It is the middle of September, Beijing is already in the middle of autumn, the sun is still a little warm at noon, but it is cool and pleasant in the morning and evening, which is the most suitable for walking.

Coming out of the old man's house, Sun Yuanqi's wine had already woken up for seven or eight minutes, and when he saw the willows on the moon, the moon on the twelfth and thirteenth was snow-white, so he said to Lao Zhao and Lao Zheng: "The moonlight is just right tonight, I want to walk around at will." If you have something to do, go back first! “

Lao Zhao smiled: "What did the master say, what can we do?" ”

Lao Zheng also said: "Master, you are free, we will follow behind, so we can take care of it." ”

Sun Yuanqi didn't force it, and walked along the road in the direction of Houhai. After passing through a few secluded alleys, you will see the sparkling Houhai under the moon. Because it was already late, ordinary people would have to get up early tomorrow to make a living, and many of them had already gone to sleep. There was no light around the lake, and occasionally a few dogs barked, but it became more and more quiet, and for a while I could only hear the footsteps of a few of my own people.

As soon as the evening breeze blew, Sun Yuanqi felt that his drunken and feverish mind suddenly cleared up a lot, and began to think back to what happened during the day today: he and those colleagues in the Hanlin Academy didn't seem to have any entanglement, and they didn't even have any intersection before. If these people are wary of themselves because they have just joined this small group, and they are a little curious or detached in their speech, it is not difficult to understand. But why do they have a mocking and contemptuous attitude towards themselves?

If you analyze it carefully, there are no more than two reasons:

First of all, if you are not from a formal imperial examination, but you rashly hold a high position, it is like a thief stealing the ripe wheat in someone's field, and he will naturally be disgusted by others.

Secondly, what I learned was a foreign set of things, which was completely different from the "Four and Five Classics" that traditional scholars studied. In their opinion, these imported products are crooked and heretical, but now these crooked and heretical ways are going to prevail, and as the defenders of traditional culture, they are naturally full of resentment. They could not change the tide of history or the decisions made by the imperial court, and at this time they unconsciously regarded themselves as representatives of Western learning, ridiculing, insulting and teasing them to vent their dissatisfaction.

However, since the Opium War, more than 60 years have passed, and China has been defeated by the strong ships and cannons of the Eastern and Western powers. Is it really a system problem, as later political textbooks say? If it is really a systemic problem, it seems that only one or more violent revolutions can change the status quo!

Thinking of this, Sun Yuanqi couldn't help but shake his head: Violent revolution can naturally cut the grass and eradicate the evils, but it will also bring a series of problems. Looking back at the Xinhai Revolution, the May Fourth Movement, the Northern Expedition, the encirclement and anti-encirclement and suppression, the Liberation War and the Cultural Movement, they certainly swept away the dregs of dynastic politics, but what about those excellent cultural traditions? It's okay to pour the dry water, but you can't throw the child out too!

But what can you do about it? Sun Yuanqi was a little unconfident when he thought of this.

For more than 20 years before entering the Qing Dynasty, most of them studied in school, and they did not know much about human affairs. When everyone gets together, the international situation and the domestic political situation are all talking points on the wine table: Taizu's romantic affairs, Taizong's moving bricks to see the dryness, and Gaozong's saying "stupid, pull the lamp" are all jokes and harmless. At most, the conflict between classmates is quarreling and waving fists, and I have never heard of using the Criminal Law to convict a crime and put it to death. When he was ready to enter the society and participate in the work, Ye Guo came to the end of the Qing Dynasty with a stumble.

Let's talk about it, I have been in the late Qing Dynasty for more than seven years. In the past seven years, half of the time has been spent abroad, and because of this, I have often not been able to fully integrate into this society, especially the officialdom with strict rules.

Since the beginning of the fight, he has been a teacher in Jingshi University Hall and Chongshi Middle School, and now, he is just an honest principal. At this time, the social atmosphere is "a teacher for one day and a father for life", students have always respected themselves, where do they need to play tricks and conspiracies? It is precisely because I have been hiding in school for more than 30 years that my understanding of human feelings and sinister turmoil is still in the primary stage of socialism. As a result, because he didn't eat with a Beizi, he participated in the performance, he was not obedient to the courtiers, disrespected the ancestors, harbored bandits, plotted against him, caused trouble to people's hearts, and took advantage of foreign self-respect! Having dinner with a group of Hanlin, getting drunk and reciting a few words, it was regarded as an anti-poem! With his attitude of accepting people and things, if it weren't for the fact that the boss was not in the treacherous officialdom or the crisis of running a school, it is estimated that he would not be imprisoned by Yin Feng, or he would have hid in a foreign country and asked for refuge!

Although he had no good impression of the officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty and was extremely disgusted with the stubborn and stupid officials, Sun Yuanqi still found many bright spots in society, such as mutual trust and kindness between people, friendship and mutual help between neighbors, and personal honesty and commitment. 

During this period, he also corrected a lot of deviations in his previous understanding. For example, the landlords described in the books in the past are all the images of Huang Shiren in the land of fat heads and big ears: at the end of the Qing Dynasty, through the conversation with Lao Zhao, I learned that the landlords who do all kinds of evil are naturally inferior, but more landlords rely on diligence and thrift, farming and reading heirlooms, and through several generations of accumulation, they have obtained today's land. The clan is not the murderer of persecuting widows and causing family tragedies, but an important force to ensure local stability and eliminate social contradictions.

In the township, although there is no clear regulation, whether it is their own responsibilities or public classics, they will require Shishen and the clan to assume their social responsibilities in order to repay the society, you must know that in the late Qing Dynasty, a county often had hundreds of thousands of people, and there were only dozens of real officials, and they were simply unable to handle so many affairs, which required the township to have its own adjustment mechanism.

When there are major issues such as building bridges, dredging canals, and defending against soldiers, Shishen and the patriarch are the conveners, decision-makers, leaders, and even the main funders: when there are major disasters such as floods and droughts, they will also actively contribute to disaster relief, distribute food and clothing, and appeal to the county government. In times of famine, it is not possible to take advantage of the danger of people to buy other people's land, and there are no people in the clan who are starved to death, these are the most basic requirements, and those who violate these rules will be called "inferior" and "rich and unkind". Only after the gentry and clans were powerless and the system of local self-government collapsed did a mass exodus occur.

After understanding, Sun Yuanqi, as a person who has come over, cherishes the values between the middle and lower class people more than anyone else, because these values are the projection and accumulation of Chinese civilization in the folk for thousands of years, but it only takes a few decades to destroy this hard-won social and ecological balance.

The simplest example is chastity. When many people mention this, they will think of "starvation is a small thing and a big loss of moderation", thinking that ancient women were the kind of people who did not go out of the door and did not step out, and others would commit suicide when they touched it. Not at all! Chastity only regulates women's values, and middle- and lower-class women are no different from men in their daily lives and interactions. Look at the present, the emancipation of Western women has only been introduced in a few decades, and Chinese women have not learned "spiritual liberation", but have learned "physical liberation" for 12 points!

Sun Yuanqi thought to himself: Since everyone is not clear about the future road, the future road may not be the original road, can it also be changed, so that the development and progress of Chinese society will take fewer detours? As long as the advanced science and technology of the West are popularized and the dross of traditional culture is eliminated, will the future of the country be better? Perhaps, the boss wants to get out of school and Beijing to see the broader social reality of China and make more efforts for the country.

Although Jingshi University is the condensation of his own painstaking efforts, his position in his heart is no less than that of the two children of Huaizu and Nianzu. But when the child is older, of course, he must go his own way, and it is impossible to stay in swaddling clothes forever and stay in front of his parents forever. Now that Jingshi University is on the right track, maybe he should also withdraw and let him grow freely!

Yes, I am only a physics student, and many times I only know some scientific knowledge, and it is a blessing to be able to start a university. But I also have some knowledge, such as hybrid rice, such as airplanes, such as mass killers, as long as they point out the direction, the students will definitely be able to accomplish better with their ingenuity! One university may not be enough, but what about ten, hundred? Moreover, eggs cannot be put in one basket.

Most of the physics knowledge I know has been hollowed out, leaving only some things at the bottom of the box. Perhaps at this time, it is more necessary to detach from specific experimental research, as a leader in scientific research, to guide students in the correct direction of research, in order to create greater social value!

Why don't you go back! Why don't you go back!

Thinking of this, Sun Yuanqi turned around and said to Lao Zhao and Lao Zheng: "It's late at night, let's go back!" “

After returning to school, Sun Yuanqi did not immediately tell Zhang Yuanji and Luo Zhenyu the news, after all, the boss just said that, as for whether it can be realized, whether it will be realized at the beginning of the year or at the end of the year, no one may!

Despite this, Sun Yuanqi still handed over some of the work at hand to them in a planned way, and devoted more energy to teaching and compiling teaching materials.

One day at the end of September, Sun Yuanqi, who was busy, received a telegram from the United States. When I hurriedly opened the telegram and looked at it carefully, who else could it be that the letter was not from the sect leader? (To be continued.)