Volume 1: A sound on Wall Street, Xinxiang City is busy copying books Chapter 19: The Second Knight
Subtitle of this chapter: Didn’t the KKK Knights and Teutonic Knights both have horses?
"Mr. Yuan, this joke is not funny."
"Professor Adams, I'm really not kidding."
The time is the first Monday of October 1920, the location is the Stern School of Business at New York University, and the person he is talking to is his academic mentor, Professor Irving Adams.
New York University (NYU), founded in 1831, is one of the largest private universities in the United States. It is also the only prestigious university in the United States located on Manhattan Island in the heart of New York.
Yuan Yanshu studied at the Stern School of Business, which was founded in 2019 and is also a world-renowned business school. Because he originally planned to become a bank general manager, his master's degree subjects tended to be accounting and finance.
But now this second-time student who barely attended classes was going to write a doctoral dissertation titled "Socialism." This shocked even his academic advisor, Professor Owen Adams.
Professor Adams, like most white men in late middle age, had shiny hair, a belly, a double chin, and a goatee as was customary at the time, which made him look a bit ordinary. But in fact, he was a gentle, kind-hearted educator with decent professional skills.
Professor Adams was born in a southern state. His fellow countrymen had just found a new hobby, which was to wear white robes, peaked hats, ride horses, and hold torches at night to stroll around, occasionally bringing warmth to African Americans and taking them on swings. In 1920, the KKK, which was established after the Civil War, finally found a suitable emperor. Under his leadership, the peak period of this "white empire" was about to come, and its influence also expanded from the South to the Midwest, as well as the northern states, and even to Canada. Among these four million white knights were even the future two presidents of the United States..
As a senior intellectual, Professor Adams's approach was much more elegant and subtle. Although it was not obvious on the surface, more than a year ago, when Yuan Yan saw the professor, who usually had a dignified teacher's dignity, hugging a black African girl and nibbling her, she felt his broad mind and excitedly went up to say hello...
So their master-disciple relationship was really good. If Yuan Yanshu hadn't been so disappointing in his studies, the professor might have turned a blind eye and let him pass. And if it weren't for this relationship, Yuan Yanshu, who rarely attended classes, would not have been able to retain his university status.
Professor Adams, who was sitting behind his desk, looked at the Chinese student in front of him with a suspicious expression, put on his reading glasses, picked up the paper outline brought by Yuan Yanshu and read it carefully. No matter how unreliable his students were. But this "Chonky"Since you sent me a pretty good outline... and you know how to keep our little secret, as an academic advisor, of course I have to take a look.
The Shanghai Hujiang University where Yuan Yanshu studied was a church school founded by Americans. He also stayed in New York for three years, so he spoke fluent English with almost no accent. Also, like most Westernized intellectuals of that era, his dress, expression and behavior were deliberately "Western". Of course, the most important thing is that Yuan Yanshu, who had traveled through time, had the kind of high-spirited and confident temperament that was rarely seen among Chinese people of his time when facing foreigners.
Although he is an applied economics professor who focuses on the banking and finance industry, as an insider, Professor Adams can still see something from this outline. This very tactful student who he rarely meets has a lot of weight to write a paper about, and this topic is indeed a hot topic, but he is still a little unsure.
This is because the Stern School of Business at New York University focuses on applied economics and is actually designed to train fresh blood for Wall Street. It was even established on Wall Street from the beginning. Students from this business school are expected to work as middle and senior managers in major banks, investment funds, stock exchanges and accounting firms.
The philanthropic Professor Adams can definitely read with gusto an income statement that ordinary people regard as a mystery or toilet paper, but when it comes to evaluating an academic work on theoretical economics, he still has to summon a new elf... Well, professor.
"Mr. Yuan, please wait a moment." He picked up the paper outline and walked out of his office.
About twenty minutes later, Yuan Yan, who was sitting in a comfortable reclining chair with drooping eyelids, suddenly heard the sound of the door opening. He perked up and immediately stood up and looked back. In addition to the short and fat Professor Adams, there was also a tall and thin middle-aged white man with a serious expression, a neat appearance, and round-framed glasses. He was going to change into Gothic armor and hold a two-handed sword in his hand, and he would be a Teutonic knight.
"Hello, Professor Chandler."
This man is Julian H. Chandler, from Pennsylvania. He is one of the few political science professors at Stern College. You can tell from his appearance and demeanor that he has German ancestry. Even in the 21st century, the Keystone State (Pennsylvania's nickname) still has the highest proportion of German immigrants in its population, exceeding a quarter. It is known as the federal state that was "one vote away from becoming the official language of Cantonese... um, German." In fact, his middle name H is Heinrich, and this man's name originally had "Er Ma von" in it. However, because of World War I, the descendants of German immigrants who loved (the United States) did not care about the glory of their ancestors for the sake of patriotism, and many of them removed the "Er Ma von" that represented aristocratic status.
Although it didn't even make it into the Ivy League, NYU is still a well-known American university after all, and it has the ambition to catch up with Harvard and surpass Yale. We can't have all our business school students go to Wall Street to become vampires after graduation. We also have to train a few political werewolves for our great America... well, elites, who can become members of the Senate and House of Representatives, governors of various states, and even the president of the United States after graduation. Otherwise, it won't look good on the alumni list..
The political science professor, who was not very familiar with Yuan Yanshu, nodded coldly and said, "Hello, Mr. Yuan."
After the three of them sat down as host and guest, Chandler flipped through the paper outline in his hand and spoke first. He stared at the Chinese student's face and said in a cold voice, "Mr. Yuan, did you really write this?"
