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The University of the Republic of China held a special meeting, and only four members of the nine members of the Educational Administration Committee (Cai Yuanpei, Li Shizeng, Wei Wei, and Zhang Naiyan) were present at the meeting today.

Among the other five committee members, Wang Zhaoming is now secretly doing things in Shanghai, and has no time to discuss education issues; Xu Chongqing and Jin Zengcheng both presided over education and party affairs in Guangdong; Chu Minyi has just gone abroad to Europe to study public health issues; Chung Wing-kwong is engaged in education in the Lingnan area.

Let's talk about Cai Yunpei, Li Shizeng, Wei Wei and Zhang Naiyan who attended the meeting.

Cai Yunpei and Li Shizeng, together with Zhang Jingjiang and Wu Zhihui, are known as the "Four Elders of the Kuomintang", also known as the "Four Elders of the Party-State". Therefore, Cai Yunpei and Li Shi had a conflict a while ago, and it was not the turn of Hu Shi, a junior, to come out to speak, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was immediately ridiculed and reprimanded by Wu Zhihui.

Zhang Naiyan is Zhang Jingjiang's nephew, and is now in charge of the education affairs of the Central University (Capital Region Education Department), and has some personal grudges with Cai Yuanpei.

As for Wei Wei, I'm afraid no one has guessed that this gentleman is a secret member of our party, but he has not gone through the formal procedures for joining the party.

Last year, Cai Yunpei actively instigated the "purging of the party" and killed many Red Party members and suspected Red Party elements, but invited the real Red Party Wei Wei back from Britain to be the director of the Shanghai Education Bureau, and later recommended Wei Wei to serve as a member of the Ninth National Congress of the Education Administrative Committee.

It's hard to prevent it!

Among the four committee members attending the meeting, Cai Yuanpei and Wei Wei were one faction, and Li Shizeng and Zhang Naiyan were one faction. As for Zhang Jingjiang and Wu Zhihui in the "Four Elders of the Kuomintang", they both followed Chang Kaishen to Beiping at this time, but they supported Li Shizeng.

To put it bluntly, Cai Yunpei is already lonely in the education system, who let him offend Zhang Jingjiang last year.

When Zhou Hexuan came to the venue, there were only two or three sparse people inside, including Li Shuhua, head of the physics department of Peking University.

Li Shuhua immediately got up and greeted: "Hello Mr. Zhou!" ”

Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "How is the research on the human harvester of Peking University?" ”

Li Shuhua, who is directly in charge of the development of the harvester, said happily: "After five improvements, the harvester can now threshh wheat and rice perfectly, but there are still some problems when harvesting sorghum and other miscellaneous grains." ”

"But for sure, the ears of sorghum rice are too different from wheat and rice after all." Zhou Hexuan said.

Li Shuhua said: "This time I came to Nanjing, I also brought the machine. The southern region is about to harvest rice, which is just in time. ”

Zhou Hexuan asked: "How are you going to promote the harvester?" ”

Li Shuhua said eagerly: "I plan to contact the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Industry, and the government will carry out a comprehensive promotion. ”

"How will the proceeds be distributed?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Li Shuhua froze: "Well, I haven't thought about it yet." I think the harvester is good for the country and the people, and the commercial interest is secondary. ”

Alas, Zhou Hexuan can only sigh that intellectuals are too naïve.

Zhou Hexuan shook his head and said: "Brother Runzhang, do you know the truth of 'Zilu is persuaded by others to be virtuous, and Zigong is humble and stops good'?" ”

Zilu and Zigong were both students of Confucius, Zilu rescued the man who fell into the water and accepted a gift of thanks from a cow, and Confucius praised him; Zigong ransomed many Lu people, but refused to be compensated by the state, and thus suffered criticism from Confucius.

Because accepting the thank-you gift will make people see the return of the benefits of saving people, more people will save people. The refusal of state compensation makes people see the loss of good deeds, which leads to fewer and fewer people to redeem the Lu people.

"You mean......" Li Shuhua was a little puzzled.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Why do the great powers have so many scientific inventions? Because invention is profitable. The design drawings I provided to the harvester of Peking University were researched and invented by you, and the main role is indeed to benefit the country and the people. But if the inventor doesn't get any benefits, will the students of Peking University still be so active in inventing in the future? Will other Chinese scientists and inventors still be so keen on inventions? ”

"Uh......" Li Shuhua was speechless, and suddenly said, "Principal Zhou, Shuhua has been taught!" ”

"Have you applied for a patent for your invention?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Li Shuhua said: "I am applying. ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "After the meeting, I will take you to Shanghai to meet Mr. Yu Qiaqing and discuss with him about the commercialization of harvesters." ”

"That's just right." Where did Li Shuhua dare to object.

Zhou Hexuan asked again: "I heard that Peking University was renamed Zhonghua University, and I, the president, were removed?" ”

Li Shuhua was a little embarrassed, because he was a student in France, and Li Shi was equivalent to his mentor. In history, after Li Shi became the president of Chung Hua University (Peking University), he did not have the energy to preside over the affairs of the university, and the acting president was Li Shuhua.

After a moment of silence, Li Shuhua whispered: "I visited Mr. Shi Zeng last night and persuaded him, and he explained the reason to me. Now many people criticize Mr. Shi Zeng, saying that he is nepotistic, but in fact, he can't help it. The Nationalist Government wanted to control the education sector, and Mr. Shi Zeng wanted to be independent in education. In order to realize his ideals, he must appoint cronies, otherwise the power of education will be taken away by the government! The old principal (Cai Yuanpei) had already compromised with the government, and the two of them had a fierce conflict at this time. ”

Zhou Hexuan was silent.

Bad people do bad things, just to make people angry; Good people do bad things for the sake of beautiful ideals, but they can make people feel sad.

Li Shizeng was indeed a good man, he did not want to be an official, nor did he want to get involved in political disputes. But in order to realize the ideal of educational independence, Li Shi once became an official, and he also took the initiative to set off a factional struggle that he hated so much, and even did not hesitate to be infamous because of it.

But why did Li Shi say that he had done bad things with good intentions?

Li Shizeng's education reform was mainly modeled after the French education system. However, the actual situation in France and China is too different, and although Li Shizeng has made corresponding changes, these changes have not helped at all.

Li Shizeng's education reform was not only feared by the Nationalist Government, but also led to a scolding in the national education system. Especially the grassroots education personnel, who had a hard time, were reformed by Li Shizeng, and there was really no way to live.

In the face of the joint crusade between the government and the people, Li Shizeng was not discouraged. He is an idealist, he has made educational independence his lifelong pursuit, he has been abused and attacked by others, and he has broken through the south wall and does not look back.

It can only be said that the starting point is good, but the eye is high. Li Shizeng's educational reform even led to bloodshed in history, and the final result could only be failure.

Cai Yuanpei is much more sober and understandable, he and Li Shizeng have been like-minded for more than ten years, and have been working hard for educational independence. But when he saw the various contradictions caused by the reform, he immediately relented and embarked on the road of compromise.

Today's dispute between Cai and Li is not just a factional struggle, but also a struggle between reality and ideals.