Chapter 244 243【Selfishness】

Since ancient times, party disputes have always been reasonable at the beginning, and even the leaders of the two parties are still good friends.

But if the fundamental contradiction between the two factions is not resolved, this kind of struggle will expand, and eventually lead to complete indiscriminate denial of the other party.

In history, how far did the "Cai-Li party struggle" of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China go?

There is no way for Chang Kaishen to come out to coordinate. It can only be that someone from Cai Yuanpei will be the minister of education for this term, and someone from Li Shizeng will be the next minister. But it still doesn't work. I always feel that the side who is the Minister of Education is deliberately making things difficult for me at work.

In desperation, Chang Kaishen had no choice but to serve as the Minister of Education himself, and appointed people from the two factions to serve as deputy ministers in turn.

At the end of the meeting night, Li Shuhua came to visit, cupped his fists and said: "Principal Zhou, there was some misunderstanding during the meeting today, please don't worry about it."

Zhou Hexuan looked at the scroll in his hand, and said with a smile: "Everyone knows my hobby, Mr. Shi Zeng's calligraphy?"

"Exactly." Li Shuhua said as he opened the scroll.

There are two poems written on it: it takes three days to burn the jade, and it takes seven years to distinguish the material.

The original poem has the following four sentences: Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp him. Xiang Shi died at the time of birth, so who knows the authenticity of his life?

Li Shizeng obviously compared himself to Zhou Gong in the education circle of the Republic of China, and regarded the criticism and attacks on him from the outside world as rumors. He asked Zhou Hexuan to wait and see, and in a few years to evaluate him, he will speak with practical actions.

As one of the "Four Elders of the Party and the State", Li Shi once wrote poems to express his attitude, which is enough to give face to Zhou Hexuan, a junior.

The main reason is that Zhou Hexuan is neither faction nor famous, and Li Shi once didn't want to offend him for no reason.

Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "Is there anything else Mr. Shi Zeng said to me?"

Li Shuhua took out another list and said, "Principal Zhou, please take a look."

Zhou Hexuan took it over and took a look, and found that it was the list of deans of the various colleges within the Peking University area. Li Shi once arranged for Zhou Hexuan to be the vice president of Peking University, equivalent to the deputy director of the Education Department of Hebei (including Peiping and Tianjin) in later generations.

This can be regarded as a disguised apology to Zhou Hexuan, and it is also a means of political wooing. I hope Zhou Hexuan understands and supports the establishment of the Peking University District.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "I will accept the calligraphy, please take the list back."

What he meant was to accept Li Shizeng's apology and be willing to reconcile with Li Shizeng, but he did not support the establishment of the Peking University District, let alone accept the appointment of the deputy director.

If you think about it, you know that even if Zhou Hexuan agreed to be the deputy director of education, Li Shizeng's people are all around and under him, and he has no right to speak in the fart, and can't do anything except receive a monthly salary. What is this kind of official doing?

Li Shuhua asked puzzledly: "Principal Zhou, why do you oppose educational independence?"

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "You can tell Mr. Shi Zeng that I am not against educational independence, but blind reform."

"Do you think it's a blind reform?" Li Shuhua asked.

"To be honest, I visited Hu Shi yesterday and read a lot of documents related to education reform. The situation is very bad," Zhou Hexuan said with a wry smile. "I admire the spirit of all education reformers. In order to plan education reform , Some gentlemen even work overtime for several months in a row, with only four or five hours of rest a day. No one will question this patriotism and love of education. But..."

Li Shuhua asked: "But what?"

"But this kind of reform is bound to fail," Zhou Hexuan analyzed. "First, the content of educational reform is contradictory. The purpose of the reform is educational independence, but the content of the reform relies on the education of the Three People's Principles. This is tantamount to pursuing party-oriented education while Isn’t it self-contradictory to fight for independence again? Second, the National Education Conference two months ago was held for half a month, and the core content was to discuss the independence of education funding. But the education funding How did it come about? They actually demand that 10% to 30% of the country’s finances be used for education. You want the government to pay, and you still have so much money, but you don’t let the government intervene in management. Who is willing to give you the money? Education funds cannot Independence, what about education independence? Third, the university district system does not match China’s national conditions. France has 17 university districts for its large territory and population, while China’s provinces or even several provinces only have one university district. Forcibly merging many original universities into one, the scale can be imagined. In addition, the even larger primary and secondary education is also under the management of this university district. Can your little people manage it? Administrative efficiency It must be low! The contradictions caused by the merger of colleges and universities are enough for you to have headaches for several years, and the issue of grassroots education cannot be solved at all!"

Zhou Hexuan spoke very thoroughly, and Li Shuhua was instantly worried about the prospect of education reform when he thought about it carefully. But he still insisted: "There must be contradictions in reform, and we must be determined to overcome these difficulties. If education cannot be independent, then the bureaucrats who manage education may not have read a few days, laymen guide experts, and corruption prevails , make the education system a mess!"

Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "You will guarantee that after the independence of education, those scholars in power will not be corrupt?"

Li Shuhua faltered: "Scholars have a bottom line after all."

"What's the bottom line? I don't know," Zhou Hexuan said disdainfully, "I only know that after Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces tried out the university district system, the president of Zhejiang University was Cai Yuanpei's student Jiang Menglin, the president of Central University was Zhang Jingjiang's nephew Zhang Naiyan, and the Labor University Li Shizeng’s principal is Li Shizeng’s in-law Yi Peiji. In the Academia Sinica, Cai Yunpei relied heavily on Yang Xingfo as his right-hand man, and in the soon-to-be-established Peking University, Li Shizeng wanted to appoint cronies. Which one of them is not nepotism, which one is not planning territory in the education system, Occupy the hill?"

After hearing this, Li Shuhua's expression was a bit painful. The few elders he respected were actually completely exposed by Zhou Hexuan.

Historically, Li Shuhua was the most neutral and impartial among these factions, and he also actively coordinated the conflicts among the various factions.

Therefore, after Chang Kaishen personally served as the Minister of Education, he specially appointed Li Shuhua as the Deputy Minister of Education, because only when he was the Deputy Minister, no faction would express any objection.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "I believe that everyone who is determined to reform education has a public heart. But everyone also has selfishness, and even has selfishness for the sake of the public heart. Mr. Li Zongwu published an article "Discussion on Social Issues" some time ago , a part of it discusses people’s selfishness, and I think it makes sense to use mechanics to explain psychological changes. Those gentlemen in the university, after all, their public hearts will be guided into selfishness by the centripetal force of power.”

Li Shuhua sighed, cupped his fists and said, "Principal Zhou, I will relay your words to Mr. Shi Zeng. But I can't guarantee whether he will listen to it or not."

"I don't expect him to listen. After the schools in the north start, he will know how difficult his reform is." Zhou Hexuan said.

The bloody events of educational reform happened in the Beiping University area in history.

When Li Shuhua left, he said to Zhou Hexuan: "Principal Zhou, the Mr. Li Zongwu you mentioned is in Nanjing right now. I talked to him two days ago, and his theory is so absurd that I can't believe it." .”

"Oh, Li Zongwu is in Nanjing, so I have to meet him." Zhou Hexuan laughed.