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Chapter 43 Earning Dollars

Yang Rui's words "Bully Master" are obviously meaningful. He planned higher education before the founding of the country, but in two years, college graduates were only over 10,000, which was much worse than the previous goal. There are objective factors, such as insufficient per capita education fee for students, insufficient professors, and unfinished school building construction. Subjectively, the school 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 presented by the academic department a month ago, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be signs of arbitrage in the academic community. Yang Rui questioned why there were so many academicians in the liberal arts on the list. Cai Yuanpei's answer was that this person was a master of XX and XX, and that person was a master of XX, which made people very unhappy, especially Liang Qichao was included in it, so he always "stayed" the list.

The name of masters is rampant in the Republic of China. Why did masters appear in the Republic of China but not in later generations? Yang Rui didn’t know before, but now he is here, he can’t help but question how valuable those masters are in the higher education environment where more than 10,000 college students graduated every year and international students regarded them as treasures? Furthermore, for China, this is an era of great integration of Chinese and Western cultures. As far as the world is concerned, this is another era of great explosion of science and technology. In such a brilliant era, there are only some liberal arts masters, which really makes people blush.

China is not the Republic of China, and it does not require so many masters, and there will be only a few thousand college graduates every year. With the remnants of later generations, Yang Rui believes that one day the number of college graduates will reach five million ∧ long∧∧∧∧∧∧∧∧∧∧∧∧∧∧.⊙.n▽et. At present, he believes that at least 200,000 college students will graduate every year. These college students will enter the front line of the factory, either become grassroots technical/managers, or lead a group of technical school students. If you want to be a worker team leader, then work hard, fight for your talents, and fight for your father.

After Yang Rui finished talking about the bullshit master, Cai Yuanpei responded to a few words and then left. When the school department adjusted the plan before getting off work in the afternoon, only Jiang Weiqiao came, and Cai Yuanpei did not come.

"Where is Jimin?" Holding the revised draft, Yang Rui looked at Jiang Weiqiao and asked.

"Jimin said he was sleepy, so he went to bed first." Jiang Weiqiao looked a little dodged. After he stammered, he hurriedly turned the topic into the draft: "We made a new plan, which is roughly like this: 10 million people in junior high school and three years of school system, each with three liang per year. But considering the market-oriented reduction, the budget was set at 80 million; 10 million people in junior high school and two years of school system, each with four liang per year, and the budget was also 80 million; 15 liang per year, each with five liang per year, and the budget was 30 million; 800,000 people in high school and three years of school, each with three years of school system, and two liang per year, and the budget was 24 million; 800,000 people in high school and three years of school. 800,000 people in technical schools each year, and the budget was 24 million; 800,000 people in technical schools each year, and the budget was 3 years of school system, but only two years of school. 15 liang per year, and the budget was 24 million;"

Jiang Weiqiao paused at this point and said, "College students have 100,000 students a year, four years of academic schedule. Each person has a budget of 40 taels per year, with a budget of 16 million; PhD and master's degree 20,000 per year. This can only be counted as per person's expenses. After comprehensive consideration, the average cost per person is set at 1,000 taels, with a budget of 10 million. International students choose 5,000 people every year. Considering that some people still have to study for a doctorate and master's degree, the average cost per person is set at 3,000 taels and the budget is 15 million. In this way, the total is 279 million taels, and the remaining 21 million taels will be used for the Royal Academy of Sciences."

"It's better to put it up together. The school will make a 30-year education plan. After it is done, it will hold a press conference and publish the draft for soliciting opinions. Of course, I don't think that good opinions can be collected. Those scholars heard that college students came out every year will definitely oppose it." Yang Rui said seriously. He suddenly felt that this education was the exact opposite of buying a house. After buying a house, he wanted others to buy it, and the house prices rose higher and higher. But as for education, when he got ashore, he wanted all the people behind him to drown. It's so arrogant. In this case, the government must resolutely suppress it.

At the last moment before get off work, the plan for popularization of education was finally decided. Yang Rui handed over the plan submitted by the school department to Li Zilong, and asked the office of the Prime Minister's Office to supervise the progress of the matter.

However, when he left the school department and before leaving the office, he picked up the road report sent by the transportation department. In addition to changing the provincial highway to a national highway, county highway to a provincial highway, and township highway to a county highway, the report also listed the road plan and construction costs that Yang Rui was most concerned about on the first page.

To achieve a load capacity of 40 tons of Sanhe Dirt Road, the transportation department has two solutions: one is to use asphalt concrete like the Beijing-Tianjin Highway; the other is the latest European road construction technology: rolled cement concrete, but there are still some technical problems to be solved.

Both solutions are extremely expensive. The former. Because the domestic asphalt production is small, the review price can only be based on foreign countries. Now the price of asphalt in the international market exceeds 18 taels per ton, and the United States is a major asphalt country. If you really want to build asphalt roads on a large scale, you still have to import them from the United States. In this way, the domestic price will not be less than 28 taels per ton. One cubic cube of asphalt concrete requires 130 kilograms of asphalt, and the national road pavement is calculated as 7.5 meters wide and 2 meters thick. Each meter of asphalt alone costs 5 taels and 5,600 taels per kilometer. In addition to the construction cost, the construction cost per kilometer of asphalt road is 9,000 taels.

For rolled cement concrete, on the same standard road, it requires 500 kilograms of cement per kilogram. Based on the current price of three or seven cents per barrel of cement (6 barrels per ton, 170 kilograms per barrel), the cost of cement per kilogram alone is 12,000 kilograms per kilogram. In addition, the cost per kilogram is 15,000 kilograms per kilogram, 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 conditions that bear 40 tons. The cost was not to build a highway at all. If the price was doubled, the railway could be built. This is the case with a national highway with a width of only 4.5 meters and a thickness of 0.15 meters, asphalt concrete costs 4,500 taels per kilometer, while rolled cement concrete costs 7,000 taels per kilometer; as the county highway, although there is no asphalt and cement, it is just a gravel road surface, the price has also increased from 500 taels per kilometer to 1,000 taels per kilometer.

The report was the analysis of the cost and cost of the three roads of the country, province and county. However, there is a good news on the second page, that is, the reason why the expensive cement concrete roads are listed on the plan is that the supply of cement is sufficient than asphalt, and most importantly, the cost of cement can be compressed on a large scale. In China, there are only two cement companies, Qixin Cement and Hubei Cement, with the price of cement per barrel of cement being 5 Huayuan, totaling 3.7 taels. However, if the cost can be reduced, the cement ridge can be finally lowered to 1.5 taels per barrel and 9 taels per ton. Based on this calculation, the construction cost of the national highway is 6,500 taels per kilometer, the provincial highway is 4,000 taels, and the county highway is gravel pavement, the cost is 1,000 taels per kilometer.

The national highway planning and national highway plan have been basically made. The country will plan nine national highways A, totaling 9,929 kilometers; 61 national highways B, totaling 49,343 kilometers, totaling 59,372 kilometers, with a total budget of 400 million taels; the provincial highway has no specific plan, but the estimated mileage is 150,000 kilometers, with a budget of 600 million taels; the county highway also has no specific plan, and the estimated mileage is 500,000 kilometers, with a total budget of 500,000 taels. In this way, the national highway construction mileage is 700,000 kilometers, with a total budget of 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 Motuo County in Tibet, all counties can be connected to cars. More than 80% of the townships in the country will be covered by the highway network, with a highway density of 0.055 kilometers per square kilometer, plus the planned 30,000 kilometers of railways and 170,000 kilometers of inland shipping. The entire country will be truly connected, and goods from all over the country can be circulated quickly and at a low cost. Economic integration can be truly achieved across the country, and industry and commerce will achieve explosive growth by then.

Of course, it will take 30 years to achieve this goal. According to the currency value of the first year of Shenwu, there are 2 billion taels of railways and 1.5 billion taels of highways; the river transportation is the most cost-effective. In addition to the waterway management, 2,243 inland docks will be expanded or added, including 25 1,000 tons of docks, 150 1,000 tons of docks, and 600 100 tons of docks and 600 100 tons of docks. The waterway management and the construction budget for docks are only 300 million taels.

3.8 billion taels of exchange for a national transportation network are very large, but the benefits are high. Through vehicle and ship taxes, tolls, freight, fuel surcharges, etc., these 3.8 billion can grow by themselves as long as 2 billion is invested in the transportation network. Thinking of this, Yang Rui thought how good it would be to not fight with the Soviet Union. In addition to investing in land redemption, the money earned in this battle can be invested in the construction of the railway network.

If the Tsar agreed to ced the Far East to China, then Comrade Lenin would probably have a nameless army, right? How can he let the Tsar cede land? Or, the Bolsheviks cannot succeed. Russia eventually fell into division? But the problem is that because of its own funding, the Bolsheviks were no longer a minority, but became a party comparable to the Mensheviks and other social revolutionary parties.

Russia will inevitably collapse in the European war, and the revolutionary party will eventually rise. Without Lenin, there will be Li Ning, such as Trosky, the father of the Red Army; and if the Soviet Union does not appear, China's international situation will be very bad. A country that is rising rapidly will also cancel all unequal treaties. Even the yellow race will be afraid of being collectively boycotted by the great powers in the end.

Thinking of these messy things, Yang Rui came to his senses only when his son came out to call for dinner, but he was still in a daze during the meal. Cheng Xu put down the bowl and coughed, and said with a smile: "Hey, didn't you say you were watching the movie tonight? Why didn't you move?"

"Ah. Watch a movie, what movie to watch?" Yang Rui was a little surprised. The notebook was always there in Han Xianfeng. Cheng Xu paid little attention to this. He thought she was going to open a notebook.

"It's the new movie from the Film Bureau." Han Xianfeng reminded on the side. "Didn't it say it was finished a few days ago? It also said that it will be a trial tonight."

All the music in the notebook movie was recorded by Han Xianfeng. She participated in the production of every audio movie and named a movie music consultant at the Film Bureau, which was considered a job she liked.

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

"This is just an internal trial. See if there is something wrong. We will edit it in the future and copy it after the editing is finished. It will take more than a month to actually release it." Han Xianfeng said with a smile. When a woman is pregnant, her every frown and smile is gentle.

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

When the moon was in early, Yang Rui and his family came to the small court where the film bureau was located. He didn't expect that before the carriage entered the yard, he saw Zhang Taiyan and Qiu Jin's family. Zhang Taiyan's folding fan with a gray shirt and a face full of reluctance. It was probably dragged out by his wife and several daughters; while Qiu Jin wore a long sword on 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 Qiu Jin's ex-husband being so embarrassed, Yang Rui hurriedly pulled Cheng Xu and pointed out the window and said, "Why is her ex-husband coming?"

"I'll come when I'm here. Sister Qiu won't help him ask for an official position." Cheng Xu replied inexplicably.

"No. I mean they want to remarry?" Yang Rui smiled. After the founding of the country, those who were single were no longer single, only Qiu Jin was still alone.

"It's nothing." Cheng Xu glanced at Wang Tingjun who was walking on the road. She also didn't like this person. "Sister Qiu likes strong men. She said that only when a man forces her can she muster up the courage to fight against the men..."

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

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

At this time, the carriage was admitted to the hospital and stopped. As soon as he opened the door, Cheng Wuwei went down to join Qiu Jin. Fortunately, the eldest wife left and the second wife was still there. Yang Rui carried 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 greeted his eldest son-in-law Gong Baoquan.

"Xiao Lin insisted that I watch this movie, I have to come." This was the first time the two met after the last argument. Yang Rui came to say hello, and Zhang Taiyan pretended that it was not the same as last time.

"It's better if you check it out. This movie cost 200,000 taels of silver." Yang Rui said, and after saying that, he greeted Qiu Jin and the others, then took his family into the screening room under the leadership of Wang Xiaolin and others.

The screening room was just a small shabby room, so the people from the Film Bureau specially placed seats and refreshments temporarily. The three families, Wang Xiaolin, the director of the film Xu Lingyun and several crew members, filled the room half full for a while. Perhaps because of Yang Rui's existence, the people in the crew sat far behind and dared not speak, which made him have some ideas but could not remind the director.

The movie started with dark and low music, and the sound effects in the screening room were good, but what surprised Yang Rui was not the sound, but the color. When did the movie become colorful?

Seeing Yang Rui turn to look at him, Han Xianfeng whispered in his ear, "I heard it's a handmade color, I don't know anything else."

Yang Rui was very shocked. The others were also very surprised when the screen lights up, especially Qiu Jin's ex-husband Wang Tingjun suddenly stood up from the chair and was forced back by Qiu Jin's words. Seeing this, Yang Rui suddenly remembered a joke: One day, foreigners were playing movies in Tianjin Theater, and they found more than a dozen entrusted people to attract customers. Those entrusted people did bring more than 200 spectators, but they didn't expect that there were scenes of riding horses and shooting at them. The crowd of spectators were watching with great enthusiasm, but they saw foreigners riding horses and rushing towards him with guns, and they all fled. Those entrusted people didn't dare to go back and ask foreigners for rewards...

When others entered the story, Yang Rui was absent-minded. He had watched this movie, but it was not that good to say it was, all he wanted was political propaganda.

"Ah, why is King Min also inside?" In a blank mind, Yang Rui suddenly realized that Chongzhen was actually dressed by Zhu Kuanli. This matter is so complicated. Why didn't Wang Xiaolin and Sheng Shudong report?

"The man who said he was playing Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to sit on the dragon throne, and then His Highness Min did it for his own sake." Han Xianfeng had known about this, and King Min was actually in the movie. As soon as the movie was released, he was probably going to be watched by the whole world. "Can't that be like this?" Han Xianfeng had long known that the emperor was just a puppet, and the real power of the world was his own man.

"It's not impossible." Yang Rui was surprised but didn't feel anything wrong. After all, he was still an emperor and his identity was not worth it. It was just that he was a bit unlucky in this movie. After all, it was a disaster.

Zhu Kuanli's appearance began to make Yang Rui look at the movie carefully. Compared with the original work, the pictures, lighting, props, and special effects are much worse. Fortunately, the sadness and vicissitudes of the movie itself are still there, and the casting and performance of the actors are also qualified. As for editing, it is no different from the original work. The story is also unfolded on two lines, Sun Chuanting and Wu Youke, and then they meet together.
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