"The villain is just a teenager and is not a big talent. I don't understand the four books and the five classics, and the poems and articles are even more unbearable, I'm afraid they are of no use to the kingdom of heaven. Rong Hong shirked.

Rong Hong is also telling the truth, he was born in a poor family, and he has not studied a serious private school. At the age of seven, he entered an American church school, and later the principal, Brown, was returning to the United States due to illness and wanted to take some Chinese schoolchildren to the United States. As a teenager, Rong Hong was fortunate to be selected, he studied hard, and in his second year in the United States, he passed the preparatory class and was admitted to Yale University, becoming the first Yale University graduate in China. He was proficient in Western studies, and he had never studied traditional Chinese Confucianism.

Yang Xiaoshan felt from his words that Rong Hong seemed to have some prejudices against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as if he was unwilling to join the Heavenly Kingdom, and there was a sense of shirk in his words, and he was vigilant in his heart, and he didn't dare to let him go. So he invited him to go with him and went to Nanwangfu together.

Rong Hong saw that Yang Xiaoshan was so enthusiastic, and he was embarrassed to refuse, so the two chatted while walking.

"Mr. Rong is full of knowledge, can he find a place to display his strengths?" Yang Xiaoshan talked about Rong Hong's pain points.

"Let the prince smile, when I was studying in the United States, I wanted to do something for China after graduation, but I haven't found a satisfactory job in the past few years, and I temporarily worked as a translator in a foreign company that exports silk tea in Shanghai." Rong Hong said ashamedly.

"I am a great country in China, but the British only searched for ironclad ships and we had no power to fight back, and we were forced to sign various treaties that humiliated the country. Yang Xiaoshan involuntarily borrowed the words of Wei Yuanhaiguo's Tuzhi, which was also the guiding ideology of the Westernization Movement in the future.

Rong Hong was shocked when he heard this, and secretly sighed that he underestimated the Kingdom of Heaven, he originally thought that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a mud-legged person who came out of the border countryside, could not have any enlightened people, Yang Xiaoshan's words made him feel like a bosom friend, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "What a master of Yi has long skills to control Yi!" The prince has such a vision, Rong Hong admires. ”

"We must not only learn the firearms of foreigners, but also learn their manufacturing methods and establish our own industrial system, which is the way to strengthen the country." Yang Xiaoshan knew that industry was already king in this era, and an agricultural country was no match for a small industrial country no matter how large its territory was, as evidenced by the First Sino-Japanese War.

"The son of the world said that it is time, and I still think that we should imitate the Western political system, the father of the United States, Washington, opened thousands of miles of territory, but did not usurp the title, he did not pass on to his descendants, but created a method of recommendation, which is more public than the world, just like my Chinese Yaoshun." Rong Hong greatly admired Washington, and in the impression of Chinese, only sages like Yao Shun could take the initiative to cede power.

Yang Xiaoshan pondered for a moment and said slowly: "A country's political system is determined by the country's national conditions, and learning from the West should first start from the easiest place, first establish factory-based social relations, and then gradually revise the political system according to the resulting social contradictions, so that the resulting political system is the most suitable system for a country." ”

Rong Hong was even more stunned, and admired it greatly: "The prince said this, which made Rong refreshed, and after studying for many years, he had never heard of such an opinion, and what he said before seemed a little naïve." ”

"In fact, there is nothing advanced about this, all progress starts from solving problems, copying things may not solve their own problems, or starting from solving problems. If there is a mature solution in the West, we will learn from their methods, and if they do not have a solution, we will find a way to solve it according to our own actual situation. Only in this way can we rapidly change our already backward society and strengthen our national strength. Yang Xiaoshan talked eloquently, this is the experience summed up by various experts in his previous life.

But this remark fell into Rong Hong's ears now, but it is groundbreaking, and the international students in this era have an extreme cognition, thinking that everything in the West is good, and everything in China is backward, and if you want to progress, you must **** and copy everything in the West.

As everyone knows, the contest between countries lies in people, and the systems of almost all countries in Africa have copied those of Europe and the United States, and they have not seen their progress there, what they lack is not the system, but the cornerstone factory of society, the social relations that can make the social productive forces work.

"The son of the world is high, Rong has been taught." Rong Hong admired Yang Xiaoshan a lot in his heart, thinking that he had the intention of serving him.

The two talked and came to the Nanwang Mansion.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Yang Xiaoshan felt that this house was a little shabby, and it was not as good as some Hou Mansions. It feels like it's just a normal person's house.

Nan Wangniang was overjoyed when she saw Yang Xiaoshan's visit, and hurriedly brought her son Feng Ruike to greet her.

"Nan Wang Niang, why do you live here? Haven't the Heavenly King and the Eastern King arranged a palace for you? Yang Xiaoshan said in surprise.

Feng Shi was a little gloomy, "I'm not afraid of the jokes of the prince, the king of the south just left, the king of heaven and the other kings came to take a look, and now people have already gone to tea and cool, and our mother and son are no one to care about now." Thanks to Shizi for asking people to send some money from time to time, otherwise our mother and son really don't know what to do. ”

"How so? Is no one in charge of the use of the Nanwang Mansion? Yang Xiaoshan was a little angry.

"I am a widow, and now all my expenses are taken from the women's camp, and my thoughts are all in the palace of the king, so how can I care about us? I have dismissed all the newcomers in Nanwangfu, and the remaining dozens of people are all old people from Nanwangfu, they are unwilling to leave, and I am reluctant to let them go. If it weren't for you and the old subordinates of King Nan to help, we wouldn't have been able to support it a long time ago. Feng had tears in his eyes and a sad tone.

"Nan Wangniang, why didn't you say it earlier. That's it, you and Rico move to my side, the place where I live is too big, Qiao Niang is lonely, and you have someone to talk to as a companion. Where there is not enough silver, it shall be drawn from our former army. "Feng is a typical honest and somewhat useless peasant woman, and if she doesn't help herself, I'm really sorry for King Nan's deathbed.

"Thank you for taking care of the prince, King Nan is really entrusted to the right person, I really can't help a woman. My mind is all on my son Rico, he doesn't do his job all day, he likes to do some carpentry work, he doesn't study or learn martial arts, I am really worried about how he will inherit the throne of King Nan in the future, the prince will persuade him for me. Feng said distressedly.

"Mother, how can I call it not doing my job, I make all the furniture in our house." Rico was dissatisfied with his mother's evaluation and pursed his lips.

"Rico, come here. You tell your brother what you want to do when you grow up? Yang Xiaoshan thinks that this child is smart and clever, and he is a material that can be made.

"I want to learn how to build a big ship, the ironclad ship that the foreign devil rode on a few days ago is so majestic. When I grow up, I want to build ironclads like this. Brother Yang, I also made a wooden ironclad model, what do you think? Feng Ruike took out the model and let Yang Xiaoshan appreciate it.

Yang Xiaoshan took the model, looked at it fixedly, it was really exquisite, I didn't expect Ruike's hand to be so skillful, just a few glances can make a model according to the appearance. Yang Xiaoshan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly thought of Rong Hong. If he can teach a group of smart and clever children and let them follow him to study in the United States, there will be a human foundation for the development of various undertakings in the kingdom of heaven in the future.

Thinking of this, Yang Xiaoshan smiled and said: "Okay, Ruike, the ship model you made is really good, you want to learn to build a big ship, I just brought you a gentleman today, he has a way to teach you." After Yang Xiaoshan finished speaking, he turned back to Rong Hong and said, "Mr. Rong, I sincerely ask you to stay in Heaven and give your skills to these children, so that they can study abroad and become talents like you." ”