The two of them laughed, and after a long time, Yano Koji asked, "President, the question asked by Genjiro Akashi today is exactly what I want to ask, what does the President want?" Or rather, what is your ultimate goal? ”

Chai Dongliang walked to the wine cabinet, took out a bottle of axe brand three-star brandy, took out two crystal goblets, and handed them to Yano Koji: "Have a drink?" ”

Koji Yano nodded and said, "Thank you, President." ”

Chai Dongliang smiled: "No need. With that, he carefully opened the cork with his own hands, and the cork of these good wines, which had been stored for decades, had rotted to the point of decay, and the slightest slight force would shatter and fall into the wine, and a bottle of wine would be scrapped. Therefore, when it comes to opening wine bottles, Chai Dongliang has always done it himself, and never pretended to others.

The red and faint golden liquor syrup shook in the crystal cup, exuding a thick and fragrant aroma, Chai Dongliang took a sip, sorted out his thoughts, and then said slowly: "Your question has also puzzled me for a long time, what do I want to do?" Will a rich country and a strong army resist foreign humiliation? Now that Kumamoto has been defeated by us, after Kumazawa Dairan and Akashi Genjiro raise their troops, there is no need to worry about the civil war together, and Russia has fallen into the flames of war and is too busy to take care of itself, as are the other powers. Recovering the concessions and abolishing the unequal treaties was already an easy step for me. According to the standards of a rich country and a strong army, China is not far behind, the bloody war of the European continental powers is a God-given opportunity for China's rise, a large number of export contracts will bring countless jobs and money, I dare to say, three or five years later, if China cannot dominate the world, at least it is one of the great powers!

In the past few years, what I have been thinking about is the shame of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and the shame of decades since the Opium War, so what other goals do I have after the rich country and the strong army are done? This has puzzled me for a long time. I used to think that when China dominated the East, I would abdicate and go home to pick up my children???"

Yano Koji was shocked: "President, absolutely not, the beginning of the Republic of China, it is the time when a hundred wastes are waiting to be rebuilt, the whole country has been in chaos in recent years, but the Jianghuai region has given hope to the people of the world, if the president abdicates hastily, I am afraid that the successor is not enough to lead 40,000 people, I hope that the president will realize how difficult the people's livelihood in the world is!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled faintly: "The earth will turn away from anyone!" Without me, Chai Dongliang, a butcher, I would have to eat pigs with hair before I Chinese??? I have never been able to find a reason for me to continue to govern, or I have not been able to find the root cause of China's disease! It wasn't until I entered Beijing that I suddenly realized! ”

Yano Koji said, "I want to hear about it." ”

Chai Dongliang took a sip of wine and said, "In the past few months in Yanjing City, I found that the Chinese are missing something. ”

"What's that?"

"Human taste!"

"Human?" Yano Koji frowned.

Chai Dong nodded and said, "Yes, it's human!" The elegant point is what Confucius said about 'benevolence', that is, Mencius said 'benevolence loves others'! ”

Taking another sip of the golden-red wine syrup, Chai Dongliang smiled bitterly: "When I was in Anqing, I didn't think there was much of a problem in China, I thought that as long as the land reform distributed land to the people, a few more factories were opened so that they could have a place to eat, and a few more schools were opened so that children could have books to study??? I think that as long as these points are done well, all China's problems can be solved! After arriving in Yanjing, I found that inland cities are completely different from cities near the sea and rivers! Compared with Yenching, Shanghai is even farther away than Shanghai and New York, except that they both speak Chinese, people's ways of thinking and working habits are almost completely different??? Cities near the sea and the river have been influenced by foreigners for decades, pragmatic, low-key, hard-working, and hardworking, you don't care if you say that foreigners are mixed up, but without the Opium War and without the invasion of China by foreigners, our country may not have access to modern civilization in two hundred years! ”

Yano Koji nodded and said: "That's true, I said that I made the invasion of Commodore Perry's black ship a festival!" The celebration said that Ben woke up from ignorance and has since merged into the rivers and seas of world civilization. ”

Chai Dong nodded: "I have gone too far, treating the aggressor as a hero, no matter what the purpose is, this practice is absolutely undesirable!" But if you don't admit that it was Westerners who brought modern civilization into China, it is also a move to cover your ears and steal the bell! To be precise, it was the guns of Westerners who forced Chinese into the world of modern industrial civilization, and it was they who used bayonets to import the concepts of equality and freedom into China by the most unequal means??? Cities along the coast and rivers were the first to come into contact with Western ideas, and after decades of subtle development, they were gradually accepted by the people! And the huge China, the areas along the rivers and coastal areas are a small number after all, and the inland cities that have remained unchanged for hundreds of years are the most real China! ”

Yano Koji said with deep feelings: "Yes, the people are generally ignorant, this is really a fatal problem!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled bitterly: "If it is only the people who are ignorant, then we can educate the people that the real crisis is that the entire Chinese society is completely divided!" Especially after the Manchu Qing Dynasty's 10-year New Deal, this split situation has intensified, and after the Xinhai Revolution has developed to the point where it is difficult to control, this is what really makes me feel helpless! ”

Koji Yano asked, "Please be clear, the president." ”

Chai Dongliang pointed to the newspaper on his desk and said: "We now have thousands of newspapers in China, hundreds of political parties, and more than 800 members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The poor are already ignorant, and if they don't fight for their power, they will be even more miserable, and the more society develops, the more damage they will suffer! In the long run, the poor will hate the society, and sooner or later there will be a tragedy between the honest and the benevolent, and when the time comes, the elite will be burned to ashes by the anger of the poor! ”

Koji Yano was taken aback by Chai Dongliang's words, as a media tycoon, he knows better than anyone the hidden crises in China and Benji, the two countries have exactly the same social structure, the elite talks about the rich country and the army, and takes hundreds of millions of poor people as victims, causing the whole society to be divided, the poor are full of hatred for the rich and the elite, and once a careerist raises his arms, the anger of these people will burn the whole country down.

Sadly, the elites do not feel the crisis in the slightest, they are indulging in the good things that are in front of them, they have not only a great deal of wealth, but also a relaxed environment of speech that has never been seen in history, and they are fascinated by the pleasure of scolding political axes and officials, and they are everywhere promoting all sorts of unverified ideas, each one of them sees itself as the head of the church, and enjoys the favor of fanatical young people. Piao Piao didn't know that he was already sitting on a bomb and a pyre full of gasoline!

Chai Dongliang knows very well that in another time and space, it didn't take long for the elites to smash them to the ground by the madness of the whole people, and countless professors and scholars who once commanded the country were tortured to survive and could not die, and were reduced to the position of "stinky old nine" who was one level lower than the girl and one level higher than the beggar.

What is even more tragic is that these people have experienced so much suffering, but they still have no reflection, except for writing a few books describing the "scars" and self-pity of intellectuals in the miserable years of the special years, and sending out a resentment like Xianglin's sister-in-law, they have not seen any deep reflection.

In the 21st century, experts are bricks, professors have become beasts, and elites have become curses!

When people starve to death in a hut, disaster will soon befall the palace! China's 5,000-year history, this kind of experience in the rise and fall of chaos, if the Chinese do not even understand this, it is simply an insult to the intelligence of the Chinese!

But unfortunately, it is a simple truth, and China's elites have not understood it for a hundred years??? So much so that after the 21st century, there are still a large number of scholars who talk about the so-called "Republic of China style", reminiscing about the good words they once overcame all living beings, and more elites have become the mouthpiece of the imperial court, barking wildly for a bone thrown out of the wall in defiance of common sense.

If this situation cannot be changed, the foolish people who have been bullied and oppressed to the limit will inevitably become mobs, and the tragedy of completely destroying the elite class will happen again!

Another lesson of time and space made Chai Dongliang unforgettable, it is necessary to transform the exaggerated and indifferent surnames of the elite class, and bridge the bottomless gap between the people, otherwise even if the country is strong, it will collapse in an instant.

However, this is also the most tricky thing, system building, scientific and technological development has the experience of later generations to follow, what to do to transform the national surname, there is really no mature experience to learn from, besides, China is more than 10 million square kilometers, and the economic and cultural differences in various places are huge, even exceeding the gap between domestic and foreign.

The situation is closer to the United States in China, the same vast territory and complex races, but the United States is a religious country, the belief of the Puritans is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the backbone of the society is the pious Puritans. China, on the other hand, is a secular country through and through. Even Confucius "didn't care" about ghosts and gods, and the elite class of scholars and doctors did not believe in any religion at all.

Although secular countries have the advantages of being easily grafted with modern civilization, they have also caused the poverty and emptiness of the people's spiritual world, and atheism makes it even more difficult for people to have a moral bottom line, and there is no psychological burden at all when they do evil.

This is exactly the block that has been pressing on Chai Dongliang's heart recently, making him feel that he can't breathe well, and he always wants to use a bulldozer to shovel Yanjing City into the ground, or simply burn this Yanjing in the middle world that exudes the smell of staleness.

"The ancients said that if you care, you will be chaotic! I think the president is really too worried! After contemplating for a long time, Yano Koji looked directly at Chai Dongliang and said.

"Oh, tell me what you think."

"The president has recovered Qingdao, and the recovery of Lushun and Taiwan is also just around the corner, and your prestige is not something that anyone can shake. You rely on your prestige at this time to vigorously promote land reform and political reform, even if there are some excessive actions, it will not affect the overall situation, even if there are one or two demon clowns who want to take the opportunity to make trouble, it is also wishful thinking??? President, have you been upset by the recent troubles made by students in Yanjing and Tianjin? ”

Chai Dongliang smiled bitterly: "It's not all. ”

Yano Koji said with a smile: "When the president was in Anqing, how did he clean up the Provincial Council Bureau? Why not take the medicine according to the prescription. ”

Chai Dongliang shook his head: "At the beginning, the Anqing Zi Council Bureau colluded with the Huaishang Army to rebel, and I was caught. ”

Yano Koji said with a smile: "Does the president know where the main source of customers in Yanjing's eight major alleys comes from?" Do you know who controls the press now? ”

Chai Dongliang seemed to have some clues, and his eyes lit up and said, "Go on." ”

A cold light flashed in Yano Koji's eyes, and he sneered: "If you want to get rid of the stale atmosphere in North China, you must first get rid of the sour spirit of the literati in North China, and if you want to deal with the literati in North China as a whole, you must first deal with three forces???? The first is the Congressman, the second is the newspaper media, and the third is the university! ”

Chai Dongliang seemed to be a little awake, and said continuously: "Go on." ”

Yano Koji said triumphantly: "According to my survey, the common people in North China are very conservative and take morality very seriously!" If you want to isolate those literati and elites, you have to start from this aspect! The president didn't know that the guests in the eight alleys were mainly from the two houses. ”

Chai Dongliang was stunned: "What two courtyards in one room?" ”

"The House of Representatives, the House of Councillors, and the Kyoshi University Hall!"

Chai Dongliang was a little surprised: "Congressmen like Apji, I know, Peking University professors also like this tune?" ”

Yano Koji said disdainfully: "Not only professors, even students are frequent visitors to the Eight Great Hutongs!" Teachers and students go in and out of the same school, and the teacher finishes the students' scoops, and they are happy! ”

Chai Dongliang took a sip: "Damn, shameless!" ”

Yano Koji snorted: "It's just a romantic sin, it's nothing great!" Merchants talk about business in the Qinglou, literati and women sing and sing poems, coolies and prostitutes sleep, this is nothing, but the students and teachers are too disgusting to soak in the hall every day! This is the atmosphere that those professors who have returned from studying abroad have brought back to China??? The literati of Northern China, don't look at the opening of the newspaper office Zang Zang or the world's characters pretend to be high-minded, in fact, what they want most is to be an official, as long as they have the opportunity to be an official, they will definitely not run a newspaper???? Since ancient times, learn to become a literary and martial arts, and sell the emperor's family! Chinese literati have never been willing to be in the opposition, only entering the court as an official is their truest idea, and the marquis of the dung soil is just that they can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour! ”

Chai Dongliang slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Thank you for reminding me!" I've got a way to manipulate these guys! ”

(To be continued)