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Mo Ruo really took it seriously.

There are some things that Guo Moruo will have a lot of problems dealing with.

Just like Yue Tianyu.

Although he is only the director of the North China Agricultural University's Academic Affairs Committee and a university president, his rank seems not very high. But in reality, Yue Tianyu is the teacher of many CCP agricultural experts and even many cadres working in rural areas.

Was a student of Yue Tianyu.

There are many technical cadres in China's current agricultural sector who have close ties with him.

This is a legitimate agricultural expert and cadre.

It has a very high status in the agricultural field.

In addition, there is the Soviet factor behind this. The Soviet Union is now criticizing Mendel-Morgan genetics in the agricultural field. China is currently in the stage of learning from the Soviet Union, so it cannot avoid this matter. Guo Moruo, the Vice Premier of the State Council,

The director of the Cultural Education Committee was in a dilemma and did not dare to intervene casually. Guo Moruo was a scholar after all. He was not afraid of difficulties or sacrifices during the revolution and dared to give up wealth and glory. But in this matter, he had many concerns and was not sure.

He is the kind of cadre who dares to take action and has courage and determination.

"Mr. Guo, you are a scholar. You should know better than a peasant like me that the current situation is wrong. We must resolve this matter as soon as possible before it gets any worse."

Guo Moruo and Wei Hongjun are not familiar with each other.

But they also knew that Wei Hongjun was a young cadre with an astonishing upward momentum within the Party. Everyone was saying that at the Fourth Session of the Seventh Central Committee in March 1950, Wei Hongjun would become a member of the Politburo.

Once Wei Hongjun becomes a member of the Politburo, his position in the party will be extraordinary.

Because being a member of the Politburo means entering the decision-making level of the party.

Guo Moruo was concerned about this kind of thing, but Wei Hongjun's position in the party allowed him to take action. However, Guo Moruo was still a little worried, so he said: "Comrade Wei Hongjun, what do you want to do?"

"The two of us will jointly write a report to the Secretariat and the Central Committee.

Wei Hongjun said clearly: "Science is science, politics is politics. What politics should consider and solve is who science ultimately serves. Is it for the interests of capitalists or for the interests of the general public? It is not about judging science.

"Science is an objective law that is not subject to the will of the people, nor is it politically determined to determine right or wrong. The problems currently occurring at North China Agricultural University are due to our cadres confusing this point."

816 Compromise

Led by Wei Hongjun, Guo Moruo, Director of the Cultural and Educational Committee of the State Council, and Ma Xulun, Minister of Higher Education, a report on the problems at North China Agricultural University was prepared. The report detailed the events and included the opinions of Wei Hongjun, Guo Moruo, and Ma Xulun. It was then submitted to the Secretariat and the Central Committee.

Gao Gang, Peng Zhen and Rao Shushi are in charge of the daily work of the Secretariat.

They also have different opinions on Wei Hongjun's report.

These people each have their own information channels.

After receiving Wei Hongjun's report, they immediately sent someone to investigate. After this, they also felt that this matter was quite difficult. The Soviet influence was very strong behind the events at North China Agricultural University. One of the direct causes of this situation was the August Conference in the Soviet Union in 1948. It was this conference that spread the news to China through Soviet experts and professors.

The August Conference of 1948 in the Soviet Union was a final academic decision. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, many Soviet scientists denounced Lysenko, arguing that his use of political power to suppress academic research was wrong.

But the August Conference once again confirmed Lysenko's position and the position of Michurin's biology. As the big brother of the socialist camp, the Soviet Union's academic affirmations were naturally followed by other socialist countries.

In particular, this matter involved the top leaders of the Soviet Communist Party and Stalin.

This is something they all acknowledge and support.

In today's China, when it comes to world leaders, the four figures who are most often mentioned are Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. Of these four, the first three are no longer alive, leaving Stalin as the only one still alive. Therefore, Stalin was not only the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Union but also the leader of the socialist camp, holding an extraordinary position.

In the past, anyone who had met Stalin was considered a revolutionary.

China is now in the stage of learning from the Soviet Union in all aspects.

Tens of thousands of Soviet advisers, experts, and professors arrived in China, and every aspect of Chinese society began to become inextricably linked to the Soviet Union. Pro-Soviet factions among cadres began to become active again, or rather, their numbers began to increase.

Many cadres, although they claim to believe in communism, do not fully grasp the most important principle of materialist dialectics. Therefore, when they look at problems and do things, they are easily trapped in mechanical materialism.

Anyway, China and the Soviet Union began to cooperate comprehensively, and the Soviet Union sent large numbers of people to aid China. The emergence of a clear pro-Soviet faction within China was unstoppable.

That's why things get complicated.

If it were an ordinary cadre's report, the Secretariat would have directly approved it. However, because this was Wei Hongjun's report, the Secretariat members could only express their own opinions.

The report will eventually be submitted to the Central Committee.

After reading the report, the Chairman commented: "The work style displayed by North China Agricultural University is unsound, and Yue Tianyu appears to have serious ideological flaws. A thorough investigation of the leadership of North China Agricultural University is necessary, and appropriate measures must be taken to control the escalation of the situation." I suggest that Comrades Wei Hongjun and Guo Moruo lead a work team to North China Agricultural University to resolve the issue. Comrades Xiuyang and Gao Gang are requested to consider this matter.

As in history, the Chairman believed that Yue Tianyu’s approach at the Agricultural University was problematic.

In fact, this incident reached the central government and the chairman because it had serious consequences at Agricultural University. Yue Tianyu used political tactics to suppress genetics professors there, even canceling courses in the field. This ultimately led to the exodus of professors from Agricultural University to the United States. This incident caused a huge uproar both domestically and internationally, directly leading to global criticism of Chinese academia.

That’s why the central government is furious.

With the Chairman’s approval.

However, historically, the working group dispatched by the Central Committee criticized Yue Tianyu's "scholarly clique" style and dismissed him from his position. However, they were even more radical than Yue Tianyu, promoting Michurin biology and further attacking Mendel-Morgan genetics. Yue Tianyu's criticisms of Mendel-Morgan genetics were almost verbatim reproduced.

It’s like in history, Li Lisan criticized Qu Qiubai’s left-wing adventurism, but ended up becoming even more left-wing himself.

The Chairman wrote another letter to Wei Hongjun.

The report specifically praised Wei Hongjun's report on the relationship between science and politics, stating that he had grasped the core of dialectical materialism. The directive also stated, "If scientific weapons are in the hands of counter-revolutionary groups, they will become tools for suppressing and exploiting the people. However, once scientific weapons are in the hands of the revolutionary masses, they will become tools for resisting counter-revolutionary groups, resisting capitalists, and serving the people. The political issue is how to ensure that scientific weapons remain in the hands of the revolutionary masses."

Wei Hongjun was asked to write an article on "The Relationship between Science and Politics" while handling the affairs of North China Agricultural University.

New China had just been founded.

Any problem in any aspect is a new topic.

So they needed to be solved one by one. But because New China didn't have the energy to solve these problems one by one, most areas were simply copied from the Soviet Union. This was the fastest way.

But there are also many hidden dangers.

If you want to copy Soviet ideas, you'll definitely need Soviet instruction. The Chinese place the highest value on inheritance, hence the saying, "Once a teacher, always a father." Learning from the Soviets will naturally draw you closer to them. Whenever something happens, you'll undoubtedly speak up for the Soviet Union.

This is one of the main reasons for the emergence of the pro-Soviet faction.

The Chairman asked Wei Hongjun to write an article on "The Relationship between Science and Politics" in order to sort out these issues and to establish a guiding spirit for the science of New China.

"Vice Premier Wei, Vice Premier Guo, I do not accept this criticism.

Wei Hongjun and Guo Moruo first contacted Yue Tianyu, director of the Academic Affairs Committee of North China Agricultural University.

But he faced Wei Hongjun and Guo Moruo directly.

Although his rank is much lower than Wei Hongjun and Guo Moruo, he has rich experience and is a scholar doing research, so he is not afraid of Wei Hongjun and Guo Moruo.

Dao said: "Scientists solve problems under the microscope, and ordinary people solve them through cultivation. If ordinary people do not rely on the laws of nature to solve their problems, they will starve to death. But scholars do not have this problem, they can rely on the laws of nature. Therefore, if ordinary people want to survive, they must

"Materialism. Scholars don't have this problem, so many of them are idealists. If we want to be materialistic scientists, we must integrate it with practice and rely on the laws of nature. We cannot be divorced from practice and the laws of nature and use idealism to solve problems."

"Let's talk about genes. Not only has no one ever seen a gene, not even Morgan himself. He used these fictitious genes to confirm the hereditary characteristics of organisms. This view is unreal and uncontrollable. It's a fantasy, and fantasy is idealism."

Wei Hongjun frowned.

I couldn't help but say: "Comrade Yue Tianyu, I am not a scientist, but I know that what you said is wrong. Before the invention of the microscope, people had never seen bacteria with their own eyes, and they didn't know why wounds would become infected. But many ancient Chinese medical books record that

How to disinfect. That is to say, many doctors in ancient my country, before seeing bacteria, already understood the problem of bacterial infection, so they consciously carried out various disinfection methods. If someone proposed the idea of ​​bacteria at that time, would you say that this person's view was idealistic?

On? Because there were no microscopes at that time, no one had ever seen bacteria.

"So, Comrade Yue Tianyu, you can't criticize a scientific hypothesis based on whether you've seen it or not. That's a weak argument. Whether genes exist or not is a scientific question, not a philosophical one, much less a political one."

Yue Tianyu was very dissatisfied when he heard Wei Hongjun's words.

Defend yourself immediately.

Yue Tianyu used a lot of scientific terms that Wei Hongjun didn't understand, but he understood the general meaning of Yue Tianyu's words. Yue Tianyu's meaning was simple: science should serve production.

The main mission of agricultural universities now should be to improve agricultural production and transform nature, rather than researching fancy things that have no effect on agricultural production.

Yue Tianyu is one of the implementers of Nanniwan, so he highly praises the Nanniwan experience.

He has many criticisms of theoretical research.

Wei Hongjun roughly understood what Yue Tianyu meant. Although Yue Tianyu was a scholar, he had mainly studied practical agricultural problems in recent years, such as solving the problem of grain production in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and the problem of agricultural planting in North China. Therefore, he paid more attention to solving problems in practice.

He was not very supportive of theoretical research.

After talking with Yue Tianyu, Wei Hongjun went on to talk to a few other people. The more they talked, the worse his expression became, because the problems at North China Agricultural University had reached a very critical point.

They are almost incompatible.

The two sides have been arguing and then politically suppressing each other for a long time, which has led to a lot of resentment between the two sides. It is difficult for the two factions to reconcile in a short period of time. Scientists are also human beings. When things get to this point, they must have some knots in their hearts. It is very difficult to expect them to continue to cooperate.

In order to stabilize the situation, Wei Hongjun removed Yue Tianyu from his position as director of the school affairs committee.

But it's not of much use.

Many cadres of the Scientific Committee who came with Guo Moruo also supported Michurin biology.

There is a rejection of Mendelian-Morganian genetics.

Because many of the current cadres, who were of good family background and came from the liberated areas, were deeply influenced by the Soviet Union and supported Michurin biology and opposed the Mendelian and Morganian genetics studied by European and American scientific circles.

After Yue Tianyu was removed from his position, Soviet experts and professors at North China Agricultural University all found Wei Hongjun. They all supported Yue Tianyu and believed that North China Agricultural University, as the highest institution of learning in China's agricultural field, should hold high the banner of Michurin biology. In this regard, Yue Tianyu

Just do it very well.

Even the Soviet ambassador to China found Wei Hongjun.

Wei Hongjun understood that this was not a question of doctrine.

"Comrade Wei Hongjun, what do you think we should do now?"

Guo Moruo was overwhelmed.

He's been under a lot of pressure these days. Many people didn't dare approach Wei Hongjun directly, so they passed their messages to Guo Moruo. Wei Hongjun nodded and said, "Mr. Guo, it's going to be difficult for them to continue working together. My suggestion is to split up North China Agricultural University."

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Wei Hongjun stayed at North China Agricultural University for about ten days.

The work is still very busy every day.

In addition to the investigation, Wei Hongjun and Guo Moruo visited every professor at North China Agricultural University who was affected and offered comfort. The development of New China is currently going well.

Although there are many problems.

But the overall development trend is bright.

Bandit suppression, land reform, industrial and agricultural restoration, and Soviet-aided factories were everywhere. Furthermore, the state began organizing forces to manage important waterways across the country.

Every work has received the support of the majority of the people.

The whole of China is bustling with activity.