The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China in Tianjin, the city walls were pushed down.

There are more and more residents outside the city in the east, west, north, south, and the houses are in a mess without overall planning. It looks like a slum in the blink of an eye.

Because of the cheap land in the suburbs, the four Hope Primary Schools in Tianjin are all built in the suburbs. Children in the city have to walk a long distance to go to school, but children in the nearby "slums" are very convenient.

Early in the morning, Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yong came to the school, and they brought more than ten policemen with them.

Nearly 20 people crowded into the earthen hut, which was used to store miscellaneous things, such as chalk, triangular ruler and other teaching utensils.

The students came to the school one after another. Although the school started less than a month ago, the mental outlook of these children has changed a lot. Those who are eager to learn sit in the classroom and read aloud, and those who are eager to play gather to play on the playground. The whole campus looks very energetic.

Feng Yong stood leaning against the door, looked at the children playing outside, and smiled sincerely: "This can be regarded as a piece of pure land in a troubled world."

"It's your credit." Zhou Hexuan flattered him.

"Hahaha, I love to hear that." Feng Yong laughed triumphantly.

Zhou Hexuan suddenly saw a familiar figure, he waved and shouted: "Zhang Xiaowu, come here!"

The newsboy ran up to him with his schoolbag on his back, bowed and said, "Hello, sir!"

"Yes, very polite," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "What have you learned these days?"

Zhang Xiaowu said: "I have learned a lot of characters, including Chinese, human, earth, mountain, river, fire, water, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten..."

"Awesome, I have learned so much in half a month." Zhou Hexuan praised.

Zhang Xiaowu said happily, "It's all taught well by Teacher Wen."

"Go and play." Zhou Hexuan patted his head and said.

After Zhang Xiaowu ran away, Feng Yongcai said with a smile: "This kid is very clever, maybe he will have great achievements in the future."

"That's why we need to run schools and engage in education." Zhou Hexuan also laughed.

Education in the early Republic of China was divided into three types: popular education, civilian education, and popular education.

To put it bluntly, popular education is to open up people's wisdom, including speeches, running newspapers, preaching centers, libraries, etc., all of which belong to the category of popular education. Strive to let the public increase their knowledge, broaden their horizons, accept new things and so on.

Civilian education is school education in the traditional sense, striving to enable more school-age children and low-education groups to acquire knowledge.

Public education originated during the Northern Expedition. Scholars believed that men, women, old and young, rich and poor, all had the right to education. It is the basic education for out-of-school children, youth, and adults, as well as the continuing education and further education for people with a basic cultural background—equivalent to eliminating illiteracy and improving national cultural quality.

In fact, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, simple schools similar to Hope Primary School began to appear across the country, funded by donations from local gentry and celebrities. The teaching content includes self-cultivation, literacy and abacus, that is, moral education, Chinese and mathematics. The idea is similar to that of Zhou Hexuan. Tuition fees are also waived and books are distributed.

In addition, there are open-air schools, half-day schools for the poor, etc., which are all set up for the poor children to eliminate illiteracy.

Although the Qing government and the successive governments of the Republic of China were not strong, the school-running activities of the folks have not stopped. The Chinese nation has been able to stand tall for thousands of years, and it is inseparable from the advocacy of education. If you look at the education situation in India in later generations, you will know how big the gap between countries is.

There is a folk educator in Tianjin named Lin Moqing, who established 6 free primary schools (boys’ schools) in the late Qing Dynasty, and later joined forces with the government and gentry to set up 11 girls’ primary schools. However, such schools often do not last long, and if the donations cannot keep up, they have to suspend classes, causing many children to drop out of school for the second time.

By the way, Mr. Lin Moqing is 64 years old. Although he is in poor health, he was invited by Zhang Xueliang to serve as the honorary president of "China Hope Education Foundation Tianjin Branch".

Today's first class is mathematics. The teacher is Zhang Yan, who graduated from the provincial Tianjin Normal Middle School. Although Zhang Yan is already a teacher, he is actually less than 20 years old, and he also comes from a poor family background. He can only continue his education because the normal school is free of tuition fees.

"We took a class and finished learning the numbers within 100. Today, we will teach the students addition. Addition and subtraction are very useful, and we usually use them when shopping. After learning addition and subtraction, we can also calculate wages when doing work. What I have to learn today is 1+1=2..."

While the math teacher was in class, some idlers gradually came outside the classroom. They were lying outside the window and discussing, as if they were very dissatisfied with Zhang Yan. Some people even urged Zhang Yan to leave get out of class early and replace the teacher of the imperial concubine to teach. They all came to see the imperial concubine.

Feng Yong poked his head out of the utility room to take a look, and said with contempt: "A group of fools!"

"Hehe." Zhou Hexuan smiled helplessly.

After finally waiting for Wenxiu to attend class, the group of idlers finally got excited——

"It's really a concubine!"

"This sword concubine is not good-looking, no wonder the emperor wants to divorce her."

"It wasn't Xiu, it was Concubine Dao who took the initiative to divorce the emperor."

"Do not abide by women's ways, do not obey women's ways."

"Yeah, how can a woman get married in the future after showing her face all day long?"

"..."

Wenxiu stood on the podium, listening to the humming and humming outside the classroom, she was already bored to the core. Being surrounded by people like monkeys every day makes it uncomfortable for anyone.

Suddenly, another large group of people showed up at the school, all here to cause trouble.

These elders and children probably knew the schedule, so they ran over on time, stood outside the classroom and began to insult loudly. The content is dirty and hard to listen to.

An old man in a silk shirt shouted: "The imperial concubine is deviant, this is a disgrace to China!"

"Thief woman, you betrayed the emperor, you should go to the eighteenth floor of hell!" Another guy with braids yelled.

"Looking at her triangular eyes and thin lips, you can tell that she is a vicious and vicious person. She has been a whore all her life, and she still has the face to be a teacher. She really misleads my children." The man scolded even more severely.

After hearing a few words, Zhou Hexuan said in a cold tone: "Arrest!"

More than a dozen policemen flocked out, and they all received Zhou Hexuan's favor fee, so they were naturally motivated to do things. Everyone carried a baton and beat anyone they caught, including those idlers who watched the excitement.

"The police are killing people!"

"What are you arresting me for? I haven't broken any law!"

"You are the one to be arrested. Interrupting teaching is a serious crime. You can be shot."

"Shoot? I just watch the excitement."

"Catch them all, and if you don't want to go to jail, you can pay a fine of 20 yuan!"

"Help!"

"If you want to run, you'll shoot if you run again! Everyone squat down!"

What does it mean to control evil with evil?

This is.

It's hard to reason with those guys, and you won't have a long memory if you don't beat them up.

Seeing the distressed appearance of those people, Feng Yong laughed happily.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Let's go, don't delay the students from going to class."

Maybe Zhou Hexuan had a bad time, Wenxiu's matter had just been resolved smoothly, but another accident happened at the Hope Primary School in the north of the city.

The school in the north of the city was rebuilt from an abandoned primary school. The principal's name is Wang Ziqi, a failed scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. He complained to Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou, the students are almost finished. If this continues, my principal will become a poor commander."

"Tell me, what's going on?" Zhou Hexuan said speechlessly, why are there so many broken things.

Wang Ziqi narrated: "I have a student named Zhou Hang. His father was a murderer who was shot, and his mother was a low-level prostitute. She barely supported the family with skin and flesh money. It was good, but the other parents didn't know where they got the news. Went to the school to protest and demanded that Zhou Hang be expelled."

"It's none of their business!" Zhou Hexuan said violently.

"They say they are afraid of their own children, and they will be led astray if they are classmates with the murderer's son," Wang Ziqi regretted. No. 1 in the exam. I regret that I don’t want to be expelled. As a result, many students drop out, and it’s all because of the parents.”

Zhou Hexuan said: "This kind of matter should be handled by the Academic Affairs Office under the Foundation Secretariat. How did you come to me?"

"The Office of Academic Affairs is very controversial. Some think that they should be expelled, while others insist that they should not be expelled," Wang Ziqi complained. "I went to President Feng, and he asked me to come to you."

"This Feng Lao Wu will shirk responsibility," Zhou Hexuan thought for a while, and said, "I'll settle this matter, you go back first."

How did Zhou Hexuan solve it?

Of course, it was published in the newspaper to create public opinion. Anyway, "Ta Kung Pao" was worried about its sales growth, so it was time to create a sharp topic.

The next day, the special news on the second page of "Ta Kung Pao" was called——Does the son of a murderer and a prostitute have the right to education?