Chapter 166: The teacher has someone disrupting the class

'Comrade Zhou Ming, I think that since this finance class is training future pillars of the country, and is for the stability of the national financial market, then first and foremost, we must cultivate these students' firm patriotic enthusiasm, so that they all have the noble sentiment of dedicating their intellectual youth to the cause of the motherland!'

In the office of the dean of the Renmin University School of Finance, Zhou Ming is sitting with the dean and the secretary. Su Han, Du Peng and ** are also there. They are discussing the construction of the finance class. The one talking now is the secretary of the college. From his secretary's point of view, he believes that it is necessary to build a good foundation at the ideological level first.

The dean, however, has a different opinion: 'Secretary, I think we still have to believe in our students. We cannot look at them with suspicion, that would be a great insult to them.'

'No, Dean, I agree with the secretary's opinion. I remember when I was at school, my teacher told me, what is the primary purpose of education? It is to cultivate people, that is, to first set one's own outlook on life, values and world view straight. Only a person with a correct outlook on life will be able to go far in the future, otherwise if a person has an incorrect outlook on life, then no matter how much he achieves, he will be harmful to the country.'

Zhou Ming expressed his own opinion. Zhou Ming said this from the bottom of his heart, because in later generations, he had heard too many stories about people who studied abroad and never returned, as well as businessmen who made money and fled abroad, sending their money overseas. Some simply registered companies abroad, returned to make money off their countrymen, and then lived it up abroad. Such stories abound.

Zhou Ming didn't know if any of those students from the finance class were among the news stories he heard in the future, but since he had become the homeroom teacher of this finance class, he had a responsibility to take good care of them, whether it was a task assigned by the central government or not. Zhou Ming himself was not in the habit of shirking his duties.

The secretary looked at Zhou Ming in surprise and expressed his gratitude for Zhou Ming's support. He had thought that someone like Zhou Ming, who had gone abroad, would have strong opinions about the country, but he didn't expect him to support his ideological and moral construction as soon as he spoke.

The secretary was surprised, and so was the dean, but he wasn't that conservative. After thinking for a moment, he said, 'Well, since you and Comrade Zhou Ming both think this way, I don't have much to say. The students' values and ideological and political education do need to be done. Although I agree with Comrade Zhou Ming that education is about shaping people, I also reserve my own opinion and think that it's better not to be too restrictive, as that would limit the students' subjective initiative.'

Zhou Ming smiled and said, 'Dean, you can rest assured. We just want to instil the right and positive thinking in the students. We are not a cult, so of course we won't restrict anything.'

Zhou Ming's words made the dean and secretary both pause for a moment. They obviously felt that Zhou Ming's joke had gone a bit too far, but then they were relieved when they connected it to his identity as someone who had returned from abroad. Just as they were about to say something else, the door to the office suddenly knocked. The office manager, who was waiting outside, came in and said that Ye Ning, the secretary of the finance class's youth league branch, was here to see Zhou Ming.

This news came as a great surprise to Zhou Ming, because he had only announced to the finance class yesterday that he would be their homeroom teacher, and he had only been to the finance class twice so far. The students in the class probably couldn't even remember his face if they had a bad memory, so how could they have come looking for him now? Could it be that something had happened in the class?

With this thought in mind, Zhou Ming went to the office outside and sure enough saw Ye Ning.

She was an ordinary girl, wearing simple linen clothes, with a pigtail and glasses. She looked a little rustic, but this rustic appearance had a kind of purity that later generations of college girls could never find again.

When she saw Zhou Ming come out, she hurried up to him and said, 'Teacher, there's a problem. Our classmates in the economics lecture hall got into a fight with someone from outside the school. I'm afraid they'll get hurt, so you should go over there and take a look.'

Zhou Ming did not hesitate after hearing this, and after greeting the dean's secretary, he followed Ye Ning and left.

The dean's office of the School of Finance is a certain distance from the student building, but Zhou Ming drove here, so it took a few minutes to arrive at the Financial Research Building. When they arrived at the Economics Lecture Hall, a fierce verbal battle was being waged.

In fact, the Economics Lecture Hall is just an ordinary research classroom, but in their spare time, these over-energetic students like to study and hold debates in it. Over time, it has come to be known as the Economics Lecture Hall. Previously, the students of Renmin University's School of Finance dominated here, but now that the Finance Class has been established, in the face of these elites selected from across the country, the Economics Lecture Hall has naturally been taken over by them.

This is normal. After all, these students in the finance class are all exceptionally strong because they all have the innocent hearts of pillars of the country. The students at Renmin University are also aware of this, so it is no surprise that the economics auditorium has become the place for the finance class to give speeches.

It can be said that since the establishment of the Finance Class, this Economics Lecture Hall has been the place where students from the Finance Class have been giving speeches on their understanding of finance and economics. Other students from the School of Finance have not objected to this, but the other students simply cannot win an argument with these elites selected into the Finance Class. Over time, this place has become the exclusive lecture hall for the Finance Class. However, this situation was suddenly broken today.

The one who broke this situation was a young man in his thirties named **. According to Ye Ning's introduction, Zhou Ming knew that he was a member of the Yanda night class. He was just getting his diploma at Yanda University. He had been dishonest before, always looking down on people in the country because of his status as a returned Chinese. Together with a few like-minded friends, they had nothing to do but find people in the lecture halls of various universities to argue with, and in passing mock the domestic students.

Ye Ning said that she had seen them looking for trouble when she was at Yanda University before. Now these people have heard about the finance class from somewhere, and knowing that the students in the finance class are all elites selected from all over the country, they naturally came here to debate with them.

They had come a few times before, but at that time the teacher in charge of the finance class had not yet been decided, and everyone was annoyed and had no time to mess around with them. It wasn't until today that they caught an opportunity when most of the finance class was in the economics lecture hall, and they had a head-on confrontation with the finance class students. The result was that the finance class students were in a bad situation, and Ye Ning hurriedly ran to find Zhou Ming to come and save the day.

After listening to Ye Ning's introduction, Zhou Ming asked her, 'Head-on confrontation? Then from what you say, those banana people are quite capable, aren't they?'

'Banana people?' Ye Ning obviously hadn't heard of this new term before, so Zhou Ming explained to her that banana people were second-generation Chinese and later generations born abroad. Since they had been exposed to Western society since childhood, although they had yellow skin, they actually preferred Western white society inside. They were yellow on the outside and white on the inside, so they were called banana people.

Facing Zhou Ming's explanation, Ye Ning burst out laughing: 'Teacher, your description is really apt. Looking at those guys, they obviously have the same blood flowing through their bodies, but they still look down on and insult their own compatriots like that, I feel sick!'

'There's nothing we can do about it. Who let them be born abroad and receive an education abroad? So of course they will identify more with Western society.' In response to Ye Ning's dissatisfaction, Zhou Ming could only sigh and explain to her, 'Who can blame our country for not being strong in the past?'

Ye Ning looked up at Zhou Ming, as if she had thought of something. Zhou Ming then said to her, "So in order to catch up with the economic prosperity of foreign countries, our country has to send you to study abroad, in order to learn those advanced knowledge and methods from abroad. In order to make our country rich and strong, so that no one needs to go abroad to make a living anymore, we will try our best to reduce the birth of these "banana people'. This is the heavy burden on your shoulders!'

Ye Ning nodded seriously to Zhou Ming and said, 'Don't worry, teacher. I will work hard, and I will also make my classmates work hard. I will study hard and come back to build our country. Please believe me!'

Zhou Ming smiled and said, 'Of course I believe in you, but this is a long-term process. Let's go to the lecture hall to see what the situation is like.'

Zhou Ming then walked into the lecture hall with Ye Ning. As soon as they opened the door, they could immediately feel the tense atmosphere that filled the lecture hall. They saw the students from the finance class, who were staring intently at the two sides of the debate on the lectern. They were clutching their fists and looking anxious, clearly very worried about their failure in front of the banana people.

The situation on the podium was very clear-cut. On one side were the students from the finance class, dressed like Ye Ning in their country clothes, and on the other side were the banana people in suits and glasses, who had come to disrupt the class.

The student on the podium was Li Yang, the vice class president. He was from the Renmin University of China School of Finance, the recipient of last year's scholarship, and the student of a pioneering figure in the capital's economics community. Although he was young, he had already published articles in several economic journals.

This is no small achievement. You have to understand that publications in those days were not as common as they are twenty years later. An article had to pass strict review and be of real substance, and it had to be recommended by a sufficiently influential figure.

In addition, he was also a good debater, and once at a debate between universities in Beijing, he led the Renmin University team to victory.

However, despite being such an outstanding student, at the moment on the podium he was clenching his fists and gritting his teeth, and his shirt was soaked with sweat, as it was clear that he had been refuted by the other side and could find no way to fight back.

Compared to Li Yang, the banana man on the other side was much more relaxed. He was the ringleader of the group, **. He stood there in a carefree manner, with a cigarette hanging from his lips, squinting his eyes and looking at Li Yang with a disdainful expression: 'If you have nothing more to say, just get off the stage. Don't you admit defeat yet? Do you still think you can salvage the situation?'

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