A respectable scholar should first be a person who is faithful to the truth, and then to his feelings, this is the academic conscience - if he is led by the nose by emotions first, then the pursuit of truth will be swayed by feelings, and finally distort the facts and deviate from the truth for the needs of feelings. This is responsible for the truth, for history, for historical figures, and for future generations. However, Xiao Zhuge Zhang Nanjiang is not a scholar, or even a respectable person, but he is a very competent politician.

In fact, it was true that Choff was ready to lease Manchuria to Japan at one point, but it was not the same as the Manchu Qing to cede Taiwan. Generally speaking, it is hoped that Japan will be introduced, and while seizing the interests of the Northeast, it will help resist Tsarist Russia, and by the way, it will exterminate the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, it will help the revolutionary party make life-saving money, and at the same time, Japan will be able to develop a wild land into a mature industrial area, and then collect the house according to the lease period and get a piece of the Oriental Ruhr for nothing. However, Japan is not a grassroots tenant, and it is not easy for Jorge to be a charter man, no matter how large the meat bun is, it can't be used to beat a dog. Let Wu Chenxuan summarize it is "The little devil is very yellow and violent, and Mr. Qiao is very stupid and naïve." ”

Liao Lizhong, the leader of the Revolutionary Party's parliament, who was familiar with this case, was a humble gentleman, and he had to admit such a historical truth that embarrassed the Chinese people a little, that is, the revolutionary party at that time was based on such an attitude: It is an indisputable fact that Qiao Fu fought all his life for China's independence and prosperity; However, it is precisely for this purpose that he was ready to lease Manchuria to Japan for a considerable period of time, which should also be true.

So the whole complexity of the problem is also here. Of course, we should not deny Qiaofu's lofty position in modern Chinese history because of this, nor should we conceal relevant facts in order to maintain this status. However, there are still a large number of people who have expressed lofty opinions about Jove's attempted treason. The basic meaning is that precisely because his actions are noble, his motives are positive, and his purpose is justified, his actions are noble even if they are traitors. It is very incomprehensible to say that a political transaction pledged to the interests of the state for the sake of an individual or a group of people is a traitorous act, and if it is not morally condemned, it should not be praised as noble. If Qiaofu's behavior is praised, then is it that Yuan Shikai (of course, this world way made him not take the opportunity to be a traitor) and Li Hongzhang signed a real traitorous treaty and became national heroes? This set of moral relativity, the shortcomings and stains have become advantages, to put it simply, isn't it a copy of "the king becomes the king and loses the coward", "the hook thief is punished, and the country thief is the prince"? Where is what moral evaluation. However, this kind of moral relativity has a fatal drawback, that is, it can't withstand the exposure to the sun, if it is spread out on the table for the big guys to take a closer look, there is no need to say anything, a traitor is a traitor, and no matter how much it is sold, it will not be able to escape the spurning of all sentient beings.

Taking a step back, according to Confucius's saying, "there is no loss in great virtue, and there is also a difference in small sections", and Qiaofu's mistake lies in "great virtue has a loss". In fact, people are complex and multifaceted, especially those historical figures who fight in the trend of history, which need to be judged from multiple angles and levels. We can take Jof's "great virtue is at fault" and "subsection discrepancies" as an angle and a level to interpret Jof, and there is no need to deviate from the truth just for the sake of being faithful to the feelings. This is not to discredit or scandalize Jeff, and Jeff's exploits are not something that can be covered up by his stains, and in all fairness, in a difficult and volatile situation, it is not necessarily better than Jeff to be replaced by someone else in that position. It is also difficult to find a person in the world who is completely selfless and will not make mistakes, which is why we do not have to criticize our predecessors, so we will look at historical figures with sympathetic reason and understanding sympathy. But now Zhang Nanjiang is not writing a biography for Qiaofu, at this time, the dirty water is spilled out, and the big drama should be started.

"In a township in Changde, Hunan, a revolutionary party legislator was arrested on suspicion of brutally killing a maid. After investigation, it was found that the councillor had a bad habit of abuse, often bribing young girls from poor families who had fled the famine, taking them as handmaidens, waiting for opportunities to mutilate them, and now as many as 17 skeletons have been found in the backyard of his ancestral hall, and there are evil servants who assisted him in mutilating the girls to confess their crimes, which is really terrifying. At the meeting of the Provincial Advisory Bureau, the councilor shouted against the imperial system and liberated the people, which won the applause of everyone, but he did not know that the cruelty of the girl behind him was not as good as that of a beast. ”

"The republican county magistrate of Mianyang, Sichuan, cleverly set up a name, apportioned and forcibly collected, and was still unwilling to fill his own pockets. He actually set up a private warehouse, and on several occasions at night he commanded servants to steal public and private property, embezzle other people's property, and pretended to be stolen and robbed to defraud the insurance money. It is reported that the republican Mr. called on the township to participate in righteous deeds, overthrow the imperial system, and establish a republic, saying that the republic is the foundation of eternal peace. A reporter interviewed the elders of Wèn Township and got a homology: "Long live the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of 10,000 * taxes." The villagers still believe that the republic is to collect taxes, saying that although the republic does not need to kowtow to the official master, but this tax is also too much, it is better to restore the kowtow, or pay a little less copper."

"There was an armed fight in the Shanxi Parliament, and the two factions of the councillors at the venue disagreed because of their different views, and then pushed and shoved, and even added fists and feet, and finally the chair Wen Jiàn water bottle flew all over the sky, shaped like a fighting, if it were not for the conference table was made of rosewood and weighed more than 1,000 catties, it would inevitably be overturned. Some of the police officers who came to maintain order were also hospitalized with those who were injured. It is reported that this brawl has occurred for the third time this year in the Shanxi Parliament, and it is ridiculous that some members of the parliament actually wore steel helmets of the National Defense Forces to the parliament, and sighed again. ”

"In the Guangdong parliamentary election, fraud and bribery are commonplace. According to an unannounced visit by our reporter, Xiangshan, Dongguan, Foshan, and other places openly bought votes at an average price of one yuan and two dimes. Seeing that the reporter intended to talk, the acquirer asked if there was a ticket source, and said that the acquisition of Shantou and Shanwei only needed one yuan, and Shaoguan, Meiling, Qingyuan and other places or octagonal could be. Because of the urgent need, if the reporter has a ballot, more than ten can be paid an additional 5 jiao. Later, the reporter saw that the police and parliamentary representatives were drinking and having fun at the polling station 100 meters away, and the local party figures were sitting in the town, and the ballots were filled in by the students and put into the ballot boxes, and passers-by were accustomed to it. When asked, he said, isn't the election just about donating money to the class, how can you be a member of parliament if you don't scatter tens of thousands of dollars? It's much better to give it to the public than to give it to the government. ”

"A member of the Bozhou Parliament in Anhui Province borrowed the immunity of the parliamentarians, often fought in the streets, beating four lives, the injured are not counted, people are called the parliamentary martial arts, there are not resentful are all taken into custody by the local police station for contempt of the councilors, the local Qiantou cadres not only dare not speak, or even dare not be angry, it has reached the point where they do not dare to laugh and dare not go to the street, when they first enter this place, they see the people smiling, and they think that the world is peaceful, and there is really nothing strange in the world."

"The magistrate of Chuxiong, Yunnan..."

"The republic has gone through 15 years, and it is obvious to all that it is superior to the imperial system. However, looking at China's republican democracy today, it seems to have the defect of heavy dà, called a republic, but in fact it is divided, one township and one county, all of which are independent kingdoms, and the villagers only know that there is a county order for peeling, but do not know that there is a county magistrate of the republic. Some members of the Legislature have been unscrupulous, misbehaved, relied on immunity, and their evil deeds were notorious. It is not a strange story that the elected legislators do not know the constituencies, and the people in the constituencies do not know whether the people they nominate are men or women, old or young. What's more, assassinating legislators, intimidating deputies, buying votes, and forcibly passing bills, how can there ever be any democratic practice? Such a republican democracy is not far from the darkness of the Manchu monarchy. The hardships of the people's lives in some areas and the difficulties of the people's survival are almost the same as those in the Guangxu Xuantong period. ”

The Xinhua Party and the surrounding small parties, under the dispatch of Zhang Nanjiang, Zou Rong, and others, have also smeared the concept of parliamentary democracy, but in fact, they should not be smeared, and the current republican democracy system is not much whiter than the Zimbabwean ambassador in the circle of the people. Chen Tianhua and others seized the opportunity to mobilize a group of Xinhua Party members to conduct a wide range of public opinion polls on whether it was necessary to set up a supernatural body to oversee the actions of the government and parliament. As a result, the vast majority of citizens and villagers believe that there should be an institution to manage these officials and legislators who pay attention to benevolence and morality, and who are full of male thieves and prostitutes. However, although the current judicial system can supervise corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and can only detect criminal offenses, these organs are also composed of civil servants after all, how can their credibility be guaranteed? Many have expressed disbelief in the self-restraint of the bureaucracy. All that remains is to set up a new body to oversee these government and parliamentary bodies. The Senate was proposed as the supreme supervisory authority, but it soon became clear that it was nothing more than a standing committee of the Senate. If there is no representation, it will not be able to convince the public, and if the performance of the representation is accepted, then it will be a miniature version of the house, and at most the civility will not move the chairs to shoot at each other.

At this time, Deng Xianxian, who was still a young man of the Xinhua Party's new literary courage, came out of nowhere and published articles such as "On the Dialectical Relationship between the Republic and Democracy," "Constitutional Democracy and Republican Democracy," and "On Shoes," which were widely circulated in the north and south of the country for a time. Deng Xianxian famously asserted in "On Shoes", "Whether a shoe fits or not depends not on which store the shoe was bought from, but on whether your own feet recognize it." In the same way, the republic is a democratic system, and the constitutional monarchy is also a democratic system, since the republic may not be suitable for our country, then the constitutional monarchy is really a flood beast, and even the opportunity to try is against the rules of heaven? The shoes sold in this republic store must fit properly, and if they don't fit, it's a problem with the feet. The shoes sold in the constitutional monarchy store are all shackles, and even a glance at them is a sin, and it is better to cut their feet than try other ones, which is the reason?