Lu State Attacking Zou State?

History books are must-read books for the royal family, Cixi and Guangxu have naturally read them, and when they heard this, their faces were a little unbearable.

Decades earlier, whoever dared to say this would have his head cut off directly.

But in 1840, after being directly subdued by the British father, carrying out the Westernization Movement, and the trend of reform ideology was raised, even some people of insight in the Qing Dynasty reluctantly admitted in their hearts:

In the world, I am not only backward, but also ignorant.

Under this kind of thinking, not only those students who studied abroad like to criticize the government, but even some ministers of the old school also revealed their dissatisfaction with the status quo in the "Westernization Movement".

Even Pork Rong, who was far away in Guangzhou, could say "anti-Qing" words when he was angry, which shows that due to the invasion of foreign powers, the Chinese national consciousness at this time has begun to awaken.

What Ye Shu said at this time was very rebellious, but in the late Qing Dynasty at this time, it was not shocking at all.

Therefore, Cixi just frowned and listened, and when she heard that Ye Shu had the intention of continuing, she didn't interject, just waiting for Ye Shu to continue to finish.

Guangxu was a little shallow in the city, and asked, "Sir, did you mean that the court oppressed the people?"

When the national disaster is at the head, there is no way to do it!

However, I can assure Mr. that if Mr. Wang's law of strengthening the country comes into effect, I will definitely elevate the status of the Han people and make the Manchu and Han families!"

Both of them misunderstood, and felt that the reason why Ye Shu said this was because of the difference in status of the Han Dynasty.

Cixi also took into account some Manchu interests, but Guangxu, who was eager to take power, did not have so many concerns, and in his opinion, as long as the royal rights were guaranteed, there was no problem in making concessions to the Han people.

Even, the current Manchu magnates have become the biggest obstacle to changing the law and taking power, which makes Guangxu extremely disgusted.

In my heart, I am looking forward to Ye Shu even more.

Restraining the hearts of the people is indeed the foundation of a rich country, and Ye Shu directly mentioned things that no one dared to mention before, and in Guangxu's eyes, it made him feel that Ye Shu was confident.

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Seeing that the two of them had misunderstood, Ye Shu shook his head and continued: "I heard again that in the First Opium War, when the British fleet broke through the Humen fortress and went north along the Pearl River, tens of thousands of local residents gathered on both sides of the river.

They watched the battle between their court and the foreign Yi with a cold and very calm expression, as if they were watching a performance, when the official ship flying the green dragon and yellow flag was sunk and the Qing army jumped into the water one after another, the residents on both sides of the strait actually let out a boo as if they were watching a circus and seeing the wonderful places.

The commander of the British army, Bashali, witnessed this scene and was very puzzled. Then he asked his comprador why he had come to this, and the comprador said: "The country does not know that there are people, and the people do not know that there is a country!"

This touched the scars of Daqing again.

Cixi said: "Restraining the people's hearts and borrowing the people's strength is indeed the foundation of a strong country.

I have issued an order to support the anti-foreign forces in various places, and it has been quite fruitful.

It's just that those untouchables, who only know that they have a home, don't know that there is a country, and the country is in trouble, and they don't want to serve the country, they are enemies of the court everywhere, and they refuse to understand the difficulties of the court!

There are even people who have access to foreign countries, and I heard that Mr. Ye has also punished a few spies who trafficked in the people, and there are a lot of these people, and they are indeed hateful!"

In the middle of the words, Cixi's meaning is obvious: Don't just scold me for the Qing Dynasty, those traitors and fake foreign devils are not good things!

Everyone is rotten, why do you Ye Shu only scold the court?

Hearing this, Ye Shu's thoughts became more intense, and he rubbed his eyebrows:

"I heard that thirty years ago, the British and French troops sacked the Old Summer Palace.

Gong Zizhen's son, Gong Banlun, not only served as a leader, but also served as an interpreter for the British minister, negotiating with Prince Gong on behalf of the British, and making things difficult in every way.

Angry, Prince Gong scolded him: You wait for the world to receive the grace of the country, but you are willing to be a traitor for the tiger!

But Gong Banlun replied: We are good people, the road to progress was blocked by you, and we were exploited by corrupt officials, and we had to beg for food, today you scolded me for being a traitor, but I see you as a national thief!"

Old Summer Palace......

This is another symbol of the Qing Dynasty's slap in the face, which occurred in 1860, when 1.5 million precious national treasures were looted, even a hundred years later, it is extremely infuriating.

Of course, this is not the end, and in 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition will invade the capital again, and then the Xixiao Royal Garden will suffer another disaster.

The Old Summer Palace is about to become an exclusive symbol of the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

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Hearing this, seeing that Cixi's face was ugly, Guangxu showed a hint of schadenfreude in his heart: "What Mr. Ye said is true, it is indeed urgent to restrain the people's hearts and reopen the road to the people's promotion.

I presided over the imperial examination before, and found that a first-class minister cheated on the candidates, so I ignored the advice of the courtiers and cut off his head......

Don't worry, sir, I know about this and will pay attention to it!

In addition to restraining the hearts of the people and promoting talents from the people, what other way is there to strengthen the country, so that the people will be attached to it, willing to be used by the court, and resist the foreigners head-on?"

Guangxu showed favor like this, but Ye Shu didn't hear it

Because his Shenyuan breakthrough at this time was nearing the end.

The fierce collision thoughts gradually calmed down, the heart was clear, and the whole world seemed to have changed.

""Chivalrous Retrospective" prompts: Your Shenyuan has a breakthrough, and the current Shenyuan LV2: 1/200!"

Ye Shu could feel the eagerness of Guangxu in front of him and Cixi's concerns.

Even the laziness of the guards not far away was "watched" by him in his heart.

Li Lianying, who has been serving left and right, seems to be hostile to Ye Shu, and her emotions are most obvious at this time.

Those useless distracting thoughts that interfered with Ye Shu's thinking for no reason on weekdays have also disappeared a lot.

At the very least, Ye Shu doesn't have to think of monkeys when he does anything in the future, and it's okay to bloom in that blind chicken.

The difficulties in spearmanship, swordsmanship, and boxing, at this time, after the breakthrough of Shenyuan, there was a lot of inspiration, and after going back to test, it was enough to improve a lot in strength.

The breakthrough of Shen Yuan, unlike Jing Yuan, has a huge improvement in body and combat effectiveness.

It makes Ye Shu's mind sharp, and he can also detect obvious hostility, which is similar to improving his sixth sense, but this effect is extremely great.

Shen Yuan broke through, Ye Shu looked at the two people in front of him, and a smile appeared on his face:

"A strong country?

The people are in their hearts?

In order to protect the court, fight with foreigners?

Ha ha!

Isn't that a pipe dream?"

Ye Shu, who had always looked quiet, suddenly became so resentful and flamboyant, which made Cixi and Guangxu a little uncomfortable, thinking that he was dissatisfied, so he didn't speak and listened to Ye Shu's words.

But I saw Ye Shu standing up, his eyebrows and eyes were like knives, sharp and fierce:

"The long-term brutal oppression of the people, the turning of the people into slaves, the bending and breaking of the people's backbone.

And in the face of foreign invasion and chaos, they expect the people to still bend down as slaves in front of themselves, and stand up straight in front of foreign enemies to resist!

It's not a pipe dream,

And what?!"

PS: The story told by Ye Shu in this chapter uses the "Short Essay on the Awakening of Professor 'Zhong Fulan' of China Normal University" circulated on the Internet, but Shao Chong checked Professor Zhong Fulan's personal profile, and did not find a similar title for this article.

On the contrary, in Mr. Yang Honglin's "Late Qing Society Behind Classic Images", it is said that the story of the common people watching the invasion of foreigners was recorded.

I don't know, what the situation is.

Shao Chong doesn't know much about this, and I'm going to buy this book to take a look, if there are mistakes, please be more tolerant of the big guys.