The more intense the storm comes, the more peaceful and undecent.

Since Emperor Guangxu promulgated the "Edict", countless voices of criticism and refutation of the Yang family between the government and the opposition suddenly disappeared. Not only did no one come to trouble Yang Hao, but even the power that had stumbled openly and secretly in the past was all agreed to let go.

Because of the call to change the law and try to become stronger, the literati who have been aggrieved for more than half a year seem to have found an opportunity to shine and write articles with their lives. As a result, the business volume of the Daqing Telegraph Office has risen one after another, more than ten times more than before. The folds of books and cards piled up on the desks of the various yamen officials every day have to be counted, but there is no one in ten thousand that can really be seen by adults, and most of them end up piled up in the corner to eat ashes.

Yang Hao, as always, steadily pursued his industrial and commercial construction plan, but it would take at least three months to half a year before the foreign powers could implement the agreement and bring in the necessary personnel and equipment from abroad.

At this time, he came to perfect the training of basic workers. Of course, the more important one is to enrich the Peiyang University Hall, which has been prepared for a long time.

On February 26, 1895, the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon raised its head, and the enrollment of Tianjin Peiyang University Hall officially began.

The road leading directly to the school in the American Concession was crowded with people who came to sign up and watch the excitement a few days ago. Those who have money live in concession hotels, and those who are worse live in small hotels outside the county seat and Zizhu Forest. Poorer...... Just make do in the shed erected on the side of the avenue outside the school.

Yang Hao's business acumen has greatly improved, as if he had long expected this situation, and he ordered someone to build a series of prefabricated houses on the side of the road early. It is then leased to locals. Whether they use it to open a hotel or a restaurant, it's casual. As long as you are a good landlord. Just do a good job of order management.

is so generous and benevolent, and provides a small fortune business in vain, so that the local people are grateful, and give a thumbs up to praise "Boss Yang is benevolent and benevolent, and kind-hearted"!

Because it was the first time that the Qing Dynasty had opened a university for enrollment, it was not for the rigorous routine of the imperial examination, which had been implemented for more than 1,000 years, that qualified personnel could be screened out in advance, and I don't know how many people would come to apply. After all, in these years, people who study are all for promotion and make a fortune. Who knows what this Western-style university hall can do?

Therefore, the selection rules are a little more troublesome, and you can first learn about the subjects to be studied in the university through guò "Guowen Bao", and you can even buy relevant textbooks in advance and study them on your own. After that, they fill in the information through a special form, apply for the birth certificate issued by the local government, and take photos at the registration points in each province to make a final decision.

This is just the joint of registration, and it has been almost half a year from the confirmation to today, which is not an ordinary slowness. But no one thought there was a problem with that. In the words of folk commentators, this can be regarded as a imperial examination. How can you stop being cautious?

There are not no objections, and a large number of pretentious people feel that Lao Tzu can't pass the imperial examination, which is bad luck. To go to your little Western-style school to make do, that's condescension. You don't go up to the pole and carry the sedan chair to invite, and there is still an examination room, and there are a lot of problems, I don't know what to say.

This part of the people used to shout fiercely, belittling and reprimanding on various occasions, and showing a disdainful and arrogant posture. But as soon as Emperor Guangxu's "Edict" was released, they suddenly changed their faces and pounced on them like mad dogs.

The emperor must be determined to change the law and innovate and establish a new school, which shows that the new school also has a way out! Then why don't you hurry up and grab the opportunity? China's first batch of college students, all decently glowing when they say it!

In the words of the old lady of the Yang family, this situation is: "Those self-proclaimed intellectuals in China are a bunch of lowly bones and hypocrites!" They criticize the common people at every turn for being small-scale peasants and small-scale citizens, but in fact, they are the most mercenary bastards. What qualifications do you have to look down on the masses? Pure lack of transformation! ”

The absurdity lies in the fact that the common people of China have respected scholars since ancient times, but those who often jump out of the peasant gate turn their heads and forget all about their class of origin. The ass sat on the cold treatment of the poor masses like them before the ruling class of the scholars.

Taizu, who was well aware of the shortcomings of this terrible and ugly civilization, corrected it with unprecedented ferocity, and put this group of people into the people to mix with the common people, and "accept the re-education of the poor and middle peasants." As a result, he died on the front foot, and the back foot immediately "set things right", and then "overkill", until he "intensified" and was out of control.

Mrs. Yang's generation has personally experienced the whole process and has seen it very thoroughly. Therefore, I have no good impression of this group of purebred shameless literati who are more typical and purer in the late Qing Dynasty, and have not had time to be infected with the problem of admiring foreign flattery.

Yang Hao was exposed to the comparison and analysis, and also saw the problems. So, you're not at all polite to these speculative things. Anyone who signed up after the promulgation of the "Edict" should not do it, and it is useless to say that it is useless to come to the heavens, and you want to sue? Fall in love with where to go.

Even so, after half a year of propaganda and brewing, the number of young students who began to reflect and make up their minds to contribute to the transformation of China is still terrifying. There are tens of thousands of application receipt forms, and the first batch of admissions is only 300 people.

It's one thing to sign up, but it's not known how many you can come. Emperor Guangxu is smart, issued the "Edict", and immediately prepared to open new-style schools in various places, which are presided over by a bunch of clear streams, but it is much more reliable than Li Hongzhang, an old guy who is likely to step down soon, and Yang Hao, a thief.

Yang Hao didn't know how many people he could recruit, he had made up his mind, even if one didn't come, it would be great for Lao Tzu to cultivate from scratch. What he wants is to train batches of new backbones that can really be used, and those who are indiscriminately filling up or just thinking about being an official would rather not.

However, on the second day of February, the lively and grand scene outside the concession made him breathe a sigh of relief. It looks like the previous hard work was not in vain.

The first batch of college students, Yang Hao is to be the backbone of the organization to cultivate, and of course the admission work cannot be faked. Other than that. He also wanted to experience what it was like to be a principal. There are hundreds of thousands of troops under his hands. Where came a young and handsome officer. When you meet, you can give a standard military salute, and you will shout "principal" in your voice, which is very emotional!

In pursuit of this goal, Yang Hao simply lived in the school training camp on the first day. Early the next morning, from the top of the third floor of the board room admissions office, which had just been baptized by a light rain, overlooking the wide playground, I nodded with satisfaction at the bustling thousands of people.

Zhou Jianhao, Ding Weifen, Xu Yanzhuo and others all came. Lined up left and right like the two generals, watching together, their faces were full of excitement.

"In two years, we will have a group of college students who are not inferior to the great powers! It doesn't take ten years, even if it can't be compared with a first-class power, it will not be too far behind. ”

Peiyang University Hall is just the beginning, as long as the whole set of appropriate education system is explored, verified and sorted out, it can be expanded at the speed of geometric progression. At that time, there will be several universities in each province, and the number of students will also range from 300 to 3,000. until it reaches the scale of a university town that often tens of thousands of dollars as Yang Hao said.

The thought of tens of thousands of college students graduating and devoting themselves to construction every year makes everyone feel excited. Those are all professionals who really know how to use the world, not bad civil officials who are corrupt and corrupt except for reciting poems.

Add to this the fact that there are ten times the size of technical schools and literacy classes all over the country, and in ten years, who would dare to say that China is illiterate?

As long as half of the 430 million people are free from illiteracy and one-tenth of the industrial population, who else in the world can resist?

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and today we are going to take the first step.

At eight o'clock, the clock of the concession church rang melodiously, Yang Hao took a deep breath and waved his hand at everyone: "Go, go down and choose our new strength!" ”

Everyone geared up and went downstairs to the registration point.

On the avenue outside the campus, a dense crowd is surging forward. I couldn't go in to see the lively crowd, so I had to stay on both sides of the road and judge the students who came. The noisy and shouting voices became louder and louder against the increase in the flow of people, the warm atmosphere was high, and the laughter from time to time made the students from all over the country who walked in the middle more and more nervous.

Look at the human dragon that can't see the head in front and can't see the tail in the back, everyone knows that they are afraid that they are going to make a stern shape that is one in a hundred.

Before, they were full of confidence in their hearts, but now they are not sure at all. I didn't expect that the selection of a mere university hall was not weaker than the imperial examination at all! This competition is to do everything in their power, and I don't know what kind of topic Mr. Yang will come up with, whether it is the same as what the newspaper says, .......

The more nervous they are, the easier it is to make mistakes, and many young people who are not confident enough and have luck will not even be able to walk. Under the scorching gaze of thousands of onlookers, in the comparison of a large number of competitors in front and back, left and right, trembling, sallow or pale, sweating profusely, there are not a few.

They didn't know that in the crowd of onlookers on this two-kilometer-long avenue, there were hundreds of people holding small notebooks in their hands, quietly recording their every move. From time to time, the camera clicks to take pictures, recording their most typical mood.

But there are outliers and exceptions everywhere. In the midst of the hustle and bustle, a special small group stood out.

Surrounded by the powerful and sharp-eyed bodyguards of No. 7 or 8, a young girl who was almost less than 1.7 meters tall walked in the middle of the road with her head held high. Countless people on the side of the road stared and talked strangely, and she completely ignored the general impassivity. There was a little girl with a double bun next to her, but she was so frightened that she couldn't bury her head in her lower back, and grabbed the back of her tight jacket with both hands.

A tall and mighty man took a step behind and followed on the left, and whispered with a bitter face: "Senior sister, don't make trouble for the old lady!" If so many people show up on the occasion today, is it worth it to go back and give your wife a good beating? ”

In this year, the tall girl who is definitely an anomaly leaned up stubbornly on her slender neck and replied crisply: "I am happy myself, no one cares!" Third Senior Brother, if you are afraid, get out of the house as soon as possible, don't make people unclean on the side! ”

Dahan choked on his neck, sighed helplessly, and had to command the other brothers to block the eyes of the people around him as much as possible.

But none of them were taller than the girl, and the girl's slender body was too conspicuous, with a bee waist and fat buttocks wrapped in a strong suit with exquisite curves, and a long sword in her hand. It's like a light in the dark, and it's hard not to get noticed.

The number one that came out of the crowd full of young people on the street attracted the eyes of countless people. The green skins of Tianjin Wei are mouthful, whistling loudly, not afraid of the threat of the group of bodyguards who are not good at first glance, and they open their mouths to tease.

Fortunately, a clear-eyed person covered their mouths and scolded them in a low voice: "The unlucky thing is dead!" Do you dare to laugh at the young lady of the sixth master Zhan family? How do you plan to turn into eight pieces and throw them into the river to feed the fish? ”

"Huh?! This is the ...... What a young lady! I said that such a big shelf, hey, don't say it, it's exactly the same as the rumors! ”

"Isn't it? Ordinary people can't raise such a girl. It's strange for you to say, the old man is almost sixty years old to add such an old girl, why does she grow so big? What are you eating? ”

"We don't know what to eat, anyway, Sixth Master Zhan is dying of sorrow! Seeing that he is seventeen, he can't find a ...... in-law. ”

"Someone has to dare to do that, right? Whose daughter-in-law doesn't want to find a silver basin face and big ass to give birth to? Look at this guy again, such a big man, with a small face, a pair of big feet, and dancing with guns and sticks all day long...... Can you live this day? I don't dare to marry no matter how much I dowry! ”

"Phew! Look at your virtue, you look like an old gourd, the shit head gives you fragrant food, and you dare to think about Miss Zhan? ”

…… The gossip spread through the crowd at almost the speed of light, and in the blink of an eye, there was a commotion everywhere.

Countless people glanced at each other, and the bunch of sturdy old men who saw it were sweating profusely, and the little maid was almost unable to walk. The young lady of the Zhan family was disdainful with a small mouth, proud like a white swan, and resolutely went straight to the towering archway-style school gate.

"It's definitely going to be a big bustle today, all of you have a good look!"

The noisy crowd surged forward in waves, and many students who thought they were handsome and dashing were stunned to find that their limelight was actually robbed of a little girl's film, and they were filled with righteous indignation and all kinds of unhappiness for a while.

Yang Hao had just arrived at the playground, and he heard a commotion at the gate, and the guard on the side asked on the radio, and came up with an unusually strange expression and whispered: "Sir, there is a woman outside who wants to apply for our school!" ”

"Huh?! Women dare to come? What kind of system is this, what kind of system! ”

Ding Weifen and others were not happy at first. Women in this era have a little identity, how can they show their heads casually, even if they go to the church women's school, they are just adding a little bit of foreign knowledge. In their bones, scholars do not have the concept of equality between men and women. Yang Hao did not publicize it.

However, as soon as he heard this, Yang Hao perked up, waved his hand to stop a few people, and said with interest: "Go, take a look!" (To be continued......)

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