The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

  Tianjin was pushed to the wall when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China.

  The residents of the east, west, north, south, and out of the city gathered more and more. The houses were built in a mess, and there was no overall plan at all. In the blink of an eye, it looked like a slum.

  Because of the cheap land prices in the suburbs, all four Hope Primary Schools in Tianjin are built in the suburbs. Children in the city have to travel long distances 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 police officers.

   Nearly twenty people crowded into the earthen house, which was used to store sundries, such as chalks, triangles and other teaching aids.

  Students are coming to school one after another. Although it is less than a month since the start of school, 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 fun-loving gather in the playground to play, and the whole campus is very dynamic.

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

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

   "Hahaha, I love hearing this." Feng Yong laughed proudly.

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

  The newsboy ran 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, people, soil, mountains, rivers, fire, water, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten..."

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

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

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

   Waiting for Zhang Xiaowu to run away, Feng Yongcai smiled and said, "This kid is very clever, maybe he will have great prospects in the future."

   "That's why we have to run a school to educate." Zhou Hexuan also laughed.

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

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

  Popular education is school education in the traditional sense, striving to allow more school-age children and low-literate people to acquire knowledge.

  Popular education came into being during the Northern Expedition. Scholars believed that men and women, young and old, rich and poor, had the right to education. It is the basic education for out-of-school children, youth, and adults, and it is also the continuing education and advanced education for people with an existing cultural foundation - equivalent to literacy and the improvement of national cultural quality.

   In fact, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, simple schools similar to Hope Primary Schools began to appear in the whole country, which were organized 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 Zhou Hexuan, and the tuition fee is also waived and books are distributed.

   In addition, there are open-air schools, half-day schools for the poor, etc., all of which are designed for poor children to literacy.

   Although the Qing government and the previous governments of the Republic of China were ineffective, the school-running activities of private people have not stopped. The ability of the Chinese nation to stand for thousands of years is inseparable from advocating education. If you look at the education situation in India in later generations, you will know how big the gap is between countries.

   There is a private educator in Tianjin named Lin Moqing. He set up 6 free primary schools (boys' schools) in the late Qing Dynasty, and later set up 11 girls' primary schools with the government and gentry. However, such schools are often not established for a long time. If the donations cannot keep up, they can only suspend classes, causing many children to drop out of school for the second time.

  By the way, this old 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 the "China Hope Education Foundation Tianjin Branch".

   Today's first class is mathematics. The teacher's name is Zhang Yan, who graduated from the Provincial Tianjin Normal Middle School. Although Zhang Yan is already a teacher, he is actually not yet 20 years old, and he also came from a poor family, because the normal school is free of tuition to continue his education.

"We took a class and finished learning the numbers within 100. Today, I will teach the students addition and subtraction. Addition and subtraction are very useful, and they are usually used for shopping. After learning addition and subtraction, you can also calculate your wages in the future. What I'm going to learn today is 1+1=2..."

   When the math teacher was in class, some idlers gradually came outside the classroom. They were lying outside the window and talking a lot, seeming to be very dissatisfied with Zhang Yan. Some people even urged Zhang Yan to leave the get out of class early and change the teacher of the princess to teach, and they all came to see the princess.

   Feng Yong stuck his head out of the clutter and looked at it, and said with contempt, "A bunch of stupid people!"

   "Haha." Zhou Hexuan smiled helplessly.

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

   "What a princess!"

   "This Concubine Knife doesn't look good, no wonder the emperor wants to divorce her."

   "It's not Hugh, it was Concubine Dao who took the initiative to divorce the emperor."

   "Do not keep women's way, don't keep women's way."

   "Yeah, a woman shows her face all day long, how can she marry in the future."

  “…”

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

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

  These survivors probably knew the timetable, but they came running at the time, standing outside the classroom and started yelling insults. The content is filthy and hard to hear.

   An old man in a silk shirt shouted: "The dignified concubine, deviating from the classics, this is the shame of China!"

   "The thief woman, you betrayed the emperor, you should go to the eighteenth hell!" Another guy with braids scolded.

   "Looking at her triangular eyes and thin lips, you can tell that she is a vicious and bitter person. To be a prostitute all her life, and to have the face to be a teacher, is simply misleading." The man scolded even harder.

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

  More than a dozen policemen rushed out, and they all received Zhou Hexuan's favors, so they were naturally motivated to do things. One by one, they carried batons and beat them violently, including those idlers who were watching the fun.

   "The police are killing people!"

   "What are you arresting me for, I didn't break the law!"

   "You are the one who was arrested. Disrupting teaching is a big crime. You can be shot."

   "Shooted? I just watch the fun."

   "Catch all of them, and if you don't want to go to jail, you'll be fined 20 oceans!"

   "Help!"

   "If you want to run, then run and shoot! All crouch down!"

  What does it mean to fight evil with evil?

This is.

   It's hard to reason with those guys, and you won't have a long memory without a fight.

   Feng Yong laughed out loud when he saw the embarrassed appearance of those people.

   Zhou Hexuan said, "Let's go, don't delay the students in class."

   Maybe it was Zhou Hexuan's short-lived unfavorable situation, the Wenxiu matter was just resolved smoothly, and as a result, an accident happened at the Hope Primary School on the north side 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 talented scholar at the end of the Qing Dynasty. He complained to Zhou Hexuan, "Mr. Zhou, the students are almost finished. If this goes on like this, my principal will become a bare commander."

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

Wang Ziqi recounted: "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 her family with money. He went to the school to protest and demanded that Zhou Hang be expelled."

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

"They said that they were afraid of their children, and that they would be spoiled if they were classmates with the murderer's son," Wang Ziqi said regretfully. "That Zhou Hang is very smart and has the ability to remember it. In ancient times, he was considered a prodigy. No. 1 in the exam. I don’t want to be expelled, but many students drop out, and it’s the parents who make trouble.”

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

   "The Academic Affairs Office is very controversial. Some think it should be expelled, and some insist that it cannot be expelled," Wang Ziqi said bitterly, "I went to President Feng, and he asked me to come to you."

   "This Feng Laowu will shirk his responsibilities," Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and said, "I'll solve this matter, you go back first."

   Zhou Hexuan how to solve it?

   Of course, it is to publish a newspaper to create public opinion. Anyway, "Ta Kung Pao" is worried that sales are not growing fast, and it is time to create a sharp topic.

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