"This is something we ship from all over China." Cai Yuanpei said honestly, he is a teacher in the end, he doesn't speak, if Yang Rui is here, he must say that he suddenly grew out of the ground for the friendship between China and Germany.

"Shipped. Can they survive again if they leave the land? "Dr. Baolong is also an honest man, and he can't think of how to transport the tree, let alone why the tree didn't die after transplanting.

"As long as it can keep the moisture and soil at its roots, and the soil and water are right for transplanting, then he can survive and even grow better than before." Cai Yuanpei said, he finally remembered some diplomatic words, "This is like the German culture, transferred from Germany, as long as the original essence is retained when it is transferred, then after arriving in China, she will definitely be able to grow more and more luxuriant, grow taller and bigger like these Bodhi trees." ”

Cai Yuanpei's shrewd words suddenly made all the Germans who visited couldn't help but applaud, the large-scale cultural exchanges between the East and the West began very early, but Chinese still know very little about German culture, this nation that raised all the philosophers in the last century is not well known and respected by China, they mentioned that Germany is more about forcibly occupying Qingdao and Krupp cannons, and now, the cultural exchange between China and Germany will start from this beautiful school under their feet, how can this not make them happy?

"Mr. President, when will she start school? Also, because it is taught in German, is there enough for his students? "The more Mr. Baron looked at the school, the more satisfied he became, and he was now mentally drawing up the contents of the telegram to be sent to Germany. It's just that he wants to make sure again that this thing is indeed true.

"Lord Baron, the school will meet in five months' time, in September, and now the builders are hurrying to finish the construction of the professor's apartments and the teaching building. As for the students, we already have thousands of students who are learning German. They have all been studying German for many years, and when the German professors arrive in July, they can take entrance exams. Rest assured. All of them are going according to plan. Cai Yuanpei said. He can't wait for the start of school in September, which not only cost Yang Rui the extra education money he extorted from the Russians, but also cost him too much effort. From his resignation from the Hanlin Academy, to the Shaoxing Chinese and Western Academy, to the Chengxin Academy and Nanyang Public School, and finally to the Patriotic Society, his educational dream seems to be about to come true by half.

Baron Gertz nodded happily, and then said solemnly. "I will report this beautiful school to His Majesty the Emperor, and I am sure that he will also be amazed by this beautiful school in the Far East. The problem of teachers, which you were worried about, is not a problem, and German universities will draw a number of excellent professors to teach. ”

The baron's words were full of momentum, and he looked like a big man. However, Cai Yuanpei didn't care, but when he heard his last sentence, his face smiled. The Baron probably didn't know how many teachers would be drawn from. However, as a planner, he still knows very well how many professors it takes to fill the position of professors in the school, not to mention the others, that is, dozens of professors are required in the three colleges of engineering, materials, and physics and chemistry.

"Your Excellency, it is very good. I've been worrying about it. If the professors come together, then in the Far East. Deutsche University will be the most influential school. Cai Yuanpei said happily that Yang Rui had always said that the Germans would help build the school in an all-round way, but he still didn't believe it before the people came.

Baron Gertz was pleased with his pleasure, and Germany was the most distinguished nation. Its culture is also the best culture, and now the Chinese are hungry for German professors to come and teach, rather than to invite British and French, which also makes him proud. He stopped talking, just clicked his leather boots on the concrete floor, until he saw an unfinished statue in front of the school library when he walked, he stopped curiously, looked at Eguanbo with a statue of an ancient Chinese and asked, "This should be the great Confucius of China, right?" ”

"Nope. He was not Confucius. Cai Yuanpei pondered the words, thinking about how to sue him, a great man who was not famous in China, and finally, he said: "If you compare ancient Greece, then he should be the Socrates of China." ”

"Socrates?" The baron had seen this statue a lot, he had never heard of Socrates in China.

"Yes. He was born more than 2,000 years ago in the era of a hundred schools of thought, that was the most active period of Chinese history, and the ideas at that time have deeply influenced China, but he has been buried by history for more than 2,000 years, and now is an era of great integration of Eastern and Western cultures, we hope to use him to awaken another way of thinking of the Chinese. Cai Yuanpei said emotionally, although as a Confucian scholar he still thinks that Confucius should be respected in the school, but as soon as the school's planning map came out, Yang Rui put this statue in the most conspicuous place in the school.

Baron Gertz could not see where the statue resembled Socrates, and of course, he did not delve into whether this person was the Socrates of China, but circled around the statue and then walked elsewhere. The visit to the school lasted until the afternoon, and at four o'clock, everyone took the ferry back to the west bank of the Huangpu River, and after the rest of the line, a small cocktail party to celebrate the establishment of the Sino-German Tongji University Hall Foundation will begin, when the celebrities of both China and Germany in Shanghai will come to donate to the foundation.

Cai Yuanpei took a carriage to send the Germans back to the German Consulate on Huangpu Road, and then he was tired of letting the carriage send him to the Licha Hotel, which was not far from the consulate. The banquet hall of the earliest Western-style hotel in the whole concession has been booked by the education meeting today, and after the fund-raising reception at seven o'clock is the celebration ball, he has to take a hot shower first, and then change into the Western dress that he made before, and it is best to recite the speech at the reception again. Although Yang Rui has been giving blood transfusions to the Education Association, as the army grows larger and the industrial investment increases, he is less and less afraid to put all the sources of funds of the Education Association on the Fuxing Association. Revolution is important, education is also important, and he hopes that the fundraising party tonight will open up another way, not to mention that the education association can be self-financed, and it is better to let the Tongji University Hall be self-financed in addition to the construction cost.

Cai Yuanpei, who got out of the carriage, gave a tip. After the doorman opened the door of the hotel and entered the lobby, he suddenly felt dizzy again. Although it was not yet completely dark, the Western electric lights hanging from the roof of the hotel lobby had already been turned on, and the bright light shone on the marble floor.

Hurried back to the room, his wife was already waiting inside, she helped him take off his coat, and hung it on the hanger behind the door. Seeing his wife's slightly solemn face. Cai Yuanpei asked, "What's wrong, is something happening over there?" ”

"Nope." Huang Zhongyu said softly.

"Not really." Cai Yuanpei took his wife's hand holding the top hat, "What's wrong today?" ”

"There's really nothing. You're tired today, aren't you? Let's go take a shower, and there's a drinking party later. Huang Zhongyu exerted a slight force and broke free of his hand. Then he turned to the bathroom, "Am I going too?" But I can't dance. ”

"It doesn't have to be dancing. If you want someone to ask you to dance. Just say what I taught you. Cai Yuanpei said while taking off his clothes, seeing that his wife was fine, Cai Yuanpei's mind was on the fundraising reception to be held again.

"But I can't tell which country they are from, whether they are German or British."

"This ...... I don't know. Let's use the German one first, Germany will be more ...... today" Cai Yuanpei said as he entered the bathroom, but before he could go in, he was hugged by his wife from behind. He asked, "What's wrong?" Today, what's going on? ”

"I ...... I accompanied Wei Dan's sister to see him today...... He ......: "She couldn't go on with that." In order to be afraid that Zou Rong's sister would be afraid, she went down to accompany her to the Siming Mansion today, and when she opened the coffin, she was startled by Zou Rong's body. Because ice cubes were placed inside and outside the coffin. The body was not decomposed, but what frightened her was Zou Rong's eyes, which opened somehow, although her eyes were dull, the unwillingness and resentment contained in them stung her. It's just that this may be a dazzle, but it is not the case when you look at it again.

"I see," Cai Yuanpei turned around, hugged his wife and asked, "Is Wei Dan's sister scared?" Seeing that his wife didn't speak, he smiled again and said, "Oh, it turns out that the little girls are scared, but you are frightened." Hey......"

Before Cai Yuanpei finished speaking, Huang Zhongyu said: "I... Not frightened. I'm worried about you, the people, is the revolution really so important? We, we're not having a good time, aren't we? ”

"No way!" Cai Yuanpei shook his head and said: "It is no longer possible for China to be revolutionary, those of us are born at the right time, and if we don't go up bravely, then we will not feel at ease until we die." He said heavily, afraid that his wife would not listen to him, and he wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth and stopped. In fact, he wanted to tell her that the people of the Revival Society were already determined to die: Xiao Xu slept with the explosives file day and night, and as long as someone knocked on the door and the code was wrong, the explosives would be activated; In the military camp outside the gates, he has already escaped death once, and other times it is extremely dangerous; And Xianfang, who was far away in the European war, was tired and vomited blood because he had to supervise various affairs in Germany in addition to studying, and now he is in the hospital...... There are also Chen Ximin, Wang Shizheng, Wu Baodi, and many more people who have shed their blood for the revolution. And now, he lives in the most upscale Western hotel, and eats and drinks with things that no one else has seen in his life, so what reason does he have not to retreat from the revolution?

As if sensing her husband's determination, Huang Zhongyu came out of his arms and said, "Go take a bath." The party is about to start in a moment, didn't you say you were going to receive a million? ”

Cai Yuanpei saw that his wife was well and heard her say this, so he said: "It's okay if you're fine, I won't have an accident." You can rest assured. ”

The reception that began at seven o'clock in the evening was a great success, and when Baron Gerz read out that the donation amounted to 824,800 marks and 25,590 taels of silver, the audience rejoiced. Everyone was surprised that they could raise such money this time, but Cai Yuanpei knew that after deducting the 500,000 marks from the German government and the 100,000 taels of donations from Tianzihao enterprises, the rest was converted into less than 300,000 silver dollars, how long would this money be enough for the school?

When Cai Yuanpei was counting the money, someone next to him came over, "Master Cai, Master Cai, the dog is going to be entrusted to you, as long as he can learn well, ......" Someone called Master Cai Yuanpei, or regarded him as the editor of the Hanlin Academy instead of the president of the Chinese Education Association, but after a while, the polite voice changed, and reprimanded: "You don't want to be polite when you see Mr., you ......"

The person who came was Zheng Weigang, the comprador of Chanchen Foreign Company. After he entered the Chanchen Foreign Bank, he thought that his son would choose a promising one to study in Germany, and after completing his studies, he would be like Xi Zhengfu, a comprador of HSBC, and his father and son would succeed, but Germany was too far away after all, and the old lady at home did not go because he was not at ease.

"Oh. Master Zheng, don't be polite. The noble son is excellent in character and learning, and he must be the dragon among people in the future. Cai Yuanpei heard that he donated 10,000 taels just now, which is not a small amount, and he had to be very polite when he spoke to the gold owner.

Zheng Weigang laughed. He likes this the most of his five sons, and now he is said by Cai Hanlin to be excellent in both learning and learning, how can he not be happy. After being happy, he said a few more polite words, and when he saw that there was still a conversation next to him, he confessed and walked away.

"Poor people. What you said today is good, whether it is Western or Chinese. Everyone is a little more considerate, drink more tea and communicate more. Don't call around. "It's Yu Huizu who came up. Just now, he donated 100,000 taels on behalf of Tianzihao.

"Brother Hanzhang, thank you very much this time." Cai Yuanpei said that he knew that the 100,000 taels were not only from the companies Tianchu, Tiantong, Tianbao, and Tianran, but also Yu Huizu's own money.

"Thank you, you're doing business," Yu Huizu said modestly. "I often say that knowledge is power, I didn't understand it before, but now I feel more and more that this sentence makes sense. Isn't this the knowledge where you say that foreigners are better than us? Now set up a university hall and learn everything they can do, then we won't be afraid of them in the future. ”

Yu Huizu's statement is not right or not, Cai Yuanpei is not good to say that the gold lord is wrong, but he just said, "Brother Hanzhang, it seems that Lu Xing's side is getting bigger and bigger, hey, it's only been a few years, I can't imagine that the wasteland has become like this now." ”

"Hehe, it's expanding over there." Yu Huizu said happily, "Last year's caustic soda was not enough, and this year it has to be expanded again, alas." This pancreas is really good to sell. ”

"Of course it's easy for you to sell so cheaply. Now the boss of Xiangmao Foreign Bank, Berkier, hates you Tianbao Company to death. "The person who came is Yu Qiaqing, the match king and comprador of the ABN AMRO, he now regrets more and more that he only invested in matches, and did not invest more in soap, but this can't be blamed on him, Xu Huafeng's small soap factory that is not garbage, who would have thought that it would become such a giant today. In particular, the method that the people in the real yàn room came up with, mixing hydrogenated soybean oil with lard, the cost plummeted, and caustic soda was also self-produced, so the low cost forced the British people of Xiangmao soap to scream. But after all, there is no unfair competition law in this era, and Lu Xing is outside the concession and has a team with guns to protect the factory, so he has nowhere to do anything if he wants to, so he can only watch the market share drop little by little.

"Hey. Ade, you don't have a share in this Tianbao company, how can you help others speak? Yu Hui Zu said. Soap is a highly profitable commodity, and before the advent of Tianbao, the most famous ones in Shanghai were Meicha soap and Xiangmao soap. Meicha soap has just been bought by Tianbao company, and now only Xiangmao can fight opponents with Tianbao, in fact, Xiangmao foreign company is just a trader, soap is produced in the United Kingdom, shipped to Shanghai for sale, this foreign company was established in 1892, in the concession relationship is very deep, Yu Huizu did not know how to deal with it for a while.

"Huh." Seeing that Yu Huizu's tone is so big now, Yu Qiaqing intuitively is very funny, when he ran a monosodium glutamate factory the year before last, he was afraid of a lot of money. "Brother Hanzhang, this Xiangmao foreign company is one of the five major foreign companies in Shanghai, the price of our soap is so low now, sooner or later something will happen. Xiangmao's comprador Chen Bingqian came to me once, hoping to reconcile with us, and everyone set a price, so as not to lose both. ”

"What a lose-lose situation. I'm still too high for the price. Yu Huizu knew that his factory was outside the concession, and the foreigners had nothing to do with him, and the soap company had bought shares in many big names, so his waist was very hard. He has no opinion on Xiangmao soap, but in the year of Gengzi, Xu Huafeng was sued by Xiangmao Foreign Bank, the British said that Xu Huafeng's Guangyi soap factory's trademark "Xiangmao" is a brand that pretends to be their "Xiangmao", Xu Huafeng was in the trial of the public party at the time to argue the difference between "Mao" and "Xuan", and Xu Huafeng was considered to have a deep background, and there was no penalty under the protection of the Chinese members, but he was forced to agree to change the license. Yu Huizu knew about this matter, so he didn't have a good impression of Xiangmao Foreign Bank, and he didn't have a good impression of their Guangdong compradors.

"Brother Hanzhang, harmony makes money, and harmony makes money. Didn't you negotiate the same way with Bu Neimen the year before last? "Yu Qiaqing understands the situation of Tianbao Company, but he knows the situation of Xiangmao better, if it is really not good, something will happen to Lu Xing.

"Ade, I'm just angry at such a reconciliation and agreement. When foreigners dominate and bully us, there is any reconciliation, but when it is our turn to gain the upper hand, they will come to reconcile, what is this? Anyway, I don't think Xiangmao is very pleasing to the eye, so I don't believe that he can still bombard Lu Xing. Yu Huizu didn't know it today, he was more angry, but the words he said shocked Cai Yuanpei, who was listening next to him. (To be continued......)