Cai Yuanpei was a little shocked by these impassioned words, and the view in his heart that "the university is an institution for pure research and learning" gradually began to waver, and he wanted to drink saliva smoothly, but his mouth was cold, and he felt his body tremble a little when he swallowed it.

"Zhiyuan, it seems that the pattern of the reform plan of Peking University I formulated is still too low, and your words can be described as deafening and woke me up."

Cheng Nuo smiled. Picked up the thermos from behind and refilled the teapot with hot water: "Cai Gong's words are serious, these are also my family's words, just listen to them, but Peking University is not just a university in Beiping, but also a university in our entire country, and any reform needs to be cautious." ”

Cai Yuanpei shook his head helplessly and explained: "I began to devote myself to the revolution in the year of my establishment, and I have been busy for most of my life, and now that the Manchu government has fallen, it seems that it has succeeded, but the current situation is turbulent and the political arena is full of miasma, and I have reached the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and I am in a hurry to change and can't do anything, so I have to pin my hopes on your generation." ”

After a sigh, Cai Yuanpei put the teacup on the table heavily, and the green tendons on his hands exposed his anxious heart.

Cheng Nuo comforted: "I can understand Cai Gong's feelings, and I also believe that Peking University has been able to rejuvenate itself after your reform and come out of a group of pillars." But Cai Gong, when we take a long-term view, do we also have to look at our feet, there is such a group of people who have been ignored by you. ”

"Who?" Cai Yuanpei was puzzled.

Cheng Nuo pointed to the snacks on the table and said: "Those farmers who are hungry and worry about three meals a day when they open their eyes every day, the agricultural science cannot be wasted either. ”

The people take food as the sky, and the people understand. The Manchu government also understood.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the educational reform issued the "Statute of the Concert School", the university hall set up seven disciplines, agriculture is one of them, and it is also the first of the three industrial disciplines of "agriculture and industry", and later felt that it was not enough to pay attention to it, and directly established an agricultural higher school in Hubei Province, until the collapse of the Manchu government, there are still 111 large and small agricultural schools in the country.

Agricultural science is different from other disciplines, it is necessary to roll up your trouser legs and work in the field. On the eve of the founding of the Republic of China, there were 98 agricultural experimental fields of all kinds in the country, including but not limited to the trial breeding and breeding of fine livestock breeds and silkworm seeds, afforestation experiments and forestry technology promotion, agricultural machinery improvement, and analysis of chemical fertilizers.

In the later period, the Agricultural Association of Non-administrative Organizations was established in conjunction with the Agricultural School, which was engaged in agricultural extension work such as surveying soil and suitable products, researching and improving methods, publicizing agricultural affairs, issuing publications, giving lectures, exchanging seeds, and exhibiting agricultural products.

Although the final effect is limited, the importance of agricultural science has slowly been revealed.

In order to support his point of view, Cheng Nuo gave an example: "The year before last, the water in the three rivers of Guangdong Province soared, the embankments were washed away, countless houses collapsed, more than 3 million people were affected by the disaster in Liangguang, nearly 10 million acres of farmland were destroyed, and more than 20,000 people died in Foshan City alone. ”

There is a sneak trick here, the data is quoted from the survey after the liberation, at this time the north and the south are busy fighting, and the victims are rarely cared for, not to mention the statistics of the disaster.

The more Cheng Nuo spoke, the more excited he became, and there was a scene of the victims suffering in front of him: "Last year, the mountain fires in Hei Province, the wind disaster in Hubei Province, the severe drought in Henan Province, the torrential rain in Guizhou Province, the burst of embankments in Anhui Province, and the locust plague in Shaanxi Province are too many people to suffer, and it is a luxury for them to be able to eat a full meal alive." If our agricultural science is advanced enough and we have enough professional personnel, it is entirely possible to avoid these natural disasters, increase grain production, and make various natural disaster plans in advance, and there will be fewer tragedies. “

In order to completely dispel Cai Yuanpei's plan to cancel agricultural science, Cheng Nuo did not hesitate to move out the grievances of Peking University and Tsinghua University in the future: "Cai Gong, you don't know, Qinghua University is already ahead of us in agriculture, and you not only don't catch up but also plan to cancel, this is ......"

Cai Yuanpei's eyes widened: "Why don't I know about this, Zhiyuan said quickly." ”

"Last year, students from Qinghua University organized a summer group to carry out social services in Xishan, Beiping, to help local farmers solve production problems, but before that, I had never heard of a university doing anything like this."

The voice fell, and after a long time, Cai Yuanpei took a deep breath and said: "The ancients said that they were full of food and thought **, here you can apply it to think about learning for full food, you can't eat enough and don't wear warm, and you run around for three meals all day long. ”

Cheng Nuo wanted this effect, and continued to chase after the victory: "Not only that, when Peking University admits new students, it should also take into account these students from poor backgrounds, give them a chance to change their fate, and the door of the school should be open to every Chinese person. ”

Cai Yuanpei muttered: "Keeping the two subjects of agriculture and engineering can be considered, but I am afraid it is inappropriate for me to relax the admission requirements for them, and it will lose the criterion of fairness to other students." ”

"That's not what I meant, we need to help these students who can go to school but can't afford to go to school, it's not easy to go so far, we can't let them fall to the last step." Cheng Nuo shook his head and said his thoughts: "Those with excellent grades can appropriately reduce tuition fees and provide food and accommodation subsidies to relieve them of their worries about studying, which is in line with Cai Gong's concept of pure learning." ”

In this era, the cost of studying, especially going to university, is not affordable for ordinary people, and according to the requirements, the monthly tuition fee of public universities is not less than three oceans, plus the cost of uniforms, books, meals and accommodation, etc., the overall cost is particularly high.

In order to study, many students who were originally able to go to better universities chose to go to public normal universities that were free of tuition fees in order to save money, which is also the main reason why the first degree of many great people is a teacher.

Although they don't have to pay tuition, they also have to pay ten oceans as a deposit when they enroll, and this money was finally misappropriated with the turmoil of the times.

Going to school is a luxury.

Cai Yuanpei felt that something was wrong: "Zhiyuan, do you know that engineering and agriculture are not canceled, and plus the tuition fee waiver and bursary are provided, this money is not a small amount, the treasury is empty, and it is difficult for the Ministry of Education to allocate more funds." ”

Cheng Nuo looked like he was in control, and said confidently: "The Ministry of Education is unwilling to give, but someone is willing to give, and we can ask those powerful people and overseas Chinese to pay for it." ”

Cai Yuanpei has not looked for overseas Chinese overseas, and shook his head in disbelief: "When the revolution was unsuccessful, I contacted overseas Chinese several times, and it was still difficult to raise money at that time. ”

"As for those powerful people, forget it, don't mention it." When it came to the latter sentence, Cai Yuanpei looked contemptuous.

Cheng Nuo smiled: "The white wolf with empty gloves may not work, what if there is another one, and the bursary is named after them?" I can't resist this temptation. ”

Cai Yuan Pei Wenzhi was amazed by the case, and called it a clever plan, and the reform plan of Peking University was changed.

And the breeze instigated by Cheng Nuo's butterfly, drifting across the ocean to the North American continent, has begun to brew a storm in the mathematical world.

The mathematical manuscript of Kroneck's dream of youth has entered the final review of the "Mathematical Yearbook".