Long before coming to Beijing, Zhang Tinglan and Lao Zhang analyzed Yuan Shikai's ambivalence, Zhang Zuolin thought so, so how to behave became a problem, an obedient, Lao Yuan would think that he was overwhelmed, and even those people in Beiyang would jump out and step on a few feet.

If it is too tough, it will not be good for Lao Yuan Xinsheng to be jealous, and Lao Zhang found that it is best to show enough strength, and at the same time deliberately expose some character flaws, so that Yuan Shikai mistakenly thinks that he is easy to control.

Therefore, when receiving him, Lao Zhang will say that the king of heaven and Lao Tzu don't want to get involved in Fengtian, this is beating Yuan Shikai, if you send someone to Fengtian casually, you have to see if Lao Zhang agrees. In addition, Zhang Zuolin shows the recklessness and greed of a reckless character from time to time.

For example, he violently beat the tax official of Chongwenmen, and he had a conflict with Liang Shiyi, and then he had that pocket watch. Since Zhang Tinglan tossed repeatedly, the 27th Division has abundant funds on its books, and Lao Zhang also has millions of deposits in Daosheng Bank, does he care about a pocket watch!

However, Lao Zhang found that between a pile of rusty bronzes, there was suddenly a golden pocket watch, as if he was afraid that others would not know, so he pretended to be attracted, and sure enough, Lao Yuan gave him the pocket watch after he came in.

Lao Zhang is also a superior, and he understands very well that this is just a small means to buy people's hearts, and at the same time, he is also testing whether he is greedy for money. After returning to the Six Nations Hotel, Lao Zhang casually threw the pocket watch on the sofa and didn't care at all.

However, when Zhang Xueliang saw his father throwing out a golden thing, he hurriedly took it, and saw that it was a delicate pocket watch, and played with it.

"Seventh master, President Yuan is too picky, let's give them so many things from the Yuan family, he will return the gift with a pocket watch, it's not appropriate!"

"President Yuan doesn't see it that way, this is a reward for the future Long Live Lord, a royal thing, and when Lao Yuan becomes the emperor, we have to get a tablet and offer this thing as an heirloom."

Lao Zhang picked up the teacup, poured a few sips, moistened his throat, and then said: "Tinglan, Lao Yuan also heard about your signing with Zhu Erdian, and he took a fancy to you and wanted to leave you in Beijing to practice." ”

Zhang Xueliang, who was playing with the pocket watch on the side, heard this, and his little eyes suddenly widened, and he put the pocket watch aside, and said angrily: "Dad, Yuan Datou wants to exchange a gold watch for Brother Tinglan, it is wishful thinking, Brother Tinglan is a golden man from head to toe, pure gold!" Zhang Xueliang is also in a hurry.

Zhang Tinglan knows better in her heart, don't look at Yuan Shikai's power now, but he is already declining and dying. On the contrary, Zhang Zuolin is the sun at eight or nine o'clock, and the development potential is huge, Zhang Tinglan will never stay in Beijing to bury Lao Yuan.

Moreover, there are a bunch of old bureaucrats vying for power and power in Beijing today, and they can't do anything serious.

"Seventh master, Lao Yuan has never had a lot of money in his hands, and he has to be the emperor, and he has to spend money on everything, he doesn't really want to keep me, he just wants to get some money to spend."

"That's right, do you have what it takes to get him money?"

"Nope!" Zhang Tinglan replied very simply: "If you want to make money, you have to show the courage to do things, and if we want to do something in Mukden, we must not hesitate to confront the Japanese, especially in Beijing." However, Lao Yuan's subordinates are intertwined, and there are foreign powers eyeing each other, and if they want to really do something, how huge the obstacles are, Beijing is a quagmire, and if you fall into it, don't think of it. ”

"Although Lao Yuan didn't say it explicitly, he already had this thought, and asked me to take you to the presidential palace, if Lao Yuan must keep you, I can't refuse!"

Of course, Zhang Zuolin didn't want Zhang Tinglan to stay in Beijing, but he couldn't directly refuse Lao Yuan, in case he annoyed Yuan Shikai, he would be busy in Beijing this time.

Zhang Tinglan also knew the severity, his eyes rolled, and he thought carefully about countermeasures.

"Seventh Master, you said that I caused some trouble, so that Lao Yuan didn't dare to leave me in Beijing, how about this idea?"

Trouble? Lao Zhang has learned Zhang Tinglan's ability to cause trouble during this time, and all kinds of shili in Fengtian have been provoked by him, and he has provoked Liang Shiyi when he arrives in Beijing, but I don't know who this kid is going to provoke?

"Tinglan, Beijing is not as good as Fengtian, don't make trouble for you kid, I think it's better to pretend to be sick, just say that the water and soil are not adaptable, I will send someone to send you back to Fengtian overnight, I guess Lao Yuan has nothing to say."

Lao Zhang proposed the safest way, Zhang Tinglan thought about it and said: "Seventh master, although it is safe to do this, it will also make Yuan Shikai have a thorn in his heart, which is not appropriate!" ”

"Okay, since you have an idea, go for it, I'll take care of it if something happens!" Lao Zhang also knew that Zhang Tinglan was actually very stubborn, since he had an idea, he would insist, so he didn't care, he was still very confident in Zhang Tinglan.

Zhang Tinglan returned to his room, thinking constantly in his heart, this time in Beijing, in addition to helping Zhang Zuolin run for office, he also wanted to recruit a few available talents, especially those who knew how to work and mine.

The three eastern provinces are a first-class rich land in the whole country, with rich mineral resources, if you want to develop the economy, you must develop these minerals, but this requires specialized talents, now is not the future generations of college students everywhere, and there is no science and engineering talent who can take on the great responsibility in Fengtian.

Zhang Tinglan had no choice but to fight Beijing's idea, hoping to recruit a few professionals from universities who knew how to work and mine, and since he wanted to recruit talents, he would inevitably have to deal with those literati and scholars.

It was only at this time that Zhang Tinglan really understood the preferential treatment of these literati, who enjoyed a salary of three or four hundred oceans per month, which was fifty times or even a hundred times that of ordinary workers, and in slightly more remote areas, ordinary people could not get a few oceans a year, and the salary of a university professor was thousands of times that of them.

Where is this dark last days, it is simply a paradise for literati!

In later generations, it is difficult for the monthly salary of an ordinary university professor to exceed 10,000 yuan, and the dishwasher also has two or three thousand yuan, the difference is only three or five times, no wonder the disciples and grandchildren of later generations desperately recall the Republic of China, they are too far worse than their predecessors.

But they didn't think about whether the preferential treatment of literati during the Republic of China was normal, if the wage gap of three or five times was to motivate people to work hard, then the income gap of dozens or hundreds of times was to intensify social contradictions and cause hatred.

On the one hand, the ordinary people are hungry and hungry, and on the other hand, the literati are holding the celebrities, dancing ballroom dances, and enjoying a luxurious life. As a result, these people continue to write articles, lament social injustice, criticize traditional culture, and claim to be representatives of the dissemination of new ideas, but they do not know that their existence itself is a serious injustice.

Of course, only Zhang Tinglan dares to think like this at present, and even Yuan Shikai is afraid of these literati, allowing them to publish articles in newspapers, and there is no way to help them.

Before coming to Beijing, Zhang Tinglan told Wang Yongjiang the idea of recruiting talents, Wang Yongjiang is also very supportive, Fengtian does need talents, when he went to Beijing a few years ago, he also met a friend, named Kuang Rongguang, is the first batch of young children to study in the United States, studying mining and metallurgy, and also discovered the Xiangtan Coal Mine in Hunan, which is famous all over the world, and is now teaching at Peking University.

Zhang Tinglan also knows that the young children in the United States are a golden signboard, and a large number of talents have emerged among these people, including Premier Tang Shaoyi, railway engineer Zhan Tianyou, and so on. Since Wang Yongjiang recommended him, Zhang Tinglan wanted to find an opportunity to recruit him to Fengtian to help find mines and develop mineral resources.

Now as soon as Zhang Tinglan heard that Lao Yuan wanted to recruit him, and he couldn't refuse clearly, he thought of a way, that is, to take the opportunity of recruiting Kuang Rongguang to poke the hornet's nest and compete with the literati of this era, intensify public opinion, and make Lao Yuan dare not keep himself.

Now that she had this idea in mind, Zhang Tinglan went straight to Peking University the next day, and the campus of this era was still full of classical style, exquisite architecture, red bricks and green trees, pavilions and water pavilions. Under the guidance of the guide, Zhang Tinglan quickly found a specially established professor's villa area, which is full of new-style western-style buildings with unique design, electric lights and telephones, hot and cold water.

The environment is so good that it is simply enviable, in stark contrast to the low and dim houses of the common people outside, and suddenly this is not China, but the developed West.

However, the Kuang Rongguang he was looking for was not arranged in the villa area, there was an idle compound not far from the villa area, which was Kuang Rongguang's residence, which was spacious and regular, but it could not be compared with those glamorous villas. Zhang Tinglan quickly found this place, and saw a few people in the courtyard who seemed to be arguing from a distance.

A middle-aged man in an Oriental satin coat was holding his hands behind his back and speaking loudly: "Mr. Kuang, this is the campus, a pure and holy place, you are tinkling, making a chaotic noise, just like a vegetable market, how do you let outsiders look at us, shame!" ”

"What's there to be ashamed of." A young man in his early twenties walked briskly from the side, his hands still stained with black engine oil, and some scattered parts on the side, most of the so-called jingling sounds made by him fiddling with these things.

"It's a university campus, and there is no special operation lab, so I can only work here. Although I am not from this school, I would like to say that students pay the most attention to the unity of knowledge and action, and only by practical operation can they better grasp the knowledge they have learned, which is a dereliction of duty in your school! ”

"Hmph, I want to operate you to go to a junior college, to be a liba, no one is stopping you, this is a place to study knowledge, you can't disturb the quiet."

At this time, a little old man of about fifty opened his mouth and said: "Professor Yang, Yunhua is still young, ignorant, and there are thousands of mistakes, all of which are my fault, don't be surprised." ”

"Professor Kuang, you and I are both scholars, we should pay attention to decency, it is our duty to study and learn, as for the other workers are enough, why should we surrender our identity!"

This chapter has been changed several times, and it is written slowly, so forgive me.

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