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Chapter 601 The trip to Xi'an (1)

Three days later, Qin Zheng handled the work at hand, stood up from Tianjin and set off for Xi'an, and embarked on a diligent journey to the Qing court.

From Tianjin to Xi'an, the straight-line distance is more than 1,000 kilometers, and along the way, there will be countless wilderness and ridges, and there are many thieves. Even the local Qing army is a major danger. Therefore, Qin Zheng's safety is very important. After consultation with the Military Commission, the Executive Committee decided to send two battalions and another cavalry to defend Qin Zheng's safety. The two battalion commanders were Li Wenfei and Liu Xiong. In addition, a squadron was drawn from the special forces to serve as Qin Zheng's personal bodyguard, and a three-person medical team was also equipped with a total number of troops. The total number of troops reached nearly 1,500. In addition, Qin Zheng was equipped with a working group, Deng Yongjian, deputy political commissar of the Kunming ship, Liu Hongjie, telegrapher Zhang Jianping, and clerk Jiang Han.

The entire team was equipped with 30 large four-wheeled horses carrying accompanying supplies. The Executive Committee originally planned to equip Qin Zheng and others with two warrior cars and a large truck. However, Qin Zheng refused because the roads in this era were too poor. Although there were official roads, Xi'an was in the northwest region. Due to the backward economy, the official roads were disrepaired and very damaged. The bridges were not strong during the road. Both warrior cars and trucks had a large weight, which was not conducive to such long-distance driving. So he finally decided to equip two off-road vehicles and an 11-seater small passenger car, and transformed the passenger car, adding lifting high-power antennas, radio stations and generators to ensure the contact between Qin Zheng and others with Tianjin.

The group of people first took a train from Tianjin to Beijing. Qin Zheng planned to meet Li Hongzhang first in Beijing, and then set off for Xi'an. However, Li Hongzhang had not arrived in Beijing yet. Prince Qing and Li Songchen, who were stationed in Beijing in the Qing Dynasty, welcomed Qin Zheng and his party at the station together.

It turned out that Prince Qing Ji received a telegram from the Qing court, ordering him to accompany Qin Zheng to Xi'an, and Li Hongzhang was responsible for handling Beijing's affairs. Because overseas Chinese came to Xi'an to pay a visit, they always had to bring someone who was familiar with them and had a certain friendship. As a middleman who contacted each other, it would be easier to communicate in advance if there was anything. Originally, Li Hongzhang was the most suitable candidate, but Li Hongzhang was almost 80 years old after all, and he went to Xi'an all the way. I'm afraid that Li Hongzhang's body would not be able to withstand such a sudden change, so he asked Prince Qing to accompany him. No matter what, Prince Qing had lived in Beijing for more than 4 months and had many contacts with overseas Chinese. He was the best candidate after Li Hongzhang.

Prince Qing was very happy after receiving the order from the court, because this was a good job. Now the court and overseas Chinese have basically agreed on the terms. This time, the diligent meeting was just a formality. However, once this diligent meeting ended successfully, his companion also made a contribution, so this is actually a great opportunity to accumulate merit.

In addition, through the past few months of contact, Prince Qing believes that it is not difficult to deal with overseas Chinese because they are a group of people who are very rules-oriented. As long as they follow their rules, everything is easy to do. Moreover, overseas Chinese are neat, have no delays in doing things, have a gentle attitude, are honest in their work, and no one charges tea and water fees, etc. Therefore, Prince Qing feels that he can handle his relationship with overseas Chinese well.

After getting off the car, he first met Prince Qing. Prince Qing also represented the Qing court and praised the achievements of the Time Travel Group again. Qin Zheng also politely said a few words and expressed his gratitude to Prince Qing. Prince Qing was also very happy, thinking that his relationship with overseas Chinese had further improved. Through this period of contact, he also knew that overseas Chinese were simple and straightforward to do things, and there was not so many polite conspiracies. Since his etiquette had been reached, there was no substantive matter to communicate, so he said goodbye to Qin Zheng.

After sending Prince Qing away, Qin Zheng met Li Songchen and * who were left behind in Beijing and listened to their report. In order to manage the order in Beijing, there are now more than 200 non-military time travelers working in Beijing and more than 600 local residents who have joined them, most of whom are engaged in public security supervision. In addition, about 1,600 people have been recruited to work in the crossing group, of which more than 1,000 are police officers to maintain the public security order in Beijing. With the hard work of the crossing group, the Beijing area has maintained a relatively good security environment for the past nine months since the crossing group controlled Beijing, and now it has restored certain trade and economic activities.

Many old Beijingers believe that during the period under the control of the Time Travel Group, Beijing's security environment was the best. Before the Gengzi Reform, there were a large number of powerful people in Beijing who could run rampantly, and under the rule of overseas Chinese, no one dared to do anything wrong. When the Time Traveler first took over Beijing, there were still some remaining powerful brothers who did not believe in evil and caused some trouble in Beijing. As a result, the Time Traveler did not care about how big you were. He caught him and punished him if he should be punished. He dug up soil for several months or swept the streets for several months. The remaining powerful children in Beijing were also honest and never dared to violate the rules set by the Time Traveler again.

Now the Sixth and Seventh Regiments of the People's Army were stationed in Beijing. When they first took over Beijing, there were still many remaining Boxer forces and scattered scattered corpses in the surrounding areas of Beijing. Many of them had become bandits and bandits. After the situation in Beijing initially stabilized, the People's Army organized several clearance operations in succession, wiped out several evil forces in a row, and also greatly shocked other forces. Some scattered Qing troops took the initiative to surrender to the People's Army. After June 1901, there were basically no independent forces within 200 kilometers around Beijing.

On the other hand, the People's Army also recruited new troops in Beijing and achieved considerable results. The newly recruited soldiers were organized into five regiments and a cavalry barracks, of which more than 800 original Qing troops were dispersed and assigned to various regiments. Now the newly established army is undergoing strict training under the supervision of the People's Army.

After listening to the report of the two, Qin Zheng was also very satisfied and gave instructions to the two. After Li Hongzhang arrived in Beijing, he handed over the palace to the Qing army to guard. The People's Army and the Qing army had a period of time to jointly manage Beijing. Therefore, after the Qing army entered Beijing, the two sides should prepare in advance if they coordinated. Moreover, the Crossing Group had to gradually evacuate from Beijing, and they also required the two to make plans for the evacuation, which was to arrange the evacuation of the families of soldiers who joined the People's Army. In addition, the soldiers' families mainly resettled their settlement in Qingdao, which also required the communication with Qingdao.

However, regarding the intention to evacuate and respect each soldier's own decision, of course, we must do our best to understand the ideological work of each soldier and strive to make all soldiers evacuate with the large army. However, if someone is determined not to evacuate with the People's Army, he can also handle the discharge procedures for him.

As for other personnel working under the time traveler, they also used the same method to mobilize them to evacuate Beijing with the time traveler, and promised to ensure that work and deposits will be arranged after the evacuation.

Finally, Qin Zheng asked Li Songchen to pay attention to collecting the maids of wealthy families, and explained that this was to solve the marriage problem of time travelers. Li Songchen also agreed and told Qin Zheng that the medical department had hosted more than 300 lonely women and children, many of whom were maids.

The medical office in Beijing is in charge of Qin Zheng's wife Zhou Ping. There are 18 medical staff who traveled through time. Qin Zheng's daughter Zhou Weiying is also one of them. It turned out that the medical office provided medical insurance services for travelers working in Beijing. Later, it also opened medical services to residents in Beijing. In fact, it was equivalent to a hospital. Due to the modern medical skills of travelers, a large number of modern medical equipment, and medical attitudes and services, the hospital was far better than this era, although the hospital was opened for a long time, it won many praises in Beijing. Moreover, the medical office not only treated people, but also hosted orphans and single women. There were more than 500 orphans who had been sheltered from front to back. In the early stage, a group of orphans had been sent to Tianjin for education.

Although Qin Zheng is one of the few people with families in the time travel group, in this era, the family was very lucky to be able to reunite in this era. For about a year, the family of three was the backbone of the time travel group, and each had his own job. Since Qin Zheng often ran around, the family could rarely get together. However, Qin Zheng was not dissatisfied with anything. After all, compared with other time travelers, his family was very lucky to be able to reunite in this era. For example, Xia Bohai, Xiao Jianjun, Wang Yunpeng, Xu Jichao and others also had wives and children in the old time and space, but of course there was no contact at all. And for this, several of them were still bachelors and had no family organization.

This time Qin Zheng stayed in Beijing, of course he could take this opportunity to reunite with his wife and daughter for a few more days. However, when Qin Zheng arrived in Beijing, Zhou Weiying had left Beijing and was sent to Jinan to work with four other medical staff. On the one hand, medical staff have begun to prepare to evacuate Beijing, and there are also medical staff in Jinan. On the other hand, Zhou Ping also has a little selfishness. Now Luo Yue is stationed in Jinan, so he sent Zhou Weiying to work in Jinan, and the two have more opportunities to get along.
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