After the end of the First World War, the world did not really achieve peace, but gave birth to a greater crisis, which many outstanding politicians can clearly see, before the First World War, Britain and France and other countries have begun to go downhill, and the victory of the First World War did not put them on the road of rejuvenation, but began to accelerate the weakening, and the real strength is even more declining!

This serious reduction in strength made Britain and France no longer able to maintain the new international order that had been created through the war, nor did they have a strong executive ability to maintain the weakening of Germany, which gave the defeated Germany a chance to rise again!

And the rise of the United States, Russia has turned red, making the international situation unprecedentedly complicated, and now with the rise of China, the shock to the world situation is even stronger, and the colonies of the world are desperately trying to seek reading power and get rid of the control of the colony!

All the contradictions between the defeated and the victorious, between the emerging powers and the old powers, between the red Russia and imperialism, between the colonized countries and the colonizers, the development of this world is no longer dominated by certain countries and politicians, and it will be reshuffled again through a larger-scale war!

It can be said that the end of World War I has planted the seeds of World War II, in this great era, Qiao Yu clearly feels the pressure of this kind of mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, China can only firmly grasp the time of the next one or two decades, develop industry rapidly, and grow strong muscles, only in this way can it seek its own interests in the new round of changes in the international order.

Qiao Yu said meaningfully: "Baoxuan, China's future national fortune is won by military strength, and military power is the power of heavy industry, and it is the contest of coal, iron and oil!" The mission of our generation is to lay the foundations of the country's industrialization so that we can truly escape the fate of slavery! ”

"Prime Minister rest assured, the future of the country's industrial development of a comprehensive plan has been formulated, in addition to the steel industry, to Shanxi, Suiyuan, Chahar as the center of the coal mining industry is also accelerating the layout, in addition to Gansu Yumen, as well as the northeast of Daqing have been explored to large-scale oil fields, as long as it can be developed is enough to support the initial demand of China's industrialization, it can be said that the next ten years, even twenty years China does not have to worry about energy, but China is such a huge country, and there is such a large population, In the future, our energy demand will definitely reach an astonishing amount, and it is not impossible to surpass the United States, and we must carry out long-term layout! ”

Qiao Yu nodded slightly, Zhao Baoxuan's question is very realistic, China's huge volume determines that China's industrialization will be the most magnificent page in human history, almost reaching an unprecedented level, it is this huge scale that has caused China to almost become a black hole, crazy to absorb all the world's resources and raw materials, this is an irreversible situation!

Thinking of the unfair treatment that China received in the national market in later generations, Qiao Yu still felt very much in his heart, he has accelerated the historical process of China for decades, with this precious buffer time, China will be able to better complete the layout, and no one can stop China's progress!

In addition to vigorously developing industry, a more important point is the development of education, which is also one of Qiao Yu's main things since Sichuan, the competition in the industrial age is the competition of production capacity in the final analysis, which World War II has made a perfect interpretation, as long as it has an overwhelming production capacity advantage, it can completely crush the fascist group like the United States!

The conditions required to ensure the huge production capacity are nothing more than three aspects, the factory, raw materials and workers, the factory as a production base is naturally the more and bigger and more advanced, the better, and the sufficient supply of raw materials is the guarantee of smooth production, but the key to everything is people!

Under the condition that the quality of people is basically the same, it is natural that the more the population, the greater the number of laborers, the greater the production capacity, and the industrial strength of Germany can surpass that of Britain and France to a large extent is that the population of Germany must exceed that of these two countries, and with sufficient labor, it can maintain a more and more complex industrial system!

Of course, if industrialization is not achieved, just like China in history, although it has the world's largest population, it still has to be pressed and beaten by a small island country, and it can't raise its head at all, and the huge labor force can't be converted into production capacity at all, so it can only rely on the millet rifle to win with its life!

Now that China's industrialization has begun to take shape, an important mission of China's political axe is to comprehensively promote the development of education, constantly improve the quality of Chinese, adapt to the requirements of the industrial age, as long as the quality of labor force equals the major powers, China's huge population advantage will be displayed, it can burst out several times or even ten times the production capacity advantage, easily crush any opponent, just as China can become the world's factory in the future!

The problem of education is not as good as industry, it is a very systematic project, and it involves the academic community, it must be treated carefully, Qiao Yu brought his main assistants Zhang Lan, Zhang Taiyan, Huang Yuanyong and others together to study this issue carefully, as the Minister of Education, Zhang Lan has long been working on formulating an education plan.

"Prime Minister, the Ministry of Education believes that in the next 10 years, we will make compulsory education universal, ensure that more than 90 percent of school-age children can attend school, and reduce the national illiteracy rate to less than 30 percent.

Qiao Yu is very agreeable with the development of basic education, compulsory education must be strengthened, but this time does not make Qiao Yu very satisfied, "Ten years does not seem to be a long time, but I think it should be faster, it is best to popularize compulsory education within five years, the political axe has taken out 15% of the budget to invest in education, ten years may not be enough, the faster the popularization of compulsory education, the sooner those children can have the opportunity to read and learn, delay for five years, how many children's youth will be wasted, We can't afford to wait! ”

Zhang Lan's face changed slightly, although Qiao Yu did not say it explicitly, but he already had the intention of accusing, the financial support for education is indeed doing its best, but the Ministry of Education also has its own considerations.

"Prime Minister, the Ministry of Education has hired a large number of experts to study this issue, we believe that the focus of investment should be tilted towards higher education, especially to establish more comprehensive surname universities, tap the quality of students, and comprehensively cultivate talents in all aspects, only in this way can we catch up with the great powers in science and technology, in order to achieve national rejuvenation, the compulsory education stage should also follow the example of foreign countries to join the practice content, fully tap the potential of students, and the investment will naturally be huge!"

Qiao Yu's brows furrowed completely when he heard this, Qiao Yu had heard a lot of arguments about this set of quality education in his previous life, and what he said was very reasonable, but now he stands at a different height, and he looks at this problem completely differently, quality education is indeed right, but after the country is really rich and strong, advocating this kind of thing too early will only mislead the country!

"Minister Zhang, I have a question, do you think universities should train masters or engineers?"

Zhang Lan was stunned for a moment, he also felt Qiao Yu's dissatisfaction, this is something that a large group of experts have explored, every sentence is reasonable, how can it be completely out of line with the Prime Minister's mind!

However, he still replied honestly: "Naturally, he is a master!" The greatness of a university lies not in the area, but in the profound academic accumulation, in the inheritance of ideology and culture, in the cultivation of qualified citizens, and naturally in the cultivation of high-end talents! ”

"Minister Zhang may have a point, but it is not applicable to the current China, I have long repeatedly emphasized that the competition in the industrial age is the competition of production capacity, that is, the competition of the number of engineers, we need to cultivate our own cultural and scientific and technological talents, but we have lagged behind the great powers in this aspect, if we still struggle to catch up in this direction, it will only be half the effort, the gains outweigh the losses, what we want to do is to surpass the opponent in terms of production capacity and give full play to the advantages of the number of Chinese!"

It is very good to train masters, but the cost is too high, and the yield rate is too low, a master may be worth dozens of engineers, but the cost is hundreds of engineers, what we need most now is real laborers, is the doer who accumulates wealth, the great powers can develop new technologies It is certainly worthy of envy, but there is no need to compete to be the leader when our strength is not reached, it is a big deal to imitate, the British were the first to build dreadnoughts, and Germany is not close behind, And the quality also surpasses that of the British, what the great powers have developed, we just copy it! ”

Qiao Yu said and knew in his heart, it turned out that this is the essence of the cottage spirit! As a late-developing country cottage is indeed a shortcut to progress, late-developing countries do not have such a huge capital accumulation, and there is not enough technical accumulation, if you want to surpass others in technology all of a sudden, the efforts must be very huge, it is better to follow the surname Suo behind the powers, what do you come up with, we come over!

And then with a sufficient number of engineers, the copycat goods become better than the genuine products, and directly rob the profits of the powers, this way has been shown in later generations in addition to the huge power, but the current conditions and later generations are still a gap, but the overall idea is still the same, copycat power!

Of course, in some key areas, the core technology still has to rely on itself to tackle key problems, and some things cannot be obtained by copycats!

"Prime Minister, this is not good, intellectual property rights are still protected!"

"There's nothing wrong with it, now that the great powers are controlling the colonies all over the world, that's called the robbery of open fire, what's wrong with us imitating their technology!" Huang Yuanyong very much agrees with Qiao Yu's point of view.

"Minister Zhang, I think what the premier said is right, the Chinese population is large, rich resources, we naturally have to give full play to our own advantages, education is oriented to everyone, the pursuit of the minimum investment, the maximum benefit, so I propose to fully control the number of comprehensive surname universities, build more professional schools and technical schools, the compulsory education stage is also mainly based on literacy and examination-oriented education, as long as this can guide the training of qualified workers from an early age!"

Maybe some people don't want to accept it, but that's the case, China doesn't need to use its own shortcomings and strengths with the great powers to fight hard, of course, this test-oriented education model will definitely have all kinds of sequelae, but if you don't do this, China will not even have the opportunity to enjoy the sequelae, and will only be eliminated by the world!

"Minister Zhang, the Ministry of Education must be reformed, those who are full of old scholarly habits must be kicked out, these people will only become interference with normal national construction, and education must not take the elite line, we can't afford it!" Qiao Yu said firmly.

(To be continued)