The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Forbidden City.

Zhou Hexuan played with the white jade finger and walked straight in.

"Stop," a staff member immediately yelled, "Buy a ticket before visiting!"

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said, "Brother, I'm here to find someone."

The staff said: "Stop pretending to me, I have seen many people who want to evade fares, even if you are looking for someone, you have to buy a ticket."

"Okay, how much is it?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

The staff said: "The price has increased recently, and the ticket costs 50 cents."

After Zhou Hexuan paid for the ticket, he asked, "Where is Mr. Ma Heng Ma?"

"Are you really here to find someone?" the staff member asked in surprise.

"What do you think?" Zhou Hexuan asked amusedly.

The staff quickly said: "Then I'll let someone take you in, this palace is very big, if you are not careful, you will get lost."

In his previous life, Zhou Hexuan visited the Forbidden City several times, and now he is revisiting the old place. But this time it's really fresh, everything is original, no modern facilities can be seen, only when you walk into some houses, you can find that there are electric lights installed.

At this time, although the director of the Palace Museum was Yi Peiji, both the principal and deputy directors were in the south, and it was Ma Heng, a member of the Standing Committee of the Palace Museum Maintenance Committee, who actually presided over the daily affairs.

When I saw Ma Heng, the gentleman was sorting out the items of cultural relics.

Zhou Hexuan clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Mr. Shuping, don't come here without any problems!"

Ma Heng raised his head in surprise and said, "Principal Zhou, why are you here?"

Zhou Hexuan joked: "I came to arrest you to teach at Peking University, why don't you hurry up and follow me!"

"Peking University has resumed classes?" Ma Heng asked.

"It's coming soon," Zhou Hexuan took out a white jade wrench and said with a smile, "I'm here to present treasures, please register."

Ma Heng took the finger puller, glanced at him and said, "This is a funerary object, and it was just unearthed."

Zhou Hexuan said truthfully: "Sun Dianying took off this jade ring finger from Qianlong's finger. He used it to bribe me, so that "Ta Kung Pao" would stop reporting the tomb robbery."

"This bastard, he did all kinds of immoral things," Ma Heng cursed before saying solemnly, "Mr. sees treasures without selfishness, Ma Heng admires it."

"Don't admire me, I'm just too lazy to show off." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

This is the truth, even Sun Dianying's bribery of Chang Kaishen's Nine Dragon Sword will all be exposed in the future.

With Sun Dianying's big mouth, maybe one day he will say: Zhou Hexuan, I gave him a finger wrench, and he accepted it on the spot.

Zhou Hexuan has money now, hundreds of thousands of oceans are deposited in the bank, so there is no need to be stigmatized because of this little thing. Even if he wants to collect cultural relics, he can buy them directly from Sun Dianying. The one surnamed Sun is in a hurry to sell the stolen goods, and the price is very cheap.

Ma Heng immediately took Zhou Hexuan to the archives room, and got two colleagues to testify. He wrote down the situation of the jade ring finger in detail, and the three of them signed and stamped their fingerprints on the file form, and then asked Zhou Hexuan to sign, and the donation process was completed.

Zhou Hexuan was very satisfied. These people are pure cultural relic protectors. When the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, it was they who worked so hard to transport the treasures of the Forbidden City to the Southwest—some even lost their lives.

After they archived the Qianlong White Jade Finger, Zhou Hexuan said to Ma Heng: "Mr. Shuping, Peking University will resume classes tomorrow. Would you like to go back and teach?"

Ma Heng thought for a while, wondering: "I am in charge of the Forbidden City now, and I am really busy. If I go back to teach, I can only have one class a day at most."

"One class is fine," Zhou Hexuan sighed. "To be honest, the student representatives of Peking University have worked hard in many ways, and now they have only persuaded more than 20 teachers to resume classes. Many teachers resigned and went to other schools because they saw no hope of resuming classes."

"Then I will definitely be there tomorrow!" Ma Heng patted his chest and promised.

Zhou Hexuan stayed in the Forbidden City and waited until Ma Heng got off work, and then went back to Peking University with him.

Ma Heng is also a professor at Peking University, and lives in a private house near Peking University, and has not moved to the Forbidden City for the time being.

So Peking University is poor, there are not even many school dormitories, and the living conditions are extremely poor. There are eight students in one room in the student dormitory. It is extremely cold in winter, and naturally there is no heating. The students have to burn their own briquette stoves to survive the winter.

Peking University students with a little money all live in rented houses outside. Jingshan East Street and the private houses along the beach, if you knock on any house, half of the people who open the door are Peking University students, and a few are Peking University teachers.

Only a principal like Zhou Hexuan can live in a single room at Peking University.

Tsinghua University is different. They are tall, rich and handsome. The professors live in the mansion of the former Qing Dynasty princes. If Zhu Ziqing was teaching at Peking University, he would definitely not be able to write "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond", at most he could write "Night Scene on the East Street".

Beijing Normal University is very interesting. Food and lodging are included, even meals are free. And the food was pretty good, with six dishes and one soup, and teachers, staff and students ate in the same canteen, so Beijing Normal University at that time was also known as "eating university".

Li Shi once forcibly merged nine public universities, but he did not consider the specific conditions of these universities. For example, the accommodation conditions are very different, such as the tuition fees are very different, who should be used as the standard after the school is merged?

Normal schools like Beijing Normal University are tuition-free. What will happen after the merger? Is there no charge for teacher-training majors, but is there any charge for non-teacher-training majors like Peking University?

The same university, why the treatment is different?

If there is no charge, it is a violation of education regulations. How can you embarrass schools and students in other places?

Sometimes when carrying out reforms, we must not only consider the general direction, but also take into account such small details, otherwise we will never succeed.

When the two passed by East Street in a rickshaw, Ma Heng said, "Principal Zhou, come to my house for a light meal."

"No, I'll just find a restaurant." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile. He will live in Peking University tonight, and dozens of reporters will come tomorrow, planning and preparing for a big news.

"Let's go, it's so convenient to eat at home." Ma Heng dragged Zhou Hexuan home.

What left Zhou Hexuan speechless was that Ma Heng actually dragged him to Ma Yuzao's house for a meal... He agreed to go back to his own house to eat!

Ma Heng has 10 children in total, but they are all staying in Shanghai at this time, and he himself is living a bachelor life in a rented house in Beiping.

Ma Heng's father-in-law is super rich, a well-known hardware king in Shanghai. Therefore, Ma Heng had no worries about food and clothing all his life, and had a lot of free time to study antiques and cultural relics. He was praised by Yu Youren as "the first person in gold and stone".

It's a pity that the marriage was a bit unhappy. Ma Heng's wife was infected with bad habits early on. She started playing mahjong and smoking opium when she was a teenager. Ma Heng probably couldn't get along with his wife, so he stayed in Peiping all year round and never went back.

"Second brother, who do you think is coming?" Ma Heng smiled and pushed the door open.

A girl in the room smiled and said, "So it's Mr. Zhou! Hello Mr. Zhou, my name is Ma Jue."