Go back to the past and be a schoolboy

Chapter 235

"Zhiyuan, Zhiyuan, it's really not easy for you. After traveling half the world, and finally returning to China, I still don't forget that I have a director of the China Vocational Education Association. It's really rare. Tell me, what kind of wind is blowing today? Did you blow it over?"

Mr. Huang Yanpei, who is keen on vocational education, saw Cheng Nuo's sudden visit, and felt a little sad while being happy.

What is gratifying is that, as a well-known domestic scholar, Cheng Nuo, spanning natural science and mechanical manufacturing, has not forgotten the original agreement to develop vocational education with him. With the addition of this force, vocational education will be more practical .

The sad thing is that although the China Vocational Education Society was very powerful at the beginning of its establishment and brought together big names from all walks of life, it was limited by the poor industrial foundation in the country. It was not easy to realize the ideal vocational education policy. Among the difficulties, Not enough for outsiders.

Now is the critical moment when foreign aid is urgently needed. One more person is one more strength.

Although the mouth is joking, but the hands are very sincere.

Huang Yanpei turned around and took out a cup of tea from the deep drawer, opened the small iron box, which was wrapped in three layers, obviously attaching great importance to it: "But I can't let you come here for nothing today, see, this is this year's The newly made Dahongpao, although the quantity is small, it is not easy for me to get these."

He had heard about the name of this tea on the Chinese Internet in his previous life, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to taste it now. Cheng Nuo was naturally very happy: "Then I have a good fortune today, thank you, Mr. Huang."

Huang Yanpei put away his smile on purpose, and said with a straight face: "You still call me Mr.? This is too strange."

Cheng Nuo laughed and said, "The president is not much older than me, so let's call him Brother Huang, that's okay."

Huang Yanpei's face softened immediately, and he said kindly, "If you count it, I was taught by Cai Gong, the chief Chinese teacher when I was young, and now you treat Cai Gong as a teacher and a student, we two can be regarded as juniors and seniors! "

Cheng Nuo instantly understood the meaning of the words, took the teacup and said politely, "Then I won't be polite, thank you Senior Huang for the good tea!"

"Haha, that's right!" Huang Yanpei was very happy with this sentence, and said with a smile: "Then today I will replace wine with tea, and clean up the dust for Brother Cheng!"

It seems that it is just an iteration of the title, but the relationship between the two has been shortened in an instant.

You tell me anecdotes in Europe, and I tell you interesting stories in China.

After a few cups of tea, the relationship became even more familiar.

Talking about the difficulty of establishing vocational education at present, Huang Yanpei was full of regret: "The rulers of Yan and Yan are only fighting for fame and power, disregarding the national economy and the people's livelihood, and even Hong Xian proclaims the emperor, and the world is in turmoil. How can there be any way to promote industrial development and wealth? It can be said that under the general trend, the development of vocational education is struggling."

Cheng Nuo was deeply touched by this: "If you ask why, bad politics is the root cause."

After finishing speaking, the two looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.

The originally mellow tea, now tastes bitter: "We know we are drinking poison to quench our thirst, but we just can't find a way forward."

Cheng Nuo hesitated to speak, and said in his heart that now the Soviet Bolsheviks have executed the Tsar and his family, and successfully completed the nationalization of industry, and started running on the road from then on.

I don't know where to go on the road ahead, but I can touch my hairy legs.

However, after a careful calculation, the great man has just graduated from a normal school, and the domestic Beiyang government has sent secret telegrams to various provinces to ban names such as Patriotic Associations or Federations organized by students in various schools. Obviously, it has not yet time for publicity.

After thinking for a while, Cheng Nuo said cryptically: "When the tung tree falls, the world will startle in autumn. Listen to the cuckoo's sound and you will know the luck. In history, there are often countless tung tree leaves that startle the autumn. The sound of the cuckoo's sound awakens the hearts of readers."

Huang Yanpei was puzzled, "What's the meaning of this?"

Cheng Nuo smiled and said: "As far as I know, our Mr. Li Dazhao from Peking University has just published an article in the third volume of "Speech Governance Quarterly" called "Comparative Views on the French and Russian Revolutions". , you can find it and read it, maybe it will inspire you.”

Huang Yanpei was thoughtful: "Alright, the one recommended by my junior must have something unique in it, I'll find it and read it when I get back."

Cheng Nuo nodded with a smile. Some things are said to the end, and it may not be beneficial to finish the words. Instead, it is better to hide half and reveal the other, and let the other party actively explore.

But Cheng Nuo didn't forget that he came to find the "cheap senior" this time, he took a sip of tea to moisten his throat and changed the subject:

"Senior, I heard that you founded a Chinese vocational education school this time?"

"Yes, there is such a thing." Huang Yanpei straightened his face and said seriously: "Do you still remember asking you to write a few signed articles on the development of vocational education? It almost triggered a national discussion at that time."

"Oh~ I remembered. I did write a few articles. At that time, it was also for the purpose of researching the theory of vocational education and expanding the momentum of vocational education. As a director of this agency, I am of course duty bound." Cheng Nuo affirmed.

"Empty talk is worthless, and hard work can rejuvenate the country." Huang Yanpei stood up from the chair, paced and said with emotion: "In order to avoid giving people tongues, empty words are ineffective, and to show others by example, we specially founded the Zhonghua Vocational School."

Cheng Nuo nodded, and then asked, "Do you have any specific plans, senior?"

Huang Yanpei raised his head and said impassionedly: "Of course, it is aimed at the long-standing educational disadvantages of students who despise labor and regard being an official as the sole purpose of studying, and pay special attention to cultivating students' labor habits and practical ability."

After saying this, Huang Yanpei suddenly patted his forehead and said, "Wait for me first, I'll come as soon as I go."

Without giving Cheng Nuo time to react, Huang Yanpei trotted all the way to the door, not knowing where he was going.

Fortunately, Cheng Nuo didn't make him wait too long. After a while, he saw Huang Yanpei running over excitedly holding a stack of documents.

"Student, what do you think this is?"

"I'll take a look."

Take it over and take a look, and there are all kinds of materials from Zhonghua Vocational School.

"This is the big plaque of "The Sacredness of Labor". I plan to hang it above the auditorium at that time. This is the symbol that symbolizes 'hands are omnipotent'. It will be used as the school badge, school flag and school-run factory products in the future..."

While listening, Cheng Nuo nodded, and finally set his eyes on the last poem, picked it up and couldn't help but read aloud:

"Use my hands, use my brain, not just use my pen; to do, not just to say... What is this school?"

With a hint of complacency, Huang Yanpei explained: "This is the school song of our school. The first thing students do when they enter school is to learn the school song, and it must be sung in every assembly."

Cheng Nuo nodded, looking back at the piles of documents on the table, it can be seen how much Huang Yanpei put his heart and soul into it, and he sincerely praised: "Senior, it's not so much a school song as a true portrayal of you. This time I am ready to support you in practical actions!"

Hearing this, Huang Yanpei couldn't help but move his head closer, a little in disbelief: "Is this really true?"

Cheng Nuo smiled and said, "It's absolutely true."

Through the understanding of these materials, Cheng Nuo roughly understood the general situation of this Chinese vocational school.

The school adopts policies and systems such as "progress by doing and learning", "part-time work and part-study", "combination of work and study", and requires students to take turns to practice in the five practice workshops of car, clamp and plating, and stipulates that students need to practice for one year after graduation , Only with excellent grades can a diploma be issued.

This is what Cheng Nuo values ​​more, that is, the systematic training of talents.

Although according to the results released by the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government in the Fourth Education Statistical Chart, as of this year, there are 129739 schools nationwide with 4294251 students.

But this person is still not enough in the face of the whole environment.

Moreover, many disciplines in it are mainly humanities, which cannot meet the needs of industrial development at all.

Contacting the current shipping industry, Cheng Nuo stood up and said politely, "However, in addition to the ones that the seniors have planned, I plan to supplement the training of some ship-related talents."

Huang Yanpei narrowed his eyes slightly, and did not rush to reply: "Tell me your reason."

Cheng Nuo took a few steps, looked back and said earnestly: "Wei Yuan once said in the "Pictures of the Sea Country" that the barbarians have three special skills, one is warships, the other is firearms, and the third is the method of raising and training soldiers. He especially advocates hiring Western craftsmen. , in charge of shipbuilding, and taught how to sail a ship and play guns."

Huang Yanpei shook his head: "Although Wei Yuan clearly put forward the idea of ​​hiring external talents, under the historical conditions at that time, it was very valuable. It's a pity that the Qing government didn't adopt it in time!"

Cheng Nuo said with a smile: "That's old news from Chen Wen. Not all the Manchus are fools. We, Li Zhongtang, said that buying machines widely is the first priority, and seeking foreign craftsmen is the second. Back then, more than half of the workers in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Plant The above are all foreigners, even now, we have too few outstanding talents.”

The other shipbuilding factories established by the Qing government basically employed Western technical personnel.

Throughout modern times, the establishment, construction and tortuous development of China's naval industry were closely related to foreign technicians. Until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Ma Deji, director of the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute, "hired more than ten American engineers to prepare for the adoption of the latest technology. ".

The Fujian Shipping Administration, which echoes Jiangnan Shipbuilding, has a blueprint for building a factory based on technology fully imported from abroad, and it is mainly completed by the hired French, and the Chinese are basically in a secondary position throughout the process.

But Huang Yanpei was not so easy to be persuaded, and while tidying up the materials on the table, he said: "Zhiyuan, you have to understand that the country was poor and white back then, so the construction was carried out by importing a full set of advanced Western equipment and technology from the very beginning.

In order to use these equipment and digest and absorb advanced shipbuilding technology, it is an inevitable choice to employ Western technical personnel to guide them. The foundation of our shipbuilding industry is laid under the guidance of external talents, and the progress of shipbuilding technology is also inseparable from Western talents. "

Cheng Nuo smiled and said, "So isn't that the problem?"

Huang Yanpei half understood: "Go on."

Cheng Nuo stood with his hands behind his back: "The problem now is that we rely too much on foreigners. Take the Jiangnan Shipyard very close to us as an example. There are very few local shipbuilding talents, so we have to rely on outsiders. The chief engineer is the Englishman Morgan.

The engineering personnel in other departments, such as the shipbuilding department, machine building department, design department, shipyard, and cold workshop, are all British guys with their nostrils upturned and who never look at people directly. The organization of the whole institute seems to have another outsider system.

Except for some relatively simple business units, each department in the institute has one or two English people, and the design office has three or four English people.They are all introduced by Morgan A or Morgan B, and they are all under the command of Morgan B... Could this be what we want? "

Huang Yanpei flatly refused: "Of course not!"

Cheng Nuo breathed out, and said, "Recover the lost aviation rights and revitalize the future aviation industry. It is not only to find a way out for the students of our vocational education schools, but also to lay the foundation for our domestic aviation industry.

But the premise of all this is based on cultivating local talents, so that we can take back the power from foreigners! "

Huang Yanpei nodded seriously: "Okay, I support you. It just so happens that I have some old acquaintances with Jiangnan Shipbuilding. This time, I just took this opportunity to catch up on the past."

With Huang Yanpei's support, Cheng Nuo had a point of leverage.

Further expand the enrollment scale of the Chinese Vocational Education School, under the banner of free teaching, including food and housing, and even scholarship subsidies, half-day reading and half-day working, training skilled workers with both skills and knowledge

It is only necessary for the students to work in the enterprises affiliated to the Academy of Sciences for three years after graduation.

Of course, the salary after work remains the same.

As a result, the number of applicants directly blocked the registration site, and almost overturned the stall.

This scene also made many people look sideways, especially the gang of Jiangnan Shipyard.

Even though Cheng Nuo complained a lot, he also knew that Jiangnan Shipbuilding was the most powerful in domestic shipbuilding.

Signed a shipbuilding contract with China, some American newspapers commented.This shipbuilding case was unprecedented. The United States, a country with such great sea power, actually asked China to build large ships that met their needs. It can be seen that the shipbuilding technology of Jiangnan Shipyard at that time was already comparable to that of European and American countries.

The contract to build the [-]-ton ship in the United States also caused a sensation in China, because only a few countries could build the [-]-ton ship at that time. This construction project inspired the national pride of the Chinese people.

And what is this concept? The second time China built a 40-ton round was already 1958 years later in [-].

It is a pity that the domestic supporting industrial capacity was extremely backward at that time. As mentioned above, the main materials such as steel plates and equipment used in the [-]-ton ship were imported from the United States, and the design drawings of the hull were also from the United States.

But one thing that is better is that the "heart" steam engine of this batch of ships was developed by Jiangnan Shipbuilding Institute.

At the same time, while expanding production, recruiting talents, engineers and technicians made a lot of design supplements for the [-]-ton ship, and completely refitted the original electrical system of steam power.

In terms of technology, Jiangnan's shipbuilding level at that time was no less than that of the British shipping companies in Shanghai, and the ships built by various British shipping companies also directly caught up with the Western shipbuilding industry in terms of speed and tonnage.

But talent, they also lack.

They are also cultivating local talents.

As for the result... Anyway, there is only one word to comment on Cheng Nuo's grandeur.

Envy.

(End of this chapter)