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Chapter 17: Qingdao University (3)

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After Liu Menggeng was extorted a huge amount of funds, he secretly sent many subordinates to investigate, but there was no result. The bandits with accents in Hebei and Shanxi seemed to suddenly appear, disappearing from the world after the extortion, without a trace.

After some investigation, Liu Menggeng found that the Southern Sun family and the Fengtian clan did collude. Even Feng Yuxiang was a little abnormal, but there was no conclusive evidence.

Liu Menggeng knew that Cao Kun had a great trust in Feng Yuxiang now, and even Wu Peifu wanted to punish him, he was protected by Cao Kun. Although Liu Menggeng now believed most of what the masked robber said that night, there was no conclusive evidence, and secondly, he was worried about other people's plans to disagree. Therefore, although he was confused about Feng Yuxiang, he gradually relaxed his attention over time.

History has not taken a turn here, but it still moves forward according to the established trajectory.

The continuous rainfall in July and August finally led to large-scale floods and disasters in Shandong.

Due to the huge water situation in the east and west of Shandong, the canal broke its dam and destroyed its fields and houses. Enxian was flooded by water, with more than 100,000 victims, of which about 90% were in the dilemma of hunger and cold. Wucheng County suffered floods, with more than 200 villages, with more than 50,000 victims, of which more than 40,000 were hungry. Since the beginning of summer, the storm and rains have caused disasters, and the Yellow River has been breached, with more than 18,600 acres of disaster areas; Guanxian has no rain since spring and summer, but it has poured heavy rain in July and August, and villages and farmlands have been flooded, with 1,180 people dying due to the disaster, and the number of victims is more than 190,500; Yanggu County was hit by the Yellow River breach in June, and the water accumulation has not been reduced until autumn, and most of the victims have fled outside the pass or beg for food; the water depths of the flat land along the Jinpu Line in northwestern Dezhou are 6 feet to 8 feet, and all the crops are destroyed...

Although these disasters that are still far from Qingdao made Zhao Zhenzhong and others feel heavy, they are numbers obtained from paper and cannot personally experience the tragic scenes caused by the disaster. However, the flood disasters that occurred in Jiao County, Gaomi and other places near Qingdao made Zhao Zhenzhong and others truly understand what natural disasters are, and people are living in poverty.

From July to August, the precipitation in Jiaodong was far higher than the average level in previous years. The water in Jiaoxian rivers rose several feet and overflowed the rivers. There were countless villages and farmlands along the rivers. The autumn crops in the fields were basically destroyed, and the disaster was rare in the past decade. However, in Gaomi County, due to the low terrain and heavy rain, and the impact of mountain torrents in the Weixian area of ​​the upper reaches, the impact of the rivers, and the nearness of Gaomi Haoli became a country of Ze.

Although there are no overall statistics and the number of people affected in the end cannot be estimated, looking at the series of tragic situations described in the newspaper and looking at the tears of tears in the eyes of the many disaster victims who fled in Qingdao City, Zhao Zhenzhong and others prepared a lot of supplies, but they still felt unsustainable in the face of so many disaster victims.

Since August, Zhao Zhenzhong persuaded Sui Shiqing to organize Qingdao merchants to donate grain, clothes, medicine and other materials to provide disaster relief through Sui Shiqing and others. He also hoped to persuade Jiaoao Commercial Port to supervise Gao Enhong to provide relief, but Sui Shiqing came back in a state of irritability after visiting Gao Enhong's place. Through Sui Shiqing's words, Zhao Zhenzhong learned Gao Enhong's attitude. Gao Enhong did not object to the relief, but the Jiaoao authorities now have no financial resources and material resources to solve the problems of so many disaster victims.

Gao Enhong took office on March 31 this year, but at the beginning of his tenure, he vigorously raised funds to provide military funds for Wu Peifu despite public opposition.

First, he used Qingdao Telephone Bureau as collateral and borrowed 1 million yuan from Japanese merchants. Then he established a local bank, and then prepared to auction all the public property in Qingdao to serve as Wu Peifu's military expenses. However, the auction was strongly opposed by Qingdao and all walks of life in Shandong and gave up.

Now facing such a serious disaster in the neighboring areas, Gao Enhong ignored it and claimed that the Jiaoao authorities had no financial resources and material resources to provide relief to the victims. After Zhao Zhenzhong and others learned the news that Sui Shiqing had transferred, they felt depressed and angry.

"What a fucking world! When he provides military expenditure to warlords, he has money to supervise, so he can't help but he can help the victims?!" Zhou Hao couldn't help but curse.

"Don't waste that sip. It's better to try to do something meaningful if you have time and energy. This world must change, but it's not the time now, and we don't have the power at the moment. He is reluctant to do his best. In addition to disregarding the lives and deaths of the people, he is also because these victims are not within his jurisdiction." After Zhao Zhenzhong dissuaded Zhou Hao, he turned to ask Zhou Tian who was on the side, "How many orphans and refugees have we taken in at the moment? How many can we take in the end before winter?"

Sighing, Zhou Tian replied with a heavy face: "It's September 10th today, but the number of orphans we have taken in this time has exceeded 1,400 refugees, and the total population has exceeded 4,000. How many people can be taken in the end depends on how many houses can be built. Our original house could accommodate more than 3,400 people, but now it has exceeded about 600 people. The extra 600 people will still let Yixue take a holiday and free up some classrooms to accommodate them."

"It's September now, and large-scale continuous precipitation is basically impossible. You can organize people to build houses as soon as possible, first arrange the more than 600 people, and then consider other things. Yixue also needs to start school as soon as possible. You can't let those children take a long vacation time and delay their studies." After thinking about it, Zhao Zhenzhong added: "Try to buy as much food as possible from outside and rescue as many disaster victims as possible. We cannot change the world now, so we can only do our best to do what we can do now and accumulate strength for the future."

"Qingdao University should start soon, right? No matter what, you are also the school manager. You should do your best to start the first time the school has been established." Zhou Tian reminded.

"I'm just busy with relief to the victims during this period." Zhao Zhenzhong said with a wry smile, shaking his head, "However, Qingdao University is scheduled to start school on September 20, and it's still time. Besides, I, a young school director, probably just a charge in the eyes of others. Let's arrange my own place first."

Among the more than 1,400 people intake, most of them were children under the age of 15, about 800, more than 500 strong teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18, and the remaining more than 100 adult young people are relatives of some of the children.

For these adults, Zhao Zhenzhong and others selected more than 10 men and women of considerable education as teachers of Yishui, while others arranged to engage in farming, fishing, and work according to the situation. For children under 15 years old, Zhao Zhenzhong could only arrange them to enter Yishui and become students in Sihai School according to their age and education. For more than 500 strong teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18, after Zhao Zhenzhong learned about the situation, except for more than 50 of them with primary school or above, who had been arranged to study in Sihai School, the remaining 450 people were selected and trained in the selection and training of the remaining staff of the business group in advance.

After 20 people were assigned from the Rangers and the Business Group to be responsible for the three-month selection training, Zhao Zhenzhong reminded Li Yunhai that Zhou Hao and others would continue to strengthen the training of the 183 new players in the Rangers, requiring them to meet the basic standards of the Rangers by the end of October. Li Yunhai and others thought about the current level of these people, so they agreed.

After arranging all the matters, Zhao Zhenzhong, the head of Qingdao University, also paid attention to the upcoming start of the university.

The current Qingdao University has changed a lot compared with the original Qingdao University in history. When the private Qingdao University was established in 1924, due to various conditions, the first batch only recruited one engineering class and one business class, with only 80 students in total.

But now, with the strong support of all school directors, especially Americans and Germans, with the help of faculty, Qingdao University started its school, in addition to the business department, there were two classes in engineering, and two classes in medicine and one class in agriculture and forestry. Each class had 50 students, with a total of 300 students.

Not only has the number of students increased significantly compared with the original history, but the teaching staff is also extremely strong. Among teachers in various subjects, in addition to hiring some returning students from abroad, medicine, business, agriculture and forestry are mainly provided by Americans, while engineering is mainly provided by Germans.

In terms of course arrangement, in addition to professional courses, students of all subjects also include Chinese, mathematics, English, German, law, logic, Japanese, world history and other elective courses. Most of the textbooks were introduced from the United States and Germany, and some were compiled by teachers. The course was for four years. Students had completed their studies and passed the exam and were awarded a bachelor's degree.

Such a university led by China and co-organized by China and abroad had such a faculty and enrollment scale in the early stage, which was extremely rare among the few universities in China at that time. In addition to the school, the school is located in Qingdao, with convenient transportation, beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, so the students applied for the exam were extremely enthusiastic. In addition to the province and the country, there were overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and some North Korean students.

Originally, Zhou Hao proposed to arrange some students in Sihai School to study in the newly established Qingdao University, but Zhao Zhenzhong considered that Qingdao University would still change after the Zhifeng War this year, and the Qingdao workers' strike and student strike movement next year was launched by Wang, Deng and others. Sihai School has only been established for more than a year, and students cannot reach the level of studying in college. After some consideration, he decided to wait until next autumn before a few students from Sihai School to study in Qingdao University.

After the new students entered school on September 15, the school rules and regulations were announced. The class was officially held after the opening ceremony on September 20. In addition to the teachers and students of Qingdao University and the school directors, there were also Shandong Governor Xiong Bingqi and others who came from Jinan to attend the opening ceremony.

At the opening ceremony, President Gao Enhong delivered a speech: "The land is bounded in the north and south, with boats and cars, elegant mountains and rivers, and neutral climate. It is the most suitable for the development of culture... This school is a newly-created school, and students are new students. Everything should be based on the premise of seeking truth from facts and renewing day by day, and wash away bad habits from all over the country. It is a good school spirit in this school, a model for young people in the country, and a useful strength for the country in the future."
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