Chapter 37 Most of the History Department
Liu Hongmin was writing and making money in Hong Kong, completely unaware that there was an uproar in the history department at Peking University.
"Mr. Tao, what does it mean that your student published this paper?"
Professor Tao pretended to be innocent and said, "It's just a normal academic paper. What's the problem?"
"What is the problem?"
The professors of world history were outraged and slammed their papers on Professor Tao's desk. "He said in this paper that Alexander's Eastern Expedition did not exist. How could he say such a ridiculous thing?"
"And there is the Ancient Roman Empire. There are so many artifacts proving the existence of Ancient Rome, yet he actually said he had doubts. I think he has ulterior motives!"
"And Liqian, that's the name of ancient Rome, but it was written as Iran. You can let him publish it even if it's so wrong?"
Professor Tao smiled and asked, "You should have read the arguments in the paper, right?"
The world history professors looked at each other and did not answer.
Professor Tao didn't care, because they didn't dare to answer this question. The arguments written by Liu Hongmin were still very reliable, enough to prove the arguments of these papers.
Moreover, Liu Hongmin's paper is called "Proving the History of Central and West Asia through Chinese Historical Records", but he added a subtitle "Some Historical Speculations Based on Coincidences".
He was afraid that these world history guys would come and cause trouble. He had already said that it was just speculation, and if they came to cause trouble again, it would be a bit intolerant. But he didn't expect that these people would be so sensitive and come to cause trouble directly and openly.
It seems that Liu Hongmin was right. This paper hit the sore spot of these people, overturned their academic achievements, and even caused them to suffer losses in their interests.
There is a saying: Touching someone's money is like killing their parents. If their interests are damaged, these people will definitely jump out.
The loss of interests comes from the shaking of academic status. If what Liu Hongmin said in his paper is true, then the history of Central and West Asia will have to be rewritten, and Alexander's Eastern Expedition will be removed from history.
Such a huge change will make many people's papers invalid. That period of history is gone, and the papers based on that history are naturally useless.
More importantly, their academic status will be shaken and they may even lose their jobs. A student can find out that this history is fake, but you professors can't? What kind of experts and professors are you? What right do you have to teach and educate people?
In this situation, how could they not be afraid? How could they not be hysterical?
"This is all nonsense. Is this how you teach your students?"
"An excellent student, is he writing history as if it were a novel?"
"Let's go! Let's go find the principal. The student should be expelled if this is the case."
Professor Tao knocked on the table and said in a deep voice: "You are all experts and professors. You are making personal attacks just for a paper. Do you think it was a few years ago? If you have the ability, you can publish a paper to refute it. If you don't have the ability, don't come here to yell at me."
Academic matters should be solved with academic methods. Even if they cannot be solved, we can only say that we are not as skilled as others. But using political means to deal with others is despicable and will only make you lose face.
"Okay, Mr. Tao, just wait and see how we refute him. When the time comes, don't accuse us of bullying the weak."
"You're always at my service! Take care! I won't see you off!"
The History Department of Peking University is mainly divided into three majors: Ancient Chinese History, Modern Chinese History, and World History. Ancient Chinese History is now divided into two schools, the Antiquity Doubt School and the Textual Research School. The Antiquity Doubt School occupies the majority of the field. Liu Hongmin has already stated in his last paper that he is a Textual Research School, so the professors of the Antiquity Doubt School do not like him.
This paper is even more ruthless, directly offending the entire world history major. It can be said that more than half of the professors in the history department of Peking University are unhappy with Liu Hongmin.
Although there are underworld wherever there are people, the fact that Liu Hongmin could cause such a big mess proves that he is not a person who would just sit there and wait.
After those world history professors returned, those with good character immediately looked through the materials, trying to defeat Liu Hongmin academically, while those with bad character immediately began to discipline Liu Hongmin.
Someone found the professors of the skeptical school of ancient Chinese history and wanted them to make sure Liu Hongmin failed the final exam.
As a student, you actually went to Hong Kong to film a TV series instead of doing your job. Look how capable you are.
There are also people who found the school management and said that Liu Hongmin is already an activist and will be able to enter D in more than a year. As long as Liu Hongmin is blocked, he will not be able to enter D.
There were also hints at students taking action by directly writing commentary articles and publishing them in school magazines and newspapers. Some of them refuted Liu Hongmin's views and some even made direct personal attacks.
Kyoto University has more than just Weiming Lake in its campus publications. Weiming Lake is just the magazine of the Chinese Department. Other departments also have their own magazines and newspapers, and even Kyoto University has a campus newspaper, but none of them is as famous as Weiming Lake.
Unlike Wuminghu, these newspapers and magazines would not strictly review the articles they published. Those critical articles soon filled the entire Beijing University campus, causing students who did not know the truth to discuss them.
Upon seeing this, Cha Jianying immediately gathered everyone together to discuss countermeasures.
"This is too much. How can they do this? Academic issues should be resolved academically. Why make personal attacks? Are we not allowed to express our own opinions?"
Chen Jiangong: "When Hongmin wrote the paper, he said that it would offend many people. I didn't expect it would offend so many people. Such a massive public opinion cannot be led by one or two people."
"We have to do it. We can't let them slander Liu Hongmin." Wang Xiaoping said: "Liu Hongmin is half a Chinese department person. We can't watch him being slandered. We must guarantee his right to express his opinions."
Ge Chaoguang signaled everyone to calm down first, "Old Zou, go get a historical journal first, I'll take it back and verify it with my classmates. Then write an article signed by all the students majoring in classical literature and publish it on Weiming Lake. This way, many deceived students can learn the truth and divert the attention of those people."
Hearing his mature and prudent opinion, everyone nodded.
Cha Jianying immediately said, "We don't understand professional matters, but we can also write commentary articles and publish them in the school newspaper to attract the attention of those people."
"Count me in!" Wang Xiaoping said immediately.
"And us!"
A group of students from the Chinese Department expressed their opinions. They had all eaten at Liu Hongmin's expense to some extent. If Liu Hongmin was in trouble, they would naturally step forward to help him.
The next day, the article written by the Chinese Department students was published in the school newspaper. Although it was somewhat bookish, it did make many students who did not know the truth return to a neutral position.
As the research articles of all students majoring in classical literature came out, it immediately caused an uproar.
(End of this chapter)
