Dylan Stevenson has a firm position and insists on the price of 6 million and refuses to give in. He claims that if Li Mu does not agree with the price, Dylan Stevenson will look for someone else to take over.

Li Mu felt something was wrong. Compared with yesterday, Dylan Stevenson had a lot of confidence when he spoke. It should be that someone wanted to intervene in this acquisition.

Li Mu is not worried about this. Without Li Mu's permission, no one can take over the shares of Springfield. Even if Dylan Stevenson finds another "takeover man", the Springfield city government can veto the deal.

It's just a bargaining method.

With this confidence, Li Mu was fearless. For Dylan Stevenson's voluntary visit, Li Mu raised the price by $300,000 and bid for $3.8 million.

Li Mu's psychological price is $5 million. As long as he takes the shares in Dylan Stevenson within $5 million, it is cost-effective. Then, with the shares in others, Li Mu can ensure the controlling stake, and then reorganize Chuntian and merge the Chuntian Arsenal into Junma Weapons Company.

The price of $3.8 million is still a big gap from Dylan Stevenson's request, so the negotiations broke down again without any surprise.

Li Mu didn't care and sent Dylan Stevenson away. Li Mu finally took time to go to the Junma Weapons Factory.

If Gloria hadn't caused this incident, Li Mu should have visited Junma Weapons Factory yesterday. After all, this is the core business of Junma Group, and Li Mu cannot not appear in the factory for too long.

Compared with four months ago, the scale of Junma Weapon Factory has expanded again, and Hexin Island is no longer enough to accommodate it, so all the factories and other factories have been moved out of Hexin Island. Only the R&D department and factory affiliated schools are still on Hexin Island. As for workers' residences, all of them have been moved out last year.

When Li Mu purchased 4,000 acres of land from the Springfield Municipal Government, it now seems that these 4,000 acres are not enough. Last year, Li Mu signed a new contract with the Springfield Municipal Government, and Li Mu purchased 40,000 acres of land again for the expansion of the Junma Weapon Factory.

This time the plan is relatively large. The new factory covers an area of ​​more than 1,000 acres, and less than half of it has been used. Entering the factory gate, there are neat factories on the left side of the main road. These factories cover a huge area, and each factory covers an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters. The factory uses steel frame structure as support, and the exterior wall uses iron oak boards. Such a factory is very sturdy and very convenient to maintain.

"The six factories here all belong to the 'python' series. The parts produced will be assembled in another factory and then sent to another factory for packing. The factories behind them belong to the 'Storm' series and 'Springfield' series. Now our skilled workers have more than 3,000, which is no less than the Springfield Arsenal. Cultivating workers is no longer carried out in the factory, but has a special training workshop. We are setting up a technical school. When our first batch of students graduate from elementary school, they will be able to study in the technical school immediately. As soon as they graduate, they will be skilled workers. At that time, our speed of cultivating workers will be greatly accelerated." Zhang Leye acted as Li Mu's guide.

Although Li Mu wanted Chinese to engage in relatively advanced professions such as lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc., not all Chinese are capable of making. More Chinese children will still choose the industry of technical workers, especially for older children, who have passed the best stage of education, and choosing a suitable profession is what they should pay attention to.

The affiliated schools of Junma Group still have only primary school departments, but after this summer, middle school departments and technical schools will all start to accept students. Children with better academic performance will of course enter middle schools to continue their studies. Older people can choose to go to technical schools and nursing schools to receive vocational education.

Theoretically, boys will choose more technical schools and girls will choose more medical schools, but this is not a mandatory regulation. Li Mu is still more inclined to choose freely, which ultimately depends on the children's interests.

Zhang Leye knew that Li Mu attached great importance to education, so he immediately shifted the topic to the affiliated school: "Oliveira is very good. After Oliveira was the principal, the school finally operated normally, and there was no problem with other teachers. Oliveira could find the right person, only Chinese teachers. We recruited more than a dozen teachers from the Qing Empire, and only two were competent for this job. The rest could only teach students to learn Chinese characters, which was not very useful in imparting knowledge."

If you want to get the school on track, an excellent principal is essential. Mrs. Henry has outstanding teaching skills, but not outstanding management skills. So Li Mu poached Oliveira from the Connecticut Education Bureau and served as the principal of the affiliated school of Junma Group.

As an official of the Connecticut Education Bureau, Oliveira has a wide range of communication and management skills in the education system. Li Mu gave Oliveira a generous salary, so Oliveira quit her job without hesitation, left Connecticut to Massachusetts, and devoted herself to the teaching work of the Junma Group affiliated schools.

Oliveira had face in Massachusetts, and was out of reach for the Qing Empire. Li Mu had high requirements for Chinese teachers and offered good salary. Cole tried all his strength in the Qing Empire but still could not complete the task. Finally, with the assistance of Cheng Gengchi, he barely found more than a dozen scholars who had no hope of imperial examinations.

These days, scholars still believe in "learning civil and military skills, goods and imperial families". Without any necessity, no one wants to leave his hometown and live thousands of miles away. This was a very despicable thing in the Qing Empire, so even if Li Mu opened a high-tech technology, it would not work. No one would want to come to the United States to serve Li Mu, an arms dealer.

It is different with Cheng Gengchi's help. The imperial examination is also a single-plank bridge. Many people cannot achieve fame and fortune in their entire lives. In order to live, they have to bow for five dou of rice. After all, Cole does not understand the situation of the Qing Empire. Those scholars who have already achieved fame and fortune are indeed relatively high-level education, but they are "official bodies" and have joined the ruling class. No one is willing to abandon fame and fortune to the United States. This has nothing to do with salary, and no matter how much salary you pay, it is useless.

Cheng Gengchi looked for scholars who were already in their thirties and forties but had not yet obtained the exam. These people were basically sure that there was no hope for the imperial examination, but they were also knowledgeable, at least they could be a teacher or something. If you find such people, they would be accurate.

Li Mu's requirements are relatively high. The school of Junma Group does not teach eight-part essays, nor does it teach the monarch, minister, and minister. It teaches benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, trustworthiness, forgiveness, loyalty, filial piety, and brotherhood. Simply put, there is no dogmatism and teaches the principles of being a human being. This has high requirements for teachers. Ordinary scholars really do not meet Li Mu's requirements. Therefore, although there are many scholars invited now, not many people who meet Li Mu's going.

"This matter is not urgent, so take it slowly. Since these scholars have been invited, they cannot be idle. In this way, let those scholars first translate the classical Chinese left by our ancestors into vernacular Chinese, and then we organize people to translate the vernacular Chinese into English. This work is very important and must not be ignored." Li Mu put forward a new requirement. If you want Chinese to gain a foothold in the United States, you must first let Americans understand Chinese and their culture, so that Americans can accept Chinese.

What Li Mu likes to say the most is the "Five Thousand Years of Traditional Chinese Civilization". How to say this thing? It is useless to just say it with your mouth, and you must also be able to provide evidence to prove it to be convincing.

The problem now is that Chinese people know that the Five Classics and Four Books are very important for the interpretation of Chinese traditional culture, and they all know that Sun Tzu's Art of War is comparable to the masterpiece of "On War". The problem is that even Chinese people who have not received systematic education cannot understand it, let alone foreigners.

What Li Mu has to do now is to promote Han culture, so that more foreigners can understand Han culture, and take a look. When your ancestors were still eating raw meat and drinking blood, our ancestors had already begun to study the mysterious yellow of heaven and earth. Therefore, the "Five Thousand Years of Civilization History" is not a fool to you, come and worship quickly.

"Translation - OK, I'll organize people to start the process when I look back." Zhang Leye felt a little numb when he thought of the huge collection of books in the Junma Library.

While promoting Chinese culture, Li Mu is also rescuing culture. At the current Junma Affiliated School, there is a huge library with a collection of more than 200,000 books, most of which are Chinese classics.

If it were in the 21st century, any library would have hundreds of thousands of books, but this was the 19th century when it was a collection of thousands of books, and it was a time when it was a library that was known as a library. These 200,000 books not only included the "Four Books and Five Classics", but also the copy of the "Yongle Encyclopedia" given to Li Mu by William Vanderbilt. Whether in terms of quality or quantity, the Junma Library is the best library in this era, and even Harvard University and MIT do not have a library of this size.

In fact, some people in the Qing Empire have been doing things like translating books, such as Wei Yuan, who was the translator of the Qing Empire. However, what Wei Yuan and others did was to translate foreign books into Chinese, trying to use the power of technology to promote the progress of the Qing Empire. What Li Mu had to do now was to translate Chinese books into English and use the power of culture to conquer the Americans.

The idea is good, but this work project is huge and cannot be completed in one day or another. Not to mention that Li Mu only has a dozen people in his hands, even if Li Mu has thousands of people in his hands, it will take at least ten years to achieve results.

Not to mention ten years, even twenty years, Li Mu can wait.
Chapter completed!