dkrc Chapter 122 Human Nature
Chapter 122 Human Nature
Chapter 123 Human Nature
Forcing people to swear a solemn oath before leaving the country has suddenly become a spiritual shackle hanging over the heads of many college students.
In this day and age, to be honest, even the most selfish person would take the issue of carrying on the family line and ensuring the purity of their descendants' bloodline as a top priority.
In fact, the more sophisticated and self-interested a person is, the more they pay attention to the purity and continuation of their bloodline, and the more they worry that one day, some neighbor might take advantage of their vulnerability and invade their private quarters.
No one would be happy to have a vast green grassland above them as their companion.
Therefore, feeling offended, or potentially being offended, has become a major source of anxiety.
Fortunately, Yu Zhenjiang made a solemn oath that the target group was limited to those eligible for government-sponsored overseas study.
Furthermore, both publicly and privately, forcing someone to swear a solemn oath is despicable.
But the ultimate goal is to prevent selfish people from having the last laugh, and to increase the certainty that those who spend public funds to go abroad will be able to return smoothly one day.
So even though the words weren't very pleasant to hear, the reasoning behind them was sound, and they quickly and subtly formed a consensus that was almost universally accepted.
It is quite rare to see this on such a major issue of right and wrong.
Even the mainstream literary circles, who have always been at odds with Yu Zhen.
This time, unusually, he also echoed this sentiment in newspapers and media, offering a serious analysis of the benefits involved.
They also discussed whether there could be more elegant, oath-like expressions to replace such a crude and blatant vow.
To put it bluntly, the current college student population is already a very small minority.
Those who are qualified to go abroad are even fewer.
After all, no one could have imagined that in just three to five years, studying abroad would become an unstoppable trend of the times.
At its peak, hundreds of thousands, even millions, of Chinese citizens flocked abroad each year, eager to embrace the wider world, breathe the so-called freer air, and experience the brighter, fuller moonlit nights.
This moment, that moment.
Currently, only a very small number of college students are qualified to study abroad. For example, at Tsinghua and Peking Universities, only a few dozen to a hundred students like Li Ximing, a senior student, went abroad in the same batch.
Naturally, these people had absolutely no say in opposing the oath of poison.
So very quickly, without even waiting for a formal written response from Tsinghua and Peking Universities, these individuals on the list of those studying abroad could no longer withstand the scrutiny of the outside world and took to public statements to swear an oath to Tsinghua and Peking Universities.
This led to the formation of an unspoken rule that was tacitly accepted by all teachers and students.
All those who are qualified to go abroad in the future must publicly swear an eight-character oath in a public setting at the school, under the supervision of no less than one hundred onlookers.
Otherwise, they are not qualified.
Otherwise, their motives for going abroad are not pure enough, and they are very likely to never return.
The news quickly spread among university circles in Beijing.
To reiterate, in this day and age, those who are qualified to be selected for government-sponsored overseas study are an extremely rare breed, the cream of the crop among university students.
But precisely because they are so outstanding, their numbers are extremely small.
The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.
As a result, after this trend spread to other university campuses, it quickly became an unspoken rule that was tacitly accepted by everyone, amidst various strange and subtle atmospheres.
In any case, whenever people mention Tsinghua and Peking University, the top universities in the country, they all make a grand promise to fulfill it, even swearing a solemn oath to demonstrate their determination to return to the country and serve the country in the future.
So why do some people at our own universities have the audacity to pretend they don't know?!
He refused to shout those eight words out in public.
Is it because you have something to hide?
There was no other way. Soon, the same trend spread in other universities. Anyone who was eligible to be included in the list of government-sponsored students going abroad began to make solemn oaths in public, whether voluntarily or reluctantly.
Li Ximing was in great pain, feeling as if he were a sinner of the century.
"Uncle, right now, in the eyes of my teachers and classmates, I'm just a brainless clown. Everyone is laughing at me, and my girlfriend broke up with me. Now, whenever I walk down the street, it feels like people are whispering and cursing at me from all sides. I really can't take the psychological pressure anymore, I'm about to break down."
Inside the compound of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Inside a room on the third floor of a row of Suzhou-style tenement buildings.
Li Ximing was complaining bitterly to his uncle, recounting the violent and malicious attacks he was currently facing on the Tsinghua and Peking University campuses.
"Look at you, so pathetic. You can't even handle the slightest bit of verbal humiliation and insults. And you still have the nerve to come here and whine to your uncle?! If we had known you were like this, why would the family have gone through all that trouble to get you into Tsinghua or Peking University, and why would we have kept trying to secure so many resources for you at the school, giving you one of the first government-sponsored opportunities to study abroad?"
Do you really think all these resources and opportunities just fall from the sky?
Li Ximing's uncle was very annoyed by his son's lack of ambition, and his expression became even more furious.
However, despite their quarrels, the uncle and nephew both maintained a degree of civility befitting intellectuals.
A more elegant way to describe it is that they "fight but never break up," without actually escalating the conflict or tearing each other apart. For example, if a nephew insults his uncle, the uncle might swing a stool and beat his nephew's head.
After being harshly scolded, Li Ximing felt much clearer-headed.
To be honest, although he has become a scapegoat and gained a bad reputation, he has definitely gained fame both inside and outside the university circle.
Just as Yu Zhen had said, the Tsinghua and Peking University authorities found it difficult to deal with him, and his government-sponsored overseas study quota was not revoked.
In other words, being arranged by the relevant authorities to fly to North America on the same flight as the great writer Yu was, at the very least, a blessing in disguise, as he received more preferential treatment.
"Alright, you can vent your emotions freely in front of your uncle, but once you step out of this door, you must learn to be patient and strong. Originally, it would be easier for us to continue our internal operations for you after you returned from studying abroad. Now, after this turmoil, everyone will be placing you under close surveillance. When your year-long study abroad period ends and you return, that will actually be the most glorious moment of your life."
Besides, no matter how good things are abroad, they can't compare to our own network of connections back home. We should be clear-headed.
"Uncle, I'm so angry! I've become the villain that all the government-sponsored students studying abroad hate. I haven't even left yet, and I'm already being ostracized. I'm just furious with that bastard surnamed Yu. Why did he have to act like a dog and make such a despicable oath?" Moral blackmail has actually become a national consensus.
Ha, he's become a great hero who worries about the country and its people, what makes him so special?!
"Don't worry, Uncle has already privately spoken with our family's connections in Hong Kong. Let that Yu guy be arrogant for now, but once he gets to North America and he's no longer protected by people in China, he'll be trampled on just as badly as he is now!!"
"Uncle, are the connections of our Liu family really that impressive even in North America?"
Shh! ~~~
Liu Zichuan immediately raised his hand to stop his foolish nephew's rant: This isn't because the Liu family has such strong overseas connections; it's because this young man surnamed Yu is too reckless, actually trying to obstruct the channel for sending top talent from China to North America.
They dare to mess with foreign big shots.
Once you're abroad, if I want to deal with you, you little brat surnamed Yu, I'll have to pull some strings a bit.