Subtitle of this chapter: Aren't the Ku Klux Klan Knights and Teutonic Knights both horse-owned?

"Mr. Yuan, this joke is not funny. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Professor Adams, I'm really not kidding."

It's the first Monday in October 1920 at New York University's Stern School of Business, and he's in conversation with his academic advisor, Professor Irving Adams.

New York University (NYU), founded in 1831, is one of the largest private universities in the United States. It is also the only prestigious school in the United States located on Manhattan Island, in the heart of New York.

Founded in 1900, the Stern School of Business, where Yuan Yanqian studied, is also a world-renowned business school. Because he originally planned to become a bank general manager, his master's degree was biased towards accounting and finance.

But now this second-year student who didn't even attend classes was going to write a doctoral dissertation on the title of "Socialism". This took his academic mentor, Professor Owen Adams, by surprise.

Professor Adams, like most white men in his late middle age, had a shiny head, a belly and a double chin, and a goatee, as was customary at the time, and looked a little mediocre. But in fact, he is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted, and very professional educator.

Professor Adams is a Southern State student. His fellow villagers had just found a new hobby, which was to walk around at night in white robes, peaked hats, horses, and torches, bringing warmth to African-Americans and taking them on swings. In 1920, the Ku Klux Klan was formed and after the Civil War finally found the right emperor, and under his leadership the peak of this "white empire" was approaching, and its influence also expanded from the south to the Midwest, as well as to the northern states, and even to Canada. Among the four million white knights even include the next two U.S. presidents (author's note: one is Harding, who the Ku Klux Klan claims to be a member of, but I do not admit or deny; The other was Truman, who did pay $10 in party dues but later quit.)

As a high-level intellectual, Professor Adams's approach was much more refined and subtle. Although it can't be seen on the surface, more than a year ago, when Yuan Yanqian happened to see Mr. Professor, who is usually a dignified teacher, holding a little African girl with a dark complexion, she felt his broad mind, so she couldn't bear to excitedly step forward to say hello......

So their master-apprentice relationship is really good, if it weren't for Yuan Yanqian's academic discouragement, the professor might have opened his eyes and closed his eyes to let him pass. And if it weren't for this relationship, it is unlikely that Yuan Yanqian, who didn't even attend classes, would still have retained his university status.

Sitting behind the desk, Professor Adams looked at the Chinese student in front of him with a suspicious expression, put on reading glasses, picked up the outline of the paper brought by Yuan Yanqian and read it carefully. No matter how unreliable your students are. But since this "Chonky" has sent a rather similar outline...... And he also knows how to keep the little secrets between the two, and of course he has to take a look at it as an academic tutor.

Author's note: The word Chonky is indeed a contemptuous term for white Americans at that time specifically targeting the Chinese, but as the future Klan Klan Knight, Professor Adams used this word to refer to Yuan Yanqian with a certain degree of "praise". This is because Chonky is different from Chink and Chinaman, which refer to Chinese people with white physical or psychological characteristics, which are actually the so-called "high-class Chinese".

Yuan Yanqian studied at Hujiang University in Shanghai, which is itself an American-run church school, and he spent three years in New York, so he is fluent in English with almost no accent; In addition, like the vast majority of Westernized intellectuals in this era, his dress and demeanor are also deliberately "foreign"; Of course, the most important thing is that Yuan Yanqi, who has been crossed, has the kind of high-spirited and confident temperament that is rarely seen when contemporaries face foreigners.

Although he is a professor of applied economics who focuses on the banking and financial industry, Professor Adams, as an insider, can still see something from this outline. This very interesting and infrequent student does have a bit of weight to write a thesis, and this topic is indeed a popular fried chicken, but he is still a little unsure.

This is because NYU's Stern School of Business focuses on applied economics, and is actually specifically designed to train fresh blood for Wall Street, and was even set up on Wall Street from the beginning. Students from this business school are expected to work as middle and senior managers in major banks, investment funds, stock exchanges and accounting firms.

The philanthropic Professor Adams can certainly read the ordinary person as a book or a paper asset income statement, but to evaluate an academic work of theoretical economics, it is necessary to summon new elves...... Well, Professor.

"Mr. Yuan, please wait a minute." With that, he picked up the outline of his dissertation and walked out of his office.

About twenty minutes later, sitting on the comfortable back chair, Yuan Yanqi, who was fighting with his eyelids, heard the sound of the door opening, he was in good spirits, and immediately stood up and looked back. In addition to the short and fat Professor Adams, there was also a tall, thin, serious-looking, well-groomed, middle-aged white man with round-rimmed glasses. He was going to change into Gothic armor and hold a two-handed sword in his hand, and that would be a proper Teutonic knight.

"Hello, Professor Chandler."

His name was Julian H. Chandler, a native of Pennsylvania, who was one of the few professors of political science at Stern College, and knew that he was of German descent by his appearance and style. Even in the 21st century, the descendants of German immigrants in Vaulted Stone (Pennsylvania's nickname) still make up the highest proportion of its population, more than a quarter, and claim that "Cantonese was the official language of one vote away from that...... Well, the German "federal state." In fact, his middle name H is Heinrich, and this brother originally had "Erma von" in his name. However, because of the First World War, the descendants of German immigrants who loved (American) countries could not care about the glory of their ancestors for the sake of patriotism, and many of them removed the word "Erma von" representing aristocratic status.

Although even the Ivy League will not be squeezed into it in the future, NYU is also a well-known university in the United States after all, and it has an ambition to catch up with Harbin (Buddha) and Chaoye (Lu). After graduating from my own business school, I can't all go to Wall Street to be vampires, but I also have to train a few political werewolves for my greater America...... Well, elites, after graduation, they can become members of the Senate and House of Representatives, governors of various states and even the general of the United States, otherwise the alumni will not look good. (The U.S. imperialist commander did not, but later poured out a Chinese ...... who "took responsibility for everything".) If he dies, of course, he must be called the "Ma Ying-jeou Commander" of the underworld. ）

The political science professor who was not familiar with Yuan Yanqian nodded coldly and said, "Hello, Mr. Yuan." ”

After the three of them sat down, Chandler flipped through the outline of the essay in his hand and spoke first, he stared at the face of the Chinese student and said in a cold voice: "Mr. Yuan, is this really written by you?" ”