Expedition to Europe

Throughout March, Qin Zhiyuan was busy arranging various personnel.

The laboratory built for Michelle and Sandy progressed rapidly. All the machines had been bought back and they would be installed as soon as the laboratory construction was completed. Before that, Sandy couldn't wait to start working.

Sandy extracted an effective substance from a melon mold. This substance, as Qin Zhiyuan said, was proven to have the ability to kill bacteria. Sandy therefore began further research, with the main goal of figuring out what the substance was.

Sandy's team had a total of 21 people, and except for Sandy, they were divided into two groups. Originally, Sandy planned to have one group conduct research related to penicillin, and the other group conduct Sandy's original research project.

But with the progress of penicillin, Sandy concentrated all his manpower on the penicillin group, and the original research project was temporarily shelved.

It was as if a door was slowly opening in front of Sandy, and Sandy had seen the hope of the dynamite award.

Auerbach's work began to take effect. The legendary ascetics began to gather in Corsica. They were all loyal fans of the Knights Templar. The number ranged from 1,500 to 5,000. Now more than a thousand people have arrived in Corsica. All of them were arranged by Qin Zhiyuan in Trident City. Some joined the navy, and the rest formed a brand new unit. The name of the unit was "Trident". The flag was the iconic cross of the Knights Templar with an artistic trident in front.

This was the first time Qin Zhiyuan saw the emblem of the Knights Templar. To be honest, it was not as good-looking as the one on Misha!

These ascetics were of different ages. Some were already old, and some were young and strong. Among them, there were actually several famous scientists, about the same level as Michelle and Sandy. So at Qin Zhiyuan's invitation, these people went to Thunder City to continue their previous work.

Ascetics have always been trained as a force. Many of them are proficient in combat, and they are in all arms, including infantry, artillery, and navy. At Qin Zhiyuan's request, a training school for middle and lower-level officers was immediately established. The trainees included not only these ascetics, but also the grassroots officers of the First Brigade.

Qin Zhiyuan has never relaxed the training of officers. It has started since the Kapi period. Most of the grassroots officers of the First Brigade have received basic training. Because of the existence of the competition mechanism, many people are still working hard to learn on their own and move towards a higher level. However, due to limited conditions, the officers have not received systematic training. Most of their experience comes from actual combat, and the foundation of the theoretical part is not solid. It is just right to take advantage of this opportunity to make up for this shortcoming.

The immigrants who moved from the Far East finally arrived at the port. Most of the first batch of nearly 4,000 people were settled in Thunder, and a small number of family members who followed the army went to Trident.

Among this group of immigrants, minors account for the majority, with nearly 3,000 people, ranging from infants who are still breastfeeding to teenagers aged 11 or 12. The gender ratio is slightly unbalanced, with fewer girls and more boys.

Children are the future of the Chinese, and Qin Zhiyuan has a clear understanding of this, so the construction of schools was put on the agenda, second only to Michelle and Sandy's laboratory. But after Michelle and Sandy knew about it, they found Qin Zhiyuan and strongly demanded that the importance of schools must be placed before the laboratory, so Qin Zhiyuan adjusted the funding tilt and started construction of four primary schools at the same time, three in Thunder City and one in Trident City.

Qin Zhiyuan requires all children related to the First Brigade to join the school to receive basic education, including six years of primary school and three years of secondary school. After secondary school, these children will begin to carry out vocational education with a purpose. Those with excellent grades and potential will enter higher-level institutions, and the rest will join the army or technical schools to learn survival skills.

While the children are in school, all fees will be waived and living subsidies will be provided. The scope of subsidies includes clothing, food, accommodation, and even travel expenses to visit relatives in the Far East, etc., almost everything.

As for the children's teachers, Qin Zhiyuan did not have so many suitable candidates, so Tang Zhixin and a group of European students became the children's teachers.

This is a bit of a waste of talent. After all, even in the 21st century, Tang Zhixin and others can be regarded as highly educated talents, and in this era, they are the top of the pyramid. The overseas students of Tang Zhixin's generation are all real talents. They traveled to Europe not to get academic qualifications, but to return to their country to serve the country after graduation.

However, there is no way. At this stage, they can only make do. When the older children here receive a few years of basic education, they can start to enlighten other children.

In another time and space, when the People's Republic of China was just founded, there was a situation of "primary school graduates teaching primary school", but here in Qin Zhiyuan, there is likely to be an extreme situation of "first grade graduates teaching first grade".

Of course, this does not mean that these children are sad, on the contrary, this may be the luck of these children. Not everyone has the opportunity to receive enlightenment from overseas students, let alone a group of overseas students from the University of Paris, Aachen University, and Oxford University.

This is Qin Zhiyuan's nine-year compulsory education, a compulsory education that appeared a hundred years in advance. So what kind of energy these children can burst out, Qin Zhiyuan is very much looking forward to.

In the future, Thunder will be built into a city with technology as the main and business as the auxiliary. Trident will be built into a city with military as the main and trade as the auxiliary.

After the construction was fully launched, Qin Zhiyuan finally felt the financial pressure.

In March alone, Qin Zhiyuan spent nearly 2 million US dollars on purchasing various materials, most of which were building materials and various experimental equipment, and the other part was daily necessities. At the end of March, Qin Zhiyuan had to pay the second part of the cost of the ten Vickers-class destroyers ordered from the United States, which was also nearly one million US dollars, plus the wages of workers for military expenses that Qin Zhiyuan had to pay every month.

Gaspard roughly calculated that the fiscal deficit in March was actually in the red.

A fiscal deficit is not a good phenomenon, not to mention that it seems that there will be so much expenditure every month in the future. Qin Zhiyuan must find a way to make changes to support the normal operation of Corsica.

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To change the financial situation, the method is nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

There is no need to think about cutting costs. Even if Qin Zhiyuan sells assets, he will not reduce existing expenses, because current expenses are related to the future. Even if he reduces one cent, it may lead to insufficient stamina in the future.

Then he can only open up new sources.

"LLL" company is temporarily unreliable, and penicillin is still in the laboratory. At present, Qin Zhiyuan has three sources of income, one is old Renault, one is Huang Bohan, and the last is Auerbach.

It is not a good idea to squeeze more benefits from partners. If Qin Zhiyuan wants to get more money, he must have more ways to make money.