Zhang Garden is actually on the west side of the racetrack. The garden is built in a Western style. The grass and flower beds in the garden have the flavor of a Western manor. Originally, this place was built in a Western style. The house is tall and magnificent. There is also a tower with a high roof. In the afternoon, when Yang Rui passed by, he saw two students from the school standing at the door before entering the gate. Yang Rui didn't know them, but they knew Yang Rui. After all, he almost invited all the students in the school to have dinner on New Year's Day last year. One of the two students took Yang Rui to the place where the lecture was.

The hall called An Kaidi is very spacious, and it is not a problem to sit for eight or nine hundred people like this. As the beginning approaches, the hall is full of school clubs and tourists who come here to visit. This park is the most popular event holy place in Shanghai. The Chinese Congress, which was launched in a hurry in the year of Gengzi, was held here, and it is very famous. There are often speeches and other social activities. Not only are everyone used to it, but they often join in the fun. Cai Yuanpei and Zhang Taiyan had arrived a long time ago. After a month, everyone felt very friendly when they met. They sat together and waited for the speech to begin.

The first one of the speeches was Zhang Taiyan. He was still dressed in a chic outfit in the past, wearing a suit and kicking and stomping on the stage. The students of the society were already accustomed to this and were no wonder, but the others who came to listen to the speeches were filled with noises, because Cai Yuanpei had introduced Zhang Taiyan, a master of Chinese studies, but the person who came to the stage now had no style at all, but was a little crazy. As soon as he came on stage, before he could speak, the hall was buzzing, and the madman's words were endless.

Zhang Taiyan didn't care. He stood at the table and cleared his throat to start his speech: "Today I am so sorry for you to invite you to give me this speech. I am so sorry. Today I have something to say today. Maybe I am crazy and I am told by others that I am crazy and refuse to admit it. Except for the first-class person who laughs as a landscape poet and a hero in the painting world, and the rest are always the same. The only brother admits that I am crazy and I am crazy, and I am particularly happy when I hear the words "I am crazy and said I am crazy."

With a "wow...", Zhang Taiyan admitted that he was crazy, and the audience below was even more surprised. The person who was speaking said was unwilling to continue the speech. "Why? Generally speaking, the very strange discussion is not a mentally ill person, and he can never think, and he can never think or say. After speaking, when he encounters difficulties and hardships, he is not a mentally ill person, and he cannot fail to do his own thoughts. Therefore, in ancient times, those who have accomplished great things must have a mentally ill person.

Look at the Greek philosopher Zuogrates. Isn't it crazy? Lu Suo (Rousseau), who proposed civil rights and freedom, jumped across the river to chase a dog. This is really crazy. Mohammed, the first ancestor of Islam, was determined by today's religious scholars. Like me, the Han people, Xiong Tingbi's military strategy in the Ming Dynasty, has been unprecedentedly different. However, according to his "Qi Shi Zhuan" that Xiong Tingbi was cut off and was a lunatic. Zuo Zongtang's character in modern times

, protecting Mannu and killing similar people is insignificant. But his strategy of winning surprisingly is admirable after all. The strange things about Zuo Zongtang in Yuelu Academy are all known to everyone. There is also a virtuous person named Bismarck, who once called the officials in the hotel, but he fired a gun without agreeing. What kind of temperament is this? It seems that the six talents are all from the psychiatrics."

The opening statement of the psychopath immediately attracted the audience's attention, and everyone was very focused. After he said that he was crazy, he began to talk about his own opinions. "Although brothers are crazy, this psychopath is patriotic. Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, our country's national power has declined day by day. Everyone here wants to try to reverse the national trend, but after a long time, I think that this method of saving China, I only think two things are the most important: first, we must promote more of the Manchu Revolution; second, we must implement the Manchu Revolution.

Everyone today is jealous of Manchuria, and thinking of heaven to revolution is not because of hatred against Manchuria. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Manchuria was tragic for the execution, so let’s put it aside. Just look at Manchuria today, if it is not a disaster to govern China, it is a lot of incompetent, and nothing can protect our mainland China. Looking at Taiwan to Japan, Jiaozhou to Germany, greatness to Russia, and Weihai to Britain, all of them are incompetent Manchuria…”

Shanghai is worthy of being the Concession of the World. The residents here have really seen all kinds of birds. They were surprised and avoided when they saw such intense remarks. Instead, they listened with relish. Yang Rui was aware of it. No wonder it was said that Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China was the center of the entire Chinese cultural and ideological circle. Zhang Taiyan's speech was very eloquent. The scheduled time had passed, but the audience was still unsatisfied.

After a long time, Cai Yuanpei went up to introduce Yang Rui and asked him to give a speech on stage. As everyone looked at him, Yang Rui walked up to the stage. He was not afraid of things like speeches, but when he went on stage, his feet were not raised, and he was mixed by the carpet and almost fell down. The audience below were still smirking Zhang Taiyan's raging revolutionary words. Seeing this, they all laughed with a "coaxing" sound. They felt that there were strange people in the patriotic society. In front of him, a man who looked like a psychopath went on stage and shouted for a long time. The more he heard, the more reasonable he became. Now, a young gentleman like a student came up and said he was well-educated. He almost got into the West before he could speak. It was really fun.

Yang Rui was almost fell down, and his blood surged and his face turned red and embarrassed. He came to the stage, took a deep breath and calmed down and said, "I'm really sorry, I was too distracted when I went on stage just now, and I was so rude and extremely rude." After that, he bowed. The students in the audience applauded to show encouragement. Yang Rui is not a clever person, and even hates those "smart" practices, and he doesn't bother to use words like "the enthusiasm of the audience almost made me fall." Falling means falling, and there is nothing to defend.

Amid the applause of the students, he slowly calmed down and began what he was going to say today: "I am talking about the cause of the differences between the East and the West today." After saying the question, he took out a box of matches from his pocket and struck a piece of matches when they light up and lifted them high. Seeing this, everyone was puzzled by what the gentleman who almost fell down wanted to do. There was no need to lift them so high even if he lighted a cigarette.

The person who held the fire in front of the lecture stage said, "This thing is commonly used by everyone. Everyone calls it the foreign fire. The name of the foreign fire does not sound strange now, but if it had been decades ago, it would have been called the foreign fire, but the foreign fire. Just like this concession, now it is called the foreign market, but people don't know that it was called the foreign market decades ago, but the Westerners outside were called the foreign market decades ago rather than the foreign market today. The foreign and foreign names are just different. Why do we change the names - it is because our thoughts are different.

China now has such an understanding. Anything that is marked with foreign goods is good, foreign oil, foreign lamps, foreign cloth, foreign ships, foreign guns, etc. Everyone realizes that as long as foreign things are good, so everyone likes foreign things. However, in the 13th century, a man named Marco Polo came to China and also came to Hangzhou. He praised the East very much. He went back to write a book called Marco Polo's Travels. In his travels, he wrote: There is no doubt that the city is the most beautiful and noble city in the world. The residents here are covered with silk and beautiful bodies. The expensiveness of their satin clothing and jewelry is unimaginable... This travels were widely circulated after he returned to the West. While Westerners yearned for it, they did not believe that there is such a rich and prosperous place in the world."

Yang Rui paused, took a sip of water and continued, "You guys, there is nothing wrong with many things alone, just like we thought that the title of foreign fire was nothing wrong. Now we look at everything in the West, and everything from foreigners is better than ours. But in the thirteenth century, even in the previous dynasty, Westerners saw that we were good, and they could not imagine and believed it. So, what happened in the past seven hundred years? What made a Western worshiper surpass us?"

Seeing that everyone was thinking and thinking about what happened in the past seven hundred years, Yang Rui was not in a hurry to give an answer, wanting everyone to think about it. After a long time, Yang Rui said: "You have come up with a lot of answers, but I can guarantee that no matter what answer you get, the result is wrong."

He took out a dollar from his pocket and raised it to everyone and said, "This is a dollar. I believe everyone has it in his pocket. Where did this dollar come from? The sign above tells him that it comes from America. What did the West surpass us in seven hundred years? The answer is that this Eagle Ocean made the West surpass the East for seven hundred years. I have a string of data here to prove this. After Columbus discovered the New World, from 1521 to 1600, Spain alone transported 1.18 million tons of silver and 200 tons of gold from Peru and Mexico.

Of course this is just the beginning. In the early fifteenth century, it was already very good that merchants in London, England had a property of 300 pounds, but by the mid-16th century, the inheritance of any merchant after his death was not a house and manor, but in the cash alone, it was 3,000 pounds. It was called a rich man at that time. If there was no 100,000 pounds, you would be embarrassed to admit that you had money. Where did this money come from? From the sixteenth century to the present, Westerners plundered countless gold and silver in the Americas. There were officials, merchants formed gangs, and pirates robbed. Until now, the legend of pirate treasures is still circulating in the West.
Chapter completed!