Chapter 162: What a proud son? He's a waste!

Silence. They say that if you don't perish in silence, you will erupt in it. These passionate and radical young people in the finance class are obviously the latter. ∷,

After a moment of silence, there was an outburst of abuse: 'Where did this come from? Who does he think he is to be our class teacher? We are in the finance class, we are all future financial elites, the backbone of the future to build the motherland against foreign capitalists invasion, not just any Tom, Dick or Harry can be our class teacher!'

In a burst of anger, class monitor Chen Shu gestured for everyone to quiet down, then he said, 'Secretary, you should know what kind of class this is. We are all going to become financial elites in the future. Not to mention that we don't need any tutors, even if we did, it should be someone like a financial doctor or professor who can help us, or some kind of senior fund manager or something.'

'In fact, it's not hard to find. Our country does lack such talent, but I can't understand why the country can't look around the world for it. I believe there are still a lot of such people. The previous two were very poor, and now the central government has chosen such a person for us?'

Chen Shu pointed at Zhou Ming with his finger as he said, 'Secretary, look at him. I really don't understand what qualifications he has to be in our class. Or does he have some special status?'

The college secretary wanted to say something, but Chen Shu preempted him, saying, 'Secretary, I think you heard what the students were saying. Our goal in going to the United States is to improve ourselves and learn advanced knowledge, not to goof off. If anyone wants to take advantage of this opportunity to goof off in our group, I'm sorry, but please go back where you came from. We don't welcome him here.'

Following Chen Shu's words, the other finance students all echoed, 'That's right, we don't welcome idiots who just want to waste time here. If you want to waste time and gain qualifications, please get lost!'

Facing a burst of boos from the students below, the college secretary felt a little at a loss. He really wanted to say that Zhou Ming was not some idle rich kid, that he had real talent. But in the end, he couldn't say anything, and he could only cast his gaze on Zhou Ming. He thought that since the central government had sent him down here, he should at least be somewhat capable. At the very least...he should be more capable than those people before.

Zhou Ming gave the secretary of the college a reassuring look, waved his hand to ask everyone to be quiet, and I don't know if it was just Zhou Ming's charisma or if the students below just gave him face and wanted to hear what Zhou Ming really wanted to say, but in any case, after Zhou Ming waved his hand, the classroom, which had just been very noisy, gradually became quiet.

Zhou Ming was quite satisfied with this, and he nodded and said, 'I know you want to hear what I have to say, but I'm afraid what I want to say won't please you.'

Zhou Ming's opening line surprised everyone, but before they could react, he continued, 'I know that this is a special finance class, and you are all elite students carefully selected from all over the country to be sent to the United States for further studies. Because of your abilities, you are arrogant, and you simply do not agree with anyone being your homeroom teacher. Or it can be said that the homeroom teacher you agree with is just the saint in your ideal world.'

'As far as I know, there have been several people who were assigned to this position before me, including officials from the central bank and professors from the National People's Congress, but they were all driven away by you in the end.'

Zhou Ming talked about what he knew about the class, which was actually the reason why the Central Government urgently summoned Zhou Ming to lead the class.

First of all, after the Soviet Union's experience, the importance of this finance class is self-evident. Due to many historical reasons, China's experience in financial capital is almost zero. Therefore, in the eyes of the central leaders, this group of students sent abroad is almost treated the same as the group of students who studied abroad in the late Qing Dynasty. Even now, the sense of crisis among the leaders is even stronger, and more attention must be paid to this.

It was for these reasons that these finance students were treated like the pride of the nation. The central government did not choose their class teachers without careful consideration, but no matter who was chosen, it could not satisfy these students, and it even made them resentful. In the end, the central government had no choice but to remove all the original class teachers and find Zhou Ming.

As soon as Zhou Ming finished speaking, Chen Shu, the monitor, immediately said, 'I'm sorry to correct you, but what you said is not true. Those class teachers were not driven away by us; they just left because they were incompetent.'

The other students chimed in, 'Yes, where did we drive them away? They were the ones who knew nothing, so why should they lead our finance class?'

Chen Shu gestured for everyone to be quiet, and looked up proudly at Zhou Ming and said, 'What's this student called Zhou Ming? Since you were chosen to come here, you must know the situation here and the nature of this class...'

Before Chen Shu could finish speaking, Zhou Ming nodded and said, "Of course I know, you're just a bunch of self-righteous schoolchildren.'

With Zhou Ming's words, the faces of everyone below immediately turned dark. Chen Shu held back his anger and said, "Do you know what you're saying? I hope you're wrong, or we've heard it wrong.'

'I wish it was me who was wrong, but unfortunately it's not,' Zhou Ming said. 'I admit that you have all been carefully selected by the country, and you must all be very smart and talented, but what does that prove? There are too many stories of geniuses who wasted their talents. Not to mention that it's still debatable whether you are geniuses or not. Just because you have entered this finance class, you think you are financial masters and can let your tails wag in the sky?'

'I really hope you can all take a good look at yourselves!' Zhou Ming pointed his finger at everyone below and said, 'Do you know what stocks and markets are? Do you know how high ten million US dollars stacked together would be? Have you ever seen the real operation of capital? You are just a bunch of useless people who have read a few crappy books in the classroom and are crying out to run the country and the world!'

Zhou Ming's words were like a stone thrown into the water, instantly sending ripples and igniting the anger of all the students. They pointed at Zhou Ming angrily and said, 'What are you? You are nothing but the worst of the worst, a social parasite and a scum of the country. It is because of people like you that the development of the country has stagnated. We are here to destroy parasites like you!'

These students yelled and cursed at each other, and some even rolled up their sleeves, as if they wanted to fight.

The anger below seemed to be coming at them in waves, and the secretary of the college couldn't help but take a step back. Fortunately, his hand was still holding onto Zhou Ming's sleeve.

Of course, he did this not because of some problem with the secretary's orientation, but because he knew the temperaments of these finance students very well and knew that Zhou Ming was simply provoking conflict by saying this. That was why he wanted to pull Zhou Ming down and remind him, but who knew that Zhou Ming, whether he didn't notice or what, actually became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke, completely ignoring him.

Seeing that Zhou Ming didn't respond, the secretary had no choice but to say, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, what are you doing? Aren't you intensifying the conflict between you and your classmates?'

Zhou Ming smiled at him and said, 'What conflict? I'm just telling the truth. Don't you think so? Look at these people. They eat and drink at the expense of the state all day long, and the state even gives them money to study abroad. But what can they do? They argue and discuss here every day, finding ways to get rid of the class teacher carefully arranged by the state.'

Zhou Ming pointed at the people below and said, 'What is there to be proud of about these people? In my opinion, including their brains, they are worthless. They are just a bunch of wastes wasting food here!'

Zhou Ming did not deliberately lower his voice, so his words were heard by all the students below, and suddenly the volume of his angry shouting increased. Several students with short tempers had already rushed to the front of the podium, brandishing their fists and about to charge up.

The conflict did not erupt because the bodyguard who had been following Zhou Ming** stood forward at the first opportunity, and the college secretary also pulled Zhou Ming hard and said, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, you are also a university student, how can you say such vulgar things? I want you to apologise to these students right now!'

'Apologise?' Zhou Ming laughed, "I'm sorry, I'm not in the habit of apologising to losers.'

Zhou Ming then pointed his finger at the students below and said, "Don't be offended if I say this, and don't look at me, I'm only a few years older than you, but when it comes to experience and knowledge in the field of finance and capital, you couldn't catch me if you rode a train.'

After Zhou Ming finished speaking, there was an immediate burst of booing from the audience: 'You call us elementary school students, but I think you're the real elementary school student! You're shameless, really! How can you say such shameless things? Who do you think you are? Are you some reincarnated Nobel Prize-winning economist?'

Zhou Ming laughed at the words from the students below, and even though they were hurling insults, they were right on the money.

Zhou Ming didn't care, but Su Han and Du Peng couldn't stand it anymore. They couldn't understand how these students, who had never even been out in society, dared to mock Zhou Ming. They knew that he had fought with American financial experts and wealthy Northern Russians with real guns and knives!

Therefore, they immediately wanted to stand up for Zhou Ming and explain what had happened, but Zhou Ming stopped them at the first opportunity. Zhou Ming didn't say anything to them, but just gave them a reassuring look, then cleared his throat and said to the students below, 'I am not the reincarnation of any Nobel laureate in economics, but all my knowledge of financial capital is certainly beyond what you could ever imagine.'

In the face of Zhou Ming's words, the booing got even louder. Zhou Ming continued without paying any attention to it: 'I know you don't believe me, and that's fine. You unlucky kids, just wait and see how I'll conquer you!'