Jagged Warlord

The older generation of scientists we are more familiar with, such as Qian Xuesen, Li Siguang, Zhu Kezhen, etc., almost all returned from studying abroad, because there is no condition in China to train and support outstanding scientists.

According to the disclosure of an expert in the later world, the truth of the matter is that in the early period of the Republic of China, in the era of the Beiyang warlords in Chinese universities, the ratio of liberal arts students to science students was extremely unbalanced—the liberal arts students who studied grammar and art It took the lead, reaching more than 90% of the total number of students!

In those universities in Beijing back then, the first was liberal arts, the second was liberal arts, and the third was liberal arts!In addition to medicine and foreign languages, if you want to learn some practical advanced technology, you can only study abroad.Moreover, after completing their studies, it is difficult to return to China to find a professional job, and they can only stay overseas to make a living—the industry in old China is too backward, and returnee engineers and scientists are almost useless unless they set up their own factories and start businesses. Useless.

In the old China of the Republic of China, the most lacking thing was modern industry and agriculture, and the most backward thing was modern science and technology. However, only a few science students were trained, and many of the best talents had to emigrate abroad. What's the use for a big country with hundreds of millions of people!If the industry of the Republic of China can be developed, then there is a ghost!Correspondingly, there are very few students studying engineering and agriculture in universities, and there are not even many business students, and there are very few professors who teach these courses.Only medicine is a little stronger, but it is also limited.

As for the universities opened by Westerners in China, the initial goal was to cultivate a group of local Chinese political elites who were close to the West.During the period of the Republic of China, thousands or even thousands of college students graduated from universities established by Anglo-American churches and non-governmental educational institutions in China, and then entered the government or industrial and commercial fields, and their political views naturally tended to be pro-American, Anglophile.In order to meet this demand, the courses of these schools are also mainly liberal arts and theology—the former is used to infiltrate the superstructure, while the latter spreads influence to the people at the bottom—at most some medical courses are offered, but they are not very willing to provide China has cultivated industrial and technological talents to create competitors for its own companies in the Chinese market.

The only exception is Germany, perhaps because the Germans are more honest. After seizing Qingdao, they opened a polytechnic institute in Asia at that time - Dehua University in 1909.And with German-style rigor, it has trained a group of excellent engineering and technical personnel for China.

The school opened on September 1909, 9 (the opening ceremony was supplemented on October 12). The first headmaster was Georg Keiper, a German geologist and official of the Navy Department, and the chief inspector was Wailang Jiang, a member of the Faculty. regular script. In 10, the school had 25 German teachers, most of whom had doctorate or master's degrees, such as professor of mathematics Konrad Knop, professor of botany William Wagner, professor of physics Karl Erich Hupka, etc. There are Chinese teachers who are famous in the Chinese imperial examinations and have a degree in the new school, including Yu Lianfang, a professor of Chinese literature and ethics.Students come from all over the country and overseas. In 1912, there were 26 students in the school, and in 6 there were more than 1912 students.

The school system is a two-level higher education system, including preparatory courses, undergraduate courses and Chinese subjects.The preparatory course teaches basic knowledge (including Western courses such as German, history, geography, mathematics, logic, biology, physics, chemistry and painting courses, as well as traditional Chinese courses such as ancient books, history, geography, ethics and literature), and the schooling period is 6 years , which is equivalent to a regular middle school.Undergraduates study specialized disciplines, with a schooling period of 4 to 6 years. Initially, there are four subjects: politics, engineering, medicine, agriculture and forestry. German and Chinese courses are also offered for undergraduates.In addition, there is also a Chinese subject. Those who pass the graduation examination can enter the Imperial College to obtain a degree in literature.

It's a pity that this school was only in operation for 5 years, and it disappeared after the Japanese captured Qingdao in 1914.

Thinking of this, Li Mohan began to think about how to get all the talents from Dehua University to his Huaxia University.The first thing Li Mohan thought of was to see if there were any graduates of Dehua University under his command. After some screening, he found two students who graduated from Dehua University.

One of them is Li Suifeng and the other Wang Daliang.Li Mohan immediately found the two of them, and asked them to return to Qingdao immediately to make friends. It would be best to fool the teachers and students of the entire school.

Li Suifeng is from Hubei, and Wang Daliang is from Anhui. They patted their chests and said that it would be no problem to bring several Hubei and Anhui fellows in the school to Shangqiu, but the others could only do their best.

Li Mohan didn't force it, and in fact, he couldn't force it, so Li Mohan gave each of them 30 Huashang Tickets as the activity fund, and asked them to set off immediately.After Li Suifeng and Wang Daliang went to Qingdao, they used their classmates and fellow villagers to try their best to win over their seniors, juniors and familiar teachers.When the other party saw that the two were well dressed and generous, they were moved.The two successively attracted more than [-] students and teachers to Li Mohan, including two German teachers.

Li Mohan was very satisfied with their performance, and promised to reserve two good positions for them in Huaxia University.

Soon after, with the efforts of Strong and Samuel, the machines ordered by Li Mohan and the expert team for building the industrial park landed in Qingdao, and then transported to Shangqiu via the Jiaoji Railway and Longhai Railway.It was June 1914, and there was still more than a month before the outbreak of the First World War, so I finally caught up with the last train.

Soon, the first factory was erected in Shangqiu Industrial Park.This factory is not an arsenal, but a machinery factory.

Li Mohan believes that the best machines and the best equipment should be used as mother machines to produce more equipment and more machines, to build more factories and enterprises, rather than to manufacture those useless guns and ammunition.He had read a report that when the Qing government invested all its power to purchase advanced machinery and equipment and built the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Administration, foreigners were invited to visit the most advanced machinery and equipment in the world at that time, but most of them were noncommittal. They believe that the most advanced equipment and machines should serve to expand the industrial development economy, rather than just waste a few cannons.

It is said that guns are useless because Li Mohan is not worried about the lack of ammunition and ammunition at all, as long as there are a few counterfeit artifacts, as much as he wants.In fact, Li Mohan can also use fake mobile phones to copy countless mechanical equipment, but the skills of the skilled workers and workers who are matched with it cannot be copied, so they can only use their own practice and process parts by parts. Gather your own experience.

Despite this, Li Mohan secretly copied some of the various machines and equipment he purchased with counterfeit machines, and stored them as strategic materials for future use.In order to cover up the fact that he owns a counterfeit artifact, Li Mohan even declared to the outside world that he built a secret factory in a secret place, which can imitate all kinds of munitions, machinery and so on.If anyone wants to deal with him, he will probably start with this factory that seems to be his lifeline, but actually does not exist at all.

Of course, the result can only be a waste of effort.