Chapter 184: The Political Path of the Academic Elite (Part II)
Although Nanyang is a hot land, but the population is sparse, and the number of voters who have the right to elect county councilors at the grassroots level is even more pitiful, and only 40,000 people in the entire New World Governorate have the right to vote, so it can be said that there are only 8 county-level councilors under a senator, is this proportion the highest? No, there are even fewer but more partial-looking territories! A Singapore has only 3,000 people, and there is a senator seat in a place with big eyes, because its administrative level is equivalent to a province in the empire, and the least populous province in the mainland, Yinxia Province in the northwest, has a population of 3 million (after the destruction of Western Xia, its territory was changed to three provinces, the capital of Bianxia Province was Guazhou, the capital of Hexia Province Xingqing Province is Yinchuan, and the capital of Suxia Province was Ganzhou, which was originally only 2 million in the entire Western Xia, but within a few years moved in millions of Han people on the Loess Plateau for assimilation).
Political speculation is to dare to endure hardship, and only by suffering first can we be sweet. When the fledgling colony has good performance, it will naturally attract the attention of the top management more quickly. In order to gain a foothold in Nanyang, Zhang Jun sold almost all his family property and exchanged all the land for the most promising coastal port construction area in Nanyang in the future. All the surplus money is used to recruit immigrants from the country to enrich the areas where they work, develop the economy and develop resources in exchange for political achievements and wealth.
After 1949, Zhang Jun, who was successful in political speculation, successfully ran for senator as the mayor of Singapore, and became a legislator as he wished. After all, in just three years, an upstart with no foundation has become a powerful 200 (168 million people in the country. There are more than 30 provinces, and each province allocates seats according to its population, and hundreds of thousands of fractions of less than one million are not counted as one seat. That is, 160 seats, four governors of the four governors of more than one million governors, one seat for each of the largest snakes in the eighteen metropolises, two seats in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, three in Singapore, Colombo and Socotra, and the rest are all fixed positions in the academic world that influence national policies, most of them are the most famous doctoral supervisors of various universities or academicians of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. It is an important intellectual resource of the Senate and a member of the Standing Committee of the Supreme Academic Council, independent of government agencies and parliament, at the same level as the various committees of the Imperial Senate. One of the people who controls almost all the media and public opinion power in the empire, it is really extremely eye-catching.
His credit is also beyond words, in just a few years, with his professional and academic strength. With the joint efforts of many students and juniors, a star map of the southern hemisphere was drawn. He completed the compilation of the nautical charts of the entire South China Sea region, opened up 14 important sea routes, built more than 200 lighthouses and more than 20 important resource ports, and most importantly, he turned Singapore, a supply port for military purposes, into a material distribution center for the entire South Seas, which reached the level of the port of Malacca in the 18th century, with more than 1,300 ships calling and passing through the port every year (the tonnage of merchant ships that can sail through the ocean is not small), and establishing the world's largest spice trade market and futures market. It contributes a lot to the maintenance costs of naval garrisons and military bases, so it has a good popularity and reputation in the military and business circles. It is deeply valued by the people who like to promote talents.
In 1952, Zhang Jun left Nanyang and became one of the five Standing Committee members of the Senate Colonial Affairs Committee, he was not only the youngest member of the Council, the youngest member, but also the youngest member of the Standing Committee, when he was only 32 years old, and he was only 8 years old when he entered the 3rd year of the Yuan Yu that had just been established in Chenji Academy. It truly embodies the phrase 'youth is capital' in the political arena.
In addition to the avenue of learning and excellence, those who engage in academics can also pass through in-depth academics and climb to the top of society. Another student who is similar to Zhang Jun has also become a star among many senators, he is Shen Jie, who created miracles in theoretical science, Shen Kuo's grandson shines in the choice of examination or special recruitment as soon as he enters the academy, Liu Xin, the person in charge of the School of Mathematics and Physics, who originally arranged for him to enter the special recruitment, found that the grandson of this great god has strong creativity after in-depth conversation and assessment, and almost has the same quirks as Tesla, the god king respected by many great gods in later generations, not good at sociability, indifferent to fame and fortune, pure heart and few desires, Often pay attention to reading books, forgetting to sleep and eating. Within a few months, he completed almost all university courses, mastered almost all mathematics and physics before the Industrial Revolution in Europe, and successfully became the youngest textbook editor and professor in the academy, helping to share a large number of insufficient knowledge accumulation between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, and directly leaping into the crisis of the Industrial Revolution. He took the initiative to put forward many theories to cover up the shortcomings of the golden finger of the cross-public opening technology without theoretical support.
For example, how did the huge synthetic ammonia tower of the fertilizer plant that was directly launched not find that ammonia can be prepared from nitrogen and hydrogen? Under the premise that the air composition has not yet been discovered and named, how did the crossing make modern equipment with advanced technology for the production of fertilizers from natural gas? Shen Jie, who has made great contributions to mathematics, physics, and chemistry, has undoubtedly become a provider of theories. He named almost all known elements in nature according to the preferences of the traversal people (undiscovered radioactive elements and rare earths have not yet been named), completed the preliminary research and application of linear algebra and calculus, deduced Kepler's three laws through observation, discovered vacuum and atmospheric pressure, manufactured high-pressure liquefaction equipment, and pioneered medicinal chemistry and metallurgical chemistry after accumulating, analyzing and sorting out the experience of ancient alchemy with Wu Qi and Zhou Lijian. Zhou Lijian, who was elected as the first president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Imperial Royal Academy of Sciences, actually attached great importance to Shen Jie's theoretical research, although many of the achievements were completed under the guidance of the people, but the experiments and tedious theoretical derivation and publication were all handled by Shen Jie. It can be said that it has greatly helped the people to travel through the crowd and reduce the risk of future historians revealing the truth.
There is no doubt that Shen Jieli became a member of the Standing Committee of the Academic Committee within three years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and at the same time became a member of the Standing Committee of the Senate and the Science and Education Committee, the real power committee of the Senate. Although the Academic Committee controls the media and public opinion and is independent of the government in supervising and conducting scientific research, the Science and Technology Committee under the Senate controls the official educational and scientific research resources. Every year, 5 percent of the details of the education budget must be examined and approved at the internal meeting of the Science and Education Committee, and 2 percent of the national budget for scientific research must also be approved by the Science and Education Committee for scientific research projects.
In the former Song Dynasty, the Privy Council, the Third Division, and the Household Department, which held the power to approve military expenditures throughout the country, were all deprived of the right to approve appropriations, and all of them were handed over to the Military Committee of the Senate for approval. In order to decentralize power, the traversal also engaged in a multi-headed situation similar to that of later generations, and only grasped the source of military spending to control almost all the military power.
The General Staff, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department, and the General Armament Department are responsible for all specific work, and the Ministry of National Defense, which has no real name, is only a cashier's department that disburses money according to the funds approved by the Military Council and an accounting department that submits budget requests. Add to this the fact that the War Department, the Admiralty Department, the Air Force Department, the Special Military Department, which has a huge budget and an unknown number, and the Reserve Service Department, which has a huge budget that is almost negligible, and so many subordinate military commissions that have to be fed and allocated must be responsible. The workload is heavy, and because the budget has shrunk significantly compared to the previous Song Dynasty, the Military Committee, which has difficulty in approving the work, is almost regarded as hard work by many members of the Senate, and is selected by the senators as the best committee for young people to exercise.
The structure of the Science and Education Committee and the Academic Committee is similar to that of the board of trustees of various famous universities, all of which are served by famous professors and academic masters with teaching positions.
Every year, only the Ministry of Education and the Imperial Academy of Sciences have two departments of budget approval, which is easy and does not offend people, which is equivalent to the Department of Ritual and Officials in the Ministry of Rites (there are four departments under the Ministry of Rites, all of which are in the Ming and Qing dynasties: the Department of Ritual and Officials, and the Ministry of Education and the Organization Department of the Imperial Examination are equivalent to the Ministry of Education and the Organization Department; The priest of the ancestral sacrifice is in charge of auspicious and murderous affairs; The Department of Host and Guest Clearance, which is in charge of the courtesy and reception of foreign guests, is equivalent to the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; The fine food and cleaning department is in charge of the feast and the food and sacrifice prison affairs, which is equivalent to the royal kitchen festival celebration service organization. )。
Naturally, it is much easier to run for election with the blessing of academic contributions than to be an official with thousands of troops crowding a single-plank bridge, to gain qualifications, to fight wars, to explore and expand territory, and to form parties for personal gain, so as to persuade many county councilors to support their own senatorship. (To be continued......)