The teachers and students of Chongqing University did not react strongly to Zhou Hexuan's anti-Japanese patriotic speech, although they also shared the same hatred of the enemy, but they did not feel the pain. Perhaps only when Japan truly occupies Northeast China will countless people wake up.

In today's China, patriotic progressives are more concerned about national reunification than warlords and bureaucratic corruption, and the Japanese, a foreign enemy, are secondary.

So, at dinner time, none of us discussed Japan.

After clinking glasses, Wang Yunsong asked, "I heard that Mr. Zhou is going to open a factory in Chongqing?" ”

Liu Xiang said with a smile: "Mr. Wang is not only engaged in education, but also the president of the Chongqing General Chamber of Commerce. He founded Chongqing Electric Power Company and Chongqing Water Company, and Brother Zhou will definitely cooperate with Wang Lao when he opens a factory in Chongqing in the future. ”

"Then I have to ask President Wang, and then I need to allocate more electricity." Zhou Hexuan raised his glass and said.

Wang Yunsong smiled and said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, you and I are both fellow believers." Mr. Zhou donates more than 100,000 silver dollars every year to fund his study abroad, and he is deeply admired. Come, for the sake of China's education, drink this cup! ”

"!" Zhou Hexuan drank it boldly.

There are many patriotic capitalists in the Republic of China, Lu Zuofu is counted as one, and Wang Yunsong is also counted as one. He not only organized the sending of Deng Gong, Chen Shuai, Nie Shuai and others to study in France, but also sent 50,000 silver dollars to take care of their lives when the students were expelled by France, otherwise several founding fathers of New China would have to return to China ahead of schedule.

Lu Zifang suddenly said: "Mr. Zhou, you have been the president of Peking University, and you are an expert in university education, can you help us with our staff?" ”

"Counselor what?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

"That's right," Lu Zifang explained, "Chongqing University currently has no undergraduate courses, and only enrolls three preparatory classes, what do you think should be set up for undergraduate departments?" ”

The new site of Chongqing University has been chosen, just off the other side of Shapingba. Classrooms and dormitories are now being built, with a total investment of 180,000 oceans, and the funds are raised by Mayor Pan Wenhua and the Finance Department of the 21st Army. That is to say, the initial construction cost of Chongqing University actually came from Liu Xiang's military spending.

Compared with the embezzlement of education funds and Geng funds by the Nanjing Nationalist Government, Liu Xiang, a warlord in this area, is still a clear person, and the embezzlement of military funds to establish a university is commendable.

Zhou Hexuan did not answer immediately, but asked rhetorically: "Nowadays, there are British models, French models, American models and German models in Chinese universities, which model is Chongqing University going to adopt?" ”

"The college system," Wu Fangji said, "We have temporarily set up two preparatory courses, the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science, but the subjects have not yet been subdivided, and the departments will be finally decided when the undergraduate department is established." ”

Zhou Hexuan thought about it and suggested: "The College of Engineering should also have it." ”

Science and engineering, science and engineering, science and engineering are actually separate.

Many universities in the Republic of China have science majors, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc., but engineering courses are relatively lacking. In fact, engineering is of more practical significance to the construction of the country, such as mining, machinery, water conservancy, construction, etc., and the Republic of China is in urgent need of talents in these professions.

Historically, Chongqing University did not have an engineering department for a long time.

Wang Yunsong said regretfully: "Alas, we also want to build an engineering college, but Sichuan is very short of engineering talents." Biliu (Wu Fangji) also contacted his old classmates and wanted to invite a few engineering professors to give lectures in Chongqing, but when they heard that it was Sichuan, they were not interested. ”

Lu Zifang smiled bitterly: "What's the solution?" Sichuan is too remote for famous professors to come. ”

Listening to these people singing and harmonizing, Zhou Hexuan immediately understood. It turned out that it was fake to ask him to be a staff officer, and it was true that he invited an engineering professor, so he was playing a routine.

Zhou Hexuan said funny: "In this way, I will take a telegram tomorrow and ask Mr. Cai Xiaomin, Li Shizeng, and Wu Zhihui." They are quite well-known in the education world, and they should be able to hire a few engineering teachers. ”

"Haha, then thank you so much," Wang Yunsong raised his glass with a smile and said, "Old man will give Zhou Hexuan another glass!" ”

Liu Xiang's eyes lit up, and Zhou Hexuan gave him too many surprises. Now just say three people, especially three of the "four elders of the Kuomintang", this face is really big enough!

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The university education in the Republic of China is very deformed, with liberal arts students accounting for more than 90% of the total number of students, while there are very few students in science, engineering, and agriculture, and there are not even many people in business, only medicine is slightly stronger, but it is also very limited.

This has to do with the specific situation in China, because the industry is so backward that it is difficult for engineers and scientists who have graduated to find corresponding jobs.

To tell a joke, even the number of girls majoring in politics is greater than that of science and engineering.

People of insight have called for industry to save the country and science to save the country every year, and with the gradual rise of national industry, the government and the people have finally begun to attach importance to science and engineering majors. Until the eve of the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance, the number of science and engineering students rose to 30% of the total number of students, but the vast majority of them were medical and commercial majors, and the situation was still very embarrassing.

Not to mention far inland Sichuan, even in big cities such as Tianjin, Beiping, and Shanghai, it is difficult to find excellent engineering professors.

Zhou Hexuan not only sent telegrams to Cai Yuanpei, Li Shizeng and Wu Zhihui, but also found Hu Shi, Zhang Boling, Luo Jialun and others, and asked them to help recommend a few, not necessarily at the level of professors, ordinary engineering lecturers, or even teaching assistants.

So many celebrity gurus helped to find it, but the actual result was terrible.

There is not a single professor level, and only two lecturers are willing to teach at Chongqing University. There are quite a few teaching assistants who are willing to come, there are seven or eight of them, all of whom are engineering students who have no opportunity to study abroad and cannot find a job in China.

However, Wang Yunsong, Lu Zifang and others were very satisfied, and according to the specialties of the two lecturers, they decided to set up a preparatory course for mining and metallurgy and electrical engineering in Chongqing University, and then set up an engineering college when they officially upgraded their bachelor's degrees.

In the middle of nowhere, it is difficult to find even engineering professors, Zhou Hexuan can't help but feel a little sad.

Before leaving Chongqing, he donated 10,000 oceans to Chongqing University for the purchase of teaching and experimental equipment for the School of Engineering. Funnily enough, Liu Xiang forcibly arranged a school board position for Zhou Hexuan and hired him as the honorary vice president of Chongqing University.

Chongqing University is now in a strange situation, nominally belonging to Sichuan Provincial University, but the construction funds come from military and civilian funding, and like private universities, there is a school board of trustees.

In any case, in the future Chongqing University History Museum, there will definitely be an additional vice president named Zhou Hexuan.

Zhang Mouzhi continued to stay in Chongqing and was responsible for the construction of the enamel factory. Zhou Hexuan went down the river, preparing to return to Tianjin by train from Nanjing, and the Chinese translation of "Titanic" still needs to be finalized by him.