The curtain was gradually darkening, and although the sky was full of clouds, and there were no stars or moons in sight, the governor's palace was illuminated by electric lights -- after three months of intense construction, the central power plant in Mukden was finally put into use a month ago. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As a matter of course, the Governor's Palace was equipped with electric lights, bidding farewell to oil lamps and entering the electric age.

Under the bright light, Tang Haoran flipped through the list that had just been established -- this was a list of international students, a list of as many as 1,000 students, which would be the largest number of international students sent in Chinese history, not only several times the number of students sent by the Manchus since the Opium War, but also more than the number of students sent ten years before the Meiji Restoration.

Compared with the first two, these students are not only numerically advantaged, they are also the "elites" selected by the Tongwen School and the Tongwen College through several examinations, they all have a basic knowledge of English or German, and have a certain professional foundation, and in the next two months, they will be sent to study in various well-known universities in Europe and the United States.

Unlike later generations of universities that needed to be examined, the well-known universities in Europe and the United States in this era did not need to be admitted at all, and this brought a certain degree of convenience to the Chinese international students - as long as they could afford the tuition fees, they could enter the world's first-class universities to study.

"The monthly allowance is £16 for studying in the UK, 400 francs for studying in France, 320 marks in Germany, $80 in the United States, and 135 marks in Russia......"

When Rong Shangqin mentioned the students who went to Russia, Tang Haoran's brows jumped slightly, if he guessed that the good students who went to study in Russia should be several students sent by the Intelligence Bureau. After all, in the order of the imaginary enemy of the Military Command Department. Russia has already surpassed the Manchus in Kannai to become the first imaginary enemy. Whether it is the construction of the army and navy, the construction of the reserve force, and the "construction of mobile police" on the agenda, they are all aimed at an imaginary enemy.

Seeing that the handsome man was silent, as a former young child studying in the United States, Rong Shangqin was afraid that he would cherish his wealth and send fewer foreign students, so he hurriedly explained.

"Marshal, this country is different, and the monthly payment is naturally different. Taking the United Kingdom as an example, although the annual fee is 192 pounds, after deducting the corresponding tuition fees, the monthly living expenses per person are only about five pounds, although the annual living expenses of 60 pounds are enough for ordinary families in the United Kingdom to support their families, but considering the expenses of students to buy books, travel and experiments, 60 pounds a year is quite tight! ”

On the issue of formulating funds for studying abroad, Rong Shangqin has conducted careful investigations in many countries. The monthly payment fee for each sending country is extremely accurate. Although tuition fees are generally settled directly between the relevant management agencies and the schools where international students are located, due to the need to implement a budget for studying abroad, a unified standard has been established for each country to study abroad, and this standard includes tuition fees, and the tuition fees may be between schools, but the living expenses of students are the same.

"Helan, studying abroad is a very expensive career, so naturally you can't save money, let alone do everything possible to reduce expenses in order to save money, after all, for them, concentrating on learning is the greatest contribution to the country......

Looking at the nervous look of the Minister of Education, who had studied in the United States, Tang Haoran, who had been thinking about the Russian issue before, said with a smile.

"I don't think this budget is detailed enough, such as the cost of treatment and clothing for students, well, and the compassionate fee for students, there are many students studying abroad, it is inevitable that there will be illness or death overseas, how to afford the treatment fee for illness? If an international student dies overseas, there must be a corresponding plan for the cost of burial or transportation back to China......"

In this era, if you want to achieve the goal of "enriching the country and strengthening the army", you must demand knowledge in the world, and you must send students abroad, in history, if Japan has not sent tens of thousands of students to Europe and the United States for decades, how can Japan become one of the great powers from the fat in the mouths of the great powers.

It is precisely because as early as two years ago that Tang Haoran formulated a corresponding study abroad plan, but because of the constraints of funds, especially personnel, until now, with the efforts of more than ten colleges and universities, such a thousand students have been screened out, and they all have a relatively solid foundation in foreign languages and mathematics without exception.

"Since we want to study abroad, don't be afraid to spend money, many things must be considered, after all, ......"

Looking at Rong Shangqin, Tang Haoran turned his words around.

"We are not the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not just send a group of people to study abroad, and then stop, now our universities are in the process of creating, including the College of Liberal Arts, not so much a university, but rather a junior college, even if it is so, it is also an unqualified junior college, it is precisely because of the shortage of higher talents, we have to spend millions of yuan every year to hire overseas professors and scholars, just like the funds of the College of Liberal Arts, 60% of which is the salary of professors and scholars!"

Lamenting the high cost of introducing "foreign intelligence", Tang Haoran continued.

"Therefore, we need to cultivate our own talents, our universities are still insufficient, so we will send people out, send them to study in universities in Europe and the United States, this year we sent 1,032 people, next year we may send 2,000 people, the year after next we may send 3,000 people, in a few years, we will even send 10,000 people......

History tells Tang Haoran that the self-sufficiency of intellectual resources directly determines the future of the country, and there is only one way to solve the problem of insufficient intelligence, which has plagued China in modern times for a hundred years, and that is to continuously send students to cultivate a large number of high-quality talents in a short period of time through a large number of foreign students. As for the dispatch of international students, Tang Haoran intends to achieve intellectual "self-sufficiency" as soon as possible through the large-scale dispatch of international students, unlike now, where intelligence is heavily dependent on "foreign aid".

"In five or six years, these international students will be able to replace some of the hired expatriates when they return to China, and ten years later, the situation of modern intellectual scarcity will be alleviated, a sound self-training system will be established, and then we will really lay the first solid foundation for becoming a strong country." As for the so-called factories...... Compared to talent. But it's just an aid! ”

All Western capitalists in this era are profit-seeking. They would sell the best equipment and even patents to foreign countries, so factories could be built as long as they had the money. But without talent, who will build the factory and manage the factory?

And this is the fundamental reason for the failure of the Westernization Movement -- it did not train its own talents, so that the factory management was like a yamen, and the factory production was completely dependent on Western technicians, and even those Western technicians were mostly lay technicians, and the products produced were completely unsuitable.

Even so, the little window paper that Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and others have pasted for decades. A hundred years later, many unreasonable people sighed that "the civilization of my Qing Dynasty", "the civilization of my Qing Dynasty" and "industrial development".

But in reality it was just a castle built on the beach, and it wasn't even a castle. It is just a rootless Ping, and the weapons that have been made to prove that "our Qing Dynasty is industrially developed" are just inferior and cannot be standardized "workshop goods", just like the so-called "gift cars" and "gift planes" in a special period, which are completely meaningless.

However, the "Qi Fighting Cannon" and "Qi Fighting Gun" manufactured by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, and other bureaus and factories of the "Great Qing Dynasty" did not even use the "Qi Fighting Cannon" and "Qi Qi Gun" made by his founder, Li Hongzhang himself, and the Beiyang Land and Naval Division used all foreign goods, and those so-called "Qi Qi Cannons" and "Qi Fighting Guns" were often only used to dispel the defense forces of poor provinces. Even if the guns are unusable, it is not uncommon for them to be returned. It is even rejected by poor provinces.

What caused all this?

It's that the machine is not advanced enough. So you can't produce weapons with good performance? Of course not, in fact, whether it is the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, or the Hanyang Arsenal, their production equipment at least used advanced equipment made in Britain or Germany at that time, but these factories that used advanced equipment could not produce qualified weapons. It is even a complete waste of raw materials for production, producing many weapons that are expensive, of low quality, and not adapted to modern warfare.

What exactly is causing all this?

It is the lack of talents that has led to the fact that until half a century after the establishment of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, it still failed to develop into a real modern arsenal, and it is still just a "factory-style workshop". It is also the talent that restricts the development of the Western-style factory, whether it is the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau or the huge Hanyang Arsenal, talent is the bottleneck of its development, even if it is a few technicians, it cannot change its overall lack of talents.

In many cases, foremen and workers in various factories are not aware of the normal speed of the incoming and production machinery, so the machinery is often not used to the extreme. Even the most basic skilled workers are not qualified, let alone other talents!

Without people, everything is empty talk!

Tang Haoran, who knows that the development of the company and the government has been constrained by insufficient intellectual resources in the past two years, naturally regards how to cultivate talents as the focus of his work, and now is naturally no exception, and even more energy and financial resources than in the past, because now he no longer needs to think about whether to train Koreans or Chinese.

"...... Now"

After a pause, Tang Haoran, who had recovered from his thoughts, took out a cigar cigarette from the cigar box on the window, and then cut off the cigarette butt, and now Tang Haoran has changed his smoking habit to smoking cigars, and after the cigar cigarette was lit, the room was suddenly filled with a burst of cigar fragrance. Tasting the aroma of cigars, Tang Haoran cast his eyes out the window,

"Helan, there are some people who do not see the importance of the Ministry of Education, and they think that in the future, 20% of the annual financial expenditure of the Governor's Office will be spent on education, which is too much......

The corners of Tang Haoran's lips are always slightly raised outside the window, there are indeed some too much, taking next year's budget as an example, the education fund is enough to be as much as 7 million, calculated by the population of the Northeast, the average per person is more than one yuan, and this is only the funds provided by the Governor's Office, if the provincial level 30%, 50% of the local expenditure of cities, counties and townships, the per capita education expenditure will exceed 1.5 yuan, which is undoubtedly incomprehensible to many people, especially in the case of the Governor's Palace's financial resources are not lenient, whether it is appropriate to spend tens of millions of yuan on education.

However, whether they understand it or not, they have to face a reality -- the lack of human resources restricts the development of politics, economy, military, industry, and other aspects, so in the end they still chose to support, and in addition to the support, each department has its own study abroad plan, the Military Command Department has a plan to send military students to Germany, France, Britain and the United States, and various departments such as general affairs and civil affairs also have similar plans for professional study abroad.

After more than 200 years of enslavement by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, compared with the West, China's backwardness is all-round, not only to learn from the West military and science, but even the most basic civil and municipal management needs to learn from the West, in order to change the traditional way of governance of the Chinese government to treat the people as fish and meat, and to introduce the modern municipal management concept into China.

Comprehensive study has led to an inevitable result - the inevitability of sending a large number of international students, as for where these international students will take China in the next ten years, it is not Tang Haoran needs to consider, for a long time in the future, those international students who are full of good feelings about the country of study to control the political situation is a later country in the rise of modern society, it is inevitable to face things, as for what consequences will bring, it is not a problem that needs to be considered now, What China needs now is to seize the last chance to get back its historical debts!

"But they don't know that we have a historical debt in education for as many as 200 years, and do you remember Dong-A Daily's "Clinical Recommendations" article?"

In the face of Da Shuai's inquiry, Rong Shangqin immediately thought of the sensational article, and naturally knew the answer that Da Shuai was referring to.

"Seeking knowledge in the world, saving the decline of civilization as the right way, the largest number of formal school education, the largest amount of remedial education, the largest number of kindergartens, the largest number of libraries, and the largest number of newspaper readers."

However, no one knows who wrote the "Clinical Recommendations", and it seems that Rong Shangqin is the work of the marshal, because even if he has experience in the United States, it is difficult to understand the marshal's almost paranoid importance to education, and those Japanese scholars and officials can reach a consensus with adults in this regard.

"Yes, on the surface, this "clinical recommendation" is to restore the vitality of the nation, but in fact, it is a cruel reality requirement, now in this world of the jungle, the fierce competition between countries for status, on the surface it seems to be a competition of military strength, but in fact military strength is based on economic competition and scientific and technological competition, and in the final analysis, it is a competition between talent and education. It can be said that ......"

The words sank slightly, and Tang Haoran, who held the cigar cigarette between his fingers, said a fact in a deep voice.

"Education is the only way to make a country strong!"

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