Chapter 9: The Masters I

Chapter subtitle: The Rest of My Life...... Well, it's too late to wear it!

Our Master Yuan is not ready to mix with the production and filming of "Famine Orphan Girl", after all, in today's era of great industry, even if he is a time-traveler, he can't conquer the world.

Professional affairs should be handled by professionals.

Besides, talking about money hurts feelings. Signing a contract on a budget is something that offends people, and he doesn't want to ruin his relationship with the film master, and they will continue to cooperate in the future. And he's a man with a private lawyer, just let Mr. John McCall come forward.

So, they then chatted about some problems in the filming of this script, and they happily finished the lunch.

After eating, Mr. David Griffith couldn't sit still, for a film artist like him, it would be a crime to have such an excellent script in front of him, and not to hurry up and prepare for the filming work. He immediately took his leave and returned to the hotel with the script.

Just when Yuan Yanqian wanted to make peace with Miss Ji Xu about Sino-US relations, Miss Ainyuka walked in and said, "Neo, the printing house has sent your sample book." ”

"My sample book ......" Master Yuan was in high spirits, and his "Socialism" was finally printed.

Now that he is NYU's big patron, he is likely to become an honorary director in the future, and he is worried that he will not be able to find a recommender to skip a grade and apply for a doctorate. Owen Adams, Julian Chandler and James Conant were the three who volunteered to be his recommenders.

And his doctoral dissertation was handed in last Friday. In fact, he already has his PhD., and now he just has to go through a procedure.

Well, even if he doesn't copy Mises's "Socialism" and write whatever he wants, his Ph.D. won't be a big problem. But he was still very careful.

At that time, most institutions of higher learning in the United States required each candidate for a Ph.D. to submit 100 copies of his dissertation to the school authorities. And our Master Yuan printed a thousand copies in one go, and another 900 copies are stepping stones, vowing to knock on economists all over the world.

His doctoral dissertation is about to make a big fanfare known to people all over the world, and the provincial one that is as "unclear" as "Dao Ke Tuohu" can still become a public case in the field of historiography in a few decades.

No matter how the disciples of Master Hu and the historiographical circles, especially the Taiwanese historiography circles, covered up and boasted about his old man, Hu Shizhi did not get his PhD until 1927, that is, ten years after his doctoral dissertation was written. From this point of view, he, Dr. Hu, is just like a certain "Dr. Fang" is deceiving people.

In fact, this matter was already in the United States in 1919.

On September 7, 1919, more than two years after Hu Shih had passed the final examination for his doctorate and had returned to China, Hu Shih's friend Zhu Jingnong, who was still studying in the United States, wrote to him about the incident: "There is a tasteless thing that I have to tell you today...... The nonsense of a gentleman who was 'friends in the past, but now he is a grudge'...... 'Lao Hu pretended to be a doctor' and said that 'Lao Hu did not have a 'pass' in the oral examination,...... Naturally, no one believes this statement. However, I don't have many friends at my feet, and now I can't argue with all of them, so I can only ask you to print the paper quickly, and there is no way to spread the rumors. (Author's note: excerpt from "Selected Letters of Hu Shih")

Zhu Jingnong and other friends repeatedly urged Hu Shi to quickly take self-defense measures and publish his doctoral dissertation immediately, but Dr. Hu never took action. It's not that he doesn't care about villain slander, but that he didn't get a doctorate at all at that time.

Our Master Yuan is different, he is not only a genuine "Dao Ke Yuan Yuan", but also bent on publicizing his PhD., and no one can make a mistake in the future.

This is closely related to his little life. His first systematic task is "knowledge changes fate, and academic qualifications increase qualifications." "It's not done yet.

"Ann, let the workers bring the books to the study. You've got all the envelopes, paper, and stuff, and I'm going to have a big job next......"

Since it is to be widely publicized, then it is necessary to publicize it to the economic circles all over the world, and Yuan Yanqian will write letters and send books to the masters of economics next.

In fact, he had always felt that he had crossed over a little too late, and of course his great-great-uncle and grandfather were a little too angry. For these two reasons, he missed out on a master.

Eighty-one-year-old Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School and one of the founders of the modern theory of marginal utility, died just two days earlier, on February 26, 1921.

In 1840, Karl? Born in Galicia (then Austrian territory, now part of Poland), Menger's life was not complicated, and he was one of those scholars who excelled in pure learning and then returned to academia.

In 1867 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Krakow. After graduating, he became a journalist writing about economic analysis; After a few years, he joined the Information Department of the Austrian Prime Minister's Office.

In 1873, Menger was promoted to "Distinguished Professor" at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna, which led him to abandon politics and enrol in the university. In 1876, he became mentor to the Austrian crown prince and accompanied the 18-year-old on his travels around Europe. After returning to China in 1879, he was appointed Chair Professor of Political Economy at the University of Vienna, where he lived a peaceful academic life until his death two days earlier.

When Yuan Hongjian thought of his academic development in economics, he was so angry. His great-great-uncle and grandfather were simply wasting their lives and ruining this good era.

You said that you have studied political economy, so why can't you take advantage of the fact that these masters are alive to pull the relationship. As long as you have a few handwritten letters from the master in your hand, which are the kind of handwritten letters that specialize in polite words, you ...... Well, I can go around and spread the word that these masters are blue-eyed to me.

In fact, when he found out that he was definitely going to be a "reactionary student" of neoclassical liberalism, he immediately wrote a "letter of allegiance" to Master Menger, saying how he admired this master, how he was influenced by the theory of marginal utility, and how he became a neoclassical liberal.

Unfortunately, it was the end of 1920 at this time, and the seriously ill Master Menger should not have had the strength to read the letter when he received it.

An extremely important master of economics just rubbed shoulders with our Master Yuan. And Master Yuan is missing the blessing of an important person. He was not so thick-skinned as to casually claim to be a student of Menger, so he had to be his old man's spiritual disciple.

I have to say that this is a big blow to his academic status in the future.