During Guangxu period, Zhang was released by Beijing officials. He first worked as a salt channel in Wuzhou, Guiping, Guangxi, and then as a deployment ambassador in Guangxi, Guangdong and Shandong. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), Zhang was promoted to governor of grain transportation, and in the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu (190 1), he served as governor of Shandong. On August 11th, it was played: "JIAOZHOU was suddenly flooded, and the court should come quickly to evacuate the people and help the victims." The court ordered that he must take good care of the victims and not let them be displaced. The following year, he was appointed as the governor of Henan Province.
In March of the 29th year of Guangxu (1903), Zhang was transferred to the post of Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), he was transferred to Shanxi as governor in June, and in the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906), he was transferred to Henan. In July of Guangxu's thirty-third year (1907), Zhang was awarded as Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and Minister of Nanyang. In autumn, a British merchant ship was robbed in Wuzhou, Guangdong, and a British doctor on board was killed by the robbers. After the incident, the British ambassador to Beijing repeatedly protested to the foreign affairs department of the Qing government. The foreign affairs department then ordered the arrest of criminals and treated British doctors well. At the same time, under the pressure of Britain, the right to arrest the two rivers in eastern Guangdong was handed over to the British. As the issue of the right of arrest is a national sovereignty issue, Guangdong people were shocked when the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came out. So Zhang wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, demanding that this right be taken back. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs first refused to allow it, and Zhang struggled many times to achieve the goal of recovery. At the same time, British warships, at the behest of Zhou Fu, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, made many surveys of Huizhou sea surface. After Zhang took office, he immediately informed the British consul and finally ordered him to resign. Because Zhang was one of the few officials in the Qing court who dared to fight against foreign powers, he made foreigners sit up and take notice. The British Governor made a special trip to visit Zhang, and his wife also met with Zhang. This was incredible at that time, which made Cantonese people have to admire China's decent diplomacy.
In the spring of Guangxu thirty-four years (1908), Chen Er Maruko, a Japanese Osaka steamship company, smuggled arms in Guangdong waters, and was caught red-handed by Guangdong Navy. Zhang immediately took a note to the Japanese consul and confiscated it according to law. Japanese shipowners tried every excuse, and the Japanese government threatened the Qing government by withdrawing embassy and consulate personnel. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qing Dynasty succumbed to Japan's pressure, demanding that Zhang lift the relevant personnel who detained the Japanese ship and investigate it, and compensate the losses caused to the Japanese smuggling ship according to the price. Zhang strongly opposed it, and the soldiers and civilians of Guangdong and Guangxi were also furious, and quickly set off a boycott of Japanese goods, but the Qing court had to give up. Lee Joon was ordered to patrol the sea to Dongsha Island and found that the Japanese army had occupied the island for two or three years, and had built more than ten miles of light rail, several machines and factories, and sent troops to monitor it. After returning to Guangdong, he asked Zhang to cable the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate with Japan. The Japanese minister demanded that the map of 200 years ago be used as evidence. Wang Bingen, the provincial judge of Guangdong Province, read extensively, and Chen Lunjiong, the commander of Gaoliang Town in Kangxi, wrote a map of Dongsha Island in Haitulu, and sent it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese envoy, which proved that it was China land. Later, the island was returned to China, and it was still named Dongsha Island.
In the first year of A.D. (1909), the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi ordered Zhang to assemble and two warships, all of which were under his command with navigators Fu Bo, Kingyung Woo, Liu Yikuan and Lin Guoxiang, accompanied by counselor Wang Rentang, alternate road of Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Zhejun, magistrate of Guangdong and Guangxi Ding Naicheng and Pei Zuze. Hong Kong businessmen Wei Xuezhai, Li Huilin, Su Huiquan, naval surveying and mapping students, surveying and mapping members, etc. It took a month to make an in-depth investigation of these islands. Wherever warships go, they are all named after stones, and they raise flags with guns to reaffirm China's sovereignty. During this tour, members of the Surveying and Mapping Committee and students from the Naval Surveying and Mapping School drew a general map and a sub-map of the Xisha Islands, and named them. The names of islands are named after the native places of warships, products and peers. The Qing court sent sailors to patrol the Xisha Islands many times to declare sovereignty, which aroused strong response from the international community at that time. The Xisha Islands are referred to as China's maritime territory in navigation books of various countries. In the third year of Xuantong (19 1 1), after the Wuchang Uprising broke out, Zhang relied on Zhang Xun's troops and prepared to fight to the end. Under the allied attack organized by the League, Zhang couldn't keep Jiangning, so he entrusted Marin, an American missionary and dean of Gulou Hospital, to contact the allies and prepare to surrender. When Marin stepped forward to deal with the situation, Zhang and General Jiangning were implementing an escape strategy. They prepared a laundry list in advance. When it was dark, they fixed one end of the laundry list on the tower with a rope. Two people sat in the laundry list and lowered the wall. Out of the city, Zhang He went straight to the Japanese warship moored on the Shimonoseki River. In the same year 1 February1day, he fled to Shanghai. After living in Qingdao, he has never been an official.
In the third year of the Republic of China (19 14), Zhang retired to Tianjin and began to entertain the elderly with poetry and calligraphy. Zhang personally organized the waterworks. Shanghai residents mostly use tap water supplied by British businessmen, and they are controlled by others. In order to safeguard his sovereignty and benefit the people, Zhang negotiated with British businessmen, signed contracts, took over the purchase of water, and raised funds to organize. Finally, the government and businessmen jointly established Shanghai North Water Supply Company.
In addition, Zhang also founded the Wireless Telegraph School in Guangzhou, and supported others to establish Guangzhou Guanghua yiguang. Zhang is also a supporter of modern education. As early as the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, people of insight in China demanded the abolition of the empty and useless imperial examination system, the reform of education, the promotion of practical science and the establishment of schools. Emperor Guangxu accepted the new idea of taking middle school as the body and western learning as the purpose, issued a large number of imperial edicts of reform and reform, and carried out a series of reforms on the current education system. Therefore, the transformation from academy to school has become a top-down social trend. Zhang is a supporter and promoter of this trend.
In the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), Zhang Zengyang, the governor of Shanxi Province, founded the first official normal school in Shanxi Province in the former site of Lingdetang Academy, which was one of the earliest six new official secondary normal schools in China. At first, it was difficult because of economic difficulties. In the second year, after Zhang took office, he immediately raised huge sums of money for the school, which greatly improved the conditions of the school building, greatly improved the specifications, improved the management day by day and strengthened the teaching staff. This school employs ten China teachers, eight Japanese teachers and one British teacher. In that year, 220 students entered the school and 165 graduated. All these graduates were sent to colleges and primary schools in all counties of the province as teachers, which became the spark of modern education. Today, this school has become a national famous foreign language normal college of Taiyuan University.
In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), Zhang appointed Dr. Tang Youheng, an agronomist from Cornell University who returned from the United States, to be responsible for planning and constructing the Guangdong agricultural experimental field and its affiliated agricultural workshops. In the second year of Xuantong (19 10), school officially started in April. Its purpose is to train modern agricultural technicians, popularize new agricultural theories and methods, and set up state and county experimental sites to reserve talents. Agricultural Institute became the beginning of modern higher agricultural education in China and the predecessor of South China Agricultural University.
In July of Guangxu's 33rd year (1907), after Lu Ya, an Englishman, went to Hong Kong as governor, he called on the people to be enthusiastic about education and raise money to donate to the construction of HKU. In the case of a serious shortage of donation funds, Zhang generously donated 200,000 yuan, becoming the second largest individual donor. Thanks to Zhang's leading role, the donation funds are constantly flowing. Until the first year of the Republic of China (1912) March 1 1 day, the University of Hong Kong started school, and * * * received a total donation of1470,000 yuan. At the same time, Zhang also funded the establishment of 25 scholarships (300 yuan Guangdong dollars per person per year), far more than the five scholarships established by Sun Yat-sen in the fourth year of the Republic of China (19 15), and became the founder of. In the autumn and winter of Guangxu thirty-three years (1907), British merchant ships were robbed in Wuzhou, Guangdong, and British doctors were killed. The British ambassador to Beijing has repeatedly reprimanded the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which ordered soldiers to catch criminals strictly and be kind to British doctors. At the same time, at the request of the British, the right to capture the two rivers in eastern Guangdong was placed under British jurisdiction. The issue of seizing power is a disgrace to the country. When the Ministry of Electricity arrived in Guangdong, there was an uproar and people were asked to fight for this right to come back. A person wrote a book to the Ministry, but it was not allowed outside first, which excited the whole Guangdong Province. He struggled many times and finally achieved the goal of getting it back. He's really powerful. At the same time, British soldiers took turns to survey Huizhou sea surface, which was originally allowed by the old governor Zhou Fu. Ren Jun sent a note to the British consul, asking for its withdrawal. After that, the Governor of British Harbor paid a special visit to Ren Jun, and his wife also paid a visit to Ren Jun's wife, who were all treated with courtesy. Cantonese people have to pay tribute to China's decent diplomacy.
In the spring of Guangxu's thirty-fourth year (1908), the Japanese Osaka Steamship Co., Ltd. came to Guangdong loaded with arms, unloaded them at the maritime border, and secretly interacted with arms dealers in an attempt to reap heavy profits and seize them by soldiers to find out who they were. Ren Jun ordered Kun to come to the province, and asked the China people hired by Maru to load and unload barges to testify and note to the Japanese consul, and all of them were confiscated according to the breach of contract. The shipowner quibbled, and the Japanese government supported it, taking the withdrawal as an excuse. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs surrendered to Japan, claiming to dismiss the motorcycle driver and to evaluate and compensate the ship damage. The whole of Guangdong aroused public anger and launched a boycott of Japanese goods, but the Qing court had to give up. At that time, Portugal gradually occupied the neighboring territories of Macao, and the people were heavily guarded and well prepared to avoid losing ground. The islands in the South China Sea have always been the territory of China. In the thirty-third year of Guangxu (1907), a Japanese businessman, Nishizawa, led a crowd to occupy dongsha islands with the "Shikoku Pill". Shortly after Zhang was promoted from the governor of Henan to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he personally observed the situation, collected evidence, negotiated with the Japanese consul in Guangdong, and argued for it, creating a good start for recovering the island. At the same time, more than 70 people led by Lee Joon, Lieutenant Kingyung Woo and Liu Yikuan/kloc-0 in Fu Bo and Shenzhen Airlines, surveyed 15 islands, named Xerox, raised the flag and fired guns on Yongxing Island, and declared the South China Sea Islands as the sacred territory of China. After repeated efforts, Yuan Shuxun, who succeeded the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi from Shandong, never gave in, and finally completed the handover to Japan at the least cost, and reached an agreement, and handled the handover ceremony of Dongsha Island in the first year of Xuantong (1909)10.7.