Outside Peking University, protesting students come every now and then.
Zhou Zuoren sat in a rickshaw, looked at the students with disdain, and walked into the office building openly. He was not afraid of the students making trouble, and even took the initiative to write an article and cursed the students who attacked Li Shizeng's residence: "This generation will beat the Zhao family hard."
Lou Zizi is actually a scum of the May Fourth spirit, and the future of Peking University is therefore not optimistic."
Zhaojialou refers to the "Burning Zhaojialou" incident during the May 4th Movement.
This building was originally the residence of Zhao Wensu, a student of Wenyuan Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty, and later became the residence of Cao Rulin, the Minister of Transportation and Finance of Beiyang.
Cao Rulin belonged to the pro-Japanese faction and presided over the signing of the treasonous "Twenty-One", which sowed bitter consequences for China's diplomatic failure at the Paris Peace Conference. The patriotic young people, filled with righteous indignation, burned the Zhaojia Building with fire, which shocked the country.
At home and abroad, some people criticized the excessive behavior, while others praised it.
Zhou Zuoren was originally a "May 4th master", but in recent years his thoughts have changed rapidly and he has gradually begun to question the May 4th New Culture Movement that he once actively promoted. Especially the actions of Peking University students in the May 4th Movement made Zhou Zuoren feel that it was flashy and unrealistic.
, is of little use to the country and nation.
In addition, Zhou Zuoren also hated Cai Yuanpei.
Two years ago, due to Zhang Zuolin's suppression, Peking University fell into the most difficult moment since its founding. Zhou Zuoren actively contacted and persuaded Cai Yuanpei to come back as president, believing that only Cai Yuanpei could save Peking University.
However, Cai Yuanpei publicly resigned from his position as principal several times and became the Minister of Education of the southern government.
In Zhou Zuoren's eyes, Cai Yuanpei had betrayed Peking University, as well as the teachers and students of Peking University. He believed Cai Yuanpei was a hypocrite from the bottom of his heart.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so Zhou Zuoren firmly supported Li Shizeng and was appointed by Li Shizeng as the newly formed "Dean of the School of Liberal Arts of National Peking University". Before the merger, this position was only the dean of the School of Liberal Arts of Peking University, but it was not
After school, he managed all non-normal liberal arts students in Peiping.
This position is so prestigious. You must know that Chinese universities at this time mainly focused on liberal arts.
In terms of the actual power he holds, Zhou Zuoren is the third most powerful person in the Peiping University District, second only to Li Shizeng and Li Shuhua. No wonder he wants to reprimand the troublemaking students.
Zhou Zuoren walked into Li Shizeng's office and said angrily: "Those students are stubborn and stubborn. I really have no choice."
"Didn't the payment arrive?" Li Shizeng asked doubtfully.
This amount was not the money Zhou Hexuan asked from Yan Xishan. It was the money Li Shizeng used his status as a veteran of the Kuomintang Party to forcibly raise more than 100,000 yuan after learning that he had been deceived. The source was social donations and funding from wealthy businessmen.
For these more than 100,000 yuan, Li Shizeng risked his life and owed a lot of favors. Moreover, it was a one-time thing. If there is no stable funding next month, his education reform will still not be carried out.
More than 100,000 yuan sounds like a lot, but it is very difficult to use.
Not to mention the salaries of education department officials, the merger of the nine national schools will cost a lot of money. This is because it is not only a nominal merger of schools, but also the merger of disciplines and majors. For example, liberal arts students who are not teachers, no matter which university they were in before.
Now all students from the university have to go to Peking University to study. And science and engineering students from Peking University have to transfer to the original Beijing University of Technology and Peiyang University.
Not only do students need to transfer schools, but the relevant teachers also need to be transferred. The huge personnel changes inside are a headache.
Although Li Shizeng was able to spend hundreds of thousands of yuan, the problem was not really solved because the students at Peking University were too stubborn.
Teachers and students of several other universities supported or acquiesced in the merger after the funding was implemented, but students of Peking University strongly opposed it. They held high the sign "Beijing University is glorious" and launched a vigorous school-protection movement.
To put it bluntly, students at Peking University have a deep sense of superiority. Although Peking University is poor, it is the ancestral home of modern universities and the birthplace of the May 4th Movement. It seems to be superior to all universities in China.
I was admitted to Peking University based on my ability, but now I am asked to transfer to Beijing University of Technology to study. Why should I agree?
This is like the high-achieving students in later generations who were admitted to 985 or 211 and were inexplicably placed in a second college. They must be unbalanced and must make an explanation.
So Zhou Zuoren became depressed. He was the dean of the College of Liberal Arts after the merger. He needed to make room for new students to transfer to the school. But the old students from Peking University's science, agriculture, engineering, and medicine departments refused to leave. They used the name of the nursing school to transfer students.
In name, some people occupied the classroom and some took to the streets to demonstrate, which made it impossible for Zhou Zuoren to carry out his teaching work.
Zhou Zuoren explained the situation in detail and said angrily: "Peking University students have always been lawless, and it is because of Cai Jiemin. Their thoughts and actions are always correct, and others are wrong. Anyone who thinks differently from them will be punished by them."
Who should we knock down! Of all the students in China, those at Peking University are the most difficult to serve!"
Li Shizeng frowned and said, "How about I go out in person to persuade you?"
"It's useless," Zhou Zuoren said distressedly, "Run Zhang (Li Shuhua) tried to persuade him, but it had no effect. As for you, Mr. Shi Zeng, I'm afraid it will be even harder to deal with after you go. Believe it or not, they will beat you out on the spot."
"Hahahaha," Li Shizeng laughed instead of getting angry, "These are the students with free thoughts who are not coerced by authority."
Zhou Zuoren said: "Extreme freedom means looseness, lack of order, disorganization, and anarchism!"
However, what Li Shizeng pursued was precisely "educational anarchism."
He believes that if the government is allowed to intervene in education, it will inevitably lead to the bureaucracy of education. What professors think about all day long is not academics and education, but how to please superior bureaucrats and the government. In the end, schools will also become bureaucratized, and schools will become small societies where students
Instead of studying seriously, they become infected with worldly evil habits.
Only by realizing educational independence and allowing scholars to manage national education can the academic, purity and professionalism of the education system be realized.
Li Shizeng's idea is also reasonable. In later generations, many professors copied papers to gain qualifications, and those who really concentrated on academics were suppressed. This is the inevitable result of the bureaucratization of education.
But can the education system avoid these situations if it is independent of the government?
I'm afraid it won't be much better, because where there are people there are rivers and lakes, and experts and scholars who hold power will naturally become bureaucratized and form a small court in the education system.
Li Shizeng and Zhou Zuoren discussed it for a long time, but they couldn't come up with a good result. They had absolutely nothing to do with the Peking University nursing students.
At this moment, the secretary suddenly rushed in. He was so happy that he didn’t even knock on the door. He shouted happily: "Dean, He Qigong (Mayor of Peiping) has agreed to allocate funds for education. The monthly education fund of 300,000 yuan will be provided by the Peking City Government."
Government financial responsibility.”
"real?"
Li Shizeng stood up suddenly and laughed loudly: "Mingcheng is really a strange person!"
"What's the matter with Zhou Hexuan?" Zhou Zuoren asked curiously.
Only then did Li Shizeng realize that he had made a mistake. He quickly said: "It's okay, it's okay. The education funds have been secured."
Zhou Zuoren suggested: "Mr. Shi Zeng, Zhou Hexuan is very prestigious among Peking University students. It is better for him to persuade the students to stop making trouble."
"I'm afraid it won't be good to trouble him again." Li Shi was a little moved.
A few days later, when Zhou Hexuan returned to Tianjin, Li Shizeng really shamelessly came to ask for help. As a result, he couldn't even get through the door of Zhou's house and only got a one-word reply: "Go away!"
