This boycott eventually grew to the point of collective protest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Beijing officials in Hunan held a collective meeting at that time, and it was decided that those who entered the Tongwen Museum to study with foreigners would not be allowed to enter the guild in the future, and everyone collectively boycotted. Hunan started this, and the Beijing officials in Shanxi immediately followed suit.

As a result, not only could the arithmetic hall fail to recruit students, but even the hired teachers, Li Shanlan, Zou Boqi and others, who were famous scholars at that time, were also reluctant to go to the Tongwen Hall to start classes on the grounds of illness.

Behind the arithmetic turmoil of 1867 was the ancient ******** inertia of the old empire, which cannot be simply blamed on "certain conservative forces", because this is the group portrait of intellectuals in this era: a "stubborn" era will never be just the stubbornness of a few "diehards" in power, but must be the choice of everyone!

"That time it was really a big trouble, but this school is open." Wen Xiang sighed, "But things from now on will become more and more difficult to do." ”

"Let's not talk about those heart-blocking things, the article just said, this Lin Kunyu helped us come up with a good topic to break the knot, what is it?" Prince Gong seemed to be in a hurry.

"Hehe, I have already said it," Wen Xiang said with a smile, "This Lin Kunyu and the Empress Dowager said that Western countries also emphasize filial piety and the theory of sages, this is an excellent topic to break the knot!" There's a lot to be done here! ”

"How is this article going to be done?" Prince Gong asked.

"Shilin always regards foreigners as non-'people', and believes that they do not understand etiquette, do not emphasize benevolence and righteousness, and cannot be edified. Wen Xiang said, emphasizing the word "people", "Now that the envoys have returned, they say that the Western states also emphasize filial piety, and they are learned from the **** sages, and the words are well-founded, so it proves that foreigners are 'people', not 'ghosts', and there are similarities between Chinese and Western learning. ”

'yes!' How can ghosts be filial piety? Prince Gong understood what Wen Xiang meant, put down the tea bowl, stroked his palms and laughed.

"If Wu Ren is alive, I am afraid that it will be difficult to refute when I hear what he Lin Kunyu said." Wen Xiang remembered Wu Ren, who had given him N a lot of trouble, "I heard that Lin Kunyu said a lot of Western philosophical proverbs to the emperor at that time, all of which have origins, and the queen and Concubine Hui listened to what he said, which inspired their hearts and repented of their past mistakes." The Empress Dowager has ordered him to write an article on this topic, thinking that she also wants to use this article to block the mouths of those old and decrepit Confucians. ”

"I see!" Prince Gong was so excited when he heard it that he slapped his thigh.

"Lin Kunyu is a rare talent, and in my opinion, his future achievements may be above his ancestor Lin Wenzhonggong, and it is not known." Wen Xiang said again.

"How so?" Prince Gong picked up the tea bowl again, gently plucked the tea leaves floating on the water surface with the lid of the bowl, took a sip, then put down the tea bowl and asked.

"Hong Jun's "Diary of the West", the prince thinks he has read it, right?" Wen Xiang took another sip of the tea in his hand, put down the tea bowl, and Prince Gong personally took the delicate purple sand teapot and poured it full for Wen Xiang's tea bowl.

"I've read it, it's very well written, and the idea is novel, and the evaluation of what I see in the West is fair and insightful." Prince Gong said.

"Hong Jun is this person, he was Li Gaoyang's tall feet (no longer anymore), he belongs to the Qingliu faction, this time he went abroad as a deputy envoy, it was Li Gaoyang who placed him by Lin Kunyu's side and thought it was a restraint, but he actually changed his sex, not only did he not make any trouble for Lin Kunyu along the way, but he got along with Lin Kunyu very well, and wrote such a good book, doesn't the prince think there is something strange in this?" Wen Xiang asked with a smile.

"It is a strange thing." Prince Gong smiled, "Isn't this Hong Jun really as the outside world said, he was poisoned by foreign drugs?" ”

"Is there anyone who has been poisoned by foreign poison before he arrives in the western country?" Wen Xiang said with a smile, "He can change his sex, but I'm afraid it's still Lin Kunyu's work." This person can say that a Qingliu celebrity like Hong Jun praises foreign affairs, and can move the concubine to repent with a few words, only this eloquence and knowledge are very accessible! ”

"Is Wen Zhongtang trying to promote him?" Prince Gong heard the subtext in Wen Xiang's words and asked with a smile.

"Promotion is definitely going to be promoted, but not now!" Wen Xiang's sunken eye sockets emitted a strange light, "I'm still waiting for him to come up with more good topics for me!" ”

"More good topics?" Prince Gong was stunned.

"Just wait and see! I think that this good topic in Lin Kunyu's hands is definitely not only this 'filial piety'! Wen Xiang smiled slightly, and turned his gaze to the window.

"If it's really as you said in the middle of the article, I'm afraid it will be a big storm again, right?" Prince Gong asked.

Wen Xiang didn't speak, just quietly looked out the window.

At this moment, the lake scenery is bleak and desolate in winter. Broken lotus root and residual lotus, all over the eyes. Because of the earth dragon in the house, the fire burned vigorously, and there was not a trace of smoke. Although the room was warm, the scene in front of him still made people feel cold, but Wen Xiang felt a trace of heat inexplicably.

"Such an endgame, if it is not broken, it will not stand! No matter what trouble he has, just come! ”

Bingzhan Hutong, Xianliang Temple, Foreign Officials' Residence.

Lin Yizhe finished reading the "Brief Treatise on Filial Piety Songs of the Western Kingdom" that had just been written, nodded slightly, and a look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

The article that the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces asked him to write had already been completed at this time.

Of course, he understood what the purpose of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces asked him to write this.

In fact, after he learned to think independently in later generations, he found that more and more historical facts subverted the so-called "diehards headed by the Empress Dowager Cixi" that were instilled in his school textbooks in his mind. Many facts prove that in China in the 60s of the 19th century, the mainstream intellectuals were still stubbornly stuck in the tradition; On the contrary, the top level of the Qing government, headed by Cixi and Prince Gong, was ahead of the "mainstream intellectuals"!

Lin Yizhe sneered as he imagined how Shilin would react once this article was published.

At this time, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Since I want to solve the problem by myself and solve the obstacles on the way forward of the Westernization Movement, why don't I make this problem bigger?

This idea was like a spark, and immediately in his mind, it formed a prairie fire!

Hehe, don't you like to hold on to the way of Confucius and Mencius? Then I'll use Kong Meng to gag your mouths!

As a traveler who is familiar with history from later generations, he certainly knows that the reason why the Western political system has been able to lead the world in modern times is actually due to the ancient Chinese political culture.

The contribution of ancient Chinese culture to world civilization is not only the "Four Great Inventions", but also the political culture represented by the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics", which have also made positive contributions to modern human civilization. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jesuit missionaries in Europe went through great hardships to communicate Chinese and Western cultures, and transported the main culture of China at that time -- Confucianism -- Cheng Zhu Lixue -- to Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries by steamship, where there was a 100-year upsurge of learning Chinese culture, and the combination of Confucianism and the new European ideas formed since the Italian Renaissance became an important ideological source of the Enlightenment thought, the leading spirit of the development of modern European history. Voltaire, the leader of the French Enlightenment, was the most powerful advocate of Chinese Confucianism in Europe, and he and his "Encyclopedists" used Chinese Confucianism as an ideological weapon against European monarchy under theocracy. Cheng Zhu Lixue - Neo-Confucianism, which became the basis for the German philosopher Leibniz to establish classical philosophy and used it to oppose the revelation theology of the Holy See; Known as the "Confucius of Europe", Quenet opened a new era of modern European political economy based on Confucianism, and laid a theoretical foundation for the formation and development of classical British political economy.

For nearly 100 years, Chinese and Orientals have recognized that modern democracy is Western democracy, which originated in Europe. Studying, borrowing, and even copying Western democracy in its entirety has become a hot topic of thought for many modern Chinese. In later generations, whether in the East or the West, many people believed that China's traditional culture was a cultural obstacle and spiritual obstacle to the realization of social modernization. However, half a century ago, some Westerners pointed out that the traditional Chinese culture, represented by Confucianism, was once a spiritual driving force for the formation and development of European capitalist society in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In the original historical time and space, Lin Yizhe deeply understood that culture or civilization is the crystallization of human labor and wisdom. Artificially dividing culture into two opposing systems, East and West, and only looking at the contradictions and conflicts between various cultures, and ignoring the dialogue and blending between various cultures, is a kind of cultural prejudice that arises under specific historical conditions. This kind of cultural prejudice has become a kind of mental obstacle to the future of human civilization in later generations!

The current Qingliu would not have imagined that in later generations, due to the humiliating history of the past hundred years in modern times, coupled with the prevalence of "Western-centrism" of the Western powers, a distorted cultural psychology has been cultivated among the Chinese. The Chinese who love to go to extremes have changed their own national culture and history from being condescending from being condescending to being desecrated to being despised and unwilling to look at it, and this concept has become a heavy spiritual shackle on the hearts of Chinese in later generations!

Of course, Qingliu will not know that Chinese Confucianism has a huge influence in Europe, and in the past hundred years from the end of the 17th century to the end of the 18th century, a "Chinese cultural fever" has gradually formed in Europe!

And the descendants of the Qinglius, the angry youth of later generations, do not want to know or admit that the period of "learning from the West to the East" that they are talking about from the Ming Dynasty is also a period of "learning from the East and moving to the West"!