Without Xiao Letian turning a blind eye, Fu Hui would definitely not have been able to steal this drawing. It is even possible that Xiao Letian deliberately let Fu Hui see this drawing!
Why is the future railway planning map of the Qing Dynasty in Xiao Letian's hands? This is a long story, and it also verifies Xiao Letian’s long-term plan!
In fact, when Xiao Letian had just become the Prime Minister of Ryukyu and returned to Tanggu to fight the first siege of Tanggu, that was when Sun Sanhu and Jiao Siye were at their most violent!
Xiao Letian had secretly sent people to Europe and the United States to invite many unsuccessful geologists and surveyors. At that time, the American Civil War had just ended and everything was in dire straits. People's wages were very low. Many geological exploration engineers were paying monthly The income is only a few dozen dollars, not more than a hundred dollars!
And jobs are still very hard to find. Except for some railway companies that have positions for them, other industries basically don’t need such talents!
There are only a few professors in the university, and Xiao Letian doesn't expect to hire such high-level talents. He entrusted the Carnegie family to carefully select a group of engineers. The level is definitely not as good as the professors and scholars in the university, but no matter what, More valuable than ordinary mechanics!
If you put this level of talent in Asia, you would be a decent talent. There is no need to pay an extra $200 a month to take care of food and housing. If you have the ability to lead an apprentice, then you can pay $500 a month. It depends on whether you have the ability. Go earn it!
This was the end of the 19th century, and the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar was frighteningly high, because the U.S. dollar at that time was directly linked to gold, which was real U.S. dollars!
According to anecdotal reports, the average killer in the United States only paid about fifty dollars for a murder, which shows how high the currency value was at that time!
A large number of European and American exploration experts rushed to Ryukyu. Their work mainly consisted of two parts. One was to conduct a map drawing of the entire East Asia with the assistance of the Chinese!
On the other hand, it is to help the Chinese to cultivate a steady stream of talents!
Don’t underestimate maps. In Xiao Letian’s previous life, when warlords were fighting in the early years of the Republic of China, warlords from all over the country relied on old maps from the Guangxu period to fight. At that time, the most detailed and accurate maps in Asia were in the hands of the Japanese!
Since the victory of the Sino-Japanese War, Japan has continued to invest in surveying and mapping China's mountains and rivers for decades, and has produced two complete sets of maps for military and civilian use!
In the early days of the war, why did the Japanese army advance so quickly and take advantage of the map to a large extent!
Needless to say, military maps are necessary for fighting. Without accurate maps, artillery cannot carry out coordinate bombing!
Civilian maps are more important. Such exploration teams are usually equipped with geological prospecting experts, who will use their rich experience to mark some potential mineral deposits!
Even if you don’t have the time and energy to conduct careful exploration, you will still mark the possible conjecture probabilities on the map, which will be of great help to future economic construction!
With a high salary of several hundred dollars a month, you can recruit so many talents. This is such a good deal!
After several years of geological exploration, the number of people engaged in mapping in Asia has exceeded 40,000!
Isn’t that a scary number? Because at the beginning, those European and American engineers set up some training groups and night classes in order to earn a high salary of more than 500 per month!
Under the guidance of words and deeds, a large number of young talents from the Chinese community have devoted themselves to this industry. At the end of 1869, these loose training groups officially merged together to establish the Chinese University of Geology!
Mapping, mineral exploration, water conservancy, roads, oceans... even jewelry majors are established in this university!
The Chinese education uses the oppressive and quick-fix method of dividing human beings! The threshold for entry into university among the Chinese is very loose, but the threshold for leaving the university is too strict!
If you are not a real talent, you can't even hope to get a diploma. Moreover, Chinese education never has winter or summer vacations, and there is no time to rest at all. Everything here is extremely Spartan, and we will definitely not play hedonistic tricks with you!
After entering the university, you either become a successful person or get out. The best place to feel comfortable is the cemetery!
This is the consensus of the Chinese education community and also their motto!
There is no other way. China's technological level is hundreds of years behind Europe and the United States. How can we catch up without resorting to such desperate measures? It is under such high-pressure education that batches of talents are trained!
Xiao Lezhen really wants to thank the ancient Chinese people for their perseverance in this era. He is able to endure hardships and truly believes from the bottom of his heart that "there is a road to the mountain of books, and diligence is the path, and the sea of learning is boundless and the boat is made of hard work"!
Surprisingly, more than 80% of the students can survive such a hellishly rigorous study and still get very good scores!
Sure enough, people are bitter insects. There are only blessings that cannot be enjoyed, and there is no suffering that cannot be endured!
The highly paid talents poached from Europe and the United States and the large number of students trained by themselves have made the geological surveying and mapping work in Asia progress very quickly!
Today, the most accurate and detailed high-scale maps of the Qing Dynasty are in the collection of the Chinese CIA, the second-class maps are hidden in geological universities, and the third-class maps are circulated in the market.
But this third-level map is already a hundred streets ahead of the Qing Dynasty map! How the railway lines of the Qing Dynasty will be routed in the future can only be determined by the Chinese, because only the Chinese have first-hand information!
Zai Chun had no choice because he had no time. If he were to find someone to do surveying and surveying again, even if he used the best engineers in the UK, he wouldn't be able to carry out such a project in less than three to five years!
Even the British were helpless. People from the British Embassy had seen the third-class map provided by the Chinese. They said with great regret, "With such a map, it is a complete waste of resources for us to carry out surveying and mapping!"
Through a series of private and secret transactions, Xiao Letian took away 3% of all shares of the Daqing Railway simply by providing various data on railway construction maps.
The map Fuhui discovered was the sketch of railway construction in Zhili, Shandong, and Jiangsu provinces. It was also the first official railway to be built by the Qing Dynasty!
Now even Zai Chun has never seen such a detailed version, but Fu Hui has already stolen a copy for the family. This is the most important top-secret business information. Zhu Bao knows the weight of this map and stuffs it in his arms without saying anything. Turn around and leave!
This small picture hides a huge market of hundreds of millions or even billions of taels of silver!
Seeing her nephew leave, Fu Hui felt as if a big stone had been lifted from her heart. He weakly leaned against the pillar and whispered, "Fucha family, I can only help you so far. In the future, you have to rely on You’re on your own…”
Turning to look at the familiar figure behind the study window, Fuhui shed tears, "Thank you! I know I can't hide anything from you, and I am worthy of your friendship..."
When a husband and wife have a heart-to-heart talk, many words don’t need to be said clearly. All it takes is one look and movement to make everything clear!
Note: Brothers and sisters, check if there are any recommendation tickets and gold bricks in your account, and throw them all over!
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