Chapter 41 iron hand

Fu Sinian has always hated Confucian scholars who do not respect national integrity the most. He has always been bitter about his ancestor Fu Yijian in Liaocheng who did not participate in the Anti-Qing and Restoring the Ming Dynasty. Today, 300 years later, he hates the intellectuals who are willing to be driven by the Japanese regardless of integrity and national justice.When Fu took office as the acting president of Peking University, he issued a statement in the Chongqing newspaper: "In order to maintain the purity of Peking University, we resolutely do not hire fake Peking University faculty members, but students are acceptable after screening and tutoring."

In mid-November 1945, when Fu Sinian arrived in Peiping, Chen Xueping and others greeted him at the airport.The first sentence Fu got off the plane was to ask Chen if he had any contact with the teachers of the pseudo-Peking University. Chen replied that it was only on some necessary occasions.Fu Wenting said angrily: "Hans and thieves are not at odds, and they shouldn't even shake hands." He said on the spot that the teachers and staff of the fake school would not be hired. The scum was caught and brought to justice, and severely punished. Seeing Fu Sinian's attitude, the pseudo-teachers in Peking were startled, frightened and angry. They united in private and threatened to strike, refused to recognize the "recruitment", and petitioned Li Zongren, director of Peking University, strongly demanding admission to Peking University after demobilization.For this reason, Rong Geng, a pseudo-professor of Peking University and a scholar of ancient artifacts, also published a "Wanyan Letter" to Fu Sinian to protest and defend.In this regard, Fu Sinian did not compromise, and made another statement in the form of answering reporters' questions, resolutely fighting back against pesters and sophistry.

Fu Sinian was extremely angry with the teachers of the fake Peking University, but he was very tolerant towards the young students.When answering a reporter's question, when the reporter mentioned young students, Fu said: "He Gu, a young man, a college student who is 20 years old now, was only a 12-year-old child when the Anti-Japanese War broke out. I advocate treating them well and making it easier for them to go to school. "And to "think of every way to keep Peking University clean, right from wrong, and distinguish between loyal and evil."In the end, Fu Sinian especially emphasized that "I will say this even if it kills me."

Just when Fu Sinian's statement was published in Beiping's "World Journal" on December 2, 1945, Zhou Zuoren, the pseudo-dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts of Peking University, wrote a short prose essay "Stone Road".In the article, he recalled the beauty of his hometown Shaoxing's stone roads and stone bridges with great emotion.The date at the end of the article reads: (Republic of China) Diary on December 2, thirty-four years, just when I heard the donkey braying.The so-called "donkey braying" at the end of the article is a response to Fu Sinian's statement.Zhou Zuoren wrote in his diary that day: "I saw Fu Sinian's talk in the newspaper and heard the donkey braying in the alley. It was just right, because it was recorded at the end of the article." The fourth day after Zhou Zuoren wrote this article, that is, December 6, 1945 On the same day, he was arrested and imprisoned for the crime of traitor.

Unlike Zhou Zuoren's ridicule and abuse, Rong Geng saw that Fu Sinian was determined to go his own way and had no room for accommodation, so he followed Fu Sinian from Beiping to Chongqing and continued to entangle with him as a communications researcher at the Academia Sinica.When Rong Geng came to the head office of Academia Sinica and found Fu Sinian who wanted to make a theory face to face, Fu jumped up against the case, pointed at Rong's nose and cursed: "You are a national scum, shameless traitor, get out, get out, don't see me !” On the spot, he was ordered to carry Rong out and throw him onto the muddy road.The next day, "Xinmin Daily" published the matter, with the headline "Fu Mengzhen took the case and scolded cultural traitors, and the sound shook the roof tiles".Later, Rong visited again, expressing that he wanted to apologize for his sins, change his past, and start a new life. Only then did Fu Sinian reluctantly accept him, but he was still not allowed to teach at Peking University.The disheartened Rong Geng had to rely on Li Zongren's relationship to prepare to teach at Guangxi University, but he was transferred to Lingnan University when he failed to make the trip. Throughout his life, he never entered the threshold of Peking University.