Chapter 43 Earning Dollars

Yang Rui's words of 'master of bullshit' are obviously meaningful. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, plans were made for higher education, but in two years, there were only more than 10,000 college graduates, which was far from the previous goal. There are objective factors in this, such as insufficient education expenses per student, insufficient professors, unfinished school building construction, etc., while subjectively, the department is worried that too many graduates will affect employment.

Yang Rui originally believed this, but when he saw the draft list of academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences submitted by the school a month ago, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be signs of rampant academics in the academic world. Yang Rui questioned why there were so many liberal arts academicians on the list, Cai Yuanpei's answer was that this person was a certain master, and that person was a certain master, which made people very unhappy, especially Liang Qichao was also included in it, because he would always be 'left in the list'.

The name of the master is flooded in the Republic of China. Why did the Republic of China produce masters but later generations not produce masters? Yang Rui didn't know before, but now that he is here, he can't help but question how high the gold content of those masters is in the higher education environment where more than 10,000 college students graduate every year and international students become treasures? For China, this is an era of great integration of Chinese and Western cultures, and as far as the world is concerned, this is an era of scientific and technological explosion.

China is not a Republic of China, it does not need so many masters, and it will not have only a few thousand university graduates every year. With the remnants of later generations, Yang Rui believes that one day the number of college graduates will reach 5 million..., and at present, he believes that at least 200,000 college students will be graduated every year. These college students will enter the front line of the factory, or become grassroots technical/managerial personnel, or lead a class of technical school students. To become a worker team leader, you have to be a high-level leader. Then work hard, work hard, and fight dad.

After Yang Rui finished talking about the bullshit master, Cai Yuanpei resigned after a few words. When the school department readjusted the plan before getting off work in the afternoon and sent it over, it was only Jiang Weiqiao who came, and Cai Yuanpei did not come.

"What about the people?" Holding the revised draft, Yang Rui looked at Jiang Weiqiao and asked.

"The people said they were sleepy, so they went to sleep first." Jiang Weiqiao's eyes were a little evasive, and he hurriedly turned the topic to the draft: "We have remade a plan, which is roughly like this: 10 million people in junior primary schools every year, and the school system is three years, and each person is three taels per year. However, considering that the marketization has reduced costs, the budget is set at 80 million; There are 10 million students in the upper primary school every year, the school system is two years, each person is four taels per year, and the budget is also 80 million; The junior high school is set at 3 million students per year, with a two-year school system, 5 taels per person per year, and a budget of 30 million; There are 800,000 students in high school every year, and the duration of education is three years. Ten taels per person per year, with a budget of 24 million, and 800,000 people per year in technical schools, with a three-year school period but only two years. fifteen taels per person per year, with a budget of twenty-four million; ”

Jiang Weiqiao paused here and said, "College student." 100,000 students per year, four years of schooling. forty taels per person per year, with a budget of sixteen million; 20,000 Ph.D. and master's degrees per year. This can only be calculated as the cost per person, and after all things considered, the average cost per person is set at 1,000 taels, and the budget is 10 million; 5,000 international students are selected every year, and considering that some people also have to study for doctoral and master's degrees, the average cost per person is set at 3,000 taels, and the budget is 15 million, so that the cumulative amount is 279 million taels, and the remaining 21 million taels will be used for the Royal Academy of Sciences. ”

"Twenty-one million for those masters of the Academy of Sciences as pocket money?" Yang Rui was not very happy to hear that there were only 100,000 college students. He turned to a list from the literary shelf and said, "The Royal Academy of Sciences should not only divide the arts and sciences into two subjects, let's divide them into thirteen categories according to Western disciplines." ”

Jiang Weiqiao ignored Yang Rui's strange words, took the list and saw that liberal arts had become literature, and the position was only ranked before art, and there was also military science on it, so he asked at the moment: "Actually, what is this literature?" ”

"Literature is writing poetry and writing novels, and writing literary criticism like Wang Guowei can also be counted. Forget about the other messy people, the Academy of Sciences is not a nursing home for the elderly, nor is it a performance ground for international students, and it is not something that cats and dogs can sell to face. Yang Rui smiled, and after speaking, he said: "Among those of us, Uncle Mei can be regarded as an academician of philosophy with that comprehensive theory of evolution, Mr. Hua Feng has delayed his official duties, strictly speaking, he is only semi-qualified, I can't do it, many of the achievements are not mine, I deserve it, as for the others, don't be embarrassed." ”

"This ......" Jiang Weiqiao was very apprehensive when he took the new classification method, if it was really divided into thirteen disciplines like this, then more than half of the people on the previous list would have to be brushed off. The school department is not recognized by Yang Rui's six relatives, there are many old friends and classmates, if it is not for the review power of teacher employment in the Ministry of Officials, then the school department will really have its own unity.

"In fact, if you want everyone to be convinced, you should list everyone's achievements and compare them with each other. However, the standard should not be too low, and those diplomas from foreign countries should not be blindly trusted. Yang Rui said.

"Actually, I'll go back and discuss this matter with everyone." Yang Rui said seriously, Jiang Weiqiao had to agree for the time being, otherwise this academy of sciences would not know when Ma Yue would be able to build it.

"It's not a discussion, it's a certainty." Yang Rui emphasized: "You sue the people that the Academy of Sciences is not the Hanlin Academy."

"I see." Jiang Weiqiao nodded.

"In addition, the number of college graduates is too small, there are 10 million students in junior primary schools, and it is impossible to have 10 million students in senior primary schools, which is 8 million a year, and the extra 16 million here is used for universities, and the budget has increased from 16 million to 32 million, and there are 200,000 graduates every year. If we reach this goal in 10 years, we will have to increase it by 400,000 in 20 years, and 1 million in 30 years. Yang Rui said.

"Actually, you really want to treat college students as cabbage?" Jiang Weiqiao said with a wry smile, thirty years later, one million college students will be graduated every year, and he can't imagine that this college student will really go to sweep the streets at that time.

"Cabbage is still too expensive, and in my opinion, there must be at least five million college graduates every year before the popularization of education can be completed." Yang Rui said, "Zhuzhuang, don't be fooled by those who climb to a high place with their academic qualifications. They want to know how to read and write all over the world. What was the ideal of the China Education Association back then? Have you all forgotten jì? The purpose of education is to increase people's knowledge and cultivate their spirit, not to let people have a good future. ”

Yang Rui's statement suddenly made Jiang Weiqiao begin to accept the true concept of popularization of education calmly. He said: "Then let's set ten years to achieve 200,000." Is the one million in 30 years a little bit to be mentioned later? ”

"Let's bring it up together. Let's make a 30-year education plan. After this is done, a press conference will be held to publish the draft for comments. Of course. I don't think I can collect any good opinions, and those who read the book will definitely oppose it when they hear that there are 200,000 college students coming out every year. Yang Rui said seriously. He suddenly felt that this education and buying a house were completely opposite, and after buying a house, he wished that others would buy it too, and the house price would rise higher and higher; But as for education, when you go ashore, you wish that all the people behind you would drown, so that you can be the only one, and the government must resolutely suppress this situation.

Last minute before leaving work. The plan for the popularization of education was finalized, and Yang Rui handed over the plan submitted by the school department to Li Zilong, and asked the office of the Prime Minister to supervise the progress of the matter.

However, when he put down the school department, he picked up the highway report from the transportation department before leaving the office. In addition to changing provincial roads to national roads, county roads to provincial roads, and township roads to county roads, the report also listed the pavement plan and construction cost that Yang Rui was most concerned about on the first page.

In order to achieve a carrying capacity of 40 tons on the Sanhe dirt road, there are two plans given by the Ministry of Transportation, one is to use asphalt concrete like the Beijing-Tianjin Highway; Then there is the latest road construction technology in Europe: RCC cement concrete, but there are still some technical problems to be solved.

Both options are incredibly expensive. Former. Because the domestic asphalt production is small, the nuclear price can only be based on foreign countries, and now the international asphalt price is more than 18 taels per ton, and the United States is a big asphalt country. If you really want to build asphalt roads on a large scale, you still have to import them from the United States, so you can count it. The price to the domestic market will not be less than twenty-eight taels per ton. One cubic of asphalt concrete requires 130 kilograms of asphalt, and the national road surface is 7.5 meters wide and 0.2 meters thick. It costs five taels or six dollars per metre of asphalt alone, and five thousand six hundred taels per kilometer. Including the construction cost, the construction cost of the asphalt road per kilometer is 9,000 taels.

The RCC concrete, the same standard highway, needs 500 kilograms of cement per kilometer, at the current price of cement per barrel (6 barrels a ton, 170 kilograms per barrel), the cost of cement per kilometer alone is 12,000 taels, plus others, the cost per kilometer is 15,000 taels, which is more expensive than asphalt concrete.

At this time, Yang Rui finally knew why the people in the transportation department were so surprised by the road condition requirements of 40 tons, this cost is not building a road at all, doubling the price, and the railway can be repaired. Provincial roads with a width of only 4.5 meters and a thickness of 0.15 meters require 4,500 taels per kilometer for asphalt concrete and 7,000 taels per kilometer for RCC concrete; As for the county roads, although they do not use asphalt and cement, they are only gravel roads, but the price has also increased from 500 taels per kilometer to 1,000 taels.

At the beginning of the report is a cost analysis of the cost and cost of the three types of roads at the national, provincial and county levels, but there is good news on the second page, that is, the reason why the expensive cement concrete roads are listed in the plan is that the supply of cement is more abundant than asphalt, and most importantly, the cost of cement can be compressed on a large scale. As far as China is concerned, there are only two cement companies, Qixin Cement and Hubei Cement, and the price of each barrel of cement is 5 Chinese yuan, or 3.7 taels, but if the cost can be reduced, the price of cement can eventually be reduced to 1.5 taels per barrel, or 9 taels per ton. Based on this calculation, the construction cost of the national highway is 6,500 taels per kilometer, the provincial road is 4,000 taels, and the county road is 1,000 taels because it is a gravel pavement.

The national highway planning, the national highway plan has basically been made, the country will plan nine first-class national highways, a total of 9,929 kilometers; 61 second-class national highways, totaling 49,343 kilometers, with a total of 59,372 kilometers and a total budget of 400 million taels; There is no specific plan for provincial highways, but the estimated mileage is 150,000 kilometers and the budget is 600 million taels; There is also no specific plan for the county road, but the tentative estimate is 500,000 kilometers, and the total budget price is 500 million taels. In this way, the length of highway construction in the country is 700,000 kilometers, and the total budget is 1.5 billion taels.

Although there is a lot of money, the 700,000-kilometer highway network can reach all regions and connect all large and medium-sized cities, except for Medog County in Tibet, all counties and counties can be connected to automobiles, more than 80 percent of the country's towns and villages will be covered by the highway network, and the highway density will reach 0.055 kilometers per square kilometer, plus 30,000 kilometers of railways and 170,000 kilometers of inland waterway shipping in the plan. The whole country will be truly connected, and goods from all over the country will be able to circulate quickly and at low cost. The whole country can also achieve real economic integration, and then industry and commerce will achieve explosive growth.

Of course. It will take 30 years to achieve this goal, according to the currency value of the first year of Shenwu, 2 billion taels for railways and 1.5 billion taels for highways; In addition to the management of waterways, 2,243 inland river wharves will be expanded or built, including 25 wharves of 10,000 tons, 150 wharves of more than 1,000 tons, and 600 wharves of more than 100 tons. The budget for waterway management and wharf construction is only 300 million taels.

3.8 billion taels for a national transportation network, although the investment is large, but the efficiency is high, and through the guò vehicle and vessel tax, tolls, freight, fuel surcharge, etc., as long as the 3.8 billion yuan is invested in the transportation network, it can grow itself. Thinking of this, Yang Rui thought about how good it would be if he didn't go to war with the Soviet Union, so that the money earned from the First World War could be invested in the construction of the railway network in addition to land redemption.

If the tsar agrees to cede the Far East to China, then Comrade Lenin is afraid that he will become unknown, right? But how can the tsar cut the land? Or, to make it impossible for the Bolsheviks to succeed. Russia finally fell into a split? But the problem was that because of their own funding, the Bolsheviks ceased to be a minority, but became a party comparable to the Mensheviks and other Socialist-Revolutionaries.

Russia will inevitably collapse in the European war, and the revolutionary party will eventually rise. Without Lenin, there was also Li Ning, such as Trotsky, the father of the Red Army; Moreover, if the Soviet Union does not appear, China's international situation will be very bad. A country that is rising at a high speed also wants to cancel all unequal treaties. is even more yellow, and in the end, I am afraid that it will be collectively boycotted by the great powers.

Thinking about all this nonsense. It was only when his son came out to call for dinner that Yang Rui came back to his senses, but he was still in a daze during the meal, and it was only when Cheng Ying put down the bowl and coughed, and said with a smile: "Eh, didn't you say that you watched a movie tonight?" Why is there no movement? ”

"Ahh Watch movies, what movies to watch? Yang Rui was a little stunned, the notebook had been where Han Xianfeng was, Cheng Ying paid little attention to this, he thought she was going to open the notebook.

"It's the new movie made by the Film Bureau." Han Xianfeng reminded on the side. "Didn't you say that it was finished a few days ago, and that there will be a test screening tonight."

The music on the notebook movie was all recorded by Han Xianfeng, and she participated in the production of every sound film, and hung up the name of a film score consultant in the film bureau, which is considered to have a favorite job.

"Well, it's okay so soon?" Yang Rui was still surprised, he didn't expect the Film Bureau to finish filming Chongzhen in two days, and he didn't expect the film to be edited and copied in a few days.

"It's just an internal test screening to see if there's anything wrong, and we'll have to edit it again in the future, and then copy it after editing. The actual release will not be until more than a month later. Han Xianfeng said with a smile, the woman is pregnant with a child, and her smile is gentle.

"Oh." Yang Rui was stunned for a moment, and then nodded in Cheng Ying's smile and Yang Wuming's expectation: "Then let's take a look, I'll call the Film Bureau." ”

At the beginning of tomorrow, Yang Rui's family came to the small scripture where the film bureau was located, and they didn't want to see Zhang Taiyan's family and Qiu Jin's family before the carriage entered the courtyard. Zhang Taiyan folded his fan in a gray shirt, his face was full of reluctance, and it was estimated that he was dragged out by his wife and several daughters; And Qiu Jin wore a long sword at his waist, looked calm, and strode forward, his ex-husband Wang Tingjun followed her pitifully, and even his daughter Wang Canzhi walked in front of him.

Seeing that Qiu Jin's ex-husband was so wolf-like, Yang Rui hurriedly pulled Cheng Ying, pointed out the window and said, "Why is her ex-husband here?" ”

"If you come, you'll come, Sister Qiu won't help him get an official." Cheng Ying replied inexplicably.

"It's not. Am I saying they're going to remarry? Yang Rui said with a smile. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, those who were single were no longer single, only Qiu Jin was still alone.

"Nothing." Cheng Ying glanced at Wang Tingjun who was walking on the road, she didn't like this person either, "Sister Qiu likes very strong men, she said that only when men force her, can she muster up the courage to fight against men......"

"Isn't this a tigress plus a masochist?" Yang Rui was amused when he heard this, and at the same time lamented this unfortunate man, he heard that this person was holding the two children and sending Qiu Jin to study in Japan with tears.

"That's because there are too many male tigers like you in the world, so you know how to bully our women's family." Cheng Ying retorted.

At this time, the carriage was admitted to the hospital and stopped, and as soon as the door opened, Cheng Ying went down to get together with Qiu Jin. But fortunately, the eldest wife is gone, the second wife is still there, Yang Rui took Yang Wuming out of the car, and helped Han Xianfeng down, the two of them smiled at each other, and then walked over to Zhang Taiyan.

"Uncle Mei, why are you here today?" Yang Rui looked at him and smiled, and also said hello to his eldest son-in-law Gong Baoquan.

"Xiaolin has to let me see this movie, so I have to come." This is the first time the two have met since the last quarrel, Yang Rui took the initiative to say hello, and Zhang Taiyan didn't have the same thing as last time.

"It's better for you to check it, this movie cost 200,000 taels of silver." Yang Rui said, said hello to Qiu Jin again, and then took his family into the screening hall under the leadership of Wang Xiaolin and others.

The screening hall is just a small room, so the people of the Film Bureau deliberately temporarily placed seats and refreshments, and the three families, plus Wang Xiaolin, the director of the film, Xu Lingyun and a few crew members, filled the room half for a while. Maybe because of Yang Ruicun, the crew sat far away and didn't dare to speak, so that he had some ideas but couldn't tell the director.

The movie starts in dark and low music, and the sound effect in the screening room is good, but what surprises Yang Rui is not the sound, but the color, when did this movie become color?

Seeing Yang Rui turn his head to look at him, Han Xianfeng whispered in his ear, "I heard that it was hand-colored, but I don't know anything else." ”

Yang Rui was very stunned, and the others were also very surprised when the screen lit up, especially Qiu Jin's ex-husband Wang Tingjun suddenly got up from the chair, and then was forced back by Qiu Jin's words. Seeing this scene, Yang Rui suddenly remembered a joke: it was said that a foreigner was showing a movie in a Tianjin theater on a certain day, and he found more than a dozen trusts in order to solicit customers, and those trusts did not pay a lot of money to bring more than 200 spectators, but he didn't want the movie to have a shot on horseback, and the group of spectators were watching energetically, but they saw foreigners riding horses and putting guns at themselves, and they all fled immediately, and those trusts did not dare to go back and ask foreigners for rewards......

When other people entered the story, Yang Rui was absent-minded, he had seen this movie, and it was not good to say that it was good, all he wanted was political propaganda.

"Ah, why is King Min also in it?" Inadvertently, Yang Rui suddenly found that Chongzhen was actually pretended by Zhu Kuan, this matter is a big deal, why didn't Wang Xiaolin and Sheng Shudong report it?

"It was said that the person who pretended to be Emperor Chongzhen didn't dare to sit on the dragon chair, and then His Royal Highness King Min did it for him." Han Xianfeng knew about this matter for a long time, King Min was actually on the movie, and as soon as this movie was released, I was afraid that the whole world would have to watch it. "Isn't that possible?" Han Xianfeng has long known that the emperor is just a puppet, and it is his own man who is really in power in this world.

"It's not impossible." Yang Rui was surprised, but he didn't feel anything wrong, after all, he still played the emperor, and his identity was not cheap, but he was a little unlucky in this film, this is a catastrophe after all.

The appearance of Zhu Kuanwei began to make Yang Rui take a closer look at this movie, compared with the original work, the picture, lighting, props, and special effects are a lot worse, but fortunately, the pathos and vicissitudes of the movie itself are still there, and the casting and performance of the actors are also qualified, as for the editing, it is no different from the original, and the story also unfolds on the two lines of Sun Chuanting and Wu Youke, and then converges together.

It's all mediocre, but Yang Rui found that compared with the silent films of Hollywood, in addition to the color and sound, the film shows a complete narrative, fast and diverse editing, close to the real performance, and the application of montage theory will kill a small American film in seconds. In particular, the movie also has subtitles, and the words are not only larger than the original, but also flash for a long time, which means that even if it is shown as a silent film, the story is still complete. Yang Rui doesn't know how to get this subtitle, but since it can display Chinese, it can also display English, doesn't it mean that this movie should be exported to the United States to earn dollars? (To be continued......)