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 these efforts to strengthen science education, on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, when the national crisis was at stake, 70 percent of China's college students were still studying liberal arts. Most of the remaining 30 percent of college students are studying medicine or business. There are really a few professional engineers who can be used most in modern warfare, instructing workers to build arsenals, repair shops, and 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 that it has not cultivated the Jishu talents urgently needed for modernization, and has not given birth to agricultural experts who can make people eat like Yuan Longping in later generations.

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 degenerate 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 for social development. 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 all the sons and daughters of the Chinese people 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 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, abolishing 80% of the original treatment of the highest-paid university professors and bank workers. 100 yuan to 20 yuan; 200 yuan to 40 yuan; 300 yuan to 60 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 very beginning, communism did not recognize the middle class and subsumed it into 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 11 million today, after joining the eurozone at the beginning of the 21st century, thought that it had become a big backer, and insisted on supporting 1 million civil servants who ate the financial food, and thought that it had become a "perfect society" for the middle class of the whole people. As a result, with the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, what has become of Greece today? It is light to say that the country will not be a country! 、

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 inventions and create and let the people of China have enough to eat, not to mention that he is paid a monthly salary of 100,000 yuan, that is, a monthly salary of 1 million yuan, and the people will think that he deserves it. And those "public intellectuals" who can only post a few sour articles, and pay a monthly salary of 8,000 makes people feel too much - these articles of yours have already been paid for manuscripts!

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" that happened on Wall Street in the United States not long ago, after the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, the insurance giant AIG received more than $170 billion in government bailouts due to business difficulties. But after receiving the government's bailout, the company's leaders did not first think about how to make up for the deficit and recover the customer's losses, but took out a huge amount of money to give bonuses to the company's senior executives!

As soon as this matter was exposed, 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 taxes we paid...... Zuihou, you bank executives who only lose money, have reluctantly given up this ill-timed bonus amid countless assassination threats from 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 to literati who did not have much benefit to the actual construction work. So in essence, what is the difference between them and Wall Street AIG executives, who still forcibly use the people's taxes to pay themselves huge bonuses at the critical moment when the company is losing money and failing?

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". As a result, educational resources and funding have always been tilted toward science, which naturally makes high-minded liberal arts professors feel indignant.

However, these people are the most proficient at writing articles and expressing opinions, 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 how heinous is the Communist Party, killing all the backbone Chinese, castrating them spiritually, so that gentlemen want to be hermits but cannot get them...... Zuihou 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 there is a serious antagonism between the interests of the literati and the masses of the people, society will be filled with countless ridiculous and unwarranted 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 be very disciplined 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 90% 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 were Qian Xuesen, Li Siguang, Zhu Kezhen, Deng Jiaxian, and Yuan Longping, who were scientific heroes, not those "masters of Chinese studies" left over from the Republic of China era -- the former was pioneering and enterprising, and the latter was conformist -- the so-called "Communist Party does not attach importance to intellectuals" is nothing more than 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 science intellectuals were also severely persecuted during that crazy decade. But the problem is that the various "reactionary tendencies" of these cultural people in the early days of the founding of the country are also true. On the other hand, if these cultural people and intellectuals, who represent the "conscience of society", really vent their frustrated resentment, then it will often mean a catastrophe for the country.

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", preached all day long that he wanted to destroy the rotten and ruthless Soviet system and advocate 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.

But as a result of this tremendous change, the Soviet Union collapsed, the people were struggling to make a living, corruption was rampant, the country fell from a superpower to the abyss of the civil war, the whole country was "deindustrialized", factories were in ruins, and it was really about to regress to the level of "agriculture and handicrafts as the basis" and the "old Russian way of life" was restored -- Comrade Stalin's many "five years" were all in vain...... If Solzhenitsyn still had a conscience, he should really jump into the Arctic Ocean to apologize to the more than 200 million Soviet people he had fooled.

-- 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"!