Chapter 35 Domineering

In the history of the Republic of China, there were several famous violent characters called Da Pao. The most famous ones are Sun Da Pao (Sun Yat-sen) and Fu Da Pao (Fu Sinian). Fu Sinian was always a student leader when he was a student. He has strong organizational skills and is a good hand in making student riots and catching up with professors.According to Luo Jialun’s recollection, Zhu Pengxian was a student of Zhang Taiyan, so he had no knowledge, but what he taught was not what he was good at, and he made many mistakes in the classroom. However, if you want to cite these mistakes, the students’ notes are hard to do. By.It so happened that a classmate borrowed the full draft of Professor Zhu's lecture notes and handed it over to Fu Sinian for review.Fu spent a night reading it, picked out more than 30 mistakes, and signed a letter to Principal Cai by the whole class.

Mr. Cai is an expert, so he naturally understood it, but he didn't believe that the students had discovered it by themselves. In order to prevent the professors from criticizing each other, he suddenly summoned the whole class who signed the letter.The students panicked, afraid that Mr. Cai would take the exam, and also afraid that it would be too heavy for Fu Sinian to bear the responsibility alone.So before meeting Mr. Cai, everyone shared a few pieces and went in when they were ready.Sure enough, Mr. Cai had a face-to-face oral interview, and the students who shared it answered well.After the exam, Mr. Cai remained silent, and so did the students, bowing and leaving one by one.Not long afterward, at an appropriate time, Zhu Pengxian really stopped teaching this class.

Fu Sinian had a violent temper, and people from the Institute of History and Philology called him "Fu Tiger" in private.One day, Tao Menghe, who had been at odds with Fu Sinian, went to the Institute of History and Language, and felt that the atmosphere was quite different from before, so he said to Dong Zuobin: "The fat cat (referring to Fu Sinian) is back, the naughty little mouse on the mountain. The sky has faded." Dong Zuobin later recalled: "This statement is both ironic and praise. When Meng Zhen came back to live for a while, his work efficiency was really different... In fact, Mr. Meng Zhen was originally a child to his friends and colleagues. This is where colleagues love him, but young people who have been "trained" suppress their "love" with awe. This is enough to explain one of the contributions of Mr. Meng Zhen's establishment of the Institute of History and Philology , his greatest achievement in the 17-year plan (Republic of China) was to 'achieve a number of young scholars who can use the tools used in the modern West'. The papers of these young people published in the last ten years of journals are proof."

Fu Sinian's domineering personality made him many enemies, so he was famous all over the world throughout his life, and slander followed.Someone publicly challenged Fu Sinian at an academic conference held in Chongqing, saying: "The directors of the Academia Sinica are all academics. What knowledge does Fu Sinian have? How did he become the director of the Institute of History and Language?" Fu Sinian always wanted to give newcomers to the Institute of History and Philology a "smackdown", such as not writing random articles, forcing them to proofread their books, etc., and so on.In this regard, Li Aozeng said: "The phenomenon of abnormal development of the Institute of History and Philology has a lot to do with its leaders. Its first director, Fu Sinian, was extremely talented, but he was too domineering, which made him uncomfortable. He can tolerate real talents, but most of the people he likes are those who are submissive. This phenomenon is said to be the inevitable result of all dictators. Fu Sinian also made some bad rules and family laws like recruiting apprentices, creating The special atmosphere in many institutes...so since Fu Sinian, the Institute of History and Philology has had a kind of false style." Li also said: "The style of learning is born in Fu Sinian, and Fu Sinian founded the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica. All great dictatorship, dictatorship to the end One day I saw the little researcher walking in the sun for a long time, and the next day I banned walking for a whole day."

In the winter of 1941, Wang Shixiang, a graduate of Yenching University, traveled thousands of miles and went to exile in Chongqing for more than a month. He found his brother’s classmate Liang Sicheng. Liang Sicheng, a famous architect at home and abroad, took him to find Fu Sinian. Institute for a job.After the meeting, Fu Sinian asked Qing Wang about his family background, and in front of Liang Sicheng, he said: "Students who graduated from Yanjing University are not worthy of coming to our place." In this way, Wang Shixiang was thrown out.The disheartened Wang had no choice but to follow Liang Sicheng to live temporarily at the China Construction Institute in Lizhuang, Nanxi County.

Fu Sinian was very strict with his subordinates. When a college graduate came to work at the Institute of History and Philology, he would first study in closed doors for three years, and only in the fourth year would he be allowed to publish articles.Once, he discovered that a young assistant researcher likes to bask in the sun in winter and does not work hard.One day, he intentionally blocked the door to prevent her from going out, and said bluntly: "You had enough sun exposure yesterday." The students of the Institute of History and Philology respected and feared Fu Sinian.Ma Xueliang wrote in an article: "The director, Mr. Fu Sinian, is decent and respectable. When he first entered the institute, he heard that Mr. Fu was impatient, and everyone was in awe. At that time, we were juniors, and we were walking by the fields after dinner. When Yuan saw Mr. Fu approaching, he turned around and ran away. If he couldn’t escape, he would be arrested and played chess. In fact, Mr. Fu didn’t care about chess. Concentrate your mind, and your mind is different. Therefore, you often hold the chess pieces high and never drop them. Those who know today are impressed, and those who don’t know are surprised. There are also rumors that he took the opportunity to test, so as to understand your intelligence and academic attainments.”

Chestnut Au Paifangtou is a place where people from the Institute of History and Philology chat and play chess after dinner. When young people come here, they are always chatting, laughing and wild.Fu Sinian, who lives in Osmanthus Au, sometimes comes over from home to join in the fun after dinner.But when the young people saw it, it was like a mouse seeing a cat, "one slipped away for a while, and another slipped away for a while, and they all disappeared without a trace after a long time."Those who didn't have time to slip had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue playing chess. Fu Sinian first squatted on the sidelines to watch the battle, while the attackers shouted and shouted happily.It would be bad luck for anyone to play chess with him at this time, because Fu Sinian often thinks about other problems while playing, and a chess piece stops in mid-air and refuses to put it down again.The other party had no choice but to hold back his temper and wait and wait. After a long time, seeing that there was still no movement, he dared to urge him boldly: "Mr. "Oh, oh" shouted, and started to kill and slash like a car.It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and within a few rounds, he stopped moving. This move was like a blunt knife resting on the neck, but there was no blood, which made the opponent extremely uncomfortable.With such a lesson, in the days to come, no matter if you are a chatter or a chess player, as long as you see Fu Sinian leaving the house and walking towards the archway, you will run away as fast as possible.Faced with this abnormal behavior, Fu Sinian felt that something was wrong, so he asked Dong Zuobin for advice with puzzlement: "They are standing in the courtyard or at the gate, a group of people are talking and laughing, you go and join in a dragon formation. I After going, they slipped away one by one, why is that?" Dong listened, laughed and said, "This is exactly why I am fearless, not as good as my brother." After hearing this, Fu Sinian shook his head embarrassingly and said : "Oops, I'm so unpopular, it seems I have to learn from you!"

After the “December 1” massacre, the authorities demanded that classes be resumed, and students were required to meet certain conditions (severely punish party and government leaders who massacred innocent teachers and students, etc.) to resume classes.Fu Sinian was ordered to go to Kunming to deal with the student unrest. On December 17, 1945, at the professors' meeting, he had a conflict with Wen Yiduo.According to Zhang Xiruo, who told the reporter of the "Committee of Strike Committee" two days later, during the dispute, "sometimes I got into a quarrel with Fu Standing Committee member, and then I said: 'Well, why don't you go and shout long live in front of Lao Jiang!" This is to expose Fu Sinian's old scars. , Few people know about it. I persuaded: Everyone is arguing, why bother to bring up the old things. Fu was so angry that he cursed: 'If you have a special party, get out of here!'”

Fu Sinian's reform at National Taiwan University violated the interests of many people.When there was a student unrest at National Taiwan University, some people took the opportunity to attack Fu Sinian by accusing National Taiwan University of urging the Communist Party.Although Fu Sinian does not support the actions of teachers and students in Taiwan, he believes that without real evidence, the authorities cannot arbitrarily enter the campus to search for Communists among teachers and students, and he firmly opposes casually accusing others of being Communists.When he read the accusations against the teachers and students of National Taiwan University in the newspaper, he was both annoyed and furious, and scolded with "fuck!" without hesitation, and published an article in the newspaper saying: "The school does not serve as a police officer." , "I am not a policeman, nor am I a secret agent."He also said: "If the authorities have true evidence that someone is the Communist Party, I will investigate and deal with it according to the law, but I must not be vague and bloody when I handle this kind of thing." Finally, he declared angrily: "Anti-Communism must have an anti-Communist stance, corrupt officials I can’t take people as comrades who spoil things because of officials and other vested interests.”

In 1949, the "April 6 Incident" occurred at National Taiwan University, and the army broke into the campus. Fu Sinian was highly dissatisfied with the authorities' entry into the campus of National Taiwan University without legal procedures to arrest teachers and students. .He even warned Peng Mengji, an official of the Security Command at the time: "If any student bleeds, I will fight you hard!"