Chapter 36 Honest

Fu Sinian asked Li Fanggui to be the director of the Institute of History and Philology. Li Fanggui said: "In my opinion, researchers are first-class talents, teaching staff are second-class talents, and directors and officials are third-class talents." Fu Sinian heard this. Suddenly he was speechless.When he came back to his senses, he bowed and made a long bow and said, "Thank you sir, I am a third-class talent!" Fu Sinian is very concerned about the lives of his subordinates and takes care of everything by himself.During the Anti-Japanese War, the Institute of History and Language moved to Lizhuang Mountain Col, Sichuan, and the supply was difficult.He wrote to the Commissioner: "Please don't forget that we still have a group of friends who are engaged in research in Lizhuang Mountain Col, looking forward to eating rice..."

Some people say that when Fu Sinian's temper comes, he's a cannonball, but when he becomes gentle, he's like a cat.It is said that when he was at the Nanjing Institute of History and Philology, Lao Pei, a co-worker, hoped that Mr. Fu would lose his temper the most, because he lost his temper in the morning, and in the afternoon a certain magazine sent him a manuscript fee, and he gave Lao Pei all his brains to buy wine, which was very humane. . Fu Sinian always knows how to repay his kindness.When Fu Sinian went abroad to study, he was almost squeezed out of his quota. Chen Xuenan offered a helping hand at a critical moment, and Fu was able to study abroad.Since then, Fu Sinian has maintained a very good relationship with Chen. In 1948, Fu Sinian was elected as a member of the Legislative Council in the United States. He refused to resign, but was persuaded by Chen Xuenan before accepting.

In Kunming during the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Yinke lived on the third floor and Fu Sinian lived on the first floor.Every time the alarm sounded, everyone "buried in the ground" and ran downstairs to the air-raid shelter.But he went upstream, went up to the third floor and helped Chen Yinke, who was suffering from eye diseases, down the stairs, and hid in the air-raid shelter together. Zhang Haizhou, the father of Zhang Hanqing, a farmer in Yongsheng Village, Lizhuang, Sichuan, used to carry the sliding pole for Fu Sinian. He heard his father tell the past: "Fu Suo grew up very fat, probably 178, and only my old man (father) Zhang Haizhou and Li Bozhou carried it. Director Fu often went to the town to do errands, or took a boat from Lizhuang to Nanxi and down to Chongqing. From Lizhuang to Lizhuang, if the pole lifter tilted slightly, he immediately called to stop and get down. He was afraid of my old man. Collapsed.

"He is very kind to his subordinates. On the street, sometimes District Chief Zhang Guanzhou and Town Mayor Yang Junhui invite him to dinner. As soon as the rice bowl is set, he sits down, and just as soon as he picks up his chopsticks, he stands up abruptly and looks at the dishes on the bearer's table. Not the same. If not, he immediately stood up and called me, the old man, to go away. "When the moon field was beating Aotian Valley, a soldier robbed someone. Director Fu called their company commander, and the company commander saluted immediately when he saw Director Fu. Director Fu told him to arrest the soldier who robbed him. Find out. He nodded again and again. This kind of thing never happened again."

Fu Sinian is fond of collecting books, and spends all his savings on buying books.When he was in Lizhuang, he sold books in exchange for food. In addition to solving his own urgent needs, he also helped his friends.Dong Zuobin's family had a large population and his life was not guaranteed, so Fu Sinian helped him with the money from selling books. Tang Benxiang, a student at National Taiwan University at the time, recalled in "Principal Fu Is Not Dead": President Fu's style of work represented democracy and equality.Everything respects majority opinion, and everything is based on the premise of focusing on the grassroots.When it comes to equality, another story can illustrate him.People who often go to the principal's mansion always see Principal Fu and his driver sitting against each other, with a happy expression on their faces, without the principal's airs at all.Principal Fu really cares for his classmates.Usually in his mansion, he received his classmates as guests. In school, he would pat his classmates on the back, ask for information, or talk a few words.

In 1926, after the "March 18" tragedy, Jiang Menglin, Fu Sinian, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Lin Yutang, Zhu Ziqing, Wen Yiduo, etc. all expressed their indignation in different ways.Many years later, Fu Sinian met Lu Zhonglin, walked up to him and said, "We used to be friends, but now we are enemies. Students are like my children. If you kill them, can I still remain silent?" One week after the "December 1" tragedy, Fu Sinian came to Kunming from Chongqing to deal with the strike of teachers and students of the Union.When Fu Sinian got off the plane, the first thing he said when he saw Guan Linzheng was: "You killed my students, it hurts me more than killing my children."

In the two years since Fu Sinian became the president of National Taiwan University, more than 70 professors and associate professors were dismissed due to their low academic ability and teaching level.But from a poor background, he has always had a kind and compassionate heart for his subordinates. He understands that some university professors have little place to go after being fired. relationship, they were placed in the National Taiwan University Library, and a letter of appointment was renewed for one year to ease their difficulties. When he was at National Taiwan University, as the head of a school, Fu Sinian's principle was that the secretary Na Lianjun could write the reply to the official documents of the government, but he wrote the reply personally to the students' letters to show respect for the students.

Fu Sinian's wife Yu Dacai recalled: Mr. Fu was at National Taiwan University, "often when he returned home at noon, he and I would visit each dormitory and check the students' meals."Every time Mr. Fu enters the restaurant, "the boys will shout to welcome the principal, and the girls will rush to him." In 1950, shortly after Fu Sinian's death, a person from the Department of Health delivered a pair of glasses to Fu's family and told Yu Dacai that Mr. Fu asked him to match a certain student in Hong Kong.It turned out that in order to discover talented students, Fu Sinian held a composition competition at National Taiwan University, and he personally wrote the questions and marked the papers.One day, he went home and excitedly told his wife that he saw a good article and asked the author for an interview.However, the student was from a poor family and suffered from deep myopia and did not wear glasses. When asked why, the student did not answer.After getting the glasses, the student knelt in front of Fu Sinian's tomb with tears in his eyes.