"It's a tough road!"

Standing in front of the window of the suite of the Jingshi Hotel, which was just completed last year, John sighed secretly while quietly watching the early morning scenery outside the window. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The signing of the draft agreement did not make John happy for long.

He was well aware of the problems of China in this era, the feudal power was not completely dead, the lack of talent, the lack of funds, the rampant corruption, the existence of external threats, etc., especially in John's view, Chinese the shackles of traditional thinking were more troublesome. For example, reading, most of the so-called celebrities in history study in China, study abroad, and basically choose liberal arts majors, such as philosophy, such as law, only a few people will choose science and engineering.

That's why John has been dedicated to education and publishing all these years.

Over the course of twenty years, John built up a vast education system in China, and then used even greater industry and finance to show them that being an official would make a few people famous, and that science would make a good life for the majority. Over the course of 20 years, John printed tens of millions of books in China for free or at low prices, in order to enable more Chinese people to understand the world and the usefulness of science and technology.

This process is long and arduous.

Education has always been a hugely expensive industry, especially one like John's who doesn't expect a return. However, in this era, John's investment philosophy in education makes it difficult for him to be recognized by everyone, such as some outstanding students refuse to enroll because of their majors, such as international students who do not want to teach and prefer to devote themselves to industry and finance, etc., John only continued to invest heavily to barely form the current scale.

Comparatively speaking, the investment in publishing is much smaller.

The salaries of thousands of editors and printers, and the printing of millions of books a year, cost less than two or three million dollars, and in ten years it will be less than 20 million. And it is the investment of 20 million US dollars that has changed the lives of many people......

Well, that's a long way off.

In John's opinion, it will be a long and arduous road.

If this is a small country like North Korea, with the Huntelaar consortium in hand, John is confident that it will take him 30 years to develop into a truly developed country, but no one in China has the ability to do so! Even with the Great Depression and the Second Century War, John did not have the confidence.

The only thing he can do is to do his best!

Or rather......

"The rest of my life should be spent running schools and writing books."

After taking a deep breath, John pressed the bell button on the table, and then the butler who rushed in smiled slightly: "Prepare, we will leave Jingshi tomorrow......"

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On June 25, 1921, John? Huntelaar left Kyoshi.

Although the Chinese government tried to keep him, and Rockefeller Jr. strongly invited him to attend the opening ceremony of Union Medical College, after politely refusing all parties, John resolutely left Beijing and arrived in Taiyuan two days later.

He was greeted by Yan Xishan, another big figure in history.

These politicians, who claim to be able to dance on eggs, are still the helmsmen of Shanxi. It's just that in the situation of unification today, Yan Xishan didn't have any other thoughts, and honestly handed over the army and became the head of the administrative body thoroughly. However, this is also a good opportunity for Yan Xishan, and the unique shrewdness of Shanxi people makes it smooth for him to develop the economy, especially when the exploration team of the Huntelaar consortium found a large number of coal mines in Shanxi, and the whole province immediately became a cornucopia!

In this day and age, coal and steel represent wealth!

Shanxi, which already has a history of coal production, quickly became a major coal-producing province after a large investment by the Huntelaar consortium, and coal production began to rise rapidly. In 1920, Shanxi produced more than 3 million tons of coal, which has exceeded the level of 1934 in history!

But John knows that this is far from the limit of Shanxi.

Even if we don't talk about the shocking figures a hundred years later, let's just say that before 1949, Shanxi's daily annual output had exceeded 6 million tons at its peak, but later it fell back year after year due to war and other factors......

It only took one day for John and Yan Xishan to finalize the follow-up cooperation.

Huntelaar Bank will no longer invest directly in Shanxi's coal mines, but will provide a large number of loans and machinery and equipment, as well as the introduction of American coal mining technology. As for Shanxi, we will support the Huntelaar consortium in terms of railways and coal supply, and we will work together......

After seeing Yan Xishan, John couldn't wait to go to school.

He had no interest in the banquet with the Shanxi officials, and even for the things he talked about with Yan Xishan, John originally planned to hand them over to the people below. The only purpose for him to come to Shanxi was to see the Taiyuan Medical College that was about to open!

In John's plan, it would be a top medical school!

As a province in the northwest of China, Shanxi seems to be a forgotten corner of the country's neighbor Shaanxi Province. Shaanxi has a great influence of Xi'an, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an Medical University, Northwest University of Technology and other colleges and universities gathered, but Shanxi has no well-known school except for a Taiyuan engineering. Therefore, in this life, John made Taiyuan one of his top five medical schools!

Based on Taiyuan, radiating to the northwest.

As the parent official of Shanxi, Yan Xishan also seized this opportunity early, which can be said to be an all-round cooperation, giving land to land, and people to people, and finally making this university rise from the ground, and the school has even become one of the landmark buildings in Taiyuan City!

John's student Yan Fuqing was also waiting in Taiyuan for a long time......

"Not bad!"

Walking around the campus of Taiyuan Medical College, John nodded in satisfaction.

After a brief turn, John was satisfied with the hardware conditions. The final investment of Taiyuan Medical College is 4.5 million US dollars, although it is only half of that of Union Medical College, but in the preferential conditions of the Huntelaar consortium, such as cheap teaching equipment and even second-hand equipment, and a large number of teaching instruments donated by pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies, etc., plus located in Taiyuan, the final effect is not worse than that of Union Medical College, or even better!

Merely......

"Although the school is well built, the teachers are a little weak."

After reading the materials submitted by Yan Fuqing in the conference room, John couldn't help frowning.

"This ...... No way! ”

Smiling bitterly and shaking his head, Yan Fuqing sighed helplessly.

For an inland province, Taiyuan's attractiveness is too weak.

Since the start of the construction plan of China's medical education system a few years ago, Taiyuan Medical College has always been the most backward school. In the end, Yan Fuqing had to increase the salaries of teachers in various specialties of Taiyuan Medical College by one-third, and set conditions such as allocating housing and providing a BMW car, so as to attract enough talents......

"Okay!"

After a moment of silence, John nodded.

Of course, he knew Yan Fuqing's difficulties, and he also knew that if Shanxi's economic development was unsatisfactory in the future, no matter how big the investment was, it would be impossible for this school to really develop, and it would be comparable to the schools in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, and Hangzhou. Therefore, all they can do is lay a good foundation for the school, and they can only rely on themselves for how to develop in the future.

"In that case......"

After pondering for a long time, John finally couldn't help but speak: "Keqing, starting next year, the funding of the three schools in Taiyuan, Chongqing and Changsha will increase a little, don't you ...... The tentative price is $100,000 per family per year. All this money is used to improve the living standards of teachers, and it cannot be used for other purposes! ”

"Yes, sir."

Yan Fuqing was overjoyed and nodded hurriedly.

In the past few years, Yan Fuqing has been busy preparing for these medical schools, and it is clear that because Nanjing and Hangzhou are relatively economically developed, most international students are willing to go, but it is difficult to do so in the three inland cities. Now, with the $100,000 in additional grants, there can be at least $1,000 per teacher, which is a lot of money!

"Another ......"

After pondering for a while, John took a deep breath and said, "Go back and communicate with Mr. Yan Xishan to see if the other party is interested in setting up a university in Taiyuan?" The Huntelaar consortium is willing to assist them in preparing for a real university in addition to this medical school......"