The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Shanghai, French Concession.

Wearing a thick padded jacket, Liu Bannong walked back and forth in front of a small western-style building, rubbing his hands and exhaling to keep out the cold.

"Gah!"

The heavy iron door opened, and the servant said to him, "Please come in, Mr. Liu!"

"Thank you." Liu Bannong nodded to the servant.

Walking through the garden to the living room, Cai Yuanpei got up to greet him: "Brother Shou Peng, are you all right?"

"Fortunately, it's just too cold, so I came to you to bake the stove." Liu Bannong made a joke, he came from Beiping.

Cai Yuanpei personally made a cup of hot tea for Liu Bannong, and asked with a smile, "Have you met Mr. Einstein?"

Liu Bannong said: "See you, Ai Weng is humorous and witty, he doesn't have the pretensions of a master at all."

"True masters are people who are approachable." Cai Yuanpei said.

Liu Bannong held his teacup to keep warm and said, "I heard people say that the Institute of Physics of the Peking Research Institute seems to be hiring Ai Weng as an honorary member."

"Mr. Einstein agreed?" Cai Yuanpei asked in surprise.

"It seems to have agreed." Liu Bannong said.

Cai Yuanpei felt quite uncomfortable. He and Li Shizeng were planning to establish the National Research Institute at the same time. The Academia Sinica had sufficient address, equipment, personnel, and funds, far surpassing Li Shizeng's Peking Research Institute. The Institute of Physics of the Beijing Research Institute has been established on the surface, but the actual work is progressing slowly. It is nothing more than a lack of money and people.

But now that Einstein has agreed to be an honorary member of the Institute of Physics of the Beijing Research Institute, he instantly compares it to the Institute of Physics of the Academia Sinica. I am afraid that many young physicists will join in enthusiastically.

Liu Bannong blinked and urged: "Brother Li Min, why don't you come to Beiping with me and have a chat with Ai Weng in advance?"

"You're making me money again," Cai Yuanpei said with a smile, "I won't be the president of Peking University, Zhou Mingcheng is good, you can go to him."

Liu Bannong sighed and said, "He is not willing either. He has to wait for the appointment of the central government."

The mess at Peking University has not yet been resolved. Last year, Peking University students telegraphed the nationwide resumption of school and drove away Li Shizeng. So far, the seat of Peking University president is still vacant.

Although Li Shuhua is temporarily acting as the principal, many teachers and students do not approve of it. Moreover, Li Shuhua was unable to ask the Ministry of Education for money, and the salaries of those professors at Peking University had already been owed for more than half a year.

Most of the students wanted Zhou Hexuan to go back to be the principal, but the teachers thought more about it.

Although Zhou Hexuan is well-known, he has no contacts in the Ministry of Education, and it is difficult to get the urgently needed education funds. So Liu Bannong, as a representative of Peking University, communicated with Cai Yuanpei many times, and wanted to invite Cai Yuanpei back to be the principal, so that everyone's salary could be guaranteed.

The new semester has already started, and Peking University has neither a principal nor funds, so it can be said that life is like a year.

Can the teachers be in a hurry?

"Brother Shou Peng, you must persuade me again. The Academia Sinica here is a start-up, and I am busy with business and cannot get away. I don't have the energy to be the president of Peking University." Cai Yuanpei flatly refused. Now that the situation in Beiping is complicated, a group of local warlords unite against Chiang, Cai Yuanpei will not go into troubled waters.

Liu Bannong persuaded: "Brother Limin, as long as you have the name of the principal, we will handle the daily school affairs by ourselves."

"That's a vegetarian meal in the place of a corpse," Cai Yuanpei said. "The position of president of Peking University should be reserved for those with virtue."

"Really don't think about it anymore?" Liu Bannong asked.

Cai Yuanpei shook his head resolutely.

"well!"

Liu Bannong sighed, got up and said, "Farewell!"

Cai Yuanpei hurriedly asked to stay: "Brother Shoupeng came all the way from Beiping, please stay for a few more days."

"How can I still have the face to play in Shanghai? Peking teachers and students are waiting for me to go back to my life!" Liu Bannong was somewhat resentful. He felt that Cai Yuanpei was too nostalgic and shameless.

Cai Yuanpei sent Liu Bannong out of the gate before returning to the study to continue reading the newspaper.

Today's daily newspapers contain news about Einstein, and there is also a report about Li Shizeng. This greatly increased Li Shizeng's prestige in the educational and cultural circles, and the Peking Research Institute also overshadowed the Academia Sinica. Cai Yuanpei could only worry about it in Shanghai.

When the faction of studying in France and the faction of studying in Britain and the United States first had conflicts, as the leaders of the two factions, the personal relationship between Li Shizeng and Cai Yuanpei was not affected. But as the conflict expanded and intensified, the two inevitably confronted each other, and they hadn't contacted each other for more than a year.

The last meeting in Nanjing, Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng had nothing to say when they met, they just nodded and said hello.

Both of them were suffocating in their hearts, and they worked hard to build a research institute, hoping to overwhelm each other through academic research achievements. This kind of competition has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that the two major national research institutes in the north and the south rarely communicate with each other, resulting in a lot of repetitive research funding, which greatly wastes manpower and financial resources; We continue to recruit powerful scholars to join us, and actively seek exchanges and studies with countries such as Britain, the United States, and France.

It can be said that the academic foundation of social science and natural science in New China was laid in the competition between Li Shizeng and Cai Yuanpei. The members and academicians of the two research institutes include almost all the top scientific research talents in New China.

Cai Yuanpei gritted his teeth and thought: When Einstein comes to Shanghai, he must be invited to be an honorary academician of the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica!

...

Beiping Railway Station.

Yan Jici returned to China a full year earlier than in history. Cai Yuanpei and Li Shizeng both invited him last year, which put Yan Jici in a dilemma, not knowing who to agree to.

Yan Jici was so disturbed that he simply hid in France to do research. As a result, Li Shi had chased after him abruptly to France, visited twice in three days, humming like Tang Seng, blowing Yan Jici's head off.

Hearing that Li Shi had invited Einstein to China for a visit, Yan Jici was finally tempted, packed up his things and ran back to be the director of the Physics Institute of the Beijing Research Institute.

In the final analysis, Yan Jici was a person who studied in France, and it was easier to work in the Peking Research Institute. If you go to Academia Sinica, the colleagues around you are all British and American students, and it is estimated that various conflicts will arise in normal times.

"Keats, I hope you come back!" Li Shuhua was in charge of welcoming you at the station. He is now the vice president of the Peking Research Institute and concurrently the director of the Institute of Physics, but he is too busy to take care of it.

"Mr. Li." Yan Jici greeted respectfully.

Although Yan Jici is well-known and has strong scientific research ability, he is too young after all, even less than 30 years old. In front of Li Shuhua, he is a junior student.

Li Shuhua smiled and said: "The accommodation has been arranged for you, put down your luggage, and we will go to Tsinghua University to meet Mr. Einstein."

"Alright." Yan Jici also wanted to meet Einstein as soon as possible.

The two sat in a rickshaw, first went to the dormitory of the Peking Research Institute, and then went straight to Tsinghua University.

Zhou Hexuan, Li Shizeng, Einstein, Le Corbusier and others are enjoying flowers and discussing the Tao with Tsinghua professors in the garden of Tsinghua University.

As soon as Yan Jici arrived, Li Shizeng smiled happily and said, "Keats, you are finally here, and the Acquired Institute of Physics is officially open!"

Zhou Hexuan hurriedly stood up and shook hands. Although Yan Jici was younger than him, this master must be respected.

Who is Yan Keci?

One of the founders of modern physics research in China, and the actual organizer of the Laser Institute of Beijing Research Institute (the predecessor of the Institute of Atomic Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

After the fall of Peking, Yan Jici moved the Institute of Physics of the Peking Research Institute to Kunming, and used a ruined temple in the suburbs as the office of the Institute of Physics. In this ruined temple, he said to all the researchers: "It is wartime now, the invaders have destroyed the conditions for our scientific research, and every patriotic Chinese can no longer stand idly by. In view of the lack of supplies in the rear during the war, and There is an urgent need for military communication tools and medical equipment, so I decided to lead everyone to develop piezoelectric crystal oscillators, microscopes and various optical instruments.”

During the Anti-Japanese War, Chinese scientific researchers worked in such a difficult environment, and even the most basic microscopes were handmade by them.

The same situation also happened in Lizhuang, Yibin (the address of Academia Sinica). A large group of scientists and cultural scholars were starving and carrying out academic research under bombing. Lin Hui was lying on the bed coughing up blood due to illness, and still insisted on compiling "History of Chinese Architecture".

No discussion of political darkness, no factional struggles. These respectable scientists and cultural scholars are the real backbone of the Chinese nation, and their painstaking efforts have contributed a lot to the rise of China.

Just like Yan Jici said in an interview with the French "Lyon Progress": "The Chinese people's war of resistance is a just cause. No matter how long the war lasts and how dangerous the situation is, the final victory will belong to the Chinese people. I will fight with 400 million people. My compatriots went to the national crisis together. Although I am a scholar, I can't contribute to the front, but I want to join thousands of Chinese scholars and contribute my humble efforts to the sacred war of resistance."