I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 157 Zhang An Academy
Even after the three campuses of Xindongweigang Middle School were closed for the holidays, they were not particularly deserted. Of course, they were much quieter than usual, but because many people worked there on duty, there was still some liveliness.

In addition, there are some supporting enterprises and factories. How can workers who do not return to their hometowns spend the Spring Festival locally? This is also something that "Zhang'an Education" and "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" need to consider in advance.

Here in Shazhou, Zhang Da'an personally arranged the New Year's Eve dinner for the employees, as well as their New Year's holiday.

In Jiangning City, whether it's the Chengdong District or the apartment construction sites in the city center, Fang Daqiao leads the patrols. The majority of the employees are from Jiangning City. Some of them, whose hometowns are in Jianghuai Province, are not in a hurry to return home directly and plan to go back on the eve of the Lunar New Year.

Fang Daqiao is quite busy organizing "New Year's Eve dinners" for multiple organizations.

Although he had Shen Tu, that beast, to help him, this guy said he was going back to his hometown in Shandong for the New Year, but then he turned around and took his brothers out to play games all night.

This year, after paying off his debts, he had 50,000 to 60,000 yuan left, which he sent to his mother.

I only had eighty yuan in my pocket during the Spring Festival. My plan was to eat instant noodles and sausages from my brothers and then endure the days from the third day of the Lunar New Year to the seventh day.

Why not start the ritual from the first day of the Lunar New Year?

Because the cafeteria definitely has leftovers from the "New Year's Eve dinner".

This made Coach Zhang wonder if the sausage in Shen Tu's mouth was something the brothers were born with, otherwise why would he let him rub it so freely?

The Mazhou and Jianggao campuses will have two principals on duty. It's unclear whether Mazhou City will arrange for city leaders to visit and offer their condolences during this period. If so, we'll need to make careful preparations.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, we gave a big gift package to the employees who stayed at the office. It contained snacks and fruits. Red envelopes will be given out on the seventh and eighth days of the first lunar month when we start work.

"Pineapple Boy" still didn't go home this year. He needs to hurry up and practice driving so he can get his driver's license in the first month of the lunar calendar. And it won't be a C license, but a B license.

It took "Pineapple Boy" more than half a year and tens of thousands of yuan to get this driver's license, which gave him a huge headache.

However, this is also part of his career plan. He plans to leave his security guard post and become a full-time freight driver.

Tang Jianqiu was with him; they both planned to familiarize themselves with the company's logistics routes first, and then get their A-level licenses in a few years.

Actually, it doesn't matter if they don't take it. They have already obtained their high school diplomas and can take the adult college entrance examination or the college entrance examination in Jiangkou Province from Xindongwei Port Middle School.

However, that would lower the undergraduate enrollment rate of Xindongwei Port Middle School, so it's better to just take the adult college entrance examination. At that time, you can choose the junior college run solely by "Zhang An Education" or the Zhongwu University Zhang An College that "Zhang An Education" negotiated with the Zhongwu City Education Bureau.

Zhang'an College is an independent college that operates under a "private-public partnership" model, making it undoubtedly a private undergraduate institution.

However, unlike other private undergraduate enrollment models, "Zhang'an College" is not very large. Its main majors are concentrated in computer science, civil engineering, and transportation and logistics. So it has three departments, six majors, twelve to eighteen classes, and about six hundred students.

Its function is to quickly supplement the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" with front-line technical staff, so in terms of employment, there is a considerable chance that they will be employed by the school's direct investment and construction units.

Some parents who enrolled in "Zhang An Education" last year were drawn to one of its promotional claims: "Zhang An Education" was raising funds to negotiate with several prefecture-level universities in the province to build independent undergraduate colleges with "public-private partnership" funding.

The families of these trainees are not yet considered "wealthy" at the township level; they can only be said to have some money, but they are unable to break through to a more affluent level in the long run.

Doing a small business can bring in 50,000 to 80,000 yuan a year, or the combined income of grandparents, parents and children can exceed 200,000 yuan a year, and this income is unlikely to change much in the long term.

Sending your child into the system to achieve instant success is beyond our capabilities; preparing a fortune for your child to start a business and become rich is beyond our financial means; hoping your child will suddenly excel and get into one of the two top universities in Beijing is too ambitious a dream.

So, after doing the math, if Coach Zhang really has the ability to get a bachelor's degree, then instead of studying at an ordinary university, it's better to just work for Coach Zhang.

"Zhang An College" was revealed during the winter break and then entered the publicity stage. However, the enrollment brochure is not yet very clear, especially since the tuition fee is not low, costing at least fifty or sixty thousand yuan per academic year.

Over four years, the expenses can easily reach two to three hundred thousand yuan. Generally, private undergraduate programs cost between twenty and thirty thousand yuan, and some even cost over one hundred thousand yuan, but the operating methods are different. Programs like "Zhang An College" are quite special.

Zhang Da'an had no intention of recruiting students from the pool of graduating students admitted through the national unified entrance examination. With hundreds of thousands of college entrance examination candidates every year, the quality of students he could easily recruit was unlikely to be very high.

Therefore, the negotiations with Zhongwu City mainly focused on the following: if Zhang'an College opens and enrolls students this year, then a new Dongwei Port Middle School will also be invested in Zhongwu City this year.

These are the hard requirements, but there is a two-way choice, meaning that "Zhang An Education" can decide where the school site is located.

If it were another education company, it would undoubtedly be a prime location in the city center, but prime locations in the city center can't be allocated too much, and the final cost would exceed the limit.

Therefore, a garden-style campus can only be located in the suburbs.

Zhongwu City is well aware of this, so in essence it is still "attracting investment" to get Zhang Da'an to spend money and develop some remote land in the urban-rural fringe or suburbs in advance.

With the new Dongwei Port Middle School located in Zhongwu City, the internal planning of Zhongwu City allows for road construction to proceed along the entire route, providing a very reasonable justification.

A single new Dongwei Port Middle School is equivalent to an annual revenue of around 100 million yuan, and its cash flow is undoubtedly enormous.

It is not hard to see from this that Zhongwu City's ideas are quite advanced. It did not shy away from the controversy surrounding Xindongwei Port Middle School in society, but instead embraced it directly.

Zhang Da'an also reached an agreement with Zhongwu City on a condition that, apart from the middle schools in the city, all the middle schools in the remaining districts, counties, and townships could become the source of students for "Zhang'an Academy".

However, how to entice high school students to "Zhang An Academy" before the college entrance examination depends on your own abilities, Zhang Da'an.

After all, private undergraduate programs are now called "third-tier universities." Those who are capable of attending second-tier universities would not choose "third-tier universities." Furthermore, for ordinary families, the cost of attending a private undergraduate program is too high. Even though the income of residents in Zhongwu City is relatively good, not every household can afford to spend tens of thousands of yuan every year just for their children to study.

This matter is seen as a problem for Zhang Da'an by both Zhongwu City and Zhongwu University.

However, this matter was actually resolved a long time ago, when the Mazhou campus of Xindongweigang Middle School was being prepared.

That was to cooperate with a bank on a student loan product. Originally, "Shazhou Rural Commercial Bank" couldn't carry it out, so Zhang Da'an approached Jiangning Bank. However, one of the students' parents was quite shrewd, and his grandfather, who had retired more than ten years ago, still had influence. So, although he was in Jiangning, he managed to resolve the matter in Shazhou City.

To express his gratitude, Zhang Da'an also sent a pair of golden rats over, since the student's maternal grandparents were the same age and both born in the Year of the Rat.

Thank goodness I wasn't born in the Year of the Ox...

Then, "Shazhou Rural Commercial Bank" became qualified to provide student loans, although its scope was limited.

Moreover, it's a very rudimentary loan plan, basically tailor-made for "Zhang An Education," and other institutions wouldn't pass the review.

The slight miscalculation by Zhongwu City and Zhongwu University lies here. No one expected Coach Zhang to have planned so deeply, which has left many locals in Zhongwu City who wanted to establish private undergraduate colleges in a predicament.

The original plan was to "borrow a chicken to lay eggs," meaning that after "Zhang An Academy" was finished, they would get the ground buildings, land, facilities, and school operating qualifications for free.

As soon as the loan plan was announced, Zhang Da'an instructed the marketing team of "Zhang'an Education" to visit all the middle schools in the towns and villages along the river.

The cost of a middle school business presentation is 30,000 yuan. 10,000 yuan is the labor fee, 10,000 yuan is the hard work fee for the school leadership team, and the remaining 10,000 yuan is the contingency fund. If the local principal has a big appetite, he will be given more; if he has a moderate appetite, he will be given less.

No...

That's impossible. What principal doesn't take bribes these days?
Not everyone is as idle and bored as Uncle Zhang. It's one thing to be a school principal and not make any money, but to actually contribute money from his own home to the school is just plain crazy.

(End of this chapter)