For a week, Li Weiguo's itinerary was at the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

In addition to the electrical department, other departments were also inspected, and corresponding long-term development plans were put forward to encourage scientists and engineers to actively develop and create.

In some key subject areas, Li Weiguo did not hesitate to give advice, telling some important knowledge he knew and the future development direction to experts and scholars in various disciplines, helping them to carry out research and development and exploration of related sciences faster and better.

Because of Li Weiguo's correct guidance, these scientists and engineers have avoided many detours, not only saved a lot of scientific research funds, but also had the greatest advantage that they could obtain relevant scientific research results in the shortest time and with the fastest efficiency, and then put them into China's military and civilian fields, so as to create economic benefits for the country and the people as soon as possible and enhance national defense strength.

Education is the foundation of the country, and there is no room for sloppiness and delay.

As early as when Li Weiguo seized Shanghai, education had been going on, and it was carried out in a big way.

At that time, private school education was common in China, with high tuition fees and high thresholds, and only the children of wealthy families could afford to hire a gentleman to teach them.

At that time, there was no modern school in China, and the Danfu University established by Li Weiguo at the beginning was also empty, and the name of Danfu University was called University, but the courses taught at the beginning were night school crash courses and primary school culture courses, of which night school crash courses only recruited adults, and primary school culture classes were real junior student classes.

With more than ten years of continuous improvement, the first primary school students who entered the school have now become college students, becoming the first batch of full-year graduates of China's local university education.

During the period when the Chinese students were cut off, Li Weiguo adopted the strategy of borrowing chickens and laying eggs, looking for talents from overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia to fill the initial vacancies, and sending students to Europe and the United States to fill the mid-term vacancies.

This is a great achievement. The merit is in the contemporary, and the benefit is in the future.

However, Li Weiguo did not relax his attention to and investment in education, but accelerated the pace of popularizing education.

As we all know, the Meiji Restoration in Japan defeated the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty, and the most fundamental investment in education was the same reform that began at the same time in history. Historically, in 1895, education in Japan had spread to middle school, that is, nine years of compulsory education, and 80 million Japanese were armed with knowledge. building national cohesion; However, the education of the Qing Dynasty was still the imperial examination, and only a few hundred thousand people had a secondary school education, and once the national critical moment was reached, it could not be united, which led to the fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War.

Coincidentally.

The strength of Germany is the concentrated explosion of human science, and the Germans have created countless miracles in the history of human science, making Germany the only power that has risen in a short period of time using science and technology. The decisive factor in the explosion of science and technology is still education, and Germany has no colonies and resources. It will become strong by improving national education science and technology innovation.

Historically, the United States absorbed the experience of Britain's rise in resources and Germany's rise in science and technology, and had both powerful resources to develop industry and strong science and technology, which established the United States' unique world hegemony.

These historical facts. For Li Weiguo to determine China's future development path, he should also learn from the experience of the rise of Britain and Germany, as the United States did, that is, rely on natural resources to develop industry. It is also necessary to rely on science and technology to improve productivity and build a strong China in the future.

Therefore, Li Weiguo's investment in China's education is huge. Rare in the world.

"Universal primary education within 10 years, secondary education within 20 years, and university education within 30 years!"

In the eyes of the European and American powers, it is not surprising that universal primary education will be achieved within ten years, because in Europe and the United States, the most basic education investment is at this time.

However, only the observant will realize what a huge project for China to achieve universal primary education within a decade.

This is because China has a population of 213 million and a large proportion of young people. Because of the Taiping War, the three Opium Wars, and the Civil War, the Chinese population increased from 450 million in the first year of Xianfeng to 213 million in the first year of Guanghua, and most of the casualties were old, weak, sick and disabled, and only the young and strong population could survive the war.

In this way, China, with a population of 213 million, can receive primary school education because of its youth, and the popularization of primary school cultural education in ten years is equivalent to at least 100 million people having primary school education.

What a huge number!

Even Britain, which has the most advanced education, has a combined population of only 27 million (excluding the colonial population), and even if all primary education is universal, it is only one-fifth of China's.

And this number will be extended over time, and in the next ten or twenty years from China, the gap will become wider and wider, and then the United Kingdom, which is proud of its education, will be completely crushed by China. This is not just the case for the UK, but for Europe as a whole.

Some scholars have reminded the governments of Britain and other European powers to be wary of China's educational activities, fearing that once China achieves educational success and results, Europe will completely lose its world hegemony and world center status. The West, which has managed to replace the East as the ruling world, will return to the hands of the ancient empires of the East.

However, this is not effective.

Arrogant European governments don't care about this at all, on the contrary, they are glad that China is spending huge sums of money on education, not on military spending.

The European powers were defeated by China twice, and they were very worried about China's military spending and militarization, so they were happy that China invested in education.

There has not been much reaction in the West, but in China, the project of popularizing primary school culture has attracted widespread attention from the whole society.

This is because the feudal education that has ruled China for thousands of years shows that the feudal emperor has always relied on the policy of ignoring the people to maintain his rule, not allowing the common people to go to school, or decorating the imperial examination, eight shares and other ways to prevent more ordinary people from learning knowledge, especially in the modern Qing Dynasty to achieve the legalization of the official porridge, but also to make the students seriously weakened, no one goes to school, it is better to earn more money to buy an official.

New China abolished the system of selling officials, and established a perfect bureaucratic supervision system, and the establishment of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Independent Office of Integrity and other institutions swept away the filthy and bad habits of the Qing Dynasty's officialdom, and the rule of officials was clear, giving hope to the students of Guangzhou.

Ordinary people want their children to have a future. In the past, there was no money and no way to go to school, but now there is no need, and the Imperial Department of Education has set up royal public schools in all prefectures and counties across the country, where both men and women, as long as they are legal Chinese citizens, can go to school for free.

The reason why it is called the Royal Public School is also a little selfishness of Li Weiguo, so that the common people are educated, and their IQ will be higher and higher in the future. Therefore. From the very beginning, Li Weiguo opened the wisdom of the people in the name of the royal family, so that the common people knew that they were able to study and get ahead because the royal family provided the opportunity to the royal school, and at the same time, the most important thing is that the first page of the textbook that the children are exposed to is to support the motherland and support the royal family, etc., which will be brainwashed.

And Li Weiguo is also the principal. Let the common people think that entering the royal school is the protégé of the Son of Heaven, what a great honor it is, they will accept it in their hearts. In the long run, from generation to generation. It will form that all students in the world are protégés of the Son of Heaven, and under the premise of respecting teachers and valuing education, it is natural to support the royal family and support the imperial power.

Ordinary people are scrambling to send their children to the royal public primary school. Most of them are boys, and there are very few girls. Because of the poison of feudal ideology, women's lack of talent is the influence of virtue. It is difficult for girls to get into school.

However, Li Weiguo also had a way, and soon introduced the royal girls' school system, with Empress Fu Shanxiang himself as the principal.

In this way, it makes sense for the queen to teach women, although the common people don't like girls to go to school, but if the queen is the principal, they are willing to accept it, after all, there will be no men in the girls' school, and it will not affect the men and women, this is the most taboo thing for the people, this is solved, and most of the problem is solved. Coupled with the fact that the queen personally taught the female students, the common people felt that it was an honor, so they gradually agreed.

Of course, it is impossible for Empress Fu Shanxiang to really go to the Royal Girls' School to teach in person, she is only in name, and it is okay to give lectures occasionally. But the common people didn't know the truth, they even thought that the queen would teach their daughter three obedience and four virtues, court etiquette, etc., and dreamed that their daughter would be able to marry into the palace in the future, even if she didn't marry the emperor, she could marry some high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

With this kind of thinking, the common people also accepted the fact that their daughters went to school.

In the end, the education and training plan formulated by Li Weiguo was successfully implemented.

In addition to education, Li Weiguo's greatest concern is agriculture, which is the foundation of the country, as a country with a large population, the food problem has always been a major issue that has plagued China for thousands of years.

In the era when there was no high-yield food such as hybrid rice, the only way to solve the food problem was to open up more wasteland and more land.

Li Weiguo's policy of recuperation and exemption from agricultural taxes stimulated grain production, and peasants opened up a large number of wasteland for farming, resulting in a bumper grain harvest and high yield every year after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

According to the joint statistics of the Tuntian Division (Agricultural Bureau) and the Duzhi Division (Audit Bureau), before the founding of the People's Republic of China (only for the party's reference to 1864 data), the total area of cultivated land in China was 1254.2 (million mu), the area of grain cultivated land was 1128.8 (million mu), the total grain output was 3674 (100 million jin city), and the average yield per mu was 325 (city jin). After the founding of the People's Republic of China (Guanghua 3 years, please refer to the data of 1895 according to the party), the total area of cultivated land in China was 1365.4 (million mu), of which the planting area of rice, wheat, beans, millet, corn, sorghum and other grain crops was 125.67 billion (city mu), the total grain output was 4549 (100 million city jin), and the average mu yield was 362 (city jin).

According to the results of Guanghua's three-year census, the country's population is more than 213.76 million, and the per capita grain has reached 2,128 catties.

This is an unprecedented result that has shocked the world.

You know, the average grain of Chinese in the 21st century is only 900 city jin, that is, the mu output has soared to 1600 city jin.

In this comparison, it can be seen that China's grain production is very rich at the moment.

Of course, this is not accidental, mainly because the population has decreased by more than 200 million, but the area of arable land has increased instead of decreasing, and the large-scale use of chemical fertilizers has led to a sharp increase in food production.

In just three years, almost all the peasants have money, they no longer have to worry about food, and every household has a large amount of surplus grain to sell for money.

Originally, such a huge grain production would have caused a serious drop in grain prices, but Li Weiguo took timely measures and did not let grain prices fall. Rather, it stabilizes in a small range of fluctuations.

This is because China is a big agricultural country, and once grain prices fall, it will affect the income and mood of 200 million peasants.

As emperor, Li Weiguo's priority was to maintain stability, and if there were too many peasants, it was necessary to ensure that food prices were stable, otherwise social problems would intensify and be detrimental to the rule of the empire.

However, maintaining the huge stability of food prices requires significant financial support.

Although Li Weiguo himself is rich. However, the imperial government is in ruins, and various expenditures have long been in deficit, so it can't blindly throw money into it, and needs to find a way.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo's brain is flexible, there is a bumper harvest of grain, and the surplus grain can be exported, after all, the world is still facing a severe food shortage, and there are still many places where there is a shortage of food.

It's just that exporting abroad is not smooth. This is because the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries have blocked the most important shipping lanes in the South China Sea. At first, Chinese merchants could also use the Pacific Ocean to transport Europe from the Americas, but soon Britain blocked it again in the Atlantic, cutting off all Chinese exports to Europe.

Britain wants to stifle China's export trade and retaliate for the huge losses caused by China's smoking ban.

But Li Weiguo is not afraid. Grain cannot be exported, and can be used to make wine, raise chickens, ducks, sheep and cattle.

At the same time, Li Weiguo also encouraged private enterprises to work hard in the direction of deep processing of food, processing grain, chicken, duck, sheep and cattle and other meats into various finished food products for sale. Increase competitiveness, and can be stored for a long time, waiting for the Chinese Navy to defeat the British Navy. After the overseas blockade is lifted, it will be exported abroad to earn foreign exchange.

People take food as their nature, especially in China, and they like to eat the most. In this way, agriculture and food processing industries complement each other, progress and expand together, and on the contrary, China's private light industry has flourished.

The delicious taste of the Chinese also leads to diseases from the mouth, and they are also the most vulnerable to disease in the world.

In this era, diseases kill 50 million people in the world every year, and the Chinese population is the largest, and the proportion is the largest, almost one-fifth, ranking first.

Li Weiguo attaches great importance to medical and health care, not only now, but also since Li Weiguo established his first army in Chongming. It was manifested in the fact that among Li Weiguo's army at that time, the mortality rate of disease was the lowest, except for a few hidden diseases that could not be treated, there was no more death. This is a unique exception among the armies of all countries in the world.

The reason for such achievements is mainly due to Li Weiguo's emphasis on medical treatment and hygiene, his army will regularly disinfect the human body every once in a while, and I still remember that all soldiers were allowed to take medicinal baths to prevent the body from breeding germs and insects, soldiers were not allowed to drink raw water and eat unclean food, and open defecation was not allowed.

As Li Weiguo's army continued to expand, by the time of the Nanyang Army, there was already a complete medical system in the army, and some of the tens of thousands of female soldiers who surrendered in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were transferred to the current Imperial Palace Yulin Army, and most of them were full-time signal soldiers and medical soldiers.

The women's medical unit formed during the Nanyang Army era, and now that the People's Republic of China has been founded, the women's medical unit has been transformed into doctors and nurses in military hospitals at all levels in the Chinese Shence Army, ensuring the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Shence Army.

With the establishment of the Ministry of Dietery (Ministry of Health), Li Weiguo enacted a series of laws on health care, which were then implemented nationwide.

The Imperial Hospital, the highest medical institution in the country, was set up in the imperial capital, with the original imperial doctors of the imperial hospital for the emperor and concubines, as well as famous doctors from all over the world as the backbone, and medical staff from the military women's medical staff to assist, forming the most powerful medical team of the imperial hospital, covering all kinds of incurable diseases in the country.

Set up a second-level hospital in each state and provincial capital, and assign specialist specialists from the Imperial Hospital to take care of the intractable diseases of a province. A tertiary hospital has been set up in each prefecture and county to be in charge of the daily treatment of common diseases of the people. Resident physician representatives are set up in rural areas and rotated every three years.

In addition to setting up hospitals and stationing doctors in various localities, the army's concept of disease prevention was extended, whether in urban or rural areas, public health was strictly controlled, domestic sewage was centrally managed, dumping into rivers and tap water intake areas was prohibited, disease prevention and control measures were implemented, and scientific awareness of personal hygiene and disease prevention was disseminated to the people.

Through these means, a complete medical system is established to ensure the health of the people.

However, the most important thing is the medical conditions, in the face of some deadly viral bacteria, there is no good medicine in vain.

For this, Li Weiguo has long been prepared. (To be continued.) )