"Weng Tongyi's Diary":

"On the twenty-fifth day (April 1, 1875), it rained and sunny, and it was very miserable. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info kneel and knock with the class, that is, out. After dinner, I visited Xu Lanshi and did not meet. Shen Chu went to the cabinet hall to see the draft of the Haiphong recital. Yesterday's draft, Li Lansun thought that he didn't want it, so he changed this draft, but in fact, it was empty words. In general terms, there is no need to be extravagant, please let the Minister of the Sea go and purchase firearms, but he does not specify the ironclad ship; It is not feasible to open coal and iron and add salt to the salt, but the rest is not specified. Yu said that the section of borrowing foreign money did not seem to be negotiable, and there were quite a few people at that time. Li Lansun also thought so, so it was not feasible to borrow foreign money. The rest is not painful, but it is said that coastal defense should be arranged as soon as possible, and there is no way to raise salaries. It's really child's play. ”

"On the 29th day of the first month of the first year of Guangxu, the Prime Minister of the National Affairs Yamen played Lin Yizhe Article Chen, which folded the building of the navy, the protection of Chinese merchants, the opening of mines, the construction of railways, and the telegraph, and in the raising of salaries, it was proposed to develop commerce to open up the source of wages, and negotiated to borrow foreign funds. As soon as his argument came out, the hearers were in an uproar. With its many quotations of Confucius Sheng's words, the Queen Mother seemed to be moved, handed over to the courtiers' meeting, Gong Di, Mellow Di, Wen Xiang pointed to his words as yes, Shen Xiang, Bao Xiang, Li Lansun Shangshu was silent, Lidi, Shan Shangshu (Ministry of Shangshu Shan Maoqian), Xu Yuru Shilang (Xu Tong) said that his argument was wrong, and Yu also wanted to argue about it, but carefully examined the whole text, everywhere for the holy words, it seems difficult to refute. …… After a long time of discussion, the queen mother ordered the inner supervisor to take the chair, and divided the legs of each chair with a saw, of different lengths, and placed it on the temple, saying: "If there is a person who can sit but not servant, it can be forbidden Lin Yizhe's discussion." 'The ceremonial hall was the first to sit down, and fell to the ground in front of him, his face broken and bleeding; Following the single mountain also stepped forward to sit, stumbling in front of the steps, the lip was cracked, and a tooth was lost; Xu Yuru stepped forward to sit down, and also served in front of him, planted upside down on the ground, and his head was broken. Since there was no one to sit forward, Lin agreed. I will see the edict in the near future, and I am depressed and angry in my heart, and I am sick at night. ”

"Dingguo is an edict":

"After a few years of mining, Chinese and foreign ministers pay attention to current affairs, and many masters of Western law are self-reliant, and several edicts have been written, such as mining mines, building ships, training new soldiers, creating telegraphs, building railways, and establishing sailors in the academy, all of which have been repeatedly examined and approved, and they have been prepared to be well prepared and implemented. However, the atmosphere has not yet been opened, and there is no consensus on it. Or they are worried about the country, thinking that the old rules must be observed, and the new laws must be eliminated. If the current situation is like this, the national situation is like this, if there are still untrained soldiers, limited salaries, no real learning, no good teachers, the strength and weakness are contrasted, and the rich and poor are suspended, how can we really control the soldiers with tart and strong armor? ”

"If the country is uncertain, then the order will not work, and it will be extremely corrupt, and it will lead to disputes at the door, fire and water with each other, and follow the accumulated habits of the Song and Ming dynasties, which will not be beneficial to the current politics. That is, in terms of China's great scriptures and laws, the five emperors and three kings do not follow each other, such as winter Qiu and Xia Ge, which are not mutually existent. It is clearly declared that in the future, Chinese and foreign ministers, from princes and scholars, should strive to move upward, be indignant, and plant their roots with the study of sages and righteousness, and they must learn from the West and pay attention to the strength of those who are in charge of current affairs, so as to save the disadvantages of emptiness and absurdity. Concentrate on excellence, keep improving, do not attack its fur in vain, do not say it in vain, and turn the useful into useless in order to become a talent for economic change. ”

"The Harbour Master School is the first initiative of various provinces, and it has been held for many years, and the results are remarkable, but the source of students is not wide. The Minister of Military Aircraft, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs will be held together to make a quick announcement, and all the editors and inspectors of the Hanlin Academy, the secretaries of the ministries and institutes, the guards of the gates, the alternate candidates for the officials below the prefecture and county levels, the children of the senior members, the descendants of the Eight Banners, and the military ranks, who wish to enter the hall, will be allowed to study and study, in order to produce a large number of talents, and help each other in times of difficulty, and shall not be perfunctory or biased, resulting in the earnest admonition of the imperial court. This encyclical will be given. ”

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Hunan, Changsha, Sixian Lecture House.

In a study room, a middle-aged scribe with a clear face in his forties was sitting at his desk, flipping through a thread-bound book, and on his desk there was already a thick stack of books.

And the students sitting below each of them had a thick stack of books in front of their desks.

On the shadow wall in the study room, a huge white cloth is hung, and lines of words are written in block letters on the white cloth. From time to time, the students below looked up at the words on the white cloth and rummaged through the books.

What is written on the white cloth is the content of Lin Yizhe's "Please Xing Navy Maritime Protection Business and Ocean Folding"!

The middle-aged scribe rummaged through the book for a while, but still found nothing, and couldn't help but slam his fist on the table, causing the books on the table to bounce up.

This middle-aged scribe is the famous Hunan celebrity Wang Minyun.

"The Lin family's demons, dare to be like this!" Wang Minyun scolded again and again.

Seeing that the teacher was angry, the students below looked at each other one by one and did not dare to make a sound.

It's no wonder that Wang Minyun is angry, it's really because Lin Yizhe's article is too impeccable, and he gathered students for days to find the fault in Lin Yizhe's article, but he found nothing.

"Father, I'm afraid it won't work out if you look for it like this." Another famous scholar in the world, Li Ciming, came to Wang Minyun's side and said, "His article is close to the words of the saint everywhere, and it is mixed with the teachings of the saint, which is really difficult to refute. ”

"The same is true of his "Western Kingdom Sacred Dao Examination"! At that time, he failed to expose his treacherous plot in time, so that he was confused! Wang Minyun said angrily, "At the beginning, he said that Yangyi also worships the holy way, that is, he wanted to regard Yangyi as a person, but unfortunately he couldn't see through the killing, and to this day!" ”

"Yes! No one expected his dark chess move. Li Ciming couldn't help but sigh.

One of the great magic weapons of the Qingliu scholars to oppose Westernization and resist Western learning is that "foreigners are not human", since foreigners are not even human, then can they still learn their things? But they didn't expect that after Lin Yizhe returned from his mission to the West, he wrote the "Examination of the Holy Way of the Western Kingdom" to prove that Western countries also respect the way of Confucius and Mencius. You can learn the things of natural foreigners. When Lin Yizhe's "Western Sacred Dao Examination" was just published throughout the country, Wang Minyun read this article, except that he felt uncomfortable and couldn't find fault with it, he didn't think much about it, and when he saw Lin Yizhe's "Please Xing Navy Maritime Protection Business and Ocean Twist" this time, he realized it, but it was too late.

"No! Can't let him just get away with it! Otherwise, Western studies will spread all over China, and the Holy Religion will fall, and I will die in the Qing Dynasty! Wang Minyun said, and plunged into the pile of books again. Seeing this, Li Ciming could only paced in front of the shadow wall, carefully read the content of Lin Yizhe's recital, and thought hard about how to solve it.

And when they saw that the teacher spoke again, the students below also hurriedly followed suit.

A group of people were busy for a long time, but they still didn't find any way, Wang Minyun was so angry that he vented his anger on the students.

"Have you read all the books of your sages in vain?" Wang Minyun pointed at the students and scolded, "Do you know? If he is allowed to make this fold, you will be on a par with the lowly merchant from now on! Never turn over! ”

After listening to the teacher's reprimand, the young students lowered their heads one by one, some of them turned red and looked very angry, but some of them showed disapproval on their faces.

Wang Minyun is a famous man in the world, in his early years, he embraced the emperor's learning, tried to participate in the governance of the world, and made great achievements, but suffered repeated setbacks, unable to display his ambitions, so he was determined to advance, and returned to write a book to teach his students, he was sincere and easy to students, diligent in teaching, often taught seriously, talked eloquently, and tirelessly all day long, and many people came to him to save his learning. However, his arrogant spirit of "vertical and horizontal ambition has not been completed, and the spare time is full of rivers and mountains" has not diminished slightly, and he usually laughs and scolds, ridicules and mocks, and does everything, and people are often afraid and avoid.

And the students knew his temper, because despite his insults, no one answered.

The reason why Wang Minyun's personality has become like this is because of his poor career. He belongs to a person whose career has been frustrated and turned into a celebrity in anger. Wang Minyun won the move at the age of 26 and stepped into the ranks of senior scholars, although it is normal to try not to sell it several times. And his bad luck lies in the early exposure of his talent, and he reaches the center, and he is favored by Su Shun, the think tank of Emperor Xianfeng, and he has become a senior think tank in the think tank of the Qing Empire. And Emperor Xianfeng belongs to the kind of emperor whose temperament is too small, and he just caught up with many disasters and difficulties, the long hair is not flat, and the British and French troops hit the door again, and they attacked twice, but they didn't come up in one breath, and they died. As soon as Emperor Xianfeng died, Su Shun was careless for a while, and was killed by the Western Empress Dowager Yehenara? Xingzhen united with Emperor Xianfeng's brother Prince Gong Yixin to get rid of it, and followed the former emperor who knew him, and Wang Minyun was branded as "Su Party" from then on, and he was not allowed to be born. That's the case in China, with the wrong person and standing on the wrong team, for literati, are the most fatal losses in their political careers, Wang Minyun stood on the wrong team, and did not take a small life already belongs to the emperor's grace, if you want to get ahead, you have to wait for the Empress Dowager Xi to die, but judging from the current situation, the Empress Dowager has just passed her 40th birthday, and she is in good health, and it is difficult to die.

Wang Minyun scolded for a while, probably tired, sat down, and the two older but graceful maids who had been standing next to him immediately stepped forward and rubbed his chest and back.

Seeing the two elderly maids waiting for him in front of the students, Li Ciming couldn't help but secretly slander in his heart, but the students below seemed to be surprised, which made Li Ciming, who had just come here, feel shocked.

In this day and age, the moral requirements for scholars are generally still very high. However, if a person is seen as a "celebrity and celebrity", this seems to change.