"Haha... don't talk about your military topics for now. I believe you are very clear about the purpose of my visit this time!" Roosevelt interrupted Tu Qianjun with a smile and said softly: "Tu, Congress and businessmen want to know what you are going to do next.---net. After all, this is related to many things. We must know what you think."

Tu Qianjun smiled slightly when he heard this. If it were someone else, even Jensen would not ask this sentence so directly. Only Roosevelt would do this, and the questions made people feel natural! Perhaps this is where personal charm lies!

"The next step is of course to develop well in Manchuria, and find more minerals to cooperate with you." Tu Qianjun smiled and said to Roosevelt with a relaxed look: "Although I won this time, the soldiers under my command have suffered too much losses. The pensions of the fallen soldiers, the arrangements of disabled soldiers, the adjustments of officials at all levels, the rearrangement of government affairs... and so on will take me a lot of time."

Roosevelt nodded when he heard this. These things were trivial and not much. But they were so terrifying when they piled up, especially when the old regime collapsed and the new regime was not ready to accept it.

It is more difficult to manage a regime than to manage the army. The formulation of various laws and regulations, the selection and resettlement of officials at all levels... and other things are enough to make Tu Qianjun worried.

"But, the most important thing for me is the issue of comprehensive popularization of education." Tu Qianjun said in a deep voice to Roosevelt and Eisenhower: "The fundamental thing of a country and a nation lies in education! If education is not popularized, it is the failure of those in power. So the next step I plan to popularize education first."

According to Li Dingyi, who had been the principal in Jilin, "Whenever Confucius' birthday is on his birthday, Zhang Zuolin would take off his military uniform, wear a long gown and jacket, bow to the teachers at various schools, admitting that he is a rough man and doesn't know anything. He educates the next generation, relying on all the teachers, and comes to thank him."

Li Dingyi even said: "What shocked Zhang Zuolin the most was his '40% fiscal expenditure for education'." - Net. In 2018, after graduating from Peking University, he served as the principal of Jilin No. 6 Middle School. In order to make a living, he taught at Jilin Women's Normal University and other schools.

Many people may not know who Li Dingyi is, but many people will know his son. That is Li Ao, who once slept in the Wanwan National Mansion Prison!

Zhang Zuolin's attention and investment in education was undoubtedly the biggest person in the Republic of China!

On October 27, 1916, Zhang Zuolin issued a resolution to the provincial education conference to all counties. The resolution pointed out that "China has been developing education for more than ten years, and there are tens of millions of graduates. The excellent ones are the ones who are good at teaching, or are mediocre, and the rest are unemployed and have no jobs to work on. If one more graduate student in the school is a country that adds no jobs and no family, and it will cause the society to be ridiculed. The main reason for the school education is purely empty talk, which leads to the accumulation of problems becoming increasingly difficult and almost irrescue."

It also said that "If China wants to be prosperous and strong, it must be based on vocational education. It is an urgent task for schools to provide additional vocational education."

The first measure Zhang Zuolin took was to strengthen vocational education in spare time and incorporate vocational education into general education. For this reason, he specially ordered all the Daoyin and provincial schools on December 2, 1917 to emphasize that school education is focused on practicality.

He even sent a letter to ask that "all primary and secondary schools, male and female schools, do not only focus on beauty in painting, handicrafts, and arithmetic courses, but must pay attention to pragmatism" so that students can develop in an all-round way.

He also sent people to investigate the situation of vocational education in the province to understand what talents are needed in various places and which profession is the most popular, so as to formulate and implement vocational education standards. Zhang Zuolin also designated special funds for vocational schools to collect donations for gardens and use them as this special funds, which gave the development of Fengzhou education a reliable economic guarantee.

Under Zhang Zuolin's repeated urging, localities stepped up the preparation and construction of vocational schools. By 1929, the total number of vocational schools in the province reached 45, 6 provincial schools, 39 county schools, and 4,798 students.

He did not save money on the investment of education! On October 28, 1916, he ordered the ministers of all counties to reiterate the provincial order, strictly punish the governors of each county to increase their education funds, and required that the annual education funds of each county account for 40% of the total annual output, and used this standard as one of the contents of the governors of each county.--.net.

In December 1918, he reiterated the standard of 40% of the annual payment and strictly formulated measures, such as "in the future, the governors of each county will not implement the processing, and the theory of abolishing and relaxing the academic affairs will be imposed in accordance with the local regulations on the promotion of academic examinations."

He even directly designated various laws to ensure that the education under his jurisdiction could be completed. In October 1919, before the establishment of the Fengtian Provincial Department of Education, Zhang Zuolin personally inquired, had more than 20 local regulations on Fengtian education, involving education administration, education guidance, education funds, junior high school, higher education, normal school, vocational, social education and other aspects.

At the beginning of the establishment of Dongda University, there were some problems in hiring teachers. Some scholars from other provinces did not understand the financial situation of Fengzhou Province and were afraid that they would come to Northeastern University to teach. The monthly salary was paid by Fengzhou tickets. Once Fengzhou tickets depreciate, it would affect their income. Therefore, they were unwilling to apply for the job at Dongda University.

Understanding this situation, Zhang Zuolin immediately made a decision: "All university professors and other salaries will be paid in silver dollars, and no arrears are allowed."

In order to attract first-class scholars to teach here, Zhang Zuolin’s salary and treatment set by Northeastern University is quite generous, even higher than that of several well-known universities in China!

Take professors as an example. Professors from Peking University and Tsinghua University earn 300 yuan a month, 240 yuan a month in Nankai University, and 360 yuan a month. In the later period, Northeasternia gave Zhang Shizhao and others up to 800 yuan! Northeastern University also built new villages, built villas, and arranged spacious and comfortable houses for the professors. The professors returned to Beijing to visit relatives and reimbursed round-trip travel expenses! This was absolutely unique at that time!

Zhang Zuolin's spared no effort and quickly strengthened the teaching staff of Dongda University!

According to statistics from Northeastern University in 1928, among its 128 vocational teachers, 77 returned from studying abroad, including 11 doctoral students, 37 master students, and 29 bachelor students!

Moreover, most of them studied in the United States and graduated from some famous universities in the United States, such as Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Cornell University, MIT, etc.!

Even if the remaining 40 people have not been "gilded" abroad, they have graduated from some well-known universities in China, such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Tongji University, etc. Their lineup of professors is far beyond the reach of other universities!

By the end of the 1920s, Northeastern University was the university with the largest number of students in China, with 300 professors and 3,000 students. At that time, Peking University had only 2,000 students! This shows the grand occasion of Dongda University that year!

Funding for studying abroad is also one of Zhang Zuolin's grand event!

In the summer of 1916, Zhang Zuolin ordered a survey and statistics of international students in 20 counties in Fengtian Province to see how many international students were sent to Fengtian Province.

When he found that there were only 68 people studying in Japan in Fengzhou Province, Zhang Zuolin shook his head. This was too few. How could it support the development of the Northeast?! Not enough!

Therefore, in June and December 1917, Zhang Zuolin sent two batches of public-funded international students to study in Japan's higher preparatory schools. These international students really made great contributions to Zhang Zuolin! Two years later, 26 people were admitted to Japanese official schools with excellent results, and this score ranked second in the country at that time!

By 1918, just two years later, the number of students studying in Japan in Fengtian Province reached more than 150, more than doubled. By 1925, 232 international students in Fengtian Province had already been studying abroad.

In order to facilitate the understanding of the situation of international students, Zhang Zuolin also sent experienced managers to Japan to manage international students and formulated the "16 Interim Rules for the Management of Students in Japan in Fengtian Province", which must be followed.

In 1919, prices in Japan soared, and students who stayed in Japan encountered some difficulties in their lives. In order to make students feel at ease, Zhang Zuolin ordered the increase of tuition fees for public-funded students. The Education Department formulated the "Measures for Rewarding Students in Japan for Self-funded Students" and the "Regulations on Self-funded Students in Japan for Rewarding Specialized Universities in Japan for Self-funded Students".

In the regulations, students who are admitted to special universities designated by Fengzhou Province and study designated subjects will be given a rated reward. The amount of bonus is divided into A, B and C according to the degree of the school's subject, local living conditions and academic year examination results, and the daily bonus is 600,500,400 yuan per year. This may be the first scholarship system in China.

What’s fun is that the one who created this scholarship system was Zhang Dashuai, who was born with a beard.

In later generations, students from normal colleges will be exempted from tuition fees and monthly subsidies.

But few people know that as early as the Zhang Zuolin period, Fengtian’s normal schools had waived tuition fees and also paid for food, all of which were paid by the Fengtian Provincial Government.

Fengtian’s Normal School not only has three free meals, but also has a low standard.

For example: Fengtian Provincial First Normal School, students' breakfast is rice porridge and pickles; rice at noon, four dishes and one soup, two meats and two vegetarian dishes; dinner, four dishes and one soup, all of which are vegetarian dishes.

On Saturday lunch, the food is improved, including jar meat, wood beard meat, roasted yellow croaker, braised sea cucumber, etc. There are others such as Shenyang Higher Normal School, which are also very rich in food. These are all supported by Zhang Zuolin.

It is precisely because of this that when news of Zhang Zuolin's burial during the puppet Manchukuo period in history that Zhang Zuolin's hometown was going to be buried, the gentry in Haicheng, heard that Zhang Zuolin was going to be buried, and wrote a letter jointly requesting that Zhang Zuolin be buried in Haicheng.

Zhang Zuolin's old subordinates in Fengtian also came forward one after another, asking to bury Zhang Zuolin in the completed Marshal Forest. Some articles of appeal were also published in the newspaper, urging the puppet Manchukuo authorities to bury Zhang Zuolin's glory?

Zhang Zuolin's burial attracted so many people's attention. There was a reason why he had not acted like this during his lifetime and had his son fled to the gates six years after his death, why would he pay so much attention?! So many people would be willing to take the risk of posting nostalgia and even calling out for him?!
Chapter completed!