Chapter 286 Hope Relies on You

It is true that there are many people in our Qing Dynasty, but people also eat a lot. In order to train a large number of industrial workers needed for industrialization, we need to increase grain production.

Therefore, although Shao Quanzhong was perfunctory towards Maxwell, he immediately began to drool over his old chemist friend.

One of my biggest trump cards turned out to be the genius doctor Fei Boxiong who worked at Wenfu Yutang, who recruited several key military and engineering talents for me.

"Sixth Lady, send someone to give Mr. Fei a reward of 100 taels of gold, and write a memorial for me to recommend Mr. Fei for the title of Enqiwei."

This time when I go to Prussia, I must go to Munich in person to invite that guy called "Justus von Liebig". If you invite him, don't even think about running away. I will use high positions and generous salaries to crush you.

Although he had never heard of Liebig and looked down on Maxwell, he still believed in what Maxwell said. He was a true scientific master, but he just didn't like people who studied basic science.

"Your Excellency, the Qing Dynasty still has a scientific foundation, and the minds of the Qing people are beyond my expectations.

Xu Shou, who supervised the construction of warships at the Zhenjiang Shipyard, actually wrote a physics paper in his spare time, interdisciplinary. Through experiments designed by himself, he questioned the correctness of Bernoulli's equation and made his own contribution to the development of fluid mechanics.

His paper has been published in the Journal of Xiaoxiangya, and he has now become a world-renowned scientist. I have invited him to become a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of the Qing Dynasty. "

Shao Quanzhong had no idea what the Bernoulli equation was and thought it was of no use, but Xu Shou did the Chinese people proud so he understood it.

"Sixth Lady, reward Xu Shou with one thousand taels of silver."

It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I have money and I know how to spend it. Rewarding Xu Shou can encourage more Chinese people to study science.

I don’t understand science, but I know it’s useful, so I have to support it strongly.

Shao Quanzhong hosted a lunch for the professors and lecturers of Hailing University. A large number of Huaiyang dishes were served on a continuous line, which made these foreign teachers extremely satisfied.

The unparalleled food of the Qing Dynasty, the beautiful scenery of Hailing, and the generous treatment provided by Shao Quanzhong were important factors in attracting these foreign talents to travel across the ocean to Hailing.

In order to maintain Hailing's cultural advantages, the Wen Group is planning to evacuate the smoking industries away from Hailing and move them to Anhui.

Several international banks have established branches in Hailing, and foreign companies have also opened branches in Hailing. Hailing is about to surpass Shanghai and Hong Kong and is growing into the largest cultural, technological and financial center in the East.

The happiest person was Lord Wu Wenxi. There was much less dust in his garden now, and the environment would obviously be better in the future.

As for Anhui, a province with rich cultural heritage and beautiful scenery, it was filled with thick smoke because of this - it's because Shao Quanzhong is from Taizhou.

As a result, the people of Anhui have gained more employment opportunities and earned a lot of small money, so they are very satisfied.

Afternoon, Hailing Wharf.

A sloop was ready to set sail, with several high school graduates aged seventeen or eighteen on board.

They didn't get into Hailing University, but it wasn't because they couldn't pass the entrance exam. Shao Quanzhong paid for them to study in the United States.

It's not as lively here as at Hailing University, but the people who come to see us off are all important figures.

Shao Quanzhong brought his three wives to personally see off his adopted son Wang Yongxian.

The eldest and second oldest brothers of the Song family came all the way from Luzhuang to Hailing, and went with their third brother, the third oldest brother, to see off the eldest oldest brother's son, Song Qi.

Due to Shao Quanzhong's influence in the United States, Wang Yongxian and Song Qi were both directly admitted to Harvard University to study economics.

What? Famous universities emphasize academics instead of relationships? Who told you that? Are you a low-class rice noodle?
If you have the influence of Shao Quanzhong, why not just donate 10 million US dollars to the university and see if your stupid son can be admitted as an exception?
The name Song Qi is too difficult to pronounce, so he will be known by his courtesy name in the future.

Tian Xing, who had not been seen for a long time and disappeared from the world, showed up in person.

The spy chief Jiang Chunlin arrived in casual clothes.

The world was at peace, and the Nan Kong family, who had returned to Quzhou from Shanghai, also sent their direct descendants to see off their son Kong Ziyuan. Tian Xing saw off Chen Yucheng's younger brother Chen Jucheng, who was dressed in a suit and tie, no longer the image of a son of the Kingdom of Heaven. "Uncle Tian, my name may be known to the Qing court lackeys, so I have changed my name in Hailing Middle School. Don't call me Jucheng anymore, please call me by my alias 'Zu Tao'."

"Our generation conquered the world, and we risked our lives for it. Your generation has to protect the world we conquered, which is even harder. When you go to the United States, you must study hard. When you come back, the future of China depends on you."

The five young students were full of high spirits. Led by Shao Quanzhong's adopted son Wang Yongxian, they bowed to their parents who were seeing them off, and expressed that they would live up to their parents' hopes, study hard after arriving in the United States, and return to their homeland after graduation to serve China.

All the students were on board, but Jiang Chunlin still held Jianfeng, his illegitimate son born to his mistress, and gave him instructions for a long time.

He turned around and came to Shao Quanzhong, "General, I will get married tomorrow and marry my second wife. I would like to borrow Lord Wu's Zheyuan to hold a banquet. It would be an honor for you to come when you are free."

The next morning, Shao Quanzhong inspected the construction site of the Huai-Yang Canal widening project.

Shao Yuan took office as the governor of Jiangning, but did not go to Nanjing to take up the post. Nanjing was ravaged by the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army, and was far less prosperous than Hailing today. The governor of Jiangning had been relocated to Hailing.

The projects that Shao Yuan, the Jiangning governor, was in charge of when he took office were the widening of the Huaiyang Canal Hailing to the Grand Canal section and the Grand Canal Taizhou to the Yangtze River section.

Several steam dredgers were ready and in position, emitting black smoke and breaking ground.

The waterway from Hailing to the Yangtze River needs to be widened and deepened to accommodate 10,000-ton ships, turning Hailing into a coastal city, and Wanghai Tower will truly live up to its name.

This huge project will not be completed in a few years even with the support of steam equipment, but it must be done. This is the prerequisite for Hailing to become an international metropolis in the future.

When Emperor Zhu appeared in Fengyang, there were famines for nine out of ten years. When Shao Quanzhong appeared in Taizhou, his sons went to war and every village was in mourning. These were not good things.

Building Hailing into a prosperous place so that future generations could benefit from it was Shao Quanzhong's compensation to the people of his hometown.

In the afternoon, Shao Quanzhong visited Zheyuan again and attended Jiang Chunlin's wedding.

Jiang Chunlin's second wife was named Huang Wanjun, who was both beautiful and talented. She and Shao Quanzhong's concubine Ping'er met too late.

Huang Wanjun escaped from Nanjing during the Taiping Rebellion. She was left without food and clothing and became a singing girl.

Jiang Chunlin used public funds to hang out in brothels with his friend Du Xiaofang to recruit talents for the intelligence department. He fell in love with the talented Huang Wanjun at first sight. Du Xiaofang spent money to redeem Huang Wanjun and gave her to Jiang Chunlin.

Huang Wanjun was a famous prostitute who had seen a lot of things and was used to spending lavishly. In history, Jiang Chunlin could not afford to support Huang Wanjun, so he drowned himself out of depression.

Jiang Chunlin is not short of money now, so tragedy will not happen. Jiang Chunlin is very proud of himself and plans to take his new wife and Shao Quanzhong on visits after marriage.

The Huai Army Intelligence Department's previous overseas layout, except for neighboring Japan and Southeast Asia, in Europe, only prioritized the westward expedition and sent people to the coast of Heilongjiang River to recruit several Mao girls and send them to St. Petersburg as spies.

This time Jiang Chunlin will personally take action and accompany Shao Quanzhong's visiting fleet on a visit. In the future, he will be stationed abroad and establish new intelligence networks in various countries.

Huang Wanjun is not just a consumer and does not work. She has been working as an instructor for the Foreign Women's Volunteer Corps in the Intelligence Department, responsible for talent and "technical" training.

Over the next ten days, Shao Quanzhong spent a peaceful time in Hailing, and experienced the leisurely life of a useless prince of the Qing Dynasty. He drank a few times with Brother Tian, and visited factories and arsenals around Hailing, but did not go to places far away.

On the ninth day of the twelfth month of the sixth year of the Tongzhi reign, the Imperial Guards Brigade returned from vacation, and Shao Quanzhong led his troops to leave Hailing and began this journey of foreign visit.

We changed boats in Zhenjiang the next day and arrived in Shanghai on the third day.

The fleet did not go ashore here, but just replenished water and prepared to sail directly to Ryukyu to inspect the vassal state and deal with the Japanese pirates.

Ping'er, who was accompanying Shao Quanzhong on the visit, appeared in a military uniform and looked very pretty. "Your Highness, I just met my benefactor at the port."

"Benefactor? What benefactor?"

"A Frenchman named Elison."

(End of this chapter)

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