July 1906, Far East. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In that year, dozens of so-called uprisings took place in the land of the Qing Dynasty, but all of them were suppressed because they were too small or not well organized. However, anyone with a little vision can see that the days of the Qing Dynasty are not long. Therefore, more people began to contact the revolutionary party, more families chose to send their children to study abroad, and of course the Qing government could also plan the so-called "preparatory constitutional" farce.

The rule of the Qing Dynasty was already shaky.

At a time when the land of China is in a state of panic, in the four cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Changsha, there are a small group of people who ignore the disturbances of the outside world and do what they think is right.

Three universities, one college, and one clinic have caused quite a stir in four cities.

In 1905, three universities were established in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, and the first students were enrolled. Behind the three universities is the famous Huntelaar Bank, which has flourished in Shanghai in recent years and is now the largest bank in the Far East. And because this American bank treats Chinese very kindly, does business in a proper manner, has an excellent reputation, plus they have cooperated with Rong Hong for many years to sponsor international students to study in the United States and Germany, and have also gained an excellent reputation. Therefore, even if the anti-American voices in China were loud last year because the Americans extended the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act, it did not affect the bank's reputation.

So like the previous elementary, middle, high school, and prep schools, the enrollment of the three universities is very smooth.

300 college students were enrolled, starting the best university hardware and faculty in China in this era. Needless to say on the hardware, in John? At the request of Mr. Huntelaar, the three universities are among the top in China in this era, whether it is classrooms, laboratories, school buildings, office buildings or even restaurants. As for the professors in the school, half of them are Americans hired with high salaries, and half of them are Chinese who studied abroad in the past few years, and with many teaching materials published by Huntelaar Press, the three universities that have just been established for one year immediately showed super strength!

So by the time of the second session in July 1906, the admissions office was overcrowded.

With the strong support of Huntelaar Bank, each school has doubled its enrollment this year, which is a total of 600 places. However, the number of people who flocked to sign up reached more than 3,000, which was far from meeting the requirements. You must know that according to the admissions standards of the three universities, those who dare to sign up are not ordinary people, and it is a pity that they can't go to school.

Fortunately, at this time, several other schools began to enroll.

In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Bank of Huntelaar has built four more technical schools. The duration of study is three years, and the tuition fee is only half of that of the three universities, including basic room and board. And more importantly, as long as you successfully graduate from these four technical schools, you can find a job with enough salary to make life easy for the family!

It's a promise, and every school has guaranteed it.

Perhaps for most wealthy children, it is impossible to give up college and go to technical school, but for most civilian children, there is nothing unacceptable about going to technical school. Moreover, the requirements for technical schools are very low, and you can apply for the examination after graduating from primary school, which attracts a large number of civilian children to enroll.

Four technical schools with an enrollment of more than 300 students.

The scale must have been smaller, but all the teachers were students from the United States and China, and a large number of the world's most advanced machines arrived in Shanghai from the United States at the end of June, and then distributed to various technical schools. Although they are all second-hand goods, they are all good things in China, and such conditions are good even in the United States.

For these four technical schools, Huntelaar Bank invested large sums of money.

And that's not all, according to the plan of the Huntelaar Bank, it will continue to recruit teachers and buy machines, so as to expand the scale of the Si Si Technical School, and the number of students will at least double next year. Moreover, there are six technical schools under construction in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which can be enrolled next year at the earliest and the year after next at the latest.

From primary school to university, from preparatory schools to technical schools, a huge education system has gradually taken shape in Jiangsu and Zhejiang......

While building the education system, the banking industry of Huntelaar has not forgotten another thing.

From 1905 to the end of 1906, the Huntelaar Bank, in conjunction with the Huntelaar Publishing House, donated $400,000 worth of books to China. Among them, the book "Mandarin and Hanyu Pinyin" alone has given away more than 300,000 copies! With the exception of the Huntelaar system's schools, which were all required to study this book, almost all of the other 80,000 books were shipped to the Gyeonggi region and donated to the Mandarin Kindergarten School in the north.

It's all free, and it's definitely a big deal.

At the same time, tens of thousands of primary school textbooks and thousands of junior and senior high school textbooks were also given away, and these books were mainly sent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and a large number of church schools or modern schools run by Chinese themselves chose this set of textbooks. The teaching materials specially compiled for the Chinese are simple and easy to understand, which greatly reduces the difficulty of Chinese people learning the basics of modern science. And it is matched with a large number of teaching experimental instruments, with the number of one set per school, Huntelaar Bank donated more than 200 sets, worth more than 40,000 US dollars......

These unrequited acts of kindness have earned Huntelaar Bank a great deal of prestige!

After several wars, the Chinese have a very bad impression of the "ghosts". They fear foreigners on the one hand, and hate foreigners on the other, and what Huntelaar Bank does is undoubtedly unusual, unique among many foreign banks in Shanghai, which naturally arouses the favor of Chinese.

Therefore, taking this opportunity, Huntelaar Publishing House became famous.

In addition to textbooks, those books that can open Chinese people's eyes to the world have caused a sensation in society. Compared with the books translated by the Chinese, these books are written in a text similar to the vernacular, which is more simple and easy to understand, and more importantly, these books are not only closer to the trend of the times, but also most of them are accompanied by simple illustrations, such as the latest cars, radio technology, etc., which are more vivid, intuitive, and easier to understand.

So in just two years, more than 100,000 copies of these books were sold, and the profits just earned back the gift of "Mandarin and Hanyu Pinyin......

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Just when the education system of Huntelaar was developing in an all-round way and gradually affecting Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in Shanghai and Changsha, two other people were also working hard.

In October 1906, the opening ceremony of the German Medical Hall in Shanghai was held.

Erich Paulon accepted John? With Mr. Huntelaar's sponsorship, the predecessor of Tongji University was launched a year ahead of schedule, and it received strong support from top German universities such as the University of Berlin. With funding from the Bank of Huntelaar, four German medical schools, including the University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg, will send young students to China every year to assist Baolong in teaching.

In the same year, a small Western medicine clinic in Changsha opened.

Edward? Hume...... No, Edward? Hu Mei became the head of the small clinic. Also because of John? With Mr. Huntelaar's help, the small clinic was built to a high standard and was equipped with a large number of advanced equipment, such as X-ray machines and electrocardiograms. And in order to meet Hu Mei's needs, John also sent him a large amount of medicine at one time for him to use for free.

Merely......

In Changsha in this era, it is not easy for a foreigner, or a Western doctor, to treat people.

Not much to say about the attack of Chinese medicine, the vast majority of Chinese cannot understand Western medicine, or strictly speaking modern medicine. So after no one came to the door for a week, Hu Mei had to go to the streets by herself. In recent years, there are many patients in China with an average life expectancy of more than 30 years, and many of them are the kind of lesions that are directly on the face and neck, so Hu Mei simply found these people, went up to hold each other, and said that she wanted to give people free diagnosis and treatment.

The legend of a crazy ghost guy spread in Changsha City...... (To be continued.) )