Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "Brother Shi, what does dog bite dog mean?"
Hu Shi explained in detail: "Both Yi Peiji and Zhang Ji were those who stayed in Japan. They followed Li Shizeng into the battlefield and made the education system in North China a mess. Now they are fighting each other to the death. It's just fighting among themselves."
Li Shizeng was not only the leader of the group studying in France, but also the leader of the group studying in Japan. The French group studying in Japan represented by Li Shizeng is now very powerful in the northern education system. Although Hu Shi teaches in Peking, he is a leader of the group studying in Britain and America in the south headed by Cai Yuanpei.
of go-getters.
Now that there are internal problems within the French faction studying in Japan, Hu Shi, the group studying in Britain and the United States, is naturally happy to watch the excitement.
Zhou Hexuan was speechless and said: "Brother Shi, we are all Chinese and intellectuals, why do we need to divide into factions like bureaucrats?"
Hu Shi sneered and said: "We were not the ones who divided them first. It was Li Shizeng who forcibly started a factional fight in the Ministry of Education for educational reform. Now the national education system is divided into two factions, all thanks to Li Shizeng."
"Mr. Shi Zeng had no choice at the beginning," Zhou Hexuan shook his head with a wry smile. "His intention was good, but it was a pity that he did not see China's current situation clearly."
"Let's not talk about Mr. Shi Zeng, let's just talk about Yi Peiji," Hu Shi sighed. "This gentleman's character is still worthy of praise. I heard that someone in the south was interested in cultural relics in the Forbidden City. Yi Peiji directly sent the telegram to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chairman. He offended a certain big shot because of this. If not for this, Zhang Ji and his wife would not dare to jump out and bite. Look at the current public opinion. The newspapers were surprisingly unanimous in scolding Yi Peiji. If not for the care of a certain big shot,
How can Zhang Ji and his wife have such huge energy?"
Zhou Hexuan asked curiously: "Which big shot did Yi Peiji offend?"
Hu Shi waved his hand mysteriously: "I have no actual evidence, so how dare I make such false claims?"
Zhou Hexuan thought carefully in his mind that a certain big shot mentioned by Hu Shi obviously had a higher official position than Zhang Ji and his wife, so he was at least at the ministerial level.
President Lin Sen was the first to be suspected. This old gentleman is very keen on collecting cultural relics. He often goes to antique markets and buys a lot of fakes. He is also complacent in thinking that he has successfully picked up missing items. In the past few years, Lin Sen was an expert in collecting cultural relics.
When the envoy arrived in Peiping to welcome back Sun Yat-sen's coffin, he immediately took the opportunity to buy more than a dozen boxes of antiques in Peiping and transported them back to Nanjing. Lin Sen also built a stone house on the land outside Nanjing. Some of the stone carvings in the house were very eye-catching. Some people suspected that they were from the Ming Forbidden City in Nanjing.
Moved out.
However, at this time, Lin Sen was "ruling by doing nothing" and was a good gentleman who didn't care about anything. He had not had any conflicts with others for many years. Judging from Lin Sen's attitude towards life, it didn't seem like he was a conspirator.
Plant a villain.
Sun Ke might be able to rule it out first, as I haven't heard that he loves antiques. Moreover, Sun Ke is busy embarrassing Chang Kaishen at this time and has no time to trouble Yi Peiji, let alone ruin his reputation because of a few Forbidden City treasures.
As for Dai Jitao, Zhu Jiahua, Chen Gongbo, Wang Shijie and others, although they all serve as ministers, their qualifications and influence cannot overwhelm Zhang Ji and Yi Peiji, so they can basically be excluded.
Chang Kaishen cherishes his reputation as much as his life, and cherishes his feathers extremely much, so it is unlikely that he will pursue cultural relics in the Forbidden City.
Then there are only two people left with the greatest suspicion: Wang Zhaoming and Song Meiling.
It could also be the Chen and Kong families...
Thinking of this, Zhou Hexuan was too lazy to think about it anymore. Anyway, no matter who was behind the scenes, he could walk sideways in China.
Hu Shi stood up and laughed: "Mingcheng, stop guessing and go to the salon!"
Zhou Hexuan and Hu Shi walked together and walked to Lin Huiyin's home in a few minutes. The reason why he was interested in attending the salon today was because a very powerful foreign friend, the future famous historian Fairbank Fairbank, was also coming!
Fairbank, whose real name is John King Fairbank, came to China early last year to write his doctoral thesis. As a result, he soon married a foreign widow in Peking and became a teacher at Tsinghua University and Peking University.
Perhaps Fairbank is only slightly famous at this time, but his future development is so impressive that he is almost an inescapable figure when studying East Asian history.
President of the American Historical Association, President of the American Asian Studies Association, Director of the American Center for East Asian Studies, Chairman of the Harvard East Asian Studies Committee... These titles are enough to illustrate Fairbank's energy. After the 1960s, his academic research could even change the United States' attitude towards Asia.
Strategic Decision.
Zhou Hexuan was very interested in Fairbank, because Fairbank was the founder of "Modern Chinese Studies" in the United States and an active supporter of "Western Chinese Studies."
Throughout the 20th century, there were two Western scholars who were keen to study and introduce China, one was Joseph Needham and the other was Fairbank.
When Zhou Hexuan arrived at Lin Huiyin's home, Jin Yuelin had already arrived early and was chatting animatedly with Lin Huiyin over a cup of coffee. Liang Sicheng came over and shook hands and said: "Brother Shi, brother Mingcheng, please sit down quickly!"
Lin Huiyin stood up to make coffee and tea in a familiar manner. Jin Yuelin turned around and said, "Mr. Zhou, have you read the Tao Te Ching?"
"I have read it, but I only understand it slightly," Zhou Hexuan replied.
Jin Yuelin asked again: "What do you think of 'Tao'?"
Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and said: "I understand that the 'Tao' should be the law of the operation of the universe, or the law of the operation of society."
Jin Yuelin said: "I recently studied "Laozi" and thought of Aristotle's formulation of 'formal cause' and 'qualitative cause', and suddenly had a new understanding of 'Tao'. 'Tao' means 'form' and 'form'.
'Neng' is the highest concept or the highest realm in philosophy. 'Neng' here is a name, like 'Zhou Hexuan' or 'Hu Shi', rather than a noun describing things, such as red, yellow, blue, green, up, down, left, and right.
'Ability' is not an ordinary so-called thing, nor is it an ordinary so-called event..."
"Stop, stop. Mr. Jin, I have no knowledge of philosophy, so I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to discuss it with you." Zhou Hexuan stopped him quickly, not wanting to discuss this issue with Jin Yuelin at all.
Historically, Jin Yuelin only wrote three books in his life, namely "Theory of Knowledge", "Logic" and "On Tao". Although the number is small, these three books of Jin Yuelin are equivalent to laying the foundation of modern Chinese philosophy.
(non-Marxist philosophy).
Zhou Hexuan had also read it in his previous life. Although "Theory of Knowledge" and "Logic" were confusing, he could at least understand them a little. Only "On Tao" was simply a heavenly book. Zhou Hexuan spent most of the day reading the first chapter.
, the result was that I was confused and confused, and after reading it I completely doubted whether my IQ was flawed.
Without talking about anything else, let me first talk about the section names of the first chapter of "On Tao". It is almost like a secret book of cultivation.
"1.1: The Tao is 'form-neng'", "1.2: The Tao has 'you', and the form is neng"... "1.6: The Tao has no 'no'", "1.7: There is no form of incompetence, there is no form of no form.
"Neng", "1.8: Neng has no birth and death, no new or old, no addition or subtraction"... "1.13: No two forms", "1.14: Neng is not one", "1.15: It is without inside or outside", "1.16: Neng can have differences
》……
Zhou Hexuan couldn't even understand Jin Yuelin's works, so how could he dare to discuss philosophy with him face to face? He changed the subject with a smile and said to Lin Huiyin: "Miss Lin, I heard that you gave Bing Xin a jar of vinegar?"
Lin Huiyin smiled and replied: "A jar of authentic Shanxi mature vinegar."
