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Chapter 102 101. Traveling thousands of miles in Nanyun

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    After sending the telegram, I ordered my people to quickly pack their bags and head to Gansu for inspection while the weather was not hot in May.  As a principal, I cannot miss the students¡¯ graduation ceremony in July.

    It is estimated that this trip will take two months, so there are a lot of things to prepare.  Many things in the school also need to be planned in advance, such as the buildings of the library and the International Students Institute, such as the questions for the International Student Admissions Examination, so as not to go back halfway and turn back, which would be annoying.

    The day before departure, Sun Yuanqi went to the city, firstly to send the examination questions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and secondly to say goodbye to his uncle.  When Mr. Lao Zhongtang heard that he was going to Gansu, his eyes widened: "Baixi, are you just going to leave like this for two months?"

    Sun Yuanqi thought to himself, the school affairs have been arranged; the matters related to international students have also come to an end. It seems that there is nothing wrong?  He nodded immediately: "Well, everything has been arranged. I will be back in about two months."

    "Then have you asked for leave?" asked the old man, holding his moustache.

    "" Sun Yuanqi really hadn't thought about this matter yet, and murmured: "I haven't had to ask for leave all this time! Do you still need to ask for leave?"

    It is true to say that it has been three or four years since Sun Yuanqi became a doctor in the Doctoral Office of the Imperial College in the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu. He has always wanted to go abroad and take a rest. He has never asked for leave from anyone, nor has he heard anything about it.  Ask for leave.

    "Before? Your previous positions were not actually considered real officials. They were just doing errands with their titles. When you carried out the errands, you would naturally be transferred by your superiors, so you didn't have to ask for leave from the court." The old man slowly told Sun Yuanqi that he was an upright official.  He made common sense, and then changed his tone: "Now, you are serving as the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and you are an official of the imperial court. Although you have free work and don't have to go to the courtyard every day, you can't leave the capital casually! As you do, you can't leave the capital at will!  I have been away for two months and haven't asked for leave. What's the difference between me and absconding from office? If I encounter the censor's picket, the vacancy will be opened, demoted and fined, or the more serious case will be dismissed, investigated, and never hired. Don't you know this?"

    Sun Yuanqi was sweating after hearing this. It turned out that there were still these rules in the officialdom, but he had never heard of them, so he had to answer honestly: "I really don't know about these!"

    After being scolded by the boss, I had no choice but to honestly write a note explaining that I was going to the northwest for inspection, applied for two months' leave, and submitted it to the palace.  The next morning, the fold was returned, with Cixi's imperial inscription on it: "There is another purpose."

    Sure enough, in the afternoon, a eunuch came to announce the decree: "Order Sun Yuanqi, a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy, to go to Shaanxi, Gansu and other places in the northwest on official business to inspect the establishment of schools and foreign affairs and other matters. He also ordered the local prefectures and counties along the way to protect them and not to neglect them.  .This edict.¡±

    Except for the awkward feeling when I handed the eunuch a envelope of money, I felt generally good after receiving the imperial edict: with this imperial edict, I no longer have to worry about safety and food on the road.  Thinking that he saved one million taels of silver for Grandma Cixi, she reciprocated the favor and gave herself a benefit.

    Once safety was guaranteed, Sun Yuanqi's thoughts started to boil again: How about taking this opportunity to turn the trip to the northwest into an internship at school?  Anyway, funding is not a problem now.  When I mentioned the idea to Luo Zhenyu and the others, they all applauded and agreed. Even young teachers like Lu Bi and Einstein were a little moved.  After some discussion, we finally decided to bring students from five departments including Education, History, Chemical Engineering, Biology, and Geography, as well as some teachers and some accompanying bodyguards, a group of nearly a hundred people, in early May.  Leaving the university in a grand manner.

    Before leaving, Sun Yuanqi had already made preparations. The means of transportation was a horse-drawn carriage. The routes he traveled back and forth were different. Generally speaking, he walked sixty miles a day, walking two days and resting one day.  In some more important places or when the weather is bad, you can rest for a few more days.

    Why do you bring students from those five departments?  Sun Yuanqi had his own considerations: students at the University of Economics should apply themselves to the world and apply what they have learned.  Therefore, students should go into society, practice, and verify the knowledge they have learned.  Students from the Department of Education need to investigate the education situation in the Northwest; students from the Department of Biology need to collect specimens of animals and plants in the Northwest; students from the Department of Geography need to examine the geology and landforms of the Northwest and draw maps; students from the Department of Chemical Engineering need to search for various minerals  Samples; Department of History, collect and print epigraphic inscriptions and books and local chronicles from various places.  According to regulations, every student must write an inspection diary every day.  After the inspection, each person must complete an inspection report.

    The students are all young men in their twenties, and it is rare to have such an opportunity to go out together in a group.  This kind of internship, which is similar to a spring outing, undoubtedly brings them into contact with the wider society, and also restores liveliness to their somewhat serious expressions.  In the carriage, everyone gathered together, chatting, reading and debating, and bursts of laughter could be heard from time to time.  Occasionally, a student discovers a novel plant or a??!  "

    Behind him are a group of students following him, and in front of him are the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. At this moment, pride naturally arises, and familiar words and phrases come to mind: "The young boy who is my classmate is in his prime; he is full of scholarly energy, and he scolds Fang Qiu. He guides the country and inspires him.  Words and excrement were used by thousands of households."

    ¡°Is that great man who had endless fun fighting against the sky, the earth, and people fighting like himself, inspired by the magnificent mountains and rivers, to utter such heroic words?

    Xi'an is located in the Guanzhong Plain, with the majestic Qinling Mountains in the south and the steep Beishan Mountains in the north, which form a natural barrier between the east and west. There is Hangu Pass in the east and Dashan Pass in the west, standing on both sides, forming a gateway to the east and west.  Throat.  Since ancient times, it has been known as the "golden city thousands of miles away" and "the four fortresses are considered solid".

    "Qinzhong has been an imperial state since ancient times". In history, ten dynasties including Western Zhou, Qin, Western Han, Former Zhao, Former Qin, Later Qin, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang established their capitals here, which lasted for 1062 years.  .  Bandits such as Lvlin and Chimei in the late Western Han Dynasty, Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty, and Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty also established political power here.

    Although this place has gradually declined since the Five Dynasties, the cultural accumulation of thousands of years is still strong.  Moreover, historical sites and places of interest such as the Forest of Steles, Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and Chang'an Former Site are all worth visiting and learning by students.  Therefore, when passing through Xi'an, Sun Yuanqi and his party stayed here for a few more days.

    As early as when Sun Yuanqi appeared on the border of Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi Academic Affairs Envoy Shen Wei (Shen Junru's uncle) and Xi'an Magistrate Yin Changling sent people to greet him.  After listening to their introduction, I realized that because it is located in the northwest and has a closed social atmosphere, Shaanxi still relies on traditional private education, and new education is very backward.  There are almost no new primary schools or middle schools in prefectures and counties.  Even after it was established, there were very few students enrolled, and the equipment and content of the school were very rudimentary.

    In later generations, Xi'an was one of the famous science and education centers in the country, with Xi'an Jiaotong University, Northwest University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Fourth Military Medical University, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Shaanxi Normal University and many other well-known universities.  At present, there are only two higher education institutions in Shaanxi: Guanzhong University Hall, now known as Shaanxi Higher School, which was established in January 1902 by Shaanxi Governor Sheng Yun and Fan Zengxiang, the predecessor of Northwest University, in Xi'an; and Hongdao University  The Hongdao College, which was formed by the merger of the three schools of Wei Jing, Wei Jing and Chong Shi, is located in Jingyang County, Xi'an Prefecture.

    Other new schools include Entertainment School (1898), Military Academy (1898), Shaanxi Middle School (1898), Shaanxi First Normal School (1903), Shaanxi Teacher Hall (1903), Shaanxi Agricultural School (1904), etc.  Sixty-seven schools are similar to junior high schools and technical secondary schools in today¡¯s education system.

    Taking advantage of the time when students from other departments were busy working separately, Sun Yuanqi led students from the Department of Education to visit and investigate Shaanxi Higher School, Shaanxi Middle School, Shaanxi First Normal School, and Shaanxi Agricultural School in order to establish a Jingshi University here in the future.  Affiliated schools.

    Today¡¯s new schools all emphasize ¡°Chinese learning as the body and Western learning as the application.¡±  Because of the need to "take middle school as the body", there is a wooden pillar in the Shaanxi College of Higher Education to "respect the most holy teacher Confucius and all the ancestors of Confucianism". Every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the teacher will lead the students in each class to kneel and worship in front of the wooden pillar.  salute.  Introducing Western learning into the classroom is, after all, an important feature of the new school. Therefore, while the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" are set as required courses, the following are also required: character, political affairs, geography, military affairs, astronomy, arithmetic, geology, and surveying.  , audiovisual and other Western courses still account for a large proportion.

    Every time he went to a school, Sun Yuanqi asked for a set of textbooks from that school.  Of course, it is not polite to reciprocate, so naturally I also gave him a complete set of teaching materials from Jingshi University from the affiliated primary school to the graduate school, a total of two hundred copies.

    The textbooks in these schools in Xi'an include almost all science textbooks such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, historical geography, Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy, English, education, etc.  Textbooks for liberal arts such as psychology are directly from the versions compiled by Jingshi University and printed by the Commercial Press.

    That¡¯s all. When those foreign teachers who teach science and engineering¡ªmainly from Japan¡ªmeeted Sun Yuanqi, they respectfully held the disciple ceremony and came forward to ask for advice in a low voice.  It really satisfied Sun Yuanqi's vanity.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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