Chapter 241 240 [Current Situation of the Ministry of Education]

After the ban on "Goddess" and "Dog Officer" was lifted, Zhou Hexuan finally set off for Nanjing, and did not continue to chat with Chen Dezheng. This matter is not clear at all. Everyone, including the mayor of Shanghai and the director of the Shanghai Party Department, is on Chen Dezheng's side.

So what if Zhou Hexuan and Chang Kaishen knew each other?

The mayor of Shanghai, Zhang Qun, was still Chang Kaishen's classmate, and he was also the head of Chang Kaishen's "Department of Administration".

In essence, they were doing things for Chang Kaishen, and the letter was sealed for the benefit of the Kuomintang party, and Zhou Hexuan would not get any benefit from making a fuss with Chang Kaishen.

Hu Shi still has a close personal relationship with Chang Kaishen and his wife, and next year he will still be bullied by Chen Dezheng and hide abroad.

It is very rare to be able to lift the ban on one's own novels.

At the end of July, Zhou Hexuan arrived in Nanjing, the capital of China at this time.

The University College (Ministry of Education) held the first national education conference two months ago, before the Northern Expedition had conquered Peiping and Tianjin. At that meeting, many major initiatives in the history of Chinese education were passed.

For example, it is stipulated that primary school is six years, middle school is divided into high school and junior high school for three years each, and schools are divided into three systems: middle school, teacher training and vocational.

Since the National Education Conference was held two months ago, why is there a meeting now?

It was only when Zhou Hexuan came to Nanjing that he discovered that this meeting was devoted to discussing education issues in the north, and Peking University professor Li Shuhua and others were also invited to attend.

As for the current acting principal of Peking University, Zhong Guanguang, he was directly ignored.

This is tantamount to sending out a signal-will it be good or not.

Hongmen Banquet!

After Zhou Hexuan arrived in Nanjing, he did not go to the meeting immediately, but first visited Hu Shi.

Hu Shi will return to Shanghai in one month to take over as the principal of a Chinese public school, and he is still staying in Nanjing at this time.

"Brother Mingcheng, you shouldn't have come to Nanjing." Hu Shi smiled wryly as soon as they met.

Zhou Hexuan asked in surprise: "Is there any problem with this university meeting?"

Hu Shi said with emotion: "The problem is big. It was fine before the victory of the Northern Expedition. After the victory of the Northern Expedition, the struggle for power and profit will begin immediately. I have resigned from the Ministry of Education (Graduate College), and I advise you not to go into troubled waters, but to write articles honestly. good."

Zhou Hexuan was not a god either, he really didn't study the inside story of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, so he asked, "What's going on?"

"The Ministry of Education... oh, that's not right, the colleges are now divided into two factions," Hu Shi explained, "one faction headed by Mr. Cai Yuanpei, which is the Anglo-American school; Fighting started, I spoke for Mr. Cai Yuanpei last month, but Wu Zhihui and the others smeared it as a 'Shuluo party struggle', what do you call this? I was so angry that I resigned as soon as the meeting was over!"

The faction struggle between Shu and Luo is about what happened during the Northern Song Dynasty.

The leader of the Shu Party is Su Shi, and the leader of the Luo Party is Cheng Yi. The two parties came together because they opposed Wang Anshi's reform, and after Wang Anshi was squeezed out of the court, the two parties in Shu and Luo broke out.

If it is compared to the current Ministry of Education, Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng came together because they opposed the Beiyang warlords. Once the Beiyang warlords fell, the two immediately began to fight.

Zhou Hexuan still didn't understand, he said, "Brother Shi, please explain in detail."

Hu Shi didn't go into details, but smiled and said: "Mingcheng, do you know? Two months ago, Li Shizeng and his gang changed the name of Peking University to Zhonghua University, and Li Shizeng was appointed as the president of the university. So, Peking University has If it doesn’t exist, you, the president of Peking University, are also illegal.”

"Ah?" Zhou Hexuan was stunned for a moment, and then a burst of anger arose in his heart.

Zhou Hexuan really didn't want to be the principal, there were too many troubles. But it's one thing not to want to take it seriously, and it's another thing to be dismissed from the post of principal inexplicably.

Hu Shi then started from the beginning: "Well done, the Ministry of Education, why did you change its name to the University College? Because both Mr. Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng wanted education to be independent of the government. They have been working hard since the success of the 1911 Revolution. The University College implements a university district system, and all educational affairs in each school district are handled by the University College, which has nothing to do with the government. This system was very effective when there were many warlords. In order to strengthen its own prestige and influence in the field of education, the National Government also He expressed his support for the university district system, which is why the Ministry of Education was changed to a graduate school."

Zhou Hexuan understood a little bit, and said with a smile: "So, once the Northern Expedition wins, the government is going to use the university district system?"

"That's for sure," Hu Shi sighed, "I thought that the university district system could continue, but I didn't expect those politicians to turn their faces and be ruthless. The north just occupied Pingjin, and the south began to oppose the university district system."

Damn it if you don't object!

The university district system promotes the independence of education, and education is not controlled by the government. Is this something a centralized government can tolerate?

"And then?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Hu Shi said: "In order to maintain the university district system, Mr. Cai Yuanpei wanted to use Boxer indemnities to fully fund education. What do you think the result will be?"

Zhou Hexuan laughed and said, "Won't it be embezzled by the government?"

"It was misappropriated!"

Hu Shi said angrily: "Those boxer indemnities are specially used to develop Chinese education, even the Beiyang government dare not embezzle them. The current national government is so powerful that they actually divert boxer indemnities for local construction! If it is true that all of them are used Yu Jianshe, that's acceptable, but who knows how much was swallowed up by the officials?"

Hu Shi has a peaceful personality and is politically naive. He often thinks of those in power in a positive light.

But Hu Shi in front of him was so excited and resentful, it was obvious that what the Nanjing National Government had done had completely irritated him. It's not just about education, there should be other things.

The period from 1928 to 1929 can be regarded as the period of Hu Shi's ideological transformation. Next year, he will catch the Kuomintang madly, and openly write articles questioning Sun Yat-sen's theory, but Chen Dezheng forced him to seek refuge abroad.

As for the reason, Hu Shi is a liberal, and a series of policies of the Kuomintang trampled on the liberalism he believed in.

Hu Shi continued: "Mr. Cai Yuanpei has gradually succumbed to the difficulty of the university district system. Li Shizeng still wants to continue. He is currently proposing to set up a Peking University College (district), with himself as the dean to take charge of the entire northern education affairs. It doesn’t matter if it’s for ideals, but Li Shi used to be nepotism, and the heads of Peking University he proposed are all sent to study in France, and they are all his trusted disciples and friends.”

Well, the government is attacking the Ministry of Education, and the leaders of the two factions of the Ministry of Education are still fighting for power.

Zhou Hexuan sighed and said, "After hearing what you said, I finally figured it out. This time I was called to a meeting to discuss the establishment of the Peking University College (equivalent to the Education Department of the Greater Peking Area). Since Li Shizeng himself became the president of Peking University, As the president of Peking University, I guess I can only wait and see."