Subtitle of this chapter: Let's talk about history

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"Then he is the only one among us who can be called a gentleman!"

Everyone looked in the direction of Yuan Yanqi's finger...... It is the son of Huang Zongyi who accompanies the last seat.

"Ahem! Cough! Cough! ”

He didn't expect his uncle to turn the conversation to him. At this time, he happened to have a sip of wine in his mouth, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but be startled when he saw everyone's strange eyes, so he was choked.

He hurriedly waved his hand while coughing, "Ahem, cough...... Uncle, what am I, cough cough cough...... Gentleman, ahem, ahem...... You're entertaining me, cough cough cough ......."

"Hehehe...... our Master Yuan chuckled a few times and said, "Teach it, I'm not entertaining you, I'm telling the truth." ”

He looked around at everyone and asked, "All the monarchs here know history, right?" ”

This sentence is actually nonsense? Harvard Sanjie knows history too well, and other people have been taught since childhood, and they also know a little about Western classics, these people don't know history, then no one in the world knows history.

I only heard Yuan Yanqian ask and answer himself: "I want to think about that old Kong...... So when was Confucius a man? ”

"Of course, it's the Eastern Zhou of the Collapse of Lile!"

"Then when is the rite and music that his old man wants to restore?"

"Naturally, it is the Western Zhou Dynasty with strict patriarchy!"

"Then who is the gentleman who upholds the patriarchy of the Western Zhou Dynasty?"

"If you enter, you will be a humble scribe, and if you go out, you will be a martial artist!"

"In comparison, what can we, the powerless scholars, refrain from? What kind of gift can be returned? I'm waiting to talk about what a gentleman! ”

“SO…… Gentleman, only my nephew gave him such a 'pointed man' who has been in the army. ”

To put it bluntly, Yuan Yanqian felt that the army with "three disciplines and eight points of attention" was very "self-denial and revenge".

As soon as a serious violation of discipline is carried out to the end, he will be shot if he commits a flower case, isn't this "self-denial"? No wonder the Puritan-born royal mission looked at them so pleasing to the eye.

Dividing family backgrounds and putting revolutionary soldiers in the first place, isn't this "revenge"? It can be regarded as a modern replica of the military merits of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties.

Of course, the masters of Chinese studies present here very much disagree with his point of view.

I only heard Chen Yinke shake his head and say, "Brother Hongji, I have to say that you are arguing with reason. The so-called time shift of the world is not a spring and autumn ...... now"

"Brother Heshou, it's not in time for the Spring and Autumn Festival yet!" Yuan Yanqian smiled and said unceremoniously, "Little brother knows what you want to say, it's nothing more than Cheng Zhuli's courtesy, and the reason of heaven is to eliminate people's desires." ”

Zhu Xi raised the "li" in "self-denial and revenge" to the "reason" of the universal law, and only then did he deduce "save the heavenly principle and remove human desires." This said.

"The Confucian scholars after the Northern Song Dynasty have survived and saved, saved a Jingkang shame, saved a cliff and mountain hatred, saved a Jiashen change, saved a Gengzi year, and saved it to our heads is such a great change of 3,000 years......"

"If you want to brother, I said, Confucianism is not not good now, but it is not good a long time ago. It's just that the things that used to compete with Confucianism for the ideological high ground can't catch up with Confucianism......"

"There is nothing better than the Confucianism for barbarians like the Mongols and Manchus, so they can still use them. But as soon as the foreigners came, what Qianjia faction, what Huxiang faction, what Song faction, what Tongcheng faction, what reconciliation faction......"

"These factions, those factions, all of them are useless......"

"If Confucianism is useful, then we should not be in New York now, but foreigners come to Beiping and Shanghai...... No, it should be Bianliang Hangzhou! ”

Wu Mi changed color after hearing these words, and said coldly: "Brother Hongxi, let me ask you, if you want to bring down the Kong family shop as you said, then will we Chinese still be Chinese after this?" ”

Our Master Yuan's eyes widened suddenly, and after carefully looking him up and down, he suddenly laughed wildly: "Hahaha......"

He pointed at Wu Mi and said, "Brother Monk Rain, Brother Monk Rain, look at the hair and skin ...... you gave to your parents."

Everyone here has a short hair...... That short hair, and no beard at all. If you follow the set of "body hair and skin to parents", it can be described as a disobedient generation.

"Look at the left-hand beard you're wearing......"

The placket of the Western-style costume is on the left side of the man and the right side of the woman, which is said to make it easier for men to draw their swords and for women to breastfeed. This is just the opposite of the male right and female left of the ancient Seris, otherwise how could Confucius say "Micro tube, I will wear my hair on the left"?

"By the way, Ling Zun Lingtang is still alive, but brother, you have crossed the ocean, and the parents who said that they are not traveling far?"

"Brother Monk Yu, Brother Monk Yu, according to your Confucian standards, can you still say that you are Chinese?!"

"You ......" As soon as these words came out, Wu Mi was so angry that his mouth trembled, and he couldn't speak.

However, Chen Yinke opened his mouth to defend his friend and said: "Brother Hongji, you are a bit strong-worded. Confucianism is not outside but inside, not in matter but in the heart, which is the strength of our oriental civilization. Just a few years ago, the Westerners were killed in a sea of corpses and blood, and the whole of Europe was almost destroyed, and the Western civilization that admired foreign things was still not as good as the Eastern civilization that focused on the heart. ”

"Hahaha...... Hahaha...... "Our Master Yuan was overjoyed after hearing this, and he laughed so much that he lay on the table."

After half a ring, he took out a handkerchief and wiped his tears, and said in a very mad tone: "Brother Heshou, Brother Heshou, it's okay for you to fool foreigners with what you say, and tell it to Jiangnan people like my brother and me...... That's kidding me, right? ”

"To say that there were a lot of people killed in the last European war, but ...... Did there be a lot of deaths in the Hongyang Rebellion? ”

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the largest "peasant uprising" in the history of the world, and it was also the deadliest war.

At the time, U.S. Minister to China estimated the death toll of the war at 20 million, which was the smallest number. After the 80s, China's own historians speculated based on historical data that the direct death was 70 million, and the indirect death was more than 100 million!

A whole 100 million. Not to mention the First World War, even the Second World War cannot be compared with it, and it can't even be compared to it combined.

"Your great Confucian Zeng Wenzhenggong, who 'only values the heart and does not advocate foreign things', has killed our Jiangnan into a blank land, and even the accents of my little brother, my hometown Wuxi, and the Nanjing where you live, have been changed."

"Hehehe, you Confucians are really ......"

As a master's degree in economics, Yuan Hongjian does not understand historical materialism, but once this history materializes himself, it will be different.

Shi Jianlie, a native of Jinkui, wrote four volumes of "The Loss of Jixian City-Kefu Ben Mo" based on what he had seen and heard, which recorded in detail the tragic tug-of-war between the two armies around Wuxi.

After the war, in the Chong'an Temple in the center of Wuxi City, you can directly see the city wall when you look around, because there are not many houses that have not fallen.

He believed that it was not all burned by the Taiping army, and that the brutality of the Qing army was worse than that of the Taiping army in some places. This book was naturally banned in my Qing Dynasty and was not allowed to be published. It was not until the Republic of China that it saw the light of day.

It is said that their old Yuan family originally had thirteen rooms, which can be called prosperous. However, after the end of the "Hongyang Rebellion", only two rooms remained. One was an official in other places, and the other fled to Shanghai.

In short, as a person from Jiangnan, Yuan Yanqian is not as good as the Heavenly Demon Descendant and the Piercing Lin Bei Leg who can become a fan of Zeng Guofan. Nor would a real proletarian revolutionary describe the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a "national liberation movement".

Our Master Yuan took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and said a famous sentence that once shaved his head: "If you are not a sage, you are a beast!" ”