Chapter 266 265 [Public Opinion Offensive]

Simple dormitory for Peking University students.

Pan Yongzhen yelled at Xie Xingyao who was lying on the bed reading: "Long Mao, go to class soon!"

"Class?" Xie Xingyao adjusted his glasses and said confusedly, "Aren't all classes suspended?"

Pan Yongzhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Let's go. You nerd, you don't hear anything outside the window, and you don't even know that our school is reopening."

Xie Xingyao just got out of bed with the book in his mouth and asked, "What class are you having today?"

"I don't know too well, anyway, I'll know when I go to the classroom." Pan Yongzhen faced the small mirror and straightened his hair for a while before going out.

The dormitories were all poor students, like Xie Xingyao, who was from Shehong, Sichuan, and came all the way to study at Peking University with some money. He enrolled last year. He was very unlucky. He encountered a suspension of classes at Peking University just after the first year of freshman year. After finally entering his sophomore year, he was suspended again.

Historically, there have been few celebrities in Peking University in the past few years, because there have been frequent suspensions of classes.

Take Xie Xingyao as an example, a dignified student of Peking University who can only go to middle school to teach after graduation. Later, with his own hard work, he gradually became a university teacher. After more than ten years of writing academic works, he became famous and finally became a famous historian.

The two went straight to the teaching building, and met some students they didn't know on the way.

The other party stopped him and asked, "Student, how can I get to the classroom of Agricultural Science?"

"Over there, you can tell by asking all the way," Pan Yongzhen asked curiously, "Aren't you students of Peking University?"

The other party replied with a smile: "We are from the Agricultural University."

Pan Yongzhen reminded: "There are only two or three teachers of agricultural science. After the class is suspended, they have already left. You can't find anyone to attend."

"Then what should we do?" The other party was a little helpless.

Pan Yongzhen was warm and hospitable, and invited: "Go to our history department, anyway, idle is idle, and it is good to listen to history as a storytelling."

The other party could only smile wryly, and someone said enviously: "You have a good principal at Peking University, and you can call for resumption of classes on your own. Our Agricultural University is miserable. We can only stay in the school and wait stupidly. God knows when that Li Shizeng will come to Peking."

Several people came to the classroom together, but found that it was already full.

Standing on the podium was Zhu Xizu, Dean of the History Department of Peking University, who asked with a smile, "Who are Peking University students?"

As a result, only one in five people raised their hands, and the rest were all from several other public universities.

"I don't know the progress of your knowledge. Let's start from the most basic. Students who have mastered it can learn by themselves." Zhu Xizu said helplessly.

The resumption of classes is resumption of classes, but the teaching has been completely messed up. Because there are not enough teachers, it is likely that the first grade and the third grade will sit in the same classroom.

What teachers can do is to choose some simple knowledge to speak, and assign self-study tasks to students according to different situations after class. Liberal arts is better, but science and engineering are more difficult.

Xie Xingyao stood in the corner of the classroom, did not listen to what the teacher said, and read books borrowed from the library by himself.

Until noon, everyone came to the school cafeteria and found that the food sold there was very bad: yellowed brown rice, steamed buns with wheat bran sandwiched, the dishes were pickled cabbage, and the soup was white water soup...

No matter if they are senior professors, ordinary teaching assistants, or low-level employees of the school, they all line up to receive their meals.

Xie Xingyao even saw his fellow Sichuanese, Professor Wu Yu, gnawing happily on a wheat bran bun. This old man is already fifty-six years old. People in the Republic of China didn't take care of themselves so well, and they were not afraid of being knocked out by a nest.

At some point, a group of reporters suddenly came in and frantically took pictures of the food.

After the photo was taken, I came to interview again, and caught a poorly dressed professor and asked, "How do you eat these things?"

"It's good to be able to fill your stomach," the professor said with a wry smile, "I am also a professor at Peking University, Beijing Normal University, Women's Normal University, and Agricultural University, but now I can't even support my wife and children. From the ten years of the Republic of China Since then, the government has owed me a total of 44 months of salary, totaling more than 12,000 yuan. At the most outrageous time, four universities owed wages at the same time. The hospital expenses are all borrowed, so I just want to ask the national government, when will the salary be paid?"

The reporter asked again: "Since there is no rice to live on, why do you still have to teach?"

"Why do you teach? If you don't teach, can the country be saved?" the professor said angrily.

The reporters interviewed the students and staff successively, and finally even went to the homes of the impoverished professors to take pictures of the bare houses.

The next morning, many newspapers collectively made efforts to report on the education situation of the National University in Peiping.

Everyone who runs the newspaper is well-informed, knowing that the central government does not support the establishment of the Peking University District, and no matter how big the incident is, it will not anger the authorities.

In the photos published in the newspapers, many well-known professors are in dire condition. Not only that, but there are also photos of suspended students wandering the streets, all with dazed expressions.

The newspaper also said that Zhou Hexuan and some other well-off teachers donated money to support the resumption of classes. But I dare not use up the money all at once, because I don't know when Li Shizeng will be able to solve the problem, so the money is saved and used to buy food, which is provided to the teachers for free every day.

"Ta Kung Pao" used two special pages for in-depth reports, interviewed teachers and students from nine schools, and presented the chaos in the educational circles of Pingjin to the readers.

Zhou Hexuan even scolded Li Shizeng by name in an editorial: "Not to mention the establishment of the Peking University District, the forced merger of the nine national universities is simply a bad idea. Mr. Li Shizeng, what do you want to do? Why did you stay in Nanjing? Are you still not going north? You are the principal of the Nine National Schools, you are the dean of the Beiping University District, and thousands of students in Pingjin and Tianjin are all your bargaining chips in the struggle for power?"

This big news has been planned for a long time, and the northern newspapers are overwhelmingly reporting on education issues. The chaos in the Nine National Schools was just the beginning, and then hundreds of national high schools, junior high schools, and elementary schools in Hebei and Rehe provinces, teachers and grassroots education officials there also joined in, contacting newspapers to denounce Li Shizeng's absurd reforms.

The content of Li Shizeng's education reform is essentially to emphasize university education and ignore basic education. But those who paid attention did not pay attention, and the neglected groups were even more unbalanced. He offended the entire northern education circle.

This series of reports was like thunder, causing a huge sensation in the north. It was the first time for most ordinary people to know the current educational situation. Whether they were literati, scholars or celebrities, whether they were new or conservative, they all joined the crusade against Li Shizeng.

China is a big country of education. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, education has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even beggars know that reading is valuable.

Li Shizeng aroused public outrage this time.

These reports quickly spread to the south. Wang Zhaoming, who wanted to cause trouble for Chang Kaishen, and Chang Kaishen's direct descendants, who wanted to abolish the university district system, unexpectedly contributed to the flames.

"Shenbao" followed up the report with the headline "Such Education", and called on the public to donate to the teachers in Pingjin and Tianjin.

Li Shizeng, who was painstakingly raising education funds, instantly became a street mouse that everyone shouted and beaten. He had to leave for Peiping in advance to clean up the current chaotic situation.