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Fourth, the truth of the so-called "not paying attention to intellectuals".

To be honest, in this regard, even the Kuomintang's educational policy is slightly stronger than that of the Beiyang government, and at least a few scientific research institutes have been established. In May 1932, Chen Guofu, who was the Minister of Education, put forward the "Reform of Education Program" in an attempt to reverse the absurd situation of a surplus of liberal arts students and a shortage of science students.

Despite the above-mentioned series of efforts to strengthen science education, on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, when the national crisis was at the head, 7o% of college students in China were still studying liberal arts. Most of the remaining 3o% of college students are studying medicine or business. In modern warfare, there are really few professional engineers who can be used the most in modern warfare, instructing workers in building arsenals, maintenance shops, and building war-ready highways......

And those masters who moved to the "Southwest Associated University" could only publish a few articles in the newspapers and periodicals in support of the "spiritual atomic bomb" of the Anti-Japanese War.

In short, the educational circles of the Republic of China have academic freedom, advanced academic concepts, masters of Chinese studies, and "Republic of China style...... It is just that it has not trained the technical personnel urgently needed for modernization, and has not given birth to agricultural experts like Yuan Longping in later generations, who can make people have enough to eat.

Some people say that you are the erroneous tendency of the uselessness of the humanities, and Voltaire, Montesquieu and Rousseau, the giants of the French Enlightenment, never care whether the common people have enough to eat or not!

But the problem is that when these ideological giants were writing their books, France did not fall to the point of national peril!

Although everyone has freedom of thought, among the masters of the Republic of China, there are also righteous and admirable people. And their ideological enlightenment is also very meaningful to the social exhibition. However, a considerable number of guys who are very "Republican style" have completely left behind the righteousness of national survival in a miserable country with many concessions, contract laborers, foreigners, no industrial base, frequent wars, and widespread starvation, and in a turbulent era of life and death, blood and fire, completely leaving the righteousness of national survival behind, but standing on the edge of the precipice of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, putting on an elegant posture, paying attention to what kind of ideological independence, academic freedom, playing with little freshness, and engaging in petty bourgeoisie, such as the Mandarin Duck Butterfly Pie......

Alas, should I say that this is cold and noble, or is it drunk and dreaming of death?

Relatively speaking, it seems that the tragic and heroic saying of the 60s that "you will explode an atomic bomb without wearing pants" is more convincing.

-- Elegance is not a derogatory term, but if the righteousness of national survival is trampled on and forgotten for the sake of pursuing elegance, then all elegance is shameful, hateful, and pitiful, just like the mournful "Flower in the Back Garden" of Empress Chen of the Southern Dynasty.

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, China was in the abyss of war, famine, poverty and ignorance. In this context, no matter what the reason is for squandering the people's fat and people's ointment, and what kind of "elegant" culture is pursued, it is out of place; Talking about the style and style of the Republic of China is even more funny. Because the "elegant life" of the 1% of the upper class decent people cannot hide the endless suffering of the 99% of the low-level compatriots who are struggling on the line of life and death.

If we say that the decadent behavior of the Japanese minister described above is more or less because there was no need for a pioneering spirit in Japan at that time, and he could enjoy himself with peace of mind. Then the petty bourgeois life of the cultural people in the Republic of China era is exactly in line with Chen Zilong's famous sentence describing the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty: "Qing Song is in the leaky boat, drinking under the burning house, and I don't know that the drowning will be reached, but it is sad!" ”

In fact, for Hu Shi, a very stylish master of the Republic of China, as long as he walks out of the big cities of Beiping and Shanghai, and walks out of their campuses, studies and salons, he will see the real China, but unfortunately most of the Republic of China fans can't see it, and those who can see it have become left-wing revolutionaries.

Back to the main topic, after the founding of New China, the reason why our party called on the sons and daughters of the Chinese people all over the world to come back to build the motherland was because a large part of the best science talents of the Chinese nation at that time were scattered overseas. However, in domestic universities, you can only find a group of masters of Chinese studies who study liberal arts, and there are very few real engineering and technical experts......

Obviously, no matter how good these masters are at shaking the pen and making flowers, they can't draw the blueprint of the project!

In the following period, the main task of the Chinese people was obviously to carry out socialist construction in full swing and to establish a national industrial system in a poor and white country. In this context, are scientists and engineers more important, or are masters of Chinese culture more important?

To be fair, many Republican literati contributed to the Chinese revolution, using their own pens to enlighten the Chinese and expose the hypocrisy and sins of the old society. However, after the victory of the revolution, they should have initially fulfilled their mission.

In the era of peaceful construction, those people of the People's Liberation Army who had made countless military exploits laid down their guns one after another, picked up shovels and hammers, and contributed to socialist construction. However, many literati are reluctant to step out of their study and stop their pen to do some work that is urgently needed in society, such as eradicating illiteracy in the countryside and popularizing basic education.

At that time, China was extremely poor, in ruins, and the huge expenses of the Korean War, it really could not support a group of petty bourgeois literati.

As a result, there was a scene that made the "hundred-year-old scholar" Zhou Youguang feel righteous indignation: in 1953, Shanghai implemented a wage reform, and the highest-paid university professors and bank staff were treated, abolishing 8o% of the original salary. 1oo yuan changed to 2o yuan; 2oo yuan changed to 4o yuan; 3oo yuan changed to 6o yuan. Zhou Youguang scolded indignantly: "...... During the Republic of China, the treatment of intellectual workers was higher than today...... On the second day of the wage reform, everyone looked down and didn't say hello when they met! A bolt from the blue, the impoverishment of the middle class! From the outset, the middle class was not recognized, and the middle class was classified as the bourgeoisie. Later, there was an 'anti-rightist' movement to deny the ...... of the middle class more deeply and comprehensively."

Come on! How ridiculous this is! If you want to create a stable middle class in society, what country can achieve it by giving a large salary increase to civil servants who eat fiscal food? It's about everyone trying to find their own way to start a business and make money by themselves!

For example, Greece, which has a population of only 110,000 today, after joining the eurozone at the beginning of the 21st century, thought that it had a big backer, and insisted on raising 10,000 civil servants to eat the treasury, thinking that it had become a "perfect society" for the entire middle class. As a result, with the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2oo8, what has become of Greece today? It is light to say that other countries will not be countries! 、

Greece still has the EU as a big money, but who should China go to? It can only be relied on by us, China!

For example, Professor Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice who has the ability to make Mingchuang zào and let the people of China have enough to eat, don't say that he is given a monthly salary of 1o yuan, that is, a monthly salary of 1oo yuan, and the people will also think that he deserves it. And those "public intellectuals" who can only write a few sour articles, the monthly salary of 8ooo makes people feel too much - these articles of yours have already been paid separately!

In my opinion, if these modern "brick beasts" feel that life is not rich enough and they have little money, then you will go to write articles and earn manuscript fees and royalties! If you can really write a best-selling book, or even further adapt it into a movie, TV series or even an online game, and make hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars a month, not many people will feel indignant, just as today's society looks at successful entrepreneurs.

Of course, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was estimated that there was no channel for publishing books, and there was no market for buying books. But at that time, the people of the whole country were so poor, why should you let you live a life of superiority, instead of sharing weal and woe with the people of the whole country?

Speaking of which, I can't help but think of the "bonus incident" on Wall Street in the United States not long ago - after the financial crisis of 2oo8, the insurance giant aIg received a total of $1.7 billion in government bailouts due to business difficulties. However, after receiving the government's bailout, the leaders of aIg company did not immediately think about how to make up for the deficit and recover the losses of customers, but first took out a huge amount of money to give bonuses to the company's senior executives!

As soon as this matter was revealed, it immediately caused a crusade among the people - you aIg first lost all the money we deposited, and then asked the government to fill the hole for you with the tax we paid, and finally refused to fill the hole in the account, but put the money in your own pocket and took it...... In the end, the bank executives, who would only lose money, reluctantly gave up the ill-timed bonus under the threat of assassination by countless angry citizens.

Therefore, in the difficult years at the beginning of the founding of New China, if the masters of the Republic of China still asked the government to allocate huge sums of money to give them such high salaries as literati who did not contribute much to the actual construction work. So in essence, what is the difference between them and the executives of Wall Street aIg companies who are still forcibly using ordinary people's tax dollars to give themselves huge bonuses when their companies are on the verge of bankruptcy at a loss?

In the following decades, in order to meet the needs of the country's economic construction, China's education circles have been adhering to the basic policy of "emphasizing science over literature", requiring everyone to "learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well", and finally there was even a phenomenon of "engineering governing the country", that is, almost the entire national leadership group is born as engineers. As a result, educational resources and funding have always been tilted toward science, which naturally makes the highly ambitious liberal arts professors feel indignant -- they have positioned themselves roughly as "scholars" in ancient times, and although they are not as good as "doctors" (officials), they must at least be half a cut above agriculture and commerce.

However, these people are the most proficient at writing articles and expressing their views, so with the relaxation of ideological control, strange remarks began to appear in society, such as saying that the Republic of China era was demonized by our party's propaganda department, which is actually how beautiful it is. And what a heinous crime, killing all the backbones of the Chinese, castrating them spiritually, so that the gentlemen want to be hermits but can't get it...... And finally even said something: "More than half a century has passed." All kinds of goodness of the Republic of China, and the courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame of the Republic of China have long been tarnished on a large scale and lost on a large scale......"

-- When the interests of the literati and the masses of the people are in strict opposition to each other, society will be filled with countless absurd and bizarre theories.

In fact, in the long years of thousands of years, these cultural people who have dominated the right to speak public opinion have always dared to show only moderation and backbone in front of the weak emperor; For the Chinese, it is arrogant and powerful; But in front of the warlords and foreign invaders, they were all servile and flattering, and all the rituals were thrown to Java. For example, the Donglin Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty and Wang Jingwei during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression......

For these traditional literati who "usually talk about their hearts and minds, and repay the king when they die", we Chinese people have planted enough followers. It was not until after various criticisms since the founding of New China (indeed some overkill) that more than 9o% of Chinese knew that those bullish cultural people would actually just let off their mouths, otherwise they would really think that they were immortals, bodhisattvas, and Wenquxing, and they were offended.

Therefore, in the years from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the reform and opening up, the intellectuals we should really attach importance to and praise are Qian Xuesen, Li Siguang, Zhu Kezhen, Deng Jiaxian, Yuan Longping, and other scientific heroes, not those "masters of Chinese studies" left over from the Republic of China era -- the former is pioneering and enterprising, and the latter is conformist -- the so-called "** does not attach importance to intellectuals" is very much just a group of literati and writers who have been marginalized in the era of modernization. It's just the product of resentment that erupts in hysteria under the pen.

Of course, it is undeniable that during that crazy decade, science intellectuals were also persecuted with unprecedented severity, causing countless tear-making tragedies. However, the problem is that the various "reactionary tendencies" of these cultural people in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China were also true -- for example, during the Korean War, quite a number of celebrities tried to learn from Wang Ching-wei, actively colluded with US imperialism and the Taiwan authorities, and betrayed the intelligence of the Chinese People's Volunteers.

On the other hand, if these cultural people and intellectuals, who represent the "conscience of society," are really hysterically vented their resentment in their hearts, then it will often mean an earth-shattering catastrophe for the entire country and the entire people.

This is the most tragic case in the former Soviet Union -- Comrade Solzhenitsyn, who wrote "The Gulag Archipelago" and was hailed as the "conscience of Russia", spent his days advocating the destruction of the rotten and ruthless Soviet system and the restoration of the "old Russian way of life on the basis of agriculture and handicrafts." This will inevitably usher in a new era of democracy and prosperity.

However, the result of this great change was the collapse of the Soviet Union, the people's misery, the rampant situation, the fall from a great power to the abyss of the civil war, the whole country was "deindustrialized", the magnificent factories were in ruins, and it was really about to regress to the "agriculture and handicrafts based" process, and the "old Russian way of life" was restored -- Comrade Stalin's many "five-year plans" were all in vain......

In the face of such a tragic situation, if Solzhenitsyn still had a conscience, he should really jump into the Arctic Ocean to apologize to the more than 200 million Soviet people who were fooled by him.

-- Those who boast of their conscience all day long are in fact often the most unconscionable.

Remember, cultural people are only a small part of intellectuals, and they have never had the right to "be represented" as a group of "intellectuals"!