212. The wild crossing is self-traversing

Sun Yuan said in his heart: The regent is Emperor Guangxu and his brother, Emperor Xuantong and his father, and the Qing Dynasty is their small vegetable garden. ,DANKAN As long as it is not a foreign enemy invasion, loss of power and humiliation of the country, the Qing Dynasty will not die, it is about you and me? Look at you, who is worried about the country and the people, you are purely salty and don't worry about radishes!

Changing positions on the chair, Sun Yuanqi said: "We both make soy sauce, so don't other people's hearts for selling white powder!" ”

"Well, what do you say?" Yang Du didn't understand.

"I said, it's not something we can worry about."

"Why isn't that something we can worry about?" Yang Du frowned, "Baixi, you are now a squire, which is very different from the previous academic envoys, and when you encounter such a major event in the imperial court, you can play it according to the rules." ”

Yang Du said this, not because he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but because he had been under the rule of the Qing Dynasty for a long time and was used to it, it was inevitable that there would be some resistance to the sudden drastic changes. It's like living in a house that is in disrepair, and it's okay to scold yourself, but if someone else suddenly demolishes it for Tianxingdao, it's still hard to accept it in my heart.

Moreover, in the life that Yang Du planned for Sun Yuanqi, he did not consider the cause of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. Now that the contradictions between the Manchus and the Han are intensifying, and the situation is showing signs of deviating from his prediction, Yang Du inevitably wants to regain control of it within his control.

"Does the play work? If the upper play is useful, is it my turn to write an excerpt? Sun Yuanqi stretched, "Let's think about what we should do!" ”

Yang Du also understood that the matter had come to this point, and it was beyond Sun Yuanqi's ability to undo it, so he changed the topic: "Then what do you want to do?" ”

When it came to the formal topic, Sun Yuanqi cheered up: "The hall of Beijing Normal University is too chaotic, I want to reform it." ”

"Huh?" Yang Du was taken aback, "Do you want to move the Jingshi University Hall?" ”

Don't blame Yang Du for being surprised. Although the late Qing Dynasty vigorously promoted learning, and university halls sprung up in an endless stream, if you want to talk about the boss in the industry, you have to count the Beijing Normal University Hall. According to the latest rules formulated by Zhang Zhidong, all graduates of Jingshi University Hall will be given a lifting background; If it is listed as "the best", it will be supplemented by the cabinet secretary first, and five titles will be added; Those who are "excellent" are supplemented by Chinese calligraphy and Chinese calligraphy. This is simply the Central Party School! In view of this political status, how can other schools compare?

Moreover, the general superintendent of the Jingshi University Hall, that is, the president, is the third grade, and the provincial school envoys are on the same level. However, the general superintendent of the Jingshi University Hall is really lacking in the Jingtang, which is half a level higher than the local school envoys. Although Sun Yuanqi was promoted to Zuo Shilang, he was only from the second rank, how could he bypass the general superintendent and criticize the Jingshi University Hall?

Sun Yuanqi was unconscious: "That's right, I just want to move the Jingshi University Hall!" The university hall is the only remaining fruit of the Wuxu Reform, when the uncle and grandfather Shouzhou Zhongtang was the first minister of management, from the planning to the establishment, and the resumption after the closure, he took care of the old man and worked hard to support, I don't know how much effort was spent. But what does the Kyoshi University Hall look like now?

"The students all bring the servants with them at school, and every time the class is in class, the classroom is filled with the voice of the officers 'please adults to come to class', and the paper, ink, pen, inkstone, tea, and smoking utensils are put on the table, and the officers are discharged. After class, the errand came again to 'invite the adults back to the apartment', and the students patted their buttocks and left, and the errand officers cleaned up the sundries. Physical education classes are even more lively, and from time to time there are commands from the playground to say 'Adult, turn left' and 'Adult, turn right'.

"It's just a matter of taking the errand officer, some students finish dinner, take a foreign car and go straight to the Bada Hutong, playing cards, watching plays, playing famous roles, eating flowers and wine, which is simply the behavior of the second ancestor. The teacher was also willing to fall, running to the eight alleys every three or five times, and the teachers and students greeted each other. The capital jokes that the teachers and students of Beijing Normal University should not only be apprentices of the same school, but also brothers. What a sweep!

At the end of last year, Beijing Normal University invited Chen Hanzhang, a native of Zhejiang, to teach in the school. After he arrived at the school, he learned that he could be conferred the title of Jinshi and rewarded with the title of Hanlin after graduating from the university, so he was willing to be a student instead of teaching, so as to comfort Hanlin for his life. Ridiculous, you say? Teachers are not like teachers, students are not like students, they are smoky and miserable, and they are a mess, can they do it if they don't change? ”

Yang Du felt that he was a little sad, he had learned an imperial technique, but the proprietor he chose had little interest in being an official, but was addicted to school reform, and he would first open the school wherever he went. Seeing that Sun Yuanqi was impassioned, he had no choice but to respond: "Change naturally has to change, the key is how to change it and who will change it." ”

"That's the biggest problem." Sun Yuanqi is not stupid, he knows that his position as a left servant is quite embarrassing, and he wants to reform the hall of Jingshi University, which has Zhang Zhidong, a bachelor in the management department, and Rongqing, a scholar in the school, and he must ask for instructions in advance; There is also the chief superintendent of the Jingshi University Hall below, which is one acre and three points of land for others, and it is naturally inappropriate to directly intervene by himself. I have not heard of the reform of Peking University, the president has stood by and watched, but the vice minister of education sits in Weiminghu every day.

"Who is the current chief superintendent of the Beijing Normal University Hall?" Yang Du asked.

"It's Liu Tingchen," since Sun Yuanqi was ready to make a move on the Beijing Normal University Hall, he naturally collected some news in advance, "Liu Tingchen, the word Youyun, the number Qianlou, is from Jiujiang, Jiangxi. He is forty-three years old. In the nineteenth year of Guangxu 93) in the lift, in the twentieth year 94) in the Jinshi, the selection of the Jishi, the scattered hall awarded the Hanlin Academy for editing. Twenty-three years 97) Jian Fang Shanxi Xuezheng, thirty-two years (1906) and I served as a student envoy, I am Hubei, he is Shaanxi, but he was selected to Japan to study education before he took office. The following year, he returned to China and was reappointed as the right senator of the school, and immediately served as the general superintendent of the Kyoto University Hall, where he has remained until now. ”

Yang Du said: "This Liu Qianlou is a junior in his twenties, and he has become a third-grade Beijing official in more than ten years, which can really be described as a straight up!" ”

"It is said that when the Gengzi Kingdom changed, he fled to Xi'an with the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, so ......" The meaning of Sun Yuanqi's words is self-evident.

For the civil servants of the Qing Dynasty, Gengzinian's experience of following the emperor and queen Xihunt is definitely no less than going to Jinggang Mountain, walking the Long March, and fighting Little Japan, and he will write a heavy stroke on his resume.

Yang Du said: "It has always been a taboo in officialdom, and you are new to the school, so you should be more cautious in your words and deeds." In my opinion, it's best not to meddle in this. It's not been a year or two since the reputation of Jingshi University Hall stinks, so you let it stink, and it has nothing to do with you anyway. ”

"Why didn't it matter?" Sun Yuanqi was like a cat who had been stepped on his tail, and immediately jumped up and retorted, "At the beginning of the establishment of the Beijing Normal University, I taught in it for several years; When the university hall was reopened, I was the deputy organizer and the deputy chief teacher successively. With such a relationship, how can it be said that it has nothing to do with it? ”

"And what do you want to do about it?" Yang Du asked rhetorically.

"That's why I'm asking you!" Sun Yuan raised a Tai Chi cloud hand and threw the question back.

"Unless the official is still in the school, don't interfere directly." Yang Du said with a snort.

"There's no other way?"

Yang Du rolled his eyes: "Aren't you related to Jingshi University?" In addition to this origin, you and he are also seniors of the Hanlin Academy, and at the same time served as the envoy of the Academy, and now they are both in the school, you are half of his superiors. You talk to him privately, beat the side drum, and see if it's okay? ”

"That's it." Sun Yuanqi has nothing to do, and what Yang Du said is not a solution.

At that moment, Sun Yuanqi followed the etiquette, and the workers wrote an invitation to the senior of the Hanlin Academy, inviting him to have a light meal together at the right time. Two or three days later, Liu Tingchen sent someone to reply to the letter. Sun Yuanqi opened the envelope with confidence, took out the letter paper, and wrote:

"Lord Sun's case: Qianmeng

Invitation, fortunately. However, a few days ago

purpose

The court chose contemptible people

Today, I will follow the class to give lectures, and I will be assigned to the book "Zhenguan Political Leaders", and I will take turns compiling lecture notes.

Adults invite, I'm afraid it's hard to follow

Life, still pray

Haihan. The rest is not one by one. Liu Tingchen. ”

The number of words in the letter is not much, and a yellow umbrella is used, resulting in only a few words per line. From this concise and concise letter, it can be seen that Liu Tingchen's cold attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away. Sun Yuanqi was also furious: Make up your sister! Are you an idiot when you think Lao Tzu? Emperor Xuantong was born on the 14th day of the first month of the 32nd year of Guangxu, and has just turned three years old. He can't speak smoothly, you make up the handouts of "Zhenguan Political Leaders" for him? It's almost the same when you teach Pu Yi to sing children's songs.

Don't look at Liu Tingchen's age, but his thinking is super conservative, and he has always been heartbroken about Western learning, law change, and constitutionalism. However, Sun Yuanqi is firmly attached to the two labels of "New School Pioneer" and "Constitutional President", can Liu Tingchen have a good face? Sun Yuanqi didn't learn history well, and the middle school history textbook was too brief, so he didn't hear of Liu Tingchen's name at all. But anyone who loves modern history will know that there is such a man, who became famous for his involvement in a famous farce as the mastermind.

Shortly after the Xinhai Revolution, the Qing Emperor abdicated. Liu Tingchen, who was the vice minister of the school at the time, was loyal to the Qing royal family, and kept running north and south, contacting comrades, in a vain attempt to restore. In 1917, after the brief success of Zhang Xun's restoration, he was appointed as the Minister of Cabinet, and once rewarded the Forbidden City for riding a horse, second only to Zhang Xun in power, known as "one Wen and one Wu, one Liu and one Liu".

The twisted melon is not sweet, not to mention that this crooked melon is not allowed to twist? Although Sun Yuanqi was angry, he had nothing to do with Liu Tingchen. Liu Tingchen also saw this point and dared to argue with him.

Yang Du took the letter and looked at it, and then asked for a long time: "Since Liu Qianlou is not cooperative, what are you going to do?" ”

"What can I do? Cold! Sun Yuanqi said angrily, "Liu Tingchen doesn't cooperate, what else can I do?" Since he wants the hall of Jingshi University to stink like this, let it stink, anyway, he, Liu Tingchen, is the closest to that piece of, see who can't stand it first! ”

"Well, that's good." Yang Du is very satisfied with Sun Yuanqi's current attitude.

Although Yang Du likes officialdom power struggles very much, he obviously disapproves of Sun Yuanqi fighting his colleagues as soon as he arrives in the capital, especially Liu Tingchen, who is still lower than him, what can he do if he wins? You can't just let the right attendant from the second grade not do it, and go to be the chief overseer of the university hall of the third grade, right? In vain, they erected a strong enemy, leaving a notoriety of fighting for power to their fellow officialdom. If you lose, it's even more tasteless!

Sun Yuanqi turned his face and said: "Since the Beijing Normal University Hall will not be able to manage it for a while, then I will set up another school, and I have thought of a name, it will be called 'Tsinghua Academy'!" ”

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