Zhu Jinglun personally grasped the specific agreement with the Swedes on educational cooperation, and he made several requests to the Swedes:

First, he hoped that the Swedes would send real educational talents, not some adventurers with no experience. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThese real educators must have experience in education in Sweden, and they must have the enthusiasm and ideal practitioners of education, and they must be willing to dedicate themselves to the cause of education in a distant country.

In layman's terms, Zhu Jinglun hopes to recruit some educators from Sweden with a real sense of mission to really help him improve the current education system.

Second, what Zhu Jinglun needs is a complete education system from primary school to university, and he hopes that Sweden will send people from all aspects, from government-level education administrators to primary, secondary, and university teachers.

The talents in Zhu Jinglun's hands can be said to be poor and white, and there is no one who can get hold of them for the time being. In particular, they are extremely unfamiliar with the West, and even if they can find a group of old masters who are enthusiastic about education from the countryside, they simply do not have the experience and knowledge to build a complete education system. Even if he had this ability, he didn't dare to use it for the government officials of the Manchu court, and educating a group of literati who were keen on being officials in the imperial examination could only make him cry and laugh.

Third, Zhu Jinglun proposed that Guangdong would not interfere with the freedom of belief of all the personnel sent by Sweden, but hoped that they would not make missionary work their work.

It's not that Zhu Jinglun is biased against religion, but that China is a traditional Confucian society, and he doesn't mind cultural mixing, but he is worried that an explosive culture shock in the short term will bring serious social problems. If these teachers continue to preach, it is estimated that few families will be willing to send their children to school. Moreover, the local forces are definitely opposed, and it is not possible for a monster of cultural hybridization like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to break out, but for such a thing as destroying the school, Zhu Jinglun believes that the ignorant rural peasants did it.

Another point is that Zhu Jinglun is unwilling to pay a high salary, not because he can't afford it, but because he sees that the psychological imbalance of Chinese employees caused by the exceptionally high salary for foreigners is a blow to cultural self-confidence in the long run. Later, when Zhan Tianyou hired Chinese engineers, he would definitely follow the same salary standard as foreign engineers, which was based on this consideration.

Now Zhu Jinglun has discovered that in the customs presided over by Hurd, there is a state of inferiority of Chinese employees, so he asked Hurd to change. To learn from this experience, of course, we must guard against microaggressions, and from the very beginning, we must not allow foreigners to get much higher wages than Chinese.

As for whether this will not invite people, Zhu Jinglun is not in a hurry, he knows that there are a large number of people with a sense of mission in the West, and they are willing to dedicate themselves to various causes, but money may not be able to impress them. There are many such people in Sweden, and Zhu Jinglun knows an example of a Swedish explorer Heyerdahl who set out from Peru in South America with five friends and took a raft for 101 days to reach the Polynesian islands in the South Pacific, nearly 8,000 kilometers away, in order to prove that South Americans migrated from the central part of the Pacific Ocean.

Obviously, this kind of person can't be for money, and the motive of money can't convince them to play so hard.

Of course, without a high salary, it is certainly impossible to recruit enough talents soon, anyway, Zhu Jinglun is not in a hurry, even if he comes to a set of education systems all at once, he will not be able to get qualified students to study, in terms of governing the country, his concept is that it is better to be conservative.

Zhu Jinglun did not lie to Wallenberg, he did talk to the Americans, even if the United States is still at war, the Americans are still very interested, historically, in the development of Western education in China, the Americans have always been ahead of other countries, and there are more Americans running schools in China than other countries combined.

The United States is a country with strong psychological motivations when it comes to exporting American education, and the United States is a nascent country eager to show the world their civilization.

Later, when the Koreans transformed into a Christian civilization, the most enthusiastic missionaries sent to the world became Koreans, and Korea at that time was the only one who dared to send Christian missionaries to a Middle Eastern country like Afghanistan.

The Americans showed great enthusiasm, but they were resolutely opposed to Zhu Jinglun's request that he not be allowed to preach, which they considered a form of cultural discrimination.

In this era, the Americans who built schools in China were basically missionaries, and their funds were all provided by the church, and the biggest purpose of their establishment of schools was to preach, and it was indeed very difficult to disagree with them if they were not allowed to preach.

But Zhu Jinglun was very insistent, he told the Americans that this is not a cultural exchange, but a government-to-government cooperation, we need people who understand the knowledge of Western natural sciences, the government and religion cannot be entangled, if the Americans want to proselytize, in the provisions of the treaty, they can freely do so at the trade port.

In the end, the Americans accepted this request, and the U.S. government behaved quite magnificently, saying that they did not need Guangdong to pay their employees' salaries, and that the U.S. government was willing to bear it with one effort, just a thousand teachers, and the United States is such a huge country, it can still afford it.

But Zhu Jinglun insisted on this, he said that the US government is willing to pay additional subsidies to their volunteers, and he will not interfere, but this money they must pay after these people return to China, and these people are in Guangdong, the Guangdong government will pay their salaries according to China's wage standards, and the current salary of 5 taels of silver a month is already considered a high salary.

An agreement was reached to hire 1,000 educators from Sweden and the United States, and it was believed that a small education system could be initially established.

In fact, it is estimated that the efficiency of cooperation with Prussia is higher, because the system of school education and the system of training students in batches was invented by the Prussians, and this kind of system in which a large group of students sit among the teachers, are educated by professional teachers, and cultivate talents like mechanized production of workpieces, is indeed very attached to Prussia, a military and cultural country.

Therefore, when Prussia created this system in the 18th century, it did not educate students who could think independently, but concocted a large number of loyal and manageable citizens, to put it bluntly, to train the king with highly obedient reserve soldiers, but objectively improved the level of education in Prussia in an all-round way.

Of course, the problem of rigidity is also very serious, Britain has always adhered to the aristocratic education, by a well-informed tutor to teach one or two or three children a variety of cultural knowledge, mainly humanities, such as various languages, Latin, French, Russia also upholds this educational concept, the educated students have a more warm family concept, but can not be widely promoted, can not provide sufficient talents for industrialization.

Zhu Jinglun also likes this kind of tutor system, but obviously this does not meet the requirements of modern society, the British family has a deep background, and it is impossible to complete compulsory education in this way, and Russia is even more disturbed by this educational concept, and has not solved the problem of education for a long time, resulting in the backwardness of the entire national cultural level, and finally being overtaken by the rising star Japan.

Therefore, this kind of aristocratic education was not in the scope of Zhu Jinglun's consideration at all, and he could only choose the Prussian-style school system, where teachers of different specialties taught knowledge to as many students as possible.

In fact, traditional Chinese education, whether it is a private school or an official school, is also similar to this kind of tutor system, a teacher will teach a group of students, for many years, teach writing this year, teach composition next year, teach poetry the year after, no teacher's educational philosophy is different, teaching methods and teaching levels are not the same, resulting in many famous teachers can cultivate many famous disciples, and most students are mediocre.

But the rash introduction of the Western school system, Zhu Jinglun is most worried about the interference of this group of old masters in the countryside, these people are often social pillars in the rural society, with high social status and prestige, many of them are the local gentry class, once they get in touch, they really have the ability to destroy the school established by Zhu Jinglun.

Zhu Jinglun's plan is to attract them to enter the academy and let the old masters teach on the same stage as Western teachers, one to teach Chinese classical humanities, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, and other moral culture, and the other to teach mathematics, geometry, physics and chemistry and other natural science knowledge, so that the two will not hinder each other, and hope that they can get along in harmony.

These are all issues that will only be considered later, and Sweden and the United States will not be able to send educational personnel for a while, and what Zhu Jinglun needs to seriously consider now is the question of the departure and retention of those Swedish consultants who have been working in Guangdong for three years.

Staying must have wanted them to stay, but these people came to make money at the beginning, they have earned enough money now, and it is not easy to let them stay, at least the attraction of money is no longer enough, even if they can still be attracted by money, the price Zhu Jinglun has to pay will be extremely high.

What makes Zhu Jinglun's head the most big is the Nobel Prize that he has the most high hopes for, even if this guy is at a high cost, he will not accept it, what he wants to do is his personal career.

Seeing that the contract period was coming to an end, Nobel, who had accumulated thousands of taels of money in three years, united a few like-minded friends, who planned to open a factory in Guangdong, and set their eyes on Zhu Jinglun's army, Nobel hoped that Zhu Jinglun's army would use one of his inventions, and if the deal was reached, he would open a factory and immediately put it into production, just like he did in Russia. (To be continued.) )