The original report read: "The visiting group is quite interested in various production processes, and some of them even practice it by themselves, like young apprentices; Some people also write down the production process in detail, like students who are eager to learn." Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It's really strange that those people in the Qing court attach so much importance to their skills! ”

Lin Yuan then looked down, and found that most of the following reports were like this, so he flipped all the way back, and the most important thing behind was the joint name of Liu Kunyi and Li Jingfang, only to see that it was written: "The factories in the Northeast, the advanced technology is no longer under the Westerners, Wangsheng takes the Northeast factory as the warp and weft, and pushes it to the whole country, and I will repeat the prosperity of Kangqian in the Qing Dynasty." ”

The two watched for more than three hours to finish reading these materials, and Lin Yuan said: "Judging from my information, it seems that those people in the delegation want to use the experience of the Northeast to make the Qing Dynasty rich and strong, what about yours?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Mine is similar, they are especially interested in collective pastures and farms, Kang Youwei also suggested that the emperor conduct tests in various provinces in the southwest, and the word he mentioned the most was change!" ”

As soon as Lin Yuan heard the "change", he said: "It's another change, looking at this situation, they want to learn from us?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "I think it's the same, the Qing court not only doesn't want to attack you, but also wants to rely on you to carry out nationwide reforms. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Although this is the case from the data, it doesn't make sense, the Qing court's conservative power is very strong, aren't they afraid that I will take power?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Maybe they think that the reforms you are carrying out are all technical aspects, so they don't have too much to worry about. ”

Lin Yuan said: "To carry out such a large-scale technical reform, it is impossible not to grasp the power, in other words, only under the condition of having strong power can carry out such a large-scale change, to take the simplest example, if I want to build a factory, the factory needs to occupy land, the construction of the factory needs to be transported from other places, there are many aspects involved, if there is no strong power, it will inevitably be blamed everywhere, and the factory is absolutely impossible to build!" ”

Shen Wanqing shook her head and smiled: "I don't understand these things." ”

Lin Yuan said: "In short, now is a sensitive period, we have to be careful, in this way, you keep an eye on our institutions in Beijing, newspapers, banks, Zhang's Industrial Company, as soon as the people in the Qing court have actions against them, notify me immediately!" I'm going to have to work on land reform these days. ”

Shen Wanqing agreed, so Lin Yuan went to Wei Anguo and told him about his shoddy life, Wei Anguo then agreed to come down and began to use drones and ground-penetrating radar to detect the entire territory of Gansu, Wei Anguo said: "Lin Shuai, you can go back, just leave it to us here." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "That's just right, I have time to see more of the Qing court's actions." So Lin Yuan was about to go back, and then he saw Yuan Shikai's henchman Ning Madman riding a horse from a distance, and when he arrived at Lin Yuan, he turned over and dismounted, and said, "Hello Lin Shuai!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Do you have something?" ”

Madman Ning smiled: "Our Lord Yuan is going back!" ”

Lin Yuan asked in surprise, "He wants to go back, where is he going back?" ”

Madman Ning smiled: "Of course, it's back to our station, Tianjin." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Didn't Yuan Shikai stay to accompany Xiaode Zhang and Yuan Yulin to fight wits and courage with me?" Now I want to go back to the station! So Lin Yuan asked, "Why does Lord Yuan want to go back?" ”

Ning Madman said with a smile: "It was the emperor who issued a holy decree to let my family go back, and the reason for going back is also very simple, you think, we came out to fight the rebels, and now Jiang Huayong and Zhong Xinyuan have surrendered and surrendered, and Long Tengfei has been subdued!" We don't have to stay here anymore. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then did you come to me and ask me to go to the farewell banquet?" ”

Madman Ning nodded and said, "Tomorrow at twelve o'clock at noon, it will still be Yongsheng Restaurant, you are a distinguished guest, and you will appreciate the light!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded in agreement, returned to his residence, and said to Shen Wanqing, "Do you know the way?" Yuan Shikai is going back. After speaking, she sighed, and Shen Wanqing smiled: "What do you have to sigh about?" Do you still have some feelings of sympathy with him? ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Don't say it, it's really that interesting." ”

Shen Wanqing said with a smile: "Only when you win or lose each other can you cherish each other!" But in the fight between you, you didn't play tricks on Yuan Shikai? So you sigh not because you feel sorry for him, but because you feel like you're missing a toy......"

Lin Yuan also laughed, and then said, "Actually, I sighed because I was worried that he would have a conspiracy to go back. ”

Shen Wanqing asked: "He went back to Tianjin, thousands of kilometers away from you, what kind of conspiracy can he have?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Anyway, I think their withdrawal is not normal!" ”

Shen Wanqingjiao laughed for a while and said, "You are just too suspicious, what's abnormal?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Food! ”

Shen Wanqing frowned and asked, "What's wrong with the grain?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The stock of Yuan Shikai's troops is enough for a month, what should I do if I leave the grain now?" Do you want to go back to Tianjin? ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Isn't it good to leave that grain to the place? ”

Lin Yuan said: "You are not a commander, you don't understand the truth of this, you think, these grains are the grain transported from the south of the Yangtze River, how did this grain get to Lanzhou?" From Shanghai to Jinan, take the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, and then from Jinan take the newly built Jinanxi Railway, which was recently built, from Jinan to Zhengzhou, then to Xi'an, and then to Lanzhou. ”

"These grains have been transported thousands of kilometers, and they have only arrived in Lanzhou after the last time, which has cost a lot of manpower and material resources, if you know in advance that Yuan Shikai wants to return to Tianjin, these grains do not need to be transported at all, what do you do with those manpower and material resources? So Yuan Shikai's withdrawal should have happened very suddenly, but there has been no war near Tianjin recently? Why should they withdraw? ”

Shen Wanqing frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Could it be that they went back to Tianjin to deal with us?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "There is this possibility, I left a company of personal guards in the capital, don't look at only one company, the equipment and combat effectiveness are easy to beat the soldiers of the Nine Gate Admiral Yamen, but the troops to fight Yuan Shikai are not enough, because they have too many people!" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Then is the Qing court really going to attack you?" Is a civil war about to break out? ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's not sure yet, you also know that the people in the Qing court are not as smart as me, maybe they think that there is nothing to spend on manpower and material resources, maybe they just wanted to let Yuan Shikai's people return to Tianjin on a whim, alas, this is really a huge mystery, I really can't guess!" ”

Shen Wanqing didn't speak, as if she was thinking about something, Lin Yuan said, "Is there any information in the capital?" Is there any news from Guan'er and Zhang Hua? ”

Shen Wanqing said: "No, Guan'er and Zhang Hua both said that nothing has happened recently, and Guan'er's intelligence also said that the Empress Dowager Cixi and the emperor have been praising you recently." ”

Lin Yuan shook his head silently and said, "On the one hand, the guards who arrested me and transferred back to Yuan Shikai, on the other hand, praised me and wanted to learn from me, how can these situations contradict each other?" ”

Shen Wanqing smiled: "I don't think it's okay at all, it's all your guessing, if you don't worry, let's use the old way?" ”