Dylan Stevenson took a firm stance, insisted on the price of six million and refused to let go, and declared that if Li Mu did not agree to this price, Dylan Stevenson would look for someone else to take over.

Li Mu felt that something was wrong, compared with yesterday, Dylan Stevenson had a lot more confidence when he spoke, it should be someone who wanted to meddle in this acquisition.

Li Mu is not worried about this, without Li Mu's permission, no one can take over the shares of Springfield, even if Dylan Stevenson finds another "takeover", the Springfield City Government will veto the deal.

It's just a bargaining ploy.

With this confidence, Li Mu also has no fear, for the sake of Dylan Stevenson taking the initiative to come to the door, Li Mu raised the price by 300,000 US dollars and bid 3.8 million US dollars.

Li Mu's psychological price is five million dollars, as long as it is cost-effective to take the shares in the hands of Dylan Stevenson within five million dollars, then plus the shares in the hands of others, Li Mu can ensure a controlling stake, and then he can reorganize Springfield and merge Springfield Arsenal into Junma Arms Company.

The price of $3.8 million is still far from Dylan Stevenson's demand, so the negotiations broke down again without surprise.

Li Mu didn't care and sent Dylan Stevenson away, and Li Mu finally found time to go to the Horse Weapons Factory.

If Gloria hadn't made such a fuss, Li Mu should have come to the Junma Weapons Factory yesterday to inspect, after all, this is the core business of the Junma Group, and Li Mu can't not be in the factory for too long.

Compared with four months ago, the scale of the Junma Weapons Factory has expanded again, and the island in the middle of the river is no longer enough to accommodate it, so all the factories and everything have been moved out of the island, only the research and development department and the school affiliated to the factory are still in the island of the river, and as for the workers' residences, they have all moved out last year.

At the beginning, Li Mu purchased 4,000 acres of land from the Springfield City Government, but now it seems that these 4,000 acres are no longer enough, and last year Li Mu signed a new contract with the Springfield City Government, and Li Mu purchased another 40,000 acres of land for the expansion of the Horse Weapons Factory.

This time the planning is relatively large, the new factory covers an area of more than 1,000 acres, less than half of the current has been utilized, enter the factory gate, the left hand side of the main road is a neat workshop, these factories cover a huge area, each plant covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters, the plant uses a steel frame structure as a support, the exterior wall is made of oak planks with iron sheets, such a plant is very strong, and it is easy to maintain.

"The six factories here all belong to the 'Python' series, and the parts produced will be assembled in another factory, and then sent to another factory for packing, and the latter factories belong to the 'Rainstorm' series and ' Springfield' series, now we have more than 3,000 skilled workers, compared to the Springfield Arsenal is not much better, the training of workers is no longer carried out in the factory, but there is a special training workshop, we are setting up a technical school, and so our first batch of students graduate from primary school, they can immediately enter the technical school to study, they will be skilled workers as soon as they graduate, and then we will train workers at a great speed. Zhang Leye acted as Li Mu's guide.

Although Li Mu wants Chinese to engage in relatively advanced professions such as lawyers, doctors, and teachers, not all Chinese are manufacturable talents, and more Chinese children will still choose the profession of skilled workers, especially for those older children, who have passed the best stage of education, and choosing a suitable career is what they should pay attention to.

The affiliated schools of the Junma Group are still only primary schools, but after this summer, the secondary schools, technical schools, and medical schools will all begin to accept students.

Theoretically, boys will choose more technical schools, and girls will choose more medical schools, but this is not mandatory, Li Mu still prefers to choose freely, which ultimately depends on the children's interests.

Zhang Leye knew that Li Mu attached great importance to education, so he immediately shifted the topic to the affiliated school: "Oliveira is very good, after Oliveira as the principal, the school can finally operate normally, other teachers are fine, Oliveira can find the right candidate, only Chinese teachers, we have recruited more than a dozen teachers from the Qing Empire, only two can be qualified for this job, the rest can only teach students to learn Chinese characters, which has little effect on the transfer of knowledge." ”

If you want to put the school on the right track, an excellent principal is indispensable, Mrs. Henry has outstanding teaching ability, but her management ability is not outstanding, so Li Mu poached Oliveira from the Connecticut School Bureau to serve as the principal of the school affiliated to the Junma Group.

As an official of the Connecticut Education Bureau, Oliveira has a wide range of contacts in the education system, and his management ability is also good, Li Mu gave Oliveira a good salary, so Oliveira did not hesitate to quit his job, left Connecticut and came to Massachusetts, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the teaching work of the school affiliated to the Horse Group.

Oliveira has a face in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and is beyond the reach of the Qing Empire, Li Mu has high requirements for Chinese teachers, and the salary is also good, Cole tried his best in the Qing Empire, but still could not complete the task, and finally with the assistance of Cheng Gengchi, he barely found a dozen hopeless scholars for the imperial examination.

In this year, scholars still believe in "learning literature and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family", no one wants to leave their hometown and leave home to live until they have to, which is a very inferior thing in the Qing Empire, so even if Li Mu opens a high-tech business, it is not easy to make it, and no one wants to come to the United States to work for Li Mu as an arms dealer.

It's not the same with Cheng Gengchi's help, the imperial examination is also a single-plank bridge, many people can't achieve fame in their lifetime, and they have to bend their waists for five buckets of rice in order to live, Cole doesn't know the situation of the Qing Empire after all, those who have achieved fame are indeed relatively well-educated, but the size of the person is an "official", and they have joined the ruling class, and no one is willing to abandon their fame to the United States, which has nothing to do with salary, and it is useless to offer more salary.

Cheng Gengchi is looking for those scholars who are already in their thirties and forties but have not yet achieved fame, these people have basically determined that the imperial examination is hopeless, but they are also knowledgeable, at least there is no problem to be a teacher or something, such people are accurate to find.

Li Mu's requirements are relatively high, the school of the Junma Group does not teach Bagu Wen, does not teach the monarch and ministers, but teaches benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, forgiveness, loyalty, filial piety, and piety, simply put, there is no dogmatism, and what is taught is the truth of life, which has very high requirements for teachers, and the general readers really do not meet Li Mu's requirements, so although there are many readers invited now, there are not many people who meet Li Mu's intentions.

"This matter is in a hurry, take your time, since these scholars have been invited, then we can't let them be idle, in this way, let those readers translate the classical Chinese left by our ancestors into the vernacular, and then we will organize people to translate the vernacular into English, this work is very important, and it must not be neglected." Li Mu put forward a new requirement, in order for the Chinese to gain a firm foothold in the United States, it is first necessary for Americans to understand the Chinese and the Chinese culture, so that Americans can accept the Chinese.

Li Mu's favorite thing on his lips is "5,000 years of traditional Chinese civilization", how to say this thing, it is useless to just rely on his mouth, and he must be able to come up with evidence to prove it to be convincing enough.

The problem now is that the Chinese people know that the "Five Classics and Four Books" are very important for the interpretation of traditional Chinese culture, and they all know that "The Art of War" is a huge work comparable to "On War".

What Li Mu has to do now is to publicize and promote Han culture, so that more foreigners can understand Han culture, take a look, when your ancestors were still drinking blood, our ancestors had already begun to study the Xuanhuang of heaven and earth, so the "5,000-year history of civilization" is really not fooling you, hurry up and come to worship.

"Translation—all right, I'll get back to the organization and get started." Zhang Leye thought of the huge collection of books in the Junma Library, and felt a little numb.

Li Mu is also rescuing culture while promoting Han culture, and there is a huge library in the current Junma Affiliated School, with a collection of more than 200,000 books, most of which are Chinese classics.

If you put it in the 21st century, there are hundreds of thousands of books in any library, but this is the 19th century, with a collection of thousands of books, you dare to say that you are not ashamed to claim the era of libraries, these 200,000 books not only include the "Four Books and Five Classics" These big road goods, but also William Vanderbilt gave Li Mu a copy of the "Yongle Canon", whether it is quality or quantity, the Junma Library is the leading library in this era, and even Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do not have libraries of this scale.

In fact, there are people in the Qing Empire who have been doing this kind of thing about translating books, such as Wei Yuan, he is the translator of the Qing Empire, but what Wei Yuan does is to translate foreign books into Chinese, trying to use the power of science and technology to promote the progress of the Qing Empire, and what Li Mu wants to do now is to translate Chinese books into English and use the power of culture to conquer Americans.

The idea is good, but this work project is huge, and it can't be completed in a day and a half, not to mention that there are only a dozen people in Li Mu's hands now, even if there are thousands of people in Li Mu's hands now, it will take at least ten years to achieve initial results.

Not to mention ten years, even if it is twenty years, Li Mu can wait.

This is also a cultural invasion of the 19th century, only this time it was the United States that was invaded.