There are many royalists and constitutionalists in Xiao Zhenlei's staff group, such as Yang Du, Yang Shiqi, Gu Hongming and others, although these people all advocate constitutionalism and the retention of imperial power, and belong to the old school, but their intelligence is very commendable, Xiao Zhenlei was still criticized by some people in China when he recruited them to be members of the staff group, but in the past two years, Xiao Zhenlei only used their talents, but was not affected by their ideological ideas, which made many people feel at ease.

Although these people are somewhat conservative in their thinking, their intelligence and ability are not comparable to ordinary people, and many of their ideas cannot be said to be completely wrong by outsiders, such as Gu Hongming, who once said to the students of Peking University: "Many people laugh at me for being loyal to the Qing family, but my loyalty to the Qing family is not only loyal to the royal family of my family and the emperor's favor -- but to the Chinese politics and religion, that is, to the Chinese civilization."

Cixi once had a birthday, and Gu Hongming once wrote: "The Son of Heaven is ten thousand years, and the people spend money." Long life is boundless, and the people suffer". It can be seen that he is not loyal to a dynasty or an emperor, but to this nation, which has been inherited for thousands of years.

Gu Hongming has always been arrogant to others, but he is respectful to Xiao Zhenlei, perhaps in his opinion, Xiao Zhenlei is like an emperor, in his heart, he has regarded Xiao Zhenlei as the supreme ruler of this country.

After getting off work that day, Xiao Zhenlei walked out of the office, the secretary Xiao Gao followed behind, walked downstairs to the lobby, and just saw Gu Hongming also preparing to go home from work, Xiao Zhenlei stopped him: "Mr. Gu, are you going to go home?" ”

Gu Hongming hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Yes." Great President! ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "What should I do if I go to my house to sit?" I asked people to add two more dishes in the evening! ”

Gu Hongming, who was as smart as a man, immediately understood that Xiao Zhenlei invited him over definitely not just to invite him to dinner, and hurriedly agreed: "Thank you President for the invitation." Hongming is deeply honored! ”

"Then please get in the car, Kodaka. Pick up the bag for Mr. Koo! Xiao Zhenlei smiled and pointed at Xiao Gao and said.

Xiao Gao immediately walked over to help Gu Hongming carry his bag, and the two guards stepped forward to open the car door and let Xiao Zhenlei and Gu Hongming get into the car separately.

After arriving home, Xiao Zhenlei invited Gu Hongming to sit in the living room, and the two sat down on the sofa in the living room, drinking tea while waiting for dinner.

"Is Mr. Gu still teaching at Peking University?"

Gu Hongming held the teacup in both hands and said, "Yes, President! ”

Xiao Zhenlei asked: "What do you think of the current students of Peking University and other schools compared to before in terms of culture and thought?" ”

Gu Hongming saw Xiao Zhenlei ask about this. "Before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the students were very eager for foreign culture, after all, the Qing Dynasty was weak at that time, and the teachers and students among the people of insight hoped to learn advanced culture from abroad, because many people thought that the reason why the national strength of foreigners was stronger than that of our country was because of their advanced culture, but the president at that time told everyone that they could also improve their national strength if they did not learn the advanced culture of foreign countries." Just as catching up with the great powers! ”

"Now the students are studying with peace of mind, and although there are still many people still clamoring for the introduction of foreign culture, after all, they are not as loud as before!"

Xiao Zhenlei lit a cigarette and said with a smile: "This situation is inevitable, even if our country becomes stronger. But there are those who argue that we should learn from foreign cultures, because our country has been closed off for hundreds of years, and the minds of our people have been imprisoned. After the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, many people who were imprisoned in their minds longed for freedom. And those who have gone abroad and spent a long time abroad have been more or less influenced by foreign cultures! ”

"It is understood that the erosion of foreign culture has become increasingly severe. We can accept advanced foreign things and absorb them for our own use and integrate them into our own culture and ideas, but we must not allow our culture and ideas to be eroded, these two are fundamentally different! ”

Gu Hongming heard this and vaguely guessed the purpose of Xiao Zhenlei calling him over, but this was still very vague, and he had to continue to listen to Xiao Zhenlei.

Xiao Zhenlei continued: "Now foreign cultures and ideas, whether advanced or dross, are pouring into our country, especially those who have come back from the West, thinking that they have drunk a few more bottles of ink in the West and think that they have learned the essence of Western culture, thinking that foreign things are always better than domestic things, and this situation cannot be allowed to continue to spread, but the government cannot carry out administrative intervention."

Gu Hongming immediately said: "What does the president mean?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took a few puffs of cigarette and said: "I have discussed with Premier Song of the Cabinet and plan to set up a Sinology Culture Dissemination Committee in the Cabinet, which is directly under the Cabinet Education Department, and its main functions are: first, to support all kinds of educational institutions at all levels in foreign countries to carry out Chinese language teaching and the dissemination of Chinese culture; Second, to formulate, improve and promote the standards for Chinese language teachers, Chinese language proficiency standards, and general curriculum syllabuses for Chinese language teaching in foreign countries; third, to select and train Chinese language teachers to go abroad; Fourth, the development and implementation of the Chinese Proficiency Test; Fifth, support foreign educational institutions at all levels to carry out research on Chinese culture; Sixth, to establish Confucian academies in various countries and to recruit Chinese and people from all over the world to study in order to achieve the goal of propagating Chinese culture; Seventh, we should keep in close contact with other departments of education, pay attention to the learning of ancient Chinese by domestic students, and hold more activities related to poetry and poetry and ancient literature in schools, so as to improve students' interest in learning classical Chinese, poetry and poetry! All in all, it's three words, more publicity! ”

Gu Hongming was inexplicably excited, and hurriedly nodded again and again: "Okay, it's good to set up this Sinology Committee!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled, smoked a cigarette and said: "Mr. Gu has studied both Chinese and Western, is a person with university knowledge, the cabinet Premier Song yesterday submitted to me three candidates for the position of secretary general of the Sinology Committee, Mr. Gu ranked first, the other two candidates I also investigated, they are either too conservative in thinking, only proficient in Sinology, but do not understand Western studies, or are too deeply influenced by foreign culture, only Mr. Gu is proficient in Western studies and has a deep study of China's traditional essence culture, fundamentally speaking, you are deeply in love with Chinese culture, I am convinced of Mr. Gu's patriotic feelings, so I would like to appoint Mr. Gu as the secretary general of the Sinology Culture Dissemination Committee, and please ask Mr. Gu not to resign! ”

When Gu Hongming heard this, he immediately put down the teacup and took a deep breath, got up and said: "Hongming can't do industry, and it's even more difficult to engage in scientific research, but he also wants to contribute to the country, but Hongming has no power to tie the chicken, he can't pick it on his shoulders, he can't carry it, he just read some more books, he knows more about my country and Western culture than others, and he can barely stand in the education circle, but the president entrusts me with such a big thing as spreading my Chinese culture, and the president trusts me so much, Hongming is flattered, I will do my best to be loyal to my duties and spread my Chinese culture all over the world until death! ”

Xiao Zhenlei hurriedly helped him to sit down, and said with a smile: "Mr. Gu doesn't blame me for appointing you without communicating with you in advance, with Mr. Gu's ability and talent, I believe that Mr. Gu will be able to be qualified for this position, I have high hopes for Mr. Gu!" ”

"Please rest assured, President!"

The two also talked about some matters and details of the establishment of the Sinology Culture Dissemination Committee. Soon, Cheng Baguio came over and called the two to have dinner, and the two got up and went to eat together.

Gu Hongming immediately started his work after taking up the post of secretary general of the Sinology Culture Communication Committee, and the chief of education at this time was Cai Yuanpei, and the relationship between Gu Hongming and Cai Yuanpei was excellent, so Cai Yuanpei was extremely supportive of Gu Hongming's work.

After taking office, Gu Hongming discussed with Cai Yuanpei, demanding that all school classes within the scope of basic education, vocational education, adult education, and higher education increase the study of classical Chinese, poetry and songs, and stipulate that examinations should be held at the mid-term and end-of-term, and that it was also a compulsory subject during the entrance examination, and the subject scores were the same as those of other subjects.

Cai Yuanpei immediately convened high-level officials of the education department for discussion, and the result of the discussion was to send people to schools in various localities and schools directly under the education department to conduct investigations and studies, and to solicit opinions from various social strata and organizations in society.

During the investigation and research period, Gu Hongming presided over the Sinology Culture Dissemination Committee began to announce that the National Youth Brush Writing Competition, the National Poetry Competition, the Idiom Competition, the Chinese Character Dictation Competition, etc., will be held every year, and the winners will have generous rewards, and the students who have won the ranking can add points in the entrance examination, and if they are social adults, they will receive honorary certificates issued by the education department.

While carrying out domestic work, Gu Hongming also raised donations from all walks of life, and used most of the funds raised to establish Confucian and Mencian colleges in foreign countries, sending teachers to teach in those Confucian and Mencian colleges, and the other part of the money was used as scholarships, which were used to reward foreign students who liked Sinology and had excellent grades and whose families were financially poor.

The Confucian and Mencian Institutes established abroad not only recruit local foreign students, but also recruit the children of local Chinese and overseas Chinese, and take special care of them.

In just one month, Gu Hongming's Sinology Culture Dissemination Committee raised a huge amount of 30 million Chinese yuan in the society, which shows that Gu Hongming's fame is still very large, and on the other hand, it can also be seen that there are still many rich traditional literati in China, and they are extremely reluctant to foreign culture, so when Gu Hongming raised money on the grounds of establishing Confucian Confucius and Mencius Academy in foreign countries, a large number of rich traditional literati donated generously. It has played a great role in the spread of Sinology to the world. (To be continued......)