The next day, Li Yu went to the middle school he built in Shanghai to see again, and found that the school had also started.
Li Yu asked Li Shutong to help write a plaque with the four characters "Shanghai Middle School". Li Shutong has not become famous yet, but that will be a matter of time.
As for this top middle school that later ranked among the top in Shanghai, there is still no trace of it. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being born earlier.
What is more gratifying is that among the first batch of students were Zhu Kezhen, the future meteorological leader, and Hu Shi, who was very influential in the Republic of China.
Originally, the two of them had just entered another middle school, but after learning that Li Yu's middle school had a greater possibility of studying abroad at public expense, they switched.
Zhu Kezhen is just 16 years old this year, and Hu Shi is about the same age as him. They will be able to study in the United States in a few years.
The atmosphere in Shanghai is currently relatively open and the number of students is large, so among the teachers Li Yu brought back from Europe, the largest number were placed in Shanghai.
Many of these students already have relatively good foreign language proficiency, such as Hu Shi, who worked as an English teacher at the age of sixteen or seventeen.
When they come back from studying abroad, things will change in China.
They are still very young and have a promising future. At that time, they will release their energy in a new world.
Li Yu is very satisfied with the overall enrollment progress of Shanghai Middle School, which will be able to provide many outstanding students to study abroad in the future.
Li Yu was happy to see that, firstly, this was the only way for the Qing Dynasty to fall; secondly, it would pave the way for the golden decade of the Republic of China as soon as possible.
All in all, the foundation plus the Boxer Refund can support up to nearly a hundred people studying abroad every year, and the scale is not small now.
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Li Yu received another notice from Yan Fu and was going to visit Fudan Public School. Since the school is located in Wusong, the estuary of the Huangpu River, the journey was relatively long, so he stopped at a teahouse to rest for a while.
After greeting the waiter and serving some snacks and a pot of tea, Li Yu noticed that at a table in the corner, a scholar was covering his mouth and coughing while writing furiously. At the same time, he couldn't help but murmur to himself: "I
Time is running out, time is running out..."
Li Yu had very good eyesight and glanced at a book on the table, titled "The Appearance of Officialdom".
This book, along with "Lao Can's Travels" and others, were cited by Lu Xun as one of the four major criticisms of the late Qing Dynasty. It was not easy for Brother Xun to agree with it.
Although Li Yu had not read the whole book, it was impossible for him to be unaware of such a famous name. He once again called the waiter over and asked, "Is the scholar in the corner called Li Boyuan?"
The waiter said: "Does the guest recognize him? Isn't he also here to collect debts?"
Li Yu wondered: "Debt collection? What kind of debt are you collecting?"
"Why, aren't you?" the waiter asked doubtfully.
Li Yu shook his head: "No."
The waiter then said: "My guest is very sure. His name is Li Boyuan. A few years ago, he was also a well-known figure in the Shanghai literary world. But in the past two years, he has become like this for some reason. And I heard that besides this
He is in debt and has a serious lung disease. Doctors say his life is in jeopardy."
Li Yu frowned. If he got severe pneumonia, it would be difficult to deal with it even a hundred years from now, not to mention now.
Li Yu stood up and leaned over and said, "Are you writing "The Appearance of Officialdom"?"
This book has been published in several volumes, but it is not finished.
Li Boyuan didn't even raise his head, coughing and said: "If it's debt collection, please wait in line, or wait for me to go to the Lord of Hell to help you secretly add a few years to your life."
Li Yu said: "I'm not asking for debt, I'm just curious about this book."
After hearing this, Li Boyuan stopped writing and raised his head. When he saw his face, he was surprised and said: "Are you! Li Yu, the imperial master who won the foreign science award in the newspaper?"
"That's right." Li Yu said.
"Ahem!" Li Boyuan covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed for more than ten seconds before he recovered, and then said, "Master, please sit down quickly."
Li Yu saw blood stains on his handkerchief, and his condition was indeed very serious. Not to mention that there was no penicillin now, even at the time before Li Yu traveled through time, severe pneumonia was extremely dangerous, and there was often no cure.
Moreover, pneumonia often requires bacterial culture and the like to determine the medication. How can we have such conditions in this era?
When the condition worsens to a full-blown infection, the basic life is counted down.
Li Yu didn't dare to think too much and asked instead: "Where has Sir written?"
Li Boyuan said: "Fifty-two chapters. I have to hurry up, because I, ahem, really run out of time."
Li Yu sounded very sad, and inexplicably thought of Galois, the talented French mathematician who died young at the age of 22.
When Galois was young, he fell in love and had to duel an officer.
The opponent was a professional soldier, and Galois knew that he would definitely die, so the day before the duel he frantically wrote down his mathematical ideas, which were group theory that had great influence; and from time to time he wrote the words "I don't have time" on the side.
After a while, a young scholar walked into the teahouse and said, "Brother Boyuan, I bought your favorite rice dumplings today."
After Li Boyuan heard about it, he introduced Li Yu: "This is one of my editors, called Ouyang Juyuan. Juyuan, this is Li Yu, the great master of science."
Ouyang Juyuan quickly clasped his fists and said: "I have admired the name of the Imperial Master for a long time. I have also read the book you wrote called "The Legend of a Planet", but there are some parts that I don't understand very clearly. The settings of aircraft and the like are not clear.
Very puzzled."
Li Boyuan never finished writing "The Appearance of Officialdom" until his death, and Ouyang Juyuan helped complete the subsequent chapters.
The editor he mentioned was the "Xiu Xiang" magazine run by Li Boyuan, in which the first half of "Lao Can's Travels" was published.
Li Yu cupped his fists and said, "Nice to meet you."
Ouyang Juyuan took the opportunity to ask: "Master Emperor, you are well-informed. Do you think there is any treatment plan for Brother Boyuan's illness?"
Li Yu sighed: "I don't know any medical skills, but lung disease requires good health care, otherwise sudden weight loss will be very dangerous."
Ouyang Juyuan heard the hidden meaning in Li Yu's words, "Even the emperor's master can't do anything?"
Li Boyuan grabbed him and said: "Juyuan, don't make things difficult for the Emperor. I understand my illness myself. It makes no difference whether I die early or later! In this world, maybe it is better to go to the underworld and live a comfortable life."
Li Boyuan was very open-minded.
Ouyang Juyuan's family is relatively wealthy, and with his care, Li Boyuan's life problems will at least not be too tight.
But this Ouyang Juyuan liked to hang out in romantic places, so he contracted Hualiu disease and died at the age of 25.
Several people chatted about this book again. Although Li Yu had not read it completely, it was in the "Reading Guide Directory" when he was in middle school, so he knew the content to a certain extent.
Li Boyuan dared to write, and many people in the book have prototypes, corresponding to Li Lianying, Ronglu, Weng Tonghe, etc., and he denounced the corruption of the Qing court.
It is a pity that he died too early and did not live to see the end of the Qing Dynasty.
When Li Yu left the teahouse, Li Boyuan gave him a signed copy of "The Appearance of Officialdom" and a copy of "Hongxue Ji of Haitian".
The latter one describes life in a brothel...
Li Yu didn't know why he was so fond of this book, so much so that he wanted to give it to himself. Li Yu guessed that he might be comparing himself to Liu Sanbian, who "composed lyrics on orders" during the Song Dynasty.
Besides, brothels are good places. Only men of letters can go there. They are not places where flesh and blood are traded.
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Outside the campus of Fudan University, Principal Ma Xiangbo, Chief Teacher Xi Yanfu, and Provost Li Denghui (actually the word "Deng", but it happened to have the same name as the one from Baodao) came to greet him.
As a representative of the new science, Yan Fu was really busy, running around. Li Yu was an emerging scientific giant, and this would inevitably be the case in the future.
Fudan Public School was not short of money when it started. After all, Ma Xiangbo himself was very rich. The Governor of Liangjiang also donated 20,000 taels of silver, and also lent the Admiral Wu Song's Yamen as a temporary school building for Fudan, but it was a bit far from the center of Shanghai. Moreover.
It would be really difficult to support a university if it was purely funded by one's own money without continuous funding.
Fudan Public School is one of the few schools that currently offers other foreign language courses besides English. It also teaches French, German, Japanese, etc.
Among them, the one who teaches German and French is Denghui. Denghui has worked in the Fudan system for 40 years and has been the principal for more than 20 years.
Yan Fu said: "I am really sorry that I called Brother Shucai all the way here, but this school building is only for short-term use after all. We have been raising funds to purchase the school building on land. We hope that Brother Shucai will donate generously."
Li Yu knew what Yan Fu was thinking without having to guess, and said with a smile: "This is what it should be. When Fudan just started, Principal Ma asked me to come over and help people to the end, sending Buddha to the West."
Ma Xiangbo said gratefully: "The emperor is really the most enlightened person. He has such knowledge and the ability to make money from foreigners."
Li Yu thought to himself that he had already traveled through time. If he didn't deduct some money from foreigners, he would really feel "bad", so he said: "The principal has given me too much praise. Education is the foundation of rejuvenating the country. Talent is the most important resource. Investment is investing in talents.
Invest in the future.”
Teng Hui said: "When I was in Singapore, I heard about Mr. Li Yu's reputation. To meet him today, he is truly a talented person."
Li Yu politely replied: "Sir, you are a model of human ethics."
Denghui has trained many students, and nearly 30 of them have served as principals. They are of great significance to the history of modern education in China and the development of Fudan University, and are therefore known as the "Teachers of Human Ethics."
Li Yu had a good chat with them about student training issues, such as paying more attention to engineering, business, etc., and not putting all students in political and legal majors.
Ma Xiangbo said with emotion: "What Shu Cai said is absolutely true. Even if our students are proficient in Western politics and law, the current imperial court has not established a constitution and cannot make any difference at all. Moreover, the power of the officials in the imperial court is mostly concentrated in the Manchus.
With their hands, no matter how good the student is, he or she will not be accepted by them after returning."
Yu Youren suddenly said: "It's easy to say, it's better to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty! Mr. Zhongshan has already established the "Min Bao" in Japan, and the ideas he proposed about the nation, civil rights, and people's livelihood sound better."
Ma Xiangbo said: "This is a major event that can turn things around, and we can't decide on it."
After all, Yu Youren was young and could not restrain his restless heart: "When I go to Japan again for inspection, I must meet him."