readx; The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this is the first important festival in China after the Spring Festival is still extremely important in people's hearts, the Lantern Festival night, the streets of Fuzhou are covered with all kinds of lanterns, some are the colorful lanterns created by the merchants to attract guests, and some are the lanterns that the people of the big families spontaneously spend money to hang the lanterns, relatively compared to the Spring Festival Fuzhou local political axe is obviously more concerned about the Lantern Festival night, organized merchants and large households to make several Lantern Festival markets, so that people can fully feel the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Not only that, but several local chaebol families in Fuzhou also joined together, saying that they wanted to have a fireworks feast. In the past year, Fujian's industrial and commercial circles have made a lot of money following the Nationalist Army, and the Nationalist Army has expanded its power step by step, and their business channels and various products have also spread out in the footsteps of the Nationalist Army. They are obviously going to show off their profits this year, several families are united, you give tens of thousands, I pay tens of thousands, and even the Chen family has taken out 50,000 yuan to run this fireworks provincial capital, and finally collected nearly 200,000 funds, in addition to traditional lanterns and other accessories, they are also ready to hold an incomparably grand fireworks feast.

Such a large-scale feast has been rumored as early as before the Spring Festival, and so on the night of the Lantern Festival, tens of thousands of people have gathered on both sides of the Min River, the lanterns on the riverside are red, and people are laughing while guessing riddles and waiting for the fireworks to rise.

Looking at the crowded crowd on the streets below, Chen Jingyun also exuded a smile, as a ruler, there is no more satisfaction than seeing the people under his rule smiling, speaking of which, this can be regarded as a kind of pride.

People are always changing, and things are different in different environments. The ordinary people are thinking about the timber, rice, oil and salt, and the merchants are calculating the profits of the year, and the rulers at the top of the social tower have changed their concerns from those monetary interests to 'fame'.

In the past, Chen Jingyun was bent on expanding his power, trying his best to stand at the highest point, but now, Chen Jingyun has stood at the top, at the current level, in the system of the national army, the power is also indisputable, even if it is to compete with Beiyang for the world, it is only to expand the ruling area from Fujian and Zhejiang to the whole country, but in terms of power, there is no way to continue to take a step. As for the profits, Chen Jingyun doesn't need to pay too much attention to it, his interests lie in the national army, in the entire Fujian and Zhejiang, not in any selfish interests, although there are many industries of the Chen family, but Chen Jingyun has not paid much attention to it, and he can't arouse a trace of excitement, as long as he is willing, the Chen family's industry can expand tenfold at any time, or even more, as long as he is willing, he will give away all the Chen family's industries without a penny, he Chen Jingyun is still the commander-in-chief of the national army, and he is living a good life.

When the so-called power and profit can't go further, or even doesn't matter, then what can be pursued is nothing more than the name behind you. This is a common problem of all rulers, whether it is an ancient emperor or a so-called scholar. Of course, there are also those who cling to their dreams, such as Hitler, who dreamed of establishing an empire in Europe, Asia and Africa, exterminating all Jews, sending the Yugoslavs to hell, and letting the Germans rule the earth.

And now Chen Jingyun's dream is also moving in this direction, now that the national army has developed, the next step is to fight for the dominance of the country, and when he really controls the country, then Chen Jingyun should think about bringing China to the top of the world like this. If Chen Jingyun had this idea in the days when he first woke up, then he must be a madman, if he had this idea when the Nationalist Army had just expanded, and even Zhejiang had not yet been taken, then he must at least be a fantasy lover. But now, the national army already has this strength, and it is logical for similar ideas to emerge after having this foundation.

And now Chen Jingyun also has some similar thoughts in his heart, and he consciously puts himself in the right position. In this way, seeing the people on the street who were obviously filled with the atmosphere of the festival, Chen Jingyun felt sincerely happy: "Look, it is with my leadership that they can live a stable and prosperous life!" ”

After all, this is still a kind of selfishness, self-interest!

"I haven't seen this event in years!" Zheng Zuyin was beside Chen Jingyun and said while looking at the crowd outside.

Chen Jingyun said: "You haven't spent a lot of effort here, it's hard! ”

Although this fireworks feast was funded by those wealthy businessmen, it was considered a private act, but the provincial capital of fireworks with such a large scale naturally had to have an official organization, and Zheng Zuyin did not dislike the trouble, so he personally organized the relevant manpower and material resources and arranged it properly.

Zheng Zuyin said: "It's just a few days of tiredness, and it's worth it to make those people who have been tired for a year smile!" ”

"Huh! I heard that for the sake of the people's laughter, even last year's salary was donated to the scholarship fund of the Ministry of Education! Chen Jingyun said casually: "Anwarin also had to donate a year's salary!" ”

Zheng Zuyin said: "Isn't this learning from the commander!" ”

This is not tonight's feast, but Yan Guanxue, the general director of the Ministry of Education at the beginning of the year, said that although the education work has developed a lot, it is still difficult, and he came to Chen Jingyun to say that Chen Jingyun would allocate more education funds in this year's political axe funds. However, the financial situation of the Nationalist Army is so tight, and with military spending occupying the lion's share, administrative expenses have been reduced several times in a row, from the initial annual expenditure of more than 40 million yuan to 35 million.

The administrative funds are already so tight, and the funds in the Ministry of Education are even less, and most of them are occupied by Southeast University and several middle schools in Fujian and Zhejiang, so there is not much spare energy to expand the development of education. At present, in the education of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, Zhejiang's is much better, the original foundation is good, and Zhejiang is a large financial province, even if the financial power is returned to the central government after the tax reform, but the local side still has a lot of local taxes, in addition to supplying local financial expenditures, the education cause has not stopped much. Fujian, on the other hand, is even worse, because the local finances simply cannot provide the corresponding expenses, and some localities still need subsidies from the central government of the Xuanfu Embassy.

Under such circumstances, Yan Guanxue of the Ministry of Education said that he wanted to increase the expenditure of education funds, which naturally made Chen Jingyun a little powerless. The cost of large-scale education is not a small amount, and the policy of implementing free primary education can only be heard in a matter of years, or if it is to be fully implemented with China's population base, financial bankruptcy is absolute. For example, in later China, it is also said that nine years of free compulsory education, but the so-called tuition is exempted but there are still book fees, all kinds of messy miscellaneous expenses, the cost of a semester for a primary school student is even about the same as the salary of an ordinary worker for a month, if a family has two or three children, then a year's tuition can make the parents worry about gray hair, such a so-called nine-year compulsory education is still obligatory? Is it free? The so-called nine-year free compulsory education, including in rural areas, was only realized in the 21 st century.

In 1913, in order to achieve the so-called free education in China, large-scale literacy eradication was almost the same as a fantasy, anyway, neither Chen Jingyun nor Yan Guanxue in the Ministry of Education and other people with lofty goals for education did not have this luxury, and now Yan Guanxue has set a goal in the Ministry of Education privately, striving to establish three higher primary schools in all counties within three years, and at least one primary school in each town, and then concentrate all efforts on building three middle schools in each of the two provinces, so as to provide qualified new students for the upcoming Southeast University.

In these schools, whether it is a secondary school or a higher primary school or a primary school, it is not said that it is free, this part of the school is mainly public school, supplemented by private school, private school is naturally more expensive, and the environment and resource conditions of public school may be poorer, but the tuition fee will be cheaper. Even in the United States, which claims to be the richest in the modern world, a large number of people cannot afford to go to college, and there are many young people who work and join the army for college tuition, not to mention those private schools such as Harvard and ITM, whose tuition fees can bankrupt an ordinary middle class.

Of course, although there is a gap, but in order to allow those outstanding but poor students to continue their studies, the corresponding scholarship is also proposed, but this scholarship is not public, the Ministry of Education's money is so big, large-scale office school is not enough, there can also be exempted students from tuition, so the Ministry of Education leads, absorbing social donations to use as a scholarship for those outstanding students.

For this reason, Chen Jingyun also donated a sum in his private name, and this money was donated with Chen Jingyun's salary, but in fact, Chen Jingyun has not taken a position salary until now, in fact, no one dares to pay him a salary, he was the governor of Fujian Province before, and now he is the southeast Xuanfu envoy, even An Hualin doesn't know how much salary to pay Chen Jingyun, anyway, Chen Jingyun's expenses are paid by the special funds in the Xuanfu envoy, and even a large part of Chen Jingyun's private assets are used to spend, For example, after Chen Jingyun rejected the Xuanfu Embassy's plan to purchase cars, he used private funds to purchase more than 20 cars to serve as buses in the Xuanfu Embassy.

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