"Dare to ask the teacher, where did you know that students wear Western clothes, eat foreign food and drink foreign wine?" Hong Jun gave Li Hongzao another salute, and he never owed half a point in the number of courtesies, but he never gave in between his words. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Tell me if you have such a thing!" Li Hongzao had already faintly sensed the student's intention today, but he didn't dare to draw conclusions -- after all, that incident was very secret, and this solid-eyed student would never know about it.

"Yes, there is, there is." Hong Jun said loudly, "Etiquette is appropriate, so that it is customary, and it is also polite." Emperor Shizong of my dynasty has not yet been ashamed of wearing Western clothes (Emperor Yongzheng has portraits of Western clothes), how did it become a sin for students to go to the West this time? It's ridiculous! As for eating foreign food and drinking foreign wine, it was to prevent the disease of athlete's foot on the boat, and more than ten of the servants died of this disease because they refused to eat foreign food. Students don't eat foreign food and drink foreign wine, but they are afraid that they will not be able to see the teacher at this time! ”

After listening to Hong Jun's answer, Li Hongzao was speechless for a while, and his face turned red.

"The student asked the teacher again, where did the teacher know that the student wears foreign clothes, eats foreign food and drinks foreign wine?"

Hong Jun's voice was not high, and the speed of his speech was not fast, more like asking for some questions...... But when Li Hongzao heard it in his ears, it was like a thunderstorm on the flat ground!

"If you don't know, you can't do it until you can! Do you dare to do it, are you afraid that people will know? Li Hongzao said to himself.

"Students are not afraid of people knowing! Students just want to know how the teacher knows! Hong Jun's voice became high-pitched.

"Did someone secretly report the student's every move to the teacher?"

Li Hongzao felt that his throat was dry, and his head was a little dizzy - he knew that he had arranged for Hong Shun to secretly spy on Hong Jun, but he was afraid that Hong Jun already knew.

"Since the student followed the teacher, he thought that he had nothing to do with the teacher, but this time the student went to the West, and what the teacher did was against the teacher's way!" Hong Jun said, took out a letter from his sleeve, and presented it to Li Hongzao with both hands.

Li Hongzao's body trembled, he stood there and did not take the letter.

Seeing that Li Hongzao refused to accept the letter, Hong Jun leaned over and placed the letter on the stone steps. His movements were unusually slow, as if he had put down a thousand-pound boulder. From leaning over to getting up, his head was always raised, his eyes were fixed on Li Hongzao, and his eyes were both resentful and sad.

"This letter was written by Hong Shun to the teacher, but Hong Shun was killed by a mob from the Italian country in Paris, and the student gave this letter to the teacher on his behalf." Hong Jun got up and took two steps back, "Please take a look, teacher!" ”

Li Hongzao didn't look at the letter, but just looked at Hong Jun fixedly, as if he didn't know him.

"Students are bold, may I ask the teacher, why do you treat students like this?" Hong Jun asked loudly.

"You tell the teacher, is this Hong Shun killed for you and Lin Yizhe?"

Li Hongzao was speechless, so he had to perform the "transfer" magic skill again. This is the only way for the Qingliu to protect themselves against the enemy, and Li Hongzao, as the leader of the "Northern Qingliu", naturally uses it perfectly. It's just that this time he used it to deal with his students, he inevitably lost his identity as a leader of the Qingliu stream.

"Teacher, don't do such nonsense! Make students look down on teachers! Hong Jun said sharply, "Kunyu is a frank gentleman, erudite, sensible and righteous, and takes care of students all the way, his heart is simple and sincere, and he is also like a student, and he never does anything that hurts nature and reason!" The students and Kunyu went to the West this time, experienced the ups and downs together, and took care of each other, and they have become close friends! Please also respect the teacher! Don't be ruin! ”

"I think you have been bewitched by the little vertical surnamed Lin, the poison in China and the foreign is deep, and there is no cure!" Li Hongzao waved his arms and shouted, "Let's go!" Since you are determined to defend the little man surnamed Lin, then it's up to you! I don't have you as a student! ”

Hearing Li Hongzao say such words, Hong Jun's face was filled with irrepressible anger.

"It's the teacher who violates the teacher's way first, since the teacher refuses to recognize me as a student, and the student doesn't go to the teacher's door anymore, it's too unreasonable." Hong Jun said, took out another letter from his sleeve, stepped forward slowly, and bowed down on the stone steps.

"This is a letter from the student to withdraw from the teacher's door, please take a look at the teacher." Hong Jun got up slowly, "From today onwards, there is no friendship between you and me. ”

Li Hongzao never expected that Hong Jun would come to such a hand with him, and for a while, he was like five thunderbolts, standing there, unable to make a sound.

After Hong Jun finished speaking, he took two steps back and bowed to Li Hongzao again. Then he turned around and strode away without looking back.

Li Hongzao watched Hong Jun's figure disappear at the door in a daze, unable to stand anymore, his body slowly softened, and he sat on the steps.

"Someone ...... coming"

When several servants of the Li Mansion heard the call, they all ran out, and when they saw Li Hongzao sitting there, they were all shocked.

"Sir! Master! ”

"Sir, what's wrong?"

"Go...... Go and invite them to come over......" Li Hongzao looked at the two letters placed on the stone steps not far away, rolled his eyes upward, and fainted.

"Sir! ――”

Hong Jun, who returned to his residence, remembered the scene that had just happened, and his heart was still angry, he thought about it, then took a pen and paper, and began to write a letter to Bao Ting and others.

At this time, he had already made up his mind to completely break with his Qingliu friends in the past.

When he returned to Tianjin by boat, he saw in the Di newspaper that the Six Daoyan Officials and the Hanlin editors impeached him and Lin Yizhe. The absurdity of the content and the viciousness of the words were unheard of before. And what made him most sad was that there were many impeachment of himself, all of which were made by Bao Ting and other Qingliu friends in the past!

Seeing these badges, coupled with the fact that his previously extremely respected mentor Li Hongzao actually arranged for his personal servant Hong Shun to monitor his every move, Hong Jun was shocked and angry, and at the same time, he was also sad.

Because this time, Hong Jun finally recognized the true face of the Qinglius, and it was only with talent that he went to Li Hongzao to withdraw from the division.

Although he handed a letter of renunciation to his former teacher, Hong Jun still felt that it was not enough, so he simply began to write a letter of renunciation to Bao Ting and others one by one.

The letters were quickly written, and Hong Jun put the letters into the envelope and called the servants to send them one by one.

After completing this work, Hong Jun was relieved, got up and came to the window, pushed open the window, looked at the red sun in the distance, and took a deep breath of the cold air blowing in from the window.

At this time, it was already deep winter, and it had already snowed several times in Beijing, and it was very cold, but at this moment, Hong Jun thought of Fantine, who was far away in France, but he didn't feel much cold.

Shichahouhai, Prince Gong's Mansion.

The winter in Beijing City, has been a little colder than the end of autumn, back to the palace Prince Gong and Wen Xiang who came to be a guest have changed into a moon white robe, at this time the two are sitting on the kang bed in the inner hall of Prince Gong's mansion, the mahogany kang table has been placed on the four dry and four wet eight tall fruit plates. The two drank tea and chatted at the same time.

"Lord, the Queen Mother rewarded this Lin Kunyu with the title of governor, you must know that since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there has not been such a young governor!" Wen Xiang held the bowl of tea in his hand, looked at Prince Gong, and said with a smile.

"He is a little younger, but this Lin Kunyu can be said to be old and thoughtful, and the Queen Mother values his talent and is promoted by talent." Prince Gong's tone was faintly appreciative, "Actually, it is not too much to reward the governor for these merits he has made." ”

"Has the prince heard about today's incident?" Wen Xiang remembered the "big event" that happened in the palace today, and asked with a smile.

"I heard. This is really strange. Prince Gong smiled and said, "The filial piety proverb of Western countries that he Lin Kunyu said, in fact, it doesn't sound like much now, it is comparable to the teaching of sages, but the queen and Concubine Hui listened to it, you say it's not strange." To say that this Lin Kunyu is really lucky, this moment just let him catch up. The queen mother of the two palaces can't even think about him if she doesn't think about it. ”

"Actually, it is a bit far-fetched for this person to say that Western countries emphasize filial piety, which is the same as ****." Wen Xiang opened the tea bowl, took a sip of tea, and said, "But what makes me admire him is here." His suggestion is tantamount to breaking the dead knot of our foreign affairs. ”

"Oh? Why did Wen Zhongtang say this? Prince Gong asked with a smile.

"Does the prince know, where is the most difficult thing in handling foreign affairs?" Wen Xiang didn't say the answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

"The most difficult thing in handling foreign affairs is that the government and the opposition are blindly prejudiced and do not think about flexibility." Prince Gong sighed and said, "Even if you open an arithmetic hall, you say that you want to destroy the country, what else can you do?" ”

Wen Xiang knew that Prince Gong was talking about the huge storm from top to bottom caused by the opening of the Astronomical Arithmetic Museum by the imperial court, and he recalled the old days, and he also sighed again and again.

The Sino-British Treaty of Tientsin of 1858 clearly stipulated: "Thereafter, all British documents shall be written in English, and for the time being they will still be delivered in Chinese, and Chinese students will be selected to learn English and become familiar with English, that is, there will be no need to deliver Chinese." From now on, where there is a literary debate, English will always be used for justice. This directly stimulated the Qing court's top brass to set up the Tongwenguan in 1862 to train translators who were urgently needed for diplomacy.

Founded in 1862, the Jingshi Tongwenguan was the only reform institution directly led by the highest decision-makers of the Qing Dynasty. The original intention of its establishment was to feel that there was a language barrier between China and foreign affairs, and often small things led to big provocations because of the lack of meaning. Based on this urgent practical need, the establishment did not encounter much resistance at the beginning.

However, in 1867, Prince Gong Yixin, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and other Western-style ministers recognized the "new idea" that "all Western learning is self-calculated", and decided to add an astronomical and arithmetic museum in the Tongwen Museum, it challenged the "********" bottom line of traditional Chinese literati, and then triggered a fierce infighting at the highest level of power in the Qing Empire.