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Zhou Zuoren sat in a rickshaw, looked at the students with contempt, and walked into the office building in a bright light. He was not afraid of the students making trouble, and even took the initiative to write an article to scold the students who attacked Li Shizeng's residence: "This generation is proud of beating Zhao Jialou, but in fact, he is the scum of the May Fourth spirit, so the future of Peking University is not optimistic." ”

Zhao Jialou is talking about the "burning of Zhao Jialou" incident in the May Fourth Movement.

This building was originally the residence of Zhao Wensu, a college student of Wenyuan Pavilion in the Ming Dynasty, and later became the residence of Cao Rulin, Minister of Beiyang Transportation and Minister of Finance.

Cao Rulin belonged to the pro-Japanese faction and presided over the signing of the "21 Articles" of betrayal, which sowed the bitter fruit of China's diplomatic failure at the Paris Peace Conference. The indignant patriotic young people burned Zhao's house with a fire, which shocked China and foreign countries, and some people criticized the behavior excessively, while others held an appreciative attitude.

Zhou Zuoren originally belonged to the "May Fourth Warriors", but in recent years, his thinking has changed rapidly, and he has gradually begun to question the May Fourth New Culture Movement that he once actively promoted. In particular, the actions of Peking University students in the May Fourth Movement made Zhou Zuoren feel flashy and useless to the country and the nation.

In addition, Zhou Zuoren still hates Cai Yuanpei very much.

Two years ago, due to Zhang Zuolin's suppression, Peking University fell into the most difficult moment since its founding. Zhou Zuoren actively connected and persuaded Cai Yuanpei to come back as the principal, thinking that only Cai Yuanpei could save Peking University.

But Cai Yuanpei publicly resigned as principal several times and became the Minister of Education of the Southern Government.

In Zhou Zuoren's eyes, Cai Yuanpei sold Peking University, as well as the teachers and students of Peking University, and he thought that Cai Yuanpei was a hypocrite.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, so Zhou Zuoren firmly supported Li Shizeng, and was appointed by Li Shizeng as the newly formed "Dean of the Faculty of Arts of National Peking University". Before the merger, this position was only the dean of the Faculty of Arts of Peking University, but after the merger, he managed all the non-normal liberal arts students in Peking.

This position is too glamorous, you must know that at this time, Chinese universities are mainly liberal arts.

In terms of the actual power in his hands, Zhou Zuoren belongs to the third person in the Peiping University District, second only to Li Shizeng and Li Shuhua, no wonder he wants to denounce the students who make trouble.

Zhou Zuoren walked into Li Shizeng's office and said indignantly: "Those students are stubborn, I really can't help it." ”

"Didn't the money arrive?" Li Shi was puzzled.

This money is not the money that Zhou Hexuan asked for from Yan Xishan. Rather, after Li Shi learned that he had been deceived, he used his status as a veteran of the Kuomintang to forcibly raise more than 100,000 yuan in funds, which came from social donations and funding from wealthy businessmen.

For the sake of more than 100,000 oceans, Li Shi once let out his old face and owed a lot of favors. And it's a one-off event, and if there is no stable funding next month, his education reform will still not be able to continue.

More than 100,000 yuan, which is a lot, but it is overstretched.

Not to mention the salaries of officials in the education department, it would take a lot of effort to merge the nine national schools. Because it is not only a nominal merger, but also a merger of disciplines and majors, for example, liberal arts students who are not normal majors, no matter which school they used to be, now all have to go to Peking University to study. The science and engineering students of Peking University have to transfer to the original Beijing University of Technology and Beiyang University to study.

Not only do students need to be transferred, but teachers also have to be transferred, and the huge personnel changes are a headache.

Although Li Shizeng was able to come up with more than 100,000 yuan in funds, the problem was not really solved, because the students of Peking University were too desperate.

Teachers and students from several other universities supported or acquiesced in the merger after the funding was secured, but the students of Peking University strongly opposed it. They held high the sign of "Glory of Peking University" and set off a vigorous school protection movement.

To put it bluntly, students at Peking University have a sense of superiority in their bones. Although poor, Peking University is the ancestral home of the modern university, the birthplace of the May Fourth Movement, and seems to be a superior university to all universities in China.

Lao Tzu was admitted to Peking University with his ability, but now he asked me to transfer to Beijing University of Technology to study, why should I agree?

This is like the high-achieving students who were admitted to 985 and 211 in later generations, and they were inexplicably arranged to two colleges, and their hearts must be unbalanced, and they must make an explanation.

So Zhou Zuoren was depressed, he was the dean of the Faculty of Arts after the merger, and he needed to make room for the new students who transferred over. However, the old students of science, agriculture, engineering, and medicine at Peking University did not want to leave, and in the name of nursing, some of them occupied the classrooms, and some of them marched on the streets, which made Zhou Zuoren's teaching work impossible to carry out.

Zhou Zuoren explained the situation in detail and said angrily: "Peking University students have always been lawless, and they are all used to Cai Xiaomin. Their thoughts and actions are always right, others are wrong, and whoever thinks differently from them will be knocked down! All the students in China, Peking University is the most difficult to serve! ”

Li Shizeng frowned and said, "Why don't I come forward to persuade in person?" ”

"It's useless," Zhou Zuoren said distressedly, "Runzhang (Li Shuhua) tried to persuade him, but it was to no avail." As for you, Mr. Shi Zeng, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to clean up after you go, believe it or not, they beat you out on the spot. ”

"Hahahaha," Li Shizeng laughed instead of being angry, "this is a student with free thought, not coerced by authority." ”

Zhou Zuoren said: "Extreme freedom is casualness, unorderly, unorganized and anarchic!" ”

However, what Li Shizeng pursued was "educational anarchism".

He believes that if the government is allowed to interfere in education, it will inevitably lead to the bureaucratization of education, and the professors are not thinking about academics and education all day long, but how to curry favor with the higher-level bureaucrats and the government. In the end, the school was also bureaucratized, and the school became a small society, and the students did not study seriously, but were contaminated with worldly vices.

Only by achieving educational independence and allowing scholars to manage the country's education can the academic, pure, and professional nature of the education system be realized.

Li Shizeng's idea is also reasonable, and many professors in later generations copied papers and mixed qualifications, and those who really concentrated on academics were suppressed, which is the inevitable result of the bureaucratization of education.

But can the education system, which is independent of the government, avoid these situations?

I'm afraid it won't be much better, because where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the experts and scholars who hold the power will naturally become bureaucratic and form a small court in the education system.

Li Shi had discussed with Zhou Zuoren for a long time, but they didn't come up with a good result, and they couldn't do anything about the nursing students of Peking University.

At this moment, the secretary suddenly rushed in, so happy that he didn't even knock on the door, and shouted happily: "Dean, He Qigong (Mayor of Beiping) has promised to allocate 300,000 yuan of education funds every month, which will be borne by the finance of the Beiping Municipal Government." ”

"Really?"

Li Shizeng stood up suddenly, and then laughed: "Mingcheng is really a strange person!" ”

"What's the matter with Zhou Hexuan?" Zhou Zuoren asked curiously.

Li Shizeng reacted at this time, and he hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, the education funds have been settled." ”

Zhou Zuoren suggested: "Mr. Shi Zeng, Zhou Hexuan is very prestigious among Peking University students, it is better to let him persuade the students to stop making trouble." ”

"I'm afraid it's not good to trouble him again." Li Shi was a little moved.

A few days later, when Zhou Hexuan returned to Tianjin, Li Shizeng really had the cheekiness to come to the door for help. As a result, he couldn't even enter the gate of Zhou's house, and only got a one-word reply - get out!