Anti-Japanese War: I have a million soldiers and you call me a division commander?

After putting away the notebook, he wanted to make a phone call directly to notify the relevant personnel to come to a meeting to discuss his ideas.

But after taking two steps, he suddenly stopped.

"This matter is very important, but it seems that there is no need to make such a big fuss!"

Thinking of this, he returned to his office, grabbed the phone on the table, shook it and said, "Put me in President Huang of Saibei University."

Soon, the call was connected, and Principal Huang's voice rang out: "I'm Huang Tianpei!"

"Mr. Huang, I'm Chu Feng!"

Hearing Huang Tianpei's voice, Chu Feng smiled and said, "I called you because I have something I want to discuss with you."

Huang Tianpei, who was on the other end of the phone, softened his tone when he heard it was Chu Feng. He smiled and said, "Xiao Chu, go ahead!"

"Is such that!"

Chu Feng grabbed the phone and said to Huang Tianpei, "We are facing a big problem now, which is the shortage of talent. It's an extreme shortage!"

"If we don't solve it, it will affect our development."

"And this shortage isn't of top talent or first-rate talent, but rather a large-scale shortage of ordinary talent and basic talent."

"And the gap is huge. It's not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of thousands, nearly a million."

"This problem must be solved, so I'd like to ask you if you've done any research on this situation."

Hearing Chu Feng's inquiries and questions, Huang Tianpei, the first executive vice president of Saibei University and a well-known education master in the country, suddenly fell into deep thought!

He understood Chu Feng's question. However, China had encountered such talent shortages before, but they were rare on a large scale.

China's industrial development is too slow, and there is not much to show for it. There are not many industrial industries and industrial workers gathered together.

"This is indeed a problem!"

Vice Principal Huang Tianpei paused for a moment before saying, "After all, cultivating talent takes time, and we in education must respect objective laws."

"If it's tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, our country can gather them."

"After all, before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the number of industrial workers in our country reached about 200 million."

"But it's difficult now, and after so much time, our workers are concentrated in Shanghai and the three northeastern provinces, especially the three northeastern provinces."

"But now the gap has reached hundreds of thousands, nearly one million, which is a bit difficult to deal with." Vice President Huang Tianpei's tone was full of difficulty.

"Old Huang!"

Chu Feng pondered for a moment and said, "I have an idea!"

"You say, Xiao Chu!"

Hearing Chu Feng's words, Huang Tianpei on the other end of the phone became interested and said with a smile.

"Is such that!"

Chu Feng did not hide anything and said directly: "My idea is that the talent gap is too big. In addition to going to major cities and the rear areas to directly recruit talents."

"I plan to rely on Saibei University to add two methods: adult re-education and technical accelerated education."

"Adult re-education is aimed at adults. We use the night school model to educate them after work to improve their knowledge level and see if we can select talents from them."

"Another one is technical accelerated education. Compared with adult re-education, technical accelerated education is my main way to solve the talent gap."

"I want Saibei University to take the lead and work with various factories and companies. Saibei University will provide management and organizational structure, and the factories will provide engineers, technicians, and senior workers to form a teaching team."

"We should combine the two, relying on textbooks from other countries and our own actual conditions to compile our own textbooks. These textbooks should be supplemented by theory and mainly based on practical application. We don't need them to be all-rounders."

"Take machine tools as an example. We only need to let them learn how to operate them in the shortest possible time so that they can master their own processing techniques."

"This may be difficult to understand. As I said before, in the example of Ford Motor Company in the United States, these students are just cogs in the production line."

"A screwdriver only needs to screw screws. He doesn't need to know much else. If he wants to understand, he can use his own initiative to learn. But our goal is to enable him to be competent at screwing within a few months."

"When it comes to compiling textbooks and conducting education, these factories naturally don't have as much experience as Saibei University."

After hearing Chu Feng's words, Huang Tianpei didn't know what to say.

“Is this still education?”

After half a minute, Huang Tianpei spoke to Chu Feng in a somewhat absurd tone.

"Hehehe!"

Hearing Huang Tianpei's question, Chu Feng laughed awkwardly. He also knew that an education master like Mr. Huang would naturally look down on this kind of fool-proof education that had no financial prospects.

"no way!"

Chu Feng said helplessly: "We are so short of industrial workers and basic talents, especially basic workers like screws."

"So I went to see Mr. Huang and asked, with your rich experience, if you could combine adult re-education with technical accelerated education."

"First, we need to quickly develop technology to solve our problems, and then use adult re-education to give these quickly trained people the opportunity to continue improving."

Vice President Huang Tianpei, upon hearing this, understood Chu Feng's meaning: "This is a good idea. I'll gather everyone here to think about it carefully."

"I will give you the answer as quickly as possible."

But at this point, Vice President Huang Tianpei seemed to have thought of something and said, "If we follow this plan, it will require a huge investment."

"At the same time, a lot of manpower and material resources are required, as well as the construction of teaching venues."

"Oh right, we need those industrial workers. Since we need to train them on a large scale, we should choose the broadest categories possible and not too many categories."

As expected of an educator, Vice President Huang Tianpei grasped the core of the matter immediately.

When Chu Feng heard what Vice President Huang said, he answered without hesitation: "Mr. Huang, I will communicate with the Light and Heavy Industry Bureau and the Military Industry Department. Once we finalize it, I will have them contact you."

"As for the funds and equipment, don't worry. I will allocate 1 million Saibei currency specifically for this matter."

"At the same time, a batch of mechanical equipment will be allocated specifically for training."

Hearing Chu Feng's straightforward words, Huang Tianpei nodded and said, "That's no problem!"

But just as he finished speaking, Huang Tianpei thought of something and said, "Oh right, Xiao Chu, enrollment, enrollment can proceed directly."

"We can't wait until everything is finalized before proceeding, because this is our first attempt. My suggestion is to have a 30-day period, with 1000 people per period. We should run it for three months, recruiting a new group every two weeks. In three months, we will recruit six groups, which means 6,000 people."

"Once the process is well-coordinated and everyone is familiar with each other, we can expand the scale based on the specific situation."

Chu Feng readily agreed to Huang Tianpei's request.

The two sides chatted for a while and then hung up the phone. Huang Tianpei was responsible for educational matters, such as preliminary preparations, relevant personnel structure, and the establishment of an editorial committee.

Chu Feng's side was a bit more complicated, but he only needed to give orders for the work.

The only work that required him to do personally was to communicate with the factories and sort out the situations at the factories.