As soon as Gu Kun appeared, the maids around Zhu Youran disappeared in a very sensible way, so quietly that no one noticed their departure.
After sitting in the imperial garden and chatting with his fiancée for three to five minutes, Gu Kun alleviated the estrangement and embarrassment caused by his complete lack of concern for his fiancée in the past six months and learned a lot about Zhu Youran's current situation.
It turns out that since the beginning of September, Zhu Youran has been studying abroad in college, and the destination country is China.
It's just that at that time, Gu Kun was already on his way to Australia by yacht, so he didn't care about this trivial matter. Then he went on a series of trips, and he has been busy until now, and the news was delayed for a semester.
The reason why I chose to study in China is also related to the international situation and attitude tendencies faced by Lanzhou.
Zhu Youran's eldest brother died in Cambridge, and his second sister died in Eton College. This is a blood feud. Zhu Youdong suffered such a big loss, and he would definitely not dare to send Zhu Youran to a Western country represented by the Five Dogs of the Bu family.
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Now that the Spring Festival is only a few days away, Zhu Youran still takes winter vacation and comes back to celebrate the New Year, so she is in Lanfang. Of course, she can take more leave after the New Year due to her special situation, and there will be no problem in celebrating the Lantern Festival.
This year's Lantern Festival is on February 7th. Less than a week after the Lantern Festival, it will be Zhu Youran's 18th birthday. She is a Pisces. Then there is the wedding scheduled for Valentine's Day, February 14th.
Then comes the honeymoon…
It is estimated that Zhu Youran will not be able to go back to school until early March.
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"I don't care about you too much. I apologize to you and forgive me - but which school did you go to? I'm ashamed. I just left you alone and asked you."
Gu Kun expressed his apology. It was only at this moment that he realized that he really owed too much care for his fiancée, so he could only ask questions bit by bit.
Zhu Youran was also stunned. It was obviously because they had been apart for too long, and chatting was more jumpy. He actually forgot what was said and what was not said: "Didn't I say it just now? Ha, it seems that I really didn't say it, okay,
It turns out that you don’t know about my school until now—then listen up, I’m not a big name, and you and I will be considered alumni from now on.”
Gu Kun subconsciously felt something was wrong: "Why are you going to that kind of school? If you want to study abroad, will Peking University and Tsinghua University not accept you? I was pragmatic and didn't want to be too special, so I just studied at Jiaotong University."
"Then I should care about my academic qualifications? I just want to be your schoolmate, don't I?" Zhu Youran smiled slyly, half jokingly. Seeing that Gu Kun's expression was serious and dangerous, she waved her hand to signal him to relax.
"Okay, okay, don't take the joke just now seriously. Who cares about being your schoolmate? I just went to Hujiang because the weather in the north is not suitable. The physical and living conditions there are good, and you have many friends, so it is easy to take care of you.
If there were more reliable universities in Lingnan, I wouldn't be able to accept studying in Guangdong, but those schools are really too bad.
For me, going to college is to learn something practical, just enough to increase my knowledge. Academic qualifications and diplomas are just floating clouds. What do I want with those things? If it weren’t for the purpose of being exposed to the sufferings and lives of the common people, my father would hire a bunch of tutors.
It’s no problem for you to teach me alone.”
The weather was not suitable for the climate, which was a good reason. Gu Kun also quickly accepted this setting and felt that "it really suits the temperament of the princess, and daily decision-making depends entirely on her mood."
Gu Kun stopped asking about Tsinghua and Peking University, and just said: "What about Fudan? If you want to study in Hujiang, Fudan's name is the loudest. I went to Jiaotong University just because I wanted to major in ocean engineering.
question."
Zhu Youran was silent for a few seconds and then relayed: "This is actually also my father's suggestion, and I believe in his decision. My father said that the older he gets, the more he feels that the political wisdom of us Orientals is valuable, and that it adapts to the needs of Han people and
When dealing with Han people, China has great wisdom in selecting top-level engineering students to serve as officials.
To me, majoring in ideology or public administration is like falling into a trap. The three views have been brainwashed by the so-called universal brainwashing of the West. How can we prevent Lan Fang from being misled in the future? What we need to learn is theirs.
As for natural science and technology, as for their ideology and public management laws, they can just keep it for themselves.
Therefore, my father asked me not to choose those strong liberal arts schools in China in recent years. My father said that some departments in those schools have fallen into path dependence. They once reached the commanding heights of academic status due to studying the West. Let them keep pace with the times.
If you enter, you will lose your current academic status, and you will eventually become a traitor. We should be more practical and pay attention to it, and discard the flaws and make use of them."
For people like Zhu Youran, the best way to educate him is to be like Juan Carlos I.
Don't be taken advantage of by academic circles that are in fact obsolete but continue to prolong academic life by relying on business promotion.
Gu Kun was a little surprised when he heard this.
Regarding the decision itself, Gu Kun believed that Zhu Youdong could certainly make it based on his lifetime experience, but he did not expect that Zhu Youdong could see the reasoning behind it so thoroughly.
"This is correct. The most common trick used by Westerners is to take advantage of the fact that they are powerful, and then forcefully explain why they are powerful. It is obvious that they have achieved their power through technological hegemony, but they hope that outsiders will believe that they are powerful through federalist-paper."
Gu Kun agreed happily, and then continued to suggest: "However, it is not convenient for you to study abroad, especially because of your identity, and I will not go abroad very much in the next few years. It will be troublesome to live in two places after getting married.
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How about this? I will spend some resources to mediate with the people from Jiaotong University and let them come to Lanfang to open a branch campus. I will pay for the land, buildings and facilities. It will be regarded as the royal family funding to sponsor the school. The foreign royal families and warlords will pay for it.
Isn’t it quite common to finance a university, and it’s convenient for you to travel between places. If you’re not used to living in a foreign country, or if you want to come back to see me, you can attend classes on both sides at any time.”
"We in Lanfang are going to start our own university? This suggestion sounds quite decent. Originally we only had one high school. Why don't you go talk to your father right away?" Zhu Youran is seventeen or eighteen after all.
At this young age, it’s easy to take matters into your own hands and do whatever you think is good.
The current educational infrastructure in Lanfang is still almost unchanged from when Gu Kun was reborn seven years ago - there is only one high school, three junior high schools, and several elementary schools in the country. There are no universities at all, and there are no technical schools at the high school level.
The only high school is comprehensive, which is equivalent to ordinary high schools in China.
However, in the past seven years, no one felt that the educational resources in Lanfang were insufficient. The main reason was that during the 1998 Southeast Asian financial crisis, the authorities used royal funds to sponsor many old, weak, sick and disabled people to move out and buy them lifelong Malaysian medical care.
Insurance and pensions were paid to them, or they were sent to Sarawak, and later contracted for Gu Kun's plantations in Sarawak.
Therefore, the registered population of Lanfang dropped from nearly 90,000 in 1994 to 70,000 in 1999.
As the population decreases, educational resources will of course be sufficient for the time being, and it will not be embarrassing if the facilities are not upgraded.
But now that Gu Kun and Zhu Youdong have talked about the issue of "renovation of old cities across the country and city appearance rectification", it seems that upgrading education and medical health can also be done. These things may not necessarily make money, and Gu Kun has never thought about a complete industry.
Culture. This is also about building the country and improving the overall impression of the country as a wealthy country. It is not a waste of money.
After all, Gu Kun now regards Lanfang as his own country - not as simple as "motherland", but he already has a sense of ownership.
Now that the two of them were chatting excitedly, Zhu Youran immediately called and asked the department in charge of education to send a copy of the data. The fax was sent within a few minutes.
The couple sat browsing together on the white marble table in the Imperial Garden,
Data shows that among the current registered population in Lanfang, there are approximately 2,000 people who reach school age every year. The current primary school can definitely absorb all of them, the junior high school can accept 1,200 people, and the high school can accept 500 people.
In Lanfang, when Gu Kun was reborn, in 1994, tuition was required to attend junior high school, and only primary school was free. The country was too poor at that time and only had fishery, and could not afford financial subsidies.
Later, after the financial crisis in 1998, the population was sorted out and the burden of the elderly, weak, sick and disabled was reduced. Zhu Youdong announced the "free tuition for junior high schools" that year, and it was officially implemented in 1999.
Therefore, now Lanfang has truly realized that the nine-year education is free. It has only been implemented for two years, but it is still not a complete "compulsory education" - mainly because the junior high school has not had time to expand, and can only recruit 1,200 people. There are about
One-third of those who have graduated from primary school cannot study, so they need to take entrance exams. Those who score in the top two-thirds and successfully enter higher education can study for free, and those who fail the exam will be dismissed.
From junior high school to high school, another 700 students will be eliminated, leaving only 500.
After reading the data, Gu Kun said in a consultative tone: "I think it's better to do this. Anyway, these basic educations don't cost much. I've paid for them and counted them as my donation to charity. The number of elementary and junior high schools across the country has been expanded to two thousand."
It doesn’t matter if the enrollment is not full for the time being. Can the quality of education be improved by appropriately small-class education?
However, money cannot be spent in vain. Some content must be added to their ideological education and general social education course materials so that they know that they can study in vain and who is spending money to sponsor them.
The high school level should also be expanded. I think it would be better to expand to three schools. The enrollment scale should be increased from the current 500 students per year to about 1,200 to 1,500. In this way, two-thirds to three-quarters of young citizens can receive high school education.
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Among the three schools, one is free, and only those with the best high school entrance examination scores can attend. The other is a slightly worse one, with normal tuition fees and a lower threshold. Finally, a high school level technical school will be opened to cultivate craftsman talents.
and technical service talents.
As Lanfang's tourism industry expands, it will not only need cheap labor from college student management and grassroots waiters. We will also need a large number of chefs in the catering industry, and skilled workers for water and electricity infrastructure maintenance and shipyard repairs. It is necessary to match the level of vocational education.
After all these are done, we can consider inviting universities from China to open branch campuses. Within universities, we should also invite two universities. For normal undergraduate liberal arts and sciences, we can invite a higher-level one, such as Jiao Tong University. Then invite another one.
A technical school at the junior college level will do the trick.
If the Jiaotong University campus cannot be completed in time, you can open an experimental class first. I guarantee that you can study at Jiaotong University at home during the September semester."
Gu Kun suddenly realized that he still had a talent for doting on his wife.
How could his wife not appear in front of him often? He wouldn't feel at ease if she was left outside.
By the way, after announcing a new benefit for citizens to study for free, it will gain a wave of people's hearts and promote demolition and reconstruction across the country, and the resistance will be much less.