CHAPTER XXIII
"At the end of the day, you still have to work hard to make money!"
After sending Rong Hong away, John couldn't help but sigh after a while, and a sense of urgency rose inexplicably. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The agreement with Yung Hong is actually very simple, the other party helps him carefully select children about ten years old in China, send them to the United States for training in Chinese New Year's Eve. During this period, John was responsible for all expenses, but it was up to him to decide how and how to teach these children, and Yung Hong only had the right to supervise. After three years, if all goes well, the number will be increased according to John's request, and there will be no cap......
One Chinese New Year's Eve, ten years is three hundred!
Not to mention how ambitious John is in the future, even if he has thirty children in a Chinese New Year's Eve, it will be three hundred in ten years, and the annual expenses will be at least 100,000 US dollars! This is still taking into account the premise that John plans to build a special school, which can save a lot of expenses after a one-time investment, otherwise it will be at least two or three times more! At that time, it was a state act of the Qing government to study in the United States, and now John personally has to afford a larger scale of study abroad, and the pressure can be imagined.
Fortunately, listening to Rong Hong's meaning, there is not necessarily no money at all in the country.
Now that the First Sino-Japanese War has been defeated, there has already been an uproar in China, coupled with the accumulation of the Westernization Movement in the past few years, the Chinese people are not as resistant to studying abroad as they were when they were young children in the United States. If we wait until the Eight-Nation Coalition enters Beijing, many people of insight will even sponsor outstanding talents in the countryside and neighbors to go out. So before leaving, Rong Hong also patted his chest, saying that as long as John planned all the matters of international students, he would try his best to help in China, and strive to make John lose less.
John had no doubts about this.
Yung Hong is a true patriot, so even if John makes it clear that he will be responsible for all students' study abroad expenses, he will try his best to find a way to solve it. After all, John is taking money privately, and whoever dares to guarantee that others will always be the culprits of this wronged person - in Yung Hong's view, the conditions proposed by John, that is, the conditions that the students must work in the Huntelaar family's Chinese industry for ten years after graduation, are really nothing......
"Take as much as you can bring out!"
Thinking of the calamities of China in the coming decades, John quickly made up his mind. The money he earns in this world is not to mention a lifetime, even if it is spent in a hundred lifetimes, the rest of the dollar for him is just a digital meaning. What if you can use money to accumulate some vitality for China, even if you spend more?
What's more, in a hundred years, who will be better at making money than John?
This has nothing to do with personal ability or knowledge, the key lies in the vision beyond the times, such as the automobile industry that is about to explode after the new century, such as penicillin, which is more expensive than gold, and then the future economic crisis and two world wars, etc., with the identity of an American, John can completely grab jaw-dropping wealth......
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"Your letter, sir!"
As soon as John walked into the office, the secretary rushed in with an excited face: "It's from England......"
"Miss Lily!"
Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, John turned his head helplessly and said, "I think I've told you several times, unless it's a special person or something, look for me in the afternoon, have you forgotten?" ”
Blinking, Miss Lily exclaimed, "Of course I do, sir!" But...... The letter was written by Miss Florence Nightingale! “
Nightingale...... Miss? ”
John was stunned when he heard the name, but immediately reacted.
Miss Florence Nightingale!
He finally understood why Miss Lily was so excited, and he couldn't wait for the letter to be delivered directly in the afternoon!
Florence Nightingale, recognized as a pioneer of nursing, the founder of modern nursing, and the Virgin Mary in the hearts of all nurses in later generations. One hundred years later, International Nurses Day is celebrated on Nightingale's birthday, and the highest award in the international nursing community is the Nightingale Award!
In this era, Nightingale is likewise one of the heroines of the Western world!
For ordinary people, Nightingale's most talked about is undoubtedly during the Crimean War, when she and 38 nurses went to work in the Crimean field hospital and became the head nurse of the hospital, known as the "Angel of Crimea" or "Angel of the Lantern". At the same time, Nightingale established the world's first nursing school, and graduates went on to establish more nursing schools in Europe, the Americas, and Asia......
Nightingale, who has never been married all her life, is a well-deserved number one person in the history of nursing.
But......
"What are you doing writing letters to yourself, this big man?"
While feeling a little surprised, John reached out and took the letter from Miss Lily's hand, then nodded and smiled: "Okay, thank you, if there is nothing else, you can go out first!" ”
"Sir...... This is Miss Nightingale's letter! ”
It seemed that she was a little dissatisfied with John's indifferent attitude, and Miss Lily, who had always been cautious, had the audacity to say more.
"Huh?"
Frowning, John said in a deep voice with a little displeasure: "I know whose letter this is, do you have anything else?" ”
"I didn't ...... Without. Sorry sir! ”
Sensing the displeasure in John's tone, Miss Lily suddenly shuddered, and quickly shook her head and went out.
"It looks like his secretary is a Nightingale fan?"
Narrowing his eyes slightly, John chuckled and opened the letter in his hand. As a physician, he certainly had a lot of respect for the originator of modern nursing, but the more time he came to this era, the more things he learned, and the more he saw things on the Internet in his previous life, John's reverence for many celebrities slowly diminished.
Among them is Miss Nightingale.
There is no doubt that Nightingale was a great woman who pioneered modern nursing while single-handedly advancing nursing education. She made low-status nurses a noble profession and greatly promoted the development of nursing. But at the same time, there is no escaping the fact that Nightingale has reluctantly become an idol on the way to the expansion of the British Empire! Under the strong push of the empire on which the sun never sets, Nightingale became a symbol that represented much more than the name itself.
This irrefutable fact made John uncontrollable disgusted.
For example, the Crimean War, which made Nightingale famous, was actually a colonial war between Britain and France and Russia for the Balkans; For example, in the decades that followed, Nightingale's attention to India was the biggest jewel in the crown of the British Queen! It can be said that Nightingale's road to fame is actually the glorious road of the British Empire!
And after really studying history, you will find that Nightingale is not as perfect professionally as in the history books.
In the Crimean War, the mortality rate at Scutari's hospital rose after the arrival of Nightingale, who mistakenly believed that the sick and wounded were undernourished, and it was not until the sanitary environment of the hospital was radically improved. For example, when it comes to cholera, Nightingale believes that cholera, which has endangered countless lives in India, is not an infectious disease, and there is no need to waste medical resources on research, nor does it need to isolate patients, because her high prestige has even influenced the development of modern experimental research on cholera to a certain extent......
All kinds of regrets made John a little uninterested in this lady.
Of course, John himself knew that this idea was a bit biased, after all, in this era, Nightingale was inevitably limited by this era, which could not be changed by man. If you look at it from a personal point of view, Nightingale's greatness is actually not much to question, but ......
"Forget it, why do you want to do so much?"
Shaking his head with a wry smile, John quickly put his boredom aside and began to read the letter in his hand carefully.
The letter was long, six pages long, and the writing was so neat that John seemed effortless. However, the content surprised John, not long ago after the spread of cholera was determined in Europe, he published a relevant paper for the first time, and Nightingale, who saw the paper, wrote a letter to Huntelaar in New York for the first time...... (To be continued.) )