Fu Donghua was holding a black leather bag in his hand, and Shi Shiran walked into Central University. On the campus path, he stopped a student who was hurrying and asked, "This classmate, is Mr. Zhou Hexuan Zhou at school?" ”

The student said, "You're also here to listen to Mr. Zhou's speech?" Let's go, let's go together. ”

"Speech?" Fu Donghua was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "Yes, I'm here to listen to Mr. Zhou's speech." ”

The student walked quickly with Fu Donghua, and kept urging: "Hurry up, hurry up, if you are slow, you won't be able to occupy a seat!" ”

Fu Donghua had to trot with his bag, and only came to the auditorium more than ten minutes later, only to see that the entrance of the auditorium was full of people. Looking at it like that, let alone occupying a seat, it's hard to say whether you can squeeze in.

Suddenly, all the students in the auditorium poured out, and I didn't know what was going on inside.

The students who brought Fu Donghua to the auditorium hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Classmates, why is everyone leaving?" ”

The man replied: "There are too many people to fit in the auditorium, so the lecture is temporarily moved to the big playground." ”

"Not enough auditoriums?" The students were amazed.

Chung-Ang University has the largest auditorium in the country, with more than 2,700 seats, but it has not yet been completed. The main reason is that the money is not enough, and the work has been stopped at the moment, and after the new president Zhu Jiahua takes office, he can get a government loan to continue the construction - that is, the auditorium of Southeast University in the future.

Fu Donghua came to the big playground with the students, and in just a moment, thousands of people gathered in the playground, densely packed with black heads.

"There are too many people, just a speech." Fu Donghua muttered to himself.

Zhou Hexuan was also frightened, and said with a smile Duan Xipeng: "Principal Duan, there are so many students in your school. ”

Duan Xipeng said: "Not all of them are students of Central University. I just asked, and there are other students from other schools in Nanjing, who heard that Mr. Zhou was going to give a speech, and they skipped class and came to listen to it. ”

Skipping class to listen to a lecture?

Zhou Hexuan was sweating wildly, and he didn't know what to say.

Students in the Republic of China like to engage in activities, and speeches are one of them, and they not only like to give speeches themselves, but also like to listen to celebrity speeches.

This summer, when Lu Xun gave a speech at Peking University, he temporarily changed the lecture venue, also because the auditorium could not accommodate people - students from several schools in Peking came to visit.

Duan Xipeng asked someone to get an iron megaphone, handed it to Zhou Hexuan and said, "Mr. Zhou, use this, I didn't prepare a microphone." ”

Zhou Hexuan walked up to the rostrum, raised the megaphone and said, "Hello everyone, students! ”

The noisy and noisy playground was instantly quiet, but it only paused for a few seconds, and suddenly it became noisy again.

"That's Mr. Zhou? He's so tall. ”

"Mr. Zhou is so young, he doesn't look like he is 30 years old."

"Real people are more handsome than they are in the newspapers."

“……”

In the face of the students' comments, Zhou Hexuan did not continue to speak, but stood silently on the stage, smiling and holding his hands.

After about two or three minutes, the playground gradually quieted down, and Zhou Hexuan said: "I also have two arms and one head, and I don't have any three heads and six arms, have you seen enough?" ”

This joke made the atmosphere much more relaxed, and a handful of students actually replied in unison: "I haven't seen enough!" ”

"Then give everyone two more minutes and take a good look!" Zhou Hexuan raised his hands as he spoke, and turned to let the students look to the side and back.

"Hahaha!"

There was a burst of laughter in the playground.

Zhou Hexuan raised the megaphone again and said: "This is the first speech I have given in Nanjing, and I am very happy to have so many students come to listen, and it seems that some people have skipped class because of this." For those students who skip class to listen to the lecture, I have to remind you to bring your teachers with you next time. ”

"Hahahaha." Another burst of laughter.

With a few opening sentences to get closer to the students, Zhou Hexuan began to get to the point:

"What are you going to talk about today? It's not academic. Mr. Chen Yinke of Tsinghua University has already explained the lecture thoroughly, and he said, "Only this spirit of independence and free thought have been worshiped for thousands of years, and they have been with the world for a long time, and there are three lights and eternal light." The spirit of independence and the idea of freedom are high pursuits, and I encourage them with you.

Fourteen years ago, when Mr. Cai Xiaomin was the president of Peking University, he also gave a speech. He encouraged the students to study hard and not waste their time, lest they be forced to make a living in the future without the ability to become a teacher, and even more so to the country if they become officials. As long as you learn the skills, you will be able to show your strengths in the future, whether it is to support your family, to serve the country, or to pursue scientific truth.

These two gentlemen, after all the things that need to be said, I will not pick up people's teeth.

Today I will talk about something else, about the nation and the state.

A few days ago, I had a meeting with some linguistics experts, and one of the important topics discussed was whether or not Chinese characters should be abolished. Why this discussion? Because China is ignorant, poor, and backward! Backward to the point where the people of the country completely deny themselves, what kind of bad will a country become, and then they will ponder abolishing their own words!

There is a big country to the west of us, called India, and the official language of this country has become English. I don't want China to be like that, and in the future, everyone will have to use English to write a lawsuit and a complaint.

Some people may say that China's current situation is weak and poor since the Ming and Qing dynasties. What Confucianism restricts the development of science, what emperor dictatorship hinders democracy and the rule of law, so some people clamored for the downfall of Confucius, and some called for the abandonment of all old traditions. It seems that today's poverty and weakness are all due to the bad things left by our ancestors, and as long as we throw away these old dross, China can suddenly become a big and powerful country.

Is that really the case?

If a person suffers from poverty, should he complain that his father and mother are incompetent? If a country is poor and weak, should it blame its ancestors for its legacy and descendants?

If you want me to say, we should work hard to make the country stronger. Lest in a few decades, our children and grandchildren say, look, it is the people of the previous generation who have harmed the country like this, so that we will continue to be the citizens of a weak country! ”

Zhou Hexuan's tone became more and more excited, and no students made any more noises, and they all looked at him intently.

Zhou Hexuan continued:

"Some people will ask, why is China so weak and always oppressed by foreigners? My answer is that there are many reasons, but by no means because we Chinese are stupid, nor are we Chinese inferior.

But unfortunately, there are many people who hold this view in reality. As soon as they saw foreigners, they bowed their heads, and they couldn't straighten their waists at all, and looked up to foreigners from their hearts, as if white people were superior people, and yellow people were naturally inferior.

We have been arrogant in China before, and I won't talk about the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, everyone must know it. Even in the cowardly Song Dynasty, the Song people regarded themselves as the subjects of the kingdom and looked down on the Liao, Jin and Tangut people.

First of all, we must be spiritually self-reliant and self-reliant, and do not think that the Chinese are inferior to Westerners. We need to work hard to catch up, instead of feeling sorry for ourselves all day long.

Some people may think that the gap between countries is too great, and China will not be able to catch up with the United States and Britain in a hundred years. I disagree with this view, and I firmly believe that China will surely rejuvenate and rise again to stand tall among the world's great powers.

The United States is now in an economic crisis, Washington, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, ...... Hundreds of people starve to death every day on the streets of these big cities. Far from being alarmist or rhetorical, the number of people starving to death in the United States must have been more than 100,000 throughout 1930.

The economic crisis in the United States has spread to Europe and Japan. Germany and Britain were particularly miserable, and according to the current situation in Germany, it was certain that the crisis could only be passed on by war, and the same was true for Japan. I dare predict that within ten years, Germany will attack France, and Japan will invade China. At that time, it was a world war, and the Second World War was an unavoidable crisis for China. The danger, the danger of destroying the country and the extinction of the species, is also a nirvana of rebirth. As long as China can survive it, it will be able to seize the opportunity to revive again!

I and you will witness the rise of China with our own eyes, and we must also contribute to the rise of China! ”

Zhou Hexuan's words became farther and farther away, and both students and teachers were dumbfounded.

What the hell was World War II?

Faintly, everyone felt a little excited. If China seizes this historical opportunity, as Zhou Hexuan said, it may really be able to become stronger.

The next words, Zhou Hexuan almost shouted: "As a student, what you have to do is to study hard." Those who study engineering will make machines and weapons for China in the Great War in the future; Those who study science, whether physics or chemistry, are the cornerstone of the country's strong rejuvenation; Those who study law and diplomacy also have a heavy burden, and after China wins the war, it will still need to rely on you to try the war criminals of the enemy country in the international court! Those who study agriculture and medicine are responsible for the development of the national economy and people's livelihood! Those who study teachers, literature, and history should ...... All of us must be twisted into a rope, let us study for the rise of China, and strive for the rise of China! ”

"Study for the Rise of China!"

"Strive for the rise of China!

I don't know who shouted first, as if it could be contagious, and enthusiastic slogans suddenly floated over the entire playground.

Fu Donghua is a translator, and he was entrusted by the Commercial Printing House to come to Nanjing from Shanghai to find Zhou Hexuan to contact the translation and publication of "Titanic".

At this moment, hearing Zhou Hexuan's speech, Fu Donghua's blood boiled inexplicably. He raised his fist high and shouted with the students around him: "Study for the rise of China, fight for the rise of China!" ”

Zhou Hexuan calmed down his emotions and said slowly: "Students, I'm not guessing, let alone talking nonsense. If you know friends who are studying in Japan, you can ask them how bad Japan's economy is and how widespread militaristic thinking is among the Japanese people, and they are already brazenly making propaganda and clamoring for the conquest of China by force. Before China's rejuvenation and rise, it must face the test of baptism of blood and fire. In the First Sino-Japanese War, China had already lost once, and in the next victory, China could not be defeated again. Remember! Survive the past, as long as China can survive it, there is a bright and broad road ahead! ”

Zhou Hexuan bowed deeply, carried the tin cylinder and turned to leave.