The University College of the Republic of China held a special meeting. Today, only four of the nine members of the Educational Administration Committee (Cai Yuanpei, Li Shizeng, Wei Cui, and Zhang Naiyan) attended the meeting.
Among the other five members, Wang Zhaoming is working secretly in Shanghai and has no time to discuss education issues; Xu Chongqing and Jin Zengcheng are both in charge of education and party affairs in Guangdong; Chu Minyi has just gone abroad to Europe to study public health issues; Zhong Rongguang
Then he engaged in education in the Lingnan area.
Let’s talk about Cai Yunpei, Li Shizeng, Wei Cui and Zhang Naiyan who attended the meeting.
Cai Yunpei and Li Shi were once known as the "Four Elders of the Kuomintang", together with Zhang Jingjiang and Wu Zhihui, also known as the "Four Elders of the Party and the State". Therefore, Cai Yunpei and Li Shi had a conflict a while ago, and it was not the junior Hu Shi's turn to speak out. As soon as he spoke, he immediately
He was ridiculed and scolded by Wu Zhihui for relying on his old age.
Zhang Naiyan is Zhang Jingjiang's nephew. He is now in charge of the educational affairs of the National Central University (Capital Region Department of Education) and has some personal grudges with Cai Yuanpei.
As for Wei Cui, I'm afraid no one has guessed yet that this gentleman is a secret member of our party, but he has not gone through the formal formalities to join the party.
Last year, Cai Yunpei actively instigated the "purge of the party" and killed many Red Party members and suspected Red Party members. However, he invited the real Red Party member Wei Cui back from the UK to be the director of Shanghai Education. Later, he recommended Wei Cui to serve on the Education Administration Committee.
Nine members.
It’s impossible to guard against it!
Among the four committee members who participated in the meeting, Cai Yuanpei and Wei Cui were from the same faction, and Li Shizeng and Zhang Naiyan were from the same faction. As for the "four elders of the Kuomintang", Zhang Jingjiang and Wu Zhihui both followed Chang Kaishen to Peking, but they supported
Li Shizeng's.
To put it bluntly, Cai Yunpei is already alone in the education system. Who made him offend Zhang Jingjiang last year?
When Zhou Hexuan arrived at the venue, there were only two or three sparse people inside, including Li Shuhua, chairman of the Department of Physics at Peking University.
Li Shuhua immediately stood up and greeted: "Hello, Mr. Zhou!"
Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "How is the research on Peking University's human harvester going?"
Li Shuhua is the person directly responsible for the research and development of the harvester. He said happily: "After five improvements, the harvester can now perfectly thresh wheat and rice, but there are still some problems when harvesting sorghum and other miscellaneous grains."
"But for sure, the ears of sorghum are very different from wheat and rice." Zhou Hexuan said.
Li Shuhua said: "When I came to Nanjing this time, I brought the machine with me. The rice harvest in the south is about to happen, so it will come in handy."
Zhou Hexuan asked: "How do you plan to promote the harvester?"
Li Shuhua said eagerly: "I plan to contact the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Industry, and the government will carry out comprehensive promotion."
"How are the benefits distributed?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
Li Shuhua hesitated: "Well, I haven't thought about it yet. I think harvesters benefit the country and the people, and commercial interests come second."
Alas, Zhou Hexuan could only lament that intellectuals are too naive.
Zhou Hexuan shook his head and said: "Brother Runzhang, do you know the principle of 'Zi Lu is encouraged by others to be virtuous, Zigong is humble and does good deeds'?"
Zilu and Zigong were both students of Confucius. Zilu saved a man who fell into the water and accepted a cow as a gift of thanks, and Confucius praised him; Zigong redeemed many people from Lu, but refused compensation from the state, which was criticized by Confucius.
Because accepting gifts of thanks allows people to see the benefits of saving people in return, and more people will save people. Rejecting state compensation allows people to see the losses of doing good, leading to fewer and fewer people to save people.
A native of Lu.
"You mean..." Li Shuhua was a little confused.
Zhou Hexuan said: "Why do the great powers have so many scientific inventions? Because inventions are profitable. The design of the harvester I provided to Peking University was researched and invented by you. Its main function is indeed to benefit the country and the people. But if the inventor cannot get
Regardless of any benefits, will Peking University students still be so active in inventing in the future? Will other scientists and inventors in China still be so keen on inventing?"
"Uh..." Li Shuhua was speechless and suddenly bowed, "Principal Zhou, Shuhua has learned a lesson!"
"Have you applied for a patent for your invention?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
Li Shuhua said: "Applying now."
Zhou Hexuan said: "After the meeting is over, I will take you to Shanghai to meet Mr. Yu Qiaqing and discuss with him the commercialization of the harvester."
"That's just right." How dare Li Shuhua object?
Zhou Hexuan asked again: "I heard that Peking University was renamed China University and that I, the president, was dismissed?"
Li Shuhua was a little embarrassed, because he studied in France, and Li Shi was his mentor. Historically, after Li Shi became the president of China University (Peking University), he did not have the energy to take charge of school affairs. The acting president was Li Shuhua.
After a moment of silence, Li Shuhua whispered: "I visited Mr. Shi Zeng last night and persuaded him. He explained the reasons to me. Now many people criticize Mr. Shi Zeng, saying that he is nepotistic. In fact, there is nothing he can do about it. The people
The government wants to control the education sector, and Mr. Shi Zeng wants to make education independent. In order to realize his ideals, he must appoint cronies, otherwise the power of education will be taken away by the government! The old principal (Cai Yuanpei) has compromised with the government, and the two of them have
That’s when a fierce conflict broke out.”
Zhou Hexuan was silent.
When bad people do bad things, they only make people angry; when good people do bad things for the sake of beautiful ideals, they only make people feel sad.
Li Shizeng was indeed a good man. He did not want to be an official, nor did he want to get involved in political disputes. However, in order to realize his ideal of educational independence, Li Shizeng became an official and took the initiative to start a factional struggle that he hated extremely. He even got infamy for it.
No matter what.
But why is it said that Li Shi was doing bad things with good intentions?
Li Shizeng's education reform mainly imitated the French education system. However, the actual situation in France and China were very different. Although Li Shizeng also made corresponding changes, these changes were of no avail.
Li Shizeng's education reform was not only feared by the National Government, but also caused a lot of criticism in the education system across the country. Especially grassroots education personnel, who had a hard life to begin with, had no chance of survival once Li Shizeng reformed them.
Faced with the joint crusade from the government and the private sector, Li Shizeng was not discouraged. He was an idealist, and he regarded educational independence as his lifelong pursuit. He accepted the abuse and attacks and never looked back.
It can only be said that the starting point was good, but the ambition was high and the end was low. Li Shizeng's education reform even led to bloody events in history, and the final result could only be failure.
Cai Yuanpei is much more clear-headed. He and Li Shi have been like-minded for more than ten years and have been working hard for educational independence. But when he saw the various contradictions caused by the reform, he immediately gave up and embarked on the road of compromise.
Today's dispute between Cai and Li is not just a factional struggle, but also a struggle between reality and ideals.
