on their own side. But with these soldiers, if you can't win the battle, it's always okay to drag some time to escape, right?

At the beginning of 1882, Yan Fu, Tang Shaoyi, and Zhan Tianyou came to Fengtian. I was completely blown away by the sight in front of me! They hadn't heard of the name of the Great Merchant, but they knew about the Northeast Republic. Wang Yi met with them, in fact, he didn't think much about these three people when he asked for them, after all, they were celebrities in later generations, and they wanted to see each other. If it is not suitable, it will be stayed, and if it is not suitable, it will be repatriated. Yan Fu, Tang Shaoyi, and Zhan Tianyou were of course surprised when they saw Wang Yi. I didn't expect the people who recruited themselves from the imperial court to be so young, more than ten years younger than them.

Wang Yi talked to them for a while, and found that the three of them did have their own expertise and extraordinary knowledge. Of course, this is relative to other places in the Qing Dynasty, in Dashang...... That's it.

"Cheng, Shaochuan, a few, you can show your strengths in Dashang." Wang Yi said with a smile.

Tang Shaoyi asked a little crampedly, "I don't know how the chairman plans to arrange the three of us?" ”

"I've thought about it all. A few things, you go to the maritime academy to study for two more years, our side is not the same as the UK. There are many things that are not available in foreign countries, and you can go and see them. ”

Yan Fu got up and said, "Obey the chairman's arrangement." (Yan Fu, originally named Zongguang, the word and Ling, and later changed his name to Yan Fu, with a few words.) Here is the second name, everyone looks familiar. ）

"Cheng, my side is related to your profession with Dashang Heavy Industry, Dashang Train, and Dashang Railway Construction Company. Tomorrow I will send someone to take you to watch, which one you like. ”

Zhan Tianyou nodded, this person doesn't like to talk much.

"As for Shaochuan, you will temporarily stay at the Dashang headquarters to help me deal with some things, and I have also found a master for you."

Zhao Liewen, who had been beside him and didn't speak, stood up with a smile at this time and said, "It's me." ”

Wang Yiyi smiled and said: "He is Zhao Liewen, who was originally the first staff member under Zeng Wenzhenggong, and now he is in charge of the external affairs of my big business. ”

To be honest, Tang Shaoyi really hasn't heard of Zhao Liewen's reputation, which is not surprising, when Zhao Liewen was crisscrossing the rivers and lakes, Tang Shaoyi may have only been born for a few years, and when Zhao Liewen retired later, Tang Shaoyi also went abroad.

"I've seen sir!" Tang Shaoyi stood up and saluted.

Wang Yi nodded with a smile at this time, and said, "Lao Zhao, take them to the industrial real room to visit, and then arrange a place for them to live." If you encounter something that you can't solve in the future, you can call me. After speaking, Wang Yi picked up three business cards from the table and handed them to the three of them.

Wang Minyun is happy today, because the first batch of books from the Imperial Palace and Hanlin Yuan in the capital has arrived, and three days later, the treasures of the Imperial Palace will also arrive at the museum under the escort of the insurance team, which includes the Qingming Shanghe map, the Sanxitang Fati, and the jade cabbage. The exhibition of the treasures of the Imperial Palace has already spread in Mukden, and many people have already booked tickets and are ready to come to the museum of the affiliated school to see it. In order to prevent accidents, Wang Yi also deliberately opened a branch door on the other side of the school and established a closed passage to save from affecting the normal teaching order of the affiliated school.

Zhao Liewen took Yan Fu and others back from the industrial room at this time, although the three of them had all studied abroad, and they had some preparations in their hearts after listening to Wang Yi's introduction, but they were still shocked by the huge scale and advanced level of the industrial room!

"Dude, why are you so happy?" Zhao Liewen looked at Wang Minyun and said with a smile.

"Something from the capital is here!"

"So fast!?"

"But no, for these things, the insurance companies of the big merchants also specially insured them, and it is said that the amount is very huge." Wang Minyun sighed: "These three are ......"

"The chairman and the three people asked by the imperial court, the three of you come to see each other, this is Mr. Xiangqi, Wang Minyun! The curator of the Dashang Museum, a scholar of the scriptures. ”

"I've seen sir!" The three of them saw that the person in front of them was not ordinary, and they saluted at the same time.

After that, Zhao Liewen took the three of them to the school dormitory and issued them identity cards. There's a photo of the avatar on it, and I just got it done today. Each person has one room, all of which are private rooms.

"This is a dormitory for students of Dashang Junior High School, which is usually a room for four people, but you have different identities, so you have one room per person. When you go to the factory, there is also a dormitory there, and this ID card can still be used. ”

"Sir, can we use Dashang's library as well?"

Zhao Liewen said with a smile: "Of course, anyone with this identity card can go in and read books, but only the lower two floors are open, and the upper two floors require special approval to enter." In addition, you can go to the cafeteria every day to eat, and the meals are free of charge, and this school is now full of people and canteens. If you want to eat better, you can go to a small restaurant, but it costs money there. ”

Later, Zhao Liewen taught the three of them the use of some living facilities, such as hot water, showers, bathhouses, toilets, electrical appliances and so on.

After he left, the three of them freshened up and chatted together. Tang Shaoyi and Zhan Tianyou knew each other, Yan Fu was very talkative, and they quickly became warm.

"I really haven't heard of big business before, but I didn't expect it to be much more advanced than Citigroup, where we studied abroad." Tang Shaoyi sighed sincerely.

Zhan Tianyou nodded and said, "Indeed, as Shaochuan said, I originally thought that the Yale University Hall where I studied was originally the most advanced real room in the world, but now it seems that the industrial real room of Dashang is several times more advanced than it." ”

Yan Fu was a little looking forward to it at this time, because tomorrow he was going to report to the Maritime Academy, and said: "For some reason, when I was in Nanyang, I didn't have the opportunity to get on the ship, and now I have seen such things as big merchants." I have to thank them! ”

Zhan Tianyou and Tang Shaoyi glanced at each other, nodded the same head, and said, "It seems that we are equally lucky, I don't know how the chairman knows about us?" ”

"It should be that the chairman needs Western talents, it shouldn't be difficult, just check the list of studying abroad in recent years." Tang Shaoyi guessed and explained. What he said was not wrong, Wang Yi originally wanted to choose Liu Buyun, Lin Taizeng and others, but after thinking about it, it was better to leave some people for Nanyang.

Glancing at the time, Yan Fu said at this time: "Chengcheng, Shaochuan, anyway, there is nothing to do, why don't the three of us go to the museum and library to have a look?" ”

"Wow, that's exactly what I thought!"

The three of them talked and laughed and traveled together. The museum is not open to the public today because it transports books from the imperial court, so they went to the library.

The lights are bright, there are a lot of students, but it's quiet, and everyone likes the atmosphere as soon as they come.

Zhan Tianyou preferred books on mechanical theory, while Tang Shaoyi read some history of Korea and Japan, and later heard that it was his new master Zhao Liewen who assigned him a task. As for Yan Fu, he is reading Darwin's "Theory of Evolution", and there is no Huxley's "Theory of Heavenly Evolution" yet, I wonder if this book will have anything to do with Yan Fu in the future? Perhaps in the future, China will have one more admiral and one less educational thinker, and who knows whether it is good or bad.