Tianjin is not an ancient city. It is said that it has only 500 years of history and was built in the second year of Yongle. Although the city is young, it is now the economic, industrial and cultural center of the entire north, especially its advantage in the vicinity of the capital, which has led many relatives and noble ministers to often enter Tianjin. In addition, Tianjin's nine-country concessions are equivalent to those of the country, and some shameful things and money from the wrong origins are gathered here, giving the city a different kind of prosperity.

Due to the siltation of the Haihe River, the ship stopped at Tanggu Wharf, and then took a small boat to the Zizhulin Wharf. At twelve o'clock noon, Yang Rui arrived in the Ying Concession. He did not have a slutty hotel to stay in the Lishunde Hotel, nor did he go to the Longmen Inn, a local hotel. Bai Yayu, the head of the Tianjin Education Association, was not present at this time, and only one of his female students sealed the plan to ensure everything was arranged.

When everyone settled down, when Yang Rui woke up until dark, Bai Yayu arrived. He was from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, in his thirties, with a wide forehead. Although he was a scholar, he was full of heroism.

Bai Yayu has read a lot of articles by President Yang Rui in the monthly newspaper, but this is the first time Bai Yayu has seen Yang Rui. He stepped forward and stretched out his hand and said, "It's really not. I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Seeing him being polite, Yang Rui smiled and said, "No, the journey is exhausted, everyone has a rest. Brother Yayu, you are older than me, so I'm done."

Bai Yayuyuan was not a restrained person. After shaking hands, he bowed and said, "I am a brother."

Yang Rui felt that he was not like a southerner, but like a northern man. He spoke freely, walked steadily and unrestrainedly. No wonder Wang Jitonghui sent him over and bowed like him, "Brother Yayu."

The two revolutionaries were polite like sour scholars, and everyone laughed. After laughing, they only felt that the other party's personality was quite in line with their appetites, and they had a good conversation for a while. As the local person in charge, Bai Yayu reported to Yang Rui about the situation in Tianjin and the entire north.

"The Revival Association has established a foothold in Tianjin, but it started in May last year. First, it established the Tianjin Branch of the China Education Association and established the Tianjin Law and Political School. Then, Longmen Inn has also been held. In addition to developing in Tianjin, the education associations in Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places are also gradually being formed. However, the north is different from the south. Our education associations in each province have little appeal to the gentry of each county and cannot gain full recognition. So now, except for the few counties that we deliberately go deep into, the education associations are only based on the provincial level at most. It will be very difficult to go further."

Yang Rui understood what he meant by saying that the few counties he had deliberately penetrated into was mountainous areas, and they were bases for future guerrilla areas. They would first be stationed through the education association, and then develop armed organizations such as guerrillas after talent training were completed. This actually had military purposes, but according to the single-line principle, they could not tell him clearly. Yang Rui had to cross over and said: "The budget for education last year and this year was still too low. When I went to Shanghai, I would discuss with you the matter of increasing education funds. At that time, if you have money in your hands, even if the local gentry does not donate, we can build more schools."

Bai Yayu was overjoyed. Last year, because he was the first to come and wanted to build a legal and political school, the funds provided by Shanghai were enough. But this year it was a whole year, and the construction of schools in various places had been rolled out, and the money was not enough. Although the local scholars and businessmen felt that he was doing his best to study, he had no hard relationship after all. He gave less donations. The last time he applied to Cai Yuanpei for additional funds, but the annual funds had been used up. After all, he only got 30,000 taels for him. He had to survive until the end of next month. He wanted to talk about the funds with Yang Rui, but he didn't expect Yang Rui to speak now.

In fact, Yang Rui did not mean to give him a good impression, so he wanted to increase education funds. But when he was in the Northeast, he thought about it and found that the most important thing about this revolution was talents: scientific and technological talents, legal talents, economic talents, and military talents. These four are indispensable. The more you understand this era, the more you understand the literacy rate of this era is scary. Yang Rui couldn't understand how the jokes in later generations claimed that the Qing Dynasty's literacy rate was tens of dozens of percent, and the literacy rate of the Republic of China was lower than that of the Qing Dynasty. He only understood that according to the statistics of the Revival Society over the past year, only 450 million people could only literate at most, and less than 0.4% based on population. That's how many scholars in this old school were really considered large, and there were no 500,000 students in middle and primary schools. In such a desert of talents, building a new China is equivalent to dreaming!

"Brother Yayu, how much does it cost to educate here?" Yang Rui's thoughts drifted away for a while and soon came back.

"Cost?" Bai Yayu was not surprised. Cost accounting will be a basic common sense in revival. Any department has to do cost accounting. He thought for a while and said, "For school buildings, primary schools and middle schools, the cost is the least, and it can be ignored, because many places will donate ancestral halls and temples to make school buildings, which means that the university hall is expensive. When the Law and Political School was first built last year, it cost 100,000 taels to buy land and build a house. This is too expensive."

Until now, Bai Yayu feels that it is not worth spending so much money to build a university with only a few hundred people, which is too expensive. Yang Rui smiled and said, "This money will be spent. The school will become bigger in the future. When there are thousands of students or tens of thousands of students, Brother Yayu will not think that the money spent is not worth it."

"Just like Tongji University in Shanghai?"

"Yes. Just like Tongji, I spent 300,000 taels and was still under construction." Yang Rui's concept of university education was completely beyond Cai Yuanpei and others' expectations. Elementary schools and middle schools do not pay attention to them. Once they arrive at the university, there will be many problems. They are libraries, large playgrounds, "yindao", and apartment buildings, and they spend money like flowing water.

Bai Yayu skipped this festival and continued: "In addition to the school building, there is daily expenses. The biggest of them should be the food and clothing of students and the salary of teachers. The grain prices in the pass are quite high. In a school year, students of all sizes need about two stones of grain after they are divided equally by two hundred and seventy days. According to the grain prices in the pass, they may not necessarily eat all rice and wheat, and the food is 6 taels to 2 cents. In addition, the war between Japan and Russia this year has started, and the food price has increased a lot. The food cost of this group is probably over eight taels. As for clothing, according to regulations, half a piece of foreign cloth and local cloth is required every two years (note), and two and a half pounds of cotton, and one taels and two cents here, six cents a year."

Speaking of this, Bai Yayu said: "Although the school uniform is made by the factory, the cotton in the cotton jacket is always stolen by the students' families."

"Why do you steal cotton?"

"The cotton jackets we give to students are all new cotton. Parents of students either cannot afford cotton at home and want to make a jacket for other children, or they think two and a half pounds of cotton are too heavy. It's okay to take some off." Bai Yayu sighed after saying that, because students are free to eat and live, and they have clothes and jackets. I don't know when the first semester is in the beginning of the second semester. The school was crowded with people, and the children from seven villages and eight villages were brought over by adults. The school entrance exam was extremely strict, and it was not about family background but only talent. In addition, there were always resolutions, that is, children from poor families must not be less than 80%. Therefore, many children from poor families naturally entered the school. The school was always very considerate in taking care of students regardless of their wealth, which made students often take things from the school home. This matter is often difficult to deal with. Students bring their own things, and they do this based on family affection.

Yang Rui thought for a while and said, "Let's discuss this matter next time the meeting is held. Students' food and clothing are calculated through experiments, which will be detrimental to their growth if it is reduced. We run education to save people. We have little money in our hands and can only save a few people. But since we have saved these people, we must take good care of them. Don't give them halfway because we didn't eat or wear them well... Let's discuss it at that time. If it really doesn't work, add some cloth, cotton and other things to the scholarship."

As mentioned, both of them are both in a heavy heart. The annual funding of one million taels of education is quite large, but it is not enough. Even if the gentry fundraising can only save up to 200,000 students. This 200,000 is included in each grade, elementary school, and middle school. After ten years of study, it will only be 20,000 to graduate at most in a year, which is really too little.

"How is the teacher?" Yang Rui asked in silence.

"The teachers are sent from Shanghai, each person is eighty taels a year. It's not low. Thirty students and one teacher, and then books, stationery, and scholarships are included. Here you need three taels a year. In this way, it will cost 9 taels a year. Each person will count for a total of nine taels a year."

"Ninety or eight cents per person per year, this is more expensive than that in Liaodong. But the key is that the food there is cheaper, and wheat is only one or eight or nine cents, sorghum is even cheaper. But..." Yang Rui still shook his head, "No matter how cheap it is, it will not be transported inland. The freight will be more expensive than grain at that time. Let's do this first."

After talking about the cost, Yang Rui said again: "I don't know how many schools and students are there in North China now?"

This is what Bai Yayu wanted to report from the beginning, but Yang Rui turned the topic to the cost. He said, "Now there is one university with 800 students, ten middle schools, more than 8,000 students, twenty primary schools, and more than 3,000 students. The school size is 31, and the students are 13,100."

"Why are there so many students in middle schools than primary schools?" After all, Yang Rui is not from the education association and cannot understand the data.

"Oh. This is Brother Jimin's explanation. He said that he would run a primary school, so he would spend more time and be able to become a student slowly. It would be better to run more middle school students, so that he would spend less money and become a student quickly."

"So this is how Jimin does business." Yang Rui didn't expect that he had such a solution before, so he laughed and asked again: "Can this middle school still expand?"

"It is difficult to expand. Those who can get into middle school are actually more or less studied earlier. We have some basic knowledge. Our enrollment is mainly based on the poor. The poor can let their children study until they can get into middle school. "Bai Yayu has been to Tianjin for one year, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and even Gansu. She is constantly thinking about what to do about this school and how to save money.

"I'll record this matter too. We'll discuss it when the meeting is held at the beginning of next year." Yang Rui said. He only felt that after more than two years of development in the Revival Association, it was time to hold a conference to make a thorough adjustment.

After talking about education, the next step is the newspaper, which is also the content of Bai Yayu's management. Bai Yayu said: "The newspapers in Tianjin are different from those in Shanghai. They are concentrated on No. 6 Street in the French Concession, and the biggest influence is the Ta Kung Pao, which is managed by Manchu and Yingying."

When Yang Rui heard that the Ta Kung Pao was actually done by Manchu, he smiled and said, "Is Manchu scolding the court, or is the court scolding Manchu?"

Bai Yayu also laughed and said, "No, this Dagongbao only fights against corrupt officials, not against the court, only attacks the current situation and does not talk about revolution. It should be considered a small scolding and helping. For example, last month the Revolutionary Party bombed the five ministers, and they criticized the revolutionary party in the newspaper, saying that "the matter of going abroad to investigate politics is the most important thing to do in China. Anyone with a little patriotism should be solemnly respectful and wishing for it. Such thugs are crazy and their crimes are really not to be punished. Alas, now the entire newspaper industry is in public opinion when will the next time they go abroad? The China Times we run can only respond to this situation, which is very passive."

"This is nothing. The key is that the newspaper is recognized by the target group, especially by those who will affect the government. This is the most critical." Unlike the China Times in Shanghai. The China Times mainly targeted the target group are dignitaries, and what they say is mostly a major national event. Because the Russian-French alliance, the newspaper officials were not placed in the French Concession, but in the British Concession.

Bai Yayu understood what Yang Rui said. He nodded after hearing this. After hesitating for a moment, he asked again: "Brother Jingcheng, do you think this Qing Dynasty constitution can be accomplished?"

The Qing Dynasty constitution was only paid attention to in the past two months. Yang Rui handed over a lot of work in Northeast China, so he did not write articles to criticize and analyze it. Zhang Taiyan, Cai Yuanpei and others did not understand whether this constitution could really save the Qing Dynasty. The articles he wrote only focused on the Qing Dynasty being a fake constitution, and he just wanted to use this to show his position of progress. Bai Yayu also knew that the Qing Dynasty was very likely to be a fake constitution, but what if it was true? That's why he asked this.

"If fishermen think their boats are broken, can they change the fishing boats into steamers in the shape of foreigners' ships?" Yang Rui directly made an example. Since the Qing Dynasty's constitution was established, he has been constantly thinking about the various possibilities of the Qing Dynasty's constitution. Finally, one day he suddenly thought that the Qing Dynasty's degree of corruption, autocracy, and ignorance could not achieve even a real constitution.

"Foreign ships are made of steel, while fishing boats are made of wood. How can this be turned into a ship?"

"That's right. No matter how hard the wood is, it's hard. Besides, his wood is still rotten. The constitutionalists saw that foreign ships were easy to use, so they wanted to turn wooden ships into steel ships and change constitutionalism. But they wanted to change it. That was to throw the original rotten wood aside and change the steel plates. However, they didn't want to offend the powerful and fear of bloodshed and sacrifice. So in the end, the current princes and ministers were still the ones who were now. As the saying goes, selling dog meat with sheep's head, changing soup without changing medicine. The purpose of our Revival Association is to have a moderate and planned revolution. Compared with the constitutionalists, we have reformed more thoroughly and more iron-blooded. Compared with the revolutionary party, we are more rational and more persistent. In fact, the goals of our constitutionalists and revolutionaries are the three.

It is generally the same, and China is for prosperity and strength. However, since Tan Sitong and Tang Caichang, there have been few people who have shed blood for reform. One is more afraid of death than the other, and one is more timid than the other. What is more tragic is that they shouted constitutionalism in the audience, and it is prosperous and strong. When they came to power that day, it would not be different from the previous acts of the powerful and powerful. It is expected that constitutionalism will be saved by the country. No matter how much the country saves it, it will be the same. The revolutionary party, because its own power is extremely weak, will do everything in order to strengthen its call. As long as the revolution can succeed, they will dare to sell any interests and do anything. What is even more terrible is that they have never thought about overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. When the Qing Dynasty collapses and the whole country is broken, it will be... a great misfortune of the nation."

Yang Rui shook his head. The reason why he revolutionized was because he was afraid of seeing the warlords fighting after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Such China made Japan more aggressive and eventually launched a battle to invade China. There were many patriots on the Tongmenghui side, and many people dared to sacrifice for the country. A man and a woman who died in Beijing some time ago were investigated for being from the Tongmenghui. It was a pity that it was a pity. Although Zhang Shizhao, who was not a member of the Tongmenghui, had been writing letters to Wang Jitong, Cai Yuanpei and others who hoped to cooperate with the Two Sessions, Yang Rui did not reply.

When Yang Rui was thinking about the Tongmenghui, Bai Yayu once again realized Yang Rui's theory of revolutionary reform. Of course, there was no such statement in the association, only revolution, but in Bai Yayu's understanding, the Revival Society was a revolutionary reformist faction - first eliminated the ills and practiced reform. The constitutionalists only called for reform without the courage to remove the revolution, while the revolutionary party blindly eliminated without any strategy for construction. Although Tokyo introduced the Tongmenghui program, it said that "the founding the Republic of China was equal to the people to participate in the government", and it also said that "the land rights in the world were determined, the original price was owned by the landlord, and the increase price belonged to the state."

This is a big joke. China has the most farmers. If you just want to recruit a farmer, do he care about what power does not participate in the government? He doesn't even know what it means to refer to it. Can every farmer get a document? Besides, if there is land rights and land prices, let alone the land rights are difficult to average, even if the land prices are difficult to determine. The original price can be verified, how to calculate the price increase? Many times there is a situation called price without market. A yard needs to be sold before it can know the current price, but if it is really sold, where will this family live? Bai Yayu has read the information of Tongmenghui and always feels that their various theories pick up the wisdom of Westerners and piece them together. Not to mention whether it is suitable for China or not, there are many things in this theory itself that are contradictory.

That night, Bai Yayu and Yang Rui talked about it at around 10 o'clock, and he only stood up and left when the concession was in the fortress. Before leaving, he asked Yang Rui to give a speech to the students of the Law and Political School. Yang Rui really didn't know what to say to the students, but Bai Yayu insisted on talking about constitutionalism. Yang Rui couldn't help but think about it. He wanted to make trouble and crack down on the storm caused by the Qing Dynasty with the help of constitutionalism, so he agreed.

After Bai Yayu left, Yang Rui recorded what he said, especially the accounting for the cost of education, which are the key points in the future to decide on the work of the education association. However, the money is only so much. If there are one million students, no matter how much you save, it will cost 8 million taels. This is still primary and secondary school students, except for Tongji University, Tianjin Law and Political School, Shanghai Law and Political School, Tonghua Law and Political School, and Tokyo Law and Political School, you can only focus on foreign countries. I dare not try to make more, 100,000 science and technology college students will always want it.

According to the standards of the Qing Dynasty, Japan is excluded, and it does not count Sichuan funds, the cost of tuition and food, and a foreign student returns to China after studying. The United Kingdom needs 192 pounds, France 4,800 francs, Germany 3,840 marks, the United States 960 US dollars, Russia 1,620 rubles. After accounting, four years of university expenses. The cost of each country is basically around 1,500 taels per person, and the 100,000 people is 150 million taels. Yang Rui was shocked to calculate this number, and calculated it again with his fingers.

It was 150 million taels. His data were all directly obtained from the school department, and it was impossible to make mistakes. It must be the embezzlement of Qing officials. Yang Rui comforted himself. He took his own initiative to reduce 1500 taels to 1000 taels, and it was still 100 million taels. In fact, there were more than 100,000 people, and 50,000 is enough. 50,000 is 50 million taels. This... It seems that when the Soviet Union aided New China, experts sent 20,000 to 30,000 people, so now it is 30,000. This is about the same as China's annual tariffs.

After calculating the tuition fees, such as the round-trip fees and the dressing fees, Yang Rui ignored them all, and thought that these graduates would have to intern or further their studies. This was another big sum of money. He just ignored his elementary and middle school. It was a big deal for international students to charge 40 million taels. It was really a scam. He finished all the work in the Qing Dynasty school department by himself. He thought about everything. Yang Rui lit a cigarette and wondered where the 40 million taels should be made.

But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't remember where the treasure was left. The stock market saw that the United States would collapse around 1907. I can't say that the money now is useful, but it's even if it has spare money, it's very dangerous to go to the United States to trade it. This is not like speculating on national debt. The winner and loss of the war are certain. At the same time, no matter how much government bonds are speculated, it will be damaged by the Japanese and Russian governments. Bankers are just intermediaries. In the war, Japan and Russia have no time to care about the losses of 20 million yuan. But the United States is different. Even if it can follow the right market, they are all Jews in the market, and they will not be able to get their capital if it gets angry.

There is no side door, and the industry still has to wait. How can the steel mills that are about to invest in are actually making money? Only ten taels per ton can be earned, and one million taels per ton can be only one million taels per 100,000 tons, which is not as much as a MSG factory. But when I think about the importance of the steel industry to the country and the soaring iron price in the first battle, I have to invest this money. Yang Rui thought about it and found that all he could do was borrow money. Rockefeller was a rich man. Although he had a relatively good relationship, how should he speak? He always borrowed money to buy guns and cannons, so if he borrowed money to run education, Rockefeller would feel hopeless to pay back money in such an investment direction.

Yang Rui was just struggling with the 40 million knot. He kept thinking about the dawn. Seeing the dawn coming in from outside, he couldn't help but stand up and suck the air in early autumn. At this time, the door rang, and Chen Guangshou came in and said, "Sir, Huanqing called and said that he would come to Tianjin this afternoon to discuss things."

"Okay! I will wake up in the afternoon. You can bring him here." Yang Rui said.
Chapter completed!