The agreement stipulates that the United States will refund half of the Gengzi indemnity, totaling more than 10 million US dollars, and the returned money will be managed by the newly established China Education Fund, and the money will be limited to funding Chinese students to study in the United States, and the agreement requires that China needs to send 100 students to study in the United States every year in the first four years, and at least 50 students need to be sent to study in the United States every year starting in the fifth year. In addition, in order to better select students who are qualified to study in the United States, the United States will assist us in establishing a preparatory school for studying in the United States! Liang Shiyi was full of pride when he said this.

Although it is said that the money is used in China's Gengzi indemnity, and the specific management of the follow-up funds is still managed by the Americans, it is rare for me to be able to take out the money that the Americans have eaten again to supply domestic students to study abroad.

Zhao Dongyun nodded slightly after hearing this: "It seems that things are going relatively smoothly!" ”

When he said this, he also took the agreement and read it carefully, and when he saw the clause of the preparatory school in the United States, he smiled, this is the predecessor of the famous Tsinghua University in later generations!

Of course, there is no official name for this preparatory school, not even a school location, only a paper agreement.

He immediately asked, "What are the statutes of this preparatory school?" ”

Zhao Dongyun didn't pay too much attention to other agreements, because those agreements have little to do with Zhao Dongyun strictly speaking, anyway, even if the Americans refund the money, they will not hand over the money directly to Zhao Dongyun, they also know that Zhao Dongyun is a big warlord, it is estimated that as soon as the money arrives, it will be used as military expenses, and what kind of education will be engaged there, so although they refunded it, they set up a separate fund to manage this money, and Zhao Dongyun didn't want to get a cent from it.

So the only thing left that can interest him is this preparatory school, although there are several colleges and universities in China, such as Shandong University, Beijing Normal University, Beiyang University, and Fengtian University hosted by Zhao Dongyun and a few other higher normal schools, but compared with the great China, China's colleges and universities are still far from enough, and the cost of opening colleges and universities is extremely high, at least with the current financial resources of the Soviet Department is difficult to open any universities. The money of the Soviet Department was used to expand the army and fight the war, not to mention the establishment of new universities, and even the funds for maintaining existing universities were often in arrears.

Now that Americans are willing to contribute funds and even teachers to run this preparatory school, Zhao Dongyun doesn't care what values the Americans export, and it is the right way to run this school.

Immediately, Liang Shiyi said: "According to the articles of association of our agreement, the United States will fully fund the cost of running the school, and will also provide a certain number of teachers, and we need to provide the school site to ensure the source of students!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded, and then said: "As for the school site, there are a lot of former Qing royal estates that have been raided, and when the time comes, let the Ministry of Education and the Secretariat assist in handling it, and pick out a garden, as for the name, use 'Beijing Normal Preparatory School'." ”

Zhao Dongyun's words are to make the later generations of Tsinghua University disappear without a trace, this is not Zhao Dongyun's deliberate bad taste to change history, but because the name of Tsinghua University comes from Tsinghua Garden, and Tsinghua Garden, the former Qing Dynasty imperial garden, has been requisitioned in the era of Wang Yingkai, as the site of the newly opened Beijing Normal School, this Tsinghua Garden is gone, and the new preparatory school is naturally impossible to call Tsinghua University anymore!

However, the name change will not have much impact, as long as there are enough funds, teachers and policy support, it is enough for this school to become one of the important universities in China in the future.

After Zhao Dongyun closed this agreement, he secretly said in his heart: If such a Beijing Normal Preparatory School is added, then the colleges and universities in North China under his rule will also begin to take shape.

In terms of government-run comprehensive universities, there is a Fengtian University personally sponsored by Zhao Dongyun in the northeast, a Beiyang University in Zhili, a Beijing Normal University in Beijing, and a Shandong University in Shandong.

There are also many government-run normal schools, such as the Jinzhou Normal School, Fengtian Higher Normal School, Shenyang Normal School, Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other provinces in the pre-Qing Dynasty, there were also several normal schools, and the development of normal schools after the republic was even more rapid, and Wang Yingkai set up a Beijing Normal School last year.

Then there are vocational schools, this category is relatively few, and mainly commercial, among which the more famous Huludao University of Technology and Business, the school is a joint venture of many enterprises in Huludao, formerly known as Huludao Business School, after the restructuring of the Ministry of Education, renamed Huludao University of Technology and Business, although the school was founded for a short time, but the victory is strong in capital, and a considerable part of its students are enterprise committee trainees, the school mainly cultivates financial talents and low-level technical personnel, It is a very practical vocational school.

In addition, there is Tangshan University of Technology, the school is more special, the total number of teachers and students is not much, together there are only a few hundred, but it is a pivotal role in contemporary domestic colleges and universities, and it is unceremonious to say that the importance of a Tangshan University of Technology exceeds all other domestic colleges and universities.

Because the school is an affiliated school of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, although at the beginning the school was only to train the technical personnel required by the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, but with the scale of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the technical content of the military products involved is getting higher and higher, which is in greater demand for senior technical experts. As a result, this affiliated school has gradually shifted from cultivating low-level technical personnel to cultivating high-end talents, and the enrollment is not limited to the interior of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, but has begun to recruit students nationwide.

The school is wholly owned by the factory, and the school is not only a school for cultivating talents, but also an important scientific research base of the factory, shouldering the burden of various scientific research activities, many of the students are working in the factory, and many of the teachers are also senior engineers in the factory, such as a university, it is better to say that it is a scientific research institution set up in the factory.

Due to the particularity of the school, the school is not actually under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, and people recruit students independently, formulate the school's charter independently, and follow the mode of enterprise management. And Zhao Dongyun also allowed them to move, for a reason, because this Tangshan University of Technology is currently the only institution of higher learning in China that can carry out various scientific research activities, although the level cannot be compared with those universities of the great powers, but it is also extremely rare in contemporary China, so it is natural to give them some privileges.

In addition to the above-mentioned government-run and commercial-run institutions of higher learning, there is also a special kind of higher education institutions in contemporary China, that is, the Church University, in the area ruled by Zhao Dongyun, the more famous ones are the Beijing Normal Union Medical College, Qilu University, etc.

Now, I have to add a Naoli Preparatory School!

Nowadays, the number of colleges and universities under Zhao Dongyun's control is barely formal, but most of them are all kinds of normal schools, and there are only a few comprehensive universities. However, Zhao Dongyun is not worried, colleges and universities are not so easy to run, if you really want to run education, it is not that you can run a few universities, but you must run many primary and secondary schools, which can lay the foundation of education, otherwise there are so many universities and there are not enough students.

It's just that the difficulty of popularizing basic education is more difficult than running a prestigious university, let alone running a primary school in every population gathering place, even if the funds required to run a primary school in each town are astronomical, which is absolutely unaffordable for the contemporary Soviet finances.

Therefore, at present, Zhao Dongyun can only promote private education, and many gentry in China are still more keen on setting up education, so that these rich gentry can fund the construction of primary schools, step by step.

After the matter of Gengzi's refund and the Zhili Preparatory School was negotiated, Liang Shiyi did not leave, but said: "Minister Rou Keyi said that there will be a business group from the United States to China in the near future, saying that it is to investigate the investment in the railway!" ”

Zhao Dongyun listened to the please: "Is it for the Longhai Railway and the Jinpu Railway?" ”

Liang Shiyi nodded and said: "That's right, since we heard the news that we were going to build these two railways, all countries have heard about it, and those Americans will naturally not be willing to give up!" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "They are here, you just entertain them!" ”

However, Liang Shiyi had a different face, paused slightly, and said: "They have revealed to me before that they intend to withdraw from the banking group of the four countries and conduct relevant negotiations with us alone!" ”

Zhao Dongyun wants to build the Longhai Railway and the Jinpu Railway, this matter is originally a bait, and it is also a bait that makes the great powers covet, not to mention how many years of operating profits can be transferred after the construction of the railway, even if it is a Chinese loan to build, but this loan is often hundreds of millions, and the interest in it alone is enough to make countless bankers squeeze their heads to fight for it, and the profit contained in it is definitely not much lower than the aftermath loan.

Britain, Japan, Russia, France, Germany, and almost all other great powers are fighting for the right to build these two railways, and even if the Chinese side insists on building the road on its own and cannot obtain the right to build the road, they must fight for the right to take out loans.

Don't look at them as they are vying to send money to China to build a railway, but such a large amount of loans is enough to bring back a considerable interest income for them.

When the Xinchou Treaty was signed, because China could not immediately pay all the reparations, the countries competed vigorously in order to lend to China for repayment. It is nothing more than the huge interest income that can be obtained after taking out a loan, well, it is similar to the later generation of Fang Gao's interest rate.

On the one hand, to inspect whether the construction plan of the so-called Tianjin-Pudong Railway and the Longhai Railway proposed by China is feasible, and on the other hand, it is also hoped that the construction of the railway will be used as an opportunity to open up the Chinese market as much as possible.

You must know that in 1907, the total import and export trade between the United States and China accounted for less than 8 percent of China's total import and export trade.

In this case, it is logical for the Americans to withdraw from the four-nation banking group, because in the face of the two railways thrown by Zhao Dongyun, in the face of such huge interests, the four-nation banking group has become a competitor to each other, plus the Japanese and the Russians are also eyeing each other.

At a time when the four-nation banking group had been unable to negotiate a joint advance or retreat, Renjia took advantage of this opportunity to actively expand the Chinese market and snatched a large piece of the arms market from the Germans.

Not to mention the Americans, even the British have already come to the door separately for relevant negotiations.

In the face of the Americans, Zhao Dongyun pondered for a while and said: "You show the Americans a mouth, I personally welcome it, well, this aftermath loan has also been delayed for many months, and it is not good to always drag it out like this, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs looks at the arrangement, let them come to see me separately when the time comes, and I will talk to them personally!" ”

Anyway, it's all borrowing money, who is borrowing is not borrowing, whether it is Britain or the United States or even Japan himself, as long as the other party does not look so ugly and does not let himself become a traitor referred to by Qianfu, then Zhao Dongyun does not mind betraying the 'small' national interests!

In these years, only when there is money can the army expand and fight, when the army is strong, can China be unified, and only when China is unified can Zhao Dongyun love this country.

Strictly speaking, Zhao Dongyun thinks he is patriotic!

It's just that the premise of his patriotism is not that he belongs to this country, but that this country belongs to him!