Republican Era: I Refused to Become a Warlord, Yet My Students Are Everywhere

[Republican Era] [Transmigration] [Teaching] [Ensemble Cast of Famous Figures] [Academic Debates] [Nation and Family] [No System]

When Lu Yuan woke up, he had returned to the third year of the Xuantong reign,

that is, 1911.

The Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, and the land was about to be swept up in turmoil.

He had no System or distinguished family background. All he had was a piece of chalk, and before him stood a few dozen students who had never even seen a map of the world.

So Lu Yuan decided to start by teaching.

While others made their students memorize by rote, he taught them to open their eyes and see the world. Old-school teachers denounced him as a heretic, while modern schools competed to hire him. An educational debate brought this obscure schoolteacher into the newspapers, and from then on, there was no stopping him.

He lectured, ran newspapers, wrote books, and debated.

From a respected local teacher to a renowned national educator; from the academic world at home to lecture halls abroad. Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Lu Xun, Li Dazhao... Those who would later be written into history one by one entered his life.

Some shared drinks with him, some argued with him until they were pounding the table, and some left his classroom and went on to change the course of their lives.

The Xinhai Revolution, the New Culture Movement, the May Fourth Movement, warlord conflicts, the nation's peril...

The tides of the times crashed into his classroom again and again.

Years later, no one would dare call Lu Yuan an ordinary schoolteacher.

Yet he always remembered what he had said the first time he stood at the lectern:

"Students! Study for the rise of China!"