Speaking of Gengzi refunds, we have to talk about the relationship between contemporary China and the United States, and when we talk about the relationship between contemporary China and the United States, we have to talk about the foreign policy of contemporary America.

Since the Spanish-American War, the United States has been trying to improve its international influence, especially after the rapid increase in the scale of American industry.

However, it is not so easy to improve its international status, and the contemporary United States is not a super-empire that everyone talks about in later generations, and the current international influence of the United States is not to mention that the sun never sets on the empire of Britain, and it is even far from being comparable with France, Germany, and Russia, at most it is the same as Italy, Austria-Hungary, and other third-rate countries.

In the Far East, the United States' influence on China is even less than that of Japan, a newly rising third-rate power.

Whether it's in the Far East or in Europe or elsewhere, the United States has been trying to increase its influence, and what to do to increase its influence? Naturally, it is to expand the supply of industrial raw materials and the sales market for industrial products.

Although China is a little poor in contemporary times, it is better than having a large number of people, and China's own industrial capacity is weak, and the demand for foreign industrial products is still relatively large.

However, these industrial product markets in contemporary China have little to do with the Americans!

The ordnance and weapons that China needs, especially artillery, are basically imported from Germany, and since the era of Li Hongzhang, China has been a loyal user of German Krupp artillery, not to mention the United States, and even Britain and France cannot snatch this big cake from the Germans. A considerable part of other light industrial products such as textiles are occupied by the British, especially the southern provinces of China have always been dumping sources of British foreign cloth, while the remaining small part of the market is occupied by various countries, including France and Japan.

In terms of raw materials, China's export of agricultural products and minerals has nothing to do with the Americans, whether it is rare minerals, pig bristles, tung oil and other strategic materials or tea and other agricultural products, which are basically exported to Europe, in recent years, a large number of soybean products in Northeast China, the soybean cake is mainly exported to Japan, and soybean oil is mainly exported to the United Kingdom.

The only exception should be raw silk, the contemporary United States is the world's largest consumer of raw silk, whether it is Japan or China, most of its raw silk exports are exported to the United States.

So the contemporary United States actually doesn't get much benefit from China.

And it is not limited to China, the United States is extremely lacking in product markets and raw material suppliers around the world.

In order to open up the market in China and other regions, the Americans just shouted the slogan of open door, but unfortunately there are no great powers, and this slogan of open door has been shouted for many years without much effect.

For example, when Zhao Dongyun proposed a series of railway construction plans such as the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and the Longhai Railway this year, the Americans were very active in trying to obtain the right to build the above-mentioned railways.

However, unlike history, Zhao Dongyun is directly linked to the construction rights of these railways and the aftermath loans.

The aftermath loan was not negotiated, which made it impossible to negotiate the right to build the railway, which was coveted by the great powers.

In addition to coveting China's vast market, the Americans are also deeply uneasy about Japan's strength in recent years, don't look at Japan's current only a third-rate country, and now it is also poor to death, but it is also a country that has a draw with the Russians, although its army can only be said to be average, but the Japanese navy is not to be underestimated, and the Russo-Japanese War was abolished with fewer victories and more stunned.

In addition, now that Japan has reached an alliance with Britain, it can make the world's boss Britain pull down its son to form an alliance with it, although the main reason is that the British are using Japan to fight against Russia, but in this year, they can act as the British thugs, and it also requires strength. Otherwise, if you let Zhao Dongyun come up and say that you want to be a thug for the British, people won't look down on it.

The original goal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance was to confront Russia, but Russia had already been cut off by the Japanese themselves, and even the navy was abolished, but why did the Anglo-Japanese alliance continue to exist, and anyone who knew a little about the international situation knew that it was the British guarding against the Americans.

The strategic goal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance has now become the Americans!

It can be said that if it were not for the fact that the Germans had attracted the firepower of the British before and after World War I, the Americans would have been in a very tragic strategic situation facing both the British and the Japanese.

However, despite this, the Americans did not dare to relax, and the annual naval military spending continued to rise, and in just a dozen years, a large white fleet was created to travel around the world.

It's just that this is not enough, the British can pull the Japanese into the chariot and let the Japanese act as pawns, why can't the Americans?

It was at this time that China, which had many disputes with Japan, came into the eyes of the Americans.

However, a few years ago, the US Chinese Exclusion Act and the Guangdong-Hankou Railway and other issues led to an anti-American wave in China, and under such circumstances, not to mention winning over China and causing China to compete with Japan, even the originally small number of exports to China have also rapidly decreased, and it can be said that Sino-US relations have been at a low point in the past two years.

In order to improve its influence in China, but also to open up the Chinese market, in order to win over China to act as its own thug, the United States has made relevant moves.

Some missionaries and politicians should return a portion of the Gengzi indemnity to fund Chinese students to study in the United States, using education as a breakthrough to expand their influence in China.

As long as a large number of Chinese students go to the United States to study, and then return to China to join the upper echelons of China, these people who have embraced American values will inevitably become more inherently closer to the United States.

I have to say that the use of Gengzi refunds to accept a large number of Chinese students is the most successful case of the United States exporting values in the past century, and its influence not only runs through the decades of the Republic of China period in history, but even a hundred years later, modern China still has a huge influence, and countless people hear that the United States is a color of yearning.

The role of Tsinghua University far exceeds that of Hollywood blockbusters and KFC.

Let's not talk about the plans of the Americans, but for China, to be precise, for Zhao Dongyun, this matter is also a lot of benefits!

The level of higher education in contemporary China is really unsightly, and if you want to get suitable talents, you have to send a large number of students to study abroad, but the cost of studying abroad is high, and the cost of sending a government-sent student to study in Britain, Germany and other European countries is often thousands of pounds.

It is precisely because of the high cost of studying in European and American countries, which is why after the abolition of the imperial examination in China, a large number of students went to Japan to study in the nearest country, not because the education level of Japan far exceeds that of European and American powers, but because it is much cheaper to study in Japan.

This year, the vast majority of the warlords or self-financed students from all sides went to Japan to study, and the remaining few went to Germany, Britain, France, etc. However, it is interesting to note that although the largest number of international students go to Japan, the majority of military students go to Germany.

This is mainly due to the instigation of Zhao Dongyun, a butterfly, since the rise of Zhao Dongyun, Yuan Shikai's era is to send a large number of students to study in Germany, especially in recent years, most of the military students sent by the official Beiyang system are going to Germany, and only a very small number of them are going to Japan to study.

The students who went to Japan were more of non-Beiyang officials.

In the contemporary Chinese Beiyang system and the southern federal system, the international students in the Beiyang system are mainly German students, while the students in the southern federal system are mainly Lu Shisheng.

As for the navy, all the British students in the UK, the British Navy in this year is the best in the world, not to mention the Chinese Navy, other US Navy, German Navy, French Navy almost all countries have the British Navy as a division, naval officers want to study in the UK 100% of the first choice, if you can't go, you will choose to study in other countries.

Military students aside, most of the other international students choose to go to Japan, because many of them are self-financed, and it is much cheaper to study in Japan.

If the United States is willing to use Gengzi indemnity as a study abroad fund to subsidize domestic students to study in the United States, Zhao Dongyun is not worried about the export of values, people will pay you to help you cultivate talents, what else can you care about.

Moreover, there is a very interesting phenomenon throughout China's modern history, that is, most of the students who went to Japan like to play revolution after returning to China, especially those students who went to Japan to study in Japan after the Russo-Japanese War, eight out of ten and nine times out of ten they eventually became revolutionary. However, this problem does not arise on a large scale for international students studying in countries such as Germany, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

It is precisely because international students who go to Japan are easy to become revolutionary, so Yuan Shikai only reduced the number of Japanese students on a large scale a few years ago, and instead sent students, especially those studying military affairs, to study in Germany.

With the support of Zhao Dongyun, the Americans also have bad intentions, and then there are some of the following who have various plans to learn, and the promotion of politicians, and soon this Gengzi refund is discussed.

On December 2nd, Liang Shiyi and U.S. Minister Rou Keyi officially signed the relevant agreement on Gengzi's refund, and as soon as this relevant agreement was signed, Liang Shiyi went to Jurentang non-stop to meet Zhao Dongyun.