Once you have an idea in your head, it's like having an extra fetus in your womb, tossing and turning in it all the time, and you can't wait to come out and see the world. The fastest update is 78xs// But Sun Yuanqi knows that if there is no ten months of gestation and training, most of the little guys who hurriedly come out to see the world are congenitally deficient. So even though he was as restless as a cat in heat, he sat down at his desk honestly and considered the difficulties he might face.

To build a factory, you must first have funds. The so-called "a penny is hard to beat a hero", if you don't have money, let alone build a factory, you can't even live! Money is not everything, but no money is impossible.

Although Sun Yuanqi planned to build a factory because of lack of money, it does not mean that there is no money in his hands now. On the contrary, he had a large amount of money in his hands, and there were millions of taels of silver in the treasury of the Sichuan domain alone! And he has Bloomage Bank behind him. Although Bloomage Bank has only been established for more than half a year, its capital has exceeded 10 million yuan, and it has become one of the few large banks in the Yangtze River Basin. With Sun Yuanqi's relationship, how can he borrow two or three million taels to use it?

Moreover, the money spent on building factories is very different from the training of new troops, the transfer of troops into Tibet, and the payment of deficits. The construction of the factory is to make money with money, and the products to be produced by Sun Yuanqi are exclusive patents, the market is broad, and there is no worry about sales, and profits are just around the corner. Don't say that Sun Yuanqi has money in his hands, but he doesn't have money, and he went to Shanghai Beach to shout a few times under the guise of building a factory, and those rich people still have to run to present silver tickets? So funding is not an issue.

The next thing to consider is the raw material.

As the saying goes: it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. If there are no raw materials, no matter how good the show is, it will not come out! Historically, the "Land of Abundance" first referred to the Guanzhong Plain, which was fertile for thousands of miles, and later used to compare it to the Sichuan Basin, where "water and drought follow people, and people do not know hunger", and now both places are under the control of Sun Yuanqi. As long as the method is appropriate, the raw materials for the production of camouflage clothing, instant noodles, and dehydrated vegetables such as rice, wheat, cotton and linen can be absolutely guaranteed.

The most important raw material for the production of rifles, mortars and other raw materials is steel, which seems to be mentioned in middle school geography textbooks, Sichuan Panzhihua is the largest iron ore raw material base in southwest China, and is also one of the four major iron ore mining areas in the country. The mine is in their own hands. Are you still worried about the lack of raw materials?

Thinking of this, Sun Yuanqi hurriedly took a map of Sichuan and began to look for Panzhihua City on it. As a result, I searched back and forth seven or eight times. I didn't find it! ——The name of Panzhihua City is named after the fact that there is a hundred-year-old Panzhihua Village near the Lanjian Iron Mine, and the discovery of iron ore has been in the thirties of the twentieth century. Now Panzhihua City is not only nowhere to be seen, but even the territory is divided into Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province. How could Sun Yuanqi find it on the map?

But Sun Yuanqi was sure that his memory was not wrong. Since there is no mistake in memory, it may be caused by historical evolution and changes in place names. Sun Yuanqi closed the map a little stupidly: since there is no shortcut. Then there is only trouble for the teachers and students of the Department of Geology of Jingshi University to come to Sichuan to drill ravines!

The raw materials are solved, and the problem of machinery and equipment should be considered.

Sun Yuanqi was not worried about this issue, and at this time, foreign powers did not have any purchase bans or restrictions on China. As long as you have money, you can buy and ship any equipment! Sun Yuanqi had a deep understanding of this point when he was preparing to build the Beiping Iron Works.

And with that comes the problem: transportation. Iron and steel mining and smelting equipment are behemoths. How can it be transported into Sichuan over the mountains? How to ship the products produced in the future out of Sichuan in a timely manner? It's a big problem.

The Sichuan-Han Railway on the land route can only be repaired in the Year of the Monkey, and it seems that it cannot be counted on, and the most reliable at the moment is the Yangtze River waterway. However, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River is turbulent and the reefs are dense, so if you are not careful, you will be in danger of running aground and drifting. If the equipment purchased with great effort and a lot of money was borrowed by the Water Dragon King at the door of his home, wouldn't Sun Yuanqi cry to death? It seems that it is imperative to organize troops to blow up the reef and dredge the Yangtze River channel during the dry season in winter!

After making a note of this important thing. Sun Yuan continued to consider the issue of building a factory. After settling the raw materials and equipment. Then it's time to think about manpower.

There are also two kinds of manpower: one is ordinary workers, who make money by hard work. There is absolutely no shortage of these people. Needless to say, even in Gansu, which is regarded as a vast and sparsely populated province, in the third year of Xuantong, there were "906,639 households, and 4,691,620 mouths" (figures in the "Qing Historical Manuscript"). Two-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged living people are still hard to find? As long as you can afford the price. 100,000 or 200,000 people can be recruited!

The other is skilled workers, which is difficult. The general population is now largely illiterate. Those who can afford to go to school and can read words are not ordinary people, and children from such families are naturally reluctant to work as workers. But there is no shortage of skilled workers in the factory. It is no exaggeration to say that skilled workers are the mainstay of the factory, and a factory without a group of qualified skilled workers is fragile and hopeless!

When he first established education, Sun Yuanqi paid more attention to the cultivation of high-end talents, such as atomic physics and electronic technology. Later, he gradually discovered that although the development of high-tech disciplines can gradually improve the level of scientific research in China, the development of scientific research level does not promote the improvement of industrial level much, and more often the backwardness of industrial level will limit the improvement of scientific and technological level. Therefore, after he served as the envoy of Hubei Province, he began to consciously strengthen the cultivation of industrial and technical personnel, and successively established technical colleges and universities such as Hubei Higher Industrial School and Shuimu Industrial School, and opened a large number of technical majors such as vehicle engineering, metal material processing, industrial design, metallurgical engineering, mining engineering, and ordnance technology, which are conducive to the national economy and people's livelihood, which effectively alleviated the demand for technical personnel from Hanyang Iron Works, Beiping Iron Works, China Industrial Machinery Company and other enterprises. However, far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and the students trained by Hubei Higher Industrial School, Shuimu Industrial School and other colleges and universities can't even satisfy the nearby Hubei, Jingshi, and Zhili, how can they have the spare strength to help Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces?

Sun Yuanqi remembered two ancient sayings: sharpen the knife and do not cut the wood; Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people. So despite the fact that he was anxious to build a factory and would even face a shortage of funds in the near future, he decided to take a few days to rectify the higher education landscape in Sichuan.

It should be noted here that higher education in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China cannot be equated with higher education now. At that time, the level of education was relatively low, and the education system was largely based on Japan, and the so-called "higher education halls" and "higher education schools" were only equivalent to the current high schools or technical secondary schools. INTERVIEWER Of course, high schools in Japan are still called "high schools." At that time, there were only a few universities in the true sense, such as Jingshi University Hall and Peiyang University Hall.

Even if the teaching content is only equivalent to the current high school level, there are few schools in Sichuan at this moment.

As far as Sun Yuanqi knows, the highest institution of learning in Sichuan is the Sichuan Provincial Higher School (the predecessor of the current Sichuan University) which was formed by the merger of Sichuan Chinese and Western Academy, Zunjing Academy and Jinjiang Academy in the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), followed by the Sichuan Provincial Normal School founded in the 31st year of Guangxu (1905). Next came the so-called "Five Specialized Schools", namely the Sichuan Law and Political School (1905), the Sichuan Tong Provincial Agricultural Administration School (1906, the predecessor of the current Sichuan Agricultural University), the Sichuan Tibetan Literature School (1906), the Sichuan Higher Industrial School (1908), the Sichuan Ancient School (1910), in addition to the Sichuan Higher Patrol Police School (1909), the Sichuan Military Academy (1902), etc. Together, these schools constituted the main lineup of higher education in Sichuan at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Although the level is not high, it has a complete range.

As for how to rectify the school, Sun Yuanqi had already fought once when he was in Hubei, and he could be described as an expert. This time, with the authority of the governor, he is familiar with the road, and he is even more handy.

First of all, he laid off the teachers in the school, and all those who did not meet the requirements were dismissed and dismissed, and if there were vacancies, they were filled by graduates of Jingshi University;

secondly, students are screened and re-graded according to their actual level.

Third, according to the characteristics of each school, re-set the majors, arrange class hours, and select teaching materials, among which the higher industrial school is the top priority of adjustment;

Fourth, all schools located in Chengdu such as the Tong Provincial Normal School, the Law and Politics School, and the Higher Industrial School will be relocated to the newly designated higher education park outside the city;

Fifth, the higher patrol police academy, the armed forces academy, the army primary school, and other military academies and universities were merged into the Sichuan Army Military Academy, with Sun Yuanqi as its principal, on the one hand, recruiting middle school students for enrollment and education, and on the other hand, training officers at all levels in the army;

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As a result of the rectification, the situation of higher education in Sichuan as a whole has suddenly taken on a completely new look. If it weren't for the limited funds in hand, Sun Yuanqi would even be ready to start with basic education and popularize five-year compulsory education in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. But he had already planned to put this ideal into practice three years later, the year of the outbreak of the First World War, when he should have made a lot of money.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, time entered a brand new year of 1912. At the beginning of the so-called first year of the Republic of China, the situation between the north and the south became tense because of the struggle for the post of president. As a powerful faction and a centrist, Sun Yuanqi is the target of active wooing by the two parties. In the first 10 days of the new year, he, the minister of education in the northern cabinet and the chief of education in the southern government, received at least 20 telegrams urging him to come to his post as soon as possible, as if they were using this method to force Sun Yuanqi to express his position.

And after Sun Yuanqi completed the rectification of the school, he had already put the trip to Sichuan on the desk... )