Xue Huan, the governor of Jiangsu, was the first senior official of the former Qing Dynasty to be loyal to Lin Zhe, when Lin Zhe had not rebelled, he was supported by Lin Zhe to become Su Songtai's soldiers, after Lin Zhe officially called the emperor system, he continued to sit in Su Songtai, the core ruling area of the Chinese Empire, providing a stable rear for the Chinese army's conquest.

Lin Zhe did not forget his loyalty to you, and subsequently directly promoted him to the governor of Jiangsu.

Don't look at the fact that he didn't enter the cabinet as a minister or anything like that, but in fact, in today's Chinese Empire, the role of the governor of Jiangsu is not much worse than that of the prime minister of the cabinet.

Jiangsu, especially its southern Jiangsu region, is an important tax area in contemporary China, and the Chinese army is relying on southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang to embark on the journey of hegemony.

After knowing the importance of this region, you can know the huge role of Xue Huan, who sat in the governor of Jiangsu, in the civil service system of the Chinese Empire, if he wants to enter the central government, he must definitely not only be a minister of various ministries, at least an associate minister of the cabinet, or simply a cabinet prime minister.

So when he saw Xue Huan, Jiang Daoquan didn't put on a cabinet minister's stand, but called him brother and brother in person, and these two people are also relatively similar, they are both from a few high-ranking officials in the Manchu era in the Chinese Empire, and they are not all from Lin Zhe's shogunate like Bi Yu and others.

is relatively similar in status and background, so that Jiang Daoquan is more pleasing to the eye to see this Xue Huan, and he will not say that he treats them like other ministers, and treats them as dirt buns, even Bi Yutong is not less affected by his eyes.

"Cousin, you have seen the benefits of running this university. You should also know that once Jiangnan University is established, the elite students of the whole country will gather in southern Jiangsu. But the time is to improve the humanistic image of your Jiangsu, and it is of great benefit to your talent demand! ”

Xue Huan said hehe: "Brother Shi Lan, I naturally know what you said. But if this university is located in Suzhou, I will definitely support it without saying a word, but now this university is placed in Shanghai, and you can't not know that now the empire is preparing to build Shanghai as a separate city, so that Shanghai has nothing to do with our Jiangsu! ”

Hearing this, Jiang Daoquan was also stunned, how did he know the news of Shanghai's separate establishment of a city, and the cabinet had only begun to discuss the establishment of Nanjing and Shanghai as separate cities a few days ago.

Due to the particularity of Nanjing and Shanghai Business Zone. In fact, since the establishment of the empire, these two regions have been separated from the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, and should have the model of direct central government.

After the defeat of the Anglo-French alliance this year, the empire has decided to formally abolish the colonial trade zone, and is preparing to re-merge the existing trade zone with the original Shanghai county, and then set up a separate central government.

Similarly, Nanjing, which has been used as the capital, has also been separated from the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province and then established as a separate city.

Once this is set up as a municipality directly under the central government, it naturally has nothing to do with Jiangsu Province.

It is not an exaggeration for Xue Huan to change the location of Jiangnan University from Shanghai to Suzhou, after all, he is the governor of Jiangsu. is not the future mayor of Shanghai, he is not willing to let Jiangsu invest a lot of local finance, and finally made a wedding dress for Shanghai in vain.

However, Jiangnan University is located in Shanghai, which was personally approved by His Majesty. There is no way to change it, and although Suzhou is also the leading city in China, it is still too small compared to Shanghai. Starting from Jiangnan University itself, it is natural to prefer to place the school in Shanghai.

After Xue Huan's side didn't get any benefits. Jiang Daoquan went to the Shanghai Business Zone again and had an interview with Xiao Changzhong, the head of the business district.

This Xiao Changzhong is the current head of the business district. He is already the first mayor of Shanghai after the merger, so if this Jiangnan University is placed in Shanghai, it is undoubtedly a major achievement of his, and it is impossible for him not to support it.

But although Xiao Changzhong thinks about Jiangnan University in his heart, the local finances here in Shanghai are not loose!

It is true that Shanghai's tax revenue is very high, but the current fiscal system of the empire requires that most of the local fiscal revenue be handed over to the national treasury, and the fiscal revenue left for the local government is not much.

And how to say it, Shanghai is a big business, the business zone is now in a period of great development, all kinds of infrastructure investment is very large, just to build roads and bridges is not a small amount.

Moreover, although the business zone is small, the number of state employees is very large, and the salary cost of this personnel is also very large, so it is not so easy to squeeze out a large amount of money to support Jiangnan University out of thin air, not to mention that this university is not a one-time investment.

As a government-run university, although Jiangnan University will charge tuition fees for students in the future, this tuition fee cannot be more expensive than the tuition fee of Imperial University, and the school-running expenditure is far more than the tuition fee, that is to say, the future Jiangnan University is estimated to have to fill in the monthly expenses of as little as two or three hundred thousand, and as much as four or five hundred thousand yuan to maintain the school.

Although the central government will also support part of this part of the fund, the local government will definitely also support a part of it, and if it is too much, it will affect the expansion and development plan of Shanghai after the merger of Shanghai County and the business district in the future.

As the mayor of Shanghai, although he has not yet taken office, he has already formulated a series of development plans after the merger and establishment of the city, he wants to take the business zone as the core, to the north bank of the Huangpu River to expand on a large scale, especially to prepare for the establishment of a large industrial zone on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, for the development of raw silk, cotton cloth and other textile industries.

Although the government is not responsible for the investment of enterprises, you have to be responsible for basic municipal construction such as road renovation and street lamp erection.

And municipal construction is very costly!

However, despite the difficulties, Xiao Changzhong still said that Shanghai will give the greatest support to the establishment of Jiangnan University, because it will provide 150,000 yuan of pre-school funds, and 50,000 yuan of maintenance funds will be provided every year in the future.

Although Jiang Daoquan is not very satisfied with this figure. But Jiang Daoquan is also a person who knows how to settle down, no matter how much he takes first.

The central government and the local government in Shanghai supported a total of 450,000 yuan. At the same time, Shanghai also promised to provide a piece of land located in the business zone for the construction of the school site at the lowest preferential price.

The money is tight though. But everything is afraid that it will be difficult at the beginning, since there is money to start, is it difficult to be afraid that you will not be able to raise money to maintain the school in the future?

Jiang Daoquan didn't believe that the empire's financial situation would always be so tight, and the difficulties were at most the difficulties of the past few years, and after the empire completely unified China, the follow-up military spending would inevitably fall, and the Ministry of Education would be able to get more funds at that time.

After Jiangnan University broke ground in the business zone, it caused a small shock in Shanghai's industrial and commercial circles, why? Because they see the elite students that this university has to offer in three or four years.

You know, they didn't think much about it when they were competing with government agencies for Imperial University graduates not long ago. But it didn't grab so many people, and now if Shanghai wants to build a university, wouldn't these companies be able to get close to the water in the future, and occupy the geographical advantage to recruit the graduates of Jiangnan University to work for the company?

Immediately, they came to the door one by one and said that they were willing to make a certain donation or something!

But they are not unconditional, that is, Jiangnan University must accept their designated students to enroll, and at the same time, they must open some disciplines that they have formulated, especially the content of science!

They want Jiangnan University to be used as an incubator to cultivate high-end elite talents for their own enterprises. Especially the kind of high-end technical talents who can replace foreign engineers.

Jiang Daoquan is a little repulsed by the requirements of these enterprises, for him, this Jiangnan University is the same as the Imperial University. The goal is to train the most elite talents for the empire, who will later contribute to the great cause of the empire, and who should enter politics after graduation. Lead the people of the empire to prosperity and strength, not to cultivate business talents for these enterprises.

But in the face of the cashier's checks of these enterprises. Even if Jiang Daoquan was conservative, he did not resist this temptation, and finally signed a contract with Linde Machinery Factory, Shanghai Textile Company and other enterprises.

These companies will select and send students to Jiangnan University on their own. After completing their studies, Jiangnan University is not allowed to interfere with the employment arrangements of these students, because these companies will definitely sign a long-term deed of sale with these students before sending them here, and they will never let go without squeezing their value out.

At the same time, these companies pay the full amount of tuition, living expenses and other necessary expenses for these students, and also support the commission training fee according to the cost of 1,000 to 3,000 yuan per student, depending on the discipline, and donate part of the teaching equipment.

The reason why they pay a lot of money is because these companies have very high requirements for the learning content of their students, and they explicitly require these students to offer the best science courses of our time.

What do you need to run these top courses? Then it is necessary to buy the latest scientific books from foreign countries and hire first-class foreign scholars to give lectures, which must cost money, otherwise these companies will not be able to pay so much for commissioning and training, because they know that it is not cheap to invite these scholars to give lectures.

However, even if you pay a lot of commission fees, it is much cheaper than sending students to study abroad, and there is also a guarantee, because if your company wants to send students to study abroad, after the students return from school, they will be 100% recruited by the government with the money of the international students in this year, and even if you sign a commission training contract with the students, it is a big deal that the government will compensate for liquidated damages.

After signing commission training contracts with many enterprises, Jiang Daoquan suddenly found that the school-running expenses of Jiangnan University had risen from more than 400,000 yuan to more than 800,000 yuan.

But what makes him even more headache is that these commission fees are not easy to get, and other companies require the top disciplines and scholars to give lectures, and the professor is estimated to have to send someone to Europe or the United States to invite, and it is estimated that the cost is not small, according to the annual salary of 1,000 pounds a year for an ordinary professor, if you invite twenty or thirty, it will cost tens of thousands of pounds a year, and people come to your school to give lectures, not only need to give a salary, but also have to solve the life of other professors, solve people's scientific research conditions, The investment in this area is actually greater than the salary investment.

In this way, the cost of establishing a top-notch science and engineering discipline alone would have to be more than 70,000 pounds, which would be more than 300,000 dollars when calculated in silver dollars.

In other words, half of the school's funding was spent all at once.

Then the cost of building a school building and opening other disciplines will cost four or five hundred thousand, so if you calculate it, the eight hundred thousand yuan is not enough!

Looking at the red deficit on the books, Jiang Daoquan closed the plan a little helplessly, this is really difficult to run a school! (To be continued......)