The sun had set, and the golden glow of the sunset in the west had vanished, and the clear blue moon in the sky was shining brightly, softly casting the mercury-like moonlight on the streets. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

A young man dressed in cloth walked briskly down the street, and soon they came to Lin Yizhe's mansion not far from the Harbour Master's Office, and after informing the porter, they entered the gate and came straight to the back hall.

After receiving the report, Lin Yizhe hurriedly came over, and when the people saw Lin Yizhe, they immediately saluted.

"They're gone?" At this time, Lin Yizhe was still wearing filial piety clothes, but the sadness on his face was not as obvious as when he was Japanese.

"Go back, my lord, and go. The subordinates watched the Japanese get on the boat. Seeing the boat leave, the subordinates came back to report the news to the adults. They were on a Citigroup liner called the 'Rola'. The visitor replied.

"They're on an American ship?" Lin Yizhe's brows furrowed slightly.

"That's right, my lord, my subordinates carry a clairvoyant mirror with them, and I can see that it is indeed an American Citi on board."

After listening to the report of the subordinate sent to spy on the Japanese, Lin Yizhe nodded, and his subordinate took his leave.

Lin Yizhe changed out of his filial piety clothes and planned to go to the shipmaster's gun station, but for some reason, he suddenly felt very tired, so he dispelled this idea and returned to his room to rest.

At this time, the portrait of the forehead silk given to him by Yanagihara Qianguang was already placed in the room, Lin Yizhe looked at the portrait, and he was a little distracted for a while, and Xu Run didn't notice it when he came in.

"My lord......" Looking at Lin Yizhe with a cloudy face and a constantly changing expression, Xu Run couldn't help but shout worriedly, seeing that Lin Yizhe didn't react, he repeated again: "My lord?!" ”

"Oh," Lin Yizhe finally returned from the fugue world, "Mr. Xu." He looked at Xu Run, who was worried, and immediately smiled apologetically: "I'm distracted for a while, so Mr. can see and smile." ”

"My lord has been working too hard for a while, so you should pay attention to rest and recuperate." Xu Run has always been a sensible person, and when he saw that Lin Yizhe was so unrelenting, he was also very sensitive and stopped asking.

"If this hard work can bear fruit, it will be worth it, I'm afraid ......," Lin Yizhe sighed.

Although Xu Run had made it clear that he would not delve into his distraction at that moment just now, Lin Yizhe thought that he had the need to explain.

In fact, it's not exactly to explain to Xu Run, but also to bring his mind back to the original track - the road of reversing history is too difficult, and he really doesn't have much time and mood to leave for himself.

"Don't let this generation disturb your mind." Thinking of what happened recently, Xu Run couldn't help but be full of anger.

He hated and said: "The so-called 'clear stream' of this child, there is nothing to do when there is something happening inside and outside, and there is no real plan!" And the military is decided, then the people in power will obstruct each other when they create a thing, and the group will ridicule and spend money on making a weapon, which is really a mediocre and misleading country! ”

"It's nothing, even if the shipmaster is not hindered by these small things, it is just a temporary embellishment, a little framing." Lin Yizhe had completely regained his usual calm at this time, and he continued: "To my Qing Dynasty, the ship administration is just a whitewash, even if there are occasional small successes, it can hardly be regarded as a road to self-improvement!" ”

"Embellishment, pasting, whitewashing?" Xu Run repeated these words, and after a long time, he smiled bitterly and said: "Listening to the adult's words today, I know that the adult's eyes are like torches!" If you talk about the depth of insight into my great Qing accumulation, except for adults, I don't think about it as a second person! ”

admired Xu Yun from the bottom of his heart, but Lin Yizhe could only return with a slightly embarrassed smile - he was just an afterthought a hundred years later, as a traverser, these have always been the burden on his heart!

"In the past few days, I have been talking about the past and the present with those Japanese, and I have a lot of emotion!" Lin Yizhe's tone was full of extremely sincere admiration - he was a time-traveler and was quite familiar with the history of Japan's Meiji Restoration, while Yanagihara Maemitsu and others were from a lofty position before Japan's national collapse, and the superiority between the two can be known regardless of whether asked!

"My lord......" Xu Run looked at Lin Yizhe and said in a deep voice, "You're upset!" ”

Lin Yizhe raised his head and looked at Xu Run, under the moonlight outside the window, he could clearly see the fine fish scale lines at the corners of his mouth and eyelids.

Lin Yizhe's heart sank, because of Eya in the past few days, his mood was indeed a little confused, although he had tried his best to cover it up, but he didn't expect to be caught up by Xu Run.

"What Mr. said is that I have indeed been a little restless these days......" Lin Yizhe tried to consider the words, but for a while he felt that he was short of words, and he only muttered but didn't know how to continue.

"Adults don't have to say it......" Xu Run knew why he was embarrassed in his heart, and couldn't help laughing, and actually reached out and patted Lin Yizhe's shoulder: "The heart of an adult and a young man is already a little more concerned than an old man like me, but ......" The expression on Xu Run's face has turned solemn in an instant, "Don't forget, Zeng Wenzhenggong once said that if you want to develop a great career, the word 'self-cultivation' is the first priority. ”

"That's what the gentleman said!" Lin Yizhe sighed and replied, "It wasn't Mr. who reminded me, I almost forgot ......"

"This is the responsibility of the old man," Xu Run nodded, he looked at Lin Yizhe, who was a little haggard, and suddenly smiled and said, "...... If you want to talk about the old and young of the country, please speak about the old and young of the people. The elderly often think about the past, and the young people often think about the future. Thinking about the past, so I am nostalgic; Thinking about the future, so there is hope. But nostalgia is also, so conservative; But hope also, so enterprising. But it is conservative, so it is eternal; But enterprising, so new. Only think about the past, everything is what it has, so only know as usual; Thinking about the future, everything is unprecedented, so he often dares to break the rules. ”

"Sir, have seen all the graffiti I wrote?!" Lin Yizhe smiled bitterly.

"Hmm!" Xu Run bowed slightly, "...... Only think about the past, everything is what it has, so only know as usual; Thinking about the future, everything is unprecedented, so I often dare to break the ......"

"What a sentence 'so dare to break the rules'!" Xu Run gently raised his hand and slapped his hands slightly, and exclaimed: "In the world, if you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will be able to break through the words of how to 'win people' in the change, or you Lin Kunyu!" ”

"Sir is overrated!" Lin Yizhe's sincere fear and shame at this time are rare from the heart, because this is not his original, "It's just a young man talking wildly!" Let the gentleman see the smile! ”

"Don't say that, my lord, I was deeply touched by the correspondence between Lord Lao Guan and Li Zhitai, and I paid more attention to ......the manuscripts of adults on weekdays," Xu Run sighed, "My lord and Li Zhengtai are the first to dare to be the first in the world, and they can be said to be equal for a while, on par!" ”

"Li Zhengtai is eloquent, and I can't do it." Lin Yizhe heard Xu Run's praise of Li Hongzhang, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

In the original historical time and space, throughout the entire "Tongguang Zhongxing" from the 60s to the 90s of the 19th century, Li Hongzhang and the Huai bureaucracy he founded were a group of people who walked at the forefront of the times!

Thinking of Li Hongzhang's "Preparing for Coastal Defense", Lin Yizhe's heart was full of admiration!

All the masters of writing are the best at carrying private goods! And Li Hongzhang was born with an iron pen, and he is a master!

In Li Hongzhang's article, Lin Yizhe's most admired is "Preparing for Coastal Defense", which is sprinkled with more than 9,000 words, called "Preparing for Coastal Defense", but in fact, it is in Prince Gong's "training, simple weapons, shipbuilding, fund-raising, employing people, and lasting" under the six articles of "training, simple weapons, shipbuilding, fund-raising, employing people, and lasting", and there is no other derivation, taking the "employing people" article as an example, Prince Gong's proposal is just "simply pulling out talents", and when it comes to Li Hongzhang, it has become a great article for reforming the imperial examination and learning from the West!

In a word, Li Hongzhang's "Preparing for Coastal Defense" is called "Preparing for Coastal Defense" at the suggestion of Prince Gong, but in fact it is a strategic plan for how to reform an old empire in order to become self-reliant!

For this "Preparing for the Coastal Defense Fold", most of the later generations are most familiar with the deafening warning words - "In the past dynasties, the border was mostly in the northwest, and its strength and weakness, and the shape of the guest and host were all suitable, and there were still Chinese and foreign boundaries." Today, more than 10,000 miles of southeast China Sea Frontier, countries trade and preach, come and go freely, gather in the hinterland of Beijing and various provinces, in the name of reconciliation, the plan of devouring, a country is a trouble, and all countries are instigated, which is really a change that has not been seen in thousands of years. The speed of the ship's telegraph, in an instant! The precision of the military weapon and the machine are 100 times the workmanship; Wherever the shells arrived, they were indestructible, and they were not limited by land and water, and they were a strong enemy that had not been seen for thousands of years......"

A change not seen in thousands of years! An enemy not seen in thousands of years!

But this can only be regarded as a description and judgment of the current situation, in fact, the real drama of Li Hongzhang's compromises is a sentence immediately after this cautionary remark - "The multiplication of external troubles is so changing, and I still want to use the legal system, for example, the doctor treats the disease without asking what the disease is, and applies the ancient prescription, but it has not seen its effect." ”

"A change unseen in thousands of years, a strong enemy unseen in thousands of years! How can you make an enemy of the law?! ”

Lin Yizhe muttered to himself, a pair of dark and heavy pupils rarely shot a little crazy!

It is not advisable to become a legal enemy, so what is the method if you want to control a strong enemy? Li Hongzhang himself gave the answer in the twists and turns - "Yi said: 'If you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will be successful.'" 'If the cover does not change, the battle and defense are not enough, and the peace cannot last long. ”

"If you are poor, you will change, and if you change, you will be successful!" Lin Yizhe slowly squeezed out these six words from between his teeth, and his hands were already clenched tightly, "The external needs are harmonious, and the internal picture is changed!" ”

Needless to say, Li Hongzhang's own wisdom and foresight are just this "external demand and Rong, internal plan to change the law!" The eight-character national policy is enough to make him far superior to his peers - even in the era when Lin Yizhe came, isn't the national policy that China can choose is still like "taoguang and obscurity, make a difference"?

What's more, Li Hongzhang's proposal to change the law was put forward in the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, that is, in 1874 (after the Japanese invasion of Taiwan), and it is not said that Zhang Zhidong's theory of "Chinese style and Western use" is to be stunned, and the self-proclaimed "saint" Kang Nanhai's proposal to change the law was put forward more than ten years later......

What is particularly ridiculous is that Kang Youwei also claimed that Weng Tongyi was the "first mentor of China's Restoration", which is really interesting, Master Weng acted all his life, only the words "more than defeat" can be described, this fang can be the "Restoration Mentor" in Kang Youwei's mouth, and it is really ridiculous for a hundred years! However, considering that Master Weng and Kang Shengren have the same lineage in fame and fame and shame, it is not surprising that Kang can do such words and deeds!

What is commendable is that among the Huai system, Li Hongzhang is not the only one who can have "what is urgent today, but only to break through prejudices and seek reality!" The rest of the two Huai family No. 2 people such as Liu Mingchuan and Zhang Shusheng have also tried their best to promote national reform within their ability - Liu Mingchuan suggested in his early years that he should build railways and open mines to promote the cause of foreign affairs, and after being appointed as the first governor of Taiwan, he consolidated coastal defense, built railways, set up electric wires, developed commerce, reclaimed land, and built new enterprises, so that the modernization of Taiwan Province Chengdu is almost the crown in the sea!

Zhang Shusheng, who had served as the acting governor of Zhili during the period when Li Hongzhang was worried about the death of his mother, and used thunderous means to quell the "Renwu Change" in North Korea, even asked the imperial court to abandon the so-called dogma of "middle school as the body, Western learning as the application" on the line of self-improvement reform, and introduce the Western parliamentary system. Zhang Shusheng said: The parliamentary system is the root of the West's strength, and only by introducing the parliamentary system can we accomplish the goal of self-improvement reform and seeking national prosperity and strength. This is the first time that the feudal officials of the Qing Empire have explicitly proposed the opening of a parliament!

When Zhang Shusheng died of illness in Guangzhou in 1884, he also issued a testament to the Qing court, saying, "The Fuxi people founded the country, have their own roots, although the etiquette and music are educated, far inferior to the Chinese, but they are tamely rich and strong, and have physical use." Cultivating talents in the school, discussing politics in the house, the monarch and the people are one, the top and bottom are concentric, pragmatic and false, planning and then moving, this body is also. Ships, cannons, foreign guns, mines, railways, and electric wires are also used. China left its body and sought its use, no matter how much it pouted and tended, it often did not touch, so that the iron ships were in line, and the railways were up to four places, and they were enough to control it? and the admonition of "the saint is the teacher of all things, and the body of the Western people is used for its own use"!

History has always been fair, and while it gave Japan a generation of elites such as Okubo Toshitsu, Ito Hirobumi, and Yanagihara Maemitsu who launched the "Meiji Restoration", it also gave the Chinese generation led by Li Hongzhang to transcend the times in vision and action.

But Lady Luck abandoned China very ruthlessly, and compared with the Japanese politicians of the same period, the stage that Li Hongzhang and others could play was too narrow and too small......

"But dare to be the world...... Lin Yizhe suddenly smiled quite self-defeatingly, "I'm afraid that even if you are ahead of the world, you will die before the people of the world, and those who hold on to the defects have not been shaken at all!" ”

"I think that the things of the world are just man-made!" Xu Run looked at Lin Yizhe, shook his head, and said disapprovingly.

"My lord said before that the situation in China today wants to cheer up, but 'the outside must be harmonious, and the inside must change the law!' Horoscopes! Xu Run continued with a faint gaze: "And the old man thinks that with the heavy constraints in the imperial court, it is difficult for the adults to change the law by themselves, and since there is damage in the embankment, why not make up for it outside the embankment?" ”

"How do I make it up?" Lin Yizhe asked with an impassive expression, "What does Mr. mean?" ”

"My lord has been to overseas ......" Xu Run's eyes radiated a faint light, "I know a little about the situation in the West, today's West, just like the Spring and Autumn Period of China, the heroes rise together, compete for the world, and the major powers are all vertical and horizontal, folding and rushing bottles, and the strategy of wide and horizontal is also ......"

"The adults have profound Chinese culture, so they must naturally know that when the Jin and Chu fought in the Spring and Autumn Period, the deceased minister of Chu Wuchen offered the policy of 'uniting Wu to control Chu' for the Jin State!" Xu Run's voice suddenly deepened: "The old man thinks that with the national strength of today's Qing Dynasty, it can be said that he is self-defeating in Jin Chu, and being willing to be the country of Wu is the way to self-improvement and self-improvement!" ”

"Sir said it well!" Lin Yizhe praised lightly, just the four words "Lianwu Controls Chu", he already understood what kind of plan he was doing in his heart, Xu Run was already clear!

Xu Run looked at Lin Yizhe, suddenly smiled, and said: "But adults should be careful, after returning to China, adults just said a small sentence of 'the Western Kingdom also worships the Holy Religion', and immediately became a traitor who changed to Xia with Yiyi, but if this 'self-respect' strategy is really carried out, then I am afraid that this traitor will not be able to escape for the rest of his life." ”

"So what?" Lin Yizhe smiled coldly and said: "With today's situation, the war between Japan and our Qing Dynasty is just a matter of time and evening!" And even if our shipyard buys ships and cannons, and governs the navy, it is best to just make an invincible situation! At the end of the day, if we really want to strive for self-improvement and make our Qing Dynasty stand tall in today's world of great contention, the only way to do this is to break the old rules and implement the law! ”

"If I can really make the country stronger, I will become this traitor, so what?"

Hearing Lin Yizhe say such words, Xu Run's eyes also glowed.

"The adult has such an awareness, so the old man will also accompany the adult, and he will also be a traitor!"

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"Li Wenzhong's Public Collection: A Reply to Lin Kunyu Fujun": "...... The Western method of daily use is jointly promoted by Europe, and the Western art of war is mainly based on artillery, supplemented by guns, and it is reasonable. And the things in the cannon are extremely refined and promising, and those who are not familiar with it are unpredictable, so they are not suitable for use. If the public is interested in this, can he still raise enough? The Shanghai Machinery Bureau, as respected, is difficult to refine if there are too many things. The demand for ironclad gunboats is the greatest, and I don't know when it will be completed? Ready-to-do, can it be compared with the small and coarse ones of the West? The cannon is wrought iron, and the rifle cannon has not yet been made, let alone the steel cannon! In the past, the self-made copper cannon used by the steamer was too bad, and it was ordered to buy more steel cannons from the rear door of the Krupp in Puguo to meet the emergency needs. However, although the cannon was purchased, the drug used in it could not be imitated. Yesterday, I have asked Yuxuan and others to catch up with the picture. Mines are the secret weapons of river danger prevention, and the necessary sulfur strong water and wires cannot be built, that is, these three things, the power of the bureau, it is not easy to be broken for a while, and it is not easy to refine. The bureau is now available, soldiers, guns, Lin Mington's back door guns, small copper cannons, the system of the earth is more than enough, the foreign insult is insufficient, and is committed to ironclad gunboats, wrought iron cannons, mines, poor years, take the fine with macro, there are pigs! ……”