1900: A physics genius wandering around Europe

Chapter 160 Domestic Future Development Plan
After saying goodbye to Yu Shimei, Li Qiwei got on Song Daquan's rickshaw and prepared to go home.

Yu Shimei will go to Beijing to meet the emperor in the near future and bring his own reform outline. The result will probably not be known for more than a month.

There is no way, the Qing Dynasty’s current transportation system is still too backward.

Yu Shimei could only take a boat to Tianjin and then travel by land to the capital.

Li Qiwei will not waste this month. He needs to sort out his next plans in the country.

In summary, there are three major events.

The first thing was to promote educational reform in the Qing Dynasty.

Li Qiwei is very self-aware. His science city plan, and even the more secretive military plan, are inseparable from a large number of science and engineering talents.

If he relies on himself, even if he can establish ten universities, the number of students he trains will be a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, the industrial system needs not only college students and engineers, but also countless skilled workers, technicians, etc.

This is a huge and complex system project.

So he needs leverage.

The Western world is definitely unreliable, and only China can provide him with a steady supply of fresh blood.

Li Qiwei used the power of a country to realize his plan.

In this process, China itself has also achieved tremendous development. All technologies have been accumulated internally and digested into real strength.

It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

No matter how much the Qing Dynasty planned, they could never have anticipated that the more universities they established, the faster the Qing Dynasty would collapse.

In real history, the Qing Dynasty fell into this dilemma.

Without reform, we will die a slow death; with reform, we will die faster.

Perhaps it was because Cixi understood this that she was so extravagant, completely disregarding the future of the country and only wanting to have a good time before her death.

The second thing is to establish a private university under his own name.

With a huge educational foundation, we still need a leader.

It represents the most advanced level of education and produces the most advanced science and technology.

The future world will be extremely chaotic, which will make the development of universities even more important.

There is no doubt that only in times of war can science and technology make rapid progress.

Even with his own suggestions, Li Qiwei didn't believe that with the nature of the Qing Dynasty, it could not build a great university.

So, he has to be the leader!

The university he founded must be the best university in the Qing Dynasty, and even become a world-renowned university like Cambridge.

Therefore, Li Qiwei had to quickly conceive and plan the university he wanted to establish.

This is not easy.

The most important thing is to determine the university's positioning and management system.

What Li Qiwei wanted to refer to was the Western system, but it was not exactly the same.

At this time, Europe and the United States, as in the future, have many different names and divisions for universities, and they are quite detailed.

The main ones are: University, Institute, School, College, Academy, etc.

For example, the English name of Harvard University is [Harvard University].

University mainly refers to a comprehensive university, which is generally composed of many colleges and covers many different categories of majors.

The English name of MIT is 【Massachusetts Institute of Technology】.

An institute is a college with specialized disciplines. For example, MIT has an engineering college, a science college, and so on.

The difference between it and the University lies mainly in its scale.

For example, MIT has neither a law school nor a medical school; but comprehensive universities all have these large colleges.

【School】refers to the college or department of a university. For example, the School of Engineering at MIT is called 【School of Engineering】.

The English name of Harvard Law School is [Harvard Law School].

Of course, School also means middle school.

The concept of "College" is relatively general. It can refer to various universities, colleges within universities, or branch schools.

For example, Trinity College of Cambridge University is called Trinity College in English, and other colleges are also called College.

Another example is the Imperial College London in the UK, which is called [Imperial College London] in English.

So although both are colleges, there are differences between Institute and College, which is mainly due to misunderstanding caused by translation.

The last "Academy" refers to a higher vocational college or a school that studies specialized technology.

For example, the Academy of Art University in San Francisco is called [Academy of Art University] in English.

There are also various film schools, business schools, etc., which are included in this list.

The university system of later China was basically modeled after Europe and the United States.

The classification and department system of universities are not completely unified and are very confusing.

There are a variety of names, all of which are historical legacies and difficult to modify.

For example, although both have a three-level management system, some universities have it: university-college-major; while some universities have it: university-department-major.

Some universities even have a four-level management system: university-college-department-major.

The main reason is that the scale of universities is growing and their functions are constantly improving, and confusion has arisen due to untimely adjustments.

Generally speaking, a college is half a level higher than a department, and the tasks it undertakes are more systematic.

In addition to the talent training and teaching organization undertaken by the department, the college also has unique functions such as social services and achievement transformation.

Li Qiwei is a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he plans to solve this problem from the source.

What he wanted to establish was a science and technology university, modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

The three-level management system adopted is university-college-major.

Moreover, he wants to promote this practice across the country.

As for various specialty universities and technical schools, there is another set of methods.

In this respect, he is similar to Nagaoka Hantaro from Sakura Country.

Physics is the top natural science. In the future, Li Qiwei will be in charge of the scientific system with the lofty status of the first physicist in China.

At the same time, as a big boss, he trains the younger generations and points out the direction for future scientific development.

Although it is impossible for him to understand all categories, it is enough for him to know which ones are the most important.

Steel, chemicals, electronics, electricity, etc., any one of them covers countless subdivided technologies and engineering experience.

As long as there are more and more universities, talents will naturally emerge like mushrooms after a rain, and there will always be smart people who can make breakthroughs in other fields.

Through his overseas investment groups, he continuously injected capital into the domestic market, driving the growth of a number of typical industrial enterprises.

Then, using China's huge human resources, we can replicate more segmented businesses.

Even if we are just a screw, we must be the strongest in the world.

Li Qiwei's role is just an initiator. He knows that with his current financial resources, it is impossible to directly upgrade China's industry.

Like education, this is a long-term project that requires decades of slow development before it can unleash tremendous energy.

At this time, a servant came to report that a man named Zhou Ziyu was visiting.

At present, the other party is arranged in the reception room. Knowing that Li Qiwei is not there, he is still willing to drink tea and wait.

Li Qiwei became interested. He had no information about Zhou Ziyu in his mind. Could he be an unknown person?
However, with this perseverance and courage, future achievements will probably be great.

He decided to meet this person to find out why he wanted to see him.

(End of this chapter)