The main thing has now been agreed. The rest will be settled. When the arsenal was being built, Yang Zhen insisted that the plant area should be more than doubled. This approach, which previously clearly gave people a feeling of Lang Fei, has now shown its effect. At least there is no need to delay the installation of machines and equipment because of the inability to construct in North Manchurian in winter.

Yang Zhen was anxious to go to several sub-districts to inspect the work, and after talking about the agreement with Jiangbei, he obviously had spare money on hand for the two matters of forming a production and construction corps and carrying out nine-year compulsory compulsory education in the base areas, and the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu, who seemed to be a little wealthy, agreed without the slightest consideration.

Although the formation of the production and construction corps is somewhat cumbersome at present, especially the area of immigration, it is even more troublesome. But the benefits are clear. In particular, if sufficient preliminary preparations have been made, even the most difficult immigration work will not be hindered too much. Li Yanlu, who is mainly in charge of administrative work, expressed his full support for this idea on the spot.

Not only did he give priority to agreeing to allocate local staff, but he also promised to import 16 high-horsepower tractors at one time and hand them over to the Production and Construction Corps in coordination with Jiangbei on the basis of the six French-made crawler tractors seized in Jiamusi and the four taels of Soviet-made high-horsepower tractors imported by Yang Zhen in advance. And happily accepted Yang Zhen's invitation to the commander-in-chief and himself to serve as the first political commissar and first secretary of the Production and Construction Corps and the temporary commander respectively.

As for the nine-year compulsory free compulsory education system, although the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu felt a certain amount of pressure, of course, it was mainly financial. But for Yang Zhen's idea, it is greatly appreciated. Especially Li Yanlu, he repeatedly praised Yang Zhen for having vision and seeing far. We know that education is the foundation of the country. Although it will bring a certain amount of pressure, with Yang Zhen's financial refreshment, it is not a problem that cannot be solved.

Li Yanlu not only appreciated Yang Zhen's idea, but also said on the spot that he would give priority to allocating 50,000 rubles from the remaining part of the Jiangbei loan as start-up capital. The 100,000 pseudo-Manchurian coins and 50,000 yen that Yang Zhen brought this time were also invested all at once. In the future, priority will be given to the allocation of funds for education, in addition to military needs.

Li Yanlu's words of praise made Yang Zhen blush a little, and at the same time, he secretly gave a thumbs up in his heart. As the saying goes, how high you stand, how far you look. In the end, he is a person who oversees the overall situation, and his vision is different, and he suddenly sees the idea. Not to mention anything else, just this open-mindedness and bearing, it is not something that I can compare.

It's just that the development after the fact made Yang Zhen, who was the shopkeeper and handed over the matter to Li Yanping, the political commissar of the military region, was also a little unexpected. Especially the great energy invested by the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu made Yang Zhen not expect it in advance. In addition to the mathematics textbooks, which still maintain the textbooks used by the puppet Manchurians, and only make appropriate additions and deletions, the Chinese textbooks are all compiled by the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu in their busy schedules.

In addition to some basic enlightenment of the three-character classics and thousand-character texts, in the upper primary school and junior high school tutorials, there are many selected fragments of the works of the central leaders who were specially flown in from Yan'an, such as the essence of the famous "A Spark Can Fire the Plain", which was selected into the textbooks at the high school level.

As for foreign language teaching, under Yang Zhen's insistence, the principle of voluntariness was adopted, and in addition to retaining some Japanese courses, Russian and English majors were also opened.

It's just that in the base area, it is easier to find a teacher for Russian language majors. There are ready-made Belarusian teachers in Jiamusi, but English majors are hard to find. In the end, it was the central government that transferred a group of intellectuals from Yan'an to participate in the revolution, which alleviated the shortage of foreign language teachers.

In order to ensure the quality of teaching, so that students can develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and laboriously in an all-round way. Yang Zhen also launched a conservation campaign in the army, starting from himself, calling on every soldier to donate a part of the allowance to the school in every surplus. After the school was built, with the money saved, each school was equipped with sports equipment and musical instruments specially imported from Jiangbei.

Yang Zhen's enthusiasm is very high, but due to the difference in thinking, he does not think very long-term. He only took into account the resumption of classes for students in primary and secondary schools and the guarantee that no child would miss school for family reasons. However, I have not considered the future path of those students who are currently in high school or are about to graduate from high school.

In this regard, Li Yanlu, as the commander-in-chief of the first secretary of the Northeast Bureau and the director of the Northeast Working Committee, has to think more about the long-term than him. After the capture of Jiamusi, in addition to continuing to maintain the original puppet Manchurian Jiamusi Normal School and medical college, continue to open classes.

After careful discussion, the two of them negotiated with Jiangbei and won a certain number of international students who were partially scholarshiped by the other party every year. In addition to the children of martyrs of appropriate age, the Northeast Bureau will select 120 students from among the fresh graduates of various high schools to study in Jiangbei starting at the end of the year.

However, although this resolution was made by the Northeast Bureau, when it was finally finalized, there was a disagreement because Yang Zhen knew about it and inserted a lever horizontally.

Jiangbei means that according to the actual needs, these international students will be in accordance with the ratio of arts and sciences to four or six ratios, after completing half a year of preparatory studies, and after passing the examination, they will enter Moscow University, Minsk University, Kyiv University, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, and Stalingrad Polytechnic Institute to study corresponding liberal arts majors such as law, literature, and translation, as well as science majors such as chemistry and power.

However, Yang Zhen insisted that except for universities in Moscow and the Sverdrovsk region, none of the universities in the European region would not go. Either choose a university in the Far East, or both. The others don't go either. Yang Zhen's attitude not only confused Jiangbei, but even the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu didn't understand what he meant.

Although Jiangbei has repeatedly explained that due to historical reasons, the level of university teaching in Europe is generally higher than that in the Far East. And the recommended universities are all well-known comprehensive universities. For example, Kyiv University and Minsk University, as well as the Leningrad Institute of Engineering, were famous universities in the Soviet Union and even in the world. But no matter how Jiangbei persuaded him, Yang Zhen was unmoved.

In the end, after repeated discussions, Jiangbei finally agreed to open a number of study abroad classes for this group of students at the Vladivostok Medical University, the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute, and the Ural Kirov Polytechnic Institute. Learn about the medical, metallurgical, mining, machine manufacturing, chemistry and other specialties that are in short supply in the base.

Two of the three universities are open to foreign students for the first time. In particular, Sverderovsk, where the Ural Kirov Polytechnic Institute is located, is strictly forbidden to foreigners.

Of course, Yang Zhen also gave some face to the European schools recommended by Jiang Beibei, and chose the Moscow Institute of Finance and Economics and the Moscow Agricultural Institute to train 10 students each, and the Moscow Aviation Institute to train 40 students. As for the Leningrad Institute of Technology and Kyiv University recommended by Jiangbei, which were located on the main battlefield of the future Soviet-German battlefield, Yang Zhen did not choose any of them.

Not only was the school where he studied was personally selected by Yang Zhen, but also the majors he studied were also personally chosen by Yang Zhen. For the Marxist-Leninist studies recommended by the other party, majors such as language, literature, music and art, and even law were all written off by him with a stroke of his pen.

In Yang Zhen's words, under the situation that the shape has not been alleviated and there is a shortage of professional and technical personnel, what Russian literature, what opera, music and other things, and Marxist-Leninist ideas are not Lang Fei. If you want to study, don't be with me, if you love it, you can learn there.

All the courses he chose for these international students were metallurgy, chemistry, mechanical engineering, mining, power, aviation, finance and economics, and even shipbuilding and railroading, which were not yet used in the base, except for a few in agriculture and medicine. In addition, 20 of the best international students were specially selected to study at the Department of Physics at Moscow University, and they chose to study atomic physics, which had just been established in the Soviet Union and was still an unpopular course.

Not only did he personally select schools and majors for these international students, but also more than doubled the original number of 120 candidates with a stroke of his pen. The original number of 120 people was directly changed to 300. He also stated that if Jiangbei is unwilling to provide scholarships for the extra 180 people, all the expenses during their stay in Jiangbei can be paid by the military region.

And at the end of that year, after the first batch of international students completed their Russian language training, Yang Zhen also said that the number of international students selected every year in the future would be doubled. If Jiangbei is unwilling to bear this cost, the Chinese Party, that is, the Northeast Bureau, can be responsible for all of it.

Four years later, Yang Zhen established the first comprehensive polytechnic university in the base area based on the first batch of international students who returned from their studies except for a small number of students who continued their studies. The Jiamusi University of Technology, which Yang Zhen insisted on establishing, and the former Manchurian Jiamusi Medical College, which Yang Zhen insisted on transferring to the Military Region and changing it into the Military Medical College of the Jidong Military Region, together provided a large number of urgently needed professionals for the founding of New China.

No matter how difficult the conditions are and how great the financial pressure is, the Northeast Bureau, under Yang Zhen's insistence, selects and sends international students to study in Jiangbei every year according to the plan, and the number is increasing year by year. Even after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, when Jiangbei completely cut off the scholarship for these students, the Northeast Bureau still took out 80 percent of the funds from the remaining financial surplus and insisted on selecting students.

Not only that, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Jiangbei was unable to continue to accept Chinese students due to the lack of materials. In order to obtain Jiangbei's consent to continue to take over the students, the Northeast Bureau even agreed to provide Jiangbei with 10,000 tons of meat products, 100,000 tons of grain, and 300,000 tons of high-quality industrial coal every year as compensation.

It was Yang Zhen's persistence and hard work that made the commander-in-chief, who had already planned to withdraw the study students after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, and Li Yanlu finally agree to this plan of exchanging materials for students that was almost the limit that the Northeast Bureau could bear. For the development of education, in Yang Zhen's words, let alone being a pants, even if you smash the pot and sell iron, you have to grit your teeth and stick to it.

If it were not for the rapid development of production, the Corps would still have a considerable surplus in the annual production of grain in addition to supplying its own needs. The 100,000 tons of wheat in this exchange plan will not come out even if they are really smashed and sold iron. Even so, these 100,000 tons of wheat and 10,000 tons of animal products account for almost 70 percent of the average annual output of fine grains and more than half of the output of meat, especially beef.

Although the price paid for cultivating these high-level talents is huge, the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast Working Committee can be said to be bankrupt. But compared with the great contributions made by these students who came out of the Sanjiang area, at least in Yang Zhen's opinion, these costs are worth it.

In the first few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, among the various professional science and engineering colleges set up in order to cultivate various specialized talents urgently needed for the construction of New China, students from Jiamusi University of Technology accounted for a considerable proportion of the teaching group. In some of the cold, mining, metallurgy, shipbuilding and other specialties that are urgently needed after the founding of the People's Republic of China, even account for more than half.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the leaders and founding premiers of the People's Republic of China more than once praised the Northeast Bureau for its far-sightedness and the fact that a large number of students were still selected to study in the Soviet Union under the situation of tight finances and the rush of war.

Of course, these are all things that Yang Zhen did not expect now, and what he only knows is that in the years to come, in the entire base area, education expenditure will be the third largest financial expenditure after military expenditure and military industry.

However, under the circumstance that the military can rely on the seizure and confiscation of Japanese counterfeit assets and secret smuggling activities in the liberated areas to solve most of its own needs, and the military industry is mainly invested in the Jidong Military Region, education expenditure is actually the largest expenditure item.

Even a few years later, with the successive victories in the war and the arrival of some American aid, the economic situation of the Northeast Bureau improved day by day. However, education has always accounted for more than 30 percent of the total expenditure.

After the full-scale outbreak of the Pacific Ocean, the $100 million in aid provided by the United States every year, in addition to military spending and investment in the military industry, the surplus of more than $20 million was invested in education, in addition to subsidizing the central government.

From the selection of the first batch of students to study in the Soviet Union to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 49 and the transfer of study abroad to the Ministry of Education of New China, the entire ten years spent astronomical funds in exchange for tens of thousands of highly educated professionals. Among them, the number of people who returned from studying in the Soviet Union was as high as more than 20,000. These talents have built the foundation for the post-industrialization of New China.

Not only that, under the vigorous promotion of Yang Zhen, the Sanjiang region not only became the first region in the country to completely eliminate illiteracy for a long time after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but also the region with the highest average education level. It is also the region with the highest percentage of university students in the average population.

It wasn't until decades later that the old man in the Sanjiang area gave Yang Zhen a thumbs up with emotion and said with emotion: "We can have so many college students here, and there are no illiterate people from old to young, thanks to Commander Yang back then." If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have been able to lay such a good educational foundation here. ”