Chapter 54: The Xu Family
Wang Jundao opened the door, and what appeared in front of him was a twenty-six or seventeen-year-old man, with a heroic aura and a confident look between his eyebrows.
He is dressed in brocade clothes, about 1.75 meters tall, but unfortunately because he stays at home all the year round, his handsome face has a white skin that has not seen the sun for a long time, and he does not have braids on his head, but has the same short hair as Wang Jundao, and is obviously a progressive person who has been influenced by Western thought.
Seeing Wang Jundao, Xu Zhengrong couldn't help but be startled, couldn't help but take a step back, and subconsciously asked, "Who are you?" How did it end up in my sister's room? ”
Wang Jundao smiled faintly: "My name is Wang Jundao, and I am a friend of Luoyan...... Boyfriend. ”
The three words boyfriend, Wang Jundao used a strengthened tone, but of course Xu Zhengrong didn't understand, who made the boyfriend in this era not express the relationship between men and women?
"How did I not know my sister had a boyfriend?" Xu Zhengrong said with wide eyes. Her sister doesn't want to say that her boyfriend is a friend, but she doesn't have a few female friends.
"Don't you know now?" Wang Jundao smiled: "Come in." ”
Wang Jundao's tone was too natural, so that Xu Zhengrong had the illusion that he had become a guest here, but Wang Jundao was the host. This feeling made him speechless for a while, isn't this his own home?
Following Wang Jundao into the west courtyard and walking to the pavilion in the courtyard, Xu Zhengrong glanced at Xiao Yuyan in surprise, then looked at Xu Luoyan, and asked directly: "Luoyan, both of them are your friends?" ”
"Yes." Xu Luoyan nodded, and then briefly introduced Wang Jundao and Xiao Yuyan.
After hearing this, Xu Zhengrong looked at Wang Jundao in surprise and said, "You are the Boxers?" ”
"It's not." Wang Jundao shook his head with a smile, and said without concealment: "I'm just pretending to be a Boxer. ”
"Fake Boxers?" Xu Zhengrong muttered to himself, and thought a lot for a moment: Why did Wang Jundao tell him this? Why pretend to be the Boxers? What are the benefits of doing so? In the end, he didn't think it through, so he had to look at Wang Jundao and said, "The fake Boxers are also Boxers." ”
"You're right." Wang Jundao smiled and said, "Let's talk about the Boxers." ”
When Xu Zhengrong heard this, he was also a little interested, but he said disdainfully: "It's a flash in the pan." ”
Wang Jundao's eyes lit up again when he heard this, and said, "I also think that the head of the Boxer Regiment will not be long. ”
When Xu Zhengrong heard this, he seemed to have found a bosom friend, and his interest increased greatly, and he said, "I didn't expect that you, the Boxer, had some opinions. ”
Wang Jundao said with a smile: "It has only been more than a year since the rise of the Boxers, and I think the Boxers can hold out for a few more months at most, and then they will disappear." ”
Xu Zhengrong was completely interested, and said, "Come on, let's sit down and say, that's exactly what I think." ”
The two immediately sat down as if no one was around, and Xu Zhengrong couldn't wait to say: "There are several main reasons why I feel that the Boxers can't hold out for a few months. ”
"Oh? Be all ears. Wang Jundao said with a smile.
Xu Zhengrong said eloquently: "First, the Boxers were mainly poor and small handicraftsmen, lacking strict discipline and culture, which directly led to the poor style of the Boxers. ”
"Second, the leaders of the Boxers were also poor and lacked the correct strategic line, which led to the fact that the Boxers were like rootless duckweed, drifting with the flow, from Shandong to Zhili, and from Hebei to Zhili is the best empirical evidence."
"Third, the Boxers were divided into many factions, which directly led to the Boxers being like a plate of scattered sand, and they couldn't get together at all."
"Fourth, the Boxers were too ruthless in their methods against foreigners, which can be seen from the fact that they killed foreigners when they saw them. This will directly lead to the revolt of the foreigners, after all, such a war involves not only the military, but also politics, and most importantly, diplomacy. ”
"Fifth, the Boxers trusted the Qing court too much, but they didn't know that since the Qing court started the war with the foreigners, the order of the court has been changed day and night, and the fighting has been stopped from time to time, maybe one day the Qing court will really negotiate peace with the foreigners, and then the Boxers will be caught in the middle, attacked from both sides, and will only be completely destroyed."
"Based on these five points, coupled with the estimation of the strength of the alliance forces of the foreigners, I think that if the Boxers continue like this, they will go into decline if they can hold out for another four or five months at most."
Tsk, his future eldest brother is really not simple, he can analyze the Boxers so thoroughly, Wang Jundao couldn't help but exclaim: "The eldest brother is high, the younger brother agrees, the slogan of the Boxers is to help the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign, one sentence to help the Qing Dynasty make them completely lose their vigilance against the Qing court, and one sentence to destroy the foreign makes them completely xenophobic, these two points are fatal no matter what point they are, the Qing court is like a tiger, and the foreigners are like wolves, although the Qing court is now a sick tiger, and the foreigners are evil wolves, but neither of them is easy to get along with." As far as the eldest brother said, the Boxers lacked both culture and a strategic program, and from ancient times to the present, any army that was able to achieve final victory had a definite, feasible, and realistic strategic goal, and a team like the Boxers, which was unorganized, undisciplined, uneducated, and unprogramn, would never be able to defeat the enemy, and defeat was the inevitable end. ”
Xu Zhengrong's eyes when he looked at Wang Jundao completely changed, Wang Jundao's remarks were exactly the same as he thought, and he couldn't help asking, "What do you think of the Great Qing Kingdom, brother?" ”
Wang Jundao looked at Xu Zhengrong and said, "If nothing else, the Qing Zheng Axe can hold on for another ten years at most, and it will completely fall apart!" ”
Xu Zhengrong's eyes instantly became hot, and he said excitedly: "I think so too, but I think the Qing Zheng Axe should be able to survive for twelve or thirteen years." ”
Wang Jundao smiled and asked, "Is there a way to save it?" ”
"There is a strong enemy outside, and there is rot inside, and there is no way to save it." Xu Zhengrong sighed and said: "I seem to have been able to see that after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, China will fall into an era of strife such as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the great powers of various countries will definitely support one character after another in China, and then it will be a decades-long history of blood and tears war, until it is exploited by the great powers, and the gold and silver on the land of China are squeezed out by the great powers, until the entire Chinese nation is completely awakened, until the vitality is exhausted, then it is likely that a weak and poor country will be established, unless it is ......"
Wang Jundao continued his words: "Unless there is a figure who surpasses the Tang Dynasty and Song Zu appears, rises strongly, and can overthrow the Qing court in just a few years, and then develop agriculture, industry, commerce, science and technology, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and resist the great powers, can the land of China be reborn from the ashes and build a prosperous country comparable to the Han and Tang dynasties!" ”
Xu Zhengrong looked at Wang Jundao, two fine lights burst out in his eyes, and he said loudly: "Yes, if there is such a person, then the country of China can be determined!" ”
Wang Jundao looked directly at Xu Zhengrong and said word by word: "Can you become a person like that?" ”
"Can't!" Xu Zhengrong shook his head and said in a deep voice: "I know very well my own ability, literature can't be peaceful, martial arts can't determine the country, what I understand is nothing more than more knowledge than ordinary people, and all of them are nothing more than a bigger vision than others." If you want me to lead hundreds of thousands of troops, I can't do it; If I am asked to manage the livelihood of hundreds of millions of people and govern the country and the country, I can't do it; I can't handle diplomatic relations with other countries and engage in all kinds of entanglements with other countries; And if I want to follow Liu Bang's example of discovering and appointing talents, I can't do it. ”
Wang Jundao nodded, and a powerful majesty suddenly erupted from his body, like an emperor who reigned over the world, he looked directly at Xu Zhengrong and said, "Then do you think I can become such a person?" ”
Xu Zhengrong was taken by the powerful momentum that erupted from Wang Jundao's body, and for the first time there was an urge to kneel down and surrender, bow and worship.
Halfway, his voice was low, but he spit out a word sonorously: "Yes!" ”
Wang Jundao looked directly at Xu Zhengrong and said in a deep voice: "Then are you willing to help me?" ”
Xu Zhengrong also looked directly at Wang Jundao, and spit out a word again: "Wish!" ”
Xu Luoyan and Xiao Yuyan next to him were already dumbfounded: Is this a conversation between men and men?