Zhu Baosan, who is now 50 years old, openly operates cautiously and prudently, secretly cooperates with various money banks and foreign banks to jointly control the right to dismantle and release money houses in Shanghai, and even runs a complete set of tight network in the political and business circles of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Although his status is not a tycoon so far, it is only a stone's throw away.

That is, in 1898, he invested in the establishment of the Shanghai Financial Bank, and in the following days, he continued to open factories and steamship companies, and introduced the Ningbo Gang Consortium. In less than ten years, Zhu Baosan's assets and prestige have continued to rise, although he is not as good as the later Adege Yu Qiaqing, but he is also a famous tycoon on the beach. The reason why Yu Qiaqing is so prestigious is more because of his deep personal friendship with the revolutionary party, especially the bald Jiang. Really in terms of strength, the two are at most between the two.

More information about these two people, everyone can spend their mother, and I won't lie to the number of words here.

Zhu Baosan, who was dressed in a gray robe in front of him, did not look like a comprador who had been dealing with foreign companies for a long time, but more like a rural landlord. This may have something to do with the habits he has developed over the years.

Of course, Hu Xiaoyan didn't know that this person was the famous Zhu Baosan.

There are two people behind Zhu Baosan, one is an old man in a black robe who is older than Zhu Baosan, and the other is a comprador in a suit who is much younger.

"The young man is very insightful, I wonder if the little old man is lucky enough to have a drink and chat with him?" Zhu Baosan invited with a smile.

"I don't dare to be, it's an honor for the younger generations to be able to drink with the old gentleman." After he patted the three little guys on the shoulders, Hu Xiaoyan turned around and glanced at Wu Yi and Wu Dun. Then he followed the three of them into the private room.

The private room was empty, and there were not a few sips of wine and food. Hu Xiaoyan didn't dare to slack off, sat down to the bottom, and stayed with the younger comprador side. On the opposite side is Zhu Baosan.

Zhu Baosan raised several newspapers in his hand and sighed: "A century-old plan, education-oriented!" It really goes to our hearts. ”

The young comprador nodded and said: "In the past few years, I have seen the emergence of new machines from all over the world, and all kinds of new goods have appeared on the streets of Shanghai. However, the commodities of the Great Qing Kingdom have not changed for hundreds of years! How does this allow us to compete with foreigners? Shiyi's long skills are easy to do, and it is so simple to do. ”

The little old man in the black robe coughed: "Yes, the old man had the intention of opening a school before, and now it seems." This school really has to be run. ”

Zhu Baosan put down the newspaper: "Ye Lao, this school is also my share!" ”

The young comprador nodded: "Count me in!" ”

The three of them then looked at Hu Xiaoyan.

Hu Xiaoyan smiled bitterly, he had hundreds of years of cash in his body, but then he printed newspapers and books, and now he only had less than three hundred taels of silver on hand. But at this time, you can't show timidity.

"I'm also my share, but the problem of new education is not the school and the students, the key is the teacher." Hu Xiaoyan has long had a heart, and at this time, even if he sells his kidney, he has to participate in it.

"It's easy." Boss Ye waved his hand: "Little Lao'er has nothing else, but there is still a little bit of face." ”

Of course it's easy. Hu Xiaoyan smiled bitterly: "I understand what Ye Lao means. There are many Confucian teachers in China, but there are not many teachers of new natural sciences in China. Basic Mathematics, Basic Physics, Basic Chemistry, Basic Biology. These can also be recruited from overseas students. But more in-depth, such as electromagnetism, ballistic mechanics, metallurgical chemistry, etc., may have to be recruited from foreign universities. However, with the current situation in China, it is difficult to say whether there will be foreign university teachers willing to come. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Xiaoyan saw the other three people stunned, and couldn't help but be stunned, "Everyone, what is this?" ”

Ye Lao, who was at the top, waved his hand: "I don't understand a word of what you said." ”

Hu Xiaoyan was very helpless, the three people sitting here must be the leading figures in Shanghai's business community. This is for sure, it will not be ordinary people who can drink and eat with Zhu Baosan. Judging from the temperament of the three people alone, they know that it is not simple. So it was explained in detail.

Speaking of natural sciences such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, in fact, as early as the Ming Dynasty, it was introduced by missionaries, and during the Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor recruited missionaries as teachers to learn these Western knowledge, and developed the famous red-clothed general on the basis of the Ming Dynasty's general cannon. But Emperor Kangxi, who was a half-scientific generalist, only studied by himself, and had no intention of promoting it at all. So is Kangxi a fool? Obviously not, so he didn't realize the importance of these natural sciences for the development of firearms? Of course not. You must know that at that time, Emperor Kangxi led the most elite army in the country, the most powerful firearms unit, the Shenji Battalion, to attack a Russian governor in Far East Siberia, and he suffered heavy casualties. If it weren't for the limited number of troops at the disposal of the Russian Governor-General of the Far East, and the fact that the communication between Russia and the Far East was unchanged and difficult to support, the battle would have been lost. Hence the humiliating Treaty of Nebuchu. Many people say that the Treaty of Nebuchu is not a loss of power and humiliation of the country. Then please take a look at the Treaty of Nebuchu, and you must know that Kangxi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was the victorious side at that time. As a result, the Manchu ownership of Siberia was legally severed.

Kangxi would rather give up part of the territory to end the war, but the reason is that he can't fight anymore. Because he led the most elite troops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But the face was tightly pressed by the Russian governor of Siberia, but he suffered heavy casualties.

Did Kangxi, who was called the first emperor of the ages by the brick family call the beasts, vigorously developed firearms after returning to China? No! Why? Because at that time, the Manchu Qing had only a few million people, while the Han people had 200 million. And by what did the Manchus seize the world? Riding Kung Fu. If firearms were developed, would the most elite Mongol cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty be able to suppress the rebellion as they had fought against the Ming Dynasty in the past? When pigs fly!

The reason why Kangxi and later Qianlong Cixi did not develop firearms was to put an end to the possibility of the Han overthrowing the Manchu government. As Cixi said, "I would rather be with outsiders than domestic slaves!" "In the eyes of the Manchu government, the Han Chinese were just slaves. What Kangxi Qianlong said about the Manchu and Han families is true, of course they are a family, I am the master, and you are just a dog in my family. I didn't admit that you and I were "people" of the Manchu and Han families. No matter how fierce a foreigner is, he is also the same as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he is a human! You Han are just one of my dogs.

It was not until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used firearms to almost wipe out the Manchu regular army that there was a new army of firearms such as Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang. Only then did he become famous as a child studying in the United States.

And what is the fate of the children who studied in the United States? The Manchus recalled it ahead of schedule. These students did not complete their education at all. Only a handful stayed in the U.S. for work-study.

When these people returned to Japan, they did not receive the good fortune of their Japanese counterparts, they have been working on the front line, and none of them work in the education industry. This led to the complete failure of Rong Hong's strategy of rejuvenating the country through education at that time. It will also bury China's only chance to wake up. Almost all of the international students in the later period study at their own expense, and there are not many of them. Until the establishment of Beiyang.

This leads to the problem that China has little to no knowledge of scientific and technological developments abroad. It's like Zhang Zhidong was deceived. Jang Zhidong originally wanted to buy the production line of the latest Mauser rifles. But the most advanced rifle in Germany at that time was the 1888 Committee Type, but the 1888 Type was not a Mauser product. The broker posed as Mauser with a 1888 model. Zhang Zhidong believed it. Even the documents of the imperial court have grandiosely written the Model 1888 as a Mauser rifle.

Such a sum is almost exactly the same as the routine used by foreigners to deceive Chinese in the seventies and eighties of later generations. You have to admit that history is always strikingly similar.

Hu Xiaoyan explained slowly, and couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.

According to the meaning of Zhu Baosan and others. All they want to build is a school, that is, only to the level of junior high school in later generations. That's the matter of vision.

I think that in the face of pressure from the United States, Taizu will vigorously develop the country's nuclear weapons cause. Now think about how bold that is! Because China at that time was almost as poor as the Manchu Qing in 1898. Taizu's behavior is as ridiculous as Hu Xiaoyan's clamor for the development of nuclear weapons at this time.

But that's the vision and the courage. If it weren't for the nuclear force. Will the United States and Russia in later generations be so honest? Just a simple provocation in the South China Sea? I am afraid that it would have been like fighting Afghanistan and Iraq, and the army would have been sent to the city of Beijing long ago.

Therefore, once Hu Xiaoyan builds a school, he will never allow a junior high school to be built! Either you don't build it, you build it, you build it! A state-of-the-art university at the time! China doesn't have so much time to wait!

When Hu Xiaoyan finished talking about the simple application of applied mathematics, applied physical chemistry, etc., he gave an example.

It is said that Jang Zhidong decided to build the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant. He bought machinery and equipment from abroad and hired technicians from Europe and the United States. The iron works were soon built. As a result, no matter how you get it, the steel is not up to standard, and all that comes out is scrap steel. At that time, European and American technicians were just ordinary workers who maintained equipment, and there was nothing they could do about this situation. It wasn't until two or three years later that the question of what could be iron ore was raised. Zhang Zhidong had no choice but to let the iron ore go to the British laboratory for testing, and the results concluded: the iron ore has a high phosphorus content, and the equipment he bought is not suitable for this kind of ore at all! Zhang Zhidong had to spend a lot of money to renovate the smelting equipment of the whole plant again. And the purchase of high-quality coal solves this problem. Speaking of which, this small problem will be known in later generations, even a small private iron factory that is too small to be small. As a result, it stumped Zhang Zhidong, a quasi-first-class master! Is this question difficult? In fact, it is not difficult at all, and no matter which steel plant can quickly find and solve it in Europe and the United States. But! At that time, there were no laboratories in China, let alone talents in smelting chemistry.

Smelting chemistry is only a branch of applied chemistry, and there are thousands of people in this field in the United Kingdom and the United States. And China is zero.

In terms of applied physics, Europe and the United States, no matter which country, can pull out thousands of high-level talents at any time. And what about China? It's still zero.

Not to mention the deeper talent. The talent gap in the Chinese is too big. This is simply not something that can be solved in a few years. It has been nearly 30 years since Japan's reforms. According to the growth rate of a batch of talents in ten years. Japan already has at least 20 batches of graduating international students, each of which has at least 1,000 international students. These international students have educated at least 20 batches of senior students in domestic universities. The number of these students is at least measured in 10,000.

So Japan is more advanced than China. It is not for nothing that Japan was able to beat China to the point of almost destroying the country.

Some say that China in this period had much more weapons and more troops than Japan. At this time, China's defeat to Japan on the Korean battlefield was a big mistake, indicating that the Manchu army was rotten from top to bottom. And so on and so forth, and so on, it doesn't have much to do with technology.

However, those who hold this view forget one point. At that time, the weapon used by the Japanese army was a Murata-style rifle. The Murata rifle is unfamiliar. But no one should know about the 38 big cover. The Murata rifle was the predecessor of the 38 Dagai, and the propellant he used was the most advanced smokeless gunpowder. At that time, the weapon propellant used by the Qing army was still a black powder weapon.

Think about it. The Japanese could fire at 500 meters. And the Qing army opened fire from 200 meters away, and the hit rate still depended on the will of heaven. Similarly, the Japanese artillery shells were smokeless gunpowder, while the Qing army's was still black gunpowder. How should this battle be fought?

The war of 1898 was already an early modern war. Modern warfare is fought with comprehensive national strength!

The Japanese army had its own universities, research institutes. China does not!

Tens of thousands of students in the Japanese army are undergoing modern education. China does not!

How to fight this battle?

The further back it was, the more obvious the advantage of the Japanese army became. Until the period of the Anti-Japanese War. It is not for nothing that the army of the Republic of China is about to collapse at the touch of the Japanese army many times.

The great man said that science and technology are the primary productive forces! This is even more important for the state.