The Family and the Country Chapter 43: Enlightenment
The fire in July is flowing, and the August is in the morning.±,
When the weather is getting colder, major events on both sides of the north and south have resulted. As Xie Zhangtai judged, it is certain that a person will lose blood and death on the strike involving the Third International. On the second day of the strike, the death of a life-threatening case occurred due to a conflict between the strike team and the police, and no one can tell who fired the gun first. The British ambassador to China explained that it was because someone in the march team fired the police first and the police fired the gun. However, many newspapers in China used big black words to indicate that this was a crime of imperialism oppressing Chinese people and taking human lives.
What happened is that everyone in the Forbidden City knew very well, but people always had to make some noise when they died. So Xie Zhangtai condemned the Hong Kong and British authorities at a press conference. However, after condemning the Hong Kong and British authorities, he expressed dissatisfaction with the actions and organizations of the strikers. In his language, this is a strike organized by the "outdoor ** forces", and its political purposes and strike methods are being investigated by the Greater China government.
Xie Zhangtai's later statement was immediately refuted by some reporters at the press conference. The most intense opposition was Zhou Piaoping, a reporter from Beijing News. He directly accused Xie Zhangtai of being unpatriotic and not defending the Chinese Zhang Sheng but for the British Emperor, and should resign and apologize immediately.
The veterans of the Revival Society are definitely not frivolous people. Xie Zhangtai had run newspapers in Hong Kong before joining the Revival Society. He was not the kind of fool who would not speak without the manuscript. After hearing Zhou Piaoping's accusations, he immediately took out the evidence provided by Zhang Chengyue of the National Security Bureau. A list of many workers who were banned from receiving money and several workers who received money. After the exhibition, he began to question who provided the daily wages for strikers? Who opened workers' night schools and workers' cultural training institutes? Is it the so-called world working class, or a conspiracy group that fears the world will not be in chaos?
Xie Zhangtai questioned Zhou Piaoping like this, and he was naturally speechless. Xie Zhangtai took advantage of the situation to declare that the Chinese in Hong Kong took legal and peaceful methods to fight for their rights and interests, but because of the support and instigation of some conspirators, this is a selfish act of kidnapping all the people. If the government does not support it, it means that the government does not patriotic people and does not make decisions for the people. It is a traitor of the government; if the government supports it, the organizers behind the strike will make unrealistic demands for resumption of work, and eventually tamper with greater and greater trouble. As a result, the purpose is to fight between China and the UK.
He finally made a conclusion: the government will definitely not support the Sino-foreign conflicts involving "overseas ** forces". At the same time, the government will continue to collect evidence to expose the conspiracy of "overseas ** forces". If there is any violation of the law in the Chinese Republic, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will issue a wanted order to arrest these people with ill-conspiracy.
The evidence and speeches provided by Xie Zhangtai at the press conference obviously reversed domestic public opinion. But this had no effect on the strike in Hong Kong. Most of the strikers were illiterate, and they had been "organized". Even if there were honest workers who did not want to strike, the workers' pickets holding sticks would "educate" them and let them know the power of the proletariat. Xie Zhangtai's speech was naturally interpreted out of context by Du Wen and others as traitors and was hated by the workers. The incompetence of the Hong Kong British authorities made the strike last for fifty-eight days before it finally ended.
Of course, the British and Hong Kong authorities, who understand the position of the Beijing government and are supported by other shipping companies, did not agree to any requests from the strikers. They sent additional police forces in Hong Kong due to the support of the five countries (China, Japan, France, the United States, and North Korea) and began to arrest the organizers and agitators behind the scenes. After the strike, at the initiative of Xie Zhangtai, representatives of the eight Chinese, Japan, Britain, Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands, and the North Korea and Thailand gathered in Beijing to target the Hong Kong strike manipulated by overseas forces. They discussed the framework and solutions to similar incidents in the future. After the efforts of all parties, representatives of various countries reached a consensus and formed a series of handling provisions.
The Hong Kong strike was the beginning of the Bolsheviks' opening of the Eastern Front after the failure of Poland, but unexpectedly, things did not come into effect. Instead, it led to the subversion activities of the Western Pacific countries in the Third International. This has to be said to be the failure of the President of the Third International, Zinoviev, and Trotsky, who was attacked by Zinovic, Stalin, Bukharin and others, who completely opposed the pediatric subversion activities of the strike. It was believed that only real attacks can defeat the increasingly weak bourgeois government.
However, the great Comrade Li Ning had not yet seen Max at this time. No matter how much Trotsky hoped that the world revolution would not be recognized by Comrade Li Ning. What Russia really wanted at this time was to recuperate. Without industry, it would not be electrified. Not to mention the world revolution, it was an extremely difficult thing to defend the Bolshevik fortress Red Russia.
The strike ended, and the public trial of Cai Yuanpei by Dali Temple in the capital was full of twists and turns. At the beginning, Cai Yuanpei firmly claimed that he was trying to seize power to replace the current prime minister. He deliberately blamed the ultimate reason for his actions on the ** and undemocracy of the Revival Society. Therefore, his disagreement immediately caused countless talks, and Westernized elements verbally criticized and accused the Revival Society system, as if it was not Cai Yuanpei who killed people but the Revival Society.
Amid the curse and condemnation of the verbals, the evidence submitted by the prosecutor gradually exposes Cai Yuanpei's lies. Faced with the prosecutor's question of "Why didn't join forces with Qi Qingyuan's corruption group to coup," Cai Yuanpei hesitated and argued that he could not believe that Qi Qingyuan really detained Yang Rui; but the testimony of his secretary Xu Baohuang completely reversed the situation and became a member of the fraternity, and he found it difficult to lie to the judge. When the prosecutor provoked his guilt and guilt for the purge, the truth kept coming out of his mouth. He was the first to prove that Cai Yuanpei killed people in a large-scale manner in order to achieve a democratic republic.
In addition to Xu Baohuang, there is more evidence that Cai Yuanpei's coup can basically be interpreted as an idealist art show. Although it is bloody and cruel, its original intention is to make the people realize the harm of a dictatorial system, and the best way to know it is to create a massacre.
Of course, no matter how much evidence is, in the eyes of the verbal and Westernized elements, it is also forged by the ruling people. The once independent judicial system is frequently suspected by them to collude with Revival. However, in the last court debate in August, in order to reduce the guilt of his father, Cai Wuji submitted two letters of Cai Yuanpei ended all this: in the last letter (the letter that Cai Wuji gave to his wife only after his death). Cai Yuanpei comforted his wife and admitted that his actions were for the country he loved deeply to achieve a democratic republic.
The letter was unopened. The effect of reading in court was tantamount to a magnitude 12 earthquake. The verbal party and Westernized elements were shocked immediately. They retreated in a mess and hid in an unknown place. The next day, the Empire Daily published the letter in full text with the front page title "Democracy wants to kill the whole family"; at the same time, the article once again advocated the superiority of the imperial system, and believed that the only one who could bring happiness and stability to the people was the emperor. The "Democracy wants to kill the whole family" could only kill people except killing people. Although the title and article of "Democracy wants to kill the whole family" were eye-catching, the news that Cai Yuanpei committed suicide in prison that night at the age of 55.
Although Cai Yuanpei's death was unexpected, it was expected by everyone. Even if the Scripture Academy agreed to pardon him, he could not continue to live. The reason why he could stand on trial was that he hoped that he could complete the final step. However, he failed in his original omissions. Since he could not succeed, he would devote himself to the mercy, so he left that night very resolutely.
William Leo, Yu Huizu, Cai Yuanpei, the founding eight kings, have gone three of them, and one of them is still sick and his life is hanging on the line. If this king is gone, the whole country will be in chaos. On the day when Cai Yuanpei committed suicide, the people in the capital spontaneously went to the temple to pray for the Prime Minister; the next day, the people who suddenly woke up from the "Democratic Republic killing the whole family" also spontaneously prayed for the Prime Minister.
The incense at home and abroad was very popular for a while. But Yang Rui's illness was still the same, and it did not improve or worsen. When the September sky gradually turned cold, he finally recovered slowly. At this time, his daughter had been born long ago, and Yang Wuming's injuries were healed, but he left a permanent disability. On the strike, Cai Yuanpei had already gone far away, and for him, this seemed to be a new world.
In the third cabinet, although Zhang Taiyan took office as Vice Premier, he still served as the Minister of Rites. After the 5th Five-Year Purge, Deng Shi, Huang Jie, Wang Xiaolin and others who were actually responsible for the affairs of the Ministry of Rites were killed due to suspicion of the National Essence Party. The people who promoted the National Essence remained in various universities. Zhang Taiyan wanted to cry without tears. During the reorganization, he wanted his favorite disciple Huang Kan to take office as the Minister of Rites, but Huang Kan was afraid of soldiers. After that extremely terrifying night, this person was even more reluctant to avoid the government and the officers and soldiers.
He did not take office, but Zhang Taiyan, who had been searching for him, finally found Wang Guowei. At this time, Wang Guowei had achieved many academic achievements under the special allowances that Dingge began to enjoy. He did not want to be a minister of the Ministry of Rites. He did not have time to do research. But after all, he had asked Zhang Taiyan for the restoration of the Clan Party before, so he was very persuasive. After Zhang Taiyan agreed to take office in the Qing Dynasty's official uniform, Wang Guowei finally agreed to take office in the Ministry of Rites.
I remember that the Tingwei Lord Shen Jiaben had just taken office in a erotic clothes. When Wu Tingfang was in office, although the officials of the Tingwei Mansion did not wear erotic clothes, the style of the clothes was changed to Chinese robes. Although they were not exactly the same as the former Ming official uniforms, they were similar. But now, a Manchu minister who was wearing the Qing official uniforms and hanging court beads on his chest, and entering and leaving the Forbidden City every day, really criticized the inside and outside the Beijing.
Although it is a criticism, this is the integrity of the old school. No matter what the master emperor and the disciple, everyone has only monarch and ministers, but no master and guest. Wang Guowei believes that wearing Chinese official uniforms is a traitor, and he has always been dressed in white and has a big braid in his head, so he cannot prove his innocence without wearing the Qing Dynasty. Now this behavior is considered by him to be hired by the Greater Chinese government. The official is still loyal to Emperor Guangxu of the former Qing Dynasty. Although such nerd behavior is naive, no one can laugh, and it is even more ridiculous. This is much better than those literati who sharpened their heads and scolded Guangxu of the previous dynasty to cater to the present.
After reading the comments from the Ta Kung Pao about the new Minister of Rites, Yang Rui, who was pale, suddenly laughed. If someone else had changed, he would have been seeking fame, but Wang Guowei was different. He could not think of any other explanation except for his foolish loyalty. This nerd who sank himself when the Northern Expedition was about to be over, and even predicted very early that "those who start with republic will end with communism." He suddenly wanted to see him.
"Wu Ming, go and help me invite Mr. Jing'an to the mansion, just say... just give me a reward to the garden in the mansion." Thinking of a famous assertion, Yang Rui really wanted to see what other ideas Wang Guowei had about governing the country, but it was hard to say that it was for this, so he had to invite him on the pretext of appreciating the garden. After saying that, he suddenly remembered that his son was unable to move now, and then changed his words sadly: "You should let Wuyou invite him."
"Father, I can go!" Yang Wuming is now a disabled person. But the more disabled he has, the stronger his self-esteem is. He doesn't believe that there are things he can't do. As soon as Yang Rui talks about his younger brother, he stands up stubbornly.
Yang Rui was not good at opposing his reaction, so he couldn't get up and pat his shoulder to comfort him. He had to nod and said, "Yeah! Go."
His father's praise was extremely important to Yang Wuming at this time. Yang Rui nodded, and he went out quickly and only brought his curtains to fly around. Cheng Xu was coming over with his little daughter. Seeing this scene, he complained to Yang Rui again.
Yang Rui asked for help, but Wang Guowei could not refuse. Since the Fuxing Army entered the city, he was under Yang Rui's special care. At first he didn't know. After a long time, especially when he entered the Academy of Sciences, he knew who was protecting him behind his back, but also his colleagues.
On that day, Wang Guowei, dressed in the Qing Dynasty's official uniform, just returned home, and his wife pulled him into the house to talk about the Prime Minister's invitation to the garden. Although the woman knew that the Prime Minister had always taken care of her husband, she still asked uneasy: "Jing'an, what's the Prime Minister asking for you? You can change your clothes tomorrow... and also have braids..."
"It's not a problem!" Wang Guowei said lightly. Although he is a nerd, his mind is like a searchlight for things that are illuminated. He can always find problems where others cannot find problems. Of course, the world outside the light column is pitch black for it. Before the Prime Minister recovers from his illness, he asks himself to go to the garden to guess what he is. Compared with what he is talking about, court uniforms, braids, etc. are really secondary.
When the Prime Minister invited me, Wang Guowei just pondered for a moment and thought it was okay. That night, he still played cards in the study, and after his wife helped him comb his braids, he went to bed. The next afternoon, after briefly handling the business, he came directly to the Duke Zhenguo's mansion.
Yang Rui thought Wang Guowei would come after get off work, but who would have thought that Man Yu would miss the shift in the afternoon? I really don’t know how his attendance and etiquette department handled it. He was still thinking about this details. When Cheng Xu saw a guest coming to the door, he asked Yang Wuming to go to the living room to greet him first, and he served the man to get out of bed and dress.
Once again, standing on the ground wearing a coat, Yang Rui felt his mind spinning. Finally, he held the woman's shoulder and barely stood firm. He couldn't help but sigh, "I'm so old."
"What old age? The disease has not been cured yet." The woman was pulled over by him and couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.
Yang Rui didn't care about the woman's laughter and just asked: "Did he come in the Qing Dynasty's official uniform?"
Before, Cheng Xu went out to greet him. When she saw Yang Rui ask, she said, "Yes, she even dragged her white braids. I think he is a very honest person. Don't scare her."
"I scared him?" Yang Rui shook his head helplessly. He thought Wang Guowei would give him some face to go home and change his usual clothes, then put on the damn disgusting braids, and then come again. He didn't expect him to come straight. He looked at the woman who was helping him with a belt and said sarcastically: "Where do I want to scare him? He is here to scare me."
In the living room, Yang Wuming was serving tea for Wang Guowei. Before the cigarette was burned halfway, Yang Rui came out. In his opinion, Wang Guowei, wearing a Qing official robe, was not only dim, but also extremely ugly. After all, he was a guest from afar. Yang Rui bowed his hand when he stood up to salute. Both sides had finished politely.
Without any maneuvers, Yang Rui said bluntly: "Mr. Jing'an, borrowing a sentence from Li Zhongtang is that today is a major change that has not been seen in three thousand years. Since it is a major change in three thousand years, it is naturally necessary to seek a blessing for the dawn for three thousand years, but..."
Yang Rui said suddenly remembered the farming association that almost killed his and his son, and the so-called grassroots organization, and he couldn't help but laugh, "It's just that from the moment, the revival association is basically a failure. This failure is not that China cannot become a world power, but that it is basically the same as all dynasties, and it is just that it replaces the family and the world. Although there was prosperity during this period, there would be no essential difference between such prosperity and the so-called Kangxi and Qianlong periods, and the Kaiyuan period will be recession after the prosperity. If there was no leader of the revival, it would be surviving in the future.
Although this is a routine of the dynasty, it is very likely that it will not happen in the future. More often, the whole country is broken a few pieces and eventually becomes a vassal of world powers, such as Belgium and the Netherlands to Britain, Mexico and Panama to the United States. I think this is something that no one in China wants to see. Here I would like to ask Mr. Jing'an, what are the best strategies to break this situation?"
Although he had known what Yang Rui would ask, Wang Guowei was still a little uncomfortable when he opened his mouth and went straight to the point. Although he was not used to it, he could not use some slander to vaguely speak. He heard Yang Rui say the word "Ask" and he hurriedly said, "I dare not accept it. However, the three thousand years of change cannot be broken by Guowei, and it is unreliable..."
Wang Guowei said while thinking, slowly, seeing that he had some concerns, Yang Rui said again: "What we are talking about today is not about the Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. It is just a matter of a hundred years and is not within our discussion. We only talk about things that are more than a thousand years old, and it doesn't matter if we say something wrong. If we are not used to it, then if the Qing Dynasty is still there, and the record of the Qing Dynasty for you, how can this country be governed so as not to become a Mexican stream?"
"This..." Since it was said that, Wang Guowei, who was holding glasses, had to say bluntly, "This should be the ending."
"Well, please tell me in detail." Yang Rui felt nervous when he heard this, and he couldn't help asking.
"If there is no change, after this dynasty, the situation should be as the master said, the world would be disintegrated into a vassal of the world's countries, and there is no possibility of ease of change." Wang Guowei was very uneasy, so he kept holding his glasses. "I remember that the master once said in the book that civilization was a barbaric tribe at the beginning, a large and large city-state at the beginning, and then a kingdom at the end, and it might be a republic at the end, but the final outcome was the empire.
Today's Western European civilization is the rebirth of the Roman Empire after the barbarians destroyed the Roman Empire, so it is still in the kingdom period; the eastern country has long been an empire. Only Japan, whose vassals and counties were abolished during the Meiji period, was like the Qin abolished the feudals and established counties, and unified the world. This is the prime of civilization; Korea still retains the spirit of the Song and Ming dynasties, just like the end of the prime of life and the beginning of the old age. Adults travel to China and abroad and study the heavens and men, and they should know that people have birth, old age, sickness and death, and civilization also has prosperity, decline and destruction. Why bother to seek revival? Let it go naturally..."
"No!" Yang Rui shook his head apart. Although he was copying books, he was not just copying them. He could basically recite the things he said in the books, for fear that someone would accuse him of saying that the book was not written by him at all. Since this is the case, he certainly had an answer to whether China could be revived. It was precisely because of the answer that he was unwilling to face the sad result.
"Mr. Jing'an, if your child is sick, should you let it be reincarnated as a human being, or would you use all your heart to seek medical treatment and medicine to seek healing?" Yang Rui then made an example. "I think everyone has a love for the calf. I don't ask for revival, nor do I ask for the Greater China. I just think about some people, some poetry, books, rituals, and texts and classics that can be passed on forever? I think this is not a delusion. Since Mr. has never forgotten the Qing Dynasty, how can he give up this thousands of years of civilization?"
Wang Guowei was originally seeking truth from facts and had something to say about Revival. Now, after hearing Yang Rui’s use of children as an analogy, he finally admitted frankly: “Prime Minister Taiyan acted against history and decided to divide the feudalism, which may be a solution. However, this can only be done outside the pass, not within the pass.”
"Oh." Wang Guowei's recognition of the feudal division was known a few months ago, but when he heard that the feudal division was not feasible within the pass, he asked again: "Why can't it be feasible within the pass?"
"Can you know this time... the capital's surprise change is different from the provinces?" Wang Guowei asked, and then replied, "The most tragic ones are Henan, Shandong, Zhili, Shaanxi, and Gansu, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the other are the two lakes, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi, and the least are Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Taiwan.
In Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Taiwan and other places, there are many rural ancestral halls, and they have always been xenophobic. They often disobey the imperial court's government orders, which is equivalent to the effect of tribal feudal division. However, in Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, there were no clans, and only landlords and gentry remained in the county. However, after the land reform, the gentry declined and the farmers' associations were rampant, so the order was executed as quickly as possible and took the opportunity to make profits.
Those who have no ancestral halls have no clans, those who have no clans are rude, those who have no rituals have no high and low, those who have no high and low, those who have no high and low, those who have no education have no morals, and those who have no morals cannot actually entrust the hope of revival. It is also said that tribes, although they eat raw meat and drink blood, they are arrogant and ignorant, they are mostly simple, honest and generous; people in the city-state, although vulgar and ignorant, are still barbaric, but always respect the heaven and the earth, which is difficult to be confused; people in the kingdom, although they are gradually worldly and elegant, they can keep their promises and respect the etiquette and the pride; the people of the empire, although they are red and tactful, benevolent, righteous and moral, are despicable, sinister and cunning. These subjects can only be suppressed and cannot be taught.
Chapter completed!