Chapter 29 – Go against the current and do the opposite

Yuan Zhouzi's recent life has been very comfortable.

After dinner, Yuan Zhouzi glanced at the several battlefields he had opened up and was quite satisfied with the popularity and response.

He started his career by exposing counterfeit products and gradually fell in love with the strategy of gaining popularity as a "professional troublemaker".

It's not his fault, it's just that the benefits brought by last year's battle were too great.

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One of the milestone events in Yuan Zhouzi's life was the big fight with the well-known young writer about "how do you prove that your work is written by yourself".

Before 2012, Han Han was a young writer and a young opinion leader, and he was extremely influential on his blog and Weibo, with a large number of fans.

Unfortunately, intellectuals are always prone to arrogance. In 2012, Han Han was caught in a controversy of being suspected of ghostwriting. He was originally winning against the doubters, including Maizi.

But he became too happy for a while, and without paying attention to the scale of his words, he offended Yuan Zhouzi.

After being questioned again, Han Han was at a loss and always wanted to prove his innocence, but more and more doubts arose, and the situation became worse.

In the end, there was no conclusive conclusion on this matter, and it turned into a mess.

Supporters on both sides have their own reasons, and no one can convince anyone.

But one thing is certain, Yuan Zhouzi gained a huge amount of popularity and traffic from this incident.

After the Han Han incident, Yuan Zhouzi's "professional troublemaker" attribute hidden under the title of "exposer" was fully exposed. Having tasted the sweetness, his tactics also began to change.

At the beginning of this year, Yuan Zhouzi and Luo Yonghao started a fight for some reason, and the fight has been going on. Later, just last month, Yuan Zhouzi also had a fierce battle with CCTV host Cui Yongyuan on the issue of supporting genetically modified organisms.

This article attacking the education system was just a side job for him, and it couldn't be considered his main battlefield.

After receiving the money, Yuan Zhouzi made his move and didn't pay much attention to this matter after publishing the article.

At this time, he was still on the domestic battlefield, so he still had some restraint. He just secretly added some personal opinions. In Meng Fanqi's impression, after this person hid in the United States, he spread rumors and smeared China's operations.

He just casually attacked, but he didn't expect the effect to be quite good. Yuan Zhouzi was so happy that his mouth almost split his broad face in half.

Yan Jing Electric Power University issued a statement in response to the controversy caused by his article. But such an official statement usually has limited effect, and its role can only be said to be better than nothing.

Being the first to strike, he fell into a passive position. The onlookers had already formed their opinions, and it was difficult for them to buy into such a formal thing.

At this time, there were not enough reversals, and the masses were easily convinced by Yuan Zhouzi. Meng Fanqi sighed when he saw that the comments under the Weibo clarification were still filled with "sadness".

It will take a few more years for there to be more reversals. Netizens will be more cautious about these things and wait a while when watching the excitement, letting the bullets fly.

The comments under Yan Jing Electric Power University's statement were in chaos, so they had to lock the comments. This made the onlookers even more convinced of their speculations.

If they don't let me leave a comment, there must be a problem!

After dinner, Yuan Zhouzi had nothing to do, so he saw that the comments section of Yan Jing Electric Power University's statement was locked, and quickly edited a Weibo post to divert the attention to his side.

"Yan Jing Electric Power University has issued a response statement, a very official response, without mentioning any issues with the education methods. The notice also prohibits comments and discussions. Is this the philosophy of our university? Fearful of communication and discussion, just shut up those who raise questions. Can I shut up? Does that solve the problem?"

After the Weibo post was published, the popularity quickly rose.

People who couldn't leave comments in the school's statement area came to Yuan Zhouzi to vent their frustrations.

In just a short while, there were tens of thousands of likes and thousands of comments.

"It's really sad, our education."

"If it were in a foreign country, it would definitely..."

Great! Great!

Yuan Zhouzi was delighted to see the speed at which the data was growing.

Fighting against Luo Yonghao, Cui Yongyuan, and Han Han always required high-intensity confrontation, and he often had many fans attacking him.

Although Yuan Zhouzi's face was thick enough to go around the earth twice, it still made him uncomfortable to be criticized.

Unexpectedly, guiding and implying this kind of content would have such a market. It was truly killing two birds with one stone!

While burping, Yuan Zhouzi touched his belly with one hand and brushed through the comments section of his Weibo with the other, occasionally deleting one or two comments that were unfavorable to him, in order to guide the overall direction.

Suddenly, he noticed that there were quite a few people in the related comments section reposting an article.

He clicked on it and found that it was the clarification article written by Meng Fanqi, the tool he used to attack Yan Jing Electric Power University.

"Haha, this undergraduate student is still too naive. Once you assist the school in clarifying, you will be labeled as a group by the onlookers." Yuan Zhouzi had done many things that distorted right and wrong, and he had already thought of this when he used this student as a tool.

"If the school pulls students out to clarify, it can easily be packaged as oppression or bribery by me." Yuan Zhouzi didn't care at all. His previous article could be said to be a dusty pearl, and the next article could also portray him as a corrupt person bought by the school.

"As long as I slightly imply that he has gained benefits from the school, it will be easy to continue attacking from a different angle."

Yuan Zhouzi had already started brewing the angle for the next attack, but as he continued reading the article, he found that something was not quite right.This young man seems to be using a strategy of advancing by retreating.

Meng Fanqi didn't use clarification or logic to write this article. He knew too well that the rhetoric of new media is evolving every year, and no one would read a formal announcement anymore.

He responded to the school's short article with one titled "Everyone Could Be a Pearl Covered in Dust."

His approach was to put himself in others' shoes and evoke resonance.

The article began by recounting his confusion and ignorance when choosing a major during the college entrance examination, his lack of interest during his freshman and sophomore years, and his unsatisfactory grades.

These experiences resonate with most people who have gone through the college entrance examination, subtly bridging the gap between the readers and the author.

Then, Meng Fanqi briefly explained that he took a leave of absence to focus on achieving results in his area of interest. He mentioned some of his achievements and emphasized the enlightenment and help he received from President Fu.

The middle part of the article mainly emphasized the importance of college majors, reflecting on and discussing the current restrictions on changing majors in universities.

In the end, he advocated for students and parents to pay attention to academic majors and students' interests, echoing the title, as long as students' interests can be discovered and the right subject chosen, everyone could be a pearl covered in dust.

The article didn't deliberately explain or declare anything. Instead, it reflected on and discussed some of the school's policies and ideas, and offered his own opinions and suggestions.

However, it completely dismantled the core basis of Yuan Zhouzi's argument and redirected everyone's attention to the connection between college majors and life.

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