Beiyang reactionaries

"General Duan, when I entered Sichuan this time, I found that Sichuan's education is in full swing, which is very good."

Wu Yuzhang is not flattering Duan Xun, and Wu Yuzhang is not the kind of person who flatters.

Wu Yuzhang was indeed taken aback when he entered Sichuan this time.Education in Southwest China is relatively backward, and as a native of Sichuan, Wu Yuzhang knows this better than anyone else.But after re-entering Sichuan this time, Wu Yuzhang found that the development of education in Sichuan was amazing.

There are more elementary schools and middle schools than before, and several universities have been established.Wu Yuzhang was very surprised.

"Thank you Mr. Wu for your praise. At present, our education in Sichuan is indeed developing in a planned way, but compared to other provinces, it is not worth mentioning compared to European and American countries. Therefore, it is more necessary for a university like Mr. Wu to come back to Sichuan. Engage in education and contribute to the development of education in Sichuan."

Wu Yuzhang nodded.

Then he said: "General Duan, I really have this idea in entering Sichuan this time, hoping to stay in Sichuan to teach. But I still have one thing I want to discuss with General Duan."

"Please say."

"General Duan, our domestic education level is still far behind, especially our universities are far inferior to foreign universities in terms of quality. Therefore, our students still need to go out and have a look. Studying abroad is the best way for them to improve their level. way."

"Mr. Wu, I agree with this sentence."

Duan Xun nodded.

China's education is currently very backward, and not generally backward.Especially in higher education, it is far inferior to foreign universities.Because Chinese universities themselves lack high-level professors.If China wants to develop, it needs a large number of talents who study abroad and learn advanced technology to serve the motherland.This is not one or two, ten or eight, and it is not a hundred or eighty. What is needed is tens of thousands of international students.Therefore, Duan Xun is very supportive of studying abroad.

China really needs more students to go out and have a look.

"General Duan, Cai Yuanpei, Li Shizeng, Wu Zhihui and others have founded the Work-Frugal Society for Studying in France in Beijing. I came to Sichuan this time to hope that our students in Sichuan can also get this opportunity. So I plan to set up a special preparatory school for studying in France in Sichuan. , to teach our Sichuan students to learn French and prepare them for the work-study program in France. This requires the general’s strong support.”

"Work-study program in France?"

Duan Xun immediately asked: "I don't know if we can contact the French university. After our students arrive in France, can they directly enter the university to study?"

"Do not."

Wu Yuzhang shook his head and replied: "General, the purpose of our work-study association in France is work-study. Everyone needs to work hard, and everyone works while studying. Our students should know how to support themselves. The work-study association in France is only responsible for these students. France, and there will be some factories we will open ourselves to give them a chance to support themselves. As for how to go to school and how to contact the school, we think it should be the students' own business."

"So what can they learn?"

"Even if you can't learn more knowledge, as long as you can feel the idea of ​​democracy and freedom in France, you will have learned a lot."

Duan Xun shook his head.

Then he said: "Mr. Wu, I'm sorry. Not only can I not support this matter, but I will do my best to oppose it. I will definitely not support Mr. Wu's establishment of any preparatory school for studying in France in Sichuan. Even if it is Mr. Wu, I will not Allow the Department of Education to license this school."

"why?"

"Mr. Wu, I support your statement. Our students can't be nerds. In addition to studying, they also need to know how to support themselves and practice. But these things can be done in China, and they can be learned in domestic schools. There is no need to go to France. People are unfamiliar there, so they go there without the slightest preparation. At that time, they will not be able to learn the knowledge they need, but they can only waste their studies. I can’t blindly let us Excellent students go to France to waste time."

Studying in France as a work-study program, although the evaluation of later generations is not low, but Duan Xun is not optimistic at all, and even does not support it at all.Because there are thousands of students there, most of them can only be workers, and have never studied at school.In other words, 90.00% of the work-study students in France have never even entered a real university in France.It is not even as good as the international students who went to Japan to study in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

"Moreover, the European war has seriously affected the economies of European countries. In addition to the end of the European war, when the European countries have to change from a wartime system to a peaceful system, there will be a period of economic difficulties for several years. At that time, it is estimated that even France itself Workers can't find a good job, how can our students find a good job. Once our students can't find a job, those students are in strange France, who cares about their life and death. Under such circumstances, they can't even guarantee their lives , how they acquire knowledge. It’s not for these students, it’s ruining our students.”

"But going out can always learn a lot of knowledge."

Wu Yuzhang really didn't think about it so much.

He just wants more students to go abroad and see the world.Because Wu Yuzhang and the others returned from studying in France, they organized more students to go to France.But Duan Xun directly denied it.

"Mr. Wu, what I mean is very simple. If you have connected schools for our students, what I want are those schools that can really learn knowledge, not those messy schools that deceive our Chinese students. Then I will immediately organize Our students from Sichuan study in France, and I pay all the tuition fees, and half of the living expenses. Then the remaining half of the living expenses can let them work and study to earn money. Only in this way can they learn real knowledge. Not only studying in France, I I hope that our students will study in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, or even Germany and the Soviet Union in the north. As long as it is a place where they can learn knowledge, our students should go to see and see. But my meaning is still the same, I I will only send my students to schools where they can really learn knowledge, instead of blindly sending people to foreign countries, which is irresponsible to our students. Mr. Wu, you also studied in Japan at the end of the Qing Dynasty, you should know that at that time The chaos of students studying in Japan. The Japanese opened a garbage school and recruited Chinese students on a large scale in order to make money. After a few years, what did our students learn there? I don’t want that kind of chaos to happen to students studying in France So I am very sorry, but I absolutely cannot support Mr. Wu’s idea of ​​studying in France for a work-study program.”

"This……"

Wu Yuzhang really did not expect Duan Xun to be so determined.

"Mr. Wu, I hope you go back and think about it. If Mr. Wu is willing, I hope that Mr. Wu will serve as the supervisor of studying abroad in the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. Help our students connect with real universities abroad, and help our students go to those real universities. The government will be responsible for the tuition fees, and if the education funds are not enough, I am willing to sponsor it personally. Mr. Wu, let’s talk about it after you have made up your mind?”

"it is good."

Wu Yuzhang nodded.

Wu Yuzhang did not expect Duan Xun's opposition to be so fierce, so Wu Yuzhang hoped to go back and think about it.

After seeing off Wu Yuzhang, Duan Xun sighed.Students who can choose to study in France are all good students in China, and they are all first-class students in China.Duan Xun can't let these students go to France aimlessly.It sounds good as a work-study program, but in fact, after sending them out, they don't care much about these students.Although it will not be self-defeating, it is definitely not very concerned.

This approach is definitely very cost-effective.If the government sponsors a student to study in France, it will cost a lot of money.Starting from tuition fees and living expenses, it is not a small amount.But if you follow this path, then the cost of each person staying in France is almost one-tenth, or even a few tenths of the money, and one person can be sent.This model can send a large number of people to study abroad.

In just a few years in history, the Work-Study Society in France sent out thousands of students studying in France.The scale was staggering at the time.

But the sequelae are also very serious.

That is, these people are studying in France in name, but in fact they can't learn much knowledge after going to France.It would be nice to be able to learn French well after a few years.Duan Xun can't do this, he only pays attention to quantity, not quality.At present, Duan Xun is planning to study abroad in a step-by-step manner.Although the cost of studying abroad is relatively high, the success rate is also high.After studying abroad, you can really learn knowledge.

"General, Prime Minister Duan sent a telegram."

184 Aid to Shaanxi

"General, Prime Minister Duan sent a telegram."

"Let me help Shaanxi?"

After reading the telegram, Duan Xun was a little puzzled at first.So put the telegram down and read it again.Let yourself help Shaanxi, this paragraph of honor is understandable.After all, the current law protection war tends to be stable, even in Jiangxi and Fujian.

The only place in China that is still making trouble is Shaanxi.

The Shaanxi Yasukuni Army was the only force in the northern region that responded to Sun Yat-sen's movement to protect the Fa, and it was a very active force.After the Dharma Protection War broke out in Shaanxi, the Shaanxi Governor Chen Shufan immediately gathered the troops in his hands to encircle and suppress the Shaanxi Jingguo Army.

Chen Shufan claims to have 4 troops, besides his own troops, there are also Liu Zhenhua's Zhensong Army troops.The two armies have a combined strength of 4, far exceeding the Shanxi Yasukuni Army in number.Chen Shufan led more than [-] troops to encircle and wipe out the Shaanxi Yasukuni Army.

The two sides fought in Guanshan for a full week.

At that time, it was Yang Hucheng who was defending the front of Guanshan.Yang Hucheng's troops firmly controlled Guanshan, while Chen Shufan's tens of thousands of troops had no way to do anything. Several frontal attacks failed to win the position.At this time, Li Yunlong, Deng Baoshan, Dong Zhenwu, Feng Yudong, Gong Fukui and others led troops to reinforce them, attacking back and forth, and defeated Chen Shufan's army.The Shaanxi Jingguo Army took advantage of the victory and pursued, successively conquering important passes in the north of Weibei.On the other hand, Chen Shufan threw away his helmet and armor, with more than [-] casualties, which can be described as a heavy loss.

After returning to Xi'an, Chen Shufan was very unwilling.

So he readjusted his troops and besieged Guo Jian's troops who were attacking Dali.Guo Jian's troops retreated, and Chen Shufan's troops continued to pursue, fighting on both sides for more than 40 days.In the end, Guo Jian was short of troops, so he could only break out of the encirclement, and the troops in Pucheng and Yang Hucheng reunited.

It took a full four months.

Chen Shufan had the upper hand in military strength, but he still had no way to deal with the Shaanxi Yasukuni Army.Later, a division of Fengjun Xu Lanzhou entered Shaanxi to help Chen Shufan.But even so, the Shaanxi Yasukuni Army was still jumping around every day.In particular, the Weibei area is completely dominated by the Shaanxi Yasukuni Army.

Recently, it has been reported that Yu Youren, a leader of the Shaanxi Revolutionary Party, has returned to Shaanxi.At present, the biggest problem of the Shanxi Yasukuni Army is that it comes from different sources, has different orders, is not in step, acts independently, and has lax discipline.

Now Yu Youren has entered Shaanxi, and he is working hand in hand with Zhang Fang, the former leader of the Shaanxi Army, to reorganize the Shaanxi Jingguo Army.If it is possible to reorganize the Shaanxi Yasukuni Army, then the strength of the Shaanxi Yasukuni Army will definitely rise to a higher level.

Shaanxi's geographical location is very important.

Out of Tongguan is Henan, which is the Central Plains.To the north is Mongolia, to the west is Gansu, to the south is Sichuan and Hubei.Now that the Shaanxi Jinguo Army is so active, Duan Qirui has long wanted to destroy the Shaanxi Jinguo Army.

Therefore, it is understandable for Duan Xun to mobilize Duan Xun's army into Shaanxi.It is also because of this that Duan Xun placed Liu Xiang's third division and Yuan Zuming's seventh division in the Sichuan-Shanxi border area.But Duan Qirui's order was to tell Duan Xun that Duan Xun should personally lead the troops into Shaanxi.Duan Xun was also appointed as the commander-in-chief of the troops entering Shaanxi.