In mid-September, "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" was about to be serialized in the UK, and Zhou Hexuan, who had dug a big hole, boarded the ship to return to China in style.

In addition to Vivien Leigh, she was accompanied by Arthur Henderson, the leader of the British Labour Party, and George Bernard Shaw, a great figure in the British theater industry.

The Independent Labour Party (IDP) has completed its general election, and its new leader, George Lansbury, will not take office until October. That is to say, Arthur Henderson, the former British foreign secretary, has lost all party and government posts and has become an ordinary little old man, who can go to China to visit without restraint.

During the ocean trip, Arthur Henderson had a pleasant conversation with George Bernard Shaw. They are old friends and share the same political philosophy, and they are constantly discussing the future of the Labour Party and how to implement progressive socialism in Britain.

In the three months since Zhou Hexuan left China, many major events have happened.

For example, Chang Kaishen held a military conference in Lushan, which set "fighting outside the country must first secure the interior" as a basic national policy, and gathered 630,000 troops to launch the fourth military encirclement and suppression of the red zone.

Another example is that Japan officially began armed immigration to the northeast, and the immigrants were organized in the form of an army, issued weapons, and practiced farming and warfare. None of the Japanese immigrants who stayed in the Northeast after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War were innocent, because they were soldiers or military dependents!

Just when Zhou Hexuan left the UK, the Northeast Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Kwantung Army and won a beautiful victory. The Kwantung Army launched a retaliatory action, killing more than 3,000 villagers in Jiajiagou, Pingdingshan, and Qianjinbao, creating the "Pingdingshan Massacre" that exterminated humanity.

When Zhou Hexuan arrived in Shanghai by boat, the League of Nations Investigation Group issued the "Report of the League of Nations Investigation Group," acknowledging that Northeast China was an integral part of China's territory, denying that Japan's launching of the September 18 Incident was "legitimate self-defense," and affirming that the puppet state of Manchukuo was a tool concocted by Japan against the will of the people in Northeast China. In light of these elements, the League of Nations appears to be upholding justice for China, but the report also adds a special system of high degree of autonomy in the northeast under foreign protection.

In other words, the League of Nations attempted to turn the three northeastern provinces into an international condominium area, thereby replacing Japan's monopoly on the northeast.

It's like having your house occupied by a bully, and then inviting a group of bullies to administer justice. The group of bullies said that this house was not owned by anyone and should be taken out for everyone to share.

As soon as this report was released, it was immediately strongly opposed by the Chinese people, as well as by the Japanese Kwantung Army.

The situation is more delicate in both countries, with both the Chinese and Japanese governments inclined to accept the League of Nations' rulings. However, the Chinese government did not dare to openly express its support because of the boiling public opinion, while the Japanese cabinet was constrained by the military department and behaved repeatedly and submissively.

In another six months, the Japanese cabinet will succumb to the threat of the military department and publicly announce its withdrawal from the League of Nations, and the Report of the League of Nations Investigation Mission will thus become waste paper.

Of course, there is no good news in China, such as the Nanjing government's announcement of the implementation of compulsory education policy, and the promulgation of the "Outline of the First Phase of the Implementation of Compulsory Education Measures" and the "Implementation Measures for Short-term Compulsory Education".

The "Outline" stipulates that the period from August 1932 to July 1935 is the "first phase", requiring all localities to set up "compulsory education experimental zones" during this period, and to adopt a compulsory system for school-age children - it is illegal not to study. The Measures supplement the problems left over from the past: in order to provide relief to older out-of-school children, short-term compulsory education can be introduced, and "short-term primary schools" can be set up to eradicate illiteracy.

During the entire period of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, the Ministry of Education was probably the hardest worker. No matter how fierce the factional struggle of Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng is, their goals and ideals are the same, that is, "education to save the country"!

In order to achieve the goal of saving the country through education, Cai Yuanpei, Li Shizeng, and their henchmen conscientiously formulated various education laws and regulations. In light of China's dire situation, various remedies were devised such as the large-scale establishment of "short-term primary schools" to eradicate illiteracy, but as a result, there was a serious shortage of teachers, so they hurriedly set up tuition-free simple normal schools to train primary school teachers.

In 1931, the number of students in the national simple normal school was only 20,875, and by 1932, when it was vigorously implemented, this number had soared to 59,006 by 1933. Many of the students who graduated from this simple normal school went on to become primary school teachers, making great contributions to the literacy campaign in New China.

From 1929 to 1936, China's government investment in education was relatively stable, and local warlords, not to mention the central government, would attach importance to education.

What the education funds of the Republic of China must account for 30% of the financial revenue, this kind of talk is a lie, and only the fruit fans who have smoked their brains will believe it. Although it is not 30%, it has 3.3% (data from the First China Education Yearbook, 1991 edition), and the Nanjing Nationalist Government has done significantly better than the Beiyang government in education, even if the development is slow, but at least it is developing.

It was not until the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance against Japanese aggression in 1937 that China's education situation fell into a trough again. It is not uncommon for university and secondary school teachers to be paid in arrears, and primary school teachers are barely paid, and many primary school teachers have to work to make ends meet while teaching with enthusiasm. Like the situation in the movie "Donkey Gets Water", it is almost impossible to happen, using a donkey to eat empty salary? Oh, don't think about it!

Education is a matter of the utmost importance to a country and a nation, and it is no less important than the development of industry and the military.

One of the very important reasons why China has been able to develop rapidly after the reform and opening up is that it has universalized nine-year compulsory education. Even for ordinary migrant workers, there is a world of difference between literate and illiterate, which is a super wealth hidden in the Chinese people.

Doesn't India want to overtake China? It's a matter of trouble to popularize education first.

The ship slowly sailed towards the Shanghai dock, Vivien Leigh stood on the deck and looked out, and said happily: "China is more prosperous than I imagined, I thought it was another India." ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "What you see is the most prosperous city in China. ”

Arthur Henderson and George Bernard Shaw also took to the deck, and George Bernard Shaw said: "I have received letters from Chinese readers, and I have discussed Chinese theater in them, and I have heard that Chinese Peking Opera has caused a sensation in the United States? ”

"You can talk to Mr. Mei Lanfang from China, who is a top drama master." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Woo~~~~"

The whistle sounded, and the ship began to dock.

Zhou Hexuan found that the docks were full of people, most of whom had come to greet George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Henderson. One is a famous British drama champion in China, and the other is a former British foreign secretary, and people from the cultural circles, military and political circles will definitely flock to greet Einstein's visit to China.