The morning schedule was over. At noon, he hosted a banquet for the senior executives attending the meeting. In the afternoon, he visited several properties located in the city of Rivni. Simon rushed to the UFMS children's school in the west of the city at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Of course, the name after the official opening was not this, but Rivni West City School.
This school, which is still being expanded, provides education for all ages from kindergarten to high school, and mainly recruits the children of UFMS mercenaries and the children of Rivno Gang executives.
Because of the school's high quality, there are many parents who want to send their children here, and they do not refuse. The only difference is that the education for the children of UFMS mercenaries and the children of Rivno Gang executives is completely free, which is considered a special benefit. Others Outsiders need to pay expensive tuition fees.
In the eyes of many people, the most powerful thing about Rivni West City School is that the total number of students in this school is about 3,700, but the number of teachers has reached an astonishing more than 2,100, excluding other functional personnel. , the pure teacher-student ratio is only 1.7 to 1, which is terrifying for a school that provides primary education.
This is mainly due to Simon's original strategy of recruiting a large number of talents.
Due to the collapse of the country, Ukraine, which once had a very developed education system, is facing financial constraints. A large number of teaching talents cannot even be paid and have to find another way out. As an elitist at heart, Simon instinctively did not want to see this kind of thing. In addition, when a top physics professor couldn't even get a pension equivalent to 5 US dollars, he had to write a letter begging for a job. Stimulated by the incident, the school was asked to open up recruitment of talents.
The end result is that there are more than 2,100 teachers, basically all with doctorate degrees or above, and many are university professors in Ukraine and even Russia.
The average salary level given by Simon is US$500, which is a joke in the United States. However, in Ukraine, it is already a top-notch high salary level, more than ten times the average monthly income of Ukrainian residents at this stage, which is enough for these elites to work in Rivni Live a life of great abundance.
With a teaching staff of more than 2,100 people dealing with 3,700 students, a surplus is almost inevitable. Therefore, many teachers do not actually teach classes. After all, not all the elites recruited by Simon are suitable to be on the podium. The surplus talents may be used to develop courses for students based on their own majors. Interest groups, or research institutions that have just been established here in Rivni are engaged in their own research, or simply provide various consulting services to companies in the Westeros system here.
It’s okay to have nothing to do and be idle.
It doesn't matter to Simon that these people's monthly compensation expenses exceed a million dollars.
According to ancient Chinese sayings, one should be treated as a person with a wealth of gold to support a scholar.
However, given Simon's relatively generous salary in Ukraine, not many people are deliberately lazy.
Although it was during the summer vacation, when Simon entered the school, there were still many people active on campus.
Simon understood very early that the key to a person's life is not university education, but primary education. Therefore, when determining the direction of the Westeros family's charity, he had the idea of working for this purpose.
Finally face reality and give up voluntarily.
However, for this school here, even if there are no expectations related to Sowell College in Los Angeles, the educational style determined by Simon himself can still be called a strict elite education, rather than the happy education that generally fools the lower class in Europe and the United States. Want to be happy, want a childhood, sorry, go out and turn left, Rivney West Side School does not provide a happy childhood.
Although only qualified students can enroll for free, and other qualified self-financing students will not be rejected, students in this school will be in a state of competition starting from the elementary school level.
Unless they do something particularly bad, no one will be expelled. However, all students will be divided according to their academic performance. Students with good grades will enter the top class, and students with poor grades will be grouped with poor students. Of course, because the teaching staff is strong enough, this school will also provide appropriate teaching in accordance with aptitude.
For example, those who are interested in arts and sciences, or those who are really not interested in all cultural subjects but are good at sports, can be cultivated.
Simon also customized scholarship regulations, not only from elementary school to middle school, but as long as he can be admitted to designated universities in the future, he will continue to receive funding from the Westeros system, and even study abroad directly under the arrangements of the Westeros system.
As for parents, if you can’t accept this kind of Spartan education, that’s fine.
However, since the school was launched, more and more people want to send their children in, and no one has ever asked their children to drop out because the school's education system is too strict. Paying attention to education and hoping that their children will succeed is definitely not just the educational concept of Chinese parents. It can be said to be the instinct of almost all parents in the world.
Simon walked around the campus. There are many students throughout the campus, even in the kindergarten area.
Obviously some parents who don't have time to watch their children take the initiative to send them to the kindergarten. After all, the standards of kindergarten teachers here are also carefully selected and top-notch, not to mention that they are free. In other primary and secondary school areas, there are students or students in every classroom. Accept summer tutoring, various interest groups, or physical exercise, to name a few.
Overall, this campus is filled with a sense of determination that is completely lacking in this run-down country.
Probably due to special arrangements by thoughtful people, Simon also met the physics professor at Kyiv State University who wrote a letter asking for a job. The old man named Sergey Yershakov was 68 years old this year. He was still in high spirits and was working for a group of people. Simon also audited a section of the students' remedial high school physics classes. Compared with the physics courses he remembered in his high school career, the difference can only be said to be obvious.
After a few words of conversation, the old man expressed his gratitude to Simon. His current job almost supports a large family.
Then there are some inevitable sighs and sighs.
Simon stayed at the school for two hours and did not leave until six o'clock.
There was another party in the evening.
This time it was special. The target of the reception was some high-ranking military officials in Ukraine.
With the establishment of the Ukrainian Constitution, Ukraine's political and military systems have begun a new round of adjustments. On the military side, the Kiev authorities have begun to prepare another military reform.
To put it bluntly, we should continue to disarmament.
Even though the more than 700,000 troops in Ukraine had been reduced to more than 200,000 when the Soviet Union just disintegrated, Ukraine still cannot afford it now.
Simon also got some information in advance.
In this reform, the entire Ukrainian military will be planned and integrated into three major military regions, mainly the Northern Combat Command with Kiev as the core, the Southern Combat Command with Odessa as the core, and the Western Combat Command with Rivni as the core. department.
There are three major military districts, Kiev and Odessa are not surprising, one is the capital and the other is the Black Sea outlet. However, the Kiev authorities plan to establish the base of the Western Combat Command, which integrates the nine western states, in Rivni, the capital of the Rivne region. This is obviously targeted.
Of course not to the outside world.
Simon didn't try to change anything.
If it were the Soviet era or other politically stable countries and the authorities had done this, Simon might still have a grudge. Today's Ukraine has more than 200,000 troops. Frankly speaking, they are just a bunch of chickens and dogs that may not even be as good as the Iraqi army in the Gulf War.
As for the reason.
Soldiers need to eat food, and in Ukraine now, for example, in 1995, the defense budget squeezed out by the Kiev authorities was only a pitiful US$910 million, which was less than US$1 billion in military expenditures. In addition, Ukraine’s well-known level of The layer-by-layer skinning situation fell on the approximately 240,000 troops last year, and there may not even be half left.
It may be a problem for soldiers to have enough to eat, let alone fight.
The current Ukrainian army is struggling to make a living on its own from top to bottom. After all, the Soviet Union has just disintegrated a few years ago, and Western society and Eastern European countries are in the honeymoon period. At least on the Ukrainian side, there are no signs of war or even confrontation. , naturally no one will think of or care about their own army.
Simon was hosting a high-ranking Ukrainian military official named Vasily Borisov, 56 years old and with the rank of lieutenant general, who had been designated as the commander of the Western Combat Command.
Speaking of which, it was this general who mobilized a regiment of engineers to help with the infrastructure construction of the military theme park. The Borisov family was also one of the secret shareholders of the military theme park. In addition, the top Ukrainian officials confirmed some time ago Alexander Borisov, the 17-year-old son of Vasily Borisov, is one of the children studying abroad.
The Borisov family is also involved in the arms trade with Angola. Borisov’s eldest son Alexek Borisov also works in a related arms trading company.
All in all, this is a 'own person'.
Of course, on the surface, Vasily Borisov belongs to the Kuchma family in the Kiev authorities, but he is not considered the core. In the end, he was able to successfully obtain the position of commander of the Western Combat Command among several competitors, as well as the maintenance The reason why the Stroll system is quietly working hard.
Compared with the Northern Combat Command, which guards Kiev, and the Southern Combat Command, which has the navy, the Western Combat Command is the smallest. Even if further downsizing is not considered, there are currently less than 60,000 people.
Simon quietly had an idea. The 5,000-strong UFMS private army faced off against the 60,000 Western Combat Command soldiers. What would be the outcome
Of course, the likelihood of this happening is almost zero.
Even if the worst-case scenario does happen, Simon will watch the excitement from a distance. Of course he will regret losing the UFMS private army, but he will not be hurt.
Vasily Borisov is more like a bureaucrat than a soldier. It is not difficult to imagine just by looking at the pot-bellied appearance of the opponent. In front of Simon, the lieutenant general does not have the charisma to become the commander of a large military region. Instead, he showed obvious humility, not to mention the leader, not to mention the other high-ranking Ukrainian military officials who participated in the banquet.
Therefore, at a dinner party, both the host and the guest enjoy themselves.
At 10 o'clock in the evening, the dinner ended. Simon did not stay in the city, but continued to rush back to the hot spring manor in the north of the city.
When the vehicle entered the main road, Girl A, who was sitting next to Simon, said something serious: "Boss, there is another invitation from Moscow. I hope you can attend a banquet tomorrow night. It is mainly to entertain people from the United States." Yeltsin will also attend the investment delegation."
Simon leaned on the leather seat and closed his eyes to rest. Hearing this, he shook his head directly: "I won't go."
After following Simon for a long time, Girl A knew more things than others. She thought about it and said, "Boss, I think sometimes you still need to show your presence."
Simon opened his eyes and looked at the female assistant beside him, smiled and said, "A, tell me, why did Yeltsin invite me again?"
Alison said: "It should be to show some sincerity or some communication. In short, it must be related to the boss's arrangements in Russia."
Simon shook his head: "You may have guessed wrong this time."
"Um?"
Simon did not explain any more.
Regarding someone's arrangement, Simon has not told anyone else except the two Jennys. Even Girl A only knows that Simon has some special arrangements in Russia. In any case, he would never have thought that Simon's arrangements would be Russia's next president.
This matter is too big. It’s not that Simon doesn’t trust Girl A, but he doesn’t want to leave such an insignificant loophole.
Let’s talk about Yeltsin’s invitation.
If Simon and Yeltsin's youngest daughter Tatyana met last time, and the other party's invitation was that they really wanted to talk to him, this time, it is very likely that it was a test to test some of Simon's original promises.
Simon and Tatiana said that someone is not his puppet and cannot become his puppet. However, no one with a little bit of brain would easily believe these words. In this test, Yeltsin might just want to see if Simon would show any intervention in Russia.
If he goes, it may give Yeltsin a hint that Simon is very interested in Russia, and even does not pay ordinary attention to a certain arrangement.
Since he attached so much importance to it, Yeltsin would inevitably think too much about it.
Or, even if Simon really guessed wrong, Yeltsin still wanted to talk to him privately, and if Simon refused again, it would still have the certain result he hoped for.
Seeing that her boss did not explain and had no intention of asking further questions, Girl A turned to other matters that Simon needed to know.
Back at Hot Spring Manor, it was still around 11pm.
Today I did not go directly to the hot spring bath, but went to the living room next to the hall.
Some girls are watching TV here.
Simon was not the kind of person who liked too much excitement. He just hugged the small Eve Banshikova on the sofa and put her in his arms. He left the girl's sister Galina behind and let the other girls leave.
Girl A went straight upstairs. After last night's experience, Natalya Banshikova obviously deliberately avoided it. Eve went to arrange for the girls to rest. Apart from the Banshikova sisters, there was only Marta Baker in the living room. Nats still acted as eager as last night.
After taking the coffee handed over by the other party, Simon motioned for the girl to sit down next to him. He held the little girl in his arms like a doll and was nicknamed 'Doll' by him, and asked Marta casually: "How are you today?"
Simon spoke casually, but Marta didn't dare to be casual at all. She didn't know what the big boss was referring to, so she just said cautiously: "Not bad."