What's more, there are so many teachers. To put it bluntly, even the top leader can't protect them. Don't say I don't have a background. Even if I did, it can't be bigger than the top leader. If he can't do it, I can't do it either.
How could I promise to provide them with asylum when I knew I couldn't do it? What good would it do me to deceive them?"
Teacher Ma stared at her for a while and said meaningfully, "If one person can't do it, a group of people may not be able to do it."
Seeing Li Mei open her mouth, he waved his hand and continued, "You don't need to explain. I can still tell whether the boss wants to release the person or not."
Li Mei: ...
After a moment of silence, she asked, "Teacher Ma, which department are you from?"
"The Department of History."
No wonder his vision is so sharp.
Li Mei sighed inwardly, then asked another question, "Are you here to pick up those teachers and bring them back to school?"
"Um."
“Are there not enough teachers in school?”
"It's probably not enough," Teacher Ma replied helplessly. "School leaders wanted to recall the teachers who had been demoted, but they were afraid that doing so would cause trouble for themselves and others, so they didn't dare apply. Now that the situation has calmed down, and the college entrance examination has been reinstated, the school leaders dared to apply. Once it was approved, they quickly sent me here to take them back."
"Why did you, a history professor, come to pick them up instead of the logistics staff?"
“The logistics staff are not familiar with these teachers who have been sent down.”
This answer made Li Mei stunned. "Are you familiar with them?"
“I’m only familiar with some of them.”
Li Mei understood. It seemed that the leaders of Wuhan University were worried that the teachers who were transferred to other schools would not return to teach, so they specially asked Teacher Ma to come. If this happened, they hoped that he could persuade his old friend and thus lead others to return to school.
"Teacher Ma, if these teachers with special backgrounds go back, will others look at them differently or cause trouble for them?"
"If students dare to cause trouble for them, they will be expelled immediately. As for the teachers, our circumstances were not much better than theirs before, so how can we have the right to look down on them?"
"Did the school leaders say to expel the students?"
"Um."
Li Mei felt much more relieved now. You know, most college students nowadays have grown up in a storm. They are mentally immature and after being influenced by their surroundings for a long time, they are likely to form stereotypes, have strange views on people with special backgrounds, and even behave irrationally towards them.
Now that schools use expulsion as a means of punishment, unless these students have mental problems, they will definitely try their best to restrain their behavior and not cause trouble for the teachers.
Now that she knew everything she wanted to know, Li Mei had nothing more to ask, so she started chatting with Teacher Ma.
After Teacher Ma called the two accompanying personnel in, more than half an hour passed before Liu Wen came in.
As soon as he entered the room, he asked, "Teacher Ma, when the people come over, do you want me to arrange a car to take you to the city train station?"
Teacher Ma didn't refuse, "That's troublesome."
"It's not a problem. It will take them at least three hours to get here. You can rest in the house for a while. Deputy County Magistrate Li and I will go out to do some official business."
Seeing Teacher Ma nodded in agreement, Liu Wen took Li Mei out.
On the way, Li Mei asked him what official business he was on. He just said it was a good thing but refused to say anything specific.
When she arrived at the conference room and saw that other leaders were already seated inside, Li Mei skillfully found her seat and sat down.
Liu Wen took a look around and saw that everyone was present. He said with a happy face, "I just got some good news. Some teachers don't want to go back to school and want to stay here. I called everyone here to discuss with you whether there is any way to prevent more people from going back."
Hearing this, everyone except Li Mei showed a look of joy on their faces.
To be honest, they had thought of this possibility before, but they felt that the possibility was not very high.
It’s nothing else, the social status of university teachers is too high, and it’s really difficult for ordinary people to resist this temptation.
What's more, those teachers' homes are in Wuhan, and they are already quite old. If they don't want to die in a foreign land, the best choice is to go back.
Putting themselves in the teachers' shoes, the county leaders realized that there was really no reason for them to stay.
The biggest concern is the fear of suffering misfortune again.
However, they were pleasantly surprised that something they had originally thought was unlikely to happen actually happened.
A leader thought for a moment and said, "All we can do is improve their treatment, either by giving them a raise or by building them houses. But if we talk about raising their salaries, the money we can offer is definitely not higher than what university teachers get. The only thing left is to build them houses.
The construction team members are paid, so there's no extra money to pay them for building the houses. They can also get internal prices for building materials. Without hiring outsiders, the cost of one house can be reduced to under one hundred yuan. A courtyard with five rooms won't cost more than five hundred yuan. Do you think this price is acceptable?"
Before anyone else could comment, Li Mei spoke first, "I just got a piece of news from Teacher Ma. Some of these teachers are old acquaintances of his. It is precisely because of this that the leaders of Wuhan University sent him here specifically to pick them up.
Furthermore, the Wuhan University leadership said that if any students dared to cause trouble for these teachers, they would be expelled. This would relieve them of any worries, so I think as long as some people are willing to go back, the rest will follow suit.”
This call was like pouring a basin of cold water on the others' heads, making them feel cold from head to toe.
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