Sun Yuanqi hurriedly said: "I have admired Baili for a long time, Ren Gong can help the school introduce such talents, Sun is too late to thank him, how can he have an opinion?" ”

Joke! Jiang Baili was crowned with titles such as "God of War", "Peerless Warrior", "Master of Strategy of the Republic of China", "Father of Modern Military Science" in later generations, even if there are elements that are praised and touted, it also shows that he still has a few brushes, otherwise the soap bubbles would have been blown countless times. If Liang Qichao can get thirty or fifty talents like this, Sun Yuanqi will definitely not have too much!

- Of course, if Sun Yuanqi knew that the brother in front of him was the first of the four auspicious Rui of the Republic of China (the mastermind of Baili, the enemy of Yuxiang, the commander of the Sixth Division, and the bald brother), he was later jokingly called the three auspicious Rui in the Republic of China Army by netizens: Jiang Baili of the General Staff Headquarters, who he helped and who lost; Hu Boyu (Hu Lian) of the Army, who saves who dies; The Danyang ship of the Navy will sink when it travels together. I wonder if he will regret saying such things?

After a pause, Sun Yuanqi said: "What Sun admires most is a thesis in Baili's speech when he was the principal of the Baoding Army Military Academy, that is, modern China has learned two most incorrigible things from Japan, one is education, and the other is the army. I don't know much about the army or anything, but from all my years of teaching experience, the education I learned from Japan is really terrible. Based on this alone, Sun Mou will lead Baili as his lifelong confidant! ”

Liang Qichao was a little puzzled: "Baixi, Baili, why did you say this?" In my opinion, although Japan's education level cannot be compared with that of the European and American powers, the improvement of the education system, the surge in investment in education, and the excellent treatment of teachers have effectively improved the overall quality of the Yamato nation and promoted the rapid development of Japan's economy after nearly thirty or forty years of development. As for the Japanese Army. It was to hire German officers to train them and defeat the brutal Russian army in one fell swoop in the Russo-Japanese War, making Japan a great power in Asia. These are quite enough for us to learn from China, why do you say that they are the most incorrigible? ”

"It is true that Japan's education since the Meiji Restoration has been an all-round success, and there are many lessons that China can learn from. There is no doubt about it. But the key question is not whether China should learn from Japan, but how we should correctly learn from Japan's experience! Sun Yuanqi explained: "After the First Sino-Japanese War, the success of Japan's education reform has become the consensus of the Chinese people, and it has also become the object of imitation in China's education circles.

"Actually, we were before we took Japan. First of all, it is necessary to objectively and accurately evaluate its successes and failures. Generally speaking, the cornerstone of the success of Japan's education reform lies in four aspects: huge capital investment, universal primary education, adaptation to social needs, and multi-channel talent development. But how well has China done in these areas? At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the country was plagued by many disasters and had to pay huge indemnities to the foreign powers, resulting in a serious shortage of education funds, which restricted the development of the entire educational undertaking, including the fact that the scale of schools could not be compared with that of Japan. Primary education is seriously backward, the quality of teaching is also far from the same, and the foreign teachers hired are either graduates of second- or third-rate schools in Japan, or they are leftovers from Europe and the United States who cannot get along and have to come to China to pan for gold!

"As for adapting to social needs and developing talents through multiple channels, it is impossible to talk about it. Because China has always had the belief that 'everything is inferior, only reading is high', and many scholars do not bother to attend normal schools and technical schools. Think that's all sideways. As everyone knows, in Japan, teacher education, technical education and general middle school go hand in hand, especially technical education to meet the needs of the country's development for skilled workers, which is the top priority. A Japanese education scholar once proudly said: 'In our country, it is not the case that there are factories first, and then industrial schools; Instead, they first set up an industrial school and trained graduates before planning to set up a factory. In other words, school education has even run ahead of the needs of society according to the development layout of the country! ”

Liang Qichao nodded: "The position of Shinong industry and commerce is deeply rooted in the minds of the people, and it is the shackle of the current social development. It must be criticized as soon as possible! After Baixi took charge of the Ministry of Education, he vigorously popularized compulsory education and promoted vocational education, which is exactly what he was punished for? ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "Exactly! After 20 years of accumulation, these shortcomings have accumulated and are incorrigible. How easy is it to correct it? But the more serious harm lies in the deviation in the guiding ideology of education. In the fifties and sixties of the last century, some people in Japan put forward the concepts of 'Oriental morality, Western art' and 'harmony with the soul and foreign talents', and China later put forward the slogan of 'learning from the Middle School as the body, Western learning as the application'. However, the enterprising and pioneering spirit of the Japanese soon surpassed this understanding, elevated "civilization and enlightenment" to the same level as the basic national policy of "rejuvenating the industry through colonization" and "enriching the country and strengthening the army," and actively broke the old bad habits and sought new knowledge in the world.

"And what about our country? Although it is proposed that 'middle school is the body, Western learning is for use', in fact, the idea is still at the level of 'mastering the skills of the master to control the country', and there is no sign of enlightenment at all. In the last years of Guangxu, the "Outline of Academic Affairs" promulgated by the school department clearly required that "primary and secondary schools should pay attention to the reading of the Bible in order to preserve the sacred teaching", stipulating that primary school students should read the Bible for 12 hours a week, accounting for more than one-third of the total class time, and middle school students should read the Bible for 9 hours a week, accounting for a quarter of the total class time. However, there are very few classes on Western history, geography, physics and chemistry, and as for the politics, law, ideology, and spirit of the West, they are regarded by those in power as beasts of a flood and are 'easy to talk about empty talk', and schools must strictly prohibit and ban them.

"If there is such a deviation in the guiding ideology of education between China and Japan, then it is conceivable that the fate of the two countries is different! As for why the army is incorrigible, Sun, a layman, is not very good, and he can't scratch the itch, and he has to ask Baili Xian to comment on the gains and losses! ”

Jiang Baili did not shirk: "Premier Sun is worthy of educating everyone, and he is deeply involved in the analysis of the current education problems in China, and Fang Zhen admires it!" As for the disadvantages of the Army, they are largely the same as the problems of education, but they also have their peculiarities. In other words, the Japanese Army is learning from the German Army, which is the lightest and largest army in the world today, and it has learned it vividly, so it should not be bad. However, if we carefully analyze it, we will find that in addition to their military discipline and weapons and equipment from Germany, their code of conduct and ideological core are still traditional Japanese bushido. In other words, the Japanese Army was nothing more than an old-fashioned Japanese army in German clothing!

Many people believe that the defeat of Russia by the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War marked the success of the reform of the Japanese army and the rise of the Japanese state. But in my opinion, this war was a complete crushing victory for Japan, a narrow victory, and this victory was more of a naval victory, and a complete defeat for the army! Why? Let's take only the Battle of Arthur as an example.

"The Battle of Arthur lasted for five months from August to December 1904, from midsummer to midwinter, and was unprecedentedly tragic. In this battle, the Japanese army participated in the battle with a total of more than 130,000 troops, while the Russian army had only 44,000 troops. With such a disparity in the ratio of troops, the number of Japanese killed and wounded greatly exceeded that of the Russian army, and the victory was finally won. Why did the Japanese suffer so many casualties? In addition to being on the attacking side itself, it was also because the Japanese commander Nogi Noshinori used all his strength to attack the Russian army with a barbaric and cruel 'meat bullet' tactic, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

"With such ferocious Russian firepower, Nogi Noshinori actually used the crowd tactics that were behind the times to launch a charge on the fortified fortress, causing a large number of casualties, and this alone should have brought him to a military tribunal. As a result, Nogi Noshinori's behavior was not only not criticized, but was praised as the 'god of war' in Japan! The Battle of Arthur was the world's first large-scale siege of a modern fortress and an actual combat exercise for future trench warfare.

"Since the defeat of the Russian army, the Japanese Army has become more and more arrogant, quite empty-eyed, and even more superstitious about the so-called spirit of bushido, even the German Army, which was regarded as the benchmark in the past. With the current strength of the Japanese Army, bullying China, Korea and other weak countries will naturally be invincible, if it is hysterical one day and dares to challenge a country that is more powerful than Tsarist Russia, or if the situation between China and Japan is reversed decades later, it will definitely be difficult to escape the defeat of the army and the destruction of the country! ”

Hearing Jiang Baili's judgment, Sun Yuanqi could hardly help but give him a thumbs up: Twenty or thirty years later, small Japan, which had reaped sufficient benefits in the invasion of Korea and China, was rampant to the extent that it successively challenged the Soviet Union, Britain, France, Japan, and other world powers. Isn't all this as Jiang Baili expected?

Liang Qichao sighed: "Victory covers up the shortcomings, praise hinders progress, and arrogance lays the root of the curse, which is probably the so-called 'woe and blessing rely on, and fortune and misfortune lie in wait', right?" ”

Jiang Baili said: "The Chinese Army, especially the Beiyang Army, is also under the German Army, and it is a close relative of the Japanese Army. However, after seeing the strength of the Japanese army in the First Sino-Japanese War and the First Sino-Japanese War and the First Sino-Japanese War, many local troops set the goal of learning as the Japanese Army, in view of the fact that the quality of their own soldiers and equipment could not reach the level of the German army. In their view, although the Japanese army was not comparable to the German army, it was superior in that it was suitable for the national conditions of East Asia, was simple and easy to learn, and its combat effectiveness was not weak, and it was enough to dominate East Asia, and the Japanese instructors were cheap and easy to hire. Therefore, the Japanese Army was quickly used as a model for learning.

"What about the learning results of the Chinese army in the end? They gave up the German skin of the Japanese Army, and they could not learn the innate bushido spirit of the Japanese Army, so they could only learn some pedantic and rigid guiding ideology, the three-legged cat tactics that were behind the times, and the so-called military education. The whole country is still complacent about this, thinking that it is incorrigible to realize the dream of making the country rich and strengthening the army? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m.qidian. )

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