Chapter 8 Resignation

International relations is actually a discipline used in diplomacy, and it is indeed rarely used in daily life. And Wang Maoru's lecture at Peking University was also hot for a while at first, and everyone came to him as the author of "The Rise of a Great Power", but looking up and not looking down on the campus made everyone lose their sense of mystery to him. However, now the students are patriotic and curious about foreign relations, so they come to listen to his lectures.

After briefly finishing the first chapter of "The Diplomatic History of China" in a week's time, I began to talk about "The History of World Diplomacy". This "History of World Diplomacy" has a lot more content, covering the history, economy, culture, politics, and military aspects of other countries in the world, and starting from the leaders, it tells many strange things about the West that students have never heard of. It's just that there is laughter from time to time in the school hall, which makes some other Peking University teachers look down on it.

Although other teachers are popular, they are not as enthusiastic as him, and they are very opposed to him in private, and Wang Maoru is only in school when there is a class, and is not in the school when there is no class, which makes some teachers even more disgusted. Tang Erhe gathered a group of teachers from time to time to find the principal, saying that this Wang Maoru was not in a formal manner, and he used the classroom as a tea shop to talk about stand-up, but with the support of the principal Yan Fu, no one took Wang Maoru like that.

"The French Emperor Napoleon is less than 1.7 meters tall, and some people say that he is 1.6 meters tall, shorter than everyone here, so he is most afraid of people saying that he is short. One day, he wanted to pick up a book on the shelf. Because the book was placed too high for him to reach, he called for a stool to be brought to him. At this time, a general who happened to be there said, 'Your Majesty, there is no need to carry a stool, let me fetch it for you, because I am taller than you.' ''Are you trying to say you're older than me?'' Napoleon immediately corrected it. It can be seen from this that Napoleon did not allow others to offend, but he would not punish him for his words, and the man who punished him for his words in our country is like a carp crossing the river. Especially during the Yongzheng Dynasty, if a general spoke like this, he must have been exterminated. The main reason why we say that the West is more civilized today is that they will not be offended for their words. There is a proverb in the West that says, I don't agree with you, but I defend your right to speak to the death. When everyone in a country is afraid to speak, then the truth will not appear. Therefore, you must dare to speak, dare to speak the truth, you may say the wrong way, but the right path is often coming out of the wrong path. ”

In the classroom, Wang Mao was like saliva, somewhat similar to Yuan Tengfei's lectures in later generations, Tang Erhe, who was passing by outside, was angry and silent, and people on the side said: "Wang Xiusheng's words are vulgar, which is really a shame for Peking University." "I also heard that Wang Maoru will be the Russian Empress Catherine II, Wang Maoru said that the name of this Russian is too long, let's change her name, called Ye Er, this Ye Er has two aspects in the West that are most remembered, the greed for land and the pursuit of lovers......

"It's so rude," Tang Erhe flicked his sleeves and left.

After a few days, Wang Maoru's good days came to an end, because Yan Fu, the president of Peking University who defended him, resigned. It turned out that Yan Fu was able to become the president of Peking University, which was related to the recommendation of Cai Yuanpei, the director of education, and others. Yuan Shikai himself also hoped that Yan Fu would be the president of Peking University, so he sent Premier Tang Shaoyi to ask Yan to return to the mountain several times.

There are three reasons why Yan Fu left Peking University and resigned, the first reason is that Yan Fu smoked a lot, and among the current teachers of Peking University, he is the only one who smokes a lot, and many teachers don't like it. Tang Erhe used this excuse to impeach Yan Fu several times to the Ministry of Education, and when the chief of education was Cai Yuanpei, Yan Fu was safe. Cai Yuanpei resigned due to political disagreements with President Yuan Shikai, and Fan Yuanlian, vice minister of education, served as the chief minister of education. And Fan Yuanlian's personality is not strong, and he is not familiar with Yan Fu, and someone below impeached Yan Fu, so he agreed to Yan Fu's resignation.

The second reason for Yan Fu's resignation was economic problems, Yan Fu always had a 70,000 taels of silver in the Dongqing Railway stock of the Russian Daosheng Bank, and the Ministry of Education was jealous of this money, and asked him for it several times but was refused. Yan Fu hoped to keep the money in Peking University to run the school, but the Ministry of Education and others hoped to transfer it to the Ministry of Education for other purposes. After Cai Yuanpei's resignation, the Ministry of Education sent someone to directly demand that Yan Fu hand over the money.

The third reason for Yan Fu's resignation is that there is partisan rivalry, and before Xinhai, Yan Fu has always advocated a constitutional monarchy and opposed violence. With the gradual rise of the ** trend of thought, Yan Fu became the enemy of the ** faction in politics. In his 1904 translation of "The General Interpretation of Society", he opposed the call for narrow nationalism.** In 1905, Yan Fu, who was in London at the time, poured cold water on Sun Yat-sen, who came to visit, and clearly advocated education to save the country and oppose violence**. After returning from London, Yan Fu published many articles and speeches, sparing no effort to advocate a constitutional monarchy, and thus became one of the spiritual leaders of the constitutional movement, and thus became one of the biggest obstacles to the Kuomintang. At the moment when the two political proposals of constitutional reform and republican politics were in tat-for-tat confrontation, in view of Yan Fu's wide social popularity, the ** faction had to focus on counterattacking him in order to dissipate his social influence. Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin, Zhang Taiyan, Wei Yi, and others have successively published articles to refute some of Yan Fu's views. Cai Yuanpei and Fan Yuanlian, the two former directors of education, were both radicals in the south, and Cai Yuanpei even advocated the cancellation of Peking University at one time, which was strictly guaranteed.

And Yan Fu's resignation also made Wang Maoru feel meaningless at Peking University, and after Yan Fu's resignation, Wang Maoru came to Yan Fu's house to visit. saw Yan Fu lying on the bed table smoking a big cigarette, shaking his head and smiling bitterly, and left Yan Fu's house. After that, he resigned from Peking University, and the president of Peking University was Zhang Shizhao at this time, but the Ministry of Education was an unpopular person, and Peking University couldn't even pay his salary after Yan Fu left, so Zhang Shizhao naturally didn't want to come. The Ministry of Education had no choice but to appoint Ma Liang as the acting principal on October 18. At the ceremony of his appointment as the acting president of Peking University, Ma Liang said that university scholars "are not the size of the school building, the age of the students, or the salary of the faculty members, but also the noble morality and profound learning." If you are still in school, you must respect morality, concentrate on your studies, and live up to the three words of college students." However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. At the end of November 1912, when the winter holidays were approaching and the school had not yet been able to fund the next academic year, Maleonn borrowed 400,000 francs from a Belgian banker and agreed to use the school's real estate as collateral. When they learned about it, they told Peking University students to rise up and oppose it. When the students heard the news, they also thought that Ma Liang was "stealing and selling school property", so they attacked him in groups, so that Ma Liang had to resign and leave.

Wang Maoru first wrote a letter of resignation to Zhang Shizhao, but within a few days, the principal was replaced by Ma Liang, and the resignation letter was written to Ma Liang, but within a few days, the principal was changed again, and when. resigned three times, and Wang Maoru can be regarded as creating a history. He himself is not short of money, but he cherishes his reputation, especially being able to be a lecturer at Peking University for a period of time, which can be regarded as satisfying his inner vanity a little.

For Wang Maoru's resignation, when is very reluctant, this international relations discipline just opened half a year before he died, and Wang Maoru's resignation The happiest person is not Tang Erhe, who has always looked at him unpleasantly, after all, Tang Erhe is not pleasing to Yan Fu, so he is affected. The happiest person was the Japanese man Zang Pingliang, who received a letter of request from Yokohama University in Japan, hoping that he could help Yokohama University invite Mr. Hidemori to teach at the university to teach international relations and cultivate diplomatic talents for Japan.

Wang Maoru sighed with the invitation letter, the domestic parties were fighting each other, a small education department, in which conservatives, reformists, moderates, radicals and other factions fought each other, and even the principal Yan Fu was forced to resign as the principal, no wonder Zhang Shizhao did not come to take office. But Wang Maoru didn't want to be a professor at Lao Shizi anymore, and he received an invitation from Yan Fu.

After Yan Fu resigned as the president of Peking University, he entered Yuan Shikai's staff agency and became Yuan Shikai's staff, and Yan Fu recommended Wang Maoru to Yuan Shikai, saying that this person is a great talent and must be reused. Yuan Shikai also knew the book "The Rise of a Great Power", and asked his staff to read it to him, and he was quite happy, so he responded to Yan Fu. However, Yuan Shikai was busy with a lot of things, and there was a commotion in the south, and Yuan Shikai was busy raising a large loan for the aftermath, so he forgot about inviting Wang Maoru. After that, Yan Fu reminded him to remember, so he sent Yan Fu to Wang Maoru's house with the invitation letter from the president, but learned that Wang Maoru had accepted the invitation of Yokohama University in Japan and went east to Japan, regretting it in his heart. After informing Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai shook his head and said that it was a pity and didn't say anything, indeed, he has a lot of talents, and he is really not bad for this professor. It's just that Yan Fu beat his chest on the side, saying that with Wang Xiusheng here, he must know how to deal with the Bank of Six Nations. A staff member sneered and said that Yan Jidao inevitably took this person too seriously, just a gentleman, Yan Fu glared and was about to go into battle shirtless, Yuan Shikai hurriedly said: "Okay, this person is talented, but unfortunately he went to Japan, when he will come back, Mr. Jidao will bring him to see me." ”

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