The reason why Yang Yuanzhao forced this is very simple and dominant. Among first-class universities, there are huge things to do. Whether it is attractive, student source, and scientific research strength, to a certain extent, focus on these first-class universities to take on greater tasks. This is actually the mainstream of future world development. Some first-class universities and first-class research institutes are all at the peak of the entire world. Not only do they do well in research, but also have huge money-making ability. This is the correct development. In other words, this also has a huge orientation and encourages these schools to strive to move closer to first-class. As for the first-class level, whether there will be so many, it depends on the future government fiscal revenue such as high income, of course.

In addition to its background and fame, first-class universities have real results. Every year, there is a score in university evaluation, which transforms many practical technologies, fills up many domestic gaps, improves many world-leading teaching tasks, and cultivates many masters, doctoral students, and these students have achieved those results. There are strict regulations. It is precisely under such strict regulations that few first-class universities are in China.

Due to strict relationships and the selection once every two years, there are not many first-class universities, with only 36 total, of which 12 are in Baotou. They are also the first batch of schools to invest and build after Baotou's rise. Due to Yang Yuanzhao's tendency, their initial investment was very strong, especially in hardware, which almost outperformed other universities in the world at the beginning.

Take Northwestern University as an example. From construction to the final fourth-grade enrollment, the annual investment was as high as US$180 million, with a total investment of more than US$800 million. Such investment is enough to create a first-class university even in Europe and the United States. Not to mention in China, the first one or two classes were in China. Because of the problem of faculty, there was no place to spend money. What was carried out in advance was that infrastructure construction was heavier than education faculty. After all, investment was very simple, just have money, and teachers could not be transformed.

Later, after the first batch of overseas students in the Northwest spent 2-3 years to complete the academic that could be completed in four or five years, returning to the Northwest, with the help of these students and previous teachers, Northwest University expanded on a large scale, from 50,000, 100,000 to 150,000, and 150,000 to 1,000. It became the most powerful school in China and the most enrolled school. At the limit, nearly 800,000 people studied in one university. This is impossible to have a school size in any other place in the world, but it exists normally in China.

Northwestern University is almost a small town near Baotou. It has long been moved out of Baotou. It is currently a university town 55 kilometers away from Baotou. It has 4 first-class universities and 34 other universities gathered here, with a total student population of more than 6 million each year. It can be said that it is one of the largest population density areas near Baotou.

These schools in the Northwest have great support, have very strong foundations and very fast expansion. However, even so, not every university can enter a first-class field. In this era, China's presumption method is comprehensive scientific research, but some genius scientists and educators still have certain advantages. Especially after the Northwest unified the country, universities across the country are all within the scope of funding, not distinguishing between the Northwest and other places, and even in order to support these schools, the investment is tilted.

The implementation of non-Northwest University support was after 1911. Many of them were built in the northwest in the early stage. They eventually emerged and became first-class schools, namely some well-known schools, such as Peking University and Tsinghua University. In the end, with the Northwest allocation and its own efforts, they became one of the top schools. The same is true for other few schools such as Nankai, Fudan, and Tongji. There are not many that can stand out among more than 3,000 universities nationwide. There are only 9 schools in Baotou, 12 are in Baotou, 27 are in the northwest, and there are only 9 schools outside the northwest. This can also show the importance of the inclination of funds to improve the strength of a school.

Each of the first-class universities can enjoy 1 billion yuan in funding. These are not education funds. Education funds are taking another way, which is dedicated to scientific research. In the era of the foundation, Yang Yuanzhao would not care about the specific investment of the money, but there will be special fund supervision to ensure that the funds are not misappropriated. 36 universities are 36 billion, which is a wealth that shocks everyone outside China. According to the current price ratio between the Chinese dollar and the US dollar is 2:1, this is equivalent to US$18 billion, which is almost half of the GDP before the United States joined the war.

In 1913, the United States had a total value of only US$35 billion, which is quite terrible. If calculated based on the price comparison of gold, in this era, 20 dollars per ounce of gold, while in later generations, the price comparison of pure gold was as high as more than one thousand dollars per ounce of gold. The price comparison of US$35 billion is equivalent to US$1.75 trillion, which is absolutely not a small number.

That is to say, Germany has tried its best to get away with Baku and exported nearly 100 million people. In addition, many aspects such as education industrialization have combined, and the overall income has just exceeded 12 billion, which is only about two-thirds of this investment. Perhaps there is no country in the whole world that will invest much money in technology.

There are 36 first-class universities in total, enjoying 1 billion investment, and the remaining second-rate and third-class universities enjoying the remaining investment. The scale of such investment is very uneven. First-class schools only account for about 1% of the entire university. Even if the total number of students is added, it will not exceed 7%, but they have enjoyed nearly 70% of the funds. However, the remaining more than 3,000 universities have divided up less than 30% of the funds, which is a bit too high.

This is also a helpless thing, because all the grants do not look at favors or heads, but only scientific research capabilities. Only when enough projects have been completed can the score be improved. When the university evaluation just appeared, the gap was not big, but after the first evaluation, first-class universities have achieved different degrees of improvement. First-class universities have a first-class faculty team. Their teaching and scientific research are also excellent, and the easiest results are to be produced. In the four years from 1912 to 1916, 36 universities produced 1,734 first-class and above results, and completed more than 3,000 scientific and technological breakthroughs. At the beginning, these projects had not had many results, and many of them just filled the gap. However, after the gap was filled and when they began to show their power to a higher level, the direct results were more than 300 billion yuan, plus indirect, the returns were quite amazing, which is also the fundamental reason why this project continued.

On the contrary, the results produced by more than 3,000 second-rate and third-rate schools were only a fraction of those of first-class universities. From 1912 to 1916, there were only 59 first-rate achievements, and they were all of them with low economic benefits. There were a lot of second-rate achievements, but the economic benefits were limited. According to schools other than first-rate schools, a total of 56 billion yuan of funds have been obtained in four years, but the ultimate benefits created by their results will not exceed 20 billion yuan. In a certain sense, it is a loss.

Of course, China cannot only look at first-class universities. To a large extent, second-rate and third-rate schools are effective supplements to first-class schools. Although these schools have not achieved many economically valuable results, some of the materials they have studied and some phased results can be supplements to first-class schools. This point was initially achieved in 1914. Northwestern University established a simple communication mechanism with 12 colleges and gained a batch of research results from 12 colleges. These research results cannot be directly used, but have promoted the process of at least 27 first-class projects at Northwestern University, with an increase of at least 6 months and 15 months. Many projects at Northwestern University were completed ahead of schedule that year, with extremely amazing economic benefits.

Many things in universities cannot be hidden. In fact, the Northwest did not want to hide them. This news spread, which caused a large connection between the entire university community. Not only did 36 first-class universities gather land and determine the sphere of influence, which caused a series of chaos. In the end, this chaos was seen by the senior management and immediately attracted the attention of the Ministry of Education and first-class universities. Finally, the scientific research system alliance covering the whole of China appeared. The Ministry of Education took the lead in making some adjustments in the classification and sharing of projects, and even some second- and third-rate projects could share some funds when they had a certain promotion to first-class projects, and enough benefits had been achieved.

First-class has first-class benefits, second-class and third-class are not without effects. Before this incident, Yang Yuanzhao always believed that this was the case. With the project sharing system, the scientific research forces of the entire country have been united and formed a step-by-step development trend. This is a needle for Chinese science and technology.

Technology must invest enough funds, and sometimes even waste a little, which may not be a bad thing. As long as it can be used, if it is a rigid mechanism, every university will do research with its head on, and the results of the research will be treasured and not applied to industrial production, which is the biggest waste.

Now, waste is there, but not the dominant one. Dominant is the rapid development of technology. With this premise, even those who have made a slight decision on Yang Yuanzhao's investment will eventually recognize it. After more than a year of hesitation, the government finally accepted this final education project. The entire education belongs to the central government, and occupies an extremely astonishing number in terms of total financial investment, far above military investment. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!