211, the bottom of Kunlun is the mainstay

Yang Du was a little curious: "How do you know Shaoshan Chong?" Been there? Have relatives who are there? ”

You say, will I tell you that Shaoshan Chong is the birthplace of the great grandfather?

Sun Yuanqi disguised and said: "There is a student there, as soon as you say Xiangtan, I will remember it." By the way, have you heard of any strange people in Shaoshan Chong? ”

In ancient times, there was no compulsory education, and parents from well-off families let their children go to private schools and read some enlightened "Three Character Classics", "Hundred Family Names", and "Thousand", which is already a very remarkable thing. The process of enlightenment is also a cruel screening process, and only a very small number of intelligent young people who are willing to endure hardships, have understanding, love to read, and have a good memory, and have the hope of honoring their ancestors, can accept the key training of their families and even their families, get the opportunity to receive further education, and get in touch with the more profound "Four Books" and "Five Classics".

It can be said that in ancient times, the poor scholars who could come into contact with the "Annotations on the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" were all talented and intelligent, similar to the students who can be admitted to key high schools today. If you are lucky enough to be admitted to Xiucai, it will be amazing, no less than whose daughter is admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University now, and she is definitely famous!

As long as you are Chinese, you should know that Taizu's birthday is December 26, 93. In this way, Taizu is now a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, he should be in high school; At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, children from ordinary families barely graduated from primary school. However, since he is the ancestor who opened the world and swept away all the cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, he naturally can't deal with it with common sense.

What did later generations of Mao Fan say about Taizu? Politics and military aside, poetry, calligraphy, philosophy, and articles are all titled "everyone". How can such a demonic character be unheard? Not to mention Jiang She, who is dozens of miles away, I am afraid that she is also famous in Xiangtan.

Yang Du closed his eyes and thought for a few seconds, then shook his head and replied, "I haven't heard of it." ”

"Haven't heard?" Sun Yuanqi was a little surprised.

Yang Du pondered for a moment and replied with certainty: "I really haven't heard of anyone!" ”

It's not that Yang Du is lonely and unheard, but that Taizu's collar when he was a teenager was indeed too ordinary. At the age of nine, he began to study at a private school in his hometown of Shaoshan, receiving a traditional Chinese enlightenment education, which lasted for six or seven years, and there was nothing brilliant about it. Like Liu Shipei, he has already read the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of twelve. Of course, there are also people who can Taizu Zhi is not here, just like Xiang Yu when he was a child: literate, just be able to write his own name; Learning martial arts, it's not interesting to win one or two people; If you want to learn, learn the ability to fight the country and sit in the world!

In short, Taizu's academic performance is a mess. If he had studied well, he would have been admitted to Peking University and Tsinghua University, and he would not have studied at Hunan Provincial First Normal School, and he would be angry when he went to Peking University to be a librarian in the future!

Anyway, in 1909, that is, this fall, he will be admitted to Xiangxiang County Dongshan Higher Primary School. A primary school student, how can he make a crazy student like Yang Du remember?

Is there a memory bias? Or did the butterfly fan the real dragon Tianzi with one wing?

Sun Yuanqi had no choice but to say depressedly: "You can continue to read the newspaper." ”

Yang Du glanced at ten lines, and it took more than half an hour to finish the pile of newspapers and periodicals, sipping tea and pondering for a moment before he said solemnly: "I'm afraid that the Qing Dynasty will fall into the country, and it's been these two years!" ”

Sun Yuanqi rolled his eyes: You still need to say this, I knew it more than ten years ago!

"What do you say is the disaster of the Qing Dynasty?" Without waiting for Sun Yuan to get up, Yang Du said to himself: "The trouble of the Qing Dynasty is not the great powers. If the great powers invade and ask for a small amount, the court can satisfy their greed; Once the 40,000,000 people of the country share the same hatred of the enemy, who in the world can be the enemy? Nor is it a revolutionary party. It's okay to rely on those enthusiastic revolutionary youths to make trouble, engage in assassinations, and add a little chaos to the Qing Dynasty, and you have to count on them to rebel, let alone three years, even ten years. In my opinion, it should be a Manchu-Han contradiction! ”

Before Sun Yuanqi could refute, Yang Du began to explain: "Since entering the customs, the Manchu and Han issues have always been a major problem for the imperial family, and even one and two officials in the court, Manchu and Han are used together; Most of the governors in various places were Manchu, and the military power was beyond the reach of the Han Chinese. In addition to strictly guarding against the Han people, the emperors of Kang, Yong, and Qian also focused on sewing up the gap between the Manchu and Han dynasties and diluting the national color. In the Jiaqing and Daoguang years, the Manchu and Han dynasties were already peaceful, and the world seemed to be close at hand.

"It is not as good as the sky, and soon after Emperor Xianfeng ascended the throne, the bandits started in Jintian. In the two hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the children of the Eight Banners have long been abandoned, and the military system of the Eight Banners Green Battalion has also been completely corrupted. When encountering cats and dogs making trouble, they can still rely on the prestige of their ancestors to play tricks, and if they really encounter bandits like Hong Yang, they will only be defeated. began to send Cishan to go, but it was not used; Later, it was Xiang Rong and He Chun, but to no avail. In desperation, the imperial court had to borrow the Han people, so the Hunan army and the Huai army rose one after another, and the world was dominant.

"The Manchurians regard military power as a forbidden, and they have never despised the fake Han people, and this concession is purely a last resort. In the process of setting up bandits, twisting bandits, and returning to the rebellion, our Han people gradually grasped the local military power, political power, and financial power, while the Manchus could only be trapped in the center, and when they saw that the rebellion was gradually quelled, they immediately jumped out to seize power. These powers were all fought out by the Han people with sweat and blood, how could they be easily given up? In the process of fighting, the Han people began to huddle, from subconscious resistance to conscious confrontation. However, the world is peaceful, and the center always has more advantages than the localities, and the DPRK and the central government have a holy decree, can the local government still blatantly resist and disobey the decree? The Han people gradually fell behind.

"Fortunately, at this time, the Empress Dowager of the West is in power in the palace, and the heroine is in the court to listen to the government, and the royal family is naturally unhappy. As soon as the war was extinguished, infighting among the Manchu nobles began. To say that the Queen Mother of the West is really amazing, the power of the magic is superb, the Han people suppress the royal family, the Manchu people suppress the forces of the North and South Oceans, pull and fight, left and right, and finally both the Han and the Manchu have to look up to her to breathe, which is why there is Tongguang Zhongxing.

"The two parties below are fighting each other, and the superior is sitting on the benefits of the fisherman, and the hand of the Queen Mother of the West is also a common trick of the royal family. It's a pity that the Queen Mother of the West is the heroine after all, and there is still a figure of imperial power in the fight, she is naturally peaceful in the world at the time, but as soon as she passes, the contradiction between the two factions will immediately intensify, and the situation will begin to get out of control. ”

Sun Yuanqi also heard a little about the situation in Beijing, so he interjected: "Yuan Xiangcheng's return to his hometown is a manifestation of the intensification of the contradiction between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty? ”

Yang Du nodded: "Not bad." There have always been rumors that during the coup d'état in the year of Wuxu, it was Yuan Xiangcheng who told Rong Wenzhong (Lu) that made Emperor Guangxu fail and be imprisoned in Yingtai. The regent is the younger brother of Emperor Guangxu, and the Empress Dowager Longyu is the wife of Emperor Guangxu, so she naturally hates Yuan Xiangcheng to the core. Moreover, Yuan Xiangcheng has a large number of recruits, widely placed cronies in the army, and is full of private parties, and the entire Beiyang Army only knows that there is Yuan Gongbao, but does not know that there is a court.

"Even if he is transferred to the military aircraft department, people can still call the wind and rain under the pretense of Prince Qing's power, and to a certain extent, they can influence the situation of the court. Do you think that the Manchu nobles in the court can not regard him as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and they will want to get rid of him as soon as possible? Therefore, as soon as the Queen Mother of the West died, the regent and others immediately took action. If it weren't for Yuan Xiangcheng's extensive contacts and the rescue of Han bureaucrats, I'm afraid he would have been in the coffin a long time ago! ”

Sun Yuanqi frowned: "Since Yuan Xiangcheng has already made a bunch and gone home, those people in the court should be quiet, right?" ”

"Hmph," Yang Du sneered a few times, "Do you think that Yuan Xiangcheng is rampant and directly subordinate to the center, relying on those big-headed soldiers in his hands?" Tell you, Yuan Xiangcheng's henchmen are densely populated with the government and the opposition! Not to mention in the army, such as Chen Bi, the secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, who had just been dismissed a few days ago, Xu Shichang, the current secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, Zhao Bingjun, the right attendant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Yan Xiu, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Tang Shaoyi, the governor of Fengtian, and Ni Sichong, the civil affairs envoy of Heilongjiang, are all Yuan Dang. If you don't clean it up, how can those adults be willing to stop? ”

Sun Yuanqi smacked his lips: It seems that this matter will not stop for a while.

Yang Du glanced at Sun Yuanqi: "Don't patronize and watch the excitement, be careful that you fall into it!" ”

Sun Yuanqi smiled: "Huizi said that he was joking, right?" He Yuan Xiangcheng is unlucky, it's my business! Can't just because I've met him, both of them are Han Chinese, and the court will send me to the army, right? If this is the case, it is estimated that more than half of the officials in Beijing will have to go to jail. ”

"It's not because of this," Yang Du shook his fan a few times, "Since Tongguang, the Han people have been divided into three systems: the financial source is the South Seas, the military is the North Ocean, and the center is the Han officials and the clear stream. If you want to talk about the leading figures, you will count Yuan Xiangcheng and Zhang Nanpi. Now that Yuan Xiangcheng has been squeezed out, he is afraid that Zhang Nanpi will not be able to support him alone. Even if it is barely supported, according to Xiang Shuai's fastidious temper, the center does not have a quiet day. You are the old official of Xiangshuai, so you have to eat some hanging. ”

Sun Yuanqi muttered: "Can I say that I only have an ordinary subordinate relationship with Xiang Shuai?" ”

Yang Du was a little speechless: "Do you have three hundred taels of silver here?" In Hubei, he is the governor, and you are the envoy of the scholars; In the school, he is a bachelor in the management department, and you are the left waiter. In the eyes of others, you have already been labeled as 'Zhang Dang', which you can get rid of if you want to? ”

Sun Yuanqi sulked: "Why don't they say that I am Sun Dang?" You see, Shouzhou Zhongtang is my uncle and grandfather, his grandson is my student, I often go to Lianzi Hutong, and we are all surnamed Sun...... Which point is not more upright and upright than 'Zhang Dang'? ”

"But Shouzhou Zhongtang has never done the main examination of the township examination, nor has he done the main examination of the general examination, he has only been a scholar and politician in Hubei, and he has been teaching Emperor Guangxu for the rest of the time, and he has no protégés at all. In addition, he is in his last years and rarely appears in the court, how can he become a party of his own? ”

Sun Yuanqi had no choice but to say in a huff: "Okay, everything you said is right. ”

Yang Du thought that Sun Yuanqi was frustrated by officialdom, but turned around and persuaded him: "Baixi don't mind, this is just my speculation, I think the Manchu nobles will not be so unwise, and after squeezing out Yuan Xiangcheng, they will do it to Xiangshuai." If there is another conflict and the contradictions between the Manchus and the Han are further intensified, I am afraid that the country will not be a country. ”

Sun Yuanqi said weakly: "I'm just afraid of what I want." ”

Yang Du suddenly sat up straight: "You must know that there are full rows of Han, and Han is also full." Back then, Gangyi once said, 'The Han people are strong, and the people are dead; The Han people are tired and full of fat. Since Qianjia, the Han people have actually been slowly becoming stronger, while the children of the Eight Banners have been slowly corrupting, which is the general trend. Therefore, the Han people began to demand more power, whether it was the hundred officials in the court, the local gentry, or even the revolutionaries, without exception.

"The struggle for power between the Manchus and the Han Dynasty in the DPRK and China is a symptom but not a root cause; When the revolutionary party rises, it is too violent; Only the implementation of a constitutional monarchy could not only avoid social unrest, but also effectively restrain the privileges of the Manchu aristocracy, which was especially conducive to the Han talents to show their strength in the center. Therefore, when we heard that the constitution was being prepared, the north and south of the river corresponded, and various social organizations emerged in various provinces one after another, vigorously promoting the constitution-making process.

"Last year, the Zhengwen Society was first seized, and Yuan Xiangcheng was expelled this year. If Zhang Nanpi is excluded again, I am afraid that the Han people in the world, whether it is the Han minister or the Han gentry, will lose trust in the imperial court. The revolutionaries took advantage of the opportunity to rise up, and the Qing Dynasty fell in the past two years! ”

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