Chapter 176: Southeast University
Chen Jingyun's way of doing things is completely the leader opening his mouth, and the people below are similar, for example, to find sulfonamides, so many red dyes have to be tested one by one, who knows how many mice will have to die to find out. Another example is penicillin, which only says that it is extracted from something that is moldy, but what is moldy and how to extract it are all blank. In short, until now, these experts have been confused.
However, when these experts heard Chen Jingyun say that sulfonamides can effectively fight infections, treat septicaemia, and save countless lives, they also realized the importance of this matter.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, China's technical personnel were still very pragmatic, and the vast majority of scientific research personnel's spirit of academic research was not comparable to those scientists and officials in later generations, but in these years, the state could not provide them with qualified laboratories and scientific research equipment, so that they could not study. Now Chen Jingyun promised to provide them with enough scientific research funds, enough experimental equipment, well, and a lot of guinea pigs. So although they were apprehensive in their hearts, they also agreed with their mouths.
In fact, Chen Jingyun is not in a hurry about this matter, anyway, he can get it out sooner sooner, and it doesn't matter if he is later, after all, the overall situation of the national army cannot be changed because of one or two drugs.
Since this has opened the mouth of drug research, Chen Jingyun Suo has also made many things that he has memorized, and it is impossible to expect immediate results, but it can start pre-research in the early stage, and it won't cost a lot of money anyway.
Immediately, Chen Jingyun instructed Fule Electric to fund radio research, mainly for military communications, and now the radio communications of the national army are mainly wireless telegraphs purchased from foreign countries, and the prices are all extremely expensive, a wireless telegraph machine costs tens of thousands of yuan, and the good ones are tens of thousands, so for a period of time before, Chen Jingyun only gave the division headquarters a radio telegraph machine, and then with the gradual expansion, it is now popularizing wireless telegraph communication at the regimental level.
At present, the radio communication of other warlord armies in the country is not very good, only the Beiyang Army has popularized radio communication at the division level, and the lower regimental level does not have it at all, and the national army still has a little advantage in this regard.
Now the radio communication equipment is imported, the price is too expensive, and as far as Chen Jingyun knows, the radio should be very simple, when he was a primary school student, he made a radio by himself, as long as the general principle is known, the rest of the problems are not a problem. So he was counting on the fact that Fule Electric would be able to get a wireless telegraph machine as soon as possible, and it would save so much money to import it.
In addition to radio, Chen Jingyun also asked the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant to set up a research and development department, which is dedicated to the research and development of new steel and other basic materials, such as steel for making artillery, such as armor steel for building ships, and so on.
These are basically basic researches, and they will not produce results for a while and a half, but if they start to develop slowly, they will always be able to come out after a certain period of precipitation.
However, when setting up these R&D departments and laboratories, Chen Jingyun once again felt the lack of technical talents, basically most of the leading technical personnel in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are talents who have returned from studying abroad, and the number of this group of people is not much, but now the national army is developing rapidly, and the subordinate industrial system is also expanding rapidly, so in this case, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces need a large number of technical talents.
First of all, Fuzhou Middle School, this middle school has to some extent become a preparatory school for the Fuzhou Military Academy, nearly half of the students who came out of the middle school have applied for the Fuzhou Military Academy, these enthusiastic students do not even need to incite them, they will be dizzy by their own enthusiasm, and then join the National Socialist Party without hesitation, and then apply for the Fuzhou Military Academy, becoming the source of a large number of officers in the National Army. This special situation is caused by the current era of special envoys, and Chen Jingyun cannot change it if he wants to.
However, in addition to Fuzhou Middle School, there are other schools in Fujian, such as Fuzhou Naval School, which was formerly a shipyard school, which is not a simple naval school, and its disciplines also include science and engineering, such as shipbuilding, electrical communications, and so on.
In addition to the Fuzhou Military Academy, the Fuzhou Naval Academy, and the Fuzhou Middle School, there is only one private school jointly run by Lin Changming and several other wealthy businessmen and gentry, and it can also be called Southeast University, which is loud enough, but due to the lack of funds, the number of teachers and students is not large, and it has not been able to develop.
After the fortunate Haihai, Chen Jingyun also paid attention to the construction of the military academy, and invested heavily in the construction of the Fuzhou Military Academy, so that the Fuzhou Military Academy has now developed into a large-scale military academy with a comprehensive surname, in which the three major items of riding, infantry, and artillery have begun to take shape, and other electrical, baggage, logistics and other subjects are also slightly successful.
And general education is a bit miserable, because the national army needs a lot of funds, so although Chen Jingyun has a lot of money in his hands, but the implementation of the military and political axe office funds are not much, taking the Fujian military and political axe as an example, a total of only more than 5 million funds, not only to maintain the normal operation of the military and political axe, but also to maintain various matters of people's livelihood, which is apportioned to the cause of education, there is little pitiful, and most of this poor education funds are also taken by Fuzhou Middle School.
Therefore, this year has come to the development of the national army is booming, but the education system in Fujian Province has not been greatly developed, relatively, the same is the national army under the control of Zhejiang is much better, all kinds of primary schools, higher primary schools, middle schools, and normal schools are all there, and although Zhejiang is turbulent after Xinhai, but the main thing is that the gentry faction has taken power, plus a lot of financial revenue, so the funds for the military and political axes are quite generous, and the education funds shared are also a lot.
However, although primary and secondary education in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces is lacking and not popular, there are still some of them, but higher education is basically blank, especially there is no higher education institution that can play a leading role in scientific research and research.
And this kind of school is not something that can be built, it takes time to precipitate, and what Chen Jingyun has to do now is to start and lay a foundation.
Based on this consideration, Chen Jingyun found Lin Changming after setting up many R&D departments and laboratories and discussed education with him, and then although Lin Changming is now serving as the foreign minister of the Fujian military and political axe, but whether it is the foreign minister of the Fujian military and political axe or the Zhejiang military and political axe, Chen Jingyun's foreign policy has always been decided by himself, and it is not the turn of the people below to point fingers, so Lin Changming is a little depressed when he is the foreign minister of Fujian, and he even planned to resign a long time ago. However, due to various reasons, it has not been possible.
Now that Chen Jingyun came to him to discuss the matter of Southeast University, he thought about it, and then even said directly: "If the commander is relieved, I will resign from the current post of foreign minister, go to be the president of Southeast University, and concentrate on running this university." ”
If he is a military and political minister who has no real name, it is better to concentrate on education, and if this education is done well, it will be admired by future generations in the future.
Lin Changming said this suddenly, Chen Jingyun didn't expect it, and immediately said: "I'll talk about this later, if you really want to resign, I'll go there to find someone to be the foreign minister for a while!" ”
In these years, it is not easy to find a suitable person to be the foreign minister, there are many two-legged people on the street, but it is not an easy thing to find a qualified diplomat, although the relationship between Lin Changming and Zheng Zuyin is not shallow, but the national army now controls Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and Guangdong may be able to control it in the future, but Zheng Zuyin is still limited to Fuzhou Province, how to say it, Chen Jingyun has not regarded Zheng Zuyin as an opponent for a long time. It doesn't matter the relationship between Lin Changming and Zheng Zuyin.
Chen Jingyun said after speaking: "But Southeast University was originally run by you, and you can also serve as the president first!" Let me see, when the time comes, some science and engineering courses of the Fuzhou Naval Academy will be transferred to Southeast University, and then there are also some courses in the Fuzhou Military Academy that I want to be related to can also be transferred to Southeast University. ”
"As for the teachers, you don't have to worry, I already have so many talents in our Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, it is enough to find a few to be teachers, and there are also a lot of experts in the laboratory below me, so it should not be a problem for them to concurrently serve as a university professor." Then you can also recruit foreign professors, as long as you are willing to give money, those foreigners will also come! Chen Jingyun has the confidence to say this.
He casually mentioned to the Americans that he wanted to set up a university with a comprehensive surname, but to Chen Jingyun's reaction, the Americans were very enthusiastic, even more enthusiastic than they were to help Chen Jingyun rebuild the navy, and the US consul in Fuzhou, Faller, immediately said that he would do his best to help Fuzhou solve the problem of teachers, and even help with teaching funds and equipment.
When Chen Jingyun first heard Faller say this, he almost thought that Faller had a high fever and his brain was confused. Later, I thought of the fact that the United States gave up the Gengzi indemnity to help China run schools, and I was relieved that the United States was still very enthusiastic about exporting their values in these years, and in later generations, McDonald's and Hollywood movies were used, and now it is taking out real money to import values, as for the meaning behind it, to put it bluntly, it is also simple, that is, I hope to use this way to obtain the goodwill of the Chinese elite towards American values.
I have to say that this method is quite effective, and when I talk about who China's enemies are in later generations, the answer must be that the United States and Ben, and then ask the same people whether you will go or not if you can immigrate to the United States. 99% of them will choose to go, and the remaining 1% will choose to let their families go, and then continue to be officials in China.
This is the result of the output of values.
Therefore, the US consul in Fuzhou, Phaller, was extremely enthusiastic about Chen Jingyun's plan to run a university, and not only personally contacted the minister to China, Jia Leheng, but then he also found Chen Jingyun the next day, saying that the United States could provide the university in Fuzhou with the necessary teachers and even funds for running the university, and then it could also make this university a preparatory school for studying in the United States, and the United States would accept a large number of students from Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.
It's too early to talk about things like values, what China needs now is a large number of talents with higher education, and they can't train them now, so they should go to study abroad, anyway, there is not much difference between studying in this country and studying in the United States.
In this way, this is the idea that Chen Jingyun will make Southeast University, where Lin Changming and a few gentry had a small fight, into a comprehensive surname university.