Qin Zheng's reply disappointed everyone present, because listening to the meaning of this, overseas Chinese did not intend to lead the reform of the Qing court, but only planned to play the role of an adviser in it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info However, Qin Zheng's explanation also makes sense, Bi Jing, an overseas Chinese, has just returned from overseas, and he is not clear about the situation in China and the affairs of the Qing court.

Qin Zheng said that the overseas Chinese's experience in overseas nation-building cannot be applied to the reform of the Qing court, which also makes people breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he also believes that overseas Chinese are honest and cautious and reliable. Of course, no one would have thought that the real goal of the traverser was to replace the Qing court.

However, the next questioner's question is a bit unappetizing, the reporter of the [leisure newspaper] said: "To the ancient ancestors' law, can not be changed lightly, change is easy to be vivid, not to mention the Wuxu period, Kang Liang presided over the law, disturbed the court, shook the society, the heavens resented the anger, resulting in the disharmony between the two palaces, the country was shaken, the cause of the day of Wuxu, there was the fruit of today's Gengzi country change, and the beginning of the surge, lies in the change of the law, the noble people first returned to the Middle Earth, do not know the severity, and talk about change, this is still the way to take chaos, in the next thought it is not advisable also, I don't know if the noble people think it is true. ”

Other reporters asked questions, basically in the vernacular, only this reporter, full of words, also made many reporters at the scene look sideways, of course, there are also people who know the details of this reporter, secretly laughing: "It turned out to be him, but there are jokes to see." ”

It turned out that the reporter of [Leisure Daily] was a landed talent, who had been taking the scientific examination for more than ten years, but unfortunately he didn't even get in, because he was forced to make a living, so he had to go to the newspaper as the chief writer to eat. However, this person is still an old-style literati in his bones, and he often publishes some nostalgic and retro articles in newspapers, hates Western studies, and maintains traditions, and belongs to the standard conservatives. However, the "Leisure Daily" is a tabloid, the content is mainly to report strange things, and there is no fixed political opinion of its own, and there are various opinions, so there is still a place for such old-fashioned literati.

Qin Zheng's face remained unchanged, and he said with a smile: "I want to ask this reporter first, when do you say the law of the ancestors, when does this ancestor refer to, is it the Three Emperors and Five Emperors opened by the Chinese nation, Yao Shunyu Tang, or the first imperial Qin and Han eras, or refers to the era when the Qing court established the foundation of the country?"

The reporter of [Leisure Daily] was stunned, and did not expect Qin Zheng to ask such a question, because "the law of the ancestors cannot be changed lightly" is just the mantra of ordinary conservative people, and no one can trace this "ancestor" to that generation, no one can say clearly, and no one has studied it seriously, so he can't answer for a while, and after a while, he said: "Naturally, it refers to the time when this dynasty was founded." ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "Then the founding of this dynasty you mentioned is counted from Taizu Nuer Hachi, or from the entry of Emperor Shizong Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty." ”

The reporter of [Leisure Daily] thought about it again before saying: "Naturally, it is counted from the time of Taizu. ”

Qin Zheng said: "Okay, but I remember that the name of the country founded by Taizu Nur Hachi is Jin, and the name of Chun is the name of the country that was changed from Emperor Taizong Taiji, so which one of 'Jin' and 'Qing' is the ancestral law recognized by Mr. Reporter?"

When the reporter of the [Leisure Daily] heard this, he also opened his mouth and could not answer, and there was a burst of ridicule at the scene.

Qin Zheng then said: "I remember that when the Chunting Dynasty was founded, the institution that presided over the government was the cabinet, and now the government is presided over by the Military Aircraft Department, which is not considered to have changed the law of the ancestors, as well as the Yamen of the Prime Minister's Office, the Minister of Beiyang, the Minister of Nanyang, and the officials of these institutions were not available when the Qing Court opened the country. ”

The ridicule at the scene was louder, and the reporter of the [Leisure Daily] lowered his head and shrugged his head, unable to say a word.

Qin Zheng said: "Therefore, it is said that 'the law of the ancestors cannot be changed lightly', which is a lie in itself, because the world is constantly changing, so in each era, some adjustments and changes will be made to the national system according to the different circumstances of the society to adapt to the development of the times." As for the Kang Liang reform that happened two years ago mentioned by this reporter, we have also heard about it overseas, but we are not clear about what happened in it, so it is inconvenient to comment, maybe they made some mistakes in the process of changing the law, but this is a mistake at the implementation level, and it cannot be attributed to the change itself, which is like using fire improperly, which will cause fire, so will we stop using fire from now on?"

Qin Zheng is familiar with the history of this era, and of course he knows that it makes quite sense to pull the source of the Gengzi Kingdom Change to the Wuxu Change Law. On the whole, before the Wuxu Reform, although there were profound contradictions between the Empress Dowager Cixi and Guangxu, on the whole, the relationship was still good, and many things could be compromised with each other, and sometimes the Empress Dowager Cixi would make some concessions to Guangxu. The biggest evil consequence of the Wuxu Reform Law was that the relationship between the emperor and the queen was completely broken, and it was even completely opposed, and the Empress Dowager Cixi even planned to abolish Guangxu and set up a new emperor, and formally summoned ministers to discuss this matter.

However, due to various considerations, the foreigners opposed the Empress Dowager Cixi's abolition of Guangxu, which caused the contradictions between the Empress Dowager Cixi and other countries, so Cixi needed another force to help herself fight against the foreigners, and at this time, the Boxer Rebellion arose, claiming that there was a body protection magic to restrain the guns of the foreigners, and there was a group of Qing court officials with different intentions in it, and the upper and lower were concealed, so the Empress Dowager Cixi believed in the magic of the Boxers, and finally decided to rely on the Boxers to deal with the foreigners, and declared war on various countries one by one, resulting in the Gengzi National Revolution。 And tracing back to the source, it is not wrong to say that the source of the Gengzi National Change is the Wuxu Change.

But the traverser did not want to lead the reform of the Qing court, because it was destined to be a thankless task; he did not want to make a historical characterization of the Wuxu Reform, which would be almost the same after the founding of the country; he did not want to mix in the tearing things between the Empress Dowager Cixi and Guangxu, and would rather be a melon-eating onlooker, but he must make an attitude of demanding the Qing court to carry out changes and continue to play the role of an enlightened person, so Qin Zheng refuted the so-called "law of the ancestors on the one hand, which cannot be changed lightly" On the other hand, the Wuxu change method avoids the real and the false, and pushes it all away, but it is beyond reproach.

Then the French reporter asked, "Political Commissar Qin, you just said that the concession is a symbol of China's humiliation, but all the concessions were established by the signing of treaties between various countries and the Qing state, and the environment, management, justice, administration, public security and urban appearance of the concession are far stronger than other cities in China, and a large number of Chinese are willing to settle in the concession. A window of ignorance, a stronghold of communication with the civilized world, I don't know what you think. ”

Qin Zheng said: "I didn't want to talk about the treaty just now, since Mr. Reporter mentioned the treaty, then I want to ask Mr. Reporter a question first, the two provinces of Lorraine-Alsace in France were ceded to Prussia, which is now Germany, and also signed the [Treaty of Versailles], so may I ask if France recognizes the two provinces of Lorraine-Alsace as the territory of Germany, not the territory of France." ”

The face of the French journalist changed slightly, the Franco-Prussian War ended in a fiasco for France, and France was forced to cede the two provinces of Lorraine-Alsace to Prussia, but this is also an eternal pain in the hearts of the French, and France has never recognized that Lorraine-Alsace is German territory, but France is the territory occupied by Germany, but as Qin Zheng said, the cession of Lorraine-Alsace provinces is stipulated in the German law [Treaty of Versailles], which is equivalent to slapping the French journalist in the face, so the French journalist was speechless at this time.

Fortunately, Qin Zheng did not force him to answer again, but continued: "I admit that what Mr. Reporter said just now is true, and I also admit that the establishment of the concession has indeed brought China advanced urban planning and administrative management experience, as well as modern judicial and public security concepts, and indeed provides China with a window and model for understanding the world, which are all positive aspects of the concession to China." But we also insist that the existence of the concession is a disgrace to China, and the reason is the extraterritoriality of the concession, that is, there is another set of administrative and legal systems in the concession, and the laws and administrative power of the Qing court are invalid in the concession. If it is not a shame to be on the territory of one's own country and not be able to exercise its own legal and administrative powers, then what is a shame. I think the journalist would have thought that the cession of the Lorraine-Alsace provinces would be a disgrace to France. ”

The reporter asked: "We have noticed that after your return to China, you have successively recovered the Tianjin Concession, the Weihaiwei Concession, and the Qingdao Concession, and your statement just now that the concession is a disgrace to China, so do you advocate that China should recover all the concessions? And will you continue to recover China's concessions?"

Qin Zheng said: "First of all, we occupy Tianjin, Weihaiwei, and Qingdao out of strategic planning considerations, not just to recover the concession. Of course, we advocate that China should recover all the concessions, but it is not up to us to recover all the concessions, because we have only just returned to China, our strength is limited, and we are not strictly speaking officials of the Qing court. Therefore, if you want to recover all the concessions, in the final analysis, it still depends on China's own strength, and you need to be hard to strike iron, and only when China's own national strength is strong can you recover all the concessions and completely wash away the shame. And we can't put our hopes in it. ”