The Peiyang militarists disliked the condition where concessions in Manchuria were monopolized exclusively by Japan, thus The Peiyang militarists actively tried to involve the USA because of it's economic power to construct railway lines equally matched with Japan's South Manchuria Railway lines.
彼らは日本の満州における権益独占を好まずアメリカを盛んに引き込もうとし、その経済力を以って満鉄に並行する路線を建設しようとした。