Liu Bannong, wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket, stood in front of a small western-style building and walked back and forth, rubbing his hands and breathing to ward off the cold.
"Gah!"
The heavy iron door opened, and the servant said to him: "Mr. Liu, please come in quickly!"
"Thank you." Liu Bannong nodded to the servant.
After walking through the garden and arriving at the living room, Cai Yuanpei stood up to greet him: "Brother Shou Peng, are you okay?"
"Fortunately, it's just that I'm so cold that I came here to warm up the stove." Liu Bannong made a little joke. He came from Peiping.
Cai Yuanpei personally made a cup of hot tea for Liu Bannong and asked with a smile: "Have you met Mr. Einstein?"
Liu Bannong said: "We met, Ai Weng is humorous and has no airs of a master at all."
"The true master is the common man." Cai Yuanpei said.
Liu Bannong held the teacup to warm himself and said, "I heard from people that the Institute of Physics of the Peking Academy seems to want to hire Ai Weng as an honorary member."
"Mr. Einstein agreed?" Cai Yuanpei asked in shock.
"It seems that I agreed." Liu Bannong said.
Cai Yuanpei felt quite unhappy. He and Li Shizeng were planning to establish the National Research Institute at the same time. The Academia Sinica had sufficient address, equipment, personnel, and funding, far exceeding Li Shizeng's Peking Research Institute. On the surface, the Institute of Physics of the National Research Institute
It has been established, but the actual work is progressing slowly due to lack of money and people.
But now that Einstein has agreed to become an honorary member of the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica, he has instantly compared it with the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica. I am afraid that many young physicists will join enthusiastically.
Liu Bannong blinked and encouraged: "Brother Jiemin, why don't you come with me to Peking and talk to Ai Weng in advance?"
"You're trying to make money off me again," Cai Yuanpei said with a smile, "I won't be the president of Peking University. Zhou Mingcheng is pretty good. You can go find him."
Liu Bannong sighed: "He doesn't want to either. He said he has to wait for the central government to appoint him."
The mess at Peking University has not yet been resolved. Last year, Peking University students resumed their studies across the country, driving away Li Shizeng. So far, the position of Peking University president is still vacant.
Although Li Shuhua temporarily assumed the position of acting president, many teachers and students did not approve of it. Moreover, Li Shuhua was unable to ask for money from the Ministry of Education, and the salaries of Peking University professors were already in arrears for more than half a year.
Most students hope that Zhou Hexuan will return to be the principal, but the teachers have more considerations.
Although Zhou Hexuan was well-known, he had no connections in the Ministry of Education, and it was difficult to obtain urgently needed education funds. So Liu Bannong, as a representative of Peking University, corresponded with Cai Yuanpei many times, hoping to invite Cai Yuanpei back to be the principal, so that everyone could have their salaries.
ensure.
The new semester has already started. Peking University has neither a president nor funds, so it can be said that life is like a year.
Can the teachers not be anxious?
"Brother Shou Peng, you must persuade me again. I am a start-up at the Academia Sinica. I am busy with work and have no energy to be the president of Peking University." Cai Yuanpei refused. Now that the situation in Peiping is complicated, a group of local warlords have joined forces to fight against Chiang Kai-shek, so Cai Yuanpei didn't
Will go for a swim in muddy water.
Liu Bannong urged: "Brother Jiemin, as long as you bear the name of the principal, we will handle the daily school affairs by ourselves."
"That's a dead meal," Cai Yuanpei said. "The position of president of Peking University should be held by a virtuous person."
"Really don't think about it anymore?" Liu Bannong asked.
Cai Yuanpei shook his head firmly.
"well!"
Liu Bannong sighed, stood up and said, "Farewell!"
Cai Yuanpei quickly persuaded him to stay: "Brother Shou Peng came all the way from Peiping, please stay for a few days."
"How can I still have the nerve to hang out in Shanghai? The teachers and students at Peking University are waiting for me to return to work!" Liu Bannong was somewhat resentful. He felt that Cai Yuanpei was too disrespectful of old friendships and was too disrespectful.
Cai Yuanpei sent Liu Bannong out of the door before returning to the study to continue reading the newspaper.
Nowadays, newspapers every day contain news about Einstein, and they also report on Li Shizeng. This has greatly increased Li Shizeng’s prestige in the educational and cultural circles. The Peking Research Institute has also overshadowed the Academia Sinica. Cai Yuanpei can only
Being in a hurry in Shanghai.
When the conflict between those who studied in France and those who studied in Britain and America first arose, as the leaders of the two factions, the personal relationship between Li Shizeng and Cai Yuanpei was not affected. However, as the conflict expanded and planned, the two inevitably became opposed, and it has been more than a year.
No contact.
The last time they had a meeting in Nanjing, Cai Yuanpei and Li Shi had nothing to say when they met. They only nodded and said hello.
Both of them were suffocating in their hearts and worked hard to build a research institute, hoping to surpass each other through academic research results. This kind of competition has good and bad aspects. The bad thing is that there is little exchange between the two major national research institutes in the north and the south, resulting in many problems.
Repeated investment in research funds has greatly wasted human and financial resources; and the benefits are obvious. Each other is working hard to do research, constantly recruiting capable scholars to join, and actively seeking exchanges and learning with countries such as Britain, the United States, and France.
It can be said that the academic foundation of social sciences and natural sciences in New China was laid in the competition between Li Shizeng and Cai Yuanpei. The members and academicians of the two institutes include almost all the top talents in New China.
Cai Yuanpei gritted his teeth and thought: When Einstein comes to Shanghai, he must be made an honorary academician of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica!
…
Peking Railway Station.
Yan Jici returned to China a full year earlier than in history. Last year, Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng both invited him. This left Yan Jici in a dilemma, not knowing who to agree to.
Yan Jici couldn't bear to be disturbed, so he simply hid in France to do research. As a result, Li Shizeng chased him to France and visited him every three days. He was buzzing like Tang Monk, which made Yan Jici's head explode.
Hearing that Li Shi had invited Einstein to China for a visit, Yan Jici was finally moved, packed up his belongings and came back to be the director of the Institute of Physics at Beijing Institute of Technology.
In the final analysis, Yan Jici is a person who studied in France, and it will be easier to start work in the Peking Research Institute. If he goes to the Academia Sinica, his colleagues around him are all studying in the United Kingdom and the United States, and it is estimated that various conflicts will usually arise.
"Keats, I have longed for you!" Li Shuhua was responsible for greeting you at the station. He is now the vice president of the Peking Research Institute and concurrently the director of the Institute of Physics, but he is too busy to take care of it.
"Mr. Li." Yan Jici greeted respectfully.
Although Yan Jici is well-known and has strong scientific research capabilities, he is too young after all, not even 30 years old. In front of Li Shuhua, he is considered a underachiever.
Li Shuhua smiled and said: "The accommodation has been arranged for you. Put your luggage down and we will go to Tsinghua University to meet Mr. Einstein."
"That's fine." Yan Jici also wanted to meet Einstein as soon as possible.
The two of them took a rickshaw, first went to the dormitory of the Peking Research Institute, and then went straight to Tsinghua University.
Zhou Hexuan, Li Shizeng, Einstein, Le Corbusier and others were admiring flowers and discussing Taoism with Tsinghua professors in the garden of Tsinghua University.
As soon as Yan Jici arrived, Li Shizeng immediately smiled happily and said: "Keats, you are finally here, the Institute of Physics is officially opened!"
Zhou Hexuan quickly stood up and shook hands. Although Yan Jici was younger than him, this master must be respected.
Who is Yan Jici?
One of the founders of modern physics research in China and the actual founder of the Institute of Laser Research, Beijing Institute of Technology (the predecessor of the Institute of Atomic Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
After the fall of Peiping, Yan Jici moved the Physics Institute of Peking University to Kunming and used a dilapidated temple on the outskirts as the office of the Institute of Physics. In this dilapidated temple, he told all the researchers: "This is wartime.
The invaders have destroyed the conditions for us to engage in scientific research, and every patriotic Chinese can no longer sit idly by. In view of the lack of supplies in the rear during the war and the urgent need for military communication tools and medical equipment, I decided to lead everyone to develop piezoelectric crystal oscillators.
instruments, microscopes and various optical instruments.”
During the Anti-Japanese War, Chinese scientific researchers worked in this difficult environment, and even the most basic microscopes were made by hand.
The same situation also happened in Lizhuang, Yibin (the address of Academia Sinica), where a large group of scientists and cultural scholars were hungry and engaged in academic research despite bombings. Lin Huiyin was so ill that he lay in bed and coughed up blood, but still insisted on compiling "China
Architectural History".
Let’s not discuss political darkness or factional struggles. These respectable scientists and cultural scholars are the true backbone of the Chinese nation, and their hard work has contributed tremendously to the rise of China.
Just as Yan Jici said in an interview with France's "Lyon Progress": "The Chinese people's war of resistance is a just cause. No matter how long the war lasts or how dangerous the situation is, the final victory will definitely belong to the Chinese people. I will work with 40 million people
Our compatriots are fighting for the national calamity together. Although I am a scholar and cannot go to the front to contribute, I will join tens of thousands of Chinese scholars to contribute my small amount to the sacred war of resistance."
