Although Sun Yuanqi had already made a drinking ring, he was still poured a lot on the wedding day. Uncle Ancestor raised a glass, you still can't help drinking? This uncle, that seventh uncle, are all elders, shouldn't you touch your lips? There are also officials and colleagues, shouldn't they smell it? …… After coming and going, it is a little big, but fortunately, the consciousness is still sober.

Early in the morning of the second day, Sun Yuanqi got up early with a dizzy head, and Vera, who was not very convenient, and kowtowed to the elders of the family to serve tea and say goodbye. This is the rule of the Qing Dynasty, Lao Zheng and Lao Zhao have repeatedly instructed them.

After saying goodbye, the old man picked up the gift that had been prepared long ago from the table and handed it to Sun Yuanqi, saying, "This is a little bit of the old man's heart, go back and see, maybe it will be of some use." ”

Sun Yuanqi pinched it casually, as if it were two bundles of soft and round things, but he didn't know what it was, so he had to kowtow first to thank him.

After eating breakfast and leaving Lianzi Hutong, Sun Yuanqi remembered the gift given by the boss, so he opened the package in the carriage, but it was a couplet written by the boss, and it was written on the peach blossom sprinkled gold xuan: "Quiet to self-cultivation, thrift to cultivate virtue; Diligence is not scarce, and sensitivity is meritorious. ”

Getting married in the church is naturally a scene that Sun Yuanqi is familiar with, but there is always some cultural estrangement. The traditional wedding was held in Lianzi Hutong, although the family of the boss was overflowing, but those officials who came to cheer made the lively atmosphere always have such a strange smell, sycophant? Hypocrisy? Or is it artificial?

Back at Jingshi University, it was another lively scene. Whether it is a school worker or a student joining in the fun, there is a kind of respect and happiness from the heart in the laughter. This is something that Sun Yuanqi could not experience in his place.

Three or four days after the wedding, Sun Yuanqi went back to the city again to thank his relatives and friends. During this period, Sun Yuanqi paid a special visit to Mr. Ding Yunliang. On the day of the wedding, Sun Yuanqi could see that he had some sorrow under his joyful expression, as if he had something to say to himself. But because of the situation at the time, he didn't speak, and Sun Yuanqi didn't have time to ask.

Sun Yuanqi is not a person who forgets his righteousness. After coming to the Qing Dynasty, those who helped themselves have always been engraved in their hearts, hoping to repay them at the right time. Ding Yunliang's look of wanting to speak and stopping has been haunting Sun Yuanqi's heart for the past few days.

After a few words of greeting, Sun Yuanqi asked about it. Ding Yunliang originally wanted to talk to Sun Yuanqi about this matter, but now that he asked, he didn't hide it, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and told Sun Yuanqi the ins and outs of the matter:

This matter has to start from the Empress Dowager Cixi's return to Beijing from Xi'an a year ago.

After the toss of "Gengzi West Hunting" and the threat of force from Western powers, the old lady finally understood that the stubborn old way would not work. On the way back to Beijing, he began to "prepare for the new policy". One of the new policies was to appoint Zhang Baixi as the Minister of Management of the Jingshi University Hall and restore the Jingshi University Hall. - Sun Yuanqi is no stranger to this, and he said that he was still involved in it, writing the "Statutes of Beijing Normal University" for Master Zhang.

In the Gengzi Revolution, the "principal" Xu Jingcheng was killed by Cixi, the school building was burned by the Boxers and the Eight-Nation Alliance, the books were "borrowed" by Lao Tong, and the teachers and students went their separate ways. In a sense, it was basically wiped out - which is one of the reasons why Sun Yuanqi dared to borrow the name "Kingshim". Now that the school has resumed, it can be said that it is starting from scratch and starting all over again.

Who knows, Zhang Baixi just took over this matter, and that group of foreign teachers encouraged Ding Yunliang to come to the door: Please make up for the wages and salaries owed to us before!

Zhang Baixi was stunned: Huh? What's going on!

After careful understanding, I learned that in the early days of the Gengzi Revolution, the Boxers and part of the Qing army pointed the spearhead at the foreigners, and the foreign religion and learning were naturally among them. For example, Huberty James, a foreign professor at Beijing Normal University, was shot dead by Dong Fuxiang's armed guards on the evening of June 20 while fleeing to the embassy area. When other foreign religions heard this, they even scattered as birds and beasts, or fled to other places, or hid in the embassy area. But they still received their salaries until August, when the Eight-Nation Coalition entered the city of Beijing, and the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled in panic.

After the Eight-Nation Alliance came, these foreign teachers naturally no longer had to flee for their lives, and many of them still stayed in the capital until now. When he heard that the Kyoto University Hall had been restored, he immediately came to the door and asked for fifteen months' wages from October 1900 to December 1901

After Master Zhang understood, he explained: "During the Gengzi National Revolution, the Beijing Normal University Hall was suspended, and none of you went to work, so how can you talk about salary?" Besides, during this period of time, the salaries of our Chinese officials have not been paid as usual, let alone you? I see, this is an unreasonable request of yours, so forget it. ”

I don't know if this group of foreign teachers is a tendon in their heads, or if they have no fear, they are confident: "What happened to you in China, we don't care, and we can't control it!" Anyway, if you don't terminate the contract during this time, then you should continue to fulfill the contract, pay us a salary, and compensate the foreign teachers who were killed. ”

Zhang Da was so angry that his mouth crooked: "Okay! The people who signed the contract with you are Sun Shouzhou Zhongtang and the deceased Xu Jingcheng, don't you want a salary? Then go to them. I don't care about this, and I can't do it! ”

Yang Jiao Xi thought to himself: Sun Jianai doesn't care about this matter now, if he looks for him, he will definitely push four, five or six! Xu Jingcheng is dead, how to find him? This is prevaricating us! Immediately, he soaked mushrooms with Zhang Baixi: "No." We only know that what your Queen Mother ordered was to 'restore the Jingshi University Hall', and the current school is the previous school, according to the spirit of the contract, so you must bear the previous debts. And now it's you who is in charge of the Jingshi University Hall, and you must be responsible for this matter! ”

After coming and going, Master Zhang didn't have such a good temper to play with them, so he hid and didn't see this group of foreign devils again. The foreign teacher Xi was angry, and immediately submitted a letter of protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the embassies of various countries in China to put pressure on Zhang Baixi.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has always been a mouthpiece that cannot come up with ideas, and when it saw the protest letter, it wrote an excerpt and asked the Military Aircraft Department and the Empress Dowager Cixi to make a decision. After the Queen Mother saw it, her face turned cold: "In order to 'measure China's material resources and form a friendship with the country', the old lady is even willing to give up 450 million taels of silver." Now for a mere tens of thousands of taels of silver, and to make foreign adults unhappy, how did this Zhang Yuqiu do errands? ”

This Zhang Baixi not only had to honestly pay the foreign teacher to learn the silver, but also ate a meal for nothing, and he was not happy in his heart! A few days later, he made an excerpt and said: "Now the university hall is still in the preparatory stage, and I don't know when it will be officially enrolled." And these foreign teachers don't work all day, but they get paid every month, which is a pure waste. At present, the state's finances are tight and school funds are insufficient, so it is difficult to live economically. Therefore, my suggestion is to dismiss all these foreign teachings, regardless of whether they go or stay. ”

Grandma Cixi wore reading glasses, held a cinnabar pen, and wrote three words: "Got it."

This group of foreign teachers turned from joy to sorrow and became unemployed.

After listening to the story, Sun Yuanqi shook his head unconsciously: You said that these foreign teachings have been in China for so many years, why haven't they learned the Chinese way of life? With a paper contract, you can blame the leader for giving you small shoes to wear? Zhang Baixi is quite kind, and directly let you roll up and leave. If you encounter something insidious, you have to play to death!

Looking at Ding Yunliang's sad expression, Sun Yuanqi knew that now was not the time for schadenfreude. But how can you help them? Do you want me to go to my uncle to intercede and ask Zhang Baixi to take back his life? It's not ordinary! Zhang Baixi is venting his anger, if he lets this group of foreign teachers go back, to say something unpleasant, it will force him to eat back the "anger" that he pulled out! In the future, how will Zhang Baixi gain a foothold in the hall of Beijing Normal University? It's better to resign.

At that moment, he asked tentatively, "Sir, how can I help you?" ”

Ding Yunliang frowned: "The contradiction between us and Master Zhang is very deep, and the Jingshi University Hall naturally can't go back." However, these teachers are all good teachers who are rich in learning and full of wealth, and now they are unemployed and at home, with nothing to do, which is really disturbing......"

Sun Yuanqi secretly slandered in his heart: If they are really rich in learning and having five cars and a full stomach, they still have to come to the Far East to eat?

“…… Dear little Yank, I heard that you have now established a university that lacks teachers? Ding Yunliang asked with a look of hope.

Sun Yuanqi naturally heard the song and knew the elegant meaning: "Yes, this school is in the suburbs, and it is a little remote. Now that the school has just been built, there is a lack of teachers, but fortunately, there are not many students, and they can barely cope. It would be great if you could introduce some teachers who are very competent! ”

"Great!" Ding Yunliang stood up excitedly and drew a cross on his chest, "Thank God! Jah...... I'll give you the list in a few days. Rest assured, I assure God that these teachers are wonderful enough to be qualified for any teaching position! ”

Hearing his words, Sun Yuanqi felt the urge to make a cross on his chest, asking God to bless the quality of these teachers from being as bad as he imagined.

The opening of Jingshi University was originally scheduled for the first day of the third month of the Western calendar, but because of Sun Yuanqi's wedding, it was postponed by a week. In this regard, Sun Yuanqi was very guilty. Therefore, after marriage, he devoted himself to the teaching work of the school.

With the arrival of teachers such as Wang Xianqian, Sun Yirang, Pi Xirui, Liao Ping, Cui Shi, and Chen Yan, the arrangement of the school curriculum has also become colorful. In addition to Yan Fu's "Western Philosophy" and Yang Shoujing's "Historical Geography", Wang Xianqian's "Book of the Han Dynasty and Zhuangzi" and "Zhuangzi", Sun Yirang's "Zhou Li" and "Mozi", Pi Xirui's "History of Classics", Liao Ping's "Modern and Ancient Literature and Classics", Cui Shi's "Ancient History Research", Chen Yan's "Poetry Appreciation and Writing", etc., opened the students' eyes.

Because college students are science and engineering, these new courses are only available as electives, at most once a week. More often than not, these courses are for those middle school students, and Sun Yuanqi hopes that they can receive more knowledge, and then choose their own majors according to their hobbies, rather than following the path planned by others.

By chance, when Cui Shi told his students that "Shangshu", "Zhou Li", "Zuo Chuan" and other books were fake, some students said that there were a large number of oracle bones engraved with symbols in the school, which, according to the principal, seemed to be antiquities left by Yin Shang. When Cui Shi heard this, his heart was like a hundred little paws crawling, and he didn't go to class, so he hurriedly went to the principal's office to find Sun Yuanqi, wanting to see what kind of thing the so-called "Yin Shang Antiquities" were and what was recorded on them.

Since those oracle bones were brought back, they were kept in a few rooms on the second floor of Tong Wen Building, and few people knew about them outside, but some people in the school knew about them, but they had no interest in research, so they have been kept in the dust. Now that he heard that someone was interested in it, Sun Yuanqi couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately led Cui Shi to those rooms.

If you open a room, you can see that the room is full of various yellow-brown bone fragments and tortoise shells. Cui Shi glanced at Sun Yuanqi suspiciously: "These tortoiseshell beast bones are the relics of Yin Shang?" Without waiting for Sun Yuanqi to answer, he casually took out a piece from it, walked to the door, and examined it carefully in the light.

When Lao Zhao bought oracle bones, he always followed Sun Yuanqi's instructions and only bought those with nicks. The piece Cui Shi held casually was no exception, with a few lines of handwriting engraved on it, as well as traces of being smeared with cinnabar. In the light, the handwriting on the bones is easy to spot.

Sure enough, Cui Shi found those lines of handwriting, carefully looked at them with slightly presbyopiac eyes, and rubbed his fingers on the nicks. Cui Shi studied in Yu Yue in his early years, and Zhang Taiyan was in the same door, and he studied the study of the school survey and exegesis, and studied the "Interpretation of Words" attentively, and was quite familiar with the glyphs of the big seal and the small seal. Seeing these glyphs, I didn't feel moved: "This should be the word 'come', yes, that's right, it's the word 'come'!" This is 'Said', this is 'East'...... Huh, what is this word? He stroked his beard for a moment and pondered, and for the next he realized, ignoring the fact that there were others around him. A piece of oracle bones was turned over and looked at for a long time, but still couldn't recognize all of them, so I turned around and took a few more pieces and compared them with each other.

After a while, he came back to his senses: "Haha, Baixi, the old man was rude!" I just don't know how you got these antiquities? ”

Sun Yuanqi replied half-truthfully: "Last year, a medicinal herb called 'dragon bone' was sold in the city's pharmacy, and it was said that there were traces of engraving on it. I sent for a few pieces, and when I found that they were written in handwriting, I collected them widely. After inquiry, it was learned that its place of origin was in Xiaotun in Anyang, which was the former capital of Yin Shang. The ones in front of me are what I asked someone to buy there. ”

Cui Shi nodded, and he was a little excited when he spoke, and the beard on his chin was trembling slightly: "It should not be bad if it is said to be an ancient relic of Yin Shang!" The old man looked at a few pieces, the handwriting on it is very simple, although the text configuration is varied, but there are rules to follow, compared with the big seal is more clumsy, it should be the ancient text that precedes the big seal. According to common sense, it should be an old thing before the Western Zhou Dynasty. It's just that he is ashamed, the old man is only a shallow learner, but the words on it are incomplete......" said, his fingers were still gently wiped on the oracle bone, as if they were rare treasures: "These Yin Shang antiquities, don't say that Gu Tinglin, Duan Maotang, Wang Shizhen and the elders, they are Xu Shuzhong and Zheng Kangcheng, I am afraid they have never seen them, they are really great treasures." The old man was in his last years, and he was lucky enough to see it, and he was willing to return to the underworld immediately! The master's mood of 'adding me to learn Yi for a few years', the old man has only now truly realized the ......."

Sun Yuanqi didn't understand what he could say about it, he only knew a little bit about it, but he couldn't interject, and he only accompanied him stupidly.

After talking for a long time, Mr. Cui Shi finally returned to normalcy and smiled at Sun Yuanqi: "Haha, the old man is ugly again!" These tortoiseshell bone fragments are the relics of the sages and the treasures of the country, and you must take care of them. The old man also had a reluctant request, and wanted to borrow a few pieces to go back first, on the one hand, to carefully figure out what was recorded, and on the other hand, he also wanted to rub a few copies, so that other scholars would know that I still have such treasures in China! I don't know what Baixi thinks? ”

Sun Yuanqi sent people to buy these oracle bones, mainly to preserve the cultural heritage of the country, and never had the idea of keeping them for himself. The purpose of being well-preserved is naturally for better research and use, not for shelving. For Cui Shi's request, he readily agreed.

The next day, Yang Shoujing, Wang Xianqian, Sun Yirang, Pi Xirui, Liao Ping, Chen Yan and others all knew the news, and they came to visit the room where the oracle bones were collected, and even Zhang Yuanji and Yan Fu were not exempt from vulgarity. Everyone was amazed at these treasures that scholars had rarely seen since the Qin and Han dynasties. Soon, Sun Yirang and Pi Xirui also followed Cui Shi and officially joined the team to study oracle bones.

In their spare time, students will also be caught by these teachers to participate in simple oracle bone sorting, conjugation, numbering, and ink extension work, while the more complex oracle bone classification, staging, description, interpretation, and comprehensive research are only for observational learning.

Sun Yuan was very happy to see their interest, so he cleaned up a room next to the room where the oracle bones were collected, and set up tables and chairs as a special office for them to study oracle bones. On the lintel of the office, there is a plaque inscribed by Yang Shoujing:

Oracle Institute.

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