213. There are many thorns, but there is nothing to do

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Now the predecessor of Peking University, Beijing Normal University, is half-dead and decadent, how can it have the appearance of a famous school in later generations?

As for Tsinghua, the predecessor Tsinghua Academy was established in 1911 using the Gengzi indemnity returned by the United States. But now that the Gengzi indemnity has been diverted by various countries to the cost of international students at Jingshi University, the United States will not be kind enough to return part of the Gengzi indemnity to China. In this way, there will be no preparatory schools for studying in the United States, and there will be no Tsinghua University.

The bright twin stars in the future, one is now dim because Jingshi University poached teachers and students, and the other is stillborn because Jingshi University defrauded Gengzi of compensation. Investigate the source of the trouble, who else can there be besides Sun Yuanqi?

Tsinghua University, as the top Russian existence in domestic scientific research in later generations, is the dream of countless teenagers, and is also the alma mater of countless scientists.

Yang Du was a little depressed, the owner didn't have a bit of a tyrant, and he didn't want to recruit troops and recruit talents after saving some money, but he competed with the school every day. I had to persuade: "Haven't you already established a lot of schools?" I count, in Wuhan there are Lianghu Normal School, Hubei Higher Industrial School, Hubei Transportation School, Hubei Mining School, Hubei Petroleum School, Hubei Iron and Steel School, Hubei Geology School, ......"

When Yang Du counted, he chattered in his mouth while breaking his fingers, and soon ten fingers were not enough. He raised two fists and persuaded bitterly: "Look, there are so many, what school else should be established?" Besides, there is also Jingshi University in Beijing, which is famous and all-encompassing, so why bother stacking bed frame houses? ”

Sun Yuanqi thought to himself: How many schools are these? Let me tell you, in the future, there will be more than 2,000 ordinary colleges and universities registered with the Ministry of Education alone, and there will be 30 million college students! Not to mention the 112 universities of the 211 Project, there are as many as 34 universities selected for the 985 Project. Among these 34 schools, there are 6 schools in Beijing, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Renmin University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, and Beihang University; Nowadays, there are only two universities in Beijing, Beijing Normal University Hall and Jingshi University, how much is it?

Yang Xi's staff, he was puzzled, how could other people understand him? So Sun Yuanqi decided to lay out the facts and reason for him: "Huizi, first of all, I don't think the school is enough. Three years ago, when we first arrived in Hubei, there were only 50,000 students in Hubei. By the time we left Hubei at the end of last year, there were 100,000 students. Even if there are 100,000 people, for Hubei's more than 20 million people, it is only a drop in the bucket. In the coming years, the number of students will explode. This is still the case in Hubei, let alone the whole country?

"Today, there are all new students, and there are many new schools. In a few years, these first-class students will graduate from primary school, is society and the government ready for them? I don't think so. At present, the local officials and gentry are most enthusiastic about running very few universities and vocational schools, except for primary schools, which are teachers' training. Of course, it is also because the threshold for running a school is too high, teachers are difficult to find, and ordinary gentry are difficult to bear. Nationally, the number of schools, especially specialized schools where the quality of teaching can be guaranteed, is far from sufficient to meet the needs of society. ”

According to the school system of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, primary schools were divided into two levels: primary and higher. In the fourth year of primary study, students are faced with the first fork in the road: they can enter a higher primary school, or they can enter a type B industrial school, a remedial school, and an industrial remedial school, and the latter three will train technicians similar to those of later generations.

After three years of higher education, it is a fork in the road when you graduate: you can be admitted to middle school, or you can enter a type A industrial school, a remedial class, or a normal school. A type of industrial school trains technicians similar to those of later generations.

Middle school is also three years, and graduation is still a fork in the road: you can go to university, or you can enter a vocational school or a higher normal school. Vocational schools train engineers similar to those of later generations.

Yang Du said: "In this case, you should go to the imperial court and ask for a decree to order all provinces to open universities and specialized schools." Isn't this exactly where the Zuo Shilang of the school is responsible? ”

Sun Yuanqi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Since the Wuxu Reform, the edict ordering the provinces to establish university halls and specialized schools has been almost every year, and there are not ten or eight of them. Isn't it still the same locally?

"In the school department, I looked through the excerpts of the provincial envoys in the past few years, and I don't know how many people proposed to build the school. When they arrive at the Military Aircraft Department, they will approve the phrase 'transfer departments handle it at their discretion'; when they arrive at the school department, they will change it to 'quasi, and the provinces will be asked to allocate the funds for running the school'; and the provincial finances will be left and right, so where will there be spare money? With spare money, who would have thought of running a school? The fold went back and forth, the circle of the circle, the seal of the seal, but I couldn't hear the slightest movement. ”

The style of reviewing documents in the Qing Dynasty is similar to that of later generations, probably no different from ancient and modern officialdom.

Yang Du frowned and said, "Then you can't just roll up your sleeves!" You're a dignified school squire. ”

Sun Yuanqi is not very particular about face and style, and Wen Yan explained: "The newly built Tsinghua School was mainly for the training of technical talents for the Beiping Iron Works in the early days, and naturally the people from the Beiping Iron Works came forward to show Luo. I don't need to be a Feng woman anymore. ”

The school attached to the iron factory is naturally Hanyang Iron Works.

As early as 1896, Zheng Guanying, then the general office of Hanyang Iron Works, suggested that Sheng Xuanhuai set up a school in the factory to recruit 40 students who knew a little about algorithms, read in the morning, and enter the factory in the afternoon to practice operations. But for some reason it could not be realized.

After Li Weige took over the general office of the Chinese Iron Works, he put forward a proposal to run a school, and with the consent of Sheng Xuanhuai, he set up a school in the factory, which was divided into four parts: chemical calculation school, ironmaking school, steelmaking school and mechanical school. For the first time, 30 students aged 1,214 were recruited to cultivate technical talents.

What Sun Yuanqi did at this time was just picking up people's teeth. Yang Du had been under the curtain of Zhang Zhidong and knew this story, so he no longer objected, but he was not very satisfied with the name of the school: "What is the name of the school?" Tsinghua? 'Qing' is the name of the country, and 'Hua' is the name of the country, how can the imperial court use it indiscriminately with you? Moreover, Tsinghua Garden is the name of the royal garden. It is inevitable that you will be asked in the official recital, what kind of intention is it to be in the position of a waiter in the school department and usurp the name of the royal garden? Don't leave an excuse for the speaker! ”

"......" Sun Yuanqi was a little depressed: why is it okay to use "Tsinghua" in the royal garden, but not in schools? The monk can move, but I can't move?

Yang Du shook his fan and said leisurely, "There is a sentence in the poem "You Xichi" by Xie Shuyuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty 'Jingyu Songbird Collection, Shuimu Zhan Qinghua', since Tsinghua has some taboos, the school might as well name it 'Shuimu'. ”

Sun Yuanqi also knows that in the Qing Dynasty, many times you can't be reasonable, and once you are serious, you will lose. At the moment, I can only pinch my nose and admit it, anyway, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not lived for a few years, and I will change it back after the Republic of China!

In fact, there was also "Tsinghua Park" first, and then "Tsinghua University". Because of the school in the royal garden "Tsinghua Garden", the preparatory school for studying in the United States was named "Tsinghua School". Sun Yuanqi relied on his vague impression later, but he took it for granted.

Taking it for granted is not only a joke, but also a big problem.

Private counsel Arthur finally returned to Beijing in February after registering the patent for the steel helmet series around the world. Before the dust was washed, he hurriedly found Sun Yuanqi and reported his recent work.

Hearing that the patents were successfully registered, Sun Yuanqi was overjoyed, only to feel that countless dollars, pounds, francs, and marks were surging towards him, and he did not hesitate to praise Yasser, and raised his salary by 20 percent.

Arthur sat on the stool with a melancholy look, looking like he wanted to say something.

Sun Yuanqi hurriedly asked, "Arthur, what's your problem?" ”

"Well, yes," Arthur said in a stammering manner, "when I was in the United States, I was chatting with a few of my classmates who worked in the military, and they mentioned the steel helmet patent, and they didn't seem to be optimistic about the prospect of this patent. They think that armor is equipment in the era of cold weapons, and it is undoubtedly a joke to equip steel helmets in the era of hot weapons. ”

Will the steel helmets that will be the standard for later generations of soldiers have good prospects?

Sun Yuanqi smiled: "What kind of theory is this?" In the Middle Ages, water quenched thirst and bread filled the stomach; In the twentieth century, water could not quench thirst, bread could not fill the stomach? Joke! I think they're the real joke. ”

Sending off the restless Arthur, Sun Yuanqi returned to the office and continued to revise the first draft of "General Relativity" sent by Einstein and Mileva, occasionally thinking of the views of Arthur's friends and thinking it was funny.

After a while, when Sun Yuanqi saw the words "third paragraph" in the text, a noun suddenly popped up in his mind: three-paragraph strike. Then Sun Yuanqi was dumbfounded, and his face gradually became difficult to see: Damn, how did you forget this stubble!

After the invention of firearms, in view of the problem of low power caused by the slow firing speed of firearms, the East and the West almost invariably invented the "three-stage strike" firing method: one team shoots, two teams are equipped, and three teams are loaded. The three-stage shooting method requires the shooter to remain in a standing position, preferably in a line facing the enemy.

In the face of cold weapons, firearms have a significant advantage, and they can generally defeat the enemy at a long range, so there is no need to wear armor. Even in close combat, the firearm does not sacrifice flexibility in order to ensure the speed of shooting. And when both sides are hot weapons, they will not wear armor in order to strike first; And when firing at the crosshairs, because firearms are not as accurate, the target has a larger belly than a better choice than the head. In this way, the armor was ruthlessly swept into the dustbin of history.

After the advent of weapons of mass destruction, such as flowering shells, high-explosive gunpowder, heavy machine guns, and heavy artillery, the original incomparably powerful three-stage attack became an incomparably stupid and ×incomparably deadly act. Especially after the outbreak of the First World War, both sides had elite firearms, and then standing up and shooting at each other was undoubtedly a massacre. Then there were trenches, which evolved into positional warfare at the Battle of the Marne. Everyone hid in the trenches and launched a firefight, exposing their heads and shoulders as the only targets, and protecting their heads became the top priority. As a result, the helmet was picked up from the garbage heap of history by General Adrian of France and once again became the standard configuration of the army.

It's still 1909, five years before World War I, and the three-stage strike is still the standard combat method in the army codes of many countries. Who would be stupid enough to buy a steel helmet? In other words, the steel helmets manufactured by the Beiping Iron Works will not be sold for at least five years. If the steel helmet can't be sold, what will the Beiping Iron Works rely on to make a profit?

Thinking of this, Sun Yuanqi suddenly sweated.

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