Chapter 558 557 [Don't Chat with Philosophers]

Dog eats dog!

This is Hu Shi's evaluation of Yi Peiji's case.

Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "Brother Shi, what do you mean a dog eats a dog?"

Hu Shi explained in detail: "Both Yi Peiji and Zhang Ji are Japanese-students. They followed Li Shizeng in the charge and made the education system in North China into a mess. Now they are fighting each other to the death. It's pure fighting."

Li Shizeng is not only the leader of the faction studying in France, but also the leader of the faction studying in Japan. The French faction represented by Li Shizeng is now very powerful in the northern education system. Although Hu Shi was teaching in Beiping, he was a leader of the Anglo-American faction headed by Cai Yuanpei in the south.

Now that there are problems within the French school in Japan, Hu Shi, the British and American school, is naturally happy to watch the fun.

Zhou Hexuan was quite speechless: "Brother Shi, everyone is Chinese, and they are all intellectuals, why bother to divide into factions like bureaucrats?"

Hu Shi sneered and said, "We didn't divide it first, but Li Shizeng forced factional struggles in the Ministry of Education for education reform. Now the national education system is divided into two factions, all thanks to Li Shizeng."

"Mr. Shi Zeng couldn't help it at the beginning," Zhou Hexuan shook his head with a wry smile, "He had a good intention, but it's a pity that he didn't see the current situation in China clearly."

"Let's not talk about Mr. Shi Zeng, let's just talk about Yi Peiji," Hu Shi sighed, "This gentleman's character is still commendable. I heard that someone in the south was interested in the cultural relics of the Forbidden City, and Yi Peiji directly sent the telegram to Chiang Kai-shek. Chairman. He offended a certain big shot because of this. If not for that, Zhang Ji and his wife would not have dared to jump out and bite. Look at the current public opinion. The newspapers are surprisingly unanimous in scolding Yi Peiji. How can Zhang Ji and his wife have such great energy?"

Zhou Hexuan asked curiously: "Which big shot did Yi Peiji offend?"

Hu Shi waved his hand mysteriously: "I don't have any actual evidence, so how dare I speak nonsense?"

Zhou Hexuan pondered carefully in his heart, the certain important figure in Hu Shi's mouth, obviously had a higher official position than Zhang Ji and his wife, so at least he was at the ministerial level.

State President Lin Sen was first suspected. This old gentleman is very keen on collecting cultural relics. He often goes to the antique market. There are a lot of fakes when he buys them. A few years ago, Lin Sen went to Beiping to welcome Sun Yat-sen's coffin back as a special envoy, and immediately took the opportunity to buy more than a dozen boxes of antiques in Beiping and transport them back to Nanjing. Lin Sen also built a stone house in an enclosure outside Nanjing. Some of the stone sculptures in the house are very obtrusive. Some people suspect that they were all removed from the Ming Palace in Nanjing.

But at this time, Lin Sen "governed by doing nothing", he was a good man who didn't care about anything, and he hadn't had any conflicts with anyone for many years. Judging from Lin Sen's attitude in dealing with the world, he doesn't seem like the kind of villain who conspired against him.

Perhaps Sun Ke can be ruled out first, I have never heard that he loves antiques. Moreover, Sun Ke was too busy making trouble for Chang Kaishen at this time, and had no time to trouble Yi Peiji, let alone ruin his reputation because of a few treasures from the Forbidden City.

As for Dai Jitao, Zhu Jiahua, Chen Gongbo, Wang Shijie and others, although they all serve as ministers, their qualifications and influence cannot crush Zhang Ji and Yi Peiji, and they can basically be excluded.

Chang Kaishen cherishes his name like his life, and cherishes his feathers extremely, so it is unlikely that he will have any idea about the cultural relics of the Forbidden City.

Then there are only two people who are most suspected: Wang Zhaoming and Soong Meiling.

It may also be Chen and Kong...

Thinking of this, Zhou Hexuan didn't bother to think about it anymore. Anyway, no matter who is behind the scenes, he can walk sideways in China.

Hu Shi stood up and laughed, "Mingcheng, stop guessing, go to the salon!"

Zhou Hexuan and Hu Shi walked together and walked to Lin Huiyin's home in a few minutes. The reason why he is interested in participating in the salon today is because a very powerful foreign friend is also coming here - the future famous historian Fairbank!

Fairbank, whose real name is John King Fairbank, came to China early last year to write a doctoral dissertation. As a result, he soon married a foreign widow in Peking, and became a teacher at Tsinghua University and Peking University.

Perhaps Fairbank is only a little famous at this time, but his future development is so impressive that he is almost an unavoidable figure in the study of East Asian history.

Chairman of the American Historical Association, Chairman of the American Association for Asian Studies, Director of the American Center for East Asian Studies, Chairman of the Harvard East Asian Studies Committee... These titles are enough to illustrate the energy of Fairbank. After the 1960s, his academic research can even change the United States' attitude towards Asia Strategic Decision.

Zhou Hexuan was very interested in Fairbank, because Fairbank was the founder of "Modern China Studies" in the United States, and he was also an active supporter of "Western China Studies".

Throughout the 20th century, there were two Western scholars who were keen to study and introduce China. One was Needham and the other was Fairbank.

When Zhou Hexuan came to Lin Huiyin's home, Jin Yuelin had already arrived early and was chatting enthusiastically with Lin Huiyin with coffee. Liang Sicheng came over to shake hands and said, "Brother Shi, Brother Mingcheng, please sit down!"

Lin Huiyin got up to make coffee and tea familiarly, Jin Yuelin turned his head and said, "Mr. Zhou, have you read the Tao Te Ching?"

"I have read it, but I only understand it a little bit." Zhou Hexuan replied.

Jin Yuelin asked again: "What do you think of 'Tao'?"

Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and said, "I understand that the 'Tao' should be the law of the universe, or the law of society."

Jin Yuelin said: "I recently studied "Lao Tzu", thinking of Aristotle's formulation of 'form cause' and 'quality cause', I suddenly had a new understanding of 'Tao'. 'Tao' means 'style' and 'Neng' is the highest concept or the highest realm in philosophy. 'Neng' here is a name, like 'Zhou Hexuan' and 'Hu Shi', rather than a noun describing things, such as red, yellow, blue, green, up, down, left, right. 'Can' is not an ordinary so-called thing, nor an ordinary so-called thing..."

"Stop, stop. Mr. Jin, I don't study philosophy, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to discuss with you." Zhou Hexuan stopped him quickly, not wanting to discuss this issue with Jin Yuelin at all.

In history, Jin Yuelin only wrote three books in his life, namely "On Knowledge", "Logic" and "On Tao". Although the number of works is very small, these three books by Jin Yuelin are equivalent to laying the foundation of modern Chinese philosophy (non-Marxist philosophy).

Zhou Hexuan had also read "Theory of Knowledge" and "Logic" admiringly in his previous life. Although he was confused, he could at least understand some of them. Only "Lun Dao" is a heavenly book. Zhou Hexuan spent most of the day reading the first chapter, but he didn't know what to say. After reading it, he completely doubted whether his IQ was flawed.

Apart from other things, let me talk about the title of the first chapter of "Lun Dao", which is just like the secrets of cultivation——

"1.1: Dao is 'form-energy'", "1.2: Dao has 'existence', said style is energy"... "1.6: Dao has no 'no'", "1.7: There is no form of incompetence, no form of no form Energy", "1.8: Energy has no birth and death, no new and old, no addition and subtraction"... "1.13: Formula has no two", "1.14: Energy is not one", "1.15: Formula has no inside and outside", "1.16: Energy has difference "...

Zhou Hexuan couldn't even understand Jin Yuelin's works, so how dare he talk about philosophy with him face to face, and immediately changed the subject with a smile, and said to Lin Huiyin: "Miss Lin, I heard that you gave Bing Xin a jar of vinegar?"

Lin Huiyin replied with a smile: "A jar of authentic old Shanxi vinegar."