Li Yongji really wants to establish a university, and he also sincerely hopes that these three big bulls will become teachers and scholars, teach and educate people well, and teach basic knowledge, instead of getting them into some ordnance station in advance as ordinary skilled workers.

That's right, Li Yongji does want to open factories in industry, and he does need a lot of technical talents, but to tell the truth, Li Yongji has the complete technical information and complete equipment of another world as the backing.

You must know that the artisan class of this period, such as masons, blacksmiths, carpenters, etc., although their social status is relatively low, but they are usually passed down from generation to generation, most of them start to inherit their father's business from a young age, and it is because they have been studying since childhood, so whether it is craftsmanship or literacy, it is quite good.

When those people grow up, although the amount of knowledge and knowledge they have are not as good as those of later generations of middle school students, if they only look at one or a few professional fields, according to Li Yongji's view, they can at least reach the level of modern junior high school students or even secondary school students. And they may not be able to create a zào ability, but because they have no distractions, their ability to absorb new knowledge is particularly strong, and the learning speed is far from being comparable to that of modern middle school students.

In fact, when Li Yongji was in Wuxi to establish a military government, he quietly passed the written examination, gathered all kinds of craftsmen in his army who were recognized as relatively good, and recruited a group of craftsmen with superb skills, young age, and relatively high literacy rate in Wuxi by written examination and recommended methods. The number of these craftsmen of various types reached 3,000, and then Li Yongji set up a technical equipment department with these 3,000 craftsmen, and their task was to carefully study the technical information provided by Li Yongji in the specified area, and use the equipment and raw materials provided by Li Yongji to restore the production process in the technical data in reality.

Up to now. They have set up many factories in Wuxi's new industrial zone, such as a 5,000KW small hydroelectric power plant, a modern silk reeling factory, a modern silk factory, a modern dyeing and weaving factory, a modern food processing factory, a modern wood factory, a modern ceramic factory, a modern glass factory, and a modern kiln factory. Modern cement plants and much more.

To put it simply, most of the people in these technical equipment departments have not studied the principles of these equipment, but they only install the equipment according to the instructions and carry out certain debugging, and then process the raw materials according to the production process in the manual, which is still possible.

Of course, the reason why the speed of production can be so fast is also related to the fact that most of the equipment given to them by Li Yongji is quite automated. Almost all of them are computer-controlled, as long as the program is set up and the equipment is installed in place according to the requirements, it can run automatically. This greatly reduces the need for manual intervention.

The reason for this is because Li Yongji wants to do his best to produce products so as to expand exports, and first use his gold finger to exchange for quick money. By the way, we can make better use of the resources of the region.

In other words, Li Yongji's method was to first use advanced equipment to start production, and then slowly build a technical school. Importing primary equipment and slowly accumulating technology from scratch, the path he took is still the one that modern China has done. The Celestial Empire of another time and space is to introduce advanced technology first, get the advanced production line out first, and then find someone to develop it from scratch, and finally reach the stage of the advanced production line.

So far, these factories have begun to produce high-quality products, such as all kinds of high-grade silk, all kinds of high-grade bone china, all kinds of glassware, all kinds of edible oil, all kinds of shelled rice and all kinds of flour, as well as red bricks, cement and other building materials.

At the beginning, the production capacity of these factories has not yet exploded, in fact, even now it has not completely exploded, but until the beginning of August, that is, when the Qingpu Military Academy was first established, the products produced by these factories, due to their excellent quality, huge output, and relatively cheap prices, once again set off a rush to buy, basically in short supply, factory sales have reached two million taels of silver, gross profit of up to 1.5 million taels of silver!

That's right, it's true that the sales are two million taels of silver, and the gross profit is one and a half million taels, which is not miscalculated, and strictly speaking, this is only a month's sales.

The reason why the sales are so high is not because of the high production, but because the quality of these products is so good, and all of them are sold as luxury goods.

For example, the silk bar, the silk reeled by modern machines, the yield is quite high, the silk is uniform, the thickness is consistent, and the hand-reeling silk is not a concept at all, while improving the quality, it greatly reduces waste; In the same way, the silk thread with uniform thickness and good quality, bleached and dyed by modern technology, and then made by using a modern loom controlled by a microcomputer, is not only of better quality, but also can be embroidered by computer according to demand.

That is to say, you can have any color you want, and you can have any color if you want, and they are all embroidered with different colors of silk thread, which is different from painting.

These silks used modern bleaching and dyeing technology in the silk thread stage in advance, and the bleaching and dyeing used synthetic dyes are not only cheaper, but also the colors are more vivid, the color fastness is higher, and the light yì does not fade, even in Europe and the United States, such as such technology has not yet appeared, and even some bright colors, such as bright yellow, such as light pink, lavender, etc., are also quite popular and loved in Europe high-end luxury colors.

In addition, other ceramic products made with modern digital temperature control furnaces and modern material selection technology, and various glass products produced with modern technology and equipment, can all be regarded as luxury goods, not to mention that locals can't walk after seeing them, and even foreigners are crazy when they see them.

Because Li Yongji prefers to export products, eighty percent of these products are sold directly to foreigners, among which the Americans buy the most, followed by the French, and finally the British.

The reason for this phenomenon is not that the Americans have special money, but that American businessmen have more ships, and Tong Guò sold Li Yongji three clippers at once in a barter manner, and also included the cost of ordering warships.

As for the British and the French, they also wanted to do this, but unfortunately the armed merchant ships they can still use at present are either joined the Anglo-French combined fleet last time, and they were blown up. Either it was requisitioned in advance, used to block the Yangtze River port, carry supplies and deal with the Qing army, and there were no extra ships to sell, so they could only take out real money.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the production capacity and sales of these industrial products that Li Yongji really made up his mind to expand the army and began to expand the recruitment of migrant workers, otherwise if he still relied on the previous method of purely purchasing precious jade, Li Yongji would not have dared to make up his mind to expand the army so quickly.

Other words. Li Yongji's words to fool Wang Tao before, although the water is very large, the amount of money he spends every month to raise soldiers and migrant workers is indeed not small, spending three million taels of silver a month is absolutely exaggerated, but spending one million taels of silver a month is still reliable.

It's just that because most of the consumption is internal circulation, it all goes through CITIC Money, especially the large consumers. The main force of the 60,000 elite military forces is basically isolated from the world in the barracks, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation are all covered by the troops, so most of the more than one million taels of silver are on paper. In other words, what is really spent is the silver and military tickets issued by CITIC Money.

Therefore, this money seems to be a lot of money, but in fact, most of it is self-printed pieces of paper, which are maintained by the personal credit of Jingwujun and Li Yongji, as well as the credit of those affiliated businesses. At present, the sales objects are mainly concentrated in those merchants, related households, soldiers, and migrant workers related to the Jingwu Army, and because of the huge consumption of this group, other people are also competing to buy this kind of Jingwu Army's paper money and military tickets. So theoretically speaking, as long as Li Yongji and Jingwujun's credit does not fail, he wants as much money as he wants, and once he is short of money, it is a big deal to print more.

Moreover, CITIC Money not only printed its own banknotes, but also poured pure copper and privately minted copper coins and silver oceans, and began to mint inferior copper coins and silver dollars with low silver content, and used these things to exchange for silver ingots and gold from other places, and the behavior became more and more unscrupulous, and more and more frustrated, and the profits naturally became higher and higher.

Coupled with the gradual increase in the grain transaction volume with Li Xiucheng, this qiē calculation, Li Yongji has recently counted the ultra-high-profit time-space transactions on his own books, and with other normal incomes, he can earn more than four million taels of silver a month, and it is a piece of cake to support that army.

In short, having said so much, there is actually only one meaning, that is, with modern technology and modern equipment, even if it is with some junior and junior high level craftsmen, it can be perfectly copied in the nineteenth century, at least it can be put into production smoothly, not only in light industry, but also in heavy industries such as iron and steel industry, coal chemical industry, salt chemical industry, etc., it will not be too difficult to do, so there is no need for a big cow like Li Shanlan, or in other words, it is a pure waste of resources to put them on this kind of repetitive construction.

On the basis of complete technical materials, it is easy to learn and repetitively build, but if you want to understand it completely, it is not so easy to understand why it is so in principle, and it is necessary to strengthen the education of basic science, especially mathematics education.

Mathematics is the foundation of scientific knowledge, what physics, chemistry, natural biology, must use mathematics, if a country is not good at mathematics, then her basic science is not reliable, and there is no strong basic science to support, not to mention that there is no so-called innovation ability, and even the ability to copy and copycat is greatly reduced.

Some applied science and technology can directly copy the modern technology obtained by Li Yongji, but if we want to really learn this set by ourselves, if we want to truly establish our own modern industrial and agricultural system, and establish our own modern education mechanism, we must learn from scratch, and we must first strengthen mathematics education and research in basic physics and chemistry, in other words, we must strengthen the study and research of basic science.

Li Shanlan, Hua Hengfang and Xu Shou, what Li Yongji values most is not their hands-on ability, but their theoretical knowledge in mathematics, physics and chemistry, especially the ability to specialize in multiple abilities, that is to say, although each of them has their own strengths, they are all proficient in mathematics, physics and chemistry and other basic science knowledge at the same time, and have a very solid foundation in basic science, and it is the most important theoretical foundation in basic science.

Li Yongji himself has been a teacher for a period of time, and he knows the door very well, that is, it is easy for teachers to read textbooks, but students do not just read textbooks to learn knowledge, but also have to do their own problems, deepen their understanding in doing problems, and make the knowledge in textbooks their own. And when doing problems, especially math problems, if the teacher's level is not enough. It is impossible to quickly improve the ability of most students, and we can only hope that some of them can be comprehended by themselves based on the known information.

Obviously, relying on genius self-comprehension is obviously too inefficient, so it is necessary to teach them some people who are good at mathematics, so that students can make the basic science more solid, so as to make it easier to become talents.

Therefore, Li Yongji said that doing scholarship is to rejuvenate the country and save the country, and he is not mixed with water at all. From the point of view of education, it is true that the real backbone of a country is those intellectuals who truly understand modern scientific knowledge, and if we want a country to truly embark on the road of rejuvenating the country through science and education, it is absolutely not to copy the advanced technology of other countries, but to first concentrate on learning the basic skills well, that is, to conduct solid and thorough research on our own basic science. Only then can we climb to a higher field on a solid theoretical basis.

For example, the later generations of American emperors in another time and space, the world envied their scientific and technological innovation ability, but they did not know that their innovation ability was based on their solid basic scientific research. Especially in the study of mathematics. More than half of the world's smartest mathematicians are in the United States, and the world's most famous mathematics prize is also in the United States. This shows the importance of basic science.

Of course, it is the late Qing Dynasty, and the social situation is different. There are still very few people who are really willing to open their eyes to the world and devote themselves to the study of basic science, and they are even far worse than the end of the Qing Dynasty.

However, Li Yongji didn't expect those stubborn scholars, not to mention that with the country's current education mechanism, the more you read, the more rigid your head becomes, and it may not be a good thing to come to study in a science and engineering university, so from the very beginning, Li Yongji targeted the relatives of those officers and soldiers of the elite army, the relatives of craftsmen, and even the children of small businessmen.

Li Yongji thought about it for a while, and in the future, this science and engineering university could be built in Qingpu County first, and it would be under the name of the Jingwu Army, and it would also give students a lot of good treatment, and regard enrolling in school as a shelter system for joining the Jingwu Army, so that they could be exempted from paying money and food from the government, and they could become a military-affiliated school like the Qingpu Military Academy.

In other words, Li Yongji does not want to forcibly enroll students in such high-level universities, but uses the method of seduction of interests to let these flexible people study willingly, and such a university must pursue the strategy of strict entry and strict exit, and must be able to educate qualified talents, and must not become a paradise for boring people.

In the initial stage, all teachers and students in such a university must be Chinese, and the learning materials must be encrypted layer by layer, and if they are not at a certain level, they are not allowed to borrow relevant materials, just like martial arts cheats. In the future, when your confidence is stronger and the education system is more perfect, you can introduce foreign aid and let foreigners join in, so that you can truly build a truly international university, of course, that's a later story.

In short, Li Shanlan and others are quite satisfied with Li Yongji's idea of aspiring to teach and educate people in the construction of a university, because for them, although it is not impossible to do it themselves, what they are best at is theoretical research, and although they are interested in mechanical things, they hope to teach students and pass on their own knowledge, rather than being like a craftsman who is greasy all day long.

Now, when Li Yongji tells them, you don't have to be a craftsman, you only need to be a teacher to teach students, and I will give you more books, more knowledge, more perfect practical rooms, and better treatment, such as houses, carriages, servants, and so on...... In short, Li Yongji has prepared you in advance for a scientific researcher and educator's dream, and in terms of conditions, even Western scientists and educators cannot compare with them.

Of course, because this qiē has not yet been implemented, Li Shanlan and the others have not realized what they will get, but just because Li Yongji attaches importance to education and respects their expression, they are quite satisfied, even if they feel that Li Yongji is too young and his life is too luxurious, but these small sections do not care much.

After dealing with these science giants, letting them eat and drink well and then go down to rest, Li Yongji had the strength to deal with the foreigners who came with them.

These foreigners were all Americans, missionaries, businessmen, and retired soldiers, and the captains of the three clippers were among them, and the leader was none other than Li Yongji's old friend Howard.

Howard was originally the U.S. consular charge d'affaires in the Hongkou Concession, but because he had recently negotiated many big deals with Li Yongji on behalf of American businessmen, especially in the exchange of clippers for high-end supplies of the Li Group, he has now been promoted to the official consul of the U.S. Concession in Hongkou District.

Howard has been very close to Li Yongji recently, and when he chatted with Li Yongji, it may be because of this, although Li Yongji delayed for a long time to meet Howard, and he hadn't eaten with them yet, Howard didn't care at all, and took off his hat as soon as they met, and smiled the most enthusiastically. (To be continued......)