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"Toot ......"

With that whistle, a steamer slowly approached the dock in Wuchang, and the passengers on board disembarked one after another. In the crowd, an old man in his fifties wearing a hat looked back at the steamer behind him again and sighed on his lips as he got off the boat.

"It's a journey in a day!"

This kind of exclamation seems to be stranged to people. Since the steamer appeared in Huguang, many people have been amazed at its speed, even though the steamer once caused a civil unrest in Hunan, so that hundreds of people were killed by the government for burning the official ship. But now steamships are popular for their convenience.

"Stay three more days!"

Because there was only a steamer to Changsha three days later, the old man muttered like this, because the steamer was moored at the steamer wharf by the river, and when the old man got on the embankment, when he looked into the distance, he could see several towering chimneys in the outer city under the Wuchang city wall, and the chimneys were spewing smoke.

"Steam engine!"

When the old man was muttering to himself like this, he saw a man with a shaved head pulling a two-wheeled cart and running in front of him.

"Master, do you want to take the car?"

Looking at the car pulled by this man, and then at the iron wheel behind the yellow-painted body, the old man immediately said.

"This is a rickshaw?"

"Master, have you ever sat down?"

Sit, he has never sat down, but in Jiujiang he has read the newspaper and knows that this rickshaw is a car that has just risen in Wuchang nowadays, and if you want to hire a car, there is only a small car, which is pulled by people, which is the rickshaw at the moment. The reason why this is so is because Wuchang issued a decree and directly abolished the sedan chair. In order to prevent the sedan chair driver from having no livelihood due to the waste of the sedan chair, and at the same time to facilitate the travel of the people, when the governor ordered the factory to manufacture Western-style carriages, hundreds of rickshaws were built and rented to the sedan chair drivers. This rickshaw has now become a scene in Wuchang, so much so that even the news about the rickshaw can be seen in the newspapers.

"Master, two miles of land only costs five cents, don't you always sit?"

Sitting on the rickshaw, the old man gave an address, and the coachman began to run, although not very fast, but far superior to the sedan chair, and even in the old man's opinion, almost not inferior to the carriage. The sound of the outer hoop cowhide wheels is not loud when driving, although the speed is not slow, but there are not many bumps in the saddle, only occasionally swaying slightly, and it is more comfortable to do than on the sedan car.

"This rickshaw is also convenient!"

But it was only two bags of cigarettes, and the old man came to his friend's house from the dock, and he couldn't help but sigh when he attached the fare. I even deliberately checked why the body shook slightly, originally the car was suspended on a curved iron plate, which was somewhat similar to the Western-style carriage.

"Looks like this rickshaw is going to take a bit of a hard time......"

"But Liangtu?"

Zou Hanxun, who had just returned home from the school, looked at the old man who leaned over to check the rickshaw in front of his house, and when he felt a little familiar, he felt a little surprised, so he asked tentatively.

"Uncle Ji!"

The shouting behind him made Wei Yuan hurriedly get up and turn around, and said to Zou Hanxun.

"Uncle Ji won't blame me for coming to visit!"

"How could it be, how could it be, it's just, I just didn't expect that I could actually see a good picture with this!"

Zou Hanxun's tone was a little embarrassed, after all, the person in front of him was an official of the imperial court, and he ...... From the perspective of the imperial court, it has already rebelled.

In the spring of last year, after he went to the Ministry of Rites to take the test, after the bus was stopped, he made a detour to Jiangsu to visit Wei Yuan, when he was knowing Gaoyou Prefecture, Jiangsu, in the following nearly a year, the two of them exchanged the evidence of their writings, and Wei co-wrote a volume of "Yaodian Shitian", and painted "Tang Yu Tianxiang", "Xuanji inside and outside", and "Yuheng Sanjian" for the book "Ancient Book Micro".

In the early summer of this year, Zou Hanxun returned to Hunan, and after the Han Dynasty supervised Hunan, he was invited to teach in Yishu in Wenshan.

Sensing the different color on his old friend's face, Wei Yuan said with a smile.

"Uncle Ji, but do you think there is a difference between you and me? To tell the truth, I don't hide my uncle's achievements, and now I am also a grass people, so why worry about my uncle's achievements? ”

"Liangtu, why is that?"

As soon as the words came out, Zou Hanxun realized that there was no way to entertain guests outside the door, and hurriedly invited him into the house, and after the two entered the house, he immediately ordered the servants to serve tea, and then the two chatted in the living room. Zou Hanxun immediately said angrily.

"In this Qing court, there are all traitors of the Manchu Dynasty, so how can they not be destroyed!"

The indignant Zou Hanxun went on to say to his old friend.

"Liangtu, you must not be with that kind of traitor in general, this Qing court is a traitor in the dynasty, even Liangtu such a sage in the world can not be tolerated, you may as well enter the governor's mansion, as far as the younger brother knows, the Han Governor has always admired you, your book "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" is in his study, read from time to time, and even the Han army can have today's momentum, in the words of the Han Governor, but also benefit from the words of the good book! If Han Du knew that his brother had arrived in Wuchang, he would definitely welcome him! ”

Zou Hanxun's words made Wei Yuan couldn't help but be stunned, looking at his old friend who was very angry about what happened to him persuading him like this, Wei Yuan couldn't help but be dumbfounded for a while, of course, what he didn't expect was Yu Wuchang, who was respected by him.

Why did you come to Wuchang?

In fact, after Gao You's resignation, faced with the reality that Jiang Hang was cut off by Cantonese bandits, he couldn't return to his hometown, and he wanted to go to Hangzhou, but in the end he still took the risk of returning to his hometown, saying that he was returning to his hometown, but in fact, more importantly, he wanted to see this Wuchang and see this so-called "Han rebellion".

Even if he was far away in Gaoyou, Wei Yuan had heard many people say that "the Han rebels acted according to what Wei Yuan had learned", and even the reason why the good people like Qi did not allow him also had a certain relationship with this.

"Han rebelled against Wuchang, and the long skills of Shi Yi were used to control China, which is really hateful, and this matter is not a traitor and not a ......"

Thinking of the imperial court's evaluation of Wuchang, and even comparing it to a "traitor" with Western firearms and machines, how ridiculous it is in Wei Yuan's opinion, the people in the court and China do not think of a solution, and say instead, "The traitor side uses foreign weapons", so how can it calm the thief chaos?

"Good plan, today's Governor's Mansion set up factories as a model, and advocated the establishment of factories by private individuals, silk reeling, spinning, self-manufacturing and sales of ships, etc., so as to make the country rich and strong, just like the brother's proposition, all those who are beneficial to the people can be built here...... It can be said that the brother's proposition is implemented by the Han Governor in Huguang today, and he will be the Han Governor in the world, and he will implement the good plan in the world. ”

In fact, Zou Hanxun, as a professor of mathematics at Yishu Middle School, obviously thinks too much, and Zhu Yifeng's admiration for the book "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" is, on the one hand, because this book is the first book in the world in the late Qing Dynasty, but more importantly, it is to find a suitable reason for himself to "seek knowledge in the world".

In fact, Zhu Yifeng also denied many of the points in this book, such as his proposal that "it is better to guard the ocean than to defend the sea, and it is better to guard the inland river than to defend the sea; It is said that it is better to train the soldiers than to train the local soldiers, and the water diverter is not as good as to train the water brave", which is not acceptable to it, of course, in this era of China, it can put forward that "those who are good at the four Yi can control the four Yi; Those who are not good at learning from outsiders will be controlled by outsiders", and it has been decades ahead of this era to understand the major events related to the safety of the country and the nation by raising the learning of the West's "long skills", and it is precisely because of this that Zhu Yifeng will highly respect him. And this kind of admiration in Wuchang is a well-known thing.

In Zou Hanxun's view, Wei Yuan, such a worldly sage was suppressed as an official in the Qing court, and even dismissed as a result, compared to the admiration of Wuchang, he would naturally invite Wei Yuan for the governor because of a moment of anger, at this time he obviously forgot that he also had some slight complaints about the governor's mansion, and even this was the reason why he had no intention of being an official, and the reason why he stayed in Wuchang was entirely because of his hobby in mathematics, on the one hand, he could teach mathematics to those teenagers, and on the other hand, he could also discuss mathematics with foreigners.

Of course, there is a more important reason that his brother Zou Hanzhang also served in the Han army, although he was captured in Huangzhou that year, but now he is quite trusted by the Han Governor, in this case Zou Hanxun naturally does not have much choice, not to mention that now he has realized his identity - the identity of the Chinese! It was that still vague consciousness that made him understand what choice he should make.

At this time, he lobbied Wei Yuan, on the one hand, because his old friend was not worth it, and hoped that his old friend could stay in Wuchang to show what he had learned. On the other hand, it was because he hoped that Wei Yuanzhi's talents would be used by the governor's mansion, so as to help the governor's mansion seize the world, after all, compared with the Cantonese bandits who lived in Jiangning, the governor's side was more in line with their positioning of the imperial court, at most, it was just "learning from the West and passing by".

In the face of the invitation of his old friend, although he was quite excited about Han Du's move to govern the country with the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", Wei Yuan still shook his head and said.

"Uncle Ji, not for his brother's self-pity, but for his brother who is more than sixty years old, has encountered many ups and downs for decades, and has no intention of going to the sea for a long time, and just wants to always accompany the Buddha lamp......"

Before Wei Yuan could finish speaking, Zou Hanxun interrupted him and said.

"Then how can that brother bear to bury what he has learned in his life?"

Taking advantage of Wei Yuan's surprise, Zou Hanxun continued.

"It's okay if my brother doesn't want to go to the sea, otherwise, it's better for you and me to stay in this Wuchang, be a teacher, and teach others what I have learned in my life than to bury it in the countryside!"

Although Zou Hanxun's words Wei Yuan was quite moved, he still seemed a little hesitant, but Zou Hanxun continued to lobby.

"And there are a lot of foreigners in this school, and my brother can also discuss the advantages of this Yi with him, otherwise, brother, you can stay here for a few days, I don't know what my brother thinks?"

In the face of such a warm invitation, Wei Yuan still had reasons to refuse again, and he also had many questions about Europe in his heart, so he could now solve the confusion in his heart here, so naturally he would no longer refuse. (To be continued.) )