Chapter 62: Encountering Japanese Invaders in the Old Summer Palace
PS: (Tomorrow, it is my grandfather's 80th birthday, here Xiaosha wishes grandpa, a long life, a longevity than Nanshan!)
In the first half of his life, grandpa has experienced too many ups and downs, from childhood to adulthood, in Xiaosha's eyes, grandpa's story is a legend. )
A few days later, Chen Longting came to the campus of Peking University early in the morning, although there was still nearly a week before the start of school, but as a librarian, he had to come to the library to take care of it first.
Not long after, in the office of the management director, Chen Longting met Li Shouchang, that is, Li Dazhao, but saw that the other party was wearing rimless glasses, wearing a black robe, and two beards on his mouth, and he was meticulous all over his body, like a knowledgeable scholar and a literati with feelings.
Li Dazhao, who was in the office, saw Chen Longting, immediately stopped what he was doing, and then said with a smile:
"Xianyi, you're here so early?"
Chen Longting smiled a little stiffly, and then said:
"Teacher Li, I've been fine for the past two days, so I'll come over early to help. ”
Hearing this, Li Dazhao nodded appreciatively, but Chen Longting looked very restrained in front of this revolutionary bigwig, standing there like a good baby.
Immediately afterwards, after the report, Chen Longting was about to sort out the books, but Li Dazhao said casually:
"Two days later, there will be a doctrine workshop, Xianyi, if you have nothing to do, come and participate in it and increase your knowledge. ”
Hearing what Li Dazhao said, Chen Longting chuckled in his heart, and the secret path came again! Then, he couldn't help but say haha:
"Huh. I may not be able to go, but the day after tomorrow my cousin's second aunt and son get married. I have to go to the wedding. ”
The corners of Li Dazhao's mouth twitched, and he watched Chen Longting quickly slip away speechlessly. After a while, he could only laugh and scold:
"Hey, this monkey!"
Since Chen Longting started volunteering in the library, he has often been studied by Li Dazhao, and in this process, his ability to understand new ideas is very optimistic about Li Dazhao, and he has always wanted to develop Chen Longting into a young intellectual with red thoughts.
It's a pity that this kid is too slippery, every time it is, Li Dazhao has nothing to do. You can't force people, can you?
As he spoke, Li Dazhao continued to be busy with the documents in his hand, thinking of the last time he met with Mr. Sun Yat-sen on a business trip, and the conversation that put aside the differences between the two parties, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bring a smile.
He believed that it would not be long before the fire of revolution would burn violently!
Chen Longting, who was cleaning between the bookshelves, thought of the scene where Li Dazhao invited him in the previous office. I couldn't help but smile bitterly.
In order to refuse Li Dazhao's invitation, he casually talked about the reason, I am afraid that a three-year-old child will not believe it.
Originally, Chen Longting was in the eyes of Li Dazhao. At most, he is a young man with new ideas, but because of the two plays of Pu Yi's wedding, Chen Longting's reputation is outstanding. This made Li Dazhao even more eager to transform him into a new young man.
Because through him, more people can be influenced!
Although there is some suspicion of using him. But in this era, it was possible to overthrow the corrupt Beiyang government. But it is commendable.
Chen Longting is not disgusted by this.
But he couldn't.
If the guess is correct, the doctrine research meeting must discuss Marx's theory, and he doesn't want to be labeled red so early.
Otherwise, that's really a dog!
Thinking of this, Chen Longting in a wry smile shook his head, you must know that the next few decades will be the world of the blue sky and the white army, since he plans to study at the Whampoa Military Academy, then he must join the national army, so his identity must be innocent!
Because in Lao Jiang's eyes, there is absolutely no room for a little sand! In later generations, many people knew this.
Therefore, when Chen Longting saw this kind of revolutionary boss with a red background, he could only hide and go, even in the next few decades.
Although he was a little hard, Chen Longting still appreciated these people's behavior of saving the country, but he thought that four years later, Li Dazhao would be arrested by the reactionary/dynamic warlords, and then tortured and even killed, resulting in the heroic death of this revolutionary pioneer in prison.
Thinking of this, Chen Longting was entangled for a while.
When the time comes, will I save or not?
Yu Gong, Li Dazhao is not only his boss, but also a classroom teacher. In private, Chen Longting has an indescribable admiration for the revolutionary martyrs.
So if he doesn't save him when he dies, he can't do this kind of thing.
But once you save it, you may set yourself on fire!
Suddenly, Chen Longting was a big head for a while, and then suddenly thought of something, couldn't help patting his head, and then laughed in his heart.
"When the time comes, I will not only be a soldier, but also a warrior!
"Big deal, brother is staging a Qingfeng Hero!
Chen Longting, who figured out this, laughed very proudly, but then, another question appeared in his heart.
If Li Dazhao, one of the main founders of the Red Organization, had not died, would there be nothing like Mao Da as later generations said?
!
As soon as this question appeared, it was immediately denied by Chen Longting! Not to mention Li Dazhao's upright character, the gap between the two is definitely an insurmountable chasm.
The former's ability in power and tactics is certainly inferior to that of the latter, and Li Dazhao cannot handle many major events because he is not ruthless enough! By saying this, he is not criticizing, but first of all, he must clearly understand the starting point, and everything is for the sake of the people and the strength of the country.
Therefore, Li Dazhao is not good! And this conjecture of later generations is also wrong!
But as a revolutionary pioneer, the other party's character of becoming benevolent if he doesn't succeed and making a lot of noise, even if he saves him, I'm afraid this big guy will live like Chen Duxiu, living a life like exile.
In the end, Chen Longting could only smile bitterly and shake his head, let's take one step at a time. When the time comes, it is not too late to make some rescue actions according to the situation.
In a word. People must be saved!
These revolutionary ancestors who have taken 'patriotism' as their responsibility all their lives, as long as Chen Longting meets them. They must not be allowed to die heroically again.
He wants these people to live to see the moment when New China is founded!
In the afternoon, Chen Longting left the campus of Peking University, and he didn't have anything to do, but he didn't want to go home so early.
For Chen Longting, who had just come out of his grief, the death of Jin Zhuyu gave him a heavy blow.
It turns out that the people around you will also inadvertently leave you.
This pain. He will remember it in his heart, and the time he spent with Jin Jiyu will be Chen Longting's most precious memory.
Chen Longting, who left the campus of Peking University, walked forward not long ago, and saw an overgrown wasteland, on which many broken walls and ruins were lying horizontally.
Only the word 'ruins' comes to mind.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Chen Longting was stunned and couldn't help but say:
"This is the Old Summer Palace. ”
He had always known that Peking University was adjacent to the ruins of the Old Summer Palace. But he didn't expect it to be so close, so Chen Longting walked to the middle of the ruins in a few steps and glanced at the ruins.
Soon after. He let out a long sigh as he reached out and stroked the marble wall that had once served as a doorpost.
History, history.
Twenty-three years ago, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Austria, Italy, and the eight-nation alliance forces. Invaded China, and the Manchu government had little to resist. Within a few months, the Eight-Nation Coalition had captured Beijing. Directly into the Forbidden City.
The funny thing is that the old lady Cixi, in order to show her integrity, decided to disguise herself as a Han peasant woman and flee to Xi'an when the foreigners hit the city gate.
Nowadays, I am afraid that the common people of the whole city will have a great change in their faces when they talk about that unequal war, and the war of aggression against China that took place in 1900 is much more serious and terrifying than the Nanjing Massacre that began in 1937!
There is not the slightest exaggeration in this!
In later generations, the developing New China is rising rapidly, but because of the relationship between diplomacy and international image, there is not much pursuit of that extremely dark period.
However, this period of history should be remembered by every Chinese! Those robbers, after entering the capital, burned, killed, robbed, raped, and committed all kinds of evil!
What fighting peoples?
What freedom fighters?
What knightly honors?
To hell with absolute interests!
Thinking of this, a trace of anger flashed in Chen Longting's eyes! There is not a single good bird in these countries, and even, during that period, among those coalition forces, there was a Chinese army hired by the British, called the 'Huayong Battalion'.
Those people killed their own people more ruthlessly than anyone else! So much so that they were praised by the British media. There are still many black and white photographs of this in later generations.
They are all beast-like dog things, and when they are traitors, they leave no room for it, and they are more ruthless to their own people than anyone else!
This is also the reason why traitors have been so hated since ancient times.
In that war of aggression against China, the Qing army was nearly 100,000 and the Boxers were more than 300,000, but they were defeated by tens of thousands of troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
What does this mean?
If you are backward, you will be beaten!
Chen Longting could not deny what Stalin once said, because the reality was in front of him, and the Qing government at that time repeatedly compromised with foreigners in the early days, and even some Qing officials even used two palanquins to send pennants to the Eight-Nation Alliance.
When the pennant was delivered to the gate of the headquarters of the Eight-Nation Alliance, those Qing officials still knelt down and kowtowed, this kind of scene was simply shameless!
It was a picture that any Chinese would be ashamed of, but it really happened.
Chen Longting shook his head, and suddenly thought of the leaders of the Boxers hiding in Chen Jiachong, who were known as 'all the foreign devils were killed, and there were no foreigners in the Central Plains in March'.
Before the Eight-Nation Coalition came in, they killed bishops, nuns, expatriates, and even many Catholics and foreign goods.
In the end, the foreigners really came, and the hundreds of thousands of Boxers, who claimed to be invulnerable and wanted to kill all the foreigners, collapsed in an instant.
From the assassination of the German minister Klinder, the victory of the Eight-Power War of Aggression against China was a foregone conclusion, and finally, the incompetent Qing government appointed Li Hongzhang as a representative to sign the "Xinchou Treaty" that humiliated the country.
That's what satisfied the executioners, robbers, and butchers.
The past history needs to be remembered, and at the same time, every Chinese in future generations will understand a truth.
This is that a weak country can only be bullied, and only when the country is strong can it really raise its eyebrows!
This is also the reason why the new China of later generations, for a long period of time, has repeatedly tolerated and developed in a low-key manner
Standing in the middle of the barren grass, Chen Longting looked at the ruins around him and felt very sorry that the Old Summer Palace had inherited China's excellent gardening tradition for more than 3,000 years.
It not only has the grace and luxury of the palace architecture, but also the euphemism and variety of the Jiangnan garden, and at the same time absorbs the essence of the European garden, integrating different styles of garden architecture, and has been praised as "a model of ideals and art" by the French writer Victor Hugo.
It's a pity that the robber soldiers of Britain and France looted it completely, and burned all the buildings to the ground.
In later generations, after rough statistics, the number of cultural relics looted in the Old Summer Palace was about 1.5 million, ranging from bronze ritual vessels in China's pre-Qin period, to celebrity calligraphy and paintings and various treasures in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Among them, the most famous are the twelve beast heads!
The Chinese people's worship of the zodiac has a long history, but unfortunately in later generations, the twelve animal heads that have been living abroad for more than 140 years, because of the relationship of time, have either been damaged or their whereabouts are unknown, and only five animal heads, with the help of patriots, have returned to the motherland.
The other seven beast heads, before Chen Longting crossed, did not return to the embrace of the motherland.
I have to say, it's a pity!
But more than 20 years have passed since the burning of the Old Summer Palace, and the twelve beast heads should all be well preserved.
Thinking of Chen Longting here, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but bring a smile.
"In my life, I will definitely retrieve those lost national treasures from the hands of robbers!"
"The Guardian of the Zodiac, but it's part of my plan. ”
Looking at the surrounding ruins, Chen Longting knew that in fact, back then, the scope of the burning was not only the Old Summer Palace, but also the royal three mountains and five gardens in western Beijing.
Among them, the three mountains of Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, Xiangshan, Qingyi Garden, Changchun Garden, Jingmingyuan and Jingyi Garden, the scope and extent of their burning are far larger than that of the Old Summer Palace.
But in terms of cultural relics, art, and architectural value, the Old Summer Palace is the first!
This is well known to all, and it is also the most regrettable.
Then, Chen Longting was about to turn around and leave, but at this moment, an annoying voice sounded.
"Long Tingjun?"
Chen Longting was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look at the source of the voice.
But I saw that Takeshi Kitano and Hideaki Yoshikawa were standing in front of the ruins of the Old Summer Palace with a smile and flowers in both hands.
Chen Longting's handsome face darkened on the spot, but then he suddenly laughed again.
Now that there is no one around, it is definitely a good time to kill, because he has long wanted to kill these two widows, but he has never been able to find a chance.
Today, since these two people were sent to the door, he could only laugh at it! At that moment, Chen Longting decided that after killing the two people, he would dig a pit in the Old Summer Palace at random, and then bury the bodies of the two people.
This can be regarded as an insignificant repayment for the sins committed by the Eight-Nation Coalition back then.
So, Chen Longting immediately raised his strength, exerted force under his feet, and after making an instantaneous step, his figure flashed in an instant!
The grass clippings on the ground were flying, Chen Longting smiled fiercely and rushed straight forward!
He's going to kill!!
Takeshi Kitano and Hideaki Yoshikawa, who were smiling at each other, their smiles were also fixed on their faces at this moment.
At the same time, he looked at Chen Longting in a daze, and from the barren grass of the Old Summer Palace, he rushed out in an instant, raised his fist, and shouted:
"Die to Lao Tzu !!"
Takeshi Kitano, who was the first of them, instantly opened his eyes wide, and a fist, in the blink of an eye, hit his eyes, occupying all his vision
(PS: This surprise, will it be the twelve beast heads? Of course not!Xiaosha's picture is very big, but it's not this!Hehe, I'll reveal it for you in the next chapter.) (To be continued.) )