But just like Cheng Nuo saw just now, the sports of Peking University is a mess, and there is no way to clean it up without hard work.

"Cai Gong, after all, you are the head of Peking University, you have to give your advice no matter what, it is impossible to say that it is completely thrown to me, there are so many students here, the cost of trial and error is too great."

"The Japanese promote sports, and they are very progressive, and they have influenced the whole nation. Therefore, we cannot fail to realize that sports are to increase the health of the body and at the same time to seek the health of the nation. Cai Yuanpei walked over from the desk, handed over a cup of tea, and sat side by side with him: "The war is dominated by soldiers, and soldiers can move forward bravely." ”

Cheng Nuo didn't understand the meaning, and asked: "According to Cai Gong's meaning, it seems that we want to move closer to the military aspect and learn military skills?" ”

Cai Yuanpei nodded with a smile: "That's half right, that is, military and national education, muscles and bones, for self-defense." ”

"Militaristic ...... Military and national education? Cheng Nuo almost confided, pulled the **** in, and asked: "The student is stupid, please also ask Cai Gong to make it clear." ”

Cai Yuanpei stood up and paced a few steps forward, thought for a while, and then turned around and replied: "For example, our ancient six arts of archery, and ancient Greek gymnastics, in my opinion, are both military nationalism, more specifically, school military gymnastics, military nationalism, and ordinary gymnastics are both aesthetic education and military nationalism. ”

Good guys, the meaning of one word is completely different.

Different from the concept of sports in later generations, Cai Yuanpei advocated "military and national sports", which was largely based on the international situation of our close neighbors Russia and Japan in modern times, especially Japan, which was approaching step by step, and proposed one of the "five educations", and the five educations refer to military and national education, utilitarian education, moral education, world view education and aesthetic education.

Compared with the current "moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor" education, the former seems to be easier to implement, after all, the latter is really a bit empty, and the operability is not too high.

In 1922, the sports of Peking University were directly reorganized, saying that although they saw the development of school sports, the process was slow, so they simply reorganized into two departments, the student army and gymnastics, of which the student army directly invited Jiang Baili to serve as a tutor.

Jiang Baili is also the first place in the infantry section of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and the Japanese emperor personally awarded him a command sword, quite a powerful military talent, but unfortunately died young, but his son-in-law is even more powerful.

Seeing Cheng Nuo falling into thought, Cai Yuanpei added: "Not only for students, but also for individuals. In the early years, when I participated in the Chinese Imperial Insult Association, I emphasized that everyone should learn and understand various weapons, choose one that they are good at and prepare for their body, develop the habit of suppressing the strong and helping the weak, and strive to maintain the integrity of killing but not humiliating. If you see an enemy insulting our compatriots, you will strike at them, and if there is a chain of incidents, you will stand up and let them go. ”

Cheng Nuo relieved himself, and said in his heart, Cai Gong, Cai Gong, you are really a martyr in his twilight years, and he is full of strength, and he has not forgotten his old profession in running education here, which is really admired by the younger generations.

But he was not completely convinced by this sentence: "Cai Gong thinks, which sports method is more in line with what you call military and national sports?" ”

"Gymnastics and technical strikes, so that all students have the quality of soldiers, soldiers in the people, everyone is a soldier, to resist foreign insults, once there is something in the world, the whole country is well-trained elite soldiers, why not be afraid of war and not win, attack but not overcome, why trouble the country does not stand."

"Although militarism is good, it is too ideal, and it is really difficult to implement in the current environment." Cheng Nuo shook his head and stated his opinion: "This requires gymnastics teachers to have certain professional knowledge and teaching ability, at least to know some gymnastics knowledge, but teachers are scarce, let alone gymnastics teachers." Forcibly assigned to the local area will only allow some ** substitute teaching, and the quality of teaching can be imagined. ”

Cai Yuanpei was silent for a moment and retorted: "Today's students are the backbone of tomorrow's society and the pillar of the country, and it is not easy to implement an education policy. ”

Cheng Nuo was not discouraged and continued to state: "Sports is first of all a physical sport, followed by a cultural style, which has both social value and personal value, and cannot simply serve politics. ”

"As you said before, to create a complete personality, the first thing is sports, and we must see that sports help people's individuality, and then enable people to better adapt to social, political, economic, and cultural development."

These words made Cai Yuanpei's eyes refreshed, and he nodded while asking: "According to your suggestion, what is the first thing we should do at the moment?" ”

"Hold a sports meeting, especially a competitive sports meeting." Cheng Nuo said: "Mobilize all teachers and students from the whole school to join in, let them be interested in sports activities, release their vitality, and have the honor of ranking in the front, and participate will be more motivated." ”

Although Peking University held its first all-university athletic meeting in 1905 and was ahead of its sister universities, it slowly ceased to hold the conference and did not resume until 1922.

It's just that what Cheng Nuo didn't expect was that Cai Yuanpei would be quite repulsive to competitive sports.

"The front is very easy to discuss, but this needs to be discussed again." Cai Yuanpei waved his hand and said he disagreed with this opinion: "When it comes to competition, it will stimulate students' competitiveness, lead to an increase in excesses, and harm the body." And before the competition, everyone is hopeful, but after the competition, the winner is easy to be arrogant and arrogant, and the loser is easy to be discouraged and harmful to the psychology. At the same time, it will also make some students devote too much energy to sports and abandon their studies. ”

Cheng Nuo smiled dumbly, he really didn't expect Cai Yuanpei to be so conservative in this aspect, far from being as determined to reform as other disciplines.

"Cai Gong, do you know that in the Far Eastern Games held in Shanghai last year, athletes from China, Japan and the Philippines participated in the competition, and when our football team defeated the Philippine team and won the championship, would you feel excited and proud?"

The Far Eastern Games, formerly known as the "Far Eastern Olympic Games", is a regional international competition initiated and participated in by the Philippines, China and Japan in the early 20th century, and is also the world's earliest continental international competition, which is considered to be the predecessor of the Asian Games.

Cai Yuanpei was speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to reply.

Cheng Nuo stood up and said with a smile: "Cai Gong, we can't waste food because of choking, only the national pride inspired by competitive sports can popularize sports faster and better, and there are destined to be some high-level sports people who will win honors for us, elite sports and popular sports are not in conflict, but complement each other." ”

"In other words, you don't want us to finally participate in a North China Games and come back with the last place."

Cai Yuanpei was not angry at all, and actually laughed: "The agitation method is not good, I agree with the rest, but gymnastics still needs to be retained." ”

"Of course, gymnastics can be retained, but in addition to this, additional sports such as track and field, basketball, football, etc., preferably the Olympic Games or the Far Eastern Games, we should have them, and the equipment does not have to be the best, but we must involve the students."

But after saying that, Cheng Nuo was a little worried, Peking University is not like Tsinghua School, they are all young, there are many students here who are older than him, and it is really hard to say that the old arms and legs are down.

Cai Yuanpei added: "We also want to encourage students to watch, and we must learn from the West in this regard, regardless of gender, young and old, they are all happy about sports." This is not only the case when I am exercising, but I am also very interested in watching other people's sports, such as football and baseball. ”

Cheng Nuo suddenly thought that there were so many things he wanted to carry out, and there might not be much to list alone, but it would add up to a lot, and asked: "But in this way, we will have to spend a lot of money on sports, and I am worried that the school will not be able to eat." ”

Cai Yuanpei said with a smile: "It turns out that Zhiyuan, you will also worry about the education funds, a few days ago, you emphasized three times and twice that you could not cancel the second department of industry and agriculture, why don't you be so worried." ”

Cheng Nuo was helpless: "At this time and that time, I don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, since I have that academy of sciences, I need to spend money everywhere, and I don't plan carefully lest it fall into my hands that day." ”

"Very good, this is the idea of a doer, in this era, there are more mouths, and fewer sleeves are rolled up." Cai Yuanpei nodded, agreeing with this sentence: "A few days ago, through the competition between the two parties in the public and the government, I negotiated a sum of money, and now there is a lot of surplus, holding a spring sports meeting, and it is not a problem to buy a few more ball games." ”

Cheng Nuo put his mind at ease, sat back and drank a sip of water: "But this is not a long-term solution after all, physical education, like other disciplines, also needs continuous investment, in the long run, the money is still not enough, there should be a separate fund to serve sports, at least to meet daily consumption." “

"I've heard about the chaos in the school's physical education department for a long time, but I'm busy with other subject reforms at the moment, and I can't take care of it for a while, so I pull you, a powerful man, to act as my right-hand man." Cai Yuanpei touched the kettle, felt a little cold, boiled a pot of hot water again, and was busy with his hands not to delay his mouth: "The problem of funding is also relatively easy, and an additional sports fee will be added at the beginning of the new school year, which will be used exclusively for sports activities." ”

Cheng Nuo nodded in agreement, for the Beiyang government, the salaries of its public officials are all owed, and it is too unrealistic to ask for another fund, but it is better to think of a way from within the school.

After the students have paid their sports fees, they have to think about the money they have paid, which is not a good thing in a sense.

On the basis of their common opinions, the two sides added what they thought was more correct.

As a result, Cheng Nuo began to take charge of the beginning of the Spring Games, and Cai Yuanpei was recruiting some professional physical education teachers while requiring full participation, and even established the Beiping University Martial Arts Association during this time, hiring specialized martial arts coaches to teach martial arts in the early morning and evening.

For the future head of the sports department of Peking University, Cheng Nuo was naturally called over and asked to study along, and his screaming could be heard from afar every morning.

"I'm so old, it's really hard for a strong man to pull his legs."

"With so many students watching, Professor Cheng, do you have to set an example?"

"Okay, I'll try again...... Ah~ Whew, tap tap ......"