Chapter 85 The Tsinghua Garden is being built

The "Xin Chou Treaty" stipulated that the Chinese should pay 450 million taels of silver, which is called the "Gengzi indemnity". It is worth mentioning that with the efforts of Liang Cheng, the counselor of the embassy in the United States and a former young student studying in the United States, the United States later used 20 million taels of silver as compensation from China to establish the Tsinghua Academy, which later became Tsinghua University. At that time, Tsinghua Academy trained 200 American students for China every year. This large number of talents was trained by this indemnity until 1952.

Of course, U.S. imperialism must have other ideas and purposes of its own, such as exporting ideology to China in order to control the Chinese intellectual class and obtain long-term commercial benefits, but this is ultimately beneficial to China's long-term development. Great masters gathered in the Republic of China, and talents came forth in large numbers. A large part of them were the Gengzi indemnity international students who went out of Tsinghua Academy, such as Jin Yuelin, Hu Shi, Liang Sicheng and so on.In the decades after their studies, most of these people have become masters and leading figures in the academic world.This can be regarded as a coincidence, and it's right!

Of course, the "Xin Chou Treaty" not only created Tsinghua University, but also stimulated the completely corrupt old Cixi.