During Yan Xishan's years in power, the province imposed a compulsory school enrollment policy for school-age children, requiring all children between the ages of 7 and 13 to receive at least four years of primary education. Although there were some problems in the implementation of this policy in the later stage, the results were very good.

At the same time, Yan Xishan also set up a wide range of schools. According to Zhao Pilian's data to Song Zhewu, there are now more than 700 higher primary schools in Shanxi Province, with more than 80,000 students. Among them, there are 308 primary schools in Taiyuan with more than 50,000 students.

In addition to the establishment of Shanxi University, the former Shanxi Provincial Government has also established several normal universities to train senior teachers. In addition, it has successively set up schools in Taiyuan for political administration, industry, agriculture, commerce, and medical colleges, foreign language schools, Jinshan middle schools, and provincial middle schools in Yuncheng, Datong, Changzhi, Daixian, and Linfen.

Shanxi has one Provincial College of Political Science and Law, six Provincial Agricultural Colleges, three Provincial Industrial Colleges, four Provincial Commercial Colleges, six Provincial Normal Schools, six Provincial Women's Normal Schools, one Provincial National Normal School, one Provincial Women's Sericulture Institute, one Provincial Medical School, and 35 provincial and county normal, middle and vocational schools. Dozens of training centers of various types have also been set up in various localities.

It can be said that Shanxi's educational foundation and atmosphere are very good, and Song Zhewu will not only have no resistance to reforming and developing education on the existing basis, but will also get twice the result with half the effort, and in a few years, Song Zhewu will have a large number of young people who have received junior and senior education to use.

In Song Zhewu's reform plan, education was free of charge for all the Taiyuan Administration and Suiyuan, Inner and Outer Mongolia's primary and secondary schools, especially primary schools, and the policy of compulsory enrollment of school-age children in Taiyuan Administration, Suiyuan, and Inner and Outer Mongolia was implemented, and education taxes were levied on families with school-age children who did not attend school. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden for merchants, landlords, and capitalists to employ children under the age of 14 to work.

To develop education, there must be funding for education. Song Zhewu planned to allocate 10 percent of the annual tax revenue from various localities to Zhao Pilian's cultural and educational committee as education funds, and set up another education development fund, which would be raised by the cultural and educational committee from merchants, landlords, and capitalists in various localities.

At the same time, the existing colleges and universities will be expanded and merged in order to concentrate the limited faculty and maximize the benefits in order to cultivate more talents.

After Song Zhewu repeatedly held several seminars with Xiao Guodong, Jia Jingde, He Qigong, Guo Wenyuan, and the Education Committee headed by Zhao Pilian, Zhao Pilian drafted an education plan.

First of all, Shanxi University was renamed Northern University, and the current president, Wang Luxun, remained in office.

Wang Luxun is a Ph.D. in engineering and an expert in engineering and water conservancy at Royal University of London, and he is the president, which can make the school better replicate the advanced Western education model in education and scientific research.

After the renaming, Northern University will be a comprehensive university, with not only a complete range of science and engineering, but also humanities. This university will be a place to train all kinds of high-level dual-use talents for Song Zhewu.

Secondly, there are two provincial normal universities in Taiyuan, although there are many students, but there is a shortage of teachers, in order to strengthen the teaching force, the two normal universities merged, the establishment of the Northern Normal University, Qu Yongshan as the president, specializing in training middle and senior teachers.

At the same time, on the basis of Shanxi's existing specialized schools, six types of specialized schools and vocational and technical schools have been set up to train junior and skilled professional and technical personnel. These vocational schools will be paid for education.

On the basis of the Engineering Research Institute presided over by Guo Wenyuan, the Northern National University of Defense Technology was established. Guo Wenyuan was appointed as the first president, and Ling Hongxun was appointed as the vice president. In addition to the complete range of basic disciplines, more than a dozen colleges have been set up, such as aviation, special vehicles, special power, weapons design and manufacturing, and electronic engineering.

Because it was difficult to recruit a large number of senior full-time professors and scholars in a short period of time, Song Zhewu stipulated that senior researchers in all scientific research institutes of the Fourth Route Army should also take up teaching tasks. In order to reduce the impact on the scientific research time of these scientific researchers, Song Zhewu decided to build the campus of the Northern University of Defense Technology and the new site of the Fourth Route Army Research Institute on the shore of Jinyang Lake in the southern suburbs of Taiyuan.

The Fourth Route Military Medical University was established, and Wang Lianzhang was appointed as the president; The College of Agriculture and Water Conservancy was established, with Feng Rui as the dean.

However, what made Song Zhewu a little anxious was that the shelves of the Northern Construction and Development Committee and the industrial and education systems had been erected, but most of the specific personnel had not yet been found.

Waiting for his own university training, it will definitely not work, it takes a long time to cultivate talents, and what Song Zhewu lacks most now is time. To solve this problem, it is necessary to actively attract talented people while cultivating them.

However, how can we attract talents from all over the world?

After thinking about it repeatedly, Song Zhewu believed that at this time, in addition to holding high the banner of nationalism and patriotism, there is another very important aspect that needs to be paid attention to, that is, it is necessary to provide good treatment and superior living conditions for these talents. Only in this way can we attract enough talents and keep them. Many "phoenixes" still like the plane tree, and this is also true in later generations.

The two banners of nationalism and patriotism, Song Zhewu is not lacking. Since Song Zhewu recovered Outer Mongolia and fought against the Soviet army in Manchuria, Song Zhewu has been synonymous with national heroes. However, if you want to attract and retain the "Phoenix", the plane tree still has to actively prepare.

To this end, Song Zhewu allocated a huge amount of money to build high-end apartment buildings and many small villas on the side of the beautiful Xihaizi in Taiyuan, imitating the form of high-end residential communities in later generations, and specially making residential areas for upcoming talents.

Considering that during this period, the salaries of professors in major universities in the country were all above 200 oceans, and in some universities with abundant financial resources, the best professors could get 400 oceans. Therefore, Song Zhewu proposed that all those with a master's degree or above and a master's degree or above, according to their actual ability, will be treated with a monthly salary of 400 to 800 oceans; General engineers and university lecturers have a monthly salary of 300 to 500 oceans; Professional and technical personnel and section-level personnel of various professional committees under the Northern Construction and Development Committee, with a monthly salary of 100 to 200 oceans.

The reason why the conditions are so favorable is that Song Zhewu thought that at this time, there were very few people in China who had received advanced education from the West, and even there would not be many college students trained by China itself, and there would not be many talents who could be recruited without higher salaries.

Song Zhewu, who had no bottom in his heart, had to find Zhao Pilian and ask if this treatment was feasible?

After Zhao Pilian saw Song Zhewu's talent recruitment plan, he was very excited, and directly bowed to Song Zhewu, saying that 'Song Zhewu attaches so much importance to the development of education, which is really a great blessing for Shanxi people, Shanxi Daxing refers to waiting, and he wants to thank Song Zhewu for Shanxi's 12 million fathers!" ’

Regarding Song Zhewu's concern that there are not enough talents available, Zhao Pilian, who has not calmed down from the excitement just now, said with a smile: "Wen Ge, do you think that there will be more people who only go out to stay abroad in coastal areas?" In fact, our Shanxi is not bad, although it is not as good as Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Hubei, but there are also many people in Shanxi who have made achievements. ”

Zhao Pilian said proudly: "It is not uncommon for Western students from Shanxi to study in Europe and the United States to obtain master's and doctoral degrees. In addition to the current personnel in various universities in Shanxi, there are a large number of European and American students working in various public and private enterprises in Shanxi, including Zheng Ensan, Tang Jingting, Chai Xiaodi, Sun Wenzao, Wang Lide, Zhang Yiqing, Dong Fengxian, Zhou Shaobin, Liu Yishan, Liu Yongxi, Dong Dengshan, Liu Jingye, Chai Jiusi, and so on. ”

They either served as the director of the company's subordinate factory, or served as the director of the department, technical director and other positions, all of them made their own contributions to the development of Shanxi's local modern industry with their scientific and technological knowledge. Zhang Kai, who studied in Europe, also invented the "Kai" brand explosives and became a well-known gunpowder expert throughout the country. ”

In addition, "there are also Pan Lianru, Tang Tang Zhisu, Qiao Wanxuan, Liu He, Qin Wenhui, He Yizhen, Wang Shaocheng, Li Yuwen, Tian Zhikang, Geng Buchan, He Zehui, Zhang Yiding, Sun Jinqi, Li Fanggui, Feng Jiayi, Wang Wenguang, Wang Qinggui, Zhang Yong, Zhang Yuankai, Liu Xitian, Jin Jiren, etc., all of whom obtained master's or doctoral degrees at the end of their studies. ”

"Most of these people are not working in the profession they studied at the beginning, and even more than half of them are not staying in Shanxi now, and most of them will come back if Wenge implements this plan." It can be said that we have a lot of talents in Shanxi. ”

"Moreover, we can't just focus on these high-level talents studying in Europe and the United States, and there are many talents for domestic college students. If these college students can be used by us, it will benefit us a lot. ”

Song Zhewu was surprised that there were so many talents studying in Europe and the United States in Shanxi, and what he didn't expect was that there were so many college students in a state of unemployment at this time!

"That's right, how can you forget about college students, over the years, there are more than 100,000 universities trained in China, right? If we can recruit a group of these college students and enrich them into scientific research institutes and the Northern Construction and Development Committee, after a period of training and study, these people will soon be able to grow up, and it can even be considered that their plan to expand the university and train talents has been realized ahead of schedule. ”

Song Zhewu said excitedly and with some regret: "Mr. Zhiqing, your suggestion is very good, if you can recruit these students, it will be really great, this is equivalent to other universities in Shanxi training talents for us, but this will not be until the students graduate next year." ”

Zhao Pilian hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, as long as this plan is implemented, many people can be found now." ”

Seeing Song Zhewu's doubts, Zhao Pilian knew that Song Zhewu did not know much about the employment situation of college students in China today, so he smiled and carefully introduced the employment situation of college students to Song Zhewu......

(To be continued)