Due to the arrangement and contact problems, the departure time of the visiting scholar group has been delayed again and again.

Jin Yuelin was impatient, so he left Chongqing directly and took a boat to Lizhuang to take care of Lin Huiyin while raising chickens. The other five scholars were stranded in Chongqing, with nothing to do all day, and the Zhou Mansion became their salon meeting place.

It coincided with the summer vacation, the children were all at home, and even Zhou Weilie came back from Kunming.

It doesn't matter whether the children can understand it or not, anyway, as long as he chats with these scholars, Zhou Hexuan will let his children come over to listen. All of them are masters, even if they can't understand the thoughts, it's still okay to let the children be literate.

These scholars are very interesting, although they are all big names in the academic world, but they quarrel like children.

Zhang Qiyun, who suggested that the old Jiang Nan withdraw from Taiwan, belonged to the "Xueheng faction" in his early years, which advocated literary retro and opposed the New Culture Movement, believing that blindly imitating the West could only take its dross.

Liu Naicheng also belongs to the "constitutionalism faction", and he greatly appreciates the book "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", because he advocates the cultivation of the spirit of the system, which happens to be consistent with the ideas expressed in "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli".

On the construction of the current Chinese system, Liu Naicheng and Zhang Qiyun have great differences. The former strongly advocates the Westernization of the political system, and everything is based on the system and the law; The latter argues that moral construction should not be ignored either, that morality can compensate for the shortcomings of the system, and that China's current situation does not allow for the full realization of the rule of law.

Cai Qiao, the founder of Chinese physiology and the future academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was pulled in by the two to comment, but Cai Qiao didn't know anything about politics and could only be a peacemaker in the middle.

Fei Xiaotong carefully analyzed China's underlying economy and people's living conditions from the perspectives of sociology and anthropology. He believes that it is useless to shout any slogans of the rule of law and morality now, because the rule of officials has collapsed from the central government, and the only way to win the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is to gradually solve political problems.

Liu Naicheng was not happy, and immediately quarreled with Fei Xiaotong. He believed that it was precisely because of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that he could take advantage of this opportunity to realize constitutional government and carry out political reform in the interests of the country and the nation.

Everyone was arguing, only Xiao Zuoliang watched the play silently.

The six scholars came from different schools, Jin Yuelin for Southwest Associated University, Fei Xiaotong for Yunnan University, Cai Qiao for Central University, Liu Naicheng for Wuhan University, Zhang Qiyun for Zhejiang University, and Xiao Zuoliang for Sichuan University.

Among the six, Fei Xiaotong is the most famous and the most well-known to Americans. His book "Jiangcun Economy" was hailed as "a milestone in the development of anthropological fieldwork and theoretical work" by the British and American circles as early as four years ago, and he is also a well-known figure in the international anthropological community.

And Xiao Zuoliang is the least famous, and he is completely a foil. He was mentioned in later generations, often when discussing the Communist Party's land reform policy, and this gentleman has studied the history of the Communist Party's land reform.

After more than half a month of continuous debate, these scholars finally set off, and Jin Yuelin also put down Lin Huiyin and hurried back. Their route to the United States is to take the Hump route to India first, and then to the United States by sea, which is very dangerous along the way.

The so-called "hump" is a mountain pass at the southern foot of the Himalayas, which belongs to the road of international aid in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War.

In the beginning, due to the performance problems of the transport aircraft, the pilot could only fly at a low altitude, and had to cross the labyrinthine Himalayan passes. Later, the transport aircraft was improved, and finally there was no need to fly at low altitudes, but the bad weather and the interception of Japanese planes also made the Hump route extremely high in distress.

Fairbank also wanted to invite Zhou Hexuan to the United States for exchange this time, but Zhou Hexuan didn't do it because he was afraid of falling headlong into the Himalayas.

After the scholars left, Zhou Hexuan called Zhou Weilie and Zhou Lingjun and asked them to talk about their thoughts on listening to the quarrel between top scholars. As for the other children, it is not necessary, because they are too young to learn at all.

Zhou Lingjun concluded: "Uncle Liu always talks about big truths, Uncle Zhang is very stubborn, and the more noisy the two of them become, the more confused they become. I think Uncle Fei won the quarrel, and Uncle Liu and Uncle Zhang didn't talk much later. ”

"What do you think, Verri?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Zhou Weilie said disdainfully: "It's useless to quarrel around, it's better to do something practical." ”

Zhou Hexuan laughed: "This kind of quarrel is really useful at the national level, you can't bury your head in doing things, you must determine the right way of thinking." Just like when you solve a math problem, you first need to grasp the key points of the problem and then determine how to solve it. Do you think that's the truth? ”

"That's right, we have to figure out the crux of the matter first." Zhou Weilie nodded.

Zhou Hexuan asked Duanmu Yuliang again: "What does Jingping think?" ”

Duanmu Yuliang has lived in the Zhou Mansion for the past few months, and has helped Zhou Hexuan check a lot of Ming history materials. He said: "Professor Fei Xiaotong's starting point is the actual situation at the bottom of the society, and he has visited many villages and towns in Yunnan, and he uses data everywhere to speak. Professor Zhang Qiyun focuses on the overall situation and considers it from the perspective of the government. Professor Liu Naicheng, on the other hand, is keen on institutional construction, and he wants to build a good institutional framework before carrying out reform. However, the views of Professor Zhang and Professor Liu are a bit out of touch with the reality of China, and they cannot help but be taken for granted. ”

Zhou Hexuan sighed and said: "China is like this now, and those bureaucrats in the central government are detached from the grassroots one by one like Zhang Qiyun. And most liberal scholars think about constitutionalism every day, blindly pursuing democracy like Liu Naicheng. There are very few people like Fei Xiaotong, and they have no right to speak, so they can only bury their heads in the pile of papers. Lu Yuwen, director of the Henan Provincial Food Bureau, was very honest when he was an economist, but when he was in charge, his butt decided his head, and Henan was made a mess by him. ”

During the famine in Henan, the attitudes of the military and political factions were very bizarre, which was completely out of people's consistent thinking.

It stands to reason that soldiers should ignore the people for the sake of military rations, and the government should reduce requisitions for the sake of the people.

But on the contrary, with the exception of the tyrannical Tang Enbo, most of the generals on the Henan side advocated disaster relief. Jiang Dingwen, commander of the First Theater of Operations, called on his soldiers to save two taels of food every day and use the remaining rations to relieve the victims. Li Jiayu, the general of the Sichuan army, was so worried about the disaster that he ran to find He Yingqin, but was reprimanded by He Yingqin.

On the contrary, it was the officials of the Henan government who, from top to bottom, ignored the disaster and famine, and carried out nonsense under the banner of requisitioning military rations and serving the country during the War of Resistance.

"Therefore, the Nationalist Government is about to die, and the future is the world of the Communist Party." Duanmu Yuliang made no secret of his pro-communist attitude.

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "Don't say this when you go out." ”

Duanmu Yuliang said: "Teacher, I am going to Guangxi, and Mr. Ouyang Yuqian invited me to join the Guangxi Art Museum to create patriotic repertoire of the Anti-Japanese War. ”

Zhou Hexuan didn't keep it, and said: "If the travel fee is not enough, go to Le Yi to withdraw it." ”