Chapter 33: Where to Travel
Half a month after the Xie family's secret discussion, Xie Niancheng was extremely busy.
This time I set off for Guangzhou, maybe it will be several years, and before leaving, it will not work if things are not arranged here.
In the past half month, Xie Niancheng, Ye Xiaoqiu, Xie Xinzhi, Xie Xinyong, and Xu Wenchang have been busy in the Greater Black Mountain R&D Base, Shuangyang Liuyang Preparatory School and Shuangyang Technical School.
The final result is still quite satisfactory, and the specific construction arrangements of several projects, the software equipment after the completion of the hardware, and the rules and regulations after the smooth operation have made feasible detailed plans.
Now they need to solve only one last problem: where to send international students?
It was actually Xie Niancheng and Xie Xinyong who discussed this issue.
Others have no idea about foreign countries.
Xie Xinyong has been in Guangzhou for a long time, and his understanding of the international situation in this era is much better than Xie Niancheng's.
"Nian Cheng, in my opinion, our international students are headquartered in the UK, and then send students to the best schools in various countries, but in this way, the work is much more cumbersome, and it is too difficult for Xiaoqiu."
On this issue, Xie Niancheng thought more deeply.
"Fourth uncle, I don't think so...... The students are too scattered for us to manage, and besides, there is no other purpose than to learn. My idea is to let our students all go to the same country to study, which may be the disadvantage that many students will not be able to get into the best school in their major, but the advantage is that we can use the large-scale dispatch of international students to establish a good relationship with the country that accepts students...... I think it will be beneficial to establish a good cooperative relationship with a European and American powerhouse in the future. ”
Xie Xinyong could only sigh that this nephew of his was a demonic genius, otherwise how could he think so far.
"Nian Cheng, have you figured out which country you wanted?"
Xie Niancheng shook his head: "What I have learned, the strongest in the world now should be the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States, but I don't know which one to choose." ”
Xie Xinyong asked: "I have been in Guangzhou for a long time, and I know a little about these countries...... Nian Cheng, you can tell me what the conditions are for your choice, and the fourth uncle can also help you come up with ideas. ”
Xie Niancheng said: "Fourth uncle, there are just two of you and me here, I won't hide anything from you, I think there will be chaos in the country in a few years, and having soldiers in hand is the most important thing at that time...... Therefore, I think that which of these countries is likely to assist us in military technology, or which country we should learn from militarily, and which country is the best country for us to send people. ”
Xie Xinyong came to the spirit, as a patriotic and indignant youth, when he was in Guangzhou, he chatted with his colleagues countless times about the armies of various countries, and he began to introduce:
"When it comes to the army, the navy doesn't talk about it, the United Kingdom, which is known as the empire on which the sun never sets, is the strongest, and in the imperial era, we were defeated and retreated in West Asia, the subcontinent and the Indochina Peninsula, and the navy was not as good as the opponent's loss! However, as far as the army is concerned, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Japan are all very strong in combat. ”
"The British Army is strong in daily training, and the combat effectiveness of the standing army should be ranked first in the British army, and we suffered a big loss in the imperial era, and hundreds of thousands of troops in the battle of Rangoon disappeared, so there was the fall of the empire and the birth of the republic...... However, with the relative peace of the international environment in recent decades, the British army has weakened the number of standing troops and paid attention to the strategy of elite soldiers, I am afraid we will not be able to learn! ”
"The French army is also very strong in combat, but the strongest is their foreign army, which can be said to be some barbarians, fighting without death, and the weapons and equipment are good, and the reason why the Republic has repeatedly lost battles with the French army in Indochina is because of the strong combat effectiveness of its foreign army...... However, relatively speaking, the French native soldiers did not have a strong will to fight. ”
"The German army is highly disciplined, the soldiers have a strong sense of honor, and the weapons and equipment are good, but the disadvantage is that the gap between the background of officers and soldiers is a bit large, and the spirit of the low-level soldiers to take the initiative to fight is far inferior to that of Britain and France."
"The Russian soldiers are brave, but the weapons are poor, and there are not many tactics, but Russia is located in Central Europe and Northern Europe, with a large land and resources, and a large number of soldiers, and the overall strength is not weaker than that of Britain, France and Germany."
Speaking of Russia, Xie Xinyong scratched his head a little.
In the past 100 years, Russia has annexed many small countries in Central Asia and North Asia, and now it has advanced its national border to the Heilongjiang River valley in Northeast Asia, and the Central Asian, Mongolian and other vassal states of the Han State directly border it.
"The Japanese soldiers did not want to die in battle, and their tactics were also very flexible. With British support, Japan acquired Ezo and Sakhalin from China, Hawaii to the east, Luhan (Philippine Islands) to the south, and recently Alaska from Russia. However, in terms of overall equipment, the Japanese army could not catch up with the European powers, and the physical fitness of the soldiers was relatively close to that of our Han country. At present, warlords and the Socialist Party in various localities have sent many people to study at Japanese military academies. ”
After listening to Xie Xinyong's brief introduction, Xie Niancheng asked, "Why didn't the fourth uncle say the United States?" ”
Xie Xinyong said: "The United States? What does the United States have to say? The United States has only been founded for more than 100 years, except for the civil war, which is a little larger, and there are some small wars, and the navy is also very average, what? Do you think the U.S. military is strong? ”
Xie Niancheng reacted at this time.
Influenced by the butterfly effect, the great geographical discoveries of the Americas were 200 years ahead of the original history, and more than 100 years ago, the United States took the opportunity to declare independence when the suzerain, Britain and China, fought in West Asia, the subcontinent and the Indochina Peninsula. After independence, the United States fought with Britain for more than ten years, and Britain, which had suffered huge losses, reluctantly recognized the independent status of the United States.
In the past few decades, the United States has been immersed in economic development, and the US military has not yet experienced overseas wars, and in the eyes of the world, it is just a second-rate country.
While trying to recall the history of the early twentieth century in that time and space, Xie Niancheng asked Xie Xinyong: "Fourth uncle, how is the relationship between European countries now?" Will there be a war? ”
"Well, anyway, judging from the foreigners I came into contact with in Guangzhou, they said that they might be going to fight a big fight."
Xie Niancheng said his thoughts: "Fourth uncle, let me tell me my thoughts on the whole plan, you can refer to it in detail." ”
"First of all, the countries we choose to cooperate with cannot be our enemies, and the so-called 'long-distance and close-range attacks' cannot be chosen by Japan and Russia."
"Yes, Russia has annexed several of our Han vassal states, and it has ambitions for the entire north. The Japanese have occupied our Ezo and Sakhalin islands, and now they want to eat Korea, these two countries cannot be trusted. ”
"I think the rest of the countries, the United States and France can also be excluded, the domestic political situation in the United States is changing too fast, the president changes every few years, and it is not easy for us to find suitable long-term partners. France is a country that I think is going downhill, so it's not a good fit. ”
"England or Germany? Nian Cheng, have you counted? ”
"I want to choose Germany."
"Why? The strongest country now is the United Kingdom? ”
Of course, Xie Niancheng would not say what would happen to Germany in that time and space, and he was not sure whether a European war would break out in this time and space, but he only speculated based on what he thought was the most reasonable: "There are several reasons why Britain was not chosen and Germany was chosen. ”
"First, the matter of our Xie family sending students to study abroad is nothing to the British, and we are not official, you know, as the most powerful country in the world, there are at least 100,000 people in the world who go to the UK to study every year, and we have hundreds of them every year, and the British will not take it seriously at all. Germany did not have any overseas colonies, and it would be good for Germany to find a strong partner in Han. ”
"Second, Britain's industrial system is based on the marine economy, our Xie family is inland, if we want to establish an industrial system, it may be better for Germany to learn the continental economy."
"Third, it is easier for us to learn the German army, we only need to train a corps of officers, and we can quickly organize the troops, if we learn from the British to start training soldiers, it is too difficult."
"Fourth, Britain, Russia, and Japan are allies now, and if we want to have good relations with Britain, if we conflict with Russia and Japan in the future, it will be difficult to win assistance."
Xie Xinyong's contact with people in Guangzhou is all angry youth, and what he likes to talk about most is which country's army is how, and that country's combat effectiveness is the strongest, and he hasn't thought much about deep-seated things at all, but now after listening to Xie Niancheng's words, he is very ashamed in his heart.
"Nian Cheng, you don't leave Chengdu, you know the world's affairs...... Fourth Uncle I have been away for so many years, and my knowledge is far inferior to yours, and in the future, Fourth Uncle will listen to you, and whatever you say is what you say. ”
Xie Niancheng didn't expect Xie Xinyong to be so easy to fool.
"Fourth uncle, I'm just reading too much in the newspaper, don't I know, is it easy for international students to go to Germany?"
In the general trend of world development, Xie Niancheng has a huge advantage, but when it comes to specific affairs, he will be blind when he is an ordinary person in his previous life.
Xie Xinyong has been in Guangzhou for a long time, and he still knows a lot about these things.
"It's not difficult to study in Germany, but because there are few people who can speak German, there are relatively few people who go there, and German universities don't refuse overseas students, as long as you pay money, you can go to audit."
Xie Niancheng said: "Fourth uncle, I plan to set up the European head office of Xie's Building Materials and Xie's Chemical in Germany, establish some contacts first, and then arrange international students to local people's homes, help the company do things, learn German at the same time, and then enter a German university after a year, what do you think, fourth uncle?" ”
Xie Xinyong thought for a moment: "The European head office originally planned to open in the UK, but it was just a plan, and it hasn't been acted on yet, so it's just a matter of changing it." If you drive to Germany, the cost will increase a lot, but if it is combined with our international student program, it is also necessary, and the whole thing is feasible. ”
Xie Niancheng said happily: "Then Fourth Uncle, can you take a trip in person?" ”
Xie Niancheng came up with this idea, on the one hand, because he wanted to arrange the study abroad properly, and because he didn't want the fourth uncle to be involved in the huge turmoil that might happen in the coming year.
"Good...... Well, I'll go, I'll go. Xie Xinyong's mind is a little messy now.
In the past, he believed in Zhu Changjiang too much.
Zhu Changjiang was originally a doctor of medicine, but after practicing medicine for several years, after seeing the poverty, backwardness, and chaos in the country, he later lamented that "it is better to cure the disease than to save the heart." He scattered all his family wealth and initiated the establishment of the Socialist Party.
Xie Xinyong is a loyal believer of Zhu Changjiang.
Xie Niancheng's words moved Xie Xinyong, and in the past half a month, Xie Xinyong thought carefully about the things in the Socialist Party, and found that his nephew, who had never been to Guangzhou, actually analyzed the situation within the Socialist Party.
The Socialist Party is really too chaotic, and Xie Xinyong knows that there are several people who are faintly equal to Zhu Changjiang in the party, and their ideas are also different.
The thinking of the broad masses of the middle and lower strata of the Socialist Party is very simple: the root cause of the backwardness of the Han State lies in the rule of the warlords, and as long as the warlords are overthrown and the government decrees are unified throughout the country, they will be able to catch up with the British super-laws.
Xie Niancheng sarcastically said about this idea: Pigs must also think that the root cause of pigs being eaten is because of people, and if there is no one in the world, then pigs can rule the world.
After Xie Xinyong's faith was shaken, he also wanted to go to Europe to see why Europe was so developed, and was there a deeper reason? So as soon as Xie Niancheng proposed to let him go to set up the European headquarters, he agreed to go on this trip.
Xie Xinyong, who had regained his senses, also had a normal vision: "Nian Cheng, I want to cooperate deeply with Germany, and now we have a little bit of family background and weight, I'm afraid it's too far and too far." ”
"That's right, Fourth Uncle, the first five years, or even ten years, are just laying a foundation, let's just get acquainted with people in Germany, and the future will be long."
Xie Xinyong's eyes became sharp: "Nian Cheng, I look at your layout, what you are trying to do is not just to make money." ”
Xie Niancheng's gaze passed through Xie Xinyong and extended to infinity: "What I want should be the same as what the fourth uncle really wants...... Fourth uncle, we shouldn't trust others, we have to rely on our own strength to get the world we want. ”
"The world you want, it's good, it's good."
Xie Xinyong heard a belief from this nephew's words, a belief that is indomitable despite the persistence of thousands of people.