"I'm here for the emperor's safety."
Princess Katrina Kaaf was a little aggrieved.President Meng smiled slightly, "We have a reinforced brigade of tens of thousands of people by our side, what is there to worry about, I mainly want to go to see the Japanese railway, see if this section is necessary, or do you want to dismantle it."
If the steel is shipped back, it can be regarded as a material, isn't it" Princess Katrina Kafu smiled: "A dignified emperor is worried about other people's rails and trains" "A little bit of how much steel we only produce in a year" President Meng smiled."
Also, if I go there myself, it can also boost morale."
Princess Katrina Cafu smiled, "I can't talk about the emperor anyway. ”President Moe took Princess Katrina Kaf's hand, "I invite you to come along" Princess Katrina Kafu sneered, "Okay." ”President Meng is very concerned about the construction of railways.The tremendous role of railways in strengthening national defense and benefiting industry and commerce has been widely accepted by society.At the same time, the great powers stepped up the construction of railways in China's neighboring countries, trying to extend into China.The Qing court was forced to regard the construction of railways as an important part of resisting aggression and saving the crisis, and attempted to develop the railway industry independently.This is intolerable to the Great Powers.They took advantage of the Qing court's post-war financial exhaustion and vied for creditors.In Northeast China, the "China East Province Railway Company" was established and obtained the right to build the East Province Railway from Manchuria to Vladivostok via Harbin.The construction right of the South Manchurian branch of the Eastern Provincial Railway enabled it to run from Harbin to Dalian and Lushun via Changchun and Shenyang, thus controlling the main trunk lines running through the north and south of the three eastern provinces and obtaining high-quality ports.In the summer of that year, the construction of the two lines started at the same time, and the whole line was completed and opened to traffic, with a total length of 2,556 kilometers together with the subsidiary branch lines.In Shandong, Shandong built the Jiaoji Railway privilege.Construction of the road began the following year, forming a branch line across the Shandong Peninsula from Qingdao to Jinan, Zhangdian to Boshan, and Zichuan to Hongshan, with a total length of 4,407 kilometers.In addition, Huaguo also vigorously expanded the scope of railway investment, and twice loaned Jinpu Road, making the loan amount of 12.2 million yuan.Jinpu Road has a total length of 10,095 kilometers and has completed track laying.In South China and Southwest China, the right to build a railway from Chikan to Anpu in Guangzhou Bay, which is part of the capital of Farley.The right to build and operate the railway from French Vietnam to Kunming, Yunnan Province through Lao Cai on the Sino-Vietnamese border.Among them, the territory of Vietnam is called the Yue section, which is completed; The 4,696-kilometer-long Yunnan section in China, which can also be completed this year.In addition, Huaguo also borrowed money from the Jinghan Railway and its branch lines.Luhan Road, located on the north-south trunk line, has been widely valued at home and abroad.Huaguo not only regarded it as an important policy of "prosperity and strength, and unavoidable", but also began to plan the construction of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway in its south.The railway company was allowed to be set up, supervised by Sheng Xuanhuai, and it was decided to lay double tracks.Since President Meng used Li Hongzhang, he will no longer pursue Sheng Xuanhuai, Sheng Xuanhuai has not committed any major crimes, after paying the family property, President Meng and extra favor let Sheng Xuanhuai keep part of the real estate.This made Sheng Xuanhuai very grateful.Because few officials from the Qing court received such preferential treatment.Although Sheng Xuanhuai's fame is not as big as Hu Xueyan.But whether it is ability, or what he actually does in history, Sheng Xuanhuai is actually above Hu Xueyan There are two red-top businessmen in the Qing Dynasty, who are famous all over the world, Hu Xueyan is known as a model of businessmen, and has also become synonymous with red-top businessmen, and is still the protagonist in novels, film and television dramas.As Li Hongzhang's right-hand man, Sheng Xuanhuai played a special role in Li Hongzhang's reform and reform in his later years.He was one of the founders of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tianjin University and Changyu Wine Company, and was involved in the establishment and development of modern Chinese steamships, mines, telegraphs, railways, textiles and other industries.The intersection of the two red-top businessmen in the times determines that the fierce confrontation between the two people is inevitable.In his early years, when Sheng Xuanhuai founded the China Merchants Steamship Bureau, he was impeached for Hu Xueyan's secret obstruction and lost his post of supervisor, and the two sides formed a relationship.Sheng Xuanhuai went to Hubei to explore iron ore and opened the Jingmen Mining Bureau, but was secretly slandered by Hu Xueyan and was transferred back to the capital halfway.In the confrontation over the establishment of the Telegraph Office, Hu Xueyan also let Zuo Zongtang use his power to set up many obstacles.In the 60s of the 19th century, the establishment of China's own telegraph line was the common creed in the hearts of Sheng Xuanhuai and Hu Xueyan, and their backers were Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang.After the Empress Dowager Cixi vetoed the initiative to open a telegram, Hu Xueyan turned all his energy to his tea and silk business.However, Sheng Xuanhuai's preparations for setting up a telegraph office have not stopped, and he decided to do it first and then approve it.After asking Li Hongzhang for instructions, he first set up a telegraph line and invited the dignitaries of the imperial court to come to the test in person, and the comments were very good.Li Hongzhang officially invited and was quickly approved.As a result, Sheng Xuanhuai was officially appointed by the Qing court as the general office of the telegraph bureau and presided over the work of the telegraph bureau.In the first round of Hu Xueyan's competition, Sheng Xuanhuai took the lead.The two sides have accumulated grievances for a long time and added new hatred, and the struggle has become more and more intense.Hu Xueyan sent his cronies to infiltrate the telegraph school run by Sheng Xuanhuai and got a few sets of passwords out.Then through Zuo Zongtang played the imperial court, and began to erect the line of the Yangtze River.Sheng Xuanhuai was naturally unwilling, and secretly formed an alliance with foreign businessmen to deal with Hu Xueyan together.Hu Xueyan relied on foreign merchants to buy telegraph lines.Due to the poor quality of the wire equipment, the project was forced to stop less than a third of the way.After Sheng Xuanhuai received the letter, he quickly told Li Hongzhang the news of Hu Xueyan's failure to erect wires, and asked Li Hongzhang to impeach him in the imperial court.Hu Xueyan, as Zuo Zongtang's strategic fundraiser, was once again very busy.However, Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai took advantage of Zuo Zongtang's absence in Liangjiang and began to attack Hu Xueyan.Sheng Xuanhuai contacted businessmen and compradors from all over the country, and through political coercion and economic concessions, he told them not to buy Hu Xueyan's silk this year, resulting in Hu Xueyan's raw silk inventory increasing day by day, and funds becoming increasingly tight.At this time, Hu Xueyan had raised 800,000 taels of repayment for Zuo Zongtang's march over the years, and although this money was borrowed by the Qing court, it was handled by Hu Xueyan, and foreign banks could only ask Hu Xueyan for money.Sheng Xuanhuai knew everything about Hu Xueyan well, and estimated that the money mobilized by Hu Xueyan went out of his bank one after another, so he asked someone to go to the bank to withdraw money and run on it.These withdrawals were all large households at that time, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands.Only then did Hu Xueyan understand that someone had done his tricks.After inquiring, he knew that it was Sheng Xuanhuai, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly, knowing that this time it was completely over, and he died in grief.Therefore, Sheng Xuanhuai is a little better.President Meng is a person who belongs to the king and loses the king, whoever wins, who is powerful, as long as he is willing to do things for Huaguo, President Meng can still be a meritocracy.The most important thing is that President Meng appreciates Sheng Xuanhuai's ability to run an industry.In 1872, Sheng Xuanhuai suggested that Li Hongzhang use the construction of merchant ships to provide the cost of building warships, which was adopted by Li, and Li appointed Sheng to handle China's first steamship shipping company, China Merchants Steamship, which is one of the most influential companies in China's modern history, which is the beginning of Sheng's steamship shipping.In the same year, China's first charter for attracting investment in ships was drafted.In 1873, the steamship China Merchants Bureau was officially opened, and Sheng Xuanhuai served as the meeting manager, and he began to officially become one of the core figures of the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty.Sheng Xuanhuai suggested that Li establish a telegraph business, which Li adopted and ordered Sheng to supervise it.Creation of China's first telegraph office, Tianjin Telegraph Office.Sheng Xuanhuai was appointed as the general office of the Tianjin-Shanghai telegraph land line, and since then he has entered the telecommunications industry.In order to prevent foreigners from establishing a telegraph network along the coast of China, Li appointed Sheng to build a telegraph line from Shanghai to Guangdong, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and other places.Sheng Xuanhuai supervised the Tianjin Customs, and he embezzled the customs money and grain to fund the telegraph business, confusing the funds of various departments, so he was punished, but he was not demoted because of many intercedes.Sheng Xuanhuai began to supervise the textile industry in Shanghai again.Huasheng Textile Factory was established; In the name of the official supervision and business office and the joint operation of the government and business, he controlled many yarn factories in Dachun, Yuchun and Yujin.Sheng Xuanhuai opened Pingxiang Coal Mine, founded China Exploration and Mining Corporation, and merged it with Hanyang Iron Works and Daye Iron Mine to form Hanye Ping Coal and Iron Works and Mining Company, China's first iron and steel coal complex.Due to the sluggish production of Hanyang Iron Works and serious losses, Zhang Zhidong sent Sheng Xuanhuai to take over Hanyang Iron Works, including Daye Iron Mine and Jiangxia Maanshan Coal Mine.After Sheng took over the Hanyang Iron Works, he recruited commercial shares, changed the handsome government-run enterprises to "official supervision and commercial offices", and changed the Hanyang Iron Works to the main factory, and appointed Zheng Guanying of the Steamship Merchants Bureau to be the general office, and subordinated Daye Iron Mine to the main plant, and then began to transform and expand the Hanyang Iron Works.In view of the problems of lack of fuel and poor product quality at the Hanyang Iron Works, the committee members were first sent to lead foreign miners along the Yangtze River to search for drilling and testing along the upper and lower parts of the Yangtze River, Anhui, and western Chuxi, and to find good coal, and as a result, they found the Pingxiang Coal Mine.So he borrowed 4 million marks from Deutsche Bank as capital from the German Lihe Foreign Bank to open the Pingxiang Coal Mine to solve the fuel problem.Immediately, Langzhong Li Weige went abroad to inspect steel and seek a new method of steelmaking to improve product quality.While inspecting the steel industry in Europe and the United States, Li found the reason for the poor quality of the Han factory.Sheng then purchased a new furnace and completely renovated the iron factory.After renovation and expansion, the Hanyang Iron Works became the first male factory in East Asia.However, when Sheng, in the renovation and expansion of the Hanyang Iron Works, in order to solve the financial problem, under the temptation of the Nippon Iron Works, he borrowed more than 3 million yen from the Industrial Bank of Japan with all the assets of Daye Iron Mine's Dedaowan Mine and Mining Bureau as collateral, thus losing the sovereignty of Daye Iron Mine.Sheng Xuanhuai founded China's first Shandong inland river small steamer company; It became the first railway trunk line in China, the Luhan Railway.Sheng Xuanhuai also opened the China Commerce Bank on the Bund in Shanghai, the first bank in China.Since then, it has signed draft railway loan contracts with Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Sheng Xuanhuai believes that if the country wants to improve itself, it is the key to set up schools and cultivate talents.In his recital to the imperial court, he said: "The first step of self-improvement is in the reserve of talents, and the reserve of talents must be the first to study", and "the prosperity of talents in the West comes from the school".Sheng Xuanhuai, through Wang Wenshao, the governor of Zhili, set up a new-style school with Emperor Guangxu.Emperor Guangxu Imperial Pen Qinzhun established Tianjin Beiyang Western School.It was later renamed Peiyang University, the first government-run university in modern Chinese history and the predecessor of Tianjin University.After the establishment of Peiyang University, Sheng Xuanhuai adhered to the life tenet of "studying everything", constantly enriched and improved the school-running policy of "middle school as the body, Western learning as the application", and formed the ideological concept of "Western learning and physical application".First of all, he adopted the expert school-running model, and the Emperor Ming "must select the prime minister who is deeply versed in Western learning and sports", hired the American educator Ding Jiali to take charge of the university hall in Tianjin, and hired a group of foreign teachers.Sheng Xuanhuai founded Nanyang College in Shanghai, which is the predecessor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Taiwan Jiaotong University.It is the first normal class in Nanyang College, which is the first formal higher normal school in China.It was the first to open the Department of Navigation and Administration in Nanyang College, and later developed into the independent Wusong Merchant Marine College, which was the predecessor of Dalian Maritime University and Shanghai Maritime University.Sheng Xuanhuai also founded the Nanyang College Affiliated Translation Academy and the Telegraph School.In order to adapt to the selection of the Qing government's special economic department, he meticulously set up a "special class" to train government officials, such as the "railway class" for the development of the railway industry.After his death on April 27, 1916, his collection of more than 100,000 volumes was divided into three by the government of the Republic of China, which were given to St.
John's University, Jiaotong University, and Shanxi Mingxian School.After the liberation, the distribution of these collections was readjusted, and Anhui University, East China Normal University, and Shanxi Agricultural University became new beneficiaries.Even Sheng Xuanhuai's 600 letters exchanged with friends are collected by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.As a philanthropist, Sheng Xuanhuai founded Guangrentang in Tianjin and founded charities such as the International Red Cross Society in Shanghai, and is one of the most famous almscarers in modern China.In 1871, the tenth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Sheng Xuanhuai's father Sheng Kang donated clothes and food, which were purchased by Sheng Xuanhuai and transported to Tianjin for distribution, which was Sheng Xuanhuai's first time engaged in welfare undertakings.During the flood in Hebei, Sheng Xuanhuai and his father Sheng Kang participated in the disaster relief work, and went to Jiangsu and Shanghai to collect money and materials, and the results were quite great, so he was sure to ask Li Hongzhang for an increase of 10,000 taels of relief, "go back to the south to persuade donations, and return the amount."
Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hebei suffered from extremely severe drought, and more than 10 million people died of starvation in history.Li Hongzhang was the governor of Zhili at the time, and he was in the hardest-hit area, and the disaster relief work was very heavy.In order to solve the problem of raising a large number of orphans and widows left behind after the severe drought in Hebei, Sheng Xuanhuai adhered to Li Hongzhang's will and set up a charity called "Guangrentang" in Tianjin, and its founders and directors were mostly "gentlemen of southern province relief", such as Wang Chengji, Wu Dacheng, Jing Yuanshan, Zheng Guanying, Li Jinyong, etc.President Meng asked Princess Katrina Kafu to send someone to inform Li Hongzhang to go with him.Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "When I see that Xue Peier this time, I can talk to him well, this foreign devil is too hateful." ”President Meng smiled and said: "Are the teachers still angry, foreign devils, aren't they all this virtue?"
"Don't be angry, Huajun won, what else do I have to be angry about, I'm happy." ”Li Hongzhang twisted his beard and wore a suit, which made President Meng feel that he was nondescript and interesting."
Killing all the intruding US troops doesn't seem to have much effect on changing the overall situation in Japan, at most it just strengthens the momentum of Saigo Takamori's side, my purpose is to keep Saigo Takamori and maximize the benefits."
President Meng is asking Li Hongzhang for advice in disguise.Li Hongzhang loves someone to ask him for advice, not to mention that this person is the Holy Emperor of the Great Chinese Kingdom, His Majesty President Meng put Li Hongzhang such a think tank without it, naturally it will not, in the heart of President Meng, although Li Hongzhang is often confused, but most of them are because the national strength of the Qing court at that time was too weak, and Li Hongzhang has nothing to do with Li Hongzhang personally, and Li Hongzhang is still good in employing people and in many general directions of diplomacy.Even in the original history, the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War and the mistake in the final negotiation could not be attributed to Li Hongzhang.Because Japan has a telegram, China does not have t1706231537: