Chapter 20 Taiyuan School

One night in Taiping, he slept very well, the guest room was very gorgeous, very quiet, after Yang Yuanzhao lay down, he quickly fell asleep, which is probably the most peaceful sleep he has ever had since he crossed.

When I woke up, the sky was not yet bright, the yard was covered with a thin mist, there was movement around, the servants of the Yang family had begun to pack up their things, early in the morning, after breakfast, three carriages drove out of the Yang family, Yang Yuanzhao and Yang Yue sat in the carriage together, the other two carriages, one after the other, surrounded it in the middle, in their carriage, there were two more figures, Yang Qian and her maid Elle, Elle is also only a thirteen-year-old girl, it seems to have a little alien blood, the background color of the eyes, There is actually a hint of blue, but it looks unusually pretty.

The name Elle is obviously the habit of the British, this is the name that Yang Qian changed directly to the maid after learning English, this name itself is Yang Qian's own use, called Alice, but unfortunately, it was opposed by her parents, and finally reduced one word and put it on the maid's body, fortunately, Elle also liked it.

Taiping is not far from Taiyuan, and the lanes are all specially built blue brick roads, the road conditions are very good, and the carriages can gallop on them and maintain a relatively high speed. That is, with half a ring, you will be able to reach Taiyuan.

According to Yang Yue, their tickets had been booked a few days ago, and the train departed in the afternoon, so there was no need to hurry up, Yang Qian was going back to school by car, her Xun vacation had been spent, and then, it was 10 consecutive days of class time, Fuxing Girls' School was closed management, 10 days of a holiday, 3 days each time, under normal circumstances, they would return to Taiping and reunite with their parents.

The road was dull, Yang Yuanzhao talked a few more words to the lively Yang Qian, left his parents, seemed to be less restrained, more lively, and asked Yang Yuanzhao a lot of things about Britain with interest, and seemed to yearn for life abroad.

It seems that studying abroad became the mainstream of society at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and many families would send their children out, more in neighboring Japan, and very few in Europe.

Yang Yuanzhao's plausible answers, interspersed with some small jokes from later generations from time to time, kept the atmosphere in the carriage relatively good, and laughter echoed in the carriage all the time.

In the conversation, Yang Yuanzhao in addition to telling some things himself, but also got what he wanted, from Yang Qian's mouth, Yang Yuanzhao got the thing about Taiyuan Western-style school, if you want to develop a local industry, capital, equipment, and even personnel, are the most basic, Yang Yuanzhao's purpose is to build China's Ruhr, the Ruhr not only needs to have technology and capital, but the most important thing is to fall on people, no one, there are advanced machines, but no one to manipulate, then a qiē is equal to zero.

People, China's population is the world's first, hundreds of millions of people, is thousands of years of ancient civilization, standing at the forefront of the world, leaving a great wealth to China, but this wealth to use, more difficult, insensitive, penniless, illiterate, such people, at most can work a little coolie, real technical work, none of them can adapt, if just to make money, these people can barely use, relying on the all-in-one machine and some experience of later generations, Yang Yuanzhao can make a fool-style assembly line, Produces a lot of money-making products.

Yang Yuanzhao's goal is very clear, the Ruhr of the East, even greater than the Ruhr of Germany, but also the excellent Chinese Ruhr, so that the castle on the beach can not be built, is the most basic, but also the most complete industrialization, the industrialization of the Biqu Pavilion www.biquge.info, is the power and machine of the reform of mass production, but also the victory of people, the cultivation of talents, is a problem that can never be avoided.

China will never lack scholars, and it is useless to build an industry, it is necessary to train scientists, qualified engineers, and even workers, and the old education will not play a role at all, and it must rely on the new type of education.

The new type of education is still a large-scale education, and Yang Yuanzhao alone, even if he has three heads and six arms, how many people can he teach. Teachers are indispensable, and in Yang Yuanzhao's view, these Western-style school students, after a simple education, can become enlighteners.

Taiyuan is the provincial capital, is the core of a province, education is also one of the most developed places, Jin Shang as one of the representatives of China's wealthy class, knowledge, much stronger than other classes, except for a small number of disciples, or in accordance with the original way, in the private school, relying on the four books and five classics, in order to prepare for the back, to gain fame, but more, then into a variety of Western-style schools, Taiyuan's Western-style schools, a total of 11, with more than 6,000 students, of which, the vast majority, are the descendants of Jin merchants.

Their predecessors traveled from south to north and created great wealth, and from childhood they were exposed to all kinds of situations, and Western-style education was a certain process, and enriched their basic knowledge.

6,000 students, even if they have only completed a basic Western-style education, are much stronger than starting from scratch, the only thing to consider is that these are the children of wealthy merchants, they are not short of money, and there is no need, for money, to become a teacher, or join the factory, this is an insurmountable hurdle.

This is all something that needs to be considered in the future, Yang Yuanzhao asked very carefully about the things of the Western-style school, the students of the girls' middle school are relatively closed, the women's middle school and the men's middle school are inextricably linked, they are all a family, a class, and some even brothers and sisters, living in two middle schools, Yang Qian is like this, she knows more about Fuxing Girls' Middle School, and the others don't know much.

"Yuan Zhao, are you very curious about the Western-style school, and ask me, before I went to the United States, I studied in the Western-style school for 7 years, what do you want to know?"

"How many people in Taiyuan have been trained in Western-style schools?"

"Not a few!" Yang Yue nodded and said: "Since 1867, the first Western-style school appeared in Baotou, after the Edward School, the Western-style school in Taiyuan has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, at first, just a foreigner and a missionary, but slowly, the gentry, after discovering the benefits of the Western-style school compared to the Chinese-style school, began to invest in it, under a certain process, expanded the scale and influence of the Western-style school, the Western-style school began to become popular, and now there are 8 famous university halls, Except for Fuxing Girls' Middle School and Citigroup Middle School, which are still foreigners, the others are inextricably linked with the eight families of Jin Shang! ”

"How do the teachers of these schools solve the problem?"

"Although Taiyuan is inland, because of the strength of the Jin merchants, there are trade relations with many countries, those compradors who are familiar with foreign banks, teachers hired directly from abroad or Shanghai, and some people who have returned from studying abroad!"

From Yang Yue, Yang Yuanzhao knew something, about the situation of Taiyuan Western-style school, a certain Cheng dù above, Taiyuan's education is developed, which makes Yang Yuanzhao more surprised, there is such a group of people who are already educators, in a sense, it is much easier than starting from scratch.

Yang Yuanzhao found that his understanding of China in this era is still on the surface, old China is poor and backward, education has been valued by China for thousands of years, China seems to have a little foundation, but why this foundation, not in the Xinhai Revolution a few years later, carefully recalled, in addition to Shanxi Wang Yan Xishan, there is only the so-called Northwest Army, the real name spread to the whole of China, very few, perhaps, the northwest side, It has never been the dominant in the whole of China, heroes are born in troubled times, but how many heroes are completely buried in this troubled times, among these people, there are a large number of people who can be used by him, but it is a pity that he can control them, and there are very few people who are affected, seeing this fat, he can't swallow it, and it must be a pity.