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Although Zhao Zhenzhong once reminded him to pay attention to Feng Yuxiang when extorting Liu Menggeng, Liu Menggeng gradually relaxed after reminding Cao Rui, who had "created" wealth with him, and kept a certain amount of attention to Feng Yuxiang.

In addition to the lack of conclusive evidence, Cao Kun also grabbed Feng Yuxiang to check and balance Wu Peifu, but because of the tense relationship between Qi Xieyuan, the direct line of the south and Lu Yongxiang, the Anhui line of the south, the Fengtian line of the north, could break out at any time, and the Fengtian team in the north was also deploying troops to prepare to go south again. The two things involved Liu Menggeng's energy.

On September 3, 1924, the Jiangzhe War, which was later called the fuse of the Second Zhifeng War, broke out. Immediately on the same day, Zhang Zuolin of the Fengtian clan issued a telegram to condemn the Zhifeng War, Wu attacked Zhejiang, and organized the "Zhenwei Army" in the name of aiding Lu Yongxiang of Zhejiang, and served as the commander-in-chief, and organized the Fengtian army into 6 armies with a total force of about 150,000. Then, the Fengtian clan troops marched to Yuguan (i.e. Shanhaiguan), Chifeng and Chengde on September 15, and the Second Zhifeng War broke out.

Originally, the Zhili Group also had a predetermined plan for the Fengtian faction to go south, which was to use the navy to transport troops to land from Huludao, cut off the Fengtian army's retreat, and form an encirclement. It was just because the Fengtian navy resisted, and even because Britain intervened on the pretext that the maritime war between Zhili and Fengtian was not conducive to the British Empire's maritime trade, the Zhili Group was forced to give up its plan to land and fight in the rear of the Fengtian faction. This directly led to the Zhili Army losing the initiative in the war and falling into a passive position.

Just when the war between Zhi and Feng were in a stalemate, Feng Yuxiang led his troops back to Beijing in October 1924 to launch a coup, imprisoned Cao Kun, and immediately called for peace across the country. After the news reached the front line, the Zhili troops, which suffered heavy losses in the main force of continuous combat, quickly collapsed. In addition, the rear route was cut off by Feng's troops and reinforcements were eliminated. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Wu Peifu led more than 2,000 remaining troops to board the ship from Tanggu to flee south.

Wu Peifu, who was once praised as the reincarnation of the Sage of War, was beaten to flee south in a panic, and the Zhili forces were defeated. This result caused a series of turmoil in the country, and the open and secret struggles of all forces in Shandong Province, which were originally under the inspection of the three provinces of Zhili, Shandong and Henan, were even more fierce.

After receiving the exact news of the direct defeat, Shandong Military Supervisor Zheng Shiqi became extremely busy.

Zheng Shiqi was originally a figure in the Anhui clan. After the Zhi-An War in 1920, he surrendered to the Zhi clan. Later, after Tanaka Yu was resigned due to a carjacking case in Lincheng, he took over as the military supervisor of Shandong. Now that the Zhi clan has collapsed, his former boss Duan Qirui has regained the temporary position of the Republic of China government. A brigade of the Zhi clan was eliminated by Feng Yuxiang's troops when he went north to support Wu Peifu, so Zheng Shiqi seized the opportunity to move.

On October 31, Wu Peifu led the remnants to prepare for fleeing south. On November 1, Zheng Shiqi issued a telegram to the whole country, declared neutrality, and sent troops north to Cangzhou and Machang to guard the Jinpu Road, preventing the defeated Zhili army from entering Shandong. At the same time, he sent people to the southern border of Shandong to demolish the Liguoyi and Hanzhuang Railway, and preventing the Zhili Qi Xieyuan and other reinforcements from heading north from Xuzhou.

After such a blocking of the north and south blocking, Zheng Shiqi learned that Wu Peifu was about to go south by boat. In order to prevent Wu Peifu from entering Shandong from the sea, on November 7, Zheng Shiqi ordered the commander of the Fifth Division, Wang Hanzhang, to lead his troops to Qingdao to arrest Gao Enhong, the governor of Jiaoao, who had close ties with Wu, and took him to Jinan, where Wang Hanzhang took over Gao Enhong's position. At the same time, Zheng Shiqi also sent troops to speed up the defense to Yantai port to prevent Wu Peifu from landing here.

Afterwards, Zheng Shiqi, through his relationship, removed Xiong Bingqi from the position of direct Shandong Province Governor who had never been in conflict with him by the Beijing government, and was replaced by Gong Jibing as the position of Shandong Province Governor.

On November 16, after learning that the Fengtian warlord Zhang Zongchang's troops headed south along the Jinpu Road and occupied the De County Arsenal, Zheng Shiqi hurriedly sent troops to intercept and demolish the railway. Subsequently, after Duan Qirui came forward to mediate, Zhang Zuolin ordered the Fengtian army Zhang Zongchang's troops to retreat to Cangzhou.

Not to mention how Zheng Shiqi is so busy with his left and right support, let’s look at the current situation of Qingdao University.

Since its establishment, Qingdao University has required 40,000 yuan per month. The main sources are roughly the following: Jiaoao Commercial Port Supervision Administration allocates 10,000 yuan per month; Jiaoji Railway Bureau allocates 6,000 yuan per month; Sui Shiqing mobilized Qingdao wealthy businessmen to provide 8,000 yuan per month in the name of Qingdao Chamber of Commerce; Americans, Germans, and Sihai Industrial provide a total of 18,000 yuan per month.

The 40,000 yuan fund is mainly the expenses of one business class, two engineering classes and one agricultural and forestry class. As for the medical class, with the efforts of Qingdao American Consul Newber and Mobil Qingdao Company Manager Coutman, the faculty of the two medical classes and all the teaching costs were solved by Union Medical College, founded by Rockefeller in Beijing.

However, after the Zhifeng War, President Gao Enhong was escorted to Jinan in early November. Wang Hanzhang, the new agent of Jiaoao Supervisor, refused to recognize the monthly funding for Qingdao University, and the Jiaoji Railway Bureau also stopped allocating monthly funds. Qingdao University's daily funding suddenly had a gap of 16,000 oceans.

At the school board meeting held, the directors debated the current situation of Qingdao University and future prospects.

People in the Qingdao Chamber of Commerce, represented by Sui Shiqing and Song Yuting, are worried about the current situation, and natural disasters and man-made disasters, and are full of concerns about continuing to invest in Qingdao University.

Americans said that the two medical classes are now equipped with teachers and equipment according to world-leading standards, and their daily expenses have exceeded the total amount of funds for other professional classes at Qingdao University. Under the current circumstances, the US will not continue to invest additionally unless the school principal is the American, and the daily management of the school is the American.

Lord said that the German teachers and related equipment at Qingdao University are now solved by him through coordination between himself and Lu Lin's relationship. If he continues to invest more, he will not be able to bear it personally and Lu Lin cannot accept it.

Zhao Zhenzhong is the youngest among these school directors. He sat there quietly listening to the other directors complaining and complaining. After a while, when everyone said it was almost the same, Zhao Zhenzhong said, "Apart from foreign friends, all the seniors in the business world in Qingdao. I am young and have little knowledge. I should not speak nonsense, but since I am a member of the school board and face the current difficulties of the school, I should not speak my own opinions without taking the liberty."

Several other school directors with their own thoughts also calmed down. Courtman said, "Zhao, what are you good ways?" Sui Shiqing also echoed, "Is there any good way for you to tell me, please refer to it."

"I just heard from you all. My opinion is that the school must continue to handle it. I need to find a way to solve the current difficulties." Without waiting for others to speak, Zhao Zhenzhong continued: "Everyone said that it is very difficult to continue to invest more. Then the kid will be bold and arrogant. As long as the directors can agree to the kid's plan, I will take over the gap of 16,000 yuan."

"What plan?" Although he was a little surprised by Zhao Zhenzhong's courage like other directors, Sui Shiqing still wanted to hear whether Zhao Zhenzhong really had a good idea.

"Zhao, don't you use Sihai Industrial's profits to do it?" Lord expressed his doubts. He was concerned about whether his interests in Sihai Industrial would be damaged.

"Mr. Lord, please rest assured that I used the personal profit of Sihai Industrial and other profits to take over this gap, and it would definitely not harm the interests of other shareholders of Sihai Industrial." Zhao Zhenzhong explained to Lord and several other shareholders of Sihai Industrial, and then continued: "Although following this gap will increase my difficulties, no matter what, Qingdao University must continue to be opened."

"My plan is not complicated. Simply put, it is to leave professional matters to professionals. Specifically, it can be divided into several contents: First, director Liu Quanfa is selected as the president of Qingdao University, responsible for the daily management and teaching of the school; second, re-evaluate the responsibilities of the school board and the responsibilities of the president, clarify the relationship between the two, and select the head of the school board and the supervisor of daily affairs and executive personnel; third, strengthen the daily management of students so that they try not to involve various political activities, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to the school; fourth, adjust the teaching direction and cultivate practical talents in combination with the world's advanced academic content and domestic actual needs."

After hearing this, several directors felt that they did not need to increase their investments themselves, and Liu Quanfa was indeed a very suitable candidate. With the approval of several foreign directors and Sui Shiqing, Zhao Zhenzhong's plan was confirmed.

Afterwards, the board of directors discussed and formulated the relevant rules of the school board, clarifying that the chairman, as the daily responsible person of the school board, represents the board of directors; at the same time, he established one vice chairman and one supervisor of the school board. The chairman and vice chairman are the persons selected by the school board to be responsible for the daily operations of the school board. When the chairman is away, the vice chairman is responsible for the relevant work; the supervisor of the board of directors is the person who supervises whether the daily work of the chairman, vice chairman and principals executes the resolutions of the board of directors and safeguards the interests of the board of directors; the principal is the person who executes the resolutions of the school board of directors selected by the school board of directors, is responsible for the school's daily academic affairs and management and other specific matters, accepts the leadership of the chairman and is responsible to the school board of directors.

According to Zhao Zhenzhong's proposal, Liu Quanfa was unanimously elected as the new president of Qingdao University, and was fully responsible for all academic affairs and management matters of the school.

Because Zhao Zhenzhong originally provided 10,000 yuan a month, plus the gap of 16,000 yuan this time, accounting for more than 60% of Qingdao University's daily funds, so he naturally became the chairman of the board of directors of Qingdao University. Sui Shiqing became the vice chairman and Courtman became the supervisor of the board of directors.

In addition to the funding supplement plan and personnel adjustment, a consensus was reached at this meeting to build Qingdao University and run it well, and Liu Quanfa appointed a plan for the future development and construction of the school. In addition, Lixian Middle School founded by the Germans, Mingde Middle School founded by the Americans, and Sihai School founded by Zhao Zhenzhong were included in the ranks of Qingdao University affiliated schools. After assessment, students from these three schools will be given priority admission to Qingdao University under the same conditions.

After the meeting, Zhao Zhenzhong found Liu Quanfa and put forward his views on the future development of the school.

Zhao Zhenzhong proposed to further expand the scale of existing subjects, and to open disciplines such as physics, chemistry, and architecture next fall, so as to make Qingdao University a high-level school in China as much as possible.

Although Liu Quanfa was very excited after hearing Zhao Zhenzhong's proposal, he still calmly raised the question: "Zhenzhong, your ideas are very good, but development faces two major problems, namely the shortage of teachers and funds. The school now needs more than 40,000 yuan in funding every month. If it is further expanded, the current funding will not be realized at all."

"I will find a way to fund the funds, and you will find a way to teach the faculty. But there is one thing that Qingdao University needs is an academic communicator who can educate with peace of mind, and does not need that kind of radical thought communicator. Our efforts and efforts must not be sealed by the authorities because of interference from some people. When you are looking for faculty, you must pay attention to those who are proficient in science and engineering, and don't those who know how to shout slogans and incite people's hearts with just a little understanding." Zhao Zhenzhong reminded.

"It's hard to find a faculty that meets your requirements now." Liu Quanfa sighed. He is a pragmatic person himself, so he naturally agrees with Zhao Zhenzhong's opinion.

"From now to next fall, there are still about 10 months left for school, which should be enough. Besides, if it really doesn't work, we might as well run schools with other schools." Zhao Zhenzhong suggested, "Isn't there a Tsinghua Preparatory School for Studying in the United States opened in Beijing that uses Americans to repay the Boxer Indemnity? I heard that the faculty there is good, so why not run schools with them. We can accept their students to study in Qingdao, and they arrange for teachers to come and teach."

"You can try this." Liu Quanfa's eyes lit up.

Subsequently, the two formulated a series of new school rules and regulations. After being approved by the school board, they went to the Jiaoao authorities to file a record. Zhao Zhenzhong handed over all the daily management affairs of Qingdao University to Liu Quanfa, the director and president, and became the boss himself.
Chapter completed!