Chapter 267: 266【Naive】
On the blue waves, a passenger ship is advancing through the waves.
Shen Yimo pointed to the vast sea and said: "Brother Shi Zeng, this Beiping University area is like the sea in front of you. On the surface, the waves are rippling, but in fact the dark tide is raging. Our trip is extremely difficult!"
"No matter how difficult it is, you have to bite the bullet." Li Shizeng said with firm eyes.
Li Linyu (Li Shutong's nephew) next to him said: "We must turn the public opinion back when we go to Pingjin, otherwise our work will be difficult to carry out."
"I'm afraid it's not easy to do." Xiao Yu spoke with a strong Hunan accent.
"The biggest villain in the north is that Zhou Hexuan! This son has bad intentions and is reluctant to be the president of Peking University, so he made things difficult for us!" Zhang Ji said full of resentment. In addition to his post at Peking University, he will also go to the Forbidden City to take up his post, because he is the vice president of the Forbidden City appointed by the government.
Li Shuhua defended Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou is also for the students, and it is really inappropriate for schools to suspend classes."
Zhang Ji said angrily: "Which side are you helping, Li Runzhang?"
"Mr. Puquan is serious. I am not speaking for anyone. I also support education reform." Li Shuhua said hastily.
"Hmph," Zhang Ji said with a sneer, "Brother Shi Zeng, in my opinion, the first thing to do when we go to Beiping this time is to fight with pens. Only by discrediting that Zhou Hexuan can we restore our reputation!"
"Not right, not right," Li Shizeng waved his hand, "Because of education reform, we have offended too many people in the south, and we must avoid making enemies everywhere in Beiping. The first thing I do when I go to Tianjin is to meet Zhou Hexuan face to face. Talk to him and persuade him to support our education reform."
Zhang Ji said disdainfully: "What is there to talk about with a junior? When your brother and I started the revolution, Zhou Hexuan was still wearing crotch pants. Look at what he said in the newspapers? He called you by name. , is simply disrespectful!"
Li Shizeng said with a wry smile: "My reforms have caused thousands of students to suspend classes. He should indeed be scolded. He is not wrong, but they stand from different angles. The three most prestigious people in Peking University are Zhimin (Cai Yuanpei) and Zhaoxian. (Jiang Menglin), the third is Zhou Hexuan. Peking University is the top priority of this education reform, and Zhou Hexuan's help can get twice the result with half the effort. What we are doing is a century-old education, and we should not waste things because of words or people."
"Excellent advice, sir!" Li Shuhua said in admiration.
"You are still so naive, thinking of everyone's best." Zhang Ji said helplessly.
Zhang Ji belongs to the kind of person who likes to play tricks and tricks. Historically, Yi Peiji was removed from the posts of minister of agriculture and mines due to factional struggles, and only retained the post of director of the Forbidden City. After the September 18th Incident, Beiping was at stake. Zhang Ji, the vice president, proposed to transport the cultural relics of the Forbidden City to Xi'an, while Song Ziwen insisted on transporting the cultural relics to Shanghai.
Zhang Ji suspected that Li Xuanbo, Yi Peiji's confidant, was behind the tricks. He even colluded with judges and bribed witnesses to accuse Yi Peiji and Li Xuanbo of stealing cultural relics from the Forbidden City, which ruined Yi Peiji's reputation. This unjust case was not clarified until after the founding of New China. .
Zhang Ji was in the same camp as Yi Peiji when it came to education reform!
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It is now early October, and before Li Shizeng and others left for the north, the Nanjing Nationalist Government finally passed the organizational outline of the Peking University District.
That is to say, from the beginning to the present, the central education department has not made a final decision for a whole month. They wrangled and held various meetings, and the students of the No. 9 Public School in Pingjin became victims, and all classes were suspended to wait for those people to discuss education reform.
Because the name of "Zhonghua University" has become a stink in public opinion, the name of "National Peking University" was adopted after the merger of the nine schools.
The previous public universities became affiliated colleges of National Peking University. For example, Peking University was named "National Peking University First Engineering College", Beiyang University was named "National Peking University Second Engineering College", and Agricultural University was named "National Pingda Agricultural College".
Since the public schools in Pingjin and Tianjin generally owe wages for 8-10 months, Li Shi once used frequent activities in Nanjing, and finally obtained the appropriation of Tianjin Customs and Changlu Salt Bureau as funds (300,000 yuan per month) with the consent of Song Ziwen. ).
Zhou Hexuan instigated such a newspaper article, and Li Shi once left Nanjing one and a half months earlier than in history. Even so, when he arrived in Tianjin, the time had already come to October 10, which happened to be during the Double Tenth National Day.
Zhang Ji and others stayed in a hotel in Tianjin, while Li Shizeng brought Li Shuhua to visit Zhou Hexuan in Sanletang.
The servant led them in, but in the living room, they unexpectedly ran into Jiang Baili, Zhang Junmai and Xu Zhimo, the three of them had gone north together to visit Liang Qichao.
"Brother Baili, brother Junmai, I didn't expect you two to be here." Li Shizeng clasped his fists and smiled.
"Brother Shi Zeng!" Jiang Baili and Zhang Junmai stood up together.
Zhou Hexuan also greeted: "Mr. Shi Zeng, Mr. Runzhang."
Li Shizeng half joked and half complained: "Mingcheng, you scolded me in the newspaper, how can I get better?"
"I won't scold you harshly. Mr. Shi Zeng is probably still in Nanjing." Zhou Hexuan laughed.
Jiang Baili asked: "Have the education funds been raised?"
Li Shizeng nodded and said, "We have raised it. Tianjin Customs and Changlu Salt Bureau will allocate 300,000 yuan per month for education expenses."
"I think it's hard to get the money." Zhang Junmai said pessimistically.
Li Shizeng was very optimistic: "The Central Ministry of Finance has spoken, and they still dare to withhold funds."
What a naive and lovely old gentleman!
Zhou Hexuan reminded helplessly: "Mr. Shi Zeng, don't forget whose territory Tianjin is, you were used as a gun."
"What is used as a gun?" Li Shi was puzzled.
Jiang Baili explained: "The money from the Tianjin Customs and the Changlu Salt Bureau must first be used by foreigners to repay the old debts. There is a lot of money left, and the Nanjing government wants to get it, but Tianjin is Yan Xishan's territory. The two sides are now They are fighting openly and secretly over Guan Yu’s silver. If you want to get money from the Customs and the Salt Administration, it’s tantamount to bumping headlong into the three-way struggle between foreigners, Nanjing and Yan Xishan.”
Li Shizeng was dumbfounded when he woke up the dreamer with one word: "This...how can I do this?"
Li Shizeng really wanted to cry. The Nanjing government was determined to abolish the college system. In order to insist on education reform, he did not hesitate to cause many universities in the north to suspend classes. This infamy must have been recited, he knew it very well, and he didn't care about his personal fame and fortune.
After finally losing his old face, he begged his father to sue his grandmother to raise funds, and Song Ziwen also agreed to grant him a monthly tax of 300,000 yuan. Li Shizeng hadn't been happy for a few days, but now he found out that he was being tricked.
"Sigh." Zhou Hexuan thought that Li Shi had brought money, but he didn't expect to have empty hands.
Li Shizeng was lying on the sofa in the living room as if he had collapsed.
He is really tired, tired!
Zhou Hexuan said: "We must find a way to break the situation, otherwise the northern education circle will continue to be chaotic."