No matter how you look at it, when it comes to modern Chinese thought, Yan Fu, the enlightener of modern Chinese thought, could not avoid it. Yang Rui handled other things in a relatively careless manner, but he was very concerned about meeting Yan Fuh. In the past few days, he was no longer full of revolution, but only one question: how to rebuild Chinese civilization after abandoning the old culture and modernization? This question was asked by Wang Jitong, Wang Jitong said that he should worship Buddhism, Cai Yuanpei, Cai Yuanpei said that he should run education well, Zhang Taiyan, and Zhang Taiyan replied that there was no solution for the time being. Since this was the case, Yang Rui had to go to Yan Fu to ask.

In the case of Kaiping Coal Mine, Yan Fu was invited by Zhang Yi to go to the UK to sue Kaiping, but Kaiping was originally sold for personal gain. The reason why he went to the UK was simply because he was forced by the government and the opposition. Yan Fu left and found something wrong, so he came back. He stayed in Shanghai since he came back, and later participated in the construction of Fudan Public School at the invitation of Ma Xiangbo. After Fudan School started last month, Yan Fu became the school's English teacher. In order to save money from running a school, he asked the Governor of Liangjiang to ask for what he had long been useless.

The Wusong Admiral’s Office has no school building yet. Where is the Wusong Admiral’s Office? It is located in Wusong Bay at the mouth of the Huangpu River, 20 kilometers away from the concession. Fudan is not in Jiangwan in Wusong, so it is still a bit troublesome to go there. In order to attend the meeting earlier, Yang Rui set out from the concession early in the morning and went to Baoshan Road to build the first construction, but it was repaired and demolished. After the demolition, the Songhu Railway was built to Wusong. There were not many people leaving the city in the morning to take the train. In addition, the autumn was clear and the weather was cool, so he walked very lightly. He just arrived at Wusong Station, and it was only ten o'clock.

Although the Wusong Admiral's Office was already ruined, after a little cleaning, a horizontal plaque of Fudan Public School was still quite school-like. The wooden railing outside the gate seemed to be decayed and all the business was removed, but the flag pillars and screen walls with flags hanging on both sides still looked old. Yang Rui brought few guards this time, and he dressed in Chinese. When he arrived at the gate, he posted a post asking to see Mr. Yan Fu.

When he saw these people at the door, he was very handsome and asked to sit politely. In a short while, a man dressed in a wealthy gentry in his fifties came out, with round glasses, horoscopes, and a serious and elegant expression. Yang Rui guessed that this person was Yan Fu, so he stood up and bowed: "How many gentlemen are you?"

Yan Fu also politely. Seeing that he was Chinese-style, Yang Rui was a little curious. He translated Yuan Fu, the theory of ethics and the theory of the world of power, and Yan Fu, who advocated Western learning, was not dressed in Western style. Yan Fu was not a person who was happy and angry. While looking at Yang Rui, he said, "Is it Mr. Yang Rui of Economics?"

Yang Rui's business card contains the word Yang Rui. There are two famous Yang Rui in the late Qing Dynasty: one is one of the six gentlemen of the Reform Movement of 1998, and the other is Yang Rui, who published several Western business monographs. However, Yang Rui went to Europe two years ago and has never returned.

Yang Rui smiled and said, "It's exactly what I'm going to do."

Yang Rui smiled, but Yan Fu's expression calmed down. He approached and asked again, "But Yang Jingcheng of the Fuxing Society?"

Chen Guangshou and others next to him were shocked. But Yang Rui still laughed, "It's just down."

Yan Fu was not surprised when he heard this, but just said, "There are many people here, so Mr. Yang, please come in and talk."

Yang Rui guessed that he was meeting him. After all, he met Sun Wen in London last year and said, "Okay, please lead the way."

The admiral headquarters are all regulated. As soon as the gatekeeper enters, there is a yard as big as a basketball court. There is a school building at both ends and the main hall opposite. Through the main hall, there is an equally large courtyard, but it is divided into three sections. I think this is the dormitory of teachers and students. Turn left and pass through Yuanyue Gate. It is a small courtyard where Yan Fu lives.

Chen Guangshou and others were outside the prime minister. Yang Rui sat in the living room with Yan Fu. While waiting for tea, Yan Fu looked at Yang Rui and asked, "Is it really Gui Geng this year?"

Unexpectedly, Yan Fu asked this, Yang Rui smiled and said, "I am still young and less than thirty years old."

When he heard that Yang Rui had not yet stood up, Yan Fu couldn't help but sigh: "I've become so young and have a deep study of Western learning. I didn't expect that he believed in the way of revolution."

Yan Fu studied in the West and attached great importance to Western culture. What he thought was that China's capable should be a proficient in Western scholars. He saw Yang Rui's book before, but his writing was not clear, his sentence was simple, but his discussion was extremely rigorous, and he was deeply aware of the essence of Western learning. He wanted to tell Yang Rui through the introduction of Commercial Press, but when he asked, he said that this person had already gone to Europe. After the bloody incident in Shanghai this year, there were rumors that Yang Rui was Mr. Jingcheng of the Revival Society. Yan Fu originally did not believe it, but just asked him, and Yang Rui admitted it frankly, and he couldn't help but feel very regretful. In his opinion, Yang Rui was completely different from Sun Wen. Sun Wen only knew Western learning but did not focus on Western learning, and he had no independent thoughts. Yang Rui was already able to write books and talk about it. It was a pity that such a person pursued the way of revolution.

Yang Rui did not understand what Yan Fu thought, and because he was not here to bring him a revolution, he only said, "If the country is like this, if it is not revived, there will be a disaster of destroying the country and the people. In order to save the country and the people, we can only take the way of revolution."

"Is it true that I want to win the republic like Sun Wen?" They were all calling for revolution, and Yan Fu couldn't help but think of Sun Wen's republic.

"Although republic is a trend, China is absolutely not able to republic now."

"Oh. That unrepublic must be constitutional. Who should I be regarded as emperor?" Yan Fu asked again, thinking that if Yang Rui wanted to be emperor, it would be the funniest thing.

"After the revolution, China no longer has an emperor!" Yang Rui said.

"It is neither a republic nor an emperor, so why is this state system?" Yan Fu was a little curious. The countries around the world are either autocratic countries or constitutional countries, or a republic. The first two have emperors. Now Yang Rui said that there is no more emperors, and that autocracy and constitutional countries are not enough, and he also said that there is no republic. Then this country is really strange.

Yang Rui smiled when he heard this, thinking about something that he could not say, so he had to say, "The reason why he said that the country is not as republic as the United States and France. Especially since the Chinese people's wisdom has not yet been opened, the election system is difficult to implement. But this state system is still a system that is imitating the republic, which is considered a primary republic."

Yan Fu nodded in agreement with Yang Rui's explanation, but he did not agree. "The court has sent five ministers abroad to investigate constitutionalism. If China is a constitutionalist, it should be better than revolution. Once a revolution is revolution, not only will the creatures be miserable, but foreigners will also make excuses for personal gain. At that time, the country collapses, which will definitely not be a blessing for the people."

"The result was indeed so. However, the Qing Dynasty had already been exhausted. Constitutionalization was just a trick they wanted to survive. Mr. Dao really thought the court wanted to establish a constitution to save the country? Or did he think that the princes and nobles would hand over the power to the parliament?" Yan Fu said long ago. Yang Rui could not refute it with all his strength. He had to question this way.

"Constitutionalization is a consensus in the world, and the court cannot go against the world. Not to mention the previous battle between Japan and Russia, it is a clear proof that constitutionalism is better than autocracy. Now Russia is determined to convene a parliament. If China is backward, there should be a lesson in the past." Unlike ordinary gentry, Yan Fu firmly believes that China must be constitutional, and it is really constitutional.

The dispute over constitutionalism is useless. Yang Rui skipped this place here and said, "The constitutionalism is not decided. I will see how the Qing Dynasty decides when the five ministers return. However, this is all next year's event. I have to ask Mr. Dao for advice. That is, whether it is revolution or constitutionalism, the previous set of Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues will be wiped out. How should Chinese civilization be established?"

Yang Rui's problem was actually what Yan Fu thought. He said in a deep voice: "China's disadvantages lie in the principles and principles. If we want to innovate, we should abandon old things, take freedom as the body, use democracy as the purpose, encourage the people's strength, enlighten the people's wisdom, and cultivate the people's morality. After decades, we should achieve small success. In fact, whether it is a constitution or a republic, we should be based on education."

People's strength, people's wisdom, and people's morality do not seem to be worse than Sun Wen's nation, civil rights, and people's livelihood. There is a novel saying that "freedom is the body, democracy is the use". In fact, Yang Rui did not study Yan Fu's previous works, and these views he published in the direct newspaper ten years ago. Yang Rui thought for a moment and asked again, "Sir, how should people's morality be cultivated? Or what kind of virtue should we cultivate?"

Seeing that Yang Rui did not pursue the rest and only heard about the morality of the people, Yan Fu praised it in his heart, saying: "The poor morality of the Chinese people should be concerned about private selfishness, falsehood, and shameless. The reason for this is not because of the collapse of etiquette and music, but because of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Persons. Those who say "the principles and constant are famous and teachings, benevolence, righteousness and morality" will only be promoted and protected, and embezzled and accepted bribes. If you want to eliminate despicable despicableness, you should not only get rid of the old, but also be poor. If you have enough granaries and etiquette, you will know honor and disgrace. If you are not rich, you will have no way to talk about the virtues of the people. How to cultivate virtues? They also say that they are free and independent. Only in this way can you understand their rights and obligations, and know their obligations, and not care about private and falsehoods, and build a new morality of the people."

"Sir, then such an independent individual, under utilitarianism, more people will be selfish. Just like European and American countries, under liberal democracy, their character is extremely inferior, and there are not a few who only make profits." Yang Rui only felt that Yan Fu said that he could not break out of the circle of total westernization. Even if the West is inspired by Jesus Christ, his moral level may not be much higher. Yang Rui never believed that freedom and wealth would have morality? Doesn't this mean that all rich people are good people?

Yang Rui's question made Yan Fu stunned. He only thought about how to break out of the Confucian circle of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, and only saw the prosperity of the people after the industrialization of the West, but did not see the distortion of human nature under the commercialization of later generations like Yang Rui. He said: "The Westerners' pursuit of profit will harm others and self-interest, and there will also benefit themselves and not harm others, and there will be more self-interested people. Confucianism's relic of righteousness is actually because of putting self-interest and harming others. Looking at the Western countries, although there are harming others, more should be enlightened and self-operating people. These people should not be those who harm others and benefit themselves, and they have nothing to do with the morality of the people."

"What the sir said is indeed. But what I fear is that everyone speaks of profit, everywhere, they speaks of profit everywhere, they speak of profit outside of home, and they also speak of profit at home, and they only seek profit in their lives. Under autocracy, the people are slaves to the emperor, and under freedom, the people are slaves to money. If we look at it carefully, the Three Bonds and Five Constant Constitutions of Confucianism are a kind of control, and the free economic system is another kind of control. What is the essential difference between the two for the people? Think about the war between the north and the south of the United States and the north, the north said that black slaves would be liberated, but in fact these black slaves all became factory coolies. Although they had nominal freedom, they did not have substantial freedom. Even slaves were bought by farmers for money, and they would cherish food, clothing, housing and transportation. The factory coolies were recruited freely, and even if they died, they would not lose any damage to the factory owner, as long as he had other coolies..."

This time, Yan Fu was completely pondered, and he did not have a better answer. However, Yang Rui was not too disappointed. According to his concept when he was studying, Yan Fu was a bourgeois ideological enlightener, so he could only reach this state. The evolutionary theory of natural selection that he promoted was completely abandoned in the history of philosophy in later generations.

On the train back in the afternoon, Chen Guangshou looked at Yang Rui only looking at the scenery outside the window and couldn't help but say, "Sir. What kind of country do we want to build in the future?" He heard Yang Rui and Yan Fu's words outside the house, and felt that what Yang Rui said was terrible. Autocracy is slavery, and freedom is also slavery.

When Yang Rui saw him ask, he seemed to feel his concern and smiled. "A country that is not completely enslaved by autocracy and is not completely enslaved by money."

“Incomplete?”

"Yes, not completely. No matter how you defend it, centralization will bring autocracy. At the same time, no matter who wants to hinder it, industrialization and commercialization are inevitable. So only some people will not be autocratic, and some people will not be enslaved by money. We can only do this. But no matter what, this will be an improvement for now. Believe in ourselves, tomorrow will only be better than today, and it will not be worse than today."

Hearing that tomorrow would be better. Chen Guangshou suddenly laughed. His family was poor and he only thought that revolution could help all the poor in the world get rid of poverty and live a life of excess, wealth and peace. He read all Yang Rui's articles and words many times. Although he would not remember them in the notebook like Liu Boyuan, most of the things could be memorized. He firmly believed that as long as Yang Rui said that it would be better tomorrow, then tomorrow would be better.

After the meeting, Yan Fu was over, and there were a lot of affairs in Shanghai. Yang Rui wanted to leave early, so he had to stay for more than a month to deal with the affairs of various systems in the meeting. Then he bought a ticket for three days and was about to leave for Japan. In this short period of time, except for Gu Hongming, who was full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, everyone else had seen it. The Shanghai Constitutionalists heard that if constitutionalism was established, the Revival would give up the idea of ​​violent revolution. They were overjoyed and celebrating with high fives. Yang Rui was also happy to see them. No matter whether these people could move over, at least the Revival would act in China, and these people would not be hostile. They hang the Constitutional sheep's head and sell the revolutionary dog ​​meat. This united front of the Revival Society is also.

In order to better hang the constitutional sheep's head, the Revival Association and the Shanghai Constitutionalists established an external organization: the Constitutional Friends Association. The leaders of the Shanghai Constitutional Leaders, such as Zhang Jian, Zheng Xiaoxu, Tang Shouqian, Ma Xiangbo, Lei Fen, Xia Qingyi, etc., joined the Revival Association, and Cai Yuanpei, Yu Huizu and others.

As soon as the association was completed, Yu Qiaqing came to find him. He is worthy of being a talented person. As soon as he met, he said, "It's been done, are you real constitutional or fake constitutional?"

"Haha, then do you think the court is a real constitution or a fake constitution?" The last time Yang Rui met him, he only talked about commercial matters and did not talk about constitutional matters. He should have heard others say that revival would place hopes on constitutionalism, but with the kind of business he knew about Yang Rui, he would work hard with the gentry with all his temper, and that the sun came out from the west.

"You..." Yu Qiaqing pointed at Yang Rui and couldn't speak when he heard this, "You are holding the yellow flag against the yellow flag!" He didn't know why such a classic description came from, which was much more like selling revolutionary dog ​​meat with a constitutional sheep head.

Yang Rui was very happy and said with a smile: "Brother Ade, you wouldn't come to see me because of this, right?"

"Hey!" Yu Qiaqing also said nothing to Yang Rui. The revival would be painted with a hint of constitutional color. No matter the government or the country, they would not be too hostile to her, and they would even think that she was just a radical constitutional group. "Is she trying to seize the power of Manchus by constitutionalism?"

"That's not." Yang Rui smiled. "I just want to help the gentry take back power from Manchus."

"Then you take it away?" Yu Qiaqing didn't believe that Yang Rui was so kind.

"Why did Brother Ade just think of seizing power? The Revival Society is now committed to education. There is no time to seize any power. Constitutionalization helps education, so the Revival Society will naturally support it."

"I don't believe it!" Yu Qiaqing said that with Yang Rui controlling the raw materials to the source, sales to the terminal, and combining with the great trust ideas of all companies in related industries, he did not believe that Yang Rui would divide half of the power to others? What this person wants is control, control from the beginning to the end. However, although he knew that Yang Rui would not decentralize power, he could not think of what the Revival Society constitutionalism wanted. Judging from Cai Yuanpei's recent speech, the Revival Society pretended to be more constitutional than the Constitutionalists.

"Oh. Brother Ade, let me tell the truth. Whether it is constitutionalism or revolution, we all want to take over the rights from Manchus. After snatching them, the most important thing is to run education and do business. This is beneficial to you, Brother Ade, and you will not be harmless." Yang Rui pretended to be harmless and said earnestly.

"But it happened. I don't know if you would advocate constitutionalism for the sake of constitutionalism or to destroy it? China is extremely poor and weak. If you can fight, don't fight. Although constitutionalism is just a step-by-step improvement, it is a good way to save the country." Yu Qiaqing couldn't help but reveal his thoughts when he saw Yang Rui telling him frankly.

After looking at Yu Qiaqing for a while, Yang Rui said, "Don't worry, Brother Ade, as long as the Qing Dynasty is truly constitutional, we will never start a war first."

Yu Qiaqing was still worried when he heard this. He worked in the living room for a while before he got up and said goodbye. As soon as Yu Qiaqing left, Wang Jitong came out. He was just talking to Yang Rui, but when he saw Yu Qiaqing coming, he had to avoid it first.

"It seems that some people still can't deceive you." He said as soon as he came out.

"It would be great if you could deceive most of them. In Chinese society, everyone doesn't care about anything under the guise. As long as you don't tear your face on the surface, you'll have to think that it was hypocritical before. When you came first, you can better cover up the revolution."

"It's easy to talk about outside, but I'm worried about our internal affairs." Wang Jitong was still worried about the unstable morale of the army.

"No, as long as you do the ideological work of members, tell them that constitutionalization is just a strategy, just to act better in the country. As for the soldiers at the bottom, they don't understand what constitutionalism is. As long as there is food and salary, they will not think about everything." The political commissar system in the military has been popularized and ideas can be controlled. As long as there is no chaos above, it is absolutely impossible for any chaos below to occur.

"But can we really seize power through autonomy?" Revival will provoke the upper gentry and Manchus fighting for power, and plan to seize power in the name of local autonomy. Wang Jitong did not know much about the dispute over power, and only thought it sounded feasible, but was afraid that it would not be feasible for operation.

"Of course we can seize power. We don't want to master the provincial parliament, but we can't control the county parliament. At that time, we can still control the threat or bribery. As long as we settle the county magistrates and hold the banner of the court, aren't we the final decision on the matters in the county?" Yang Rui smiled treacherously, thinking that this trick to seize power in counties and towns was too amazing. It would take no effort to make the revival fall at the grassroots level. After a few years, the Qing Dynasty would find that many counties and towns had been "occupied" by the revival in the name of autonomy.

"Besides, the constitutionalist lies in the gentry, but we should not rely on these people. Our target is forty-nine illiterate people. We should not seize the power of Beijing or the power of provinces and roads. We only have the power below the county, and 400 million people are the foundation of our revolution. Think about it, thousands of towns in China have our organization, so the world is definitely not a man of people, nor will it be a gentry."

"If the name is not upright, the words are not right. What I worry about is that if the Qing Dynasty really delegates power, what kind of name will we raise an army?" Wang Jitong cared about the matter of the great name.

"Xiao Xu was worried too much. The rights of Manchus will not be left at first. If the rights really fall into the hands of the gentry, it will be contrary to the interests of the people. Do you think, after the constitution is established, should you build railways, schools, and industry? These must be required, but all these are money. Where does this money come from? The powerful and powerful can only go in. The gentry has it themselves but does not want to pay it. The final result will fall on the people. Once the constitution is established, the whole country will have to pay more and more taxes. The people will be in trouble. Once the taxes and donations are increased, there will be a riot in protest. We are based on the people, and then the people's voice is our voice. When the people move, we will lead this storm, so that it will be wiped out and retained. When the dust is settled, it will be a new China."
Chapter completed!