William made connections and secured more than a thousand exchange student places for Huaxia universities in the top ten colleges in the UK, which also helped him gain a lot of fans among Huaxia college students.
In addition to gaining an excellent mass base, William's move also received great recognition in front of the Chinese and British media.
Compared with cooperation on the economic and trade level, cooperation on education appears to have nobler and purer motives, and also appears more powerful, so it has an excellent effect in establishing characters.
In Li Mu's eyes, the three best ways for a businessman or philanthropist to establish their character are education, medical treatment and poverty alleviation. If one has to choose the most cost-effective one among these three ways, it must be education.
Li Mu chose the path of education for William and has been helping him pursue this path, bringing tremendous changes and improvements to William.
In the past few days after coming to China, William's Twitter followers have increased by nearly 10 million. Among these new fans, at least 60% are Chinese fans, 20% are British fans, and the remaining 20% are fans from other countries.
In just a few days, William has become known to everyone in China. Except for the Queen, who is a special symbol of long wait time, no British person has achieved such success in China since Mrs. Thatcher left office. High visibility.
Moreover, the perception William brings to the Chinese people is completely different from that of Mrs. Thatcher. Although Mrs. Thatcher is famous in China, she is not popular. Instead, people talk about the legendary story of her falling in the Great Hall of the People, thinking that On behalf of the entire British imperialism, she was apologizing for the harm and suffering she had brought to China over the past century. As for her liking and admiration, there was no such thing.
The difference between William and Mrs. Thatcher is that he appears in front of the Chinese people with a completely positive image. Although he is a prince of the British royal family and the second heir to the throne, he is also an open-minded young man. The image of a young man who thinks about his own country as well as other countries and regards education as his lifelong pursuit is absolutely positive to most people.
After William finished his visit to the National People's Congress, public opinion and William's praise made the entire Windsor family excited. Even the Queen did not expect that Li Mu could push William to such a position in such a short period of time. At an unprecedented height.
If it weren't for Li Mu, the Windsor family would never have been able to let William reach such a height with their own abilities. This is like the huge difference in ceilings between airplanes and launch vehicles. The ceiling of the latter is something that the former can never break through. barrier.
After helping William so much, Li Mu also had his own huge gains. Taobao Logistics became the second Chinese private enterprise after Makino Technology to really attract the attention of the world, and Makino Technology's public recognition throughout Europe has also climbed to A peak, which has played a huge role in paving the way and promoting whether Taobao Logistics goes global or Makino Technology sweeps across Europe.
Not only that, he also used the connections of William and the entire Windsor family to obtain more educational resources for China.
More than a thousand exchange student places may not seem like a lot, but for top universities in China, it is of great significance. If divided among ten schools, each school will have more than 100 places on average.
Therefore, when Li Mu and William left the National People's Congress together, the president of the National People's Congress was quickly surrounded by a sea of phone calls.
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On the way to send William to the hotel, Li Mu said to him: "I'm done with my business. In the next two days, I will take you around Yanjing to appreciate the local customs and customs of Yanjing."
William said hurriedly: "I'm causing trouble for you, Mr. Li."
Li Mu smiled and said, "We are all friends, so there is no need to be so polite."
After saying that, Li Mu added: "By the way, I asked Ziwei to have experts identify the few Chinese collectibles given by the Queen. They seem to be quite important cultural relics. It's a pity to have them in my hands, so I I asked Ziwei to contact me and prepare to donate everything to the Palace Museum. When the time comes, you can come forward and donate in the name of the Queen."
"How about that..." William said immediately: "Those collections were given to you by your grandmother. You have absolute autonomy and decision-making power. If you decide to donate them to the museum, it should be in your name, not in your name." In my grandmother’s name.”
Li Mu said: "Look at you kid, how can you be so sincere? It doesn't matter to me that the queen gives me something from China and I donate it to the country. For the queen, it's a bit unsightly to deal with it this way. After all, you You must know that the reason why these collections were exported overseas was not due to normal transactions, but plundered from the country during the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the early years. If the source is traced, this thing cannot even be said to be donated to the museum, but should be It’s returned to the museum.”
Having said this, Li Mu paused and then said: "To give you an inappropriate analogy, your grandma robbed a box of treasures from my grandfather's house many years ago. Decades later, your grandma took out several of them. Come on, let you give it to me as a gift. We have a relationship in private, and we don’t want to go back to the old accounts from dozens or hundreds of years ago, so there is nothing inappropriate about it, but if I directly donate it, Go, once this matter is exposed again, don’t you think it’s nonsense?”
William looked a little embarrassed, nodded and said: "It is indeed a bit inappropriate to say so..."
"Yes." Li Mu said: "So, it is more appropriate to use your donation directly. At worst, it will be packaged as if you entrust me with the matchmaking, and the three of us will work together to implement this matter. However, don't feel pressured to make a decision. First Communicate with your family and then decide.”
William nodded and said, "Okay, I'll call home when I get back and I'll get back to you as soon as possible."
Li Mu looked at the time and said, "Let's go directly to the restaurant. I asked Ziwei to prepare the meal."
When the two of them were approaching the hotel, Li Mu suddenly received a call from the president of the National People's Congress.
The first thing the principal said on the other end of the phone was: "Li Mu, in less than an hour since you came here, I have received dozens of calls, all from principals of major universities. There is only one purpose, to get some exchange student places from us, and I am really worried right now!"
Li Mu smiled and said: "Then as we discussed before, 20% will be reserved for the National People's Congress, and the rest will be distributed to the other nine top ten schools in the country."
The principal hummed and said: "I definitely have no objection to this, but how to divide it specifically is a bit tricky. Tsinghua University and Yanda both want more, and HKUST and Fudan also have the same idea. How to allocate them to them?" 80%, and making them feel fair is really not an easy task.”
Li Mu nodded, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Let's come up with an algorithm with strict logic so that they can't find faults."
The principal asked hurriedly: "How do you think this algorithm should be set up? You guys who work on the Internet are the most proficient in this algorithm. I don't know much about your high-tech technology, so I want to ask you for advice."
"Principal, you are too polite. This is not a high-tech technology at all..." Li Mu subconsciously expressed humility. The next moment he realized that the principal was probably digging a hole for himself.
To be honest, even if the principal doesn't know much about the Internet, he is at least a very logical person, a very high IQ, and very experienced person. He is only allocated thousands of places, so it is impossible to stump him. The reason why he The purpose of calling him to show weakness is actually very simple. He doesn't want to offend anyone, so he wants to come up with a set of algorithms directly, and then he can just execute it according to his own algorithm. If anyone is dissatisfied, he can He said that this algorithm was set by Li Mu. If you have any dissatisfaction, go to him, not me.
So, Li Mu pretended to be confused and said, "Principal, I think it's up to you to think about this matter. After all, you know the education industry better than I do, and you know the situation of each of our top ten universities in China better than I do."
"Don't say that, don't say that." The principal said with a smile: "My brain is really old. It's not as fast as you young people, and it's not as strict as your logic in making the Internet. And there are more than a thousand You fought for the quota, why don't you just formulate an algorithm, what do you think?"
Li Mu was helpless. It seemed that the principal had blackmailed him. He didn't want to offend others, so he blamed all this matter on himself.
But Li Mu didn't care. At this stage, he didn't need to care about these details at all, and he was not afraid of offending others, so he said: "Principal, let's just do this. Divide the 100-point comprehensive rating of the other 9 universities by 100 , for example, if Tsinghua scores 90, it will be counted as 0.9; then divide their total number of students by 10,000. If Tsinghua has 35,000 students, it will be counted as 3.5. Multiply these two coefficients and the result will be used as the comprehensive value. Tsinghua Even if it is 3.15, this value will be used as the criterion for allocating quotas.”
After saying that, Li Mu added: "Use the same method to calculate all 9 schools, and then add their total scores. If the total of the 9 schools is 10 points, then Tsinghua University will have the remaining points." 31.5% of the total 80% will be allocated, and everyone will get an equal proportion of places according to the proportion of their respective scores, so that both the teaching level of these schools and the total number of students can be taken into consideration."
"Okay, okay!" the principal said with a smile: "This method is good, then we will allocate according to this! In this way, I believe no one will have any objections."
Li Mu complained: "I think you mainly don't want them to have any opinions on you, right?"
The principal sneered and said: "This method is indeed very good. I personally think it is very scientific and fair, but to be honest, I am really under a lot of pressure. You don't know how influential these one thousand quotas are." , the leaders of the education department came to help open the backend. We thought that we would give points to the top ten universities in the country, but many schools that were not ranked in the top ten felt that this quota was obtained by William for the entire Chinese universities. See you Everyone has a share, even if it can only be divided into one or two, it is still good.”
As he said that, the principal added: "What's even more annoying is that they all think that I have the final say on how to allocate this quota, so many schools have started to use back doors. My friends will contact me directly and contact the education department. My acquaintances began to ask for quotas from us. What do you think I should do? If I hold back and refuse to give, I don’t know how many people I will offend. If I give, there will be enough money for the monks who have too much rice and too little. Who will I give it to and who will not give it to? It will be trouble in the future."
(End of chapter)