During the period of 1949, the Kuomintang troops retreated to Taiwan Province like a ebb tide, and Mei Yiqi, president of Tsinghua University, left the United States in chaos. Mei Yiqi's trip to the United States was not accidental, let alone aimless. He abandoned the "Minister of Education" of Chiang Kai-shek's government in the United States and went to the United States to protect the boxer indemnity-Tsinghua Fund.

When Mei Yiqi was in charge of the American Tsinghua Fund, he was absorbed in education in China. Although he is in charge of tens of millions of dollars of funds, he is unmoved and has done nothing wrong. At that time, Mei Yiqi lived in poverty, and the couple lived alone, with only 300 yuan's living expenses every month.

Mei Yiqi returned to Taiwan on 1955 and founded Tsinghua Institute of Atomic Science and Tsinghua University in Hsinchu with Tsinghua Fund. During the establishment of the school, Mei also served as Minister of Education, Director of Atomic Energy Commission and Deputy Director of National Medium-and Long-term Scientific Development Planning Commission. At present, Mei Yiqi can be described as a "provincial-ministerial" senior cadre, especially in charge of large-scale infrastructure projects. But it is such a powerful, rich and powerful senior "cadre", but Mei Yiqi lives in the office of Taipei Tsinghua office, without a private house of his own, let alone a senior villa!

As a "senior official", Mei Yiqi's salary is meager. For Han Yonghua, his wife who lives alone in the United States, she has no money to remit money to take care of her life, nor can she take her to Taiwan Province Province to share her family happiness. She can only let her wife, who is over 60 years old, work around to earn money, and only meet her when she is dying.

In the last few years in Mei Yiqi, due to busy official business, numerous social activities, exhaustion and overwork, he finally fell ill and lived a brilliant, hardworking and regrettable life.

Hu Shi, the former president of Peking University, once advised Mr. Mei to write a will during his serious illness. "Whether it is official or private, we should set up a written evidence to give ourselves and future generations a clear explanation." Mr. Mei didn't answer, and the matter finally went away. After Mr. Mei's death, when his friends counted his belongings, they found that Mr. Mei had no property, and all his last words were said in his hospital bed. "So there is no need to write a will."

As a member of the old-fashioned intellectuals, although Mr. Mei is a senior official of the Central Committee, he lives a hard and simple life, works hard all his life and devotes himself to serving the public. In the real society, it still has the significance of education and reference, and it is worth our in-depth thinking and learning.