At about 10 o'clock in the morning of September 23, the ocean liner Queen docked steadily at the dock in Yokohama, Japan. After staying on the ship for more than ten days, they finally arrived at their destination, and the guests were overjoyed.

Sun Yuanqi walked off the passenger ship with the crowd, and wanted to find someone to take the luggage out of the cabin. There is still some entanglement in my heart: Zhang Yuanji sent a telegram, saying that he had entrusted the president of "Xinmin Cong Bao" to buy a ticket back to China on his behalf, but this group of people did not understand Japanese and was not familiar with the place, how to find the "Xinmin Cong Bao" office? I'm afraid it's inevitable to be verbose.

There are many people picking up relatives and friends on the pier, and Japanese and English are connected. Seeing that there were nearly ten blonde and blue-eyed Europeans and Americans on Sun Yuanqi's side, they all avoided it from afar. It is said that at the beginning of the 20th century, Europeans and Americans were definitely treated as supranationals in Japan, and of course they are now. This made Sun Yuanqi unable to find even someone to run the luggage.

After walking a few steps, I heard someone speak straight in Chinese: "Mr. Sun Yuanqi!" Mr. Sun Baixi! Mr. Sun Yuanqi—"

Hurriedly followed the sound and looked, only to see a young man standing on a high place, carrying a huge card with three Chinese characters written on it, "Sun Yuanqi", thinking that he was picking himself up. I didn't feel good about the president of "Xinmin Cong Daily".

Sun Yuanqi hurriedly took a few steps, raised his head and said loudly to the young man: "Hello, I am Sun Yuanqi." "No way, I can't hear it if I don't hear it. Although the Japanese are very quiet, the sound of whistles, waves, and trumpets on the docks is very quiet.

When the young man heard this, he held back the voice that had shouted half in his throat, jumped down, and looked Sun Yuanqi up and down with suspicious eyes: "You are Sun Yuanqi, sir?" ”

Sun Yuanqi scratched his head: "If you are looking for the person who is Sun Yuanqi Baixi, that person should be me." ”

"You are the Sun Yuanqi who compiled the textbook?" The man asked again.

"The Commercial Press?" Seeing that the man nodded, Sun Yuanqi also nodded, "That's my person." ”

"I'm sorry!" The man clenched his fists, his face was a little embarrassed, "Please Haihan!" You are so young, I still can't believe that you are Mr. Sun, who has compiled so many textbooks. I always thought that at least I should be over the age of confusion. Who knows......"

"Hehe...... "Sun Yuanqi touched the stubble on his chin, thinking, would it be better to grow a little beard in the future?

"By the way, we were sent by Ren Gong to pick you up. We still have a few people, and I'm going to call them over right now to carry our luggage together. You just wait here, don't go away! As he spoke, he got into the crowd and disappeared into the crowd after three or five strokes.

Sun Yuanqi patted his forehead: This young man is really, he didn't even tell me his name. Ren Gong, I know who Ren Gong is?

Fortunately, the young man was fast, and in less than a minute, he led four or five people to appear in front of Sun Yuanqi, and everyone looked at him with scrutinizing eyes. Sun Yuan spoke first: "Everyone, should we go and move the luggage first?" ”

"Yes!" "Yes!"

The young men finally realized that there was still work to be done, and followed Sun Yuanqi and his party to pick up the goods.

Considering that he spent three months in the United States every year, a lot of unused clothes were left at Mr. Bergman's house, and he only carried with him the usual changes of clothes, as well as some new books and manuscripts. The luggage of the other group was roughly the same. It saves everyone a lot of trouble.

Out of the dock, there were already several rickshaws parked at the door, and Sun Yuan felt very kind for the sake of it. However, people are separated from luggage. Sun Yuanqi and his entourage sat on a rickshaw and walked around the streets and alleys of Yokohama City. Just in confusion, the young man sitting next to him explained: "In this Yokohama City, there are many eagle dogs of the Qing court, we are here to prevent being targeted by them!" ”

"Huh?" Sun Yuanqi was stunned, what was going on? Mr. Zhang won't find people from Tiandihui and Hongmen to pick him up!

The young man only suspected that Sun Yuanqi did not believe it, and then said, "Really! A few years ago, our newspaper was burned down by Cixi! ”

Needless to say, this must be an anti-government organization!

At this time, Sun Yuanqi remembered that Mr. Zhang Yuanji had actively participated in the Wuxu Reform and had been dismissed from his post because of this. Anyway, didn't Kang Liang and the others flee to Japan? I don't know where they're hiding now.

didn't want to be entangled too deeply, so Sun Yuanqi took the initiative to provoke a new topic: "Brother Tai, what is your surname?" ”

The young man clasped his fists again and again in the car: "I really don't deserve the title of Mr. Sun's 'brother'." Our surname is Ma, the name is the same, the word Houshan, the number Junwu, Guangxi Guilin Mansion. It's good for Mr. to call me Junwu, and that's what Ren Gong calls me. ”

I was about to ask who Ren Gong was, and the rickshaw was beaten, and it turned out that I happened to arrive at the residence.

After getting out of the car, Sun Yuanqi saw a young man who was nearly thirty years old greet him: "Brother Baixi, we are not well entertained, and I still look at Haihan!" ”

The person who came was not tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, some dark skin, teeth should be in the style of the earth, and the thick lower lip was a little prominent, which was the appearance of a standard southern Chinese. Overall, not very handsome. But when everyone first sees him, they are fascinated by his eyes and ignore the rest of him. The eyes are warm and deep, the dark pupils seem to be able to speak, and the look is radiant, and at first glance it is the dragon and phoenix among people.

"It's a shame to bother, but it's not Sun's!" Sun Yuanqi clasped his fist at him and confessed. At this moment, he was muttering in his heart: This person is so familiar, I must have seen it somewhere!

If Sun Yuanqi is familiar with "Dream of Red Mansions", he will definitely feel that this feels like the scene when Bao Dai first saw him in Jiafu: Daiyu thought to herself: "It's so strange, it's like I've seen it somewhere, how familiar it is!" Baoyu said bluntly: "I have seen this sister before." ”

"Brother Baixi is worthy of Wang Xie's son, the essence of learning, admired by both China and the West, and no one can afford to put his beak in it. Just talking about appearance, he is also the first-class person in the country! The man also hugged his fists, and then let a tall and fair-skinned man behind him, "Come on, come, let me introduce you to a strange man, this is Yang Xianzi Yang Du, who wrote 'If the Chinese country dies, unless the people of Hunan die', it is the proud foot of the old man of Xiangqi!" ”

"Look up for a long time!" Sun Yuanqi bowed his hand. Although I have admired it for a long time, I have never heard of it. However, looking at this Yang Du's warm temperament and glowing eyes, he wants to read thousands of poems and books in his belly, and he is also the first person to jump into his eyes in front of the public, he must be a famous man.

"Ren Gong praises!" Yang Duchong made a circle bow to the two, "Yang has always been blind, and when I saw the two brothers today, I knew the truth that there are people outside the world." Alas, 'the pearl and jade are on the side, and I feel that I am filthy', and 'the pearl and jade are on the side, and I feel that I am filthy'! ”

Everyone around laughed, but only Sun Yuanqi and his American friends had no idea what they were talking about, so they had to laugh on the sidelines.

"Brother Baixi, do you recognize me?" The young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes asked in a strong Cantonese official dialect.

Yang Du interjected first: "Baixi is the nephew of Lord Zhongtang, how can you know that you are a traitor?" ”

Sun Yuanqi replied honestly: "I don't know it, but I am familiar with it, as if I have seen it somewhere!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Why doesn't it look familiar? Yang Du laughed and fell, "You must have seen his portrait on the sea fishing paper!" His head is worth 100,000 taels of silver, who doesn't know it! ”

The man also smiled slightly: "I am the traitor who Lafayette offered a reward of 100,000 taels of bonuses to arrest, Xinhui Liang Qichao." ”

After some laughter, Sun Yuanqi introduced his colleagues and engineers from the O&C firm to get to know everyone. Originally, because it was the "dirty Shina man" who chartered the storefront, the Japanese proprietress was still annoying, and when she saw the Americans slipping behind her, she was so frightened that she hid in the backyard and ordered a waiter to clean the room again.

After lunch, those American friends were full of wine and food, and went back to their rooms early for a lunch break. Sun Yuanqi was the only one left, because he was stimulated by returning home and had no sleep, and was alone in the shade of the garden, staring at a gurgling stream in a daze.

Suddenly, I heard someone calling me: "Brother Baixi, good Yaxing!" ”

When I looked up, I saw Liang Qichao and Yang Du coming together. Liang Qichao cut his hands upside down, and the light sprinkled his bamboo cloth robe, reflecting his shining eyes, as if the sun around him was also brighter. Yang Du was dressed in white, and he shook a folding fan in his hand, and there was a vague poem on it: "Even if there are flowers and moons, the prince talks about drinking and not talking about poetry." But it was written by his teacher Wang Minyun.

When Sun Yuanqi heard this, he hurriedly got up: "The scenery here is really extraordinary, it's hard to be a public servant!" ”

chatting before noon, I learned that Zhang Yuanji was the ticket for Liang Qichao to buy a ticket to return to China tomorrow. It is said that Zhang Yuanji and Liang Qichao knew each other, which can be traced back to the time of the Wuxu Reform four years ago, when Xu Zhijing, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, played a secret fold and recommended Kang Youwei, Huang Zunxian, Liang Qichao, Zhang Yuanji and others to the emperor, Zhang Yuanji and Liang Qichao walked together in front of the palace, and thus got acquainted.

As for Yang Du, despite Wang Minyun's dissuasion half a year ago, he studied in Japan at his own expense from his teacher and enrolled in the crash course of the teachers of the Hongwen Academy in Tokyo, and later the revolutionary general Huang Xing. Influenced by the students studying in Japan, his thoughts became more and more radical, and he and his fellow villager Yang Dusheng and others founded the "Study Tour Translation and Editing". and once published an article called "China Education" in Liang Qichao's "Xinmin Cong Daily", so he knew Liang Qichao. This time, he came to Yokohama to return to China to raise funds for the "Study Tour Translation and Editing". In this way, he is on the same path as Sun Yuanqi.

"Haha, Baixi is like this, it's too outward. Ju Sheng and I, that is a friend of life and death. As he spoke, Liang Qichao took out a pot of sake from behind him, as well as three wine glasses. No wonder he had his hands behind his back, so it was. "Isn't it boring to hear that Brother Baixi has never taken a lunch break and is alone with the scene? I specially found a bottle of good wine, everyone to follow the story of Cao Gong and Uncle Huang, green plum cooking wine about heroes, wouldn't it be happy! ”

Yang Du closed the paper fan and looked at Liang and Sun: "After Baixi is Sun Wu, he is regarded as the grandson of the old king, and his uncle and grandfather are in the middle hall of Shouzhou, which can barely be regarded as Xuande; Ren Gong, you are regarded by the Qing court as an anti-party, and you are a little similar to Apu. But what about me, how should I deal with myself? ”

"You Yang Xianzi, you have a Yang Xiu's mouth alive!" Liang Qichao laughed and said, "Today, I have wronged this Yang Dezu and asked you to be a waiter who pours wine." The host and guests are satisfied, and you will be rewarded with a glass of wine. ”

"In Japanese words, Liang Sang, your conscience is greatly broken!" Yang Du pinned the fan to the collar behind his head, took the wine glass from Liang Qichao's hand, and went to the stream to wash it.

Sun Yuanqi was about to step forward to help, but Liang Qichao grabbed him and said, "Don't care about him, come on, let's sit on the ground, drink and talk!" ”

Yang Du set the washed wine glass, took the wine jug, and really became a waiter. While pouring wine, he said: "Since Yang has become a superintendent, there is only such a pot of wine, so naturally you can't drink it casually." In accordance with the rules of the liquor order, you need to make a charter first! ”

"Good!" Liang Qichao stroked his palm and praised kindness.

Sun Yuanqi secretly said "bitter" in his heart, he has no ink in his chest, and he has no foundation in Chinese studies at all, how can he play any sour wine with these people who grew up reading the Four Books and the Five Classics! Aren't you looking for death?

was about to speak out against it, but Yang Du spoke first: "Previously, Ren Gong said that it was good to cook wine and talk about heroes, so everyone would discuss the situation at home and abroad in turn, and if the listener agreed, he would drink it full, if Zang didn't drink half of it, if he didn't drink it, if he didn't drink it." ”

"It's a strange rule, the speaker doesn't drink, but the listener drinks!" Liang Qichao said.

Sun Yuanqi's hanging heart was slightly lowered, and his heart said: This is simple, when the Chinese people in later generations are drunk, who can't talk about the international trend? Then it is enough to find a taxi driver in Beijing and go to Phoenix.com to be a current affairs commentator! Today, when it comes to the situation at home and abroad, brother, I know less than you; But when it comes to the future, you're going to have to leave me on the ground!

"That's nature!" Yang Du looked taken for granted, "Few of those who agree are sincerely approved, and nine times out of ten they are either sycophants, or they are like dwarves watching a play, and they follow others to talk about short and long." Shouldn't such a person who has no opinion and picks up people's teeth and wisdom be punished for drinking? ”

"Wonderful! Yang Xianzi's insight is really outstanding. Liang Qichao applauded, "The wine supervisor, who will come first?" ”

Sun Yuanqi also felt that Yang Du's idea was very wonderful.

Yang Du had already filled the wine while speaking, so he put down the wine jug: "Then let's follow Nian Geng!" ”

Everyone reported their age, Liang Qichao was the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), the longest; Yang Du was the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), secondly; Sun Yuanqi was the Qing Dynasty in the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu, when he was 23 years old, and he was born in the second year of Guangxu (1876), the youngest.

"Then we're going to throw bricks and lead the way!" After reporting the age, Liang Qichao did not act cowardly, but took the lead, "Speaking of Nian Geng, I will bear this and say it." Empress Dowager Cixi was born in the fifteenth year of Daoguang (1835), and this year she is already sixty and eight. 'Life is rare for seventy years', and Empress Xiaozhuang Wen ascended at the age of seventy-six, which is already rare in ancient and modern times. Besides, now that the country is in turmoil, she has every opportunity and every effort, and she is afraid that it is not the way to live a long life. Now I was born on June 28, 1871 (August 14, 1871) in the tenth year of Tongzhi, just after the year of establishment, as long as patience hibernates for several years, once there is something in the mountains, it is the time to reorganize the world. I know a lot about it today, and he is the emperor who is patriotic and compassionate to the people and determined to forge ahead. When the time comes, we will work together to carry out political reform, implement a constitutional monarchy, learn from Taixi Japan, and wash away the outdated, which will surely make China rejuvenated, regain lost territory, and stand tall among the world's great powers! ”

Although Sun Yuanqi didn't learn much history, he also knew that Guangxu didn't have a few years to live, and then the young doll became the emperor of Xuantong. What Liang Qichao said is pure whimsical nature. I didn't want to drink, but I just picked up the wine glass, made a slight gesture, and put it down, but I didn't drink a sip of wine.

Yang Du picked up the wine glass, took a sip of half a sip, and then said: "As far as I have seen and heard, south of the Yangtze River, since Daoguang, the port has been opened for trade, and the people have been civilized and civilized. Guangdong and Jiangsu are the first in the country; Sichuan, Yunnan, Huguang, Jiangxi and other provinces also proliferated new learning and the people's minds changed when they changed the law. The year before last, when the Gengzi country changed, there was a move to protect itself in the southeast, which shows that Jiangnan and the imperial court have different interests. And north of the Huai River, Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, has always been the heart of the imperial court, controlled by the eagle dog of the loyal emperor, and the garrison is also the most. Therefore, once there is chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that Kyushu will be ruled by dividing the river! ”

Liang Qichao listened and nodded slightly. What I said just now is just an acquaintance with Emperor Guangxu's monarchs and ministers, and there are still some fantasies, rather than really thinking about the problem from a rational point of view. At this time, when he heard what Yang Du said, he felt that it was very true, so he picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Sun Yuanqi learned from Yang Du's action just now, took a sip, and felt that the taste of wine was not very strong, and it was a little sweet, like rice wine. Putting down the wine glass, he watched Yang Du pour wine for everyone, and said, "It's my turn next?" ”

"I'm just about to listen to Brother Baixi's argument!" Liang Qichao looked at Sun Yuanqi with blazing eyes.

"The trend of the world, the soup of the great soup. Those who go along with it prosper, and those who go against it die. Sun Yuanqi first thought of the words of the father of the nation, starting with this, and then counted slightly, "In less than ten years, the Qing emperor will abdicate the throne, and the world may be called a republic." In today's China, peasants, as the largest group of the people, are more likely to hold on to the land and struggle for a spoonful of food and drink. Workers, craftsmen, only in some large cities; The military is divided into two kinds of people, one is comatose and is nothing more than the thugs of the officer, and the other part is the one who has received a new education and has new ideas, and they will become the most radical and unstable force in society; Also, there were scholars, including the traditional gentry. In today's Chinese society, scholars are not only the conscience of society, but also the main leading force of society.

"With the introduction of new education, the education model has gradually evolved from elite education in the past to civilian education. These children of the common people, who have received a new type of education, are undoubtedly full of hatred for feudal autocracy and full of longing for Western freedom and democracy. After ten years, the education of one generation is enough to make the main body of scholars change from the gentry of the past to young students. As the leading force of society, plus those radical soldiers in the army, as soon as they join forces, the world will change color!

"As Brother Hui said, Jiangnan is naturally not worried. In Jiangbei, where feudal rule is most solid, what will happen? We must know that after Li Hefei Zhongtang went, the main forces of Beiyang were in the hands of a few generals, and at that time, they did not have to defect, as long as they maintained a neutral attitude, the Qing Dynasty would immediately go to the grave.

But this is not just the end of an era, but the beginning of a troubled era.

"The radical in the south and the conservative in the north, when there is a common enemy, the Qing Dynasty, the two sides may still be able to sit together. When the reign of the Qing Emperor came to an end and the two factions began to share the fruits of victory, it was the time when the north and the south fought and fought each other. The Beiyang army is the most powerful, and the new army in the south cannot resist in the early stage, which leads to the rise of conservative forces, and it is not impossible to have another emperor in the north! Of course, the revolutionary forces in the south will not admit defeat and will make a comeback after a period of recuperation. The conservative forces in the north, because of these perverse acts, gradually lost the support of the people and eventually failed.

"By the way, there is also the Qing royal family after the abdication, because the north and the south are unable to take care of it, and it is very likely to resurge. With the support of some foreign forces, they will occupy a corner, such as Guanwai, establish a puppet kingdom, and then spy on the Central Plains. After a difficult victory over the conservative forces in the north, the revolutionary forces in the south had to confront this foreign force head-on, and the outcome was unpredictable. Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Outer Mongolia and other border areas will fall apart because of the turmoil in the Central Plains.

"In other words, in the next twenty or thirty years, China will be in turmoil, and the people will not ......be able to make a living," Sun Yuanqi said, and the more he spoke, the lower his voice became, as if he had seen the tragic situation in the world decades later.

Liang Qichao and Yang Du's faces were also very ugly, and finally they each raised their wine glasses and drank them all.

Yang Du poured everyone full of wine again, and said: "The domestic ones are too heavy, let's talk about foreign ones, and we are not allowed to talk about resentful things!" This time, start with the smallest! ”

"That's pleased!" Sitting in a beautiful garden on a sunny afternoon and saying those frustrating things is really damaging to the landscape. Sun Yuanqi decided to tell the good news: "In the next ten or twenty years, there will be a big war in Europe, and the war will spread to the whole world, and all the powerful countries will be greatly damaged because of this." This war can enable China to avoid the scourge of destroying the country and extinction, and if it is handled properly, it is unknown whether the country will rise from now on! ”

"Oh?" Both of their eyes lit up, "Baixi, tell me your reason!" ”

Cause? How do I know that! You ask the village chief. Sun Yuanqi thought so in his heart, but he didn't say so, and pretended to be profound: "This is a heavenly opportunity, and it must not be revealed!" ”

"Cut ——!" Both of them were speechless, and only picked up their wine glasses and took a small sip. It seems that they are half-convinced of this, and they are more suspicious.

"In my opinion, Japan is going to have a big fight with Russia!" Yang Du said firmly.

Liang Qichao continued: "There is a great possibility that there will be a big problem in Russia!" ”

Sun Yuanqi added: "These two evil neighbors should really disappear from my Chinese side, it is best to move to the side of Europe and the United States, so that they can have a good time!" ”

With that, the three of them laughed and drank their own glasses of wine.

Yang Du shook the wine jug, then poured half a glass for each person, and threw the wine jug aside, it turned out that there was no wine.

"Wine is half drunk, and the moon looks half round." Liang Qichao held up half a glass of wine, "What do you say? ”

This is a sentence in the "Analects", and Sun Yuanqi can understand it.

After Yang Du finished drinking, he took out a folding fan from the back collar, fanned it flickeringly, and then chanted a sentence: "But the king is the world, and he has won the name before and after his death!" ”

"This is also the long-cherished wish of the old man Xiangqi!" Liang Qichao also drank it in one gulp, and read slowly: "There is nothing wrong with everything, but it is not a teacher to open up the atmosphere!" ”

Isn't this a cheat! I was still talking well, but at the end, I suddenly changed my poetry? Sun Yuanqi was running at high speed in his head, trying to find a poem that could barely fit the situation. After searching his stomach and racking his brains, the wine glass was placed on his lips for half a minute, and finally a sentence came out: "I am confident that if I live for 200 years, I will be hit by water for 3,000 miles!" ”

By the way, whose poem is this?

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