Chapter 3 under the father Li Hongzhang

Hu Xiaoyan was carried back to the bed by the big dog, and the big dog specially tucked the quilt for Hu Xiaoyan.

As for Chen Gongzi, he is sitting at the table and napping bored.

Waiting for the big dog to close the door and leave, Chen Gongzi suddenly jumped to the side of the bed.

"Are you really Li Zhongtang's son?"

"Doesn't it matter?" Hu Xiaoyan rolled his eyes, "We are now meat tickets." “

"That's different, you say first, isn't it?" Chen Gongzi is very persistent.

"Just as I am." He was no longer able to complain, he had just come back from a walk through the ghost gate, and he was very tired both physically and mentally.

"Oh, then can you introduce me to your father?" Chen Gongzi looked excited.

This guy is crazy. Hu Xiaoyan was a little confused. I said, 'You just take me as I am!' Doesn't that make it obvious that I'm not!

"Hey! Li Gongzi, you should say something. Chen Gongzi's Fujian accent was changed to Beijing films. But it still sounds a bit laborious.

"Yes! If you can get out. But if your family has money, you shouldn't care. Hu Xiaoyan replied with some sarcasm.

Unexpectedly, Chen Gongzi woke up like a dream and stood for a while, slowly returned to his original position and sat down, and then lay on the table, not knowing what he was thinking.

Hu Xiaoyan was woken up again, and it was getting late. It turned out that the big dog told him to eat.

"Is there hot water? I'll take a shower first. If you want to eat, just grab some vegetarian food and bring it in. Only then did Hu Xiaoyan feel sticky on his body. Can you not feel uncomfortable with cold sweat and fever sweat left on your body for several days?

"In addition, open the doors and windows to let me in, and help me change the bed quilt?"

The big dog nodded vigorously and went out. Half a day later, he came back and brought a set of Qing Dynasty costumes. Hu Xiaoyan followed him into a room first to take a bath with the characteristics of the Qing Dynasty.

Then go back to your room to eat. What made him strange was that the door was wide open, and Chen Gongzi was sitting at the table solemnly, the dishes and chopsticks were intact, and a few vegetarian dishes were actually very good-looking. But the problem is that Chen Gongzi actually looked at the food and shrugged his nose but did not move his chopsticks.

This person's style is so old-fashioned?

After the big dog sent Hu Xiaoyan back, he stood guard outside the door with another big man.

Hu Xiaoyan suddenly wanted to laugh, he sat down and picked up his chopsticks: "Then let's start." “

Before he could make a move, Chen Gongzi stuffed the vegetables into his mouth at a wind-like speed. Although he eats quickly, I have to say that his eating appearance is very elegant. Is this the etiquette of this era?

Hu Xiaoyan was thoughtful, and he no longer had the heart to be angry and play tricks on Chen Gongzi. There is a good saying: it is a blessing not a curse, and it is a disaster that cannot be avoided. If he is destined to suffer this catastrophe, even if there is no Chen Gongzi, there will be other Zhang Gongzi and Wu Gongzi appear.

And if it weren't fate, he wouldn't have appeared in this world a hundred years ago.

So what are you destined to do here? Is it about to change something?

The two threats of death made him, who was originally a little cowardly, gradually come to his senses.

That night, it was Hu Xiaoyan who repeatedly asked for it, so Chen Gongzi went to bed with a twist, and the two didn't sleep, just covered the quilt and chatted.

Although Hu Xiaoyan has only been in the Qing Dynasty for half a month, with the knowledge of the people in the village, he does not know much about the times at all. And Chen Gongzi, this son, must understand.

To be precise, this year is the year of Wuxu, and now it is September. In his words, Chen Gongzi has expectations for the Wuxu Change. But Hu Xiaoyan knew that the Wuxu Transformation Method was doomed from the beginning to be unsuccessful. Because none of the so-called Wuxu Six Gentlemen have really gone abroad to study. The essence of their so-called change is to let the Empress Dowager Cixi hand over power. The so-called many of them allow schools to be set up in various places, set up factories, and translate all kinds of books, etc., there is not much to do in the real sense at all. Only the slogans shouted earth-shattering. What Kang Youwei and others did revolved around the ultimate goal of seizing power. And what about the Empress Dowager Cixi herself? The Empress Dowager Cixi was also supportive of the change at first. Otherwise, Kang Youwei and the others would not have been able to enter the palace at all. Why did the Empress Dowager Cixi turn her face? It's because of the mutiny! Emperor Guangxu, who was mentally handicapped, thought that his edict could not be effective, so he hinted that the six gentlemen of Wuxu would do it, so the six gentlemen found Yuan Shikai and attempted to mutiny. No one knows what happened at that time, and the result was that the Empress Dowager Cixi directly turned her face, put Guangxu under house arrest, and beheaded the six gentlemen.

Let's take a look back at Japan's changes. At the time of the Meiji Restoration, the then Right Minister Iwakura Gushi and important officials such as Okubo Ritsu, Kido Takayoshi, and Ito Hirobumi visited Europe and the United States in order to seek reform. Take a look at these appointments. The most famous are two Okubo Ritsu and Hirobumi Ito! These people will all be famous in Japan in the future! Such a visit is more than once. There are many more officials who go to Europe and the United States privately, not to mention one by one, these people, after reviewing the European and American systems, after returning to China, will preside over reforms, establish schools, and develop industry. It took a total of 15 to 20 years, until a new generation of overseas students came back and were entrusted with the important task of designing their own gunarms industrial machine and so on. Japan is just beginning to rise.

Looking back, what did the so-called Six Gentlemen of Wuxu do when they changed the law? None of them went abroad for investigation, none of them sent students to study abroad, and none of them proposed industrialization plans. Some are the right to collect, the right to collect the right or the right to collect. Their only request was to hand over the power of the Empress Dowager Cixi to Emperor Guangxu! But did Emperor Guangxu have Meiji's political skills? Not to mention the rule, does he have half of the Empress Dowager Cixi, even a third, a fifth? If there is, it will not fail! In fact, the matter is very simple, pour a bowl of poisonous tea, drink it yourself, and then give it to the Empress Dowager Cixi to drink. As long as the Empress Dowager Cixi drank it, she would take the antidote as quickly as possible. The Empress Dowager Cixi will definitely die, and the Empress Dowager Cixi will die. Immediately submit Li Lianying and Rong Lu. One of these two is in charge of the inner house, and the other is in charge of the army. They are all extremely human ministers. As long as you don't rebel, you can only be loyal to Guangxu.

Guangxu, who can't even use a simple low-level emperor skill of poisoning, is actually a waste wood with a high eye! Even Adou has more political wisdom than him!

From beginning to end, the Wuxu change is actually a farce! To call it a change is to elevate it.

Japan can succeed in reform as a small country, but will China's reform not succeed? No! It's not that it can't be successful, it's that no one does it at all.

There are a lot of books in modern society. Let's go flip through it. What was the most translated book into Chinese at that time? Literature! Philosophy! Is there even a book on physics or chemistry? No!

Gewu was translated by European missionaries during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Only a very small number of people who know English buy it back and read it for themselves, or translate some parts for their own amusement. There are also some simple church school interpreters in Shanghai to teach students.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, no one cared about the physics and chemistry of these strange and obscene skills at all! But these are precisely the hopes for a country's rise. For example, Sun Dacang shouted every day to see if he had translated or organized the translation of even a single scientific literature! No! Not a single one!

Listening to Chen Gongzi's description, Hu Xiaoyan's heart was cold! The First and Second World Wars contributed to technological innovation in various countries. The fact that Japan was able to develop so quickly in later generations was also due to the completion of its own industrialization and the construction of scientific schools before the two world wars. Otherwise, on what basis would it defeat Russia?

Historically, the Meiji Restoration should have started with visits to Europe and the United States, and that time was 1871, and now it is 1898, which means that Japan's reform has been going on for 28 years, and their students studying in Europe and the United States have changed several times. These individuals played a key role in Japan's industrial innovation.

If China wants to innovate, it needs these talents, and the maturity of each of these talents is calculated according to ten years. Now even if Hu Xiaoyan is transferred to Li Hongzhang's position, it is too late. Because he clearly remembered that soon after the Wuxu Change, the Eight-Nation Coalition launched a war of aggression against China. The war was caused by the Boxer Rebellion. And no matter how idiotically the Boxers and the Empress Dowager Cixi were, the last hope of China's rise was completely destroyed.

Because before the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, as Li Hongzhang said, he, a pasteur, had been disguising China as a giant with an occasional wind and cold. European and American countries are still a little afraid of China. Otherwise, it would not be the Eight-Nation Alliance. But this war completely overturned everything Li Hongzhang had done. Let all countries deeply realize that this giant is terminally ill! The subsequent invasion of Tohoku by Russia and Japan was a follow-up to the Eight-Nation Alliance. Because both Russia and Japan feel that this giant does not need the help of other countries, and it can be done by itself.

The most obvious example of this was the rumor that China was going to ask Hirobumi Ito to be China's prime minister to carry out reforms. At that time, Ito Hirobumi was honestly afraid, full of anticipation and incredulity. There are also many intellectuals in Japan who are full of expectations for China, believing that the cooperation between China and Japan can completely sweep away the European and American forces and make Asia the Asia of Asians, but the actions of the Manchus completely pushed these people into the embrace of Japanese militarism. For this reason, even such aggressive freaks as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere have withdrawn. Ito Hirobumi also immediately became the vanguard of the invasion of China.

Without the Boxers, there was still a glimmer of hope for the Manchus. But this glimmer of hope was buried by the Manchus and Cixi herself! Because the capital of a country is occupied by a mere 50,000 allied troops!!

So I don't have any hope anymore!

Hu Xiaoyan actually wanted to fool Li Hongzhang with his own knowledge, Li Hongzhang once visited abroad, and his knowledge should be not lacking, but as he said, he was powerless. But Li Hongzhang's inheritance is only one percent to Hu Xiaoyan. Then China will definitely not have such a tragic situation in the future!

The Boxer Rebellion is a historical inevitability, and even if he reports it now, it is useless, because Cixi, that idiot, will never believe a Han Chinese. And Li Hongzhang is even worse, he has been at home for several years because of the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle at this time. Later, he returned to power not because he had much power, but simply because the court needed a high-enough scapegoat to sign the contract! Let him bear the infamy in place of the imperial court.!

This can be regarded as a Manchu feature!

Thinking of this, Hu Xiaoyan couldn't help but have a headache. The Boxer Rebellion was inevitable, so the Eight-Nation Coalition was inevitable, and then Russia's invasion of Northeast China became inevitable, and the Japanese invasion of China and the conflict with Russia immediately followed became inevitable. Then World War I broke out, and Britain stepped up its help to Japan in order to contain Russia. As a result, Japan has risen faster. The rise of Japan has led to a shortage of Japan's own resources. Therefore, it will be faster to prepare for the war of aggression against China.

History is back to square one.