At the end of June 1908, more than 80 students returned from New York. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to the more than forty people who were invited by John to attend the meeting, more than forty others attended another meeting organized by John. Most of them went through four years of training at an American-style university, and then interned at various factories under the Huntelaar consortium before choosing to leave. However, unlike the former, the forty-odd people were judged by the factory supervisors to be unfit for management work, so John had no intention of sponsoring them.

For these people, John had other plans.

Compared with other contemporaries of the study abroad elite, although this group of people is not as good as other students, but in terms of personal quality and knowledge, they are much better than others, after all, not everyone is qualified to study in the top universities in the United States, and then study in the world's top companies, and those people will pass on their experience without reservation. So it took two days for John to finally convince these enthusiastic young people one by one to choose a different path - teaching.

More than eighty people, like more than eighty flames!

John wasn't sure how many of these people would succeed and whether they would be able to make their name in early 20th-century China, but he still didn't hesitate to come up with a huge amount of money for them to try and develop! Of the $10 million, which was specially prepared for Han Yeping, John didn't know if his plan would succeed, but he did not hesitate to use $10 million to try it for the sake of China's largest steel conglomerate. And the remaining millions of dollars, John is preparing for the more than 40 people, including many more returning students in the future, who will be provided with ample start-up capital.

Next, it's a matter of waiting patiently.

If history had not been influenced by John, and there had been no deviation, the Xinhai Revolution would have broken out in three and a half years, and by that time, the Huntelaar consortium's investment in China would have exceeded $20 million, and the number of students returning to China would probably exceed 1,000! If you add Rong Hong and the gentry who united with him, plus Yuan Datou, who has cooperated, and the revolutionary party that he once funded, there is no doubt that this will be a huge force!

Controlling China or something is, but it's enough to do a lot of things.

Education, industry, and health care, this is where John thinks he can do something for China. Needless to say, he can only pin his hopes on these returning international students, as for medical treatment, he can't be in a hurry, after all, it is not so easy for Chinese in this era to accept modern medicine, just look at Edward who is struggling in Changsha? Hu Mei knows. So according to John's plan, the past few years are just a time to sprinkle some fire, for example, after sending Yan Fuqing, send the next few international students to study medicine to those cities that he planned, open clinics first to lay a good foundation, and wait a few more years for the start of fanfare......

The only thing that really made John go all out right now was education!

John has already started to run education in China, and has invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. By June 1908, the Huntelaar consortium had built three universities, eleven technical schools, forty-one primary schools, nineteen middle schools and eleven university preparatory schools in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai!

Of course, this is just the beginning.

After the initial hardships, these schools are now largely in form. Of course, the scale may be a little unsatisfactory, for example, there are more than 40 primary schools, and the largest number of students is only about 300, and most of the others are around 100 students. Another example is the three universities, the largest number of students is now only 500, which is a far cry from John's expectations. However, considering the lack of domestic talents in this era, it is impossible to find enough qualified teachers at once, and people's acceptance of these new things is limited, so it is already very good to have today's scale. You know, if it weren't for John's use of free lunches and other means to attract people, those elementary schools would probably enroll fewer students!

The only thing that makes people happy is the eleven technical schools.

Tuition fees are extremely low, ensuring that a significant number of urban children can afford to study, and more importantly, after graduating from technical school, they are allocated to work directly in the companies owned by the Huntelaar consortium - even if these companies are not officially in operation, but with Yung Hong's assurance, no one will doubt this.

The high expected salary attracts a large number of young people to enroll.

The number of students in 11 technical schools has exceeded 2,000, and the first batch of more than 200 will graduate this year. And with the return of more than 80 people, with the help of Huntelaar Bank, to take over the factories that have already been built or will be built soon, these students will be able to find jobs and earn at least twice as much as other local factories!

John believes that savvy Chinese can easily calculate the gains and losses.

Therefore, under John's order, more than ten technical schools began to be built in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Teachers were chosen from more than 40 returning international students or simply recruited locally, and the funding was solely handled by Bank Huntelaar. In these years, it doesn't cost much money to build a technical school, and it is very cheap to buy land and build a house, the key is the teachers and teaching machines. However, John has already built a machine factory in Shanghai, and invests a portion of the money every year to provide sufficient equipment for all technical schools.

In the past two years, John's cost will be greatly reduced.

But in the next few years, John had to slow down the pace of opening schools. After all, the fall of the Qing Dynasty is imminent, and no one dares to say whether it will be earlier or later. So in the past two years, his support for the revolutionary party has begun to semi-openly.

With the fall of the Qing government imminent, and the fact that Rong Hong and the Huntelaar Bank had also gained a firm foothold in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, John no longer had to think too much about the so-called influence, so he began to increase aid to that gentleman and other revolutionary parties in the past two years. It's just that the aid is no longer based on money, but a lot of explosives, rifles and bullets! Especially explosives, John used the excuse that it was better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, so he sent capable men to learn the technology hard, and in just three years, he trained hundreds of talents, enough to build an explosives factory in China.

At the same time, Huntelaar banking and Yuan Datou were also in contact.

They did not give direct assistance to Yuan Datou, but they gave the best conditions for arms sales and short-term loans. Especially for the schools that Beiyang itself has built, Huntelaar Bank has frequently hired the most suitable teachers for them, or purchased the best teaching equipment, which has greatly increased the Beiyang Department's goodwill towards Huntelaar Bank. In particular, compared with the expensive and chaotic arms trade of other countries, the quality of the products of the Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company has never been discounted, and the prices are also very low......

Grasping the revolutionary party with one hand and Beiyang with the other, John did not let go of any of them.

Of course, the most important thing for him is the cooperation between Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Rong Hong, the three universities and more technical schools have begun to receive continuous financial support, and the enrollment scale has continued to expand, while the low tuition fees have not increased at all. Even the modern elementary and junior high schools they have built have never stopped having free lunches.

Students who graduate from this place will be placed in the best possible way.

Before these students in the United States returned, John had already begun to build various factories in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the most common were textile factories and flour mills, followed by soda ash factories, dye companies, etc., as well as the most basic match factories, soap factories, and so on. After enrolling a large number of students from the technical school in advance, some of these factories have even begun small-scale production, waiting for John's students to return to receive them......

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How useful is the vision beyond the times?

In fact, if a person is still in another era, even if he is a time-traveler, full of scientific and technological knowledge, and at the same time knows the direction of all historical events, it may not be easy to achieve success. Especially for an ordinary person like John, if he hadn't invested in Tesla, would he have been able to make that old-fashioned AC motor or radio himself? Without investing in Bentz, how many modern people can build the simplest cars? If it weren't for the old Huntelaar behind him, would he have been able to escape the monopoly giants of this dark age? I don't know how many years ago, he was swallowed by Morgan and others.

From 1879 to 1908, John spent a full thirty years accumulating on his own.

And in 1911, when Xinhai was getting closer and closer, John's arrangements in China became more and more frequent. Although the investment has been reduced considerably, under his instructions, the bank has strengthened its ties with all parties. I don't want to get any preferential treatment in the future, but at least I can't be restricted...... (To be continued.) )