Hong Yun'er's words made Xiao Yungui shake a lot, and in an instant, he began to understand in his heart what he needed to protect, or what he was fighting so hard for. In his eyes, what to revitalize China, the rejuvenation of the Han people, that is out of reach, you must know that later generations experienced the Beiyang warlord melee, the Republic of China, the War of Resistance against Japan, the War of Liberation, the Korean War, can barely say that the revitalization of China has been achieved, this process has gone through nearly a hundred years, sacrificed countless heroes to do, Xiao Yungui is not sure that he can do what countless heroes took decades to do, and he does not expect that he can be like the novels on the Internet in later generations, in a short period of time to unify the country and defeat the powers.

From the beginning to the present, everything he has done has been in accordance with the identity and tasks brought by Xiao Chaogui's body, and his purpose is to save his own life. He doesn't care who he took advantage of or deceived him, because no one knows what he really intends in his heart, and to put it bluntly, he is for himself.

When Hong Yun'er said, "I'm afraid that you will encounter some accidents, then I will have no one to talk to in this world." After entering the ear, Xiao Yungui knew that he couldn't lose the woman in front of him, she was the closest person to him in the world, she could see herself as the only trusted relative, why shouldn't she? From this moment on, Xiao Yungui added Hong Yun'er to his inner plan, he was fighting with Hong Yun'er for himself, and other grand ambitions were too far away, and he couldn't afford it.

Xiao Yungui couldn't help but squeeze Hong Yun'er's hand and said, "Yun'er, I swear, I will protect you for the rest of my life, just like I protect myself." ”

Hong Yun'er's eyes were slightly red, and she smiled and said, "It turns out that until now, you think you should protect me?" ”

Xiao Yungui laughed embarrassedly. Gently took her into his arms and said: "You are right, only me and you are the closest people in this world, you can't lose me, of course I can't lose you." ”

Hong Yun'er became a little shy, gently broke free from his embrace, and said with a slight smile: "Okay, don't be numb, continue to talk about a few things about me." Finding Fu Shanxiang was the first thing, and the second thing was that I heard a few famous people from Maddos, all of whom were in Shanghai. As long as we find them, we will invite them to join us. ”

Xiao Yungui sighed and asked, "What kind of character?" He knew that his knowledge of history was far less solid than that of Hong Yun'er, and he really couldn't think of any other famous figures in Shanghai.

Hong Yun'er said with a smile: "Li Shanlan, Wang Libin, Hua Hengfang and Xu Shou. ”

Xiao Yungui frowned and said, "These four people seem to have heard of it, and they seem to be all famous scholars at this time." ”

Hong Yun'er nodded, and began to tell the identities of the four people. Li Shanlan. Formerly known as Li Xinlan, the word is Jingfang. No. Autumn Silk. Also known as Uncle Ren, a native of Haining, Zhejiang, he was a famous mathematician, astronomy, mechanics and botanist in modern times, who founded the power series expansion of the quadratic square root, various trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions and logarithmic functions. This was Li Shanlan's most significant achievement in the 19th century Chinese mathematics. In the early years of Xianfeng, he lived in Shanghai, and in 1852, he co-translated the last nine volumes of Euclid's Geometry with the British sinologist Willy Ali at the Mohai Library in Shanghai, completing the unfinished work of Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci in the late Ming Dynasty.

This Mohai Library was founded in Shanghai in 1843 by the missionaries of the London Missionary Church of England, such as Maddos, Mei Wei Cha, Mu Weilian, and Joseph Ae. The library is located in the Maijiaquan near the North Pass of Jianghai. Close to the headquarters of the London Church of Christ. Li Shanlan has been dealing with foreigners in the library and studying hard.

Together with Li Shanlan, there is also a person named Wang Libin, this person is born in the twenty-fifth year of Qing Daoguang, the word Zhongwei, the number Lanqing, the eighteen-year-old county test first, Xiucai was born. Wang Libin also has a nickname called "long-haired champion", in the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, it is rumored that he wrote to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the name of Huang Wan, and strategically offered advice to the Taiping army. After being discovered by the Qing court, Wang Libin had to die in Hong Kong, changed his name to Tao, the word Zhongtao, and the name Tiannan Dunsuo. This person is a famous Western-style political commentator in modern times and the father of Chinese journalism.

Although some scholars in later generations have disputed whether Wang Libin is Huang Wan or not, but in fact Wang Libin is a person wanted by the Qing court, which is irrefutable, he followed Meadows to translate the Bible in his early years, and also sympathized with the Taiping Rebellion, it is not strange that the pseudonym Huang Wan wrote the book, and it is no wonder that the people in the Qing court suspected that it was him.

Hua Fang is a native of Dangkou Town, Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, and is a mathematician, translator and educator in the late Qing Dynasty of China. Xu Shounai is a native of Wuxi, known as Xuecun, and is the enlightener of modern chemistry in China. These two were invited by Zeng Guofan to transfer to the Anqing Ordnance Institute, responsible for building factories and placing machines, and later helped Li Hongzhang build the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and the two can be said to be the pioneers of China's modern industry.

Xu Shou and Hua Hengfang are alumni friends, and they often get together to discuss difficult problems encountered and inspire each other. At the beginning of 1853, the two went to Shanghai together to explore new knowledge, and they specially visited Li Shanlan, who was already quite famous in Western studies and mathematics at that time.

After listening to Hong Yun'er's lengthy introduction, Xiao Yungui touched his chin and said: "It seems that foreign devils have done some good things, and the bookstores and church schools in Shanghai are very good, and these bookstores and church schools have cultivated a lot of talents for our country." ”

Hong Yun'er sighed lightly and said: "It's a pity, now there are very few people like Li Shanlan and Hua Hengfang, who can give up the Baguwen exam, give up the Manchu official position, and devote themselves to studying and studying Western science, like Rong Hong, the father of modern Chinese students, will not return from the United States until next year." Nowadays, most of the scholars still want to study eight shares, take the imperial examination, become a big official, and make a lot of money. ”

Xiao Yungui said with a smile: "Since the two of us are here, we have to change it, I want to wait for the capture of Shanghai, and send a group of teenagers to go out to stay abroad, no matter whether we can succeed in the rebellion in the future, it can be regarded as sowning the next batch of seeds." In addition, since Wang Libin is good at current theory, we can run a newspaper, first, to earn some pocket money, second, to guide the trend of public opinion in the areas we occupy, and third, to open fire like the old Confucianism, with the debate that you Hong Yun'er is good at, to give a good lesson to those rotten Confucians, and tell them that Confucianism is not played like them. ”

Hong Yun'er smiled and said: "You will arrange things for me to do, I have published several books over there in the edict, but don't say it, as soon as the books like "Yangzhou Ten Days" were sent out, they were quickly sold out, and after those die-hard readers in Nanjing read it, many people were not quite against me, but there were still a few people who said that we were quibbling, and later I said that these manuscripts were handed back from the Fusang Kingdom in Dongying, and they closed their beaks. These readers, the poison of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is too deep, and it will be difficult to reform it for a while, and I am also thinking about what haode method to be our mouthpiece, and this method of running a newspaper is good, so you can give it a try. ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said: "As for Li Shanlan, Xu Shou, and Hua Hengfang, you can recruit them to run schools and open factories, Shanghai has a lot of contact with Western foreigners, maybe there are people like Li Shanlan and Xu Shou, we have to recruit them, and that Rong Hong, since he will return to China next year, we can't let it go, in short, as long as it is a talent, we will use it, and we must use it boldly." ”

Hong Yun'er didn't know what to think, her brows furrowed slightly and said, "It's a pity, it would be nice if the Heavenly King and the Eastern King of Nanjing could be the same as we thought." ”

Xiao Yungui smiled faintly and said: "Anyway, we have come to southern Jiangsu, and Nanjing has also given it to them, the local military and political power Lao Tzu has the final say, it is a big deal to supply them with some money and food on time, and send troops to help them fight when necessary, in short, the military and political affairs of our West Temple can no longer be done according to their set, otherwise if we don't wait for the Manchus to fight us, the people under our command will run out." ”

Hong Yun'er turned around, sat down and took a sip of tea and said, "By the way, do you have any land policy you think about?" What the hell are we supposed to do? Our slogan is to have land and cultivate the land, but this land policy is too difficult to implement at present, and it will also force many rich peasants and small and medium-sized landlords to a dead end; if we do not handle it well, we will be able to survive even if we occupy a big city and there is no supply from the countryside. ”

Xiao Yungui's biggest headache is this land problem, China's thousands of years of feudal dynasties, the biggest problem is the land problem, every feudal dynasty to the end, there are years of disasters, coupled with the land annexation is violent, there will be peasant uprisings. In these wars of peasant uprisings and suppression by the official army, the population was constantly lost, and after the loss of population, the peasants and landlords would be consumed in large quantities in the war, and the peasants would either die in large numbers in the wars and disasters, and the landlords would either be defeated by the rebel army, or they would flee and lose their land. After all the land contradictions were released in the war, there would be a large number of unclaimed lands or a situation where the population was small and there was more land, and then a new dynasty began to rule, without exception, all of them were lightly paid, recuperated, and the peasants lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the prosperity of another dynasty began. But the rise of each dynasty was based on a massive loss of population, as if the only outlet for the release of land contradictions was war.

The current situation is similar to the situation of the collapse of the previous dynasties, the land was annexed in large quantities, the Manchus still occupied the fertile land outside the Guan, did not let the Han people go out of the customs to cultivate, and the cultivated land in the Guanxi to feed 400 million people, with the current level of productivity is extremely difficult, plus the invasion of foreign powers, reparations and foreign commodity invasion, is destroying China's primitive farming model. The foreign cloth imported from Shanghai alone has caused hundreds of handmade textile workshops in Suzhou and Hangzhou to go out of business, and the people have no land to plant, and they have lost the opportunity to work, so they will naturally rise up to rebel when they have no way to make a living.

In the face of internal and external troubles, choosing a proper land policy seems to have become a big problem for Xiao Yungui, is it really necessary to eliminate the landlord class? It doesn't seem to be working. But if we don't, how can we resolve the land contradiction? (To be continued.) )