The Yongping military exercise greatly shocked various forces at home and abroad. The Zhili New Army, which was formed in just eight months, was amazed by the combat effectiveness of observers from all countries.

For Russia's Far East strategy, the new Zhili army undoubtedly attracted the attention of the Russian Strategic Ministry and re-view the Qing Empire. General Kuropatkin, the Supreme Commander of the Amur Military Region, said in a report to Tsar Nicholas II: "We must reconsider it, because the Qing Empire's army is much more difficult than we had previously estimated."

Japanese Minister Sutaro Omura also promptly reported the process and results of the Yongping military exercise to the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, saying that the Qing Empire Army reform had initial results and would bring challenges to the Japanese Army in the near future. The Chief of Staff Prince Miyaki Chihito ordered the General Staff and the Strategic Planning Department to carefully discuss the strategies and tactics of the Zhili New Army, absorbing the essence of it and finding the weaknesses in order to prepare for emergencies.

Germany's mentality is relatively complex. On the one hand, the German General Staff hopes to open up colonial fields in the Far East. Although it currently occupies the construction of a naval base in Jeju Island, North Korea, which has opened the door to North Korea. However, compared with the old imperialist powers, Britain, France and Russia have too different interests in China, the German base hopes to open the Chinese market. Britain, France and Russia rely on force to open the door to China, so Germany also believes that it will be necessary to describe all the forces to China in the future to solve it. However, a group of German military aristocrats led by Hannagan and General Stani helped the Qing government train a powerful army, which is not good for Germany's long-term strategy. On the other hand, since the Sino-British flag-pulling incident, Germany has gained recognition from the Qing Empire, and Sino-German relations have entered a honeymoon period, which is very important for Germany's impact on Britain, France and China-France dominance over China, and Germany also hopes to continue to maintain it. Therefore, the German government was both happy and worried about this Yongping military exercise.

As the three giants in the Far East, France has been in power since the establishment of the Third French Republic and its attitude towards the Qing Empire has been lukewarm. Since the Sino-French War, France's war of aggression against China has failed, so the goal has turned to Indochina and joined forces with Russia in Afghanistan to compete for colonies in Southeast Asia.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, Britain failed to use Japan to block the Russian navy's southward Pacific, and the British Liberal Party collapsed. The newly ruling British Conservative Party faced Germany, France and Russia in the Far East to fight against Britain. It was too late to change its attitude towards China. First, the Chairman of the British Military Commission visited China, and then Britain built the most advanced Dengyun-class battleships for the Beiyang Navy at low prices and high standards, which made it obvious that it would win over China. After this Yongping military exercise, Lieutenant General Walter Kerr, the commander of the British Hong Kong fleet, said in a reply to Downing Street: "The Qing Empire Army is undergoing qualitative changes. The Zhili New Army is well-equipped and well-trained. In future land operations, there may no longer be one-sided situation in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895."

Walter's telegram further strengthened the British authorities' stance towards China. Previously, in the Gutian lesson plan case in Fujian, China in August, the British authorities have been making things difficult for the Zongli Yamen of the Qing Empire, and have colluded with the United States to privately execute 25 Zhaimen on the grounds of consular judgment, and another 20 were severely punished.

However, the British and American consuls did not settle the matter and planned to take advantage of the issue. They became more and more fussed in the issue of reparations, and encouraged the temporary reparation of British envoys Bao Kele and the new British envoy Dou Nale to be picky and still refused to let go of some people who had participated in the lesson plan, which led to the reparations being delayed in reparations.

The British government believes that the Zongli Yamen of the Qing Empire has made great concessions. If Britain and the United States continue to pursue the matter, it may affect the recovery of Sino-British relations. This lesson plan that affects Sino-British relations has been delayed and pending will have adverse consequences. The British Foreign Minister instructed the ambassador to China to close the case quickly.

Dou Nale and Tian Bei and other British and American ministers should have delayed for a while to hit the Qing government to obtain some benefits, but given the strength shown by the Zhili New Army in Yongping Military Exercise, the British envoy finally notified the Zongli Yamen: "I will allow the call from my foreign minister to call, and the church refused to accept compensation, so I will approve this, and the corresponding note will be given to your ministers to investigate and the case will be settled."

The United States, on the other side of the ocean in the Far East Asia-Pacific region, is now unable to take care of the gold run crisis, so it only comments on the army reform of the Qing Empire, and is even less concerned about the Beiyang Navy Dengyun-class battleships some time ago.

As the agreement between the US government and the International Financial Big Group led by the Rothschild family came into effect, on December 3, European banking groups transported more than 10 million ounces of gold coins (300 tons of gold) back to the United States, and the total amount of 205 million US dollars was returned to Wall Street in the United States, causing the Dow Jones Index to stop falling on the same day and began to rebound rapidly. By the end of December, the stocks of major banks in New York Wall Street quickly rebounded to pre-crisis levels, and the bonds of major banks held by Bank of America invested by Wang Chenhao also appreciated. The 25 million US dollars doubled in just a few months, and the market value reached 90 million US dollars.

Tang Shaoyi immediately sent a telegram back to the newly built army yamen in Zhili, Tianjin, and told Wang Chenhao about the situation, but no one could decipher the secret telegram in the entire yamen telegram room. Wang Chenhao, the only codebook, had been "resold" to Shanghai by dozens of people.

Zhang Xianzhi knew that he had stabbed the hornet's nest, so in order to be safe, he quickly sold Wang Chenhao to a small Shandong gang that Chen Zhilong knew for 500,000 taels of silver. Lan Long, the leader of this small gang, thought he had made a big profit and was about to contact a new buyer. Unexpectedly, the news of his subordinates was not very loud, and they were soon known by other big gangs. The people in the martial arts world, regardless of Wang Chenhao's identity, were blinded by money, and the major gangs sent experts to snatch it.

The court had a spy among the forces in the world. After learning about the situation, it immediately ordered the local government to warn the major gangs not to hurt Wang Chenhao, and sent police officers to participate in the robbery.

In Tianjin, when Li Youyi learned that her husband had an accident, she immediately threw out five million taels of silver to redeem the person. Li Hongzhang even threatened who dared to hurt Wang Chenhao and would definitely take revenge at any cost.

The gangs in the world are not fools, and they soon discovered that things were very difficult. No one would be so stupid that they gave Wang Chenhao to the government. In that case, they would not be able to get the money and would be sent to prison.

So the people of the jianghu had rules and methods. Instead of handing over Wang Chenhao to the government, they sold Wang Chenhao one after another to the next, soaring from the initial 600,000 taels to three million taels. Soon, many merchants from underground money houses also took the risk to participate.

Wang Chenhao has never woken up since he was drunk and was confused by sweating drugs for two months until he was sold to Shanghai by the unscrupulous merchants in the underground money shop.

There is a money house named Jinde in the British Concession in Shanghai. Qiao Zhiyuan originally opened a ticket account, but Qiao Zhiyuan lost the bet and owed a large amount of foreign debts to go bankrupt. Later, he mortgaged the silver stock to Yishan Money House, and obtained the loan turnover to survive.

In recent years, Qiao Zhiyuan and his cousin Qiao Zhiyong made money in the ticket business and were preparing to pay back the money to Yishan to mortgage the stock, but they never thought that Yishan's major shareholder had been replaced by Li Jingchu. Li Jingchu refused to admit his ex's contract and firmly demanded the repossessment of Jinde Money House.
Chapter completed!