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In addition to transferring all the 7,000 new troops trained in Tianjin to Shandong for garrison, he also dismissed Shandong's original 40,000 soldiers, selected 10,000 people, and formed 20 battalions, replaced all the military salaries saved with foreign guns and artillery, and concentrated them in Jinan, let Wang Shizhen be in charge of training, and transferred the "Dingyuan" of the Beiyang Naval Division to Weihai, Shandong.

After the overall situation stabilized, the first thing Song Xiaofei grasped was to promote education and emancipate the people's minds. There were thousands of parishioners in Shandong, and there was a violent conflict between Confucian culture and Christian civilization, which was forcefully suppressed by Song Xiaofei on the surface, but the contradiction still existed. Song Xiaofei agreed with the advice given to him by Timothy Lee in his letters, hoping that through education, the people would become interested in science, influence them to build railways and dig minerals, avoid the recurrence of famine, and rescue the people from the "state of extreme poverty", so as to completely eradicate the "boxing and bandit rebellion" brought about by feudal superstition and reduce the incidents of hatred and xenophobia.

So Song Xiaofei founded Shandong University Hall, and wanted to invite Timothy Li to serve as the premier of the Western Study Workshop of Shandong University Hall, which is equivalent to the current president of Shandong University, and Tan Sitong served as the assistant to the president.

That night, Song Xiaofei held a banquet in the governor's yamen to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Timothy Li, who had just arrived in Jinan. Xu Shichang, Tan Sitong, Xi Muqing and others were all seated, a square pear wood long table. The table is full of Yellow River carp, nine large intestines, spicy chicken, screw cake, unicorn salmon, jar meat, fried double crispy, fried screw cake and other local Shandong dishes, and a bottle of French red wine was specially prepared for Timothy Lee. Western-style confectionery.

Behind Timothy Lee, there stood a young descendant, dressed in a blue and gray robe, with a high nose bridge, full heaven, thick lips, very energetic, and a Cantonese accent when he opened his mouth. Timothy Lee introduced that this was his personal secretary, Liang Qichao. The word is outstanding.

At this time, Liang Qichao was still very young, just eighteen years old, Song Xiaofei was overjoyed when he heard it, added a stool to him, and invited him to the table. Liang Qichao was very grateful, and presented his book of reading notes about the Restoration to Song Xiaofei, Song Xiaofei flipped through it, in addition to the good content, the writing is also a new style. Between the ancient and vernacular texts, the elegance and vulgarity are appreciated, and they are greatly appreciated: "If the husband and youth are strong, the country will be strong, and you will be a great talent of the country in the future." I wonder if you would like to work in the governor's yamen? Shandong's New Deal is in need of talents like you. ”

Liang Qichao said: "The governor praises falsely. As long as Pastor Li agrees, I am very willing to come to Shandong to study. ”

Song Xiaofei hurriedly asked Timothy Li to ask for someone, lest Liang Qichao go to Kang Youwei again in the future. Mistaken by Kang, Timothy Lee agreed to release him. Song Xiaofei was in a good mood. Several people pushed their glasses and talked about Shandong's new deal. Timothy Lee said: "The foundation of Taixi's prosperity and strength is not in the strength of the ship and the artillery, but in the best use of the people, the best use of the land, the best use of the goods, the governor can grant a certain country the absolute power of the foreigners, by the country's representatives to build Chinese railways, mines, factories, etc., so that within three years, Shandong can be greatly changed." ”

Tan Sitong disagreed, and said: "What is the husband?" There is land, there is a people, there is a sovereign, and the people who dwell in the land govern the affairs of the land in which they live, and the law is made and kept by itself, and if the husband is sovereign, it is called a fully established state. If a country's railways, mines, and factories are all in the hands of outsiders, and so on, then won't China's sovereignty fall into the hands of foreigners, don't say that the imperial court will not agree, the squires of Jinan will not agree, and we will not agree. ”

Song Xiaofei saw that the two of them were a little impulsive, and hurriedly said: "For thousands of years, China has emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, and it is true that it has developed from an agricultural society to an industrial society, and we need to learn from the experience of foreigners in running railways and factories." However, China is a big country, and with such a national condition, reform can inevitably only be carried out gradually and steadily, and if it is too hasty, inviting foreigners to do it will tear apart the consensus of Chinese society and slow down the pace of reform. ”

Timothy Lee also talked about civilization, saying that the various advantages of Western civilization, such as freedom of newspapers, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, criticized the backwardness of Chinese civilization and imprisoned the people's minds.

Tan Sitong slapped the table and said: "Although I admire Western learning, my Chinese civilization has been endless for 5,000 years, courtesy, righteousness and shame, loyalty and patriotism, and it is by no means backward. ”

Song Xiaofei had to come out of the round again, and said: "This governor is a military general, and he doesn't know much about the civilization you quarrel with, but in my opinion, Western civilization pays attention to the individual, the country, and the public concept, so there are newspapers, etc., and Chinese culture only has a family, and the family and the country are one, so there is a lack of public concepts." Civilization is this thing, many times closely related to the way of life, Tessie and China have their own advantages and disadvantages, such as Tessie with a knife and fork to eat, Chinese are used to eating with chopsticks, can not say that Western knives and forks are more civilized than Chinese chopsticks, right? To put it mildly, the West uses toilets, the Chinese use thatched pits, and it is not necessarily that clean toilets are more civilized than smelly and baked thatched pits, and farmers still use large manure as field bottom material. ”

As soon as Song Xiaofei's comparison between the toilet bowl and the thatched pit came out, Xi Muqing's words were not rough, Xi Muqing ate a mouthful of rice, squirted out, and said with a smile: "The governor's insight is really unbearable." ”

The people at the table were amused by Xi Muqing's appearance, and the atmosphere eased, so they stopped arguing.

After this meal, Song Xiaofei was covered in sweat, and the conflict of people's ideological concepts was far more difficult to handle than the life-and-death struggle on the battlefield. After thinking about it, he decided to "not argue", continue to be strong, suppress the conflict between old and new ideas, and do practical things first, and build schools, factories, and railways.

In the blink of an eye, winter went to spring and came again, just as Song Xiaofei was running around in Jinan for coal mines and railways, Timothy Li and Xi Muqing had a big incident. As soon as Song Xiaofei returned to the backyard of the governor's mansion that day, patted the dust on his body, and took off his official hat, Liang Qichao rushed to report: "Oh no, Lord Governor, Pastor Timothy Li and Miss Xi Muqing were arrested by the bandits. ”

When Song Xiaofei heard this, he was like five thunderbolts, and hurriedly asked Liang Qichao what was going on: "The rebellion of the boxers and bandits, didn't this official have been pacified last year?" The elder brother was also killed. ”

Liang Qichao said: "At the beginning of spring this year, there was no rain in the whole of Shandong for several months, the fields were so dry that there was smoke, the seeds sown by the farmers did not germinate, and the crops that grew were all dead. Bandits from all over Shandong have resurged, this time it is said that the elder brother's younger brother Zhu Honglan is the troublemaker, he entangled more than 100 boxers in Erlong Mountain, known as the Big Knife Society, Pastor Li and Miss Xi went to a church in the suburbs to participate in a disaster relief activity, and they robbed the carriage in the middle of the road. ”

Song Xiaofei was anxious: "Senior brother's younger brother? The one who was shot and killed by Wang Shizhen last year? You go and call Wang Shizhen right away, why didn't he send his own soldiers to protect Pastor Li and Miss Xi? If something happens, cutting off his head won't help! (To be continued......)