"Teacher Chen, don't you have no class today? I can see you at this point. As soon as Chen Kan walked out of the door of the apartment, he met a teacher on the other side, Li Lei, a teacher in the Department of Chemistry, Ph.D., although he was not yet thirty-five years old, his hair had turned more than half white, all because of experiments.

However, his efforts were worth it, and he published a professional paper in the journal Nature before and after.

Nature is the world's top academic journal, not to mention a second-rate school like China Normal University, even teachers from top domestic universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University are proud to be featured in this journal.

Relying on this paper alone, Li Lei became the youngest full professor of the Chinese Normal University and even the province, enjoyed the provincial academic allowance, and won the title of "Changjiang Scholar".

He is also a scholar dedicated to academic research, and is very similar to Chen Kan in this regard, if Chen Kan had not encountered a cruise ship, he would probably have been targeted.

Because they have common ambitions, and they live in the opposite door, the relationship between the two is quite good.

"Isn't this a bad arrest, I've become a firefighter, and I have to go to the Department of Economics to put out the fire!" Chen Kan said helplessly.

"Economic history?"

"yes, you're going to do an experiment?"

"Hmm."

Although the Department of Economics and the Department of Chemistry are no longer in the same building, the direction is the same, and the two naturally go together, although they are in different fields, but they are at the top of their academic knowledge, they are all interconnected, and the two often exchange ideas.

Just like when the old Mao used philosophy to predict that the elementary particles of physics are divisible, it was proved that this was correct twenty years later, that is, the current "quark", originally the quark was supposed to be called "Mao particles", but unfortunately at that time the country was correcting the problem for ten years, and there was no response, coupled with the fear of the West, and finally it ended without a problem.

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This semester, Chen Kan finally took the course "Chinese Economic History" from the Department of Economics, of course, the Department of Economics agreed to Chen Kan's request before, not because Chen Kan is so good, but because the Department of Economics has no choice.

If Chen Kan's request is not accepted, then there are two ways for the Department of Economics to solve this problem, the first is to find a new teacher who is qualified to take this course, which is obviously impossible, to find a new teacher for a course, unless the head of the head of the Department of Economics is caught in the door.

The second is to find other teachers who can take over this course, but unfortunately, I really can't find it, because of the opening of the second child, the teacher of the Department of Economics has suffered heavy "losses", and I really can't find anyone who has time, and there is only one Chen Kan in the history department who can take economic history and has time.

If the Department of Economics does not agree to Chen Kan's conditions, then no one will be able to take this course, this is a serious teaching accident, which has nothing to do with the students, but the relevant leaders can't stand it, so they can only accept Chen Kan's request.

As for whether it will have a bad relationship with them because of this, Chen Kancai doesn't care, anyway, it's not a system, even if it is, what can it be!

Chen Kan called the largest classroom, four classes at a time, more than 200 students, this is definitely a proper big class, to be honest, in the real world, Chen Kan has never faced so many people to teach, this is also Chen Kan's first time.

Starting from the problem has always been Chen Kan's way of class.

"In 1776, Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, also known as The Wealth of Nations, was published in England, which drove the whole of Europe and America crazy, and thus economics emerged as a formal discipline, and Adam Smith was revered as the 'father of modern economics' and 'the patron saint of free enterprise'."

"As students of the Department of Economics, you should be well aware of this book and its impact on the world."

The Wealth of Nations cannot be overestimated in British history, and if Watt's steam engine laid the foundation for Britain to start the Industrial Revolution, then The Wealth of Nations laid the theoretical foundation for the establishment of the empire on which the sun never sets.

At that time, Britain's position in Europe was very awkward, although it was rich, but it had no status at all.

The main thing is that the country is too unseemly, the king does not look like a king, the nobility does not look like a nobleman, the people do not look like the people, the four words "mess" can describe everything in Britain at that time, not to mention other countries, even the British themselves look down on themselves.

At that time, people thought that France was a real big country, everything was in order, this is what a big country should look like, and European countries were all looking to France, including Britain.

What is happening to the people of Britain as a whole, whether they are rulers, elites, or ordinary people, about their country? What should we do in the future? These two big problems, completely clueless, are struggling in the river of history, and they don't know where to swim.

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which was born in this context, explains these two great problems in the minds of the British, and tells everyone why Britain has developed into what it is today, and how it will continue to develop in the future.

This does not exaggerate the value of this book at all, just to give an example.

The reason why Britain will become an "empire on which the sun never sets" in the future is directly related to the economic concept in this book, the most basic is that Britain's attitude towards the colonies has changed, unlike Spain, Portugal or the Netherlands, which had to occupy a country before.

Britain began to control these colonies mainly by economic means, so a small island, Britain can control the whole world.

Even the birth of the United States is thanks to "The Wealth of Nations," and it is now widely recognized in the historical circles that the most direct reason why the United States was able to achieve independence was not the strong resistance of the people or the help of France, but the most direct reason was that Britain itself let go.

The real reason for letting go is that the theory in "The Wealth of Nations" tells the British that American independence is really the best for Britain, and an independent America can provide more profits for Britain.

This was indeed true at the time, of course, if you want to insist that now the United States is the boss, whether the British are lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot, there is nothing to say, what theory in the world can predict what will happen in a hundred years.

Therefore, the domestic economic circles are now waiting for the "Wealth of Nations" that belongs to China, because China's development is a world problem, and no one can understand how China has continued to develop rapidly for so many years.

Therefore, there is a saying in the industry: Whoever can solve the mystery of China's economic development will win the Nobel Prize in economics.

Chen Kan's gaze scanned the entire classroom and asked:

"Then now a question arises, although economics was pioneered by Adam Smith, but the study of the economy is not only after Adam Smith, many ancients are also studying how to develop the economy, so a question arises, what is the essential difference between the previous study of the economy and the study of the economy by economists?"