Chapter 347 - "How the Steel Was Tempered" excerpt! (2/2)
Just after ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ was over!
Alright, it was really one event succeeding another!
A bunch of people exclaimed over Zhang Ye's speech. A bunch of people supported Zhang Ye's speech, while another bunch of people appeared and started scolding Zhang Ye. They said things like how he was full of nonsense and how he lacked respect for his elders. Anyways, regardless of what Zhang Ye did or say, it would cause quite a big commotion. This fellow was naturally born with a ”Hatred Halo”. Ever since he entered Peking University, he had never been lying low. He was the most controversial teacher in academia. No one disagreed on this point. Wherever Zhang Ye was, there would definitely be controversy. Those who liked him loved him to death, and right to their bones. As for those who disliked him, they hated him to the death, all the way, deep into their fles.h.!.+
On Weibo, discussion forums, or Tieba, there were constantly people questioning Zhang Ye, scolding his disrespect towards the elderly. Regardless of his intentions, saying such things was incorrect. There were even people asking him to scram from academia!
These praises and scoldings were all seen by Zhang Ye. After being in the entertainment circle for some time, Zhang Ye no longer suffered from a pale face of anxiety towards all this. Regardless of the matter, he had already done and said it. There was no such thing as taking back the water that had been spilled, hence, Zhang Ye did not ”repent” and instead began typing, posting the original text of ”Ode to Young China” on his Weibo and Tieba. The textual version had been posted by others, but as many of the words were rather obscure, people did not have the ability to simplify or understand it too well. There were still many mistakes, so Zhang Ye typed out the official version of the text, so as to prevent the wrong version from leading people astray!
The moment he posted his speech on Weibo and Tieba, his fame hit the roof!
Weibo's forwarding kept rising and in a blink of an eye, it increased by a few hundred, and after another, it was at a thousand!
”Supporting Teacher Zhang!”
”Unconditional support for Teacher Zhang!”
”Teacher Zhang is the conscience of the industry!”
”Who shouted to dismiss Zhang Ye? I'm the first to disagree!”
”Swearing to support Teacher Zhang Ye! Supporting 'Ode to Young China'!”
”If Teacher Zhang is fired because of this, I'll drop out of school! I'll never go to school in the future!”
”Count me in! If a teacher like Zhang Ye is removed from the educational world, then the educational world has no one else! Teacher Zhang Ye is the only good teacher in my heart!”
”Students! Everyone unite together!”
”Right! Teacher Zhang has been spurned by others because of us! If we don't step forward to speak for ourselves, then when do we speak!?”
”We cannot let Teacher Zhang leave!”
Seeing others denouncing Zhang Ye, a countless number of students rushed over, expressing their support. There were more and more people, such as Zhang Ye's Tieba fan club. As the number of people posting increased sharply, just a refresh of the page would see dozens, if not a hundred new threads appear. In the end, there was nearly an ”Exploding Flood”. Zhang Ye's Tieba fan club could not be opened for a whole two minutes, as people from everywhere surged over to express their support! Nearly all the students and youths stood behind Zhang Ye! Although it was an aging society, the power of the youth was always the largest and most craziest in any society!
Replies reached 10,000...
Replies reached 50,000...
Weibo's forwarding hit 8000!
Weibo's Likes reached 28,000!
Zhang Ye once again stood on the precipice of the wave!
Seeing countless numbers of children vocally supporting him, Zhang Ye felt different from the past. In the past, be it him scolding people or deriding people, it was all done on impulse. It was mainly for him to vent, but now, Zhang Ye was really without blame or regret because this was not only venting for himself, but the speech was also for the millions of children. From ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’, Zhang Ye felt that as someone who came from a different world. He had some responsibilities to shoulder. He could not always do everything for himself, so he had used the astounding ”Ode to Young China” from his world today, so as to give this world's ”lethargic” youths a boost.
There was not much he could do, so that was pretty much the only thing he could do.
Thinking of the people of the past, and the greats that had sacrificed and dedicated their lives towards education from his world, Zhang Ye felt that the bit of trouble he got himself in was nothing. He had to persist on!
”Zhang Ye is too great at causing trouble.”
”He must be regretting to death now.”
”Regardless if he is right or wrong, Zhang Ye really does not know the ways of the world. For some meaningless things, he goes all around offending people, ending up having enemies everywhere. At some point, he will have reached his end. Can't he take things easy? In our country, people talk about not going too far.”
”That's right. Look at him now. Just from this speech, his job at Peking University might even be lost.”
On Weibo, there were some people, who sat on the fence, discussing this matter.
After many people saw this, they were also puzzled if Zhang Ye was feeling regret at this moment? Or was he furious? If he knew this would be the result, would he still have said that speech this afternoon?
”@ZhangYe.”
”Is Teacher Zhang around?”
”Why hasn't Teacher Zhang spoken a word today?”
Many people were worried about Zhang Ye. They either @ him or private messaged him.
Zhang Ye saw this and closed his eyes to think. Then he immediately touched his keyboard, and typed out words that immediately tied up tongues and popped eyes, ”Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the Liberation of Education!”
This was an excerpt from his world's ”How the Steel Was Tempered”, but had been slightly altered!
Zhang Ye used it to perfectly express his unwavering att.i.tude!
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