The Qing Dynasty
Chapter 575 All for Development
Chapter 575 All for Development
After Wen Bingzhong, it was Cao Jiaxiang who reported the situation.
Cao Jiaxiang, the man wearing the patrolman uniform, was a member of the third batch of young children to study in the United States. He is now the general manager of the Zhili Patrol Police Headquarters and the general manager of the Special City Patrol Police Headquarters.
Teng Yuzhao still has complicated feelings towards Cao Jiaxiang.
Cao Jiaxiang had a very good resume after returning to China. He first studied at the Tianjin Naval Academy, and after graduation he served in the Beiyang Navy. He served as the chief gunner of the ironclad ship "Zhenyuan", the director of the Yantai Naval Commander's Office, and the first-class counselor of the Beiyang Navy's Armament Department. He also participated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and was injured.
Historically, the Tianjin Police General Bureau was established on the day when Yuan Shikai, on behalf of the imperial court, took back Tianjin from the foreign powers. Yuan Shikai appointed Cao Jiaxiang as the first general manager of the Tianjin Police General Bureau, but he only stayed in office for eight and a half months before stepping down due to corruption.
Even so, Cao Jiaxiang has always been an important member of Yuan Shikai's think tank.
After the Republic of China, when Yuan Shikai became the President, Cao Jiaxiang served as the senior aide-de-camp of the Presidential Palace with the rank of rear admiral. Two years later, he was promoted to Deputy Minister of the Navy.
Teng Yuzhao was not originally planning to use this man who was similar to Xu Shiguang and had some flaws in both his official career and his character.
However, Cao Jiaxiang resigned from his job with Yuan Shikai and came to Zhili at the request of the Grand Council. It would be difficult to explain if he was abandoned when he did not show any problems.
At least when facing these former Chinese students who studied in the United States, Teng Yuzao had no excuse. He couldn't say, "I know this person will be corrupt in the future."
What worried Teng Yuzhao the most was the patrol police department established by the imperial court.
Now Zhao Bingjun, who was recommended by Yuan Shikai, has become the deputy director of the Patrol Police Department. Cixi also inserted a young man named Zhu Qiqun, who should be about the same age as Teng Yuzao, or even younger. With this person as the assistant director and the chief of the Beijing Patrol Police Department,
It is said that this person is also the nephew of the Grand Councilor Qu Hongji.
It was obvious that Cixi was unwilling to let the person recommended by Yuan Shikai take charge of the Patrol Police Department alone, but Tieliang seemed to be quite disgusted with this nephew of Qu Hongji. Tieliang, who was extremely busy, almost handed over all the affairs of the Patrol Police Department to Zhao Bingjun, who had become the Minister of the Patrol Police Department.
Both Cao Jiaxiang and Zhao Bingjun came from Yuan Shikai's side. Would there be any problems if the position of General Manager of the Zhili Patrol Police Bureau was given to Cao Jiaxiang?
After much deliberation, Teng Yuzao finally decided to keep Cao Jiaxiang in his original position. If there really was a problem, it would not be too late to remove him, and his classmates would not be able to say much at that time.
Teng Yuzhao feels helpless now, as a group of Chinese students who studied in the United States has unknowingly formed in the political and business circles of Zhili.
Even if these people were unconscious, they would more or less support their classmates. This forced Teng Yuzao, the highest military and political chief of Zhishan Province, to think more and be cautious when dealing with personnel issues.
Moreover, Teng Yuzao also believes that Cao Jiaxiang made great contributions during his tenure in terms of formulating relevant patrol systems, and he is very capable.
Teng Yuzhao also believed that since Yuan Shikai could tolerate Cao Jiaxiang, he could also tolerate this person. It was still necessary to make the best use of people's talents.
Therefore, Cao Jiaxiang is now the general manager of the Zhili Patrol Police General Office and the general manager of the Special City Patrol Police General Office, responsible for the public security management of Zhili and the Special City.
Cao Jiaxiang lived up to expectations. After taking office, he not only established a patrol team within the Special City Patrol Police Headquarters, but also set up a detective team specifically responsible for solving criminal cases.
The patrol police responsible for monitoring and managing traffic have also been organized in an orderly manner as Teng Yuzhao said. He has even begun to organize patrol teams in each county and most importantly, deploy patrol police to the villages.
What made Teng Yuzhao most satisfied with Cao Jiaxiang was that he founded a patrol school called "Beiyang Patrol School" in the special municipality, which was specifically designed to train patrol forces for Zhili.
For this purpose, British consultants and instructors were hired from Hong Kong.
Zhao Bingjun took the lead in formulating the domestic patrol police system. The Beijing Patrol Police Department had already issued the patrol police regulations, which Zhao Bingjun formulated based on the Japanese and Western police systems.
Ever since he was appointed by Teng Yuzhao as the chief of Zhili Patrol Police Headquarters and the chief of Special City Patrol Police Headquarters with the title of prefect, Cao Jiaxiang has been full of energy and has been feeling quite complacent over the past few months. However, at a joint military-political meeting like today, he did not dare to be presumptuous.
Cao Jiaxiang saw it very clearly. Not to mention the military generals who had fought bloody battles with Teng Yuzao against the coalition forces of foreign powers, not to mention Zhou Fu, Zhou Xuexi and his son, Yang Shixiang, Yang Shiqi and the two pairs of brothers Xu Shichang and Xu Shiguang, as well as Ning Xingpu, Xi Ligong, Huang Chujiu and other people who were equivalent to Teng Yuzao's three confidants, even among his classmates studying in the United States, there were many who would have great development in the future.
Compared with these people, he, the chief officer of the Patrol Police Department, is really nothing.
Therefore, Cao Jiaxiang's introduction was very brief.
He only introduced the organization of the Zhili and Special City patrol police, the duties of those special patrol police responsible for traffic management, and the teaching situation of the patrol school.
Everyone was generally very interested in Cao Jiaxiang's introduction, because patrol police were still a new thing for them. In particular, these patrol police were not only responsible for public security management, but also for criminal investigation, and even for household registration management and environmental sanitation supervision in the areas under their jurisdiction. It seemed that they had to take care of everything.
For example, if you find that the environment is dirty somewhere, you must immediately notify the department in the Comprehensive Management Bureau that is responsible for managing cleaning staff, and the other party will immediately send personnel to inspect and rectify the situation.
As for the patrol police in charge of traffic management, they were even more surprised to see that the wide road was forcibly divided into a fast lane and a road for carriages, horses, and rickshaws, and that they had to drive on the right side of the road.
As soon as Cao Jiaxiang finished introducing the patrol police, some people, including some former Chinese students studying in the United States, began to ask why patrol police were set up to manage traffic.
Cao Jiaxiang was speechless at these questions, and then looked at Teng Yuzhao for help.
Teng Yuzao couldn't help but smile bitterly at these people's questions. He knew that he was a little too advanced in terms of the time he had taken to recruit traffic police and sanitation workers.
Teng Yuzao had no choice but to patiently explain everything one by one.
However, his explanation still made these people unclear, and some even still believed that it was Teng Yuzhao who made things complicated.
Teng Yuzao knew that it would be difficult to explain everything to these people thoroughly, so he simply ignored their questions and began to call on Cai Shaoji to introduce the situation of Zhili's education reform.
Cai Shaoji was not only the president of Beiyang University, but also the director of the Zhili and Shandong Education Administration.
The people who were most excited about Cai Shaoji's introduction were the former Chinese students who had studied in the United States, because they finally saw that the same teaching system as that in foreign countries had appeared in China.
Under the leadership of Cai Shaoji, the special city where the Governor's Office is located now not only has a comprehensive university such as Beiyang University with a wide range of subjects, but also several professional and technical schools. Moreover, from primary school to middle school, and then to university, all the supporting facilities are complete. The prefectures and counties in Zhili and Shandong are also beginning to prepare for the construction of schools at all levels. According to what Teng Yuzao knows, the education reforms in Zhili and Shandong are now at the forefront of all provinces in the country.
In addition, since Teng Yuzao has already reached an agreement with the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom on sending students abroad, Zhili and Shandong have now begun to organize the selection of students to study abroad. This year, the first batch of students recruited from all over the country will be selected to study in the above-mentioned countries.
Afterwards, we will select outstanding graduates from Beiyang University to study for a master's degree abroad.
In view of the fact that Beiyang University hired many professors and lecturers from the United States and taught entirely in English, as well as the good performance of those Chinese students who studied in the United States more than 20 years ago, Yale University, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, the four universities that once admitted Chinese students who studied in the United States, have agreed that Beiyang University graduates can immediately enroll in these four universities to study for a master's degree.
Cai Shaoji did not talk about Beiyang University and the selection of overseas students, but left it to the two vice presidents Tang Guoan and Tang Yuanzhan.
Not only are these two people from Guangdong, they are also members of the second batch of Chinese students studying in the United States.
Tang Guoan previously worked as an English secretary and assistant to the general manager of the Kaiping Mining Bureau, thanks to his cousin Tang Tingshu, the general manager of the Kaiping Mining Bureau.
In the 25th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Tang Guoan was transferred to the outside of the Great Wall and served as the general manager of the Yingkou Bureau of the Beiyang Railway. After the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Tang Guoan was forced to hide in the south. During this time, he went to Hong Kong to do business for a while. This time, after being recruited to Zhili, he was temporarily appointed by Teng Yuzhao as the vice-president of Beiyang University and was responsible for the affairs of international students.
The reason for this arrangement of Tang Guoan was mainly because he was the first president of Tsinghua University in the future. Historically, he had worked for many years to help students who would study in the United States in the future. At this time, he was placed in Beiyang University as a reserve talent.
Tsinghua University’s future success is inextricably linked to Tang Guoan, and Teng Yuzao does not want things to change because of his appearance.
After returning to China, Tang Yuanzhan has been engaged in the power bank industry and historically served as the court's telecommunications supervisor.
After that, Tang Yuanzhan resigned from his official position and went into business. He became a well-known banker in Shanghai and participated in the founding of more than ten Shanghai universities, including Fudan University and Tongji University. He also served as the acting president of Fudan University for a time. Historically, he was also a person who dealt with education.
Having the two of them as vice presidents could reduce Cai Shaoji's burden.
What made Teng Yuzao happiest among their introductions was the information about Beiyang University.
Beiyang University not only offers science subjects such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, but also engineering subjects such as mechanics, chemical engineering, and power electronics applications. For example, it has the School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Chemical Engineering and Applications, the School of Electrical and Electrical Engineering, the School of Railway Engineering, the School of Naval Architecture, and the School of Automotive and Power Engineering.
Although the names of these colleges may seem a bit inappropriate in later generations, they were indeed appropriate at that time.
The categories of subjects at that time were far from being as subdivided as they were in later generations. The research on all subjects had not yet reached a very in-depth level, so of course they could not be divided so finely.
The sub-subjects included in the School of Electrical Engineering include power generation, electrical equipment manufacturing, electrical equipment application, radio principles and applications, which include the design and manufacturing of motors and generators, radio principles and applications, and the research and development of electrical equipment and components such as electric lamps.
It even has a College of Chinese Literature, a College of Foreign Languages, a College of Western Literature and History, and a Law School.
With this university as a foundation, Teng Yuzao felt a little more at ease. Although its foundation was still shallow, as long as he continued to work hard, it would slowly catch up with the powerful and developed countries.
To this end, Teng Yuzhao promoted the special municipality as well as universities and professional colleges in Shandong, such as Shandong University, which has been renamed "Shandong University", and the Naval Academy, which has been renamed "Beiyang Naval Academy".
The Beiyang Navy's Mine School was divided into two parts, one part was incorporated into the Beiyang Naval Academy which was about to be opened in Weihai, and the other part remained in the Ordnance Department Research Institute.
Ning Xingpu’s subsequent report was also extremely brief.
The trading company is now operating well and has established trade channels with all slightly stronger countries and Chile in South America. Domestic trade is mainly concentrated in the provinces south of the Yangtze River. North of the Yangtze River, because of tea, it only maintains close ties with Sichuan.
As for the shipping companies, because there were no ocean-going passenger and cargo ships, although they had reached an agreement with the United States and Germany, they had not opened any routes.
Domestically, routes have been opened to all coastal provinces and provinces along the Yangtze River.
Finally, Ning Xingpu once again asked Teng Yuzhao that he was old and only familiar with trade, and he was somewhat unable to manage the Beiyang Steamship Company. He also asked Teng Yuzhao to arrange someone to replace him as soon as possible.
"Ning Daotai."
Teng Yuzao sighed slightly and said, "Although we are really short of manpower, what you said is true. Let's put it this way."
Teng Yuzao said to Zhou Shouchen, "Shouchen, after we finish the negotiations with the foreign powers about purchasing warships, you can go to the Beiyang Steamship Company to be the general manager."
Seeing that one thing was not yet completed, Teng Yuzao immediately arranged another position for him, which made Zhou Shoushen very happy. He immediately stood up and thanked Teng Yuzao in the envious eyes of his classmates studying in the United States.
Teng Yuzao turned his head and said to Tang Shaoyi, "Shaochuan, you should also remember that our trade in goods and personnel with Europe and the United States will surely increase gradually. We cannot let foreigners take all the freight. When negotiating the purchase of warships and other ships this time, we must hurry up to discuss the second-hand passenger and cargo ships of the great powers."
"Also, the new passenger and cargo ships must be fast ones. Even if it costs a little more money, it is worth it. If you can't do it, it will take nearly half a year for one round trip."
Then, Teng Yuzao said to Xi Ligong, "Yucheng, it's your turn to speak."
Xi Ligong's statement was also very brief. According to him, more than five million silver coins issued by Zhili have been produced so far, and they are very popular in circulation. In addition to Zhili and Shandong provinces, they are now circulated in various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as in Huguang, Sichuan, Henan and other provinces, as well as Shuntian Prefecture and the capital.
The banknote printing machine has been ordered from the United States, and the banknotes are also being actively designed.
The deposit and loan situation of Aurora Bank is also very good. Due to the large deposits brought by the continuous profits of Aurora Industrial Development Company, although a large amount of loans have been made, the funds are still sufficient and there is no risk of bank runs.
"We have opened branches in all provincial capitals, and the business performance is very encouraging. In addition, we have cooperated with the two Qiao family bill exchange houses, and the foreign exchange business is particularly prosperous."
"but."
Xi Ligong frowned and said, "Our branch in the capital has encountered some troubles."
(End of this chapter)
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