Beiyang reactionaries

Of course this is adapted from the original Beijing Agricultural School.

Then there is the Shanghai Agricultural University established in Shanghai, but it was also adapted from the merger of several local private agricultural schools.

That's it.

Then what else?

No.

At most, it is to measure the cultivated land in the whole country and determine the cultivated land controlled by the government and the cultivated land controlled by private individuals.And gradually expand the area of ​​cultivated land.

How can this be.With such a large population in China, if there is not enough food production and sufficient agricultural development, how can we feed such a large population.Once there is a problem in agriculture, once the food is not enough to feed so many people, the society will inevitably be unstable.Therefore, a big country like China must develop agriculture, but the government does not allocate much funds, so it cannot just talk about developing agriculture.

"Prime Minister, ten years, can we afford to wait ten years? In the first year of Xuantong, the Qing government estimated that our country's population was about [-] million. After more than ten years of development, our population will further increase. How many people do we have now?" , none of us can say for sure. From the first year of Xuantong to now, although our country has experienced many wars, in fact, there are not many wars that really have a big impact, and they are all small-scale wars. During this period of time There have not been any major disasters, plagues or other things that affect population development. Therefore, the population must have increased a lot in the past ten years. What about ten years later? As long as the current stable development continues, the population of our country will definitely increase after ten years. It will be more than [-] million. The problem of food will become more and more important. At that time, we will not have enough food production and our agriculture will not develop enough. How can we feed such a large population.”

Duan Xun sighed.

It's not that Duan Xun doesn't want to develop agriculture, it's not that Duan Xun doesn't want to invest huge sums of money in water conservancy construction, and it's not that Duan Xun doesn't want to develop the fertilizer industry.It's just that China's foundation is too poor. To develop in any aspect, a lot of funds are needed.

The current situation is that the government's fiscal revenue is indeed increasing every year.But compared to the money that needs to be invested, these increased incomes are simply not enough.

China's finances are currently in deficit every year, and the deficit is increasing every year.

Naturally, less money has been invested in agriculture.

What Duan Xun is currently adopting is not the method of increasing the yield per mu, but the method of increasing the area of ​​cultivated land.During the period between the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, due to frequent wars and many disasters, a lot of cultivated land was abandoned throughout China.

Just like in Gansu, half of the arable land has become unowned.There are about [-] million mu of unowned arable land in the country, that is, the arable land abandoned by people.At present, the government has taken back all these farmlands and is preparing to develop them again.

In addition to these unowned arable land, some new arable land will also come out with some water conservancy construction.Of course, there are some newly reclaimed arable land.

Such as the cultivated land in the northeast.

The government has planned to increase the amount of arable land in the Northeast to 16 million mu.The cabinet plans to increase the arable land area of ​​China to about [-] billion mu within ten years.

That is to say, within the next ten years, China plans to add about [-] million mu of new cultivated land.

If the yield per mu cannot be increased in a short period of time, then this method can only be used to increase grain production.

But this is impossible.

"Prime Minister, I have said so much, but I just want to say one thing. It is not 100 years ago, and it is not the era of relying on the sky. Now the development of any industry lacks technical talents, and the development of our agriculture also needs new technologies. So I very much agree with the opinion of the Ministry of Industry. The current education system must be changed. Universities must first set an example, increase the number of science and engineering students, and cultivate technical talents needed for the country's industrial development. There should also be large-scale construction of vocational colleges, Shorten the training cycle of technical personnel and provide a large number of technical personnel for my country's industry and agriculture. Change the current thinking that these students go to college to enter government agencies and become officials."

Fan Xudong is young, and he still doesn't have enough weight in government agencies.

What he said was too direct and offended many people.But Zhang Lan is different, Zhang Lan is 52 years old.In his early years, he was one of the famous revolutionary parties, he was also a leader in the Sichuan academic circle, and he has followed Duan Xun for eight years.

Duan Xun made his fortune in Sichuan.

Duan Xun's political, military, and business circles are more or less Sichuanese.

Coupled with Zhang Lan's character, Zhang Lan dares to say anything and criticize anything.No one would think anything of him.Chinese society pays attention to qualifications, which is how it came about.

In the same way Zhang Lan said it was fine, Fan Xudong said it was not.

"President Tang, what do you think?"

Tang Erhe sat there with a droopy face.

All directed at oneself.

I am just the head of the Ministry of Education, you must all come for yourself.The problems of China's education can be changed by the Ministry of Education alone.So Tang Erhe immediately said: "Prime Minister, and everyone, since everyone knows that things have to be done one by one, why force our Ministry of Education. The reform of our education system cannot be completed all at once. .”

angry.

The current situation in China and the change of the education system require the joint efforts of all.

Why put the blame on yourself.

Therefore, Tang Erhe also said very directly: "Prime Minister, they all say that the proportion of science and engineering should be increased, and I agree with it. Looking at the powerful warships of those industrial powers, I also hope that we can have such technology. But it is easy to say, we Where are there so many science and engineering teachers now? University teachers, not elementary school teachers, can they be trained casually? Including those vocational colleges, where it is said that they are established. Do we have enough teachers? ?The number of people who have studied science and engineering in our country is small. Even if we get all of them to the school, it will not be able to meet the needs of the school. And do we have enough funds? Once the departments are adjusted, what about the original departments? How to deal with it? Is it to reduce the original colleges and departments, and then give the funds to the science and engineering departments? How to deal with the reduced colleges and departments, and how to deal with those teachers. On the current basis, increase the number of students in the science and engineering departments .If so, the school needs more funds, will the Ministry of Finance be willing to allocate funds?"

Tang Erhe also complained.

You are very good.But have you ever thought about the difficulties faced by the Ministry of Education?

You say that increasing the number of science and engineering students will increase?

There is nothing so easy in the world.

Where does the teacher come from.

From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the present, the total number of all international students is less than 5.More than 90.00% of them are studying in Japan, and more than half of them have become revolutionaries, writers or journalists.

Most of the remaining half became teachers.

Some became university teachers, and some returned to their hometowns to run education.

It should be said so.

Although the number of this group of international students is small, there are only about tens of thousands.But for Chinese education in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, it has contributed a lot to all aspects of Chinese education, dissemination of modern knowledge, and development of public opinion.

The social reforms and revolutions in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, as well as the development of grassroots education and the New Culture Movement were all promoted by this group of people.Their contributions are worthy of recognition.

Without them, the Republic would not be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and modern education would not be able to develop in full swing.Not to mention the emergence of the "New Culture Movement" that would have a strong impact on traditional culture.

But what is the problem?

Most of these people studied politics, philosophy, law, and literature abroad, and some of them studied economics.They have nothing to do with science and engineering.

There are very few talents who really study science and engineering, which is a fraction of the overall number of students studying abroad.

But where do the current universities and university teachers come from?

Cultivated by China itself?

Traditional cultural education is self-cultivation.But the current subjects, including politics, philosophy, law, business, needless to say, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, machinery, engineering, etc., can they be cultivated by themselves?

It can only be used by overseas students who have returned from studying abroad.

But there are very few international students who actually study these subjects.Without a teacher, how to expand the scale?No matter how much money you invest, no matter how hard the Ministry of Education works, this cannot be changed.

Without a teacher, everything is bullshit.

A bigger problem is funding.

The little money allocated by the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Education is not enough every year.How to develop without money, have to kill other departments and then subsidize the departments of science and engineering?

How many people will be offended?