[3] During the Boxer Rebellion, Liang accompanied Prince Chun to Germany where the latter was to personally apologize to Kaiser Wilhelm II for the murder of Baron Clemens von Ketteler.

Shortly after assuming his post, Liang met with President Theodore Roosevelt, who asked him about his Phillips Academy days.

The United States was amenable to silver, but changed its mind in order to preserve unanimity with the rest of the alliance.

The US was wary of political corruption and demanded that the funds would be used in "establishing educational institutions and financing foreign study".

Various hurdles, such as Hay's death, mistreatment of Chinese Americans, and the killing of the missionary Eleanor Chestnut in Lianzhou, all caused delays.

[2] The monies that Liang negotiated were used to establish Tsinghua University in Beijing and to fund the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program.

Upon his return to China, he served as the director of the Guangdong–Hankou Railway, President of the Board of Foreign Affairs, and Comptroller General of Maritime Customs at Beijing.

In 1909, he accompanied Prince Rui as a member of the Chinese Imperial Naval Commission to study the navies of western nations.

[1] He had been engaged to Nellie Yu Roung Ling, daughter of a Qing-dynasty diplomat to France, at least as early as January 1903.