"Minister Cao's personal instructions? This is the first time! But how did Minister Cao suddenly care about our award selection? " A scholar working in the system said by telephone conference.

He was highly sensitive to politics and immediately grasped the main point of director Zhang's words.

As for other scholars, their reaction was a little slow, and they didn't realize the problems for a while.

Director Zhang coughed lightly and explained, "don't think much about it, Mr. Wei. The minister just cares about it normally. As we all know, Minister Cao has always been known for his selflessness. Of course, what he cares most about is whether our selection process is fair. As long as everyone has a clear conscience and chooses each book with a neutral and impartial attitude, that's enough. There's no need to think about anything else. "

After listening to Director Zhang's explanation, many scholars at the other end of the conference call felt thoughtful.

Don't listen to what is said in officialdom, but learn to listen to it in reverse. Director Zhang said that if it's OK, there must be something. Otherwise, Minister Cao would ask whether the awards are fair and just for no reason?

It may be that the judge's hands and feet were not clean and was denounced.

It's just that all the 300 judges are present today, and there is no shortage of them. According to reason, shouldn't they be disqualified directly?

Many scholars are confused, this officialdom is really too tired!

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Li, Mr. Jiang... You are all the leaders of the jury. I will pass some details of this year's awards to you later. Have a look." Director Zhang called the names of several scholars and said.

There are Zhou Daoli standing out.

Since the death of several masters of Sinology in China, Zhou Daoli has quietly ascended the post of person in charge of the category of Sinology, which was originally held by Mr. Ji Xianlin.

In the Sinology group, Zhou Daoli has an almost arbitrary authority.

"OK, with regard to these contents, if you have any questions, you can tell me. If you don't have any questions, just let it go." Director Zhang said simply.

He didn't want to enlarge the situation. After all, he didn't even know how to give instructions to Minister Cao. If things go wrong after the expansion, it can't be Minister Cao, it can only be him.

All the judges said there was no problem.

Director Zhang nodded and ended the conference call.

And a few of the selection staff in the office also got up and prepared to return to their positions and continue to work.

Only Xiao Wu, holding the declaration form of "the canon of Chinese Studies" just printed out, hesitated a little.

According to reason, he should obey Zhou Daoli's disciple and directly stamp a big red seal of "no pass" on this form.

However, after listening to Director Zhang's speech, Xiao Wu felt uneasy for some reason.

His hand holding the form trembled slightly, and he looked at director Zhang for several times. Finally, at the moment when director Zhang was about to leave the office, he resolutely stood up and walked to Director Zhang.

When Zhou Daoli looked at Xiao Wu's action, he was stunned. He had a bad feeling in his heart. Subconsciously, he was going to hold Xiao Wu.

However, the hand out, but failed.

Xiao Wu had already arrived at director Zhang. He was holding the form and said, "director, this is today's veto list. Please have a look. If there is no problem, please sign it

After all, Xiao Wu is not a newcomer. He played a trick to let director Zhang notice this matter for the reason of signing.

Director Zhang "Oh" a, habitually took the form, it is necessary to sign.

Brush brush brush, director Zhang's name three words instantly wrote two.

Meanwhile, the disciple of Zhou Daoli, whose heart was hanging on the line, immediately relaxed.

At the same time, I secretly hate Xiao Wu Ji in my heart - let you worry! Don't let me catch the chance in the future, or I'll kill you!

However, when director Zhang wrote down the last word, his pen suddenly stopped.

"The canon of Chinese culture"? Isn't this Wang Yong's book? " Director Zhang looked at the veto form in doubt and asked.

"Yes." Xiao Wu replied.

"Although there are some controversies in this book, there is no problem in passing the primary! When is the threshold of our primary election so high? Who vetoed it? "

Xiao Wu didn't say a word, just looked at Zhou Daoli's disciple silently.

Director Zhang understood immediately.

At the same time, I seem to have a little understanding of the instructions of Minister Cao. It turns out that there is really a kind of exclusion and injustice in the form of gang pulling.

Others may not understand the situation in which Wang Yong was besieged by scholars in the circle of traditional Chinese culture, but director Zhang has been immersed in the system for such a long time, and he can't understand the little 99 in the academic circle? It's obvious that this is a dispute between the old and the new. If Wang Yong is replaced by another person, the result will be the same.

What those old scholars opposed was not Wang Yong, but any new person who would threaten their status.

It happened that the person who rejected the canon of traditional Chinese culture was Zhou Daoli's student.

Director Zhang quietly crossed out the signature on the form, then gently returned the form to Xiao Wu and said, "let's review it again."

Then he turned around and left.

As a veteran, director Zhang will not risk offending Zhou Daoli to bet on Wang Yong. If he can be impartial, he will have the greatest support for Wang Yong.

After director Zhang left, Xiao Wu took the form and looked at the other judges: "dear teachers, what should we do?"

The other judges, you see me, I see you, know that it's not appropriate for them to remain silent when they attract the attention of the director.

One by one, he said: "the quality of the book is very high. I also read the sample book they sent me. Excellent typesetting, excellent printing, in line with our selection criteria. I think it can be selected. "

After hearing this, disciple Zhou Daoli couldn't help saying "shameless" in his heart. He didn't say it just now, but now the director spoke, and immediately took the helm in the wind.

Another reviewer also nodded: "I agree that Wang Yong is one of the top figures in the field of Sinology after all, and his books are of high standard."

Two people took the lead, and the other judges also expressed their views implicitly - they agreed to be selected.

As a result, there was no need for Zhou Daoli's disciples to express their opinions, so the book miraculously recovered its life and entered the ranks of selected books.

Zhou Daoli's disciple's face was livid. He looked at all the people in the room and went back to his desk in silence.

…………………………

The news that Guoxue Zhengdian passed the primary election soon spread to Wang Yong.

Wang Yong didn't show much joy about it. After all, passing the primary election is only the first step. If you want to be happy about it, isn't it too ambitious?

What Wang Yong expects is that the canon of Sinology can break through the siege and compete for the final prize with the first score in the group of Sinology books.

Whether it can be realized depends on tomorrow.

After the declaration, the next day, the judges will be involved in the intense selection work. According to different categories of groups, they will select the top books in each group.

There are not many books on Sinology this year. The canon of Sinology is considered to be the leader, and it is quite possible that it will be elected as the first one.

However, Wang Yong's imagination is beautiful, but the fact is cruel.

Because the next day, the national book award jury announced the selection committee members of various categories of books.

The person in charge of Sinology is Zhou Daoli!

"Is that him?" Wang Yong felt a pause in his heart“ However, with the presence of Minister Cao, Zhou Daoli doesn't play tricks openly, does he? "The canon of Chinese Studies" is not afraid of anyone just by strength

Wang Yong regains his confidence.

National Book Award selection site.

More than 300 judges are divided into several groups, each with a work area, and are busy with the selection work.

In the south, there are several gray haired academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. If any one of them appears in front of the public, it will make people exclaim. The status of these people in the scientific community is equivalent to that of the entertainment industry, although they are not comparable.

Several old academicians are seriously examining the books.

"I think this new book of engineering control is quite good. Many new ideas in line with the progress of the times have been renovated from Lao Qian's engineering control, which is quite refreshing. I think I can take the first place. "

"I don't agree that at least half of the new theory of engineering control is the ideological content of the old book engineering control. It's a bit far fetched to choose such a book as number one. I recommend this book differential dynamical systems... "

"New theory of engineering control and differential dynamical systems are both good. I like both. But it's a bit early to discuss who is the first. After all, there are still several books that haven't been reviewed! "

Several academicians nodded and stopped the discussion for the time being. It's really unfair for other books to confirm one book as the first place so early now.

Next to academicians, another group of people is the Sinology group headed by Zhou Daoli.

Different from the academician group, there was no discussion at all in the Sinology group. Everyone looked serious and looked at the selected books.

When someone sees a good book, they pick it out and put it aside. Then there are special personnel to take it to Zhou Daoli, waiting for Zhou Daoli's final judgment.

Only by passing Zhou Daoli's final judgment can we be regarded as having the preliminary qualification to win the prize.

Zhou Daoli is just like a judge, who makes the Sinology group a real business.

As for what director Zhang said at the meeting before, "fairness and justice", Zhou Daoli didn't pay attention to it at all.

He has studied Chinese traditional culture for decades and has written many works. It is no exaggeration to say that his preference is fairness and his choice is fairness. It is the same result that the book that he likes and knocks out will be selected by another person.

He has this confidence.

Pa Pa Pa, Zhou Daoli read very quickly, several books just sent in his hand just turned, and was thrown into the elimination area.

In the end, there are only four books that can get into his eyes.

If you look carefully, you will find that one of them was written by one of his students.

"Well《 Chinese classics? Who sent it? " Zhou Daoli suddenly saw four extremely disgusted words, but they were Wang Yong's classic of Chinese culture.

He was surprised that this book had passed the primary election, but no one dared to send it to him.

Zhou Daoli took a look at the recommender, but he was surprised by Du Ruhui.

Although Du Ruhui is a little out of control with Zhou Daoli, he is not recommended to take part in the selection of the first place in the category? Didn't he ever be mercilessly rejected by Wang Yong?

Zhou Daoli takes a look at Du Ruhui, who is buried in his work.

Then, without thinking about it, he threw it directly into the elimination area.

Because of too much force, the canon of Sinology fell to the ground and fell into the dust.