Section 207 Xingtai talks about the South China Sea

"Mr. Wu, it's a good luck!" Chen Tianhua, who was still a little dizzy, mechanically wanted to introduce himself, but looking at the weak Chen Tianhua, Wu Chenxuan raised his hand to stop the other party's opening, and helped the other party fold the quilt behind him, so that Chen Tianhua could barely sit still.

"Brother Xingtai, I know everything about you. Otherwise, don't bother to introduce yourself, and listen to whether the information I have is accurate, okay? Although Wu Chenxuan was asking the other party, he had no intention of obtaining the other party's consent and began to open the conversation.

"Brother Tianhua's original name was Xiansu, the word Xingtai, also the word Guoting, alias Sihuang, a native of Ronghua Township, Xinhua County, Hunan. In the first year of the first year, you moved to the county with your father and made a living by carrying baskets and selling. When Brother Tianhua was young, he was determined to recover the motherland, and he deeply hated the Qing court ** and national oppression, and praised Zeng (Guofan), Zuo (Zongtang), Peng (Yulin), and Hu (Lin Yi) for their achievements in serving the Qing court, and disdained them; He admired and admired the national heroes and leaders of the peasant uprisings in history. When you were 16 years old, one day you passed by the post pavilion and wrote the poem "There is no handsome man in the grass, and you must know that the mountains rise from heroes", which shows your great ambition to clarify the world and save the world. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, he entered the Yuelu Academy in the provincial capital, and his results were among the best. At the beginning of the 28th year, he entered the Provincial Normal Hall, and soon received official funds to study in the Normal Department of the Hongyuan in Tokyo, Japan, and participated in the organization of the "Anti-Russian Volunteer Corps" and the "Military National Education Association". On February 15, the 29th year of Guangxu, Chen Tianhua, together with Huang Kedi and Song Yuchu, participated in the launch of the secret revolutionary group Huaxinghui in Changsha, Hunan, and went to Jiangxi to instigate an army uprising. In June of the 30th year of Guangxu, Chen Tianhua and Song Yuchu founded the magazine "Twentieth Century Zhina". In July, Mr. Qiao Fu went to Japan and advocated uniting various revolutionary groups to organize the Kyushu Revolutionary Party, which Chen Tianhua actively endorsed. In August, the Kyushu Revolutionary Party was established in Tokyo, with Brother Tianhua as secretary and was elected as one of the drafters of the party constitution. ”

"You, how do you know so well?" Chen Tianhua didn't expect that he would be so famous in the Qing court.

"I know a lot, I also know that 12 years after you sank into the sea today, a young man who is about to study in Japan has not forgotten this incident and wrote a poem to express his nostalgia for you. Facing the wall for ten years, it is difficult to reward the heroes of the sea", this person is the Duke of Zhou, who is known as a generation of virtuous ministers in history" Wu Chenxuan thought in his heart, but he didn't need to say it, after all, Chen Tianhua is not dead now, all this will happen from this moment on, and it is impossible to predict where the wheel of history will go.

Wu Chenxuan did not answer his question, but handed him the folder in his hand, Chen Tianhua took the folder, opened it and wrote a few big characters on Chen Tianhua's personal file, and the words "Confidential of the Intelligence Department" were marked with a red pen below. couldn't wait to open his file, and the content recorded in a few thin sheets of paper made Chen Tianhua instantly feel as if he had been stripped naked.

In the anecdote column, it is recorded: "When Chen Tianhua was studying in Xinhua Shi School, there was an essay contest with the title of "Shu Zhi". After a little thought, he was the first to hand in the paper and was rated as the first class. He only used more than 100 words to write his intention to advocate political reform: "The great husband has made meritorious contributions to the field and won the decisive battle, such as Ban Dingyuan, Yue Zhongwu and others, I have heard his words, but I have not seen them." As for strategizing, praising the temple, determining the trade-off of the law, and the profit and loss of current affairs, it is said that the difference is one day. Unfortunately and the cloth is old, the famous mountain writes, and it is also wished. If you favor the likes of the times, return to what you really do, and compete with the old pedants to win or lose, you just die, and you can't do it." After reading it, the teacher Luo Yi praised it greatly, and wrote two comments next to the volume: "Where the narrow alleys meet with short soldiers, killing people is like grass and not listening." He also added an eyebrow criticism: "A little is better than a lot." ”

In the column of anti-Russian deeds, it is written: "In April of the 28th year of Guangxu, Tsarist Russia vainly attempted to annex China's northeast and put forward a "secret treaty" with seven demands to the Qing government. On April 29, Chinese students held an anti-Russian meeting at the Jinhui Hall in Tokyo, where Huang Kedi and Chen Tianhua gave speeches and proposed to organize a "Volunteer Brigade to Resist Russia" (later renamed the "Anti-Russian Student Army") with 600 participants, preparing to go to the northeast to fight to the death against the Russian invading army. A few days later, more than 1,000 people attended. On the one hand, Chen Tianhua actively participated in live-fire shooting and military drills; On the one hand, it actively propagated anti-Russian and national protection. He bit the middle finger of his left hand, wrote dozens of bloody letters of "To the Hunan People" and "The Book of the Gentlemen of Hunan Students", mailed them to various schools in Hunan, and shouted: "If you want to be revolutionary, you can reform it at this time; After this time, there is no life! "Gou Wangang is united, sacrificing death to move forward, I am afraid that outsiders will not be able to swallow it." The survival of China depends on the monarchs, and if the monarchs think that China is dead, then China will die; If you think that China will not die, then how can you die?" ”

"It seems that Lord Wu has been paying attention to Tianhua for a long time? I don't know if this capture of the contemptible person is going to be sent back to China to be publicly Ling Chi or beheaded for public display? Chen Tianhua already felt that the other party understood so clearly, I am afraid that he had long been concerned about the revolution, and who else in China would spend a lot of effort to spy on the revolutionary party except the Qing court?

"Neither, let you meet someone, someone you know well. His name is Zou Rong. Wu Chenxuan was not surprised at all by Chen Tianhua's reaction, in fact, the surveillance personnel did not investigate Chen Tianhua's past, but the information he found through Du Niang was handed over to the Intelligence Department for printing and archiving.

"After all, you still want to kill me, so why bother to be pretentious." Although Chen Tianhua expected the consequences of falling into the hands of the imperial court, when he heard that he was going to be sent to see Zou Rong, he thought that the other party was going to kill him and meet Zou Rong in the underworld.

"Who said Mr. Zou Rong died?" Wu Chenxuan smiled, "Mr. Zou Rong is now my head of publicity, you have heard of his name these days, his current pen name is Tie Liu." ”

"Ah, Tieliu turned out to be Zou Rong?" Now it was Chen Tianhua's turn to be surprised: "Then the Qing court's announcement of Zou Rongyu's death is fake?" ”

"Of course, Zou Rong is alive and well now, and you should have seen his "On Constitutionalism and Royalism" last month, right?"

"That is, Tie Liu's pen is strong, uh, it is Zou Rong's sharp rhetoric, which hits the nail on the head, and the fluid of Kang Nanhai and Liang Qichao who refutes it is incomplete, which is really painful. Let's see what kind of faces Kang Liang and the others will have in the future, and then make irresponsible remarks about the revolution. Chen Tianhua commented on Tieliu's words, which was simply agitated and flying, and his eyebrows were dancing.

"Why should I bother with these stinking hairy boys? Their so-called revolution is a rebellion, a riot, and there is absolutely nothing beneficial except the destruction of human lives and the suffering of the country. An old man with white braids with a thick Cantonese accent was chatting with a group of men with similar braids in a teahouse in Kyoto.

A younger junior bowed in and whispered to the old man sitting in the front seat and the middle-aged man next to him: "Mr. Nanhai, Ren Gong, Lord Wu Chenxuan has arrived in Kyoto, can you invite him to meet him at the Nanhai Guild Hall?" ”

"This..."Kang Nanhai still believed in his status as an emperor, and didn't want to meet Wu Chenxuan, who was born in business, but Liang Zhuoru, who was known as Ren Gong, was very happy, "Xiao Deng, you still go and invite this Lord Wu, just say that it is Mr. Nanhai and my invitation, and ask him to meet at the Nanhai Hall tomorrow afternoon." ”

He turned his head to the old man and said, "Brother Nanhai, this Lord Wu is not an ordinary person. Although he was born as a businessman and donated to the class, he became the leader of the Shandong Domain and the Wuyi New Army, not just because Gengzi saved Lafayette. The subsequent quelling of the rebellion and the current alliance with Japan to resist Russia were all extremely good. Some of my Japanese friends are full of praise for this Wu Chenxuan, he is a really capable person, and it doesn't hurt to see Brother Nanhai. ”

"In that case, Xiao Deng will give him my prayer note and invite him to come over and talk about it." The old man was very arrogant, and Ren Gong couldn't help but shake his head, he had been a lost dog for almost ten years, and why did he put on a stinky shelf?

"Lord Wu, this is a bad word. Shinong industry and commerce, the noble and the low have been determined since ancient times. How can we put the industrial and commercial lowly industry in the first place? This is not putting the cart before the horse, it is the way for Qi to take trouble. An old pedant interrupted Wu Chenxuan's words and said breathlessly. Moreover, the monarch is an official of the imperial court, and he actually advocates something to restrict the monarch's power, which is really punishable. ”

It turned out that Wu Chenxuan came to visit Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao and other royalists, and in the Nanhai Hall, Liang Qichao first invited Wu Chenxuan to speak, and Wu Chenxuan also took the opportunity to publicize the significance of this constitutional investigation: "First of all, constitutionalism is actually a kind of sharing of the right to rule by different strata, uniting more forces to serve the country through equal interests and risk sharing, so that industrialists, businessmen, large landowners and other strata have the opportunity to participate in state power. Second, constitutionalism is the first time that China has declared the implementation of the "rule of law". "Legal system" is completely different from "**", "legal system" is a constraint on absolute power, in different dynasties in China for thousands of years, the emperor's "words" and "deeds" are the "law" of the state, in this condition without "law", not only the emperor's power is unlimited, supreme, but also unlimited. And under the conditions of a "rule of law", the power of the emperor is first and foremost limited by the "constitution" of the state. This was already an improvement in the Qing Dynasty. Some people believe that the "republican system" is more perfect than the "constitutional monarchy", and in fact, the implementation of which one is mainly based on the actual situation of a country, and the success of the "constitutional monarchy" in Britain and Japan is mainly due to the fact that the country at that time proceeds from the actual situation. Finally, although the "Westernization Movement" implemented by the imperial court introduced some advanced Western technology, it did not introduce the advanced system of the West, resulting in these advanced technologies not bringing strength to the country. In stark contrast, the success of Japan's Meiji Restoration lies precisely in the fact that Japan not only introduced advanced technology from the West, but also introduced advanced Western systems, which made Japan, which had always been backward, go ahead of China. ”

"If half of the Analects can govern the world, then why should the Empress Dowager and Her Majesty appoint important ministers such as Zhenguo Gong to visit Europe, the United States and Japan to seek the true meaning of constitutional government." Wu Chenxuan also lowered his face, and said that this kind of old master had no reason to say, "This investigation of constitutionalism and preparation of constitution is an important task of the imperial court, and the charter drawn up by Lafayette himself, how can you be criticized by corrupt Confucianism who does not learn and have no skills, could it be that you have resentment against the decrees of the imperial court and wait for the opportunity to rebel?" ”

"This, this, it's not like that, we just care about state affairs. Lord Wu, don't..."Explaining with a white face, the old pedant couldn't get out of breath for a while, and actually fainted to death. There was a panic in the hall, Liang Qichao asked the old man to lift him down, Wu Chenxuan saw that the old man's eyes were still dripping and turning under his nose, and he couldn't help but snort coldly, it happened that Liang Qichao saw it, and saw the old man's pretending to be dead following Wu Chenxuan's sight, and he was almost out of fun.

"Lord Wu, your official authority is very strong, but the truth in this is still debatable." Kang Nanhai, who was sitting at the top, spoke, but the yin and yang made Liang Qichao frown, I am afraid that this time the royalists will be deflated by this Lord Wu.