Guangxu didn't care, and said: "Qin Zheng, this time the boxers are in trouble, the Gengzi country is changing, the great powers are competing to bully China, so that the court is covered with dust, and my Qing Dynasty has been wiped out several times, fortunately, it is you who return to China in a timely manner, so that you can save the building when it is about to fall, and its great merit is really my luck in the Qing Dynasty, so that loyal people like you can return." ”

Qin Zheng listened, owed a debt, and said: "The emperor has won the award, we are just at the right time." What's more, we are descendants of China, and we should do our best for China. ”

Listening to Qin Zheng's words, Guangxu's heart couldn't help but be slightly disappointed, because what he said just now, from the standpoint of the feudal dynasty, is quite a high-level praise, if it is in the Qing court, the official who receives this kind of praise should make a grateful look, and even kneel on the ground, kowtow, and show his loyalty to the court. As a result, Qin Zheng hastily brought it over with such a simple sentence.

However, Guangxu also thought that overseas Chinese had lived overseas for a long time and did not know much about Chinese etiquette, so it was reasonable that he did not make the statement he hoped for, and he should not be too careful. So Guangxu said: "In fact, with your merits, it is not an exaggeration to enter the military plane, and it is not an exaggeration to be in charge of the government, only to be a small governor of Shandong, it is indeed overkill, but now the court is still in trouble, let you serve as the governor of Shandong, it is still an expedient measure, and after the court returns to Beijing, it will be hard to make the country strong, and strive for governance, then you will also have a place to play, so I hope that you will be diligent in local government affairs in Shandong, do not slack off, wait for the opportunity, and do not live up to my expectations." ”

Guangxu knew that Cixi would definitely send someone to eavesdrop on the conversation between him and Qin Zheng, so what Qin Zheng said was carefully studied to achieve the goal of not only being able to show favor to overseas Chinese, but also not touching Cixi's bottom line.

However, Qin Zheng's answer once again disappointed Guangwei, Qin Zheng said: "The emperor is too awarded, in fact, we can be a governor of Shandong, so that the clansmen have a place to stay, we are already very satisfied, and the rest are not extravagant." ”

After two consecutive attempts, he did not get a satisfactory answer, Guangxu couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, and said: "After this difficulty, I have reached the point where I have to work hard. ”

Qin Zheng looked at Guangxu and said, "Does the emperor want to change the law again?"

Guangxu didn't reply, just nodded slightly, because the word "change" was a forbidden word in front of Cixi, so just now Guangxu only dared to say something to work hard, strive for governance, self-improvement and other words.

In fact, Qin Zheng didn't understand Guangxu's intentions, but it was impossible for the crossing group to intervene in the dispute between the emperor and the queen, let alone support Guangxu, because whether it was Cixi or Guangxu, they were both objects that the crossing group wanted to overthrow, but Guangxu was a sympathetic person after all, so Qin Zheng didn't want to lie to him, let alone let Guangxu have unrealistic illusions about the crossing group, so Qin Zheng said: " When we first returned to China, the time was still short, and we did not know much about the current Chinese national conditions and people's conditions, so we did not dare to speak out in vain, but the Western countries are different from China's national conditions, and their laws can only be used for reference and cannot be copied. ”

Qin Zheng's reply obviously could not satisfy Guangxu, but it could not be said that Qin Zheng's answer was wrong, so he smiled bitterly and said: "At this time, I am not enough to save the country by changing the law in the Qing Dynasty, and I don't want to be the king of the country, but unfortunately there is no one available around me, so I hope that you can make the Qing Dynasty prosperous and strong, and you can also go down in history through the ages, and return to the country in vain." ”

After Qin Zheng heard this, he knew that Guangxu had not given up his illusions yet, so he said: "When we were overseas, we also heard that a few years ago, there was a reform of the law in the Qing Dynasty, when the emperor used Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao's master and apprentice, to preside over the change of the law. ”

The names Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao are also taboo in front of Cixi, but Guangxu thought in his heart that this was said by Qin Zheng, not himself, so he nodded, peeked out of the door again, and said, "There is indeed such a thing, I don't know what you think." ”

Qin Zheng said in a deep voice: "If the emperor thinks that the reform of the law is what Kang Liang did, then it is a big mistake. ”

Guangxu couldn't help but be a little stunned, and said, "How did you see it?"

Qin Zheng said: "Kang Liang changed the law for 104 days, but issued more than 280 reform orders, involving various aspects of government affairs, economy, culture, diplomacy, and military. Reform of the law, what a major move, since ancient China to change the law, few people have succeeded, can know its difficulty, so it is not extremely cautious, the whole is deliberate, and then the plan is not feasible, not to mention that China's territory is vast, the population is large, the customs, habits, and people's hearts are not the same, thousands of things, chaos is like a thread, and the whole body is moved, how can it be chaotic at will. ”

After Guangxu listened to Qin Zheng's words, he was speechless, although he was imprisoned by seizing power, and even almost abolished, a large part of the reason was due to the reckless actions of Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and other reformers, but Guangxu has always regarded Kang Liang as the pillar of the world and saving the world, and sometimes Guangxu will fantasize that he will one day take power, and invite Kang Liang from overseas to re-preside over the reform of the law, so that the Qing Dynasty will be rich and strong, and the world will be prosperous. And after the Gengzi country changed and fled, Guangxu thought more than once that if the Wuxu change was not interrupted, the Qing Dynasty was probably a new and prosperous scene, and such a thing would never happen.

But Qin Zheng unceremoniously depreciated the governing materials in his mind to almost worthless, which also made Guangxu very dissatisfied, and although the reform orders issued by the Wuxu Reform Law were all proposed by Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others, they were also issued by Guangxu, so Qin Zheng's accusations and depreciation actually included Guangxu in it.

In the old time and space, there was a considerable period of time on the Wuxu Reform and Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao's evaluation was too high, thinking that although the Wuxu Reform failed, but it opened China's ideological enlightenment and ideological emancipation movement, in fact, after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the idea of reform and innovation has become the mainstream of Chinese society, so the Wuxu Reform Law can only be said to coincide with the fact that this kind of thinking has been promoted, and it is a bit exaggerated to say that it is opened.

Of course, it cannot be said that the Wuxu reform is not of progressive significance, but after all, how much of a real ideological attack on China can be played by an act of changing the law that has only lasted for 104 days. To say that the real effect of the Wuxu Reform Law is mainly to fix the old and stubborn image of the Qing court and promote the transformation of intellectuals from reform to revolution. Many intellectuals who still had illusions about the Qing government were transformed into revolutionaries. However, this effect should be more accurately said to be the effect of the coup d'état, rather than the effect of the law itself.

On the other hand, although the nature of the Wuxu Reform Law is defined by the historiography as a bourgeois reform movement, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who led the Wuxu Reform Law, are still traditional Chinese intellectuals in essence. Because he was the spiritual mentor of the Restoration, Kang Youwei only went to Hong Kong once, and after the failure of the Wuxu Reform, Kang Youwei got the opportunity to go abroad and traveled to Japan and Europe and the United States, but his thinking became more and more conservative.

At the time of the Wuxu Reform, the reformists, including Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, did not understand the actual systems and systems of Western countries. Of course, even if you don't understand it halfway, compared with China at that time, the ideas of the reformists are indeed progressive, but the reformists' ability to hold, insight, Political means, and even moral standards, can only be described as ridiculous, so the failure of the Wuxu reform, in a sense, is still a good thing, but it has achieved the reputation of Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others, if Kang Youwei is really allowed to preside over the reform, Liang Qichao and others preside over the reform, it is impossible for China to become rich and strong, and within a year China must be chaotic, and the Gengzi national change may occur in advance.

Although Guangxu is unwilling to be the king of the country, and tries to change the law to become strong, he is still a feudal monarch in essence, before the Wuxu coup, except in front of Cixi, he will always be the king of the Holy Ming, of course, there will be no mistakes, at this time, I can't help but give birth to the idea that overseas Chinese are too arrogant, but he still suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and said: "Then according to your opinion, where is the priority of the Qing Dynasty's law change?"

Of course, Qin Zheng could hear Guangxu's dissatisfaction, and thought in his heart that he still wanted to be a rising Mingjun at this point, but since Guangxu asked here, he might as well light up a little dry goods, as for whether Guangxu can understand it or not, it doesn't matter, so Qin Zheng said: "The top priority in China today is land. ”

Guangxu was stunned, he didn't expect Qin Zheng to give himself these two words.

Qin Zheng continued: "The foundation of the country lies in the people, and the foundation of the people lies in the land, although we have not returned to China for a long time, but also understand that some of the land annexation situation in China is very serious, the land in the world, seven or eight out of ten are occupied by the big landlords, the powerful, and the squire, and the peasants all the land is only one or two tenths, and the cultivators have no land, the country is unstable, and it is the first priority of the previous dynasties, which is naturally the first priority in today's China, and if the land problem is not solved, any other changes are useless." ”

As a feudal emperor, of course, Guangxu would not be ignorant of the harm of land annexation, but first, Guangxu did not have any intuitive understanding of land annexation, and most of them were seen from the history books; second, in Guangxu's view, only effective reform and innovation in Western countries was the top priority, and land or something was still conservative thinking, and Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao never mentioned the solution to the matter of land annexation, and it seemed that as long as the law change was successful, the problem of land annexation could naturally be solved.

However, Qin Zheng solemnly listed the land issue as China's first priority, which not only surprised Guangxu, but also disappointed him, and thought that overseas Chinese could have much knowledge, but the result was still the old-fashioned one.