Chapter 93: The Debate of Righteousness and Profit in China and the West

What makes Qin Kai quite satisfied is that the affairs of Mawei Shipyard are being carried out in an orderly manner, but the speed of progress is limited, after all, this is engaged in research and development, industry, even if there is money, it is impossible to achieve it overnight, just like the reform and opening up of the Republic for decades in later generations, even if it has hoarded amazing foreign exchange reserves, it still has money and no place, and wants to buy technology, people don't sell it, they want to engage in industry, and emerging industries can't squeeze into it at all, and outdated industries...... Obviously, it can't be answered.

Qin Kai's situation seems to be better than that era, he has these countless emerging technologies in his hands, it can be said that everything can drive an industrial chain, but the place that bothers him is obvious, there is a lack of enough industrial workers and technical talents, he is now rich, relying on the technical advantage, he can open his golden finger, saying that he imported machines from Germany, but unfortunately there are not enough workers, even if there is a first-class steelmaking furnace, it is estimated that all the steel smelted is scrap.

Qin Kai read a few more documents patiently, and finally scratched his head and threw the pencil out to breathe in the fresh air, it was really embarrassing, why couldn't we find an all-round talent like Zhuge Liang!

In fact, there are many people who can afford the burden on his hand now, but in the face of the large industrial system he created, it is really overloaded to establish such a cornerstone as the Mawei Shipbuilding.

In the management of the factory, Xu Guofang, Wu Yun, Chen Tongpu, Wang Fei, Xu Shou, and Lin Deping also have a voice, but he still needs to listen to opinions on major things, after all, in the minds of these capable subordinates, this big cause was created by Qin Kai, how could he not report it in detail!

This reassures Qin Kai, but it also makes him feel very troublesome, although he doesn't have to do everything with his hands, but there are still a lot of things in his hands! Who let us not be a big leader in our previous life, we understand this assignment work, but it is in detail, but it is not so good.

When he was pondering, someone from afar greeted him, but it was Zhang Jian, who was in charge of the ponytail new school, "Ji Zhi, why are you here today, is there anything that needs to be coordinated by the shipmaster?" ”

For this education industry, Qin Kai has spared no effort, with the brands of Zhang Peilun and Ding Richang, it has also saved a lot of worry and effort, and the students of the fifteen free méng schools, three junior schools and the newly opened higher education halls around Fuzhou have reached nearly 4,000 people.

Among them, méng schools account for the majority of 7 percent, and more than 20 percent of the primary schools and higher schools together are seven or eight hundred. However, Qin Kai is still very satisfied with the results of this area, after all, this is only a new school that has just been opened for less than a year, and the students of the primary school and the higher school will only need a few years later to become a new force in Mawei Shipbuilding.

Moreover, the first batch of trainees sent to the German factory to study in the Harbour Master School have set off, and now the Mawei Harbour Master School is actually facing another problem, due to the outbreak of the South China Sea naval battle between China and France, the problem of continuing to retain the French teachers of the former school seems to be confusing, especially the retention of the former French officer and the superintendent of the school.

In fact, in the face of the high-priced contract offered by the Mawei Ship Administration, the vast majority of French teachers are reluctant to leave, after all, the war between countries has nothing to do with the teachers who have crossed the ocean to pan for gold, especially the senior officials like Riyige with a monthly salary of 1,000 taels, Qin Kai also gave Lao Ding the decision of this matter after reporting to Ding Richang, but obviously he hopes that the Chinese teachers in Mawei can take over the responsibility of Mawei education sooner.

Zhang Jian came today for this matter, "Gale Wind, the problem of the French teachers in the Mawei School is very contradictory now, many students are unwilling to go to the French class, and some students organize anti-French demonstrations...... I don't know where I learned it! ”

Qin Kai's face was black, this was not the trick he used when he sang and sang Hei Shen last year, he didn't expect to be learned by the students so quickly, he coughed twice in embarrassment, "This matter, Ji Zhi, I want to trouble you to guide it well, the problem of the French teachers, I don't feel that the problem is the biggest, after all, we have invited them to teach these new knowledge at a large price, and they do not touch the internal affairs of the ship administration in the academy, I have already reported this matter to Governor Ding!" ”

"These students? How to deal with it, there are a few people who are openly making trouble, and I have already warned them! But young people are like that, I guess there will be trouble! "Zhang Jian obviously doesn't have much experience in dealing with this situation. ,

Qin Kai pondered for a moment, isn't this just some angry youth, just guide it well, but it can't be connived at, they don't like to make speeches, then let them raise the flow of internal speech, "Ji Zhi, I have a way, in the ship master school, I plan to follow the idea of the newspaper supervised by General Zhang, and we will also create an academic internal journal, there is only one requirement, don't talk about political affairs, so as not to make extraneous branches, this draft, let these students who love tossing to deal with it!" ”

"Will this work?" Zhang Jian also agrees with this idea, but is not sure of its effect.

"The title of the first issue is to put the respect for teachers and education! French teachers impart knowledge according to the requirements of the contract, which is a contract jīng god that the West attaches great importance to, and respecting teachers and valuing education is our Chinese virtue, which can allow students to discuss and put forward opinions! ”

A thought suddenly popped up, Qin Kai smiled slightly, "This school magazine is called "New Youth"!" In addition to this topic, I also have an article on Chinese and Western concepts and a few articles on the statecraft of the Taixi country, which can also be put on for students to discuss when the time comes! ”

A few days later, the Mawei Ship Master School established an organization composed entirely of students, and the Qin Supervisor gave this organization a name - the Student Union, the purpose of the organization was very simple at the beginning, in order to compile an internal academic journal distributed within the school, and the first article was the opening speech written by the Ship Master Qin Kai.

Students who have listened to this Qin master's lecture and read the booklet "The Rise of Empires" know that this official who returned from Taixi has always used the vernacular to explain his theories, and of course there is no shortage of references to corroborate it, and this time it is the same way.

In his opening remarks, Qin Kai proposes the debate of "righteousness and benefit", which is an important difference between traditional Chinese Confucian culture and Western culture. From the moment the concept of righteousness and benefit was born, the debate on the new issue of righteousness and benefit has never stopped. China's thousands of years of Confucian cultural thought dominance, the formation of the Confucian concept of "righteousness before profit", in modern times, the Chinese's concept of righteousness and benefit has become more mature and perfect, the so-called sacrifice of life for righteousness has always been the mainstream of Chinese thought.

From the ancient Greek era, the West also began the Western-style distinction between righteousness and benefit, and the resulting concept of ethical wealth to systematic utilitarianism, and in modern times, hundreds of years of evolution, thus forming the Western concept of "valuing profit over righteousness". Obviously, raising this debate question is enough to detonate the students' ideological storm of Chinese and Western ideas, and right and wrong can only be understood by people's hearts.

Of course, there is another argument in this issue, that is, the content of respecting teachers and valuing education, which is completely written by the members of the student union themselves, and then sent to the Governor's Mansion for review before it can be officially published. Naturally, this publication was also sent to the desk of Governor Zhang Peilun, as a feudal official in his thirties, Zhang Peilun was quite concerned about the rise of the new school of the Ship Master School, and Qingliu's historical argument was that we must take middle school as the body and Western learning as the use, and not learn the West in its entirety.

And Qin Kai's proposal of "the dispute of righteousness and benefit" made this Confucian scholar also interested, and Zhang Peilun also sent a manuscript about the dispute of "righteousness and benefit" as some of his teachings to the students of the school. Qin Kai soon published his second manuscript again, but the content of the introduction was the political changes in the Taixi states, from the early "utilitarianism" to the current popular "social Darwinism!" Then the pen turned and introduced the Chuanshan thought of Wang Fuzi, the master of Chinese culture, and the theory of economic use.

And these great discussions related to the national thinking and the future of the country soon could not be carried by the xiǎoxiǎo journal, and there were walls in the school dedicated to posting students' manuscripts, and the students' recognition of various theories also had great differences, and the concept of maintaining the traditional concept of righteousness and benefit, while learning from the successful experience of the West, basically became the mainstream, but some more daring and divergent arguments began to appear!

Zhang Jian naturally understands that these conceptual things cannot be instilled, and he also came up with a trick to gather these students to hold a big discussion about all kinds of thoughts, whether it is a mule or a horse, and they all bring it out to comment, which is reasonable and reasonable!

Hearing this news, Qin Kai came to participate in the discussion of the students with great concern, and what made him more happy was that it was obvious that in the Ship Master School, the students' thoughts of worrying about the country and the people were still very simple and true, coupled with the guidance of the Yili Discussion, several issues of "New Youth" and "The Rise of a Great Power" xiǎo booklets, the students had a deep understanding of the internal and external troubles they were currently facing. ,

In this regard, Qin Kai told Zhang Jianjian that in his spare time, he organized students to carry out a big discussion every week, the content was provided by him, Qin Kaiguang lacked information in his head, of course, when it comes to sensitive domestic affairs, he can not talk about sensitive domestic affairs issues, students can express their opinions, express their opinions, and have such an open discussion, he is convinced that the new generation of ship master students with a broad vision will soon step onto the stage of history.

Qin Kaile left the school, but Sun Fu rushed to pull him to Ding Richang, Lao Ding was stunned with a telegram, seeing Qin Kai, Lao Ding shook the telegram in his hand: "Gale Wind, those Japanese, after leaving, this Prime Minister Yamén sent a telegram, saying that he had been missing for a long time......"

"Oh! Yes! Qin Kai looked gloating, "It seems that the Japanese must be angry and resentful, and they went out to sea in the middle of the night to run aground and sink the ship!" ”

Ding Richang looked at Qin Kai carefully, and smiled, "Gale Wind, have you made trouble!" I remembered that you sent a few xiǎo Japan away that day, why did you come to Cháo and find a German consul to testify! ”

"My lord! That's your approval! Anyway, I don't know where these Japanese have gone, maybe the few confessions we handed over, the Japanese killed people and killed them! ”

"That's right, give me your copy of the things signed by the Germans, and I will attach it to the Prime Minister and send it to the Prime Minister's Yamén to settle the matter!" Ding Richang flipped through the rummag and looked at the telegram again, "By the way, Li Zhongtang has sent a telegram, ask me to Tianjin for a while, and let you go with you!" There's also a new type of cannon, and Lord Nakado wants a few mén ......"

"My lord, there is a cannon, and this is the silver...... This cannon is all made by our shipmaster's leftover steel, and the previous warships were all allocated by the military aircraft department, but this cannon is our own silver! Qin Kai shouted.

Ding Richang is obviously more iron-clad than him, "Gale Wind, how can you become so angry, the 10mén heavy artillery sent to the Dagu Fort last year, Li Zhongtang also admitted your affection, this time you have to show you well, I pondered that Lord Zhongtang wants to see you, but it has a deep meaning!" ”

Qin Kai's face is black, it's not that he is angry, if there is a good guy, he can't give it away in vain, Li Zhongtang is a black belly and a dangerous master, and he is a horn who has not been cultivated by officialdom, and he is probably a little tender to fight with him, this great battle achievement has two awards, a nominal official position, but fortunately, it is real power, and the Nanyang sailor that people look down on is a treasure in his hands.

"My lord, you and Lord Zhongtang are very familiar with each other, and this time you asked me to go just to let me send the cannon!" Qin Kai can find countless information about this Lord Li Zhongtang, but this Lord will definitely depict countless personalities, but he can write "The husband only holds Wu Hook in his hand, and his spirit is higher than a hundred feet of Lou; Whoever has written history for 10,000 years, three thousand miles away, is by no means a busy person, and he is not arrogant enough to think that he can trample on these historical figures at will.

"Gale Wind, Lord Zhongtang holds the power and leans towards the opposition, do you think he wants to see a junior like you, is it just for a few cannons?"

Qin Kai was sweating, how could this old man play this trick, he didn't say anything, he could only shake his head depressedly.

"There are talents in the country, how can Lord Zhongtang not know this simple truth, he has already asked me about your origin, and I will vigorously protect you! This must have something to do with this! Ding Richang said with a smile.

Comrade Lao Ding is really a good comrade, but this is a rather difficult question, Mawei must not give up, all his efforts are on this, and he is now a figure in the quasi-Hunan military system, except for Lao Ding, who is considered a centrist, that is, the new Jiāo good Zhang Peilun, which is definitely Li Zhongtang's sworn enemy.

"My lord, you don't want to push me to the Huai Army, I don't know anyone on the Huai Army's side! It's still hard to work with you! Qin Kai said very sincerely, this is not hypocrisy, Lao Ding can really let go.

"Huai Jun? Gale Wind, where do you want to go, but Huaijun is really not good there, and few of the people who work with my old man are still busy......" Ding Richang recalled the past, not very embarrassed, "It was your friend Xu Jianyin who repeatedly recommended you to Lord Zhongtang, you hurry up and get ready, this time I will go by the Sailor Ironclad!" ”

"Take the ironclad ship to ......" Qin Kai gave Lao Ding's Yaxing nòng had no direction, he didn't want to be so ostentatious, Lao Ding did it for him first.

"Gale, what's wrong? Inconvenient, isn't it? This time I must bring the ironclad ship, I have a reason, listen to me! Lao Ding's mysterious expression made Qin Kai look a question mark, since Ding Richang insisted, there was naturally his reason, the strength of the Nanyang Navy Division was finally going to show the world, which may not be a good thing...... Who could have predicted. ,

"Of course...... No problem! ”

On the same day, Lu Han received the news that Qin Kai was preparing to leave for Tianjin Wei, and the order was very clear, to show the style of our Nanyang Naval Division in the best condition, and the fleet immediately carried out a full mobilization, and after screening, this accompanying cruise was the newly modified "Chengqing" warship, and the pipe band was Lu Zhiyuan, who had been training the captain of merchant ships for several days.

All the old ships of the Nanyang Naval Division have been replaced by officers from the training camp, and these officers who have experienced the naval battles in the South China Sea have injected unprecedented vitality into this fleet, and the feelings in the hearts of these soldiers who have fought in the South China Sea have been completely released, which makes the new fleet commander Lu Han really excited.

Saigon, the station of the French Jiāo Toe China fleet, the commander of the fleet, Vice Admiral Gu Ba, was holding a thick pile of case files and looking at them carefully, and the table on the side was also stacked with this meter-high paper, each of which was full of paper covered with the words "top secret" in red sè French, which was the battle record of all the soldiers and officers who participated in the naval battle in the South China Sea, as well as the detailed accounts of the surviving officers and soldiers on the three sunken cruisers.

The three battleships Desdan, the Niele, and the La Perlouz were sunk, and every detail was personally inquired about and understood, and it was obvious that the battleship that displayed its super power was indeed a terrifying enemy, and what he saw in the last 10 minutes could be said to be the intimidation of his opponent Chi Guoguo!

Previously, the opponent had sunk three of France's most advanced fast ironclad cruisers in less than a single hour, and the cruiser with a speed of 15 knots had completely lost to the opponent in terms of speed, and the opponent turned out to be an ironclad battleship with a tonnage of nearly 4,000 tons, which undoubtedly illustrated a serious problem.

In terms of power, the French Republic was already far behind a certain competitor, and the officers and sailors of the three cruisers that had been attacked by the opponent in close range all agreed that it should be an ironclad ship similar to the German Saxony-class, but in terms of firepower and speed, it completely surpassed any warship they saw...... Even more than a Xiǎo fleet.

Let them recall each neat artillery bombardment of the other side, it was like a nightmare for these surviving soldiers, and it was the huge lànghuā chain of unhit artillery around the battleship that terrified them to the extreme. The only surviving fleet commander was Cruiser Commander Gallok, but he had been completely destroyed by the powerless battle of Jī, and everyone who approached him would hear him repeating "Azazler!" over and over again. ”

It is from the Bible, the strongest demon from hell, the god-like demon leader, the strong man who was sacrificed with the blood of God in the Jewish sacrifice