The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 400 Questioning
The dean nodded: "We do need to rectify the learning atmosphere. I think we should have a meeting to discuss it. My mind is a complete mess right now, and I have no idea where to start."

The meeting was held, and after much discussion, all we could do was give everyone a lecture on ideology.

However, we are in the early stages of the internet era, and the students of Tsinghua University are the pride of heaven. Many of them have already been exposed to the internet and have received a lot of new knowledge. As a result, they are no longer interested in the old-fashioned ideological education.

So after a month of ideological education, the results were not very good. Now the leader is quite anxious because in just the last few days, he has received five or six more applications for government-funded overseas study.

These people appear patriotic on the surface, but a little inquiry reveals that they are particularly fascinated by the glamorous world of the West. If they were allowed to study abroad on public funds, using the country's foreign exchange reserves to complete their education, they probably wouldn't return after graduation.

The results were not ideal, so the dean consulted with Liu Hua, since Liu Hua was the one who raised the problem, and wanted to see if Liu Hua had any good ideas.

So Liu Hua proposed to hold a lecture to have a good talk about Western society.

The hospital was happy to cooperate with this inexpensive and beneficial initiative, wanting to see the specific effects and hoping it would be even better if it proved useful.

Liu Hua became the main speaker, but actually, Liu Hua's speech was not very convincing. He himself had never been to the West, so it gave people the feeling of empty talk.

Liu Hua was aware of his shortcomings. If he directly denied the advancement of Western society, he would be questioned. Therefore, Liu Hua decided to use Western pseudo-historical theories to question his past and then question the present.

Planting a seed of doubt in these children's hearts will make them question whether Western society as a whole is pathological, greatly reducing their chances of staying in the West.

Liu Hua's lecture on Western history instantly attracted a lot of attention. As a professor specializing in science and engineering, his lecture on humanities and history piqued the interest of many.

Tsinghua University is not a science and engineering school, but a comprehensive university with a history department. Some history teachers felt offended because it was their specialty and they should have been the ones giving the lectures. Instead, a professor specializing in semiconductors was giving the lectures, and some people wanted to find fault with it.

Liu Hua's lecture was held in a large auditorium with a capacity of a thousand. He understood people's psychology well, knowing that scarcity increases value. If you let everyone attend without any barriers, some people won't care. But if you set a threshold, some people will flock to it. Because if they don't attend, they will feel that they lack the necessary qualifications and don't meet the threshold.

The students at Tsinghua University are all the cream of the crop; if they don't meet the requirements, they feel inferior. They are born to strive for excellence; how could they possibly be inferior?

So even if it's just to prove that he's a person who strives for excellence, he still has to attend this lecture.

On the day of the lecture, many students came. The auditorium was packed. Liu Hua noticed that the audience included not only students, but also some history professors and mentors for young scholars. Most of the older people knew why Liu Hua was giving the lecture and wouldn't disrupt the atmosphere.

The young teachers, on the other hand, came to the class with the intention of finding fault.

"I've recently sensed a very bad atmosphere on campus," Liu Hua began bluntly. "Some people constantly talk about the West, much like some people during our New Culture Movement, as if we'd be saved simply by completely Westernizing." Liu Hua patted his chest. "Although I've studied and taught the most Westernized industries, deep down I'm a nationalist. I believe that only our Chinese nation is the future of this world, the hope of this world."

The auditorium erupted in uproar; Liu Hua's words went almost entirely against the mainstream ideology of society.

Some people couldn't help but want to say something, but Liu Hua didn't give them a chance and went straight to his point: "From childhood to adulthood, I have always liked to question everything, so I'm going to boldly put forward a conclusion here: the entire history of the West is full of lies. At its core, they are deceiving people. Their history was fabricated later and is full of loopholes. Can a civilization built on lies develop truth?"

The uproar grew even louder. There wasn't a fool in the room; everyone knew that what grows from a lie can only be an even bigger lie.

"Professor Liu, may I ask what your reasons are for making such an absurd argument?"

"Naturally, it's the result of releasing a large number of cultural relics and archaeological excavations," Liu Hua said with a smile. "What does 'trying to cover up the truth' mean?"

"Trying to cover it up only makes it more obvious?"

Liu Hua nodded: "That's right, it's a case of trying to cover up the truth. In order to portray themselves as more civilized and brilliant, the West has fabricated a series of lies, and they are very clear. To a certain extent, they do prove that they have an advanced ancient civilization, but they also prove that all of this is fabricated."

"I'd rather buy something that looks real but is actually fake than something that looks fake but is actually real." Liu Hua said with a smile, "This is a term in the antique trade. I don't know if any of you know it. I used to collect antiques for a while, and in my opinion, those so-called cultural relics from the West are just like playing around with counterfeits."

“The cuneiform script is carved on clay tablets.” Liu Hua said with a smile, “I believe many people have seen this photo. It really looks just like it was carved a couple of years ago. Go and see the stele forests in our country. If no one maintains them, they will be weathered beyond recognition after a hundred years.”

The moment this evidence was revealed, many people immediately began to discuss it and started to doubt the authenticity of the Western artifacts.

Liu Hua continued, "The story of Alexander's eastern expedition has been widely circulated in Europe. It is said that he was going to attack our country, but he went to the wrong place and ended up in India, where he conquered it."

"Is not it?"

Liu Hua said with a smile, "Right now, at this very moment, there is a document in the British Museum in the United States that records Alexander the Great's conquest of our ancestor, Duke Mu of Qin."

Someone shouted, "Impossible! Duke Mu of Qin and Alexander the Great were not from the same era at all."

Liu Hua said with a smile, "I didn't expect that there would be people from the history department listening to my lecture. Yes, we all know it's impossible, but there really is such a record. Why did such a legend disappear later? It's because Westerners discovered that I didn't have a clear historical record, and the lies I fabricated didn't match the facts."

(End of this chapter)