Chapter 1638 1640 [Donate to support education]
Entering the 1930s, the economic crisis has spread.
However, in the short term, France has not seen any impact. Exports are still strong, factories are still hot, and markets are still prosperous.
Parisians continue to run horses and dance as usual, and live a happy life.
However, as a prophet of plumbing ducks in Chunjiang, Xiang Nan has already sensitively noticed that the market is getting worse.
For example, last year, he was often invited by major scientific research institutions, institutions of higher learning, and academic forums.
But since the capitalist world economic crisis has spread, similar invitations have decreased a lot. Moreover, even if invited, the appearance fee is much lower than before. I even hope that Xiang Nan can give lectures for free.
The reason for this is simple. Most scientific research institutions, institutions of higher learning, and academic forums rely on government funding to maintain them.
When the government encounters an economic crisis, it will naturally tighten its finances and reduce expenditures. Therefore, major scientific research institutions and institutions of higher learning are short of funds, so it is naturally difficult to spend money.
Fortunately, Xiang Nan earned tens of millions of francs by selling books before, and withdrew cash in time, so the economic crisis did not have a great impact on him.
However, not everyone is as lucky as him. Many Chinese students who came to France for work-study programs have lost their jobs and subsidies because of the economic crisis, and their life and study are in trouble.
Seeing this, Xiang Nan immediately contacted the embassy and donated five million francs to solve the students' living and learning problems.
This move naturally made everyone very grateful, and even the media reported it one after another.
"Xu Wenqiang donated five million francs to help Chinese students studying in France study."
"For warmth under the economic winter, Xu Wenqiang donated five million francs."
When the news spread back to China, the domestic media were shocked.
Five million francs is not a small amount. The Beiyang government did not spend that much to organize Tsinghua University. However, Xiang Nan donated such a large sum of money, which can be called kindhearted and charitable.
Therefore, for a while, the media also praised it.
"The light of the Chinese people! Mr. Xu Wenqiang donated five million francs to help students studying in France complete their studies."
"Generous donation! Mr. Xu Wenqiang donated five million francs to students studying in France!"
Many Chinese saw this news and admired it.
"Mr. Xu is really a man of high moral character! Five million francs, so much money, donate as soon as you say, it is really admirable~"
"Mr. Xu is not only talented, but also has first-class character. Such a person is really enough to be the president!"
"Those officials, warlords, and capitalists usually like to show off their wealth, but at critical moments, they don't donate as much as a scholar."
Everyone talked about it.
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Feng Jingyao was very surprised when he saw this news.
He knew that Xiang Nan was rich, but guessed that he was only a few hundred thousand. In terms of family property, he is by no means as good as this Hujiang tycoon.
Since Xiang Nan can donate five million francs, I believe he must have at least five million francs in his hand. Otherwise, it would not be so happy to donate.
In this way, Xiang Nan's family wealth alone is probably not much less than him. In this way, he has even less control over Xiang Nan.
Before, he was still thinking that Xiang Nan might be dating Feng Chengcheng for the sake of his money. And he just used the money as an introduction to let Xiang Nan do things for him.
But now it seems that he obviously underestimated Xiang Nan's ability and overestimated his own value.
After understanding this point, Feng Jingyao was very depressed.
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In 1930, Xiang Nan continued his scientific research.
He has successively published many works such as "Mathematical Methods in Production Organization and Planning", "Operational Research and Management Science" and "Reliability Theory and Application".
These are monographs on mathematics, talking about planning theory, operations research and reliability theory, all related to industrial production, warehousing and logistics, personnel scheduling, product design, etc., so they are very practical mathematical theories.
The well-known Chinese mathematician Hua Luogeng's "Optimization Method" and "Overall Planning Method" are also monographs in this area.
However, because these mathematical theories are too complicated, no major breakthrough has been made.
The three books published by Xiang Nan just provided a theoretical basis for three emerging disciplines and pointed out the direction of scientific research.
In this way, his contribution in applied mathematics can be said to be unique and unrivaled in the world, which has also made the academic world admire his talent more and more.
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Entering 2031, the economic crisis has spread widely.
France under the economic crisis is also in chaos.
From November 29 to May 1931, France has changed its cabinet four times, and the average ruling time of each cabinet is less than four months.
Because of the chaotic political situation, changing orders from day to day, and the government's inability to organize rescues, although France's economic crisis began to break out in the late 1930s, nearly a year later than the United States and Britain, it suffered more serious damage.
Workers are unemployed, prices plummet, exports decline, trade shrinks, and the world is depressed. It can be said that there is a lot of sorrow. The French economy has regressed for twenty years. The industrial output value in three years is only at the level of one year.
Fortunately, Xiang Nan took precautions in advance, so the economic crisis did not harm him. On the contrary, he took advantage of the opportunity of the economic crisis to actually purchase a batch of antique calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry.
Because of the economic crisis, even the rich have a hard time. Many middle class and rich people invested heavily before the economic crisis.
Under the current economic crisis, many people's wealth has disappeared in an instant, and they can only sell their properties. As a result, the prices of antique calligraphy, paintings, gold, silver and jewelry dropped sharply.
Xiang Nandu took the opportunity to acquire a lot of antiques, such as the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo during the Renaissance, masterpieces of Baroque art, such as the works of Rubens and Van Dyck, and magnificent works of the Rococo period. Thor, Boucher, Fagoner, etc., as well as Impressionism, Abstractionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Surrealism, etc.
Xiang Nan has specialized in oil painting, and he does not dare to say he knows the history of European art like the back of his hand, but he also knows it in detail, because he buys paintings and only selects representative works of famous artists.
For example, Van Gogh's "Starry Sky", "Sunflowers", Cézanne's "Card Players", "Mont Sainte-Victor", Monet's "Water Lilies", "Girl in a Green Dress", Raphael's "The Madonna". Like" and so on.
These works are all classics of European art, which are enough to enter the collection of the National Art Museum.
Xiang Nan hopes to bring all these paintings back when he returns to China in the future. At that time, these fine arts will become China's national treasures.
Whether it is auctioned or donated, it is extremely valuable.
(end of this chapter)