1908, Nan Zhou added music, sports, sewing and other majors, and the number of school buildings expanded to more than 80, with complete facilities. Nan Zhou's reputation has increased, scholars have come from all directions, and the number of students has increased to more than 600.
Zhu donated all the private gardens in Tai 'anli, covering an area of 440 abbots, as a permanent campus, and exchanged his manor with his eldest brother for another part of the gardens in Tai 'anli, then sold his manor and used the proceeds to buy 628 abbots of land, all of which were used to expand the school building. In general, Zhu has donated assets worth more than 654.38+065.43+0 million silver dollars. This incident shocked all walks of life in Changsha.
The tuition fee is limited and it is very difficult economically. After the Republic of China, Nan Zhou received an annual subsidy of 4,800 yuan from the government. The school still can't make ends meet, losing nearly 2000 yuan every year. Zhu continues to support the sale of land and real estate. Mrs. Wei Yikong also sent jewelry. Zhu advised his mother to donate money and told her about the difficulty of running a school. She burst into tears and couldn't afford to kneel. The old lady was shocked by her son's enthusiasm and took out a sum of money to help the students.
Huang Xing, a famous revolutionary in Hunan, respected Zhu's righteous act and donated money 1200 yuan to help expand.
Zhu devoted himself to running a school, not only spent all his money, but also regarded fame and fortune as clouds. In the 1920s, he went to Beijing to attend the National Education Conference on behalf of Hunan education circles for three times. When Fan Yuanlian became prime minister, he planned to appoint him as the chief of education, but he also declined politely. Zhu advocated education to save the country and cultivate talents to help the world. Put forward the policy of "teaching should be combined with social life to serve social reform and construction".
To run a school, we must first strive for good teachers. He is knowledgeable and knowledgeable. When Nan Zhou started, he invited his good friend Xu Teli as the director of education to teach Chinese, history and geography, which was very popular. He also sponsored Xu Teli to study in Shanghai and Japan to learn new knowledge. After many efforts, talents have emerged in large numbers, including famous progressives, classical literature experts Li, Tang Meicun and so on. Hunan was short of English teachers, so he invited Xie from Zhejiang at a high price. At the expiration of the term, he knelt down and begged to stay. Zhu doesn't bend easily. In the early days of the recovery, Tan was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Hunan and asked him to be the director of education. He was very dissatisfied with Tan's killing of revolutionaries Jiao Dafeng and Chen, and flatly refused. However, in order to keep a mentor, he did not hesitate to kneel down and become a story in the province.
Zhu manages and strives to establish a rigorous school spirit. The school motto is 1. Autonomy (moderation and neatness); Second, the public * * * heart (fraternity, benevolence); Third, dedication (hard work). There are strict rules for teaching and learning, and they are firmly implemented. He is stricter with others than himself. As a principal, he also teaches four or five courses, compiles his own handouts, engraves them and gives them to students free of charge. Japanese teachers also translate in class. The night light is five more chickens, and I am tireless.
Zhu advocates students' autonomous learning, autonomous learning and democratic learning. The spacious library stores a large number of new books and newspapers, and students can read them freely. You can ask questions and discuss with the teacher. In addition to the prescribed courses, students are also organized to travel, learn about the countryside and think about problems. The cadres of student self-government associations are completely elected by students, attend school affairs meetings and discuss school affairs with principals and teachers. Classes, dormitories and various activity parks are all managed by students, and teachers are only guidance.
Over the past 20 years, Zhu has been educating students with patriotism and democratic ideas, advocating freedom of thought, speech and belief, and mobilizing students to oppose imperialism and feudalism.
Zhu's wish to cultivate talents for rejuvenating China has gradually come true. Among the students who graduated from Nan Zhou are Xiang Jingyu, the first female minister of the Central Committee, Cai Chang, the first president of the All-China Women's Federation in New China, and Ding Ling, a famous old writer at home and abroad. Cai Chang fled the feudal family, and Zhu let her study, free of tuition and meals. Mrs. Wei is like family to her. After graduation, he stayed in school as a physical education teacher, and was sent to France to participate in work-study programs and embarked on the revolutionary road. In the latter period, Zhu directly participated in the revolutionary struggle. 1923 went south to Guangzhou and became a left-wing member of the Kuomintang with Sun Yat-sen. He used to be an adviser to the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army and the education director of the Central Political Training Course. 1926 entered Hunan with the northern expeditionary army, organized the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Party Department in Changsha, served as mayor and public security director of Changsha, assisted Guo Liang, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, to organize pickets of workers and peasants, and suppressed the counterattack of the Kuomintang right-wing organization "Left Society" and local tyrants and evil gentry. In the struggle, he formed close comrades-in-arms with Li, Li, Xia and others. 1927, the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary incident occurred, and the provincial capital held a conference to denounce Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary crimes, with Zhu as the chairman of the conference. Now, the reactionary military police entered the search for Zhu. He secretly went to Wuhan to meet Mao Zedong and believed in the idea of armed struggle. Immediately, he took his son Boshen to Nanchang to participate in the "August 1" uprising, and turned back in Poyang Lake because of the strong wind. 1928 Moved to Shanghai, renamed Lu Huanan, and went to Japan.
1929, he returned to Shanghai, where he signed with one of the founders proposed by Soong Ching Ling and Lu Xun, and stayed in Shanghai to participate in the underground struggle. He used his apartment as a stronghold for the party's secret communication meeting and rest. 1932 opened a small hotel on Layfield Road and Tilanqiao in the French Concession to cover the activities of the party. Frequent visitors include Li Fuchun, He Shuheng, Xu Teli, Liu Zhixun, Xie Juezai, Li, Xiao, and many other comrades. He goes out with cabbage on his arm every day, scouting around to protect the safety of his comrades.
Under the severe white terror, he asked to join the party. The party organization told him: "Working outside the party for the time being is more beneficial to the party's work." He obeyed the organization's decision and supported Saner Shuping to join the party and go to the Soviet area. His four sons and two daughters became party member. Daughter Zhu Zhongli (Mrs. Wang Jiaxiang) was admitted to Shanghai Medical College, and he raised expensive tuition fees in extremely poor circumstances, paying more than 90 yuan per period. Li Zhong went to Yan 'an after graduation. She was one of the few doctors in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region at that time, and served as a health care doctor for Mao Zedong and the leading comrades of the Central Committee. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as the president of Beijing Sino-Soviet Friendship Hospital.