1855 United States Tycoon

One day in May 1891, a small sedan stopped in front of the Zhili Governor’s Mansion in Tianjin Wei. A man in his sixties wearing a suit and holding a civilized staff came out of the sedan and paused heavily on the cane. On the ground, he raised his head and looked at the golden plaque hanging on the Governor's Mansion, shook his head slightly, and sighed softly.

At this time, the attendant following him had already handed a bronzing greeting note to the gatekeeper of the Governor's Mansion. The janitor opened the greeting card and glanced at it, then closed the greeting card immediately, and said to the man: "Mr. Rong, the governor is waiting for you in the living room. Please come in."

The visitor who came to visit Li Hongzhang was Rong Hong, who was later known as the father of Chinese students. Under his strong support, coupled with the arrangement of Scrooge, the Manchu sent more children to study in the United States than in history. However, as in history, in 1881, because of the internal power of the Manchu In the struggle, the Manchus suddenly made the absurd decision to withdraw all the overseas students. At this time, most of the overseas students had not had time to complete their studies.

At this time, Scrooge did a very "unauthentic" digging. Under his instruction, some of the best performers among these international students were retained. Most of the reasons that Scrooge's lawyers found for these people to stay were "politics, governance, asylum, and asylum."

This reason is particularly convenient to use, because in the eyes of United States people, the Manchus are barbarians. Do barbarians still need a reason for political, governance, persecution, and other things? Moreover, the Manchus suddenly interrupted the agreed study abroad without the spirit of contract. This must be due to political reasons. Therefore, after returning to the Qing Dynasty, some overseas students will be persecuted by the government. Is there anything doubtful about this?

At that time, a certain newspaper even made this explanation for possible political persecution:"As we all know, men in the Qing Dynasty wear long braids. This custom is very different from that of the United States. However, in the process of young and young students in the United States Life, they can better integrate into the United States society, of course They will use the same dress and hairstyle as the United States people. This brings them danger-Qing law stipulates that any man without a braid must be punished with a brutal penalty of beheading. For this reason, the Qing government, Even slaughtered millions of unarmed civilians. According to the plan, these overseas students were planning to start growing their hair one to two years before the scheduled return time, so that when they returned to China, they would have a braid for them to avoid. This barbaric and cruel law was enacted. But the Manchu government suddenly ordered them to return to China, which put them in sudden danger. According to informed sources, one of the reasons why the Manchu government ordered the recall of overseas students was because of them. To punish those international students who dare to violate their laws abroad..."

Anyway, the public opinion in Ohio is basically controlled by Scrooge, and Ohio government personnel will not voluntarily jump out and make trouble with the McDonald consortium. Therefore, these international students who applied for political asylum were granted asylum in Ohio almost immediately. As for the federal government, they will not quarrel with Ohio for this trivial matter, let alone offend a large consortium for this trivial matter.

Of course, there are so many young and young students staying in the United States, and there is another reason that is said to be the case. It is said that Mr. Kwang Chen, who was in charge of communicating with the overseas students at the time of the MacDonald Foundation, who was also the legendary Chen Bachi, who had saved Scrooge's life, spoke even more rebellious things to those students. He actually analyzed to the students that the Qing Empire is not long, even if he stays in the United States and offends the Manchu Qing government, he will be able to return to China in the future. In any case, the Manchu control over the locality was so weak, and by that time, the Manchu government probably had forgotten this matter. He even said: "Even if the Qing government still remembers, what's so terrible? You stay here, and then apply for a United States citizenship. After you finish your studies, you can go back to the motherland in a big way-I'm talking about China. , It’s not the Manchu dynasty—effectiveness. Anyway, there is extraterritoriality, and the Manchu dynasty can’t do anything to you. When you came, many people had dealt with our representative Mr. Wang Qinian in China. Mr. Wang Qinian was a gangster, but you Seeing him going in and out of the yamen of the Manchu Dynasty, who would dare to catch him? Not only did he dare not catch him, but even often cheated on him..."

A large number of young children did not return as ordered, but stayed in United States to continue their studies. Anyway, the Macdonald Consortium agreed to continue to pay their tuition fees, as long as they worked for the Macdonald Consortium for a period of time after graduation. The Manchu government received a slap in the face. Of course, it was extremely unhappy, but it did not dare to really trouble the United States. I had to vent my anger at the people who promoted this thing. Rong Wing is one of them.

Of course, Rong Hong has the nationality of United States, so the Manchus cannot do anything to him strictly speaking. But at that time he was working in the yamen of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with a salary of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The gang of "Qingliu" in the Manchu Qing government naturally had the opportunity to pick him up and down. As a result, in 1882, Rong Hong, who was extremely disappointed with the Manchu and the Westernization Movement, simply resigned and returned to United States.

In the original history, Rong Honghui stayed in United States until 1894. After the failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he contacted the country again and returned to China to make desperate efforts to rejuvenate China. As a result, he was involved in the Reform Movement of 1898 and almost died in the coup launched by Galeries Lafayette.

However, in this era, the situation has undergone some changes. More than two months ago, Wang Qinian, who had dealt with Rong Hong many times, suddenly found Rong Hong. So Rong Hong hurried to the country.

Looking at the plaque of the Governor's Mansion in Zhili, Rong Hong remembered the meeting between Wang Qinian and him at that time.

At that time, Rong Hong was building a lawn in his own yard. From a long distance I saw a Volkswagen coming by and stopped outside his fence. Wang Qinian got out of the car and waved to him and shouted, "Mr. Rong, I have something to do with you."

Rong Hong stepped forward and opened the fence door, and said to Wang Qinian with a little surprise: "Mr. Wang, why are you free to come to me?" Although Rong Hong and Wang Qinian recognized them, they were never friends. Wang Qinian originally worked in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he has always hated the Qing government. Therefore, to anyone related to the Qing Dynasty government, he was always cold, and from time to time he would deliberately find faults and make people embarrassed. Rong Wing had been ridiculed by him. So the attitude towards him is not enthusiastic.

Mr. Wang Qinian said to Rong Hong with a dark face: "Let's go in and talk, something serious is about to happen."

Rong Hong knew that although Wang Qinian's temper was disgusting, he was definitely not a person who likes to talk nonsense and fool people. So quickly get out of the way and say to him: "Okay, come in to my room and talk."

Entering the living room, Wang Qinian sat down in a chair. Rong Hong’s wife was about to make tea for him, but Wang Qinian said, “I don’t need this.” He turned his face to Rong Hong and said, “Mr. Rong, here are some. You can take a look at the information. This is quite a high level of confidentiality. You can only read it, not record it."

Rong Hong took the information and looked at it. The top piece of information is about the composition and performance of the Japanese naval fleet. This information carefully compared it with the situation of the Beiyang Navy's fleet. This contrast made Rong Hong feel a little shocking. Especially in the column of firepower comparison, he was quite surprised to find that the weight of the shells fired by the Japanese fleet per unit time had exceeded that of the Beiyang Fleet by nearly ten times. This is simply...In Rong Hong's memory, the strength of the Beiyang Fleet should be obviously stronger than that of Japan, but how could it be like this now. So he asked Wang Qinian: "Is this information reliable?"

"Nonsense. These are all public information that can be collected casually. If you don't believe it, go to the newspaper yourself." Wang Qinian replied.

Rong Hong knew that Wang Qinian's news should be very reliable, but he still felt a little unbelievable, so he asked: "How can the Japanese have so much money, and they have caught up in just a few years?"

Wang Qinian replied with a dark face, "Look at the things behind for yourself."

So Rong Wing continued to read the following content, and then was shocked into a cold sweat-Japan's industrial scale and industrial level, and even the fiscal revenue surpassed China.

"Japan will soon launch a war against the Manchus." Seeing that Rong Hong had roughly finished reading, Wang Qinian said so.

"Why are you so sure?" Rong Hong asked.

"Have you seen it?" Wang Qinian suddenly became angry. "Have you not seen the information on the number of rice riots in Japan in recent years? Japan has only such a large market, with neither raw materials nor a market. It has developed to this point. Doesn’t it have to go out immediately to find a raw material source and market? Apart from Chaoxian, where can he find these things? To swallow Chaoxian, isn't it just to fight Manqing? Besides, full Qing is so stupid, so incompetent, who doesn't beat him..."

Rong Hong doesn't know much about political economy. However, after Wang Qinian worked hard and patiently told him something, he finally understood a little bit and was persuaded at the same time. He really felt that the situation was at stake.

"Beiyang's ships are all old and disrespectful. I don't know if there is a half of the intact rate. Now look at the delivery time of Japanese outsourced warships, considering the time it takes to form combat effectiveness. Beiyang is still responding. Time. For example, the old cannons on the warships are replaced with new rapid-fire guns. Although this is probably still not enough to beat other people's new warships, it is a lot stronger. In addition, if you can convince the dumb hats of Manqing, as soon as possible If we make the decision to order a new warship, we can even build you a better warship than Japan’s latest warship. If you are short of money, McDonald Ventures can also give you a loan..." Wang Qinian said to Rong Hong in the end. Say.

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