50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 188 Breaking the Ice
At home on the weekend, the two of them decided on the subsequent arrangements while chatting and laughing.

Although the kindergarten is small, it has everything. If it weren't for the full support of Director Wang and my aunt behind the scenes, he wouldn't have been able to take control of the situation so quickly.

Their kindergarten is actually not a normal school unit.

In normal school units, such as primary schools in cities, the ratio of teachers to students is generally 1:19, and in full-time kindergartens, the ratio of teachers to children is generally 1:7.

In their kindergarten, one teacher only takes care of five children, and if non-teaching staff are included, the ratio reaches 1:5.

In recent years, the number of children in kindergartens has been growing slowly, but the number of teachers has been growing even slower. This is the result of Sun Zhiwei's deliberate control.

He also knew that the graduates of recent years had no real skills and most of them were good at giving speeches at meetings. Bringing them in would only cause trouble for himself.

These kids in their kindergarten are the real successors. The more strictly he controls the quality of teachers, the more assured the higher-ups will be.

So in the past few years, he basically did not recruit new people. Occasionally, he recruited a few, but they had to pass his assessment. Those who did not meet the standards had no chance of getting in.

Rather than hiring randomly from outside, he preferred to train the children of his own teachers. No wonder all the major state-owned enterprises had to run schools for their children; at least they could use them with confidence and train them in advance.

He has been the principal for several years now, and most of his old relationships are still there. In addition, with the attention from his superiors, he now has the confidence to refuse those requests.

As long as he can maintain the quality of teaching, his superiors will have no objection to him.

Chinese parents are all like this. The stricter their children's teachers are, the better. There shouldn't be too many parents who give teachers a blackboard stick.

Those who hope that teachers will be more lenient with their children are brainless.

When such parents occasionally appear, he will simply submit a report and ask the higher authorities to handle it.

The final result is either the parents give up or the children just leave, without exception. This also strengthens the authority of the young headmaster Sun Zhiwei.
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On February 2st, the American president arrived.

In order to welcome him, a lot of preparations were made in the country. The old nun was also a thoughtful person. Before coming, she not only learned about China's various customs and etiquette in detail, but also practiced using chopsticks in advance.

These details are impressive and show us sincerity, which makes our first impression of him very favorable.

Originally, Sun Zhiwei thought that this visit from the Americans had nothing to do with him.

As a result, after dinner on the third day, when he was still in the office and had not yet gone home, he received a call from his superiors asking him to send 50 people to participate in the cleaning of nearby roads overnight.

It was February, the ground was covered with snow, and it was freezing cold. He had to go out overnight. Although it would be hard work, he still agreed.

After hanging up the phone, he immediately went to the family area to look for someone.

The teachers on duty in the park cannot be moved. There are not many teachers on duty at night, and they have to take care of so many children, so they cannot be mobilized at all.

Fortunately, he occupied Tiancantan a few years ago and set up the family area, otherwise, it would be difficult for him to find anyone in the middle of the night.

He found 50 strong laborers from the family quarters, equipped them with a full set of warm clothing, and took cleaning tools from the logistics department. He then led the team to the designated location to clear the snow.

The section they were assigned was 500 meters long and the ground was slippery. The 50 people worked until late at night to complete the task.

The next night, he finally got the exact news. It turned out that the old nun wanted to see the Great Wall, but this was not in the original plan.

Later, the higher-ups thought this visit was meaningful, so they mobilized 80 people overnight to clear a road from the city to the Great Wall, which made the trip possible the next day.

China's sincerity also touched Lao Ni, and with both sides making efforts, the talks produced results after a few days.

On February 2, the "Joint Communiqué" was announced to the public. As soon as this communiqué was released, our environment in the West immediately improved.

The following years marked a peak period for us to establish diplomatic relations with foreign countries. We established diplomatic relations with most European countries during this period.

Although the fall of Lao Ni later led to the delay in the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, we were still very friendly to Lao Ni and later invited him to come.

At that time, Lao Ni was under surveillance by Ford, so he asked his daughter to come over first. After his daughter came over, she told him about Lao Ni's predicament, and we specially sent a plane to pick him up to Beijing.

This shows that we are all very good to our old friends. Lao Ni, as an icebreaker, will be remembered forever by the Chinese people.

As soon as the "Joint Communiqué" came out, the first ones to get restless were Xiao Zi. Since the master had already taken action, they would definitely follow suit.

Over the years, the Americans have been both supporting and suppressing them, and only recently have they relaxed. Their daily lives are not so easy to control, and they are always thinking about rebelling.

This time they saw the opportunity and are ready to normalize relations with us before the Americans.

Just when the upright old nun stepped down and the Americans were busy, Xiaozizi sent people to Beijing.

After several rounds of trial, Tanaka visited in September and the two sides formally signed the "Statement".

During this period, an interesting story was circulated, saying that when Tanaka was leaving, the concierge department gave him two boxes of Moutai liquor, totaling 48 bottles.

After the news came out, the price of Moutai in the daily necessities market suddenly increased three or four times.

Regarding this statement with Xiao Rizi, there was only one thing that Sun Zhiwei didn't understand before, and that was the clause about giving up compensation.

This is not a small amount of money. The theoretical amount of compensation at that time was hundreds of billions. If it were really obtained, it would play a big role.

Now living in this era, he probably guessed the above thoughts.

The main reason is that this hatred is so deep that the people can hardly understand it, and there are also many voices of opposition from the upper class.

If compensation is required, the knot will not be untied but deepened.

The truth is, even if we wanted the money, it would be impossible to get it. We can't make ends meet in China, and their masters won't allow it.

Therefore, the so-called obtaining hundreds of billions of compensation is actually a false proposition and cannot be achieved at this time.

In this case, adding this clause can not only effectively ease tensions, but also bring other benefits in the future.

For example, the 38-year-long Official Development Assistance (ODA) that began a few years later.

Over the past 38 years, we have received a total of 3.32 trillion yen in loans, 2015 billion yen in grants, and 2248 billion yen in technical assistance.

Although most of it was loans, it played a significant role in alleviating the acute shortage of foreign exchange in the country at that time.

(End of this chapter)