The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

When "Titanic" became popular in the United States, Zhou Hexuan and others had already arrived in Moscow. There were many people accompanying him, including Li Shizeng and his entourage, Einstein and his female secretary, Le Corbusier and his assistant, and the diplomatic staff stationed in Germany sent by Jiang Zuobin.

Although the Northeast Army and the Soviet Army temporarily ceased fighting, the conflict was not really resolved.

Just in December 1929, Cai Yunsheng, Binjiang Daoyin in Northeast China and Harbin negotiator, signed the Khabarovsk Agreement with Soviet representative Szymanovsky. The Soviet side demanded that the Middle East Road be restored to its original state before the conflict, and that all arrested Soviet expatriates be released. The Chinese side disarmed the White Russians who had taken refuge in the Northeast and expelled their leaders, and restored the consulates and commercial organizations of both sides. The two sides scheduled a meeting in Moscow in January 1930 to discuss how to implement the agreement.

Zhang Xueliang really wanted to resolve the dispute as soon as possible. After all, the Soviet army was still stationed in the Northeast, so it would be better to send these plague gods out as soon as possible.

But Chang Kaishen deliberately delayed. He was dealing with Feng Yuxiang, Yan Xishan and other warlords, and he didn't want Zhang Xueliang to get involved, so he wanted to use the Soviets to drag Zhang Xueliang to the northeast.

As a result, the Nanjing National Government delayed sending diplomats to Moscow for negotiations, resulting in a stalemate in the situation.

The Soviet Union is also a headache. The army spends money every day when they are abroad, and it is not a problem to delay the solution. Under Chang Kaishen's deliberate delay, the Soviet Union had to take the initiative to withdraw its troops, but retained its occupation of border islands such as Heixiazi Island-this border dispute continued into the 21st century.

In fact, if the Nanjing government quickly sends people to Moscow to negotiate, Heixiazi Island is likely to be easily taken back. But for his own benefit, Chang Kaishen didn't care about the life and death of Northeast China, and he didn't care whether China's territory was occupied or not. His attention was all on dealing with Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang.

Minister Jiang Zuobin in Germany, as a diplomat officially appointed by the Nanjing government, is purely because the emperor is not in a hurry. This time, he actually sent people to contact the Soviet Union without telling the domestic government, hoping to promote the restoration of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union.

Jiang Zuobin even asked Zhou Hexuan, hoping that he could have a dialogue with important Soviet officials and contribute to the restoration of Sino-Soviet diplomatic relations. But Zhou Hexuan is not interested in this, because if the Nanjing government does not show an attitude, no matter how much he says, it will not help.

When Japan invaded the Northeast by force, the Soviets should be anxious at that time, and normal diplomatic relations will naturally be restored.

Zhou Hexuan's idea is to wait for a good opportunity. When the Soviet Union is eager to restore the relationship between the two countries, it may be able to take back Heixiazi Island, so that the border issue will not be resolved after decades.

The Soviet government still attached great importance to Zhou Hexuan, not to mention Einstein and Le Corbusier were accompanying him. As soon as they arrived in Moscow, the Soviet side immediately sent special personnel to accompany them and took them to visit factories, schools, farms and other units.

In a middle school in Moscow, Soviet officials proudly introduced: "In terms of basic education, we provide free general and comprehensive technical education to children before the age of 17, and implement the method of closely combining teaching with social production and labor." .”

Li Shi asked in amazement, "Has free compulsory education in your country been extended to school-age children before the age of 17?"

"Yes, the Soviet Union is a country for working people, and the schools in the Soviet Union are also schools for working people." The Soviet official smiled.

Li Shi asked again: "How to combine education and labor?"

The Soviet official said: "We divide all the knowledge that must be learned in school into three units of nature, labor and human society, called the comprehensive teaching syllabus. Education and social labor are closely related. We have established many engineering, engineering Economic and other colleges and universities can train a large number of grassroots technical cadres. The students who go out of the school can immediately enter the social labor."

"Your country's investment and execution in the field of education are really amazing." Li Shi once sighed sincerely.

Li Shizeng also advocated the combination of education and labor. In the educational reforms he and Cai Yuanpei carried out, labor education played a very important role. They even established a labor university with the same level as Tsinghua University and Peking University.

Suddenly, a teacher led dozens of students happily past the crowd, and then left the school in a truck.

Li Shi once asked, "Where are these students going?"

"The factory," said the Soviet official, "education in the Soviet Union focused on labor practice, and students had the opportunity to touch actual production every week. Before they graduated, they were already excellent operators and engineers."

Li Shi turned around and said to Zhou Hexuan: "Mingcheng, the Soviet education model is worth learning from."

Zhou Hexuan wanted to answer: old man, don't be fooled by the Soviets!

But due to the presence of Soviet officials, it was really hard to say such words, so Zhou Hexuan could only hold back for the time being.

First of all, the situation of compulsory education mentioned by Soviet officials is actually very watery. In many peripheral areas of the Soviet Union at this time, compulsory education was not popularized at all, let alone the age range expanded to children under the age of 17.

Secondly, the comprehensive education syllabus of the Soviet Union severely damaged the systematic nature of educational disciplines. All students came out of the assembly line, and even the entrance, entrance and graduation exams were abolished, and the academic evaluation of students was cancelled. As a result, the quality of education was far inferior to that of Tsarist Russia, and it was impossible to cultivate great scientists.

People of insight in the Soviet education department have realized this serious problem and are planning to carry out educational reforms. However, after repeated changes, there are still many problems. For example, a large number of workers' children are classified as "mentally retarded" and "defective", and they are sent directly to special schools, which has harmed countless children. The role of teachers has also been infinitely lowered, and they have become machines that follow the scriptures.

This situation did not improve until World War II, especially after the end of the war, the Soviet Union vigorously developed education, and only then did it truly perfect the communist education system.

The Soviet Union has taken a detour in education for nearly 30 years, and it is still in the initial stage of exploration. Li Shizeng felt envious of the bragging of the Soviet officials so covertly. It can only be said that the old man is too easy to fool.

Not only education, but also the factories and farms of the Soviet Union amazed the accompanying Chinese. Everywhere is a scene of enthusiasm, workers and farmers are full of energy, and everyone has the satisfaction and happiness of building a country on their faces.

Although these are model units specially presented to foreigners, they are not completely fake.

Zhou Hexuan chatted with a few workers and farmers at random, and the tone of the other party seemed excited and sincere. They really believed that they were creating a better future.

Everyone was also invited to give a speech at Moscow University, and the protagonist was naturally Einstein. In front of Einstein, Zhou Hexuan was only playing the side drum, and being able to speak a few words at school was enough to save face.

It wasn't until the day before they left Moscow that Stalin finally found time to meet them in person.