After ten more minutes of communication, Jiang Ye understood.
Both schools could bring exchange students from alien planets, but Jiang Ye had to provide a sufficiently good environment for them.
For example, beautiful and spacious dormitories, affordable canteens, shopping streets, and so on. These were not within the scope of school construction and required Jiang Ye to pay for them himself.
After all, going to school far from home, if the conditions were still extremely poor, no students would be willing to come.
Especially since Jiang Ye's colony was very backward in its development, not a bustling metropolis, attracting exchange students would be even more difficult.
Jiang Ye deliberated for a long time and decided to take on the projects for these two schools.
Exchange students from alien planets coming here to study would easily lead to some of them staying to live.
Cultivating talent was secondary; the key was to expand the population!
The entire planet had only tens of thousands of people, which was too embarrassing. When Jiang Ye was a child, his hometown county had nearly a million people. Without sufficient population, civilization could not expand at all.
After signing the online contract with the representatives of the two schools, the matter was settled, and the campus was expected to be completed within three days.
Jiang Ye then sent a message through the chat channel to discuss the school's supporting facilities with Xu Yan.
After half an hour, the plan was finalized.
A total of eight dormitory buildings would be equipped, all with double rooms, each with a bathroom, bed, desk, and a small kitchen.
Four school canteens; this was simple, just a matter of drawing some staff and equipment from the existing restaurants.
Another shopping street would be built at the school entrance, with a total of forty shops.
After the shops were built, they would be rented out. Whoever was willing to rent could, and the rent would go to Jiang Ye.
The training courses for both schools were at the university level. Why not build a new university town next to Binhai City? Xu Yan suggested reserving some empty land for future expansion.
Good! Jiang Ye immediately agreed, so this whole project would be called the University Town Project.
The University Town Project was a huge investment. After paying the construction fees, Jiang Ye still had one hundred million cash left in his account.
For the next three days, a large construction team worked from morning to night.
Three days later, the entire University Town Project was completed simultaneously with the Dai Zong Automotive Industrial Park!
Jiang Ye went to inspect the project before dusk. The two schools were across the road, small in scale, with only a sports field, a small artificial lake, and one teaching building. The teaching building was quite grand, with 102 doors on the first floor and six floors above, covering everything from classrooms to laboratories.
The dormitory buildings were quite spacious, with iron bunk beds, water, and electricity. The only thing missing was the bedding sets.
Jiang Ye contracted the business of bedding sets to Tian Rao. She was leading her employees in front of the printing machines, frantically making bed sheets and quilts. They would all be done within these two days.
University teachers would arrive in the next day or two. More than half of the teachers had already sent messages, ordering houses from Baiyi Real Estate.
Once all the teachers were in place, exchange students from alien planets would follow. The first phase of enrollment for exchange students was very smooth, and it was already full. There would be no shortage of students for the next four months.
The automotive industrial park had just been completed and was still empty. The production workshops only contained countless large machines, standing still like sculptures.
Within the next three days, Dai Zong Flying Car Company would send its employees in batches, and the new car would be officially on sale in about three days.
Upon returning from inspecting the University Town, Jiang Ye checked the colony rankings on his phone.
[Jiang Ye Autonomous Region / Development Index 4050 / 8840th Place]
The increase was significant, finally breaking four thousand!
Jiang Ye scrolled through the rankings again and found his competitor with a quick glance.
[Ice Green Star / Development Index 4100 / 8832nd Place]
The development index was only fifty points behind, and the ranking was eight places away!
With three days left, Jiang Ye felt it was not a problem.
On Thursday morning, Jiang Ye spent all the money in his account again to build a large-scale military base on the opposite side of the desert.
It was too expensive and troublesome to have Isabel fly the troops over every day, so he built a military base on the other side, allowing the troops to reside there permanently, making it convenient to expand territory.
The area opposite the desert was surprisingly barren. After searching for many days, no minerals were found, not even a decent stream. Soldiers had to bring ten bottles in their armored vehicles in the morning, five bottles with water for drinking, and five bottles without water for urinating.
Why not go out to urinate?
If no resources were found, how could they have the face to rest and urinate! They solved it casually inside the armored vehicle and continued to advance!
The construction speed of the military base was quite fast, and it was completed on Saturday morning.
Two hundred spiders were sent to the military base on the other side of the desert to reside permanently and expand forward.
On Saturday afternoon, alien exchange students began to arrive by spaceship one after another and checked into the dormitories.
As the honorary principal, Jiang Ye naturally stood at the school gate with other school leaders to welcome them.
He noticed that only half of the students coming to school were young people; the other half were already middle-aged or even elderly.
After all, both schools did not restrict age for enrollment; as long as they paid, they could attend. Learning knows no bounds.
The gender ratio was almost one-to-one, with all sorts of races, and even a few electronic people with half-mechanical bodies, giving a look somewhat like The Terminator.
That evening, a grand opening ceremony was held on the school's sports field.
The opening ceremony was simple in format: students gathered on the sports field to sit, and school leaders gave speeches on stage.
Jiang Ye prepared a speech full of empty words. After speaking at the Electric Spark School, he immediately ran to the Mishan School to speak, reading the same speech twice, only changing the name of the school.
After the opening ceremony, Jiang Ye returned to the base vehicle to check the colony information.
The total population had officially exceeded twenty thousand, reaching 20,844 people!
The ranking information was even more exciting:
[Jiang Ye Autonomous Region / Development Index 4150 / 8830th Place]
The next entry was the information for Ice Green Star:
[Ice Green Star / Development Index 4148 / 8831st Place]
He had surpassed them by exactly two points!
Jiang Ye excitedly sent a message to the Star Net group, directly taking a photo of the rankings and uploading it.
Li Nannan: "Oh, well done. You've finally surpassed them after working hard from Monday to Saturday."
High Priest of Har Star: "Is this considered settled then?"
Commander of Leng An Star: "As expected, Jiang Ye won again."
Just as Jiang Ye was about to type, his competitor appeared.
Governor of Ice Green Star: "What are you talking about! Today is Saturday, and the agreed-upon settlement is tomorrow night at midnight! It's not time yet!"
Governor of Ice Green Star: "The winner will definitely be me! My mining team is desperately blasting the mountain, and we are very close to the gold mine! Once the gold ore comes out, the development index will definitely jump dozens of points. The current gap of two points is nothing!"
Li Nannan: "Didn't you say you were going to open the gold mine a week ago? Why hasn't it been opened yet?"
Governor of Ice Green Star: "The mine is too big, and we have to find it bit by bit. This week we dug three mine shafts without seeing any ore, but the new mine shaft we're digging now already shows a little gold powder! This time it will definitely work! With one day tomorrow, as soon as the gold ore comes out, I will definitely reverse the ranking!"