There is one person who has done only one thing in his entire life: that is, to explore the way to save the country and save the people.
He was not only proficient in the 7 Chinese, but also served as the president of Peking University and the mayor of Nanjing, and later he also single-handedly founded fudan university, a top institution, which was Ma Xiangbo.
However, after struggling for most of his life, he sighed: "I am just a dog, barking for a hundred years, and I have not been able to wake up China." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > faith collapses</h1>
Ma Xiangbo was born on April 7, 1840, when China was in a period of internal and external troubles, and many people could only rely on their inner faith to get through those difficult days.
Ma Xiangbo was born into a Catholic family, and he was constantly baptized by the church since he was a child.
Ma Xiangbo was gifted and intelligent, and he had always been the "best" among the students when he was sent to the private school, and even he believed that the private school could no longer meet his pursuit of knowledge.
So, 12-year-old Ma Xiangbo packed his bags alone and went to Xuhui Public School in Shanghai, where he mastered the essence of the Seven Chinese and studied Western philosophy in his spare time.
In the process of research, Ma Xiangbo felt more and more that the religious doctrines he had received in his childhood seemed to be unable to withstand "scrutiny", and he began to have a skeptical attitude towards religious doctrines.
In the mid-to-late 1870s, successive years of drought and war led to the occurrence of a very large disaster and famine, known in history as the Ding Pengqi Famine.
Due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, the streets are basically starving people, and even the bad phenomenon of "people eating people" has appeared.
All this, Ma Xiangbo saw in his eyes, pain in his heart, he simply could not accept his compatriots fell into this step of the field, so he did his best to raise two thousand silver two ready to save people.
At this time, the church that Ma Xiangbo had been praying for a lot had imprisoned him because of this incident, and Ma Xiangbo was extremely disappointed, thinking: When the people were in danger, the church not only did not help him, but also stopped him.
In this way, Ma Xiangbo, who was already skeptical of religious doctrine, was completely desperate, just as the "faith" of his youth suddenly collapsed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > explore the road to saving the country and the people</h1>
After witnessing the cruel scene of the "Ding PengQi Desert", Ma Xiangbo knew in his heart that if he continued to develop in this way, the Chinese people would surely repeat the same mistakes one day.
Ma Xiangbo felt that it was necessary to find a way for the country to be strong, and only when the country became strong could the people of the country be free from hunger.
Ma Xiangbo's first thought was to engage in politics, when he was 40 years old, he met Li Hongzhang through the introduction of his brother, and in the process of communicating with Li Hongzhang, Ma Xiangbo greatly appreciated Li Hongzhang's theory of "saving the country through industry".
So Ma Xiangbo followed Li Hongzhang on missions to various countries to seek development, and later there was the famous "Foreign Affairs Movement".
Although the "foreign affairs movement" has rapidly increased domestic productivity in a short period of time, this has not allowed China to escape from the fact that it is a "weak country" at all.
Not only that, Li Hongzhang was forced to sign the "Maguan Treaty", and since then, the emissaries who had been in contact with Li Hongzhang have been called "traitors" by the people.
Later, Ma Xiangbo's mother and brother two relatives passed away one after another, and the "industry" really did not really play a role in "saving the country".
Ma Xiangbo realized that he must solve the problems of the Chinese people from the root causes, start from education, and only by changing the thinking of young talents can it be possible to achieve a "qualitative leap."
Since then, Ma Xiangbo has opened his second "idea of saving the country", and he decided to start running a school.
At the age of 60, Ma Xiangbo took out most of his savings and fields and gave them to a church that only recognized "Money" in order to establish the "Chinese and Western University Hall".
The church was not concerned about running a school, and only Ma Xiangbo was busy in order to let the talents learn advanced ideas and skills from abroad.
Later, due to the increasing number of students, the church began to "make room", so China's first private university, Aurora University College, was established, and Ma Xiangbo became the dean of the college.
Because Ma Xiangbo vigorously advocated "freedom of thought" and "self-help management" in the academy, such ideas touched the interests of the church, so the church deprived Ma Xiangbo of his management power on the grounds that he was "ill".
And this fabricated "disease" naturally could not convince the public, and soon, the students protested en masse and withdrew from school.
Ma Xiangbo, who was 66 years old at the time, couldn't bear to see that the students had nowhere to go, but he spent a lot of savings because of running the school.
Seeing that there was no hope for running a school, celebrities represented by Zhang Xiao and Yan Fu extended a helping hand to them, and Ma Xiangbo successfully founded Fudan University with their help, which means "rejuvenation aurora" and "revival of China".
Ma Xiangbo spent almost all his body, mind and savings on the great cause of "rejuvenating the country", and he was both the principal of Fudan and the mayor of Nanjing at that time.
But Ma Xiangbo has always lived a life of poverty, and even his granddaughter's living expenses are provided by his own students.
After the September 18 Incident, the then 91-year-old Ma Xiangbo was impatient, he wanted to fight for the interests of the frontline fighters, but it was difficult to pay anything with his physical strength.
So Ma Xiangbo took the brush in his hand and wrote the couplet and the word "Shou", and the money from the sale of these calligraphy and paintings was donated to the soldiers on the front line to do his best for them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > 99th birthday, full of emotions</h1>
On April 7, 1939, this day was Ma Xiangbo's 99th birthday, and many celebrities in politics gave him birthday gifts and sent blessings.
However, Ma Xiangbo did not show a trace of joy because of this, and looked at the devastated country outside the window with a sad face, and he sighed:
"There is no peace in the country, the people do not talk about life, what is old and decaying, and exiled to a foreign land." Shame on the merits and virtues, every time it is too much to live, it is humiliating," he said, and he donated all these birthday gifts.
Later, Ma Xiangbo had been lying on the hospital bed due to illness, and when a reporter wanted to know about his hundred-year life, he said with a sad face:
"I'm just a dog, barking for a hundred years, and I haven't been able to wake up China."
In November of the same year, Ma Xiangbo passed away, but the ideas he left behind in running the school will always exist in the minds of future generations, and are also printed in the motto of Fudan University, "Erudite and Dedicated, Asking questions and thinking closely".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > summary:</h1>
Ma Xiangbo's life was dedicated to the country, and he was not a so-called "dog", but a real national hero.
Ma Xiangbo's contributions are of the same nature as those of the soldiers who fought bloody battles on the front line –that is, patriotism and national salvation.