Yenching University, formerly known as Beijing Normal University, was founded in 18 years, adhering to China's thousand-year-old tradition of Taixue, somewhat mixed with some of the meaning of Western modern institutions of higher learning. Jingshi University boasts the dual identity of both the traditional Taixue system and the construction of a modern university, which not only inherits the orthodoxy of the highest university in ancient China, but also creates the beginning of modern higher education in China.

In modern times, in order to save the nation-state from peril, China's advanced intellectuals have shouted for self-improvement and self-improvement, and set off a movement for reform and reform. On June 11 of the eighth year, Emperor Guangxu promulgated the "Ming Dingguo is Edict", officially announcing the change of law. The edict emphasized: "The Jingshi University Hall is the initiative of all provinces, and it should be held first...... In order to produce a large number of talents, we will help each other in times of difficulty". On July 3, Guangxu approved the "Statute of the Proposed Beijing Normal University" drafted by Liang Qichao, which was the earliest outline of the academic system of modern higher education in China. Sun Jianai, the secretary of the ministry, was appointed as the minister in charge of the affairs of the university, and Xu Jingcheng, who had served as a minister to many countries, and Ding Yunliang, an American missionary who had served as the chief teacher of the Beijing Normal Tongwenguan for a long time, were appointed as the chief teacher of the middle school and the western school, respectively. Beijing Normal University is the first national comprehensive university in modern China, which is not only the highest university in the country, but also the highest education management institution in the country, and governs the schools of various provinces. On September 21, a coup d'état broke out, and the Hundred Restoration failed, and the University Hall was struggling to move forward with the motto of "sprouting early and not being wasted." In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion broke out and the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, making it difficult to maintain the university, and it was ordered to close on August 3.

In 1902, the hall of Beijing Normal University was restored, and Zhang Baixi, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, was appointed as the Minister of Management. Zhang Baixi recruited talents, invited Wu Rulun and Gu Hongming to serve as the chief and deputy chief teachers, and hired two major translators, Yan Fu and Lin Shu, to serve as the general office and deputy general office of the University Hall Translation and Book Bureau respectively. Founded during the Westernization Movement, the Jingshi Tongwen Museum was merged into the University Hall, and the library building was re-established in the same year. The University Hall first held the Accelerated Course and the Preparatory Course, which was divided into the Faculty Hall and the Normal Hall, which was the predecessor of today's Yenching Normal University. In 1904, the first batch of 47 students were selected to study abroad, which was the beginning of the dispatch of international students by Chinese universities. In 1910, the Beijing Normal University opened a branch university, with a total of economics, law and politics, liberal arts, gezhi, agriculture, engineering, and commerce, with 13 departments, and a comprehensive university in the modern sense began to take shape.

The first charter of the Jingshi University Hall, "The Constitution of the Prime Minister's Yamen Song Proposed Jingshi University", mentions that "the Jingshi University Hall is an example for all provinces and admired by all nations??? The schools in all provinces should be under the jurisdiction of the university hall, and they should be completed in one go." The first school system in modern China, the Statute of the King James School ("Renyin School"), stipulates that there is only one university in the country, the Jingshi University, and "the Jingshi University Hall presides over the education, which should be coordinated in accordance with the spiritual context of the whole country." All the regulations are hereby decreed to be promulgated in the provinces, and in the future the affairs of schools throughout the country shall be ??? The hall of Beijing Normal University is originally a place for graduates of various provincial schools to enter specialized courses".

From the day it was established, the Jingshi University Hall had a very strong bureaucratic color, not only as a teaching institution, but also as half of the Ministry of Education, and as a freak of both a university and an official government. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were many such freaks, for example, Beiyang had half of the functions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After the Republic of China, Beijing Normal University Hall was officially renamed Yenching University, the first president was the famous scholar Yan Fu, three years of the Republic of China, the scholar He Liao served as the president of Peking University, because of discord with Yuan Shikai, so he had the idea of retiring, and another scholar Hu Renyuan acted as the president of Peking University.

Hu Renyuan was originally an old Manchu bureaucrat and the chief engineer of the Jiangnan Shipyard. After Chai Dongliang acquired the Jiangnan Shipyard and changed its name to Guanghua Shipyard, a large number of Qing court officials who drank tea and read newspapers were dismissed, and Hu Renyuan was also among them. This public government hired a large number of former Qing relics and scholars to teach, and later was ridiculed by the press, so he hired a group of international students who returned from the book to serve as teachers at Peking University.

The predecessor of Peking University, Beijing Normal University, was originally a bureaucratic yamen, but after Hu Renyuan's hands, it became even more nondescript and became a four-way dislike.

Chai Dongliang made up his mind to sweep away the outdated atmosphere in North China and start with the "Taixue" of Yenching University in the new era!

So, he thought of a person, an educator in another time and space, who made Peking University famous all over the world, and the father of Peking University - Cai Yuanpei!

Cai Yuanpei was originally a Jinshi, and was named a Jishi of the Hanlin Academy by the Qing court. It is already very difficult for Zhongjin Shi, and it is an incomparable honor to be able to serve in the Hanlin Academy, but Cai Yuanpei resolutely gave up the compilation of the Hanlin Academy, which was extremely noble in the eyes of others, and devoted himself to the anti-Qing revolution.

After the establishment of the Republic of China, Cai Yuanpei served as the first Minister of Education, because Yuan Shikai was not pleasing to the eye, he resigned again, and after the "Second Revolution", Cai Yuanpei was implicated and had to take refuge in France. Before Yuan Shikai abdicated, he issued an amnesty decree to pardon the "war criminals" of the leaders of the "Second Revolution", including Sun Wen and Huang Xing. Cai Yuanpei was able to return to China and temporarily live in the French Concession in Shanghai.

Chai Dongliang inquired about Cai Yuanpei's whereabouts and immediately sent a telegram to Yu Qiaqing, asking him to come forward and ask Cai Yuanpei to come out of the mountain to serve as the president of Peking University. Yu Qiaqing knew that she didn't have enough face, so she bought a box of eggplant cigarettes and two jars of stinky duck eggs and found Zhang Taiyan. Zhang Taiyan was overjoyed when he saw the stinky duck eggs and foreign cigarette rolls, and pulled Yu Qiaqing to get into the car and leave.

Cai Yuanpei, even if his surname is lonely and arrogant, he doesn't dare not give Zhang Taiyan face. Not to mention that Zhang Taiyan is the spiritual leader of the Restoration Society, his status at the time of the Xinhai Revolution was second only to Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing, just because of the identity of his Chinese scholars, his disciples are full of talents, Huang Kan, Wang Dong, Zhu Xizu, Shen Jishi, Ma Yuzao, Qian Xuantong, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Wu Chengshi and others are all outstanding talents and knowledgeable.

This alone made Cai Yuanpei admire, and when he knew that it was Chai Dongliang who personally invited Zhang Taiyan to invite him, he was also a little moved. Chai Dongliang is now not only the provisional president, but also the leader of the Kuomintang, and has more achievements in recovering Mongolia and Qingdao, and has the halo of a national hero on his head. Cai Yuanpei would be a little hypocritical if he pushed back three or four times, so he agreed without saying a word.

Chai Dongliang changed into civilian clothes and accompanied Cai Yuanpei to Peking University for a field trip, and Fang Qingyu and a few guards also changed into cloth clothes, carrying a pistol in his arms to protect secretly.

The trees on the campus of Peking University have begun to shed their leaves, a late autumn scene, Cai Yuanpei is forty-five or sixteen years old, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and has the demeanor of an elegant scholar. Although the gatekeepers of Peking University didn't know them, seeing that Chai Dongliang was dressed brightly and extraordinarily, Cai Yuanpei also looked calm and not like ordinary people, so he didn't even dare to ask and let them in.

On the field at the door, a group of students were giggling in physical fitness class, and a middle-aged physical education instructor nodded and shouted respectfully to the students: "Ladies and gentlemen, please take a step forward??? Hey, by the way, please take a step forward! ”

Chai Dongliang was shocked, although he had already guessed the bureaucratic style of Peking University, but he didn't expect it to be so outrageous! The students are full of official arrogance, and the flattering faces of the teachers are disgusting. Cai Yuanpei shook his head again and again, but Fang Qingyu didn't speak with a cold face.

Chai Dongliang saw Fang Qingyu's expression, smiled bitterly and said, "Mu Chen, what's wrong with you?" ”

Fang Qingyu said stiffly: "I want to beat them!" ”

"Beat whom? Punch up a teacher or a student? ”

"Let's beat it up! Teachers are not like teachers, students are not like students, what are they! Fang Qingyu sneered.

Walking through the field, I saw a large number of students gathered at the door of the academic affairs office, scolding and swearing, and a man about fifty years old explained to them in a low voice, but the students did not buy it, and still gathered around the door of the academic affairs office and made noise.

Chai Dongliang glanced at Cai Yuanpei: "Mr. Heqing, let's take a look?" ”

Cai Yuanpei nodded and said, "Okay, look at what these bastards are doing, and see what other demon moths they can produce!" ”

Several people leaned over and listened for a while, Chai Dongliang and Cai Yuanpei couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly. Cai Yuanpei squeezed out of the crowd and shook his head and said, "President, you really feel sorry for me, you found me a good errand!" ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smiling face: "It is precisely because Peking University is stale that Mr. needs to blow a strong wind to clarify Yuyu!" I really value Mr.'s character and talent, so I dare to ask him to be the president of Peking University! Mr. Heqing, don't be surprised! ”

Fang Qingyu squeezed out of the crowd and scolded: "What kind of stuff are they!" You don't need money for school, food, books, or even accommodation, what else do you want? Don't want to pay two cents for handouts? If you don't pay for it, you don't want to pay and you want to give handouts, where is this kind of truth in the world? ”

Cai Yuanpei also sighed: "These students are used to being unlooking!" ”

Chai Dongliang also sighed: "The predecessor of this Yenching University is the Beijing Normal University Hall, as long as you enter here, it is equivalent to entering the officialdom, and you are an official when you leave the school!" The atmosphere has long been rotten! ”

Cai Yuanpei said: "When I was in Shanghai, I heard Mr. Zhang Taiyan talk about the situation at Peking University. Mr. Zhang Taiyan's disciple Huang Kan and others are teachers at Peking University, and Mr. Taiyan has also heard about the situation here! No one listens to the lectures of learned teachers, and the more uneducated teachers are, the more popular they are! ”

Chai Dongliang frowned and said, "Oh, why? ”

Cai Yuanpei said: "After the Republic of China, Peking University students are only willing to take courses in the law department, just because the faculty members of the law department are officials of the Ministry of Justice, and the students can take a shortcut to the south by virtue of the teacher-student relationship, and become officials when they leave the school. ”

Chai Dongliang said angrily: "This wind must not last!" A university is a place for learning, not a place for officials to put on a show, and it is not a reserve for officialdom! The state invests huge sums of money in higher education in order to cultivate talents, not to cultivate slaves! ”

Cai Yuanpei applauded: "Okay, that's good!" Scholars must have the personality to read, so that they can become university scholars and become the pillars of the country! ”

The two walked and chatted on campus, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and at the same time, they both felt sad about the decay and decline of Peking University. Especially Chai Dongliang is even more distressed, every year a large amount of funds are allocated to Peking University, and they all fill in the dog holes!

Before the school bell rang, groups of students had already left the school gate in a hurry, got into a foreign car and went straight to the Bada Hutong outside the front door.

Fang Qingyu was furious: "Damn, there is a rich bitch, no money to buy handouts, is this a fucking student?" ”

Chai Dongliang sneered: "Ignore them first, at most half a month, they are good-looking!" ”

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Eight alleys since ancient names, Shaanxi Baishun Stone Town, Hanjiatan string song miscellaneous, Wang Guang Xiejie lights bright, Wanfo Temple in front of the car divergence, two camp outside the road vertical and horizontal, mink Qiu high rollers know how much, clusters of rouge slope up.

The foundation stone of the Eight Hutongs was laid during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and it reached its peak in the late Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China.

During the Qianlong period, the Hui troupe entered Beijing and stayed in the Hanjiatan and Baishun Hutong areas of the Eight Hutongs, and then Sixi and Chuntai opera troupes came to Beijing one after another, and stayed in the Baishun Hutong, Shaanxi Lane and Li Tiegui Xiejie Street of the Eight Hutongs. Therefore, there is a saying in Lao Yanjing: "People do not quit the road, tigers do not quit the mountain, and those who sing opera do not leave Baishun and Hanjiatan." ”

The Qing court forbade officials to keep prostitutes, and the scholar class had been good since the Ming Dynasty and kept their families. And so the Huiban disciples who came to Beijing are boys, and the beautiful ones among them are generally male dans, who live and teach operas, and Tong Ling Xianggong is also known for his good color and art. It can be said that the prosperity of the eight major alleys in the Qing Dynasty was entirely due to the male actors. When the British envoy Lord Macartney visited China, the Christians almost fainted when they heard Qing officials talking about "child prostitution."

At the beginning of the Republic of China, the ban on the memory of women was lifted, the husband withered, and the original hall of the Eight Hutongs became the world of the Memory Academy.

At the beginning of the lanterns, the eight alleys suddenly became lively, the electric lights shined here like daylight, groups of girls stood at the door scratching their heads and making gestures, and the northern banduo was dominated by the big girls of the broken flag people, with big feet and big faces, and tall figures. Nanban is petite and delicate, and smiles lightly. Groups of ladybills flocked to them, and the girls who saw the flowers and branches were like flies and blood, and half of the bones were crisped by the girl's flying eyes and coquettish smile. In the shadows of the buildings, old and decrepit prostitutes hid in the corners, searching for ragged coolies and petty traders.

In this place, you can spend a lot of money or two cents.

The door of a private room on the second floor of the "Yixiangyuan" where Sai Jinhua once worked and fought was closed, and several young people took pictures desperately through the gaps in the curtains at the doors of several surrounding halls, and from time to time there were strong flashes of magnesium.

After each flash, they quickly closed the curtain and looked nervous like thieves.

(To be continued)