Qingliu originally wanted to take advantage of Pu Lun's impeachment of the private Jingshi University to make a big fuss, in order to achieve the goal of abolishing the school. As a result, when I saw Zhou Shumo, who was the first to play and fold, was sent to Shanglin, Guangxi, a land of miasma, as a county, he suddenly died down. As for whether they have the idea of "dead friends don't die in poor ways" in their hearts, or whether they have other plans to prepare for a comeback, this is not what Sun Yuanqi is considering.

After this huge turmoil and hastily withdrew the troops, Sun Yuanqi had a complicated mood and erected a sundial on the green space at the entrance of the school, and the base was engraved with four large characters in Yang Shoujing's handwriting:

Actions speak louder than words!

"Yes, actions speak louder than words!"

In a secluded small pavilion at the Hongwen College in Tokyo, Japan, a young man spoke in a thick Wuyue dialect to twenty or thirty fellow Shaoxing villagers around him. Feeling that he was still unsatisfied, he added: "Since Jiadao Xiantong, our China has been in danger of being carved up by the capitalist powers of the East and the West, and our Chinese nation is always facing the crisis of being annihilated, and the obsolescence and decay of the old culture have been fully revealed. Saving the world and surviving it is the most important issue for our generation to consider. How? Actions speak louder than words! Young people who have the ambition to save the country and the people should ignore the ridicule and rejection of the laity, take a different path, flee to other places, seek a different kind of people, and explore the road of strengthening the country and the new people by learning from the advanced culture of the West. Instead of reciting the Four Books and Five Classics every day in China, you should sit and talk about it and say a few whining words in your spare time! ”

"Yu Caijun, you first studied in the Jiangnan Naval Academy, and then you were admitted to the Mining and Railway Academy attached to the Jiangnan Continental Academy, and now you are studying in Japan, I am afraid that you also have the ambition to explore the road of strengthening the country and the new people!" A fellow from Zhejiang on the side quipped.

It turned out that the young man who spoke first was Lu Xun, who we were familiar with in later generations - oh, by the way, before the publication of "Diary of a Madman" in 1918, there was no "Lu Xun" in the world, only a young man named Zhou Shuren. He was high-spirited and high-spirited, and he was far from degenerating to the point of being bitter and mean, "reading a few false reports and writing a few swearful articles".

Zhou Shuren did not respond to his friend's quip, and continued: "I am a scholar, I can't dance with knives and guns, I can't make bombs, how can I save the world?" Although we resolutely opposed the royalist stance of the reformers, they strongly agreed with Liang Rengong's theory of the new people. In order to save our country from peril, we must change the ignorant and backward mental state of the Chinese people. This involves the issue of the transformation of national character. Before transforming the national character, we need to solve three questions: First, what is the most ideal human nature? Secondly, what is most lacking in our national character? Finally, what is the root cause of its disease? Only by understanding these three problems can we help and remedy them! ”

Zhou Shuren's classmate and friend Xu Shoushang answered on the side: "I think that no matter how Kuang helps and remedies, its foothold is ultimately on the road of education." If we compare the education of the Anglo-Saxons with the official education of the Qing government, we can find that the education of the Qing government was ancient and stagnant. Even if the textbooks compiled by Sun Baixi are now being promoted in the north and south of the country, the content and ideas are all new, but the teacher is still an old man, and he only knows how to respect the scriptures and respect Confucius, so he also recites the good scriptures crookedly! Therefore, if we want to save the country and survive, we must devote ourselves to the cause of education with the courage of turning over the river and the sea, and use a completely new idea to completely destroy this kind of government-run education from within and replace it with a completely new kind of education, so that children can come into contact with the real society from an early age, so that they can develop their own abilities, open up new realms on their own, and have the spirit of self-determination and independent personality. The national character is naturally renewed, and there is no need to make up for it! ”

"That's a good idea!" Tao Chengzhang, who is also a student from Shaoxing studying in Japan, nodded, "Children are like white silk, dyed black when dyed in ink, and blue when dyed in indigo." If you start from early childhood education, I believe that the face of the people will change greatly! It's just that if I wait for twenty or thirty people to devote themselves to education, they will be covered with iron, and how many nails can I make? In the form of an open letter, we should directly send a letter to the people in our hometown, advocating that young people should urgently study abroad, and calling on people with lofty ideals to go to Japan to seek and learn the truth of saving the country and the people, and devote themselves to education together after returning to China, so as to change the ignorant and backward mental state of the people. ”

"Yes!" "Good!" Zhou Shuren, Xu Shoushang, Jing Hengyi and others agreed.

"As Yu just said, actions speak louder than words, and we have to take action now and prepare an official letter. This official letter should not only be a slogan and a discussion, but also a detailed description of the study abroad method, including the schools that can be studied, the majors that should be studied, the required expenses, and the journey to Japan, so that readers can see at a glance! Jing Hengyi added.

A group of young people suddenly became busy, quickly took pen, ink, paper and inkstone, surrounded Tao Chengzhang and Jing Hengyi, and began to write "Official Letter to Shaoxing Fellow Villagers". You often debate for a long time about whether a word is right or not.

When everyone was busy, Xu Shoushang and Zhou Shuren chatted outside the crowd: "Yucai, has your "The Soul of Sparta" been translated? ”

"Oh, it's coming, I'm going to have to change it again!" Zhou Shuren replied.

"We, the students studying in Zhejiang, have set up this journal called "Zhejiang Tide", and I think you can publish it there." Xu Shoushang suggested.

"Oh, let's talk about it then, maybe others won't like it." He took a deep puff of the paper cigarette in his hand.

Xu Shoushang did not give up: "Yucai, I have read your words and know that your pen is extremely spiritual. Just like the poem you wrote to me in "Self-titled Portrait": "The Lingtai has no plan to escape from the gods, and the wind and rain are like a rock in the old garden." Sending cold stars to Quan without noticing, I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood. I think that's great. You can often write articles to develop towards literature, and you can also use this to alert the people and achieve the purpose of transforming the national character! ”

Zhou Shuren shook his head slowly but firmly, and after taking the last puff of cigarette, he said, "My ambition is to study medicine. When he was young, his father fell ill, and although the prescriptions were all famous doctors, and the consultation fee was very high, the illness was getting worse day by day, and he couldn't afford it. Watching my father die left me with a long and painful memory. Later, when I came to Nanjing to study and came into contact with Western medical knowledge, I always remembered the medicine primers that my father used to take: crickets in the same nest, flat wood that bore seeds, broken old drum skins, and sugarcane that had been frosted for three years...... I feel that Chinese medicine is nothing more than a liar, intentional or unintentional. During this study tour in Japan, I learned from the history books that most of Japan's Restoration originated from the introduction of Western medicine. Therefore, I plan to study medicine well and return to China to treat patients who have been mistaken like my father, and at the same time to promote the belief of the Chinese people in the reform and reform of the law. Literature, forget it! ”

Xu Shoushang saw that his friend's ambition had been decided, and he no longer persuaded him.

Zhou Shuren still chooses to study medicine, and it is estimated that he will go to Sendai Medical College, and it is estimated that he will still see the slide of killing the head. At this moment, history shows a strong inertia, and the appearance of a certain butterfly does not lead to a violent storm of change.

Sun Yuanqi, who had just escaped from the turmoil, naturally did not know the decision of Zhou Shuren on the other side of the sea, nor did he know that in the middle of December 1902, the Beijing Normal University Hall was officially opened. This day was recognized as the founding day of Beijing Normal University. Of course, he didn't know that King Oscar II of Sweden personally attended this year's Nobel Prize ceremony. Since then, this event has been an annual part of the Swedish royal family until now. It was only much later that it became known from the newspapers that the Dutch scientist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his creation of the theory of electrons, the Dutch scientist Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Zeeman effect of magnetic force on light, and the American scientist Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen. 1817-1903) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the introduction of Plasmodium parasites into humans through the Plasmodium mosquito, and the Chemistry Prize was awarded to the German scientist Hermann Emil Fischer (1852-1919), who synthesized purines and their derivatives polypeptides.

After the turmoil ended, Sun Yuanqi, who had learned a lesson, put more energy into school management. The most urgent thing at the moment is, of course, the compilation of the Journal of the Private Universities.

In the process of compilation, the seriousness and enthusiasm of the teachers and students surprised Sun Yuanqi. For example, Mr. Sun Yirang, his "Examples of Deed Texts" has been changed back and forth three times, and he is still not at ease, and often for a small piece of evidence, he often goes into the mountain of oracle bones by himself to check it. Lu Bi's "Geography of the Three Kingdoms", originally had 20,000 words, after checking the collection of teachers Yang Shoujing, removing the content that had been said by the predecessors, deleting the branches and leaves, and finally only eight or nine thousand words remained.

Scholars at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China mostly relied on the belief that the famous mountains in Tibet were passed down to them, and they worked hard to earn every paper. The requirements for the paper are to be simple and concise, to have something to say, to have a basis for what to say, to say what the predecessors failed to say, and to say what others could not say. If you cite the results of others or use old theories, you must indicate it. In Lu Bi's article, there are several marks that "Yang Shi said so" and "Xiong Jun Huizhen said". The kind of irrigated and plagiarized articles in later generations are very rare.

In the cold winter, a pot of charcoal fire and a cup of hot tea is the supreme enjoyment. And the house that is as warm as spring, in the eyes of everyone, is like a fairy mansion. That's why the newly heated Naruki Pavilion has become the most popular place this winter. Yang Shoujing, who has always rarely come out and walk around in the Mid-Levels, also frequently appears in the office at this time. Everyone sat around the classroom, carefully discussing every detail of the compilation.

Shortly after the Western New Year in 1903, the school was closed for the winter holidays, and some students went home. There are also half of the students, perhaps because it is not easy to go back once, or they live near the capital but are attached to the school's heating, so they stay in the school and refuse to leave. The work of proofreading this journal is just in time for them. Through the joint efforts of teachers and students, the sample of the first issue of the Journal of Private Jingshi University finally came out after the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Rabbit.

In addition to Sun Yirang's "Examples of Qiwen" (Part I), Lu Bi's "Geography of the Three Kingdoms", there are also Yang Shoujing's "Non Gui Jin Shi Ba", Luo Zhenyu's "The Mantle of Nanzong", Liao Ping's "Wang Ji Ji Shuo Ordinary Cases", Pi Xirui's "Lu Liyu Yiyi Proof", Yan Fu's "Adam Smith's Discussion", Wang Guowei's "On the Purpose of Education", etc., all of them are famous masters and brilliant masterpieces!

After reading the sample, Yang Shoujing was appreciative, and happily wrote an inscription:

"The articles of all colleagues, each with new ideas, and the words are refreshed. When readers see this, they don't sigh that 'new ideas, changes in learning style, are all here'! ”

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