Chapter 142 male theory

Zhang Taiyan said that the key reason for Yuan Shikai's failure was that three people opposed three people: first, Liang Rengong (Qichao) opposed Yang Xizi (Du); second, Zhang Zhongren (Yi Ling) opposed Xia Wuyi; third, Lei Zhenchun opposed Cai Songpo ( E).Zhang's statement was widely circulated at that time. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zhang Taiyan went to Beijing. When he saw Chen Huan, the then deputy chief of staff, he called Chen Huan the "No.Sure enough, Chen Xiang assisted Yuan to come to power and proclaimed himself emperor.After Zhang Taiyan's death, Chen Huan claimed that he had no friends in the world, and said that he was the one who really knew Taiyan.Chen said: "One word from the Zhang family can determine the safety of the world."

It was rumored that Yuan Shikai wanted to become emperor, and Zhang Taiyan said to Yuan: "A husband is not a person who is able to calm down the inside and fight against the outside world. He is arrogant and proclaims himself emperor, and he is suitable to overthrow his clan. It is true according to the history. To defeat the great enemy is to be promoted by the people of the country. Today, China is weak, and Russia and Japan are in the northeast. If you can defeat a country, you will return to your own country. How can the people have any objections? The special trouble is that you don’t have the ability to call yourself emperor.”

Zhang Taiyan divided the previous heads of state of the Republic of China into three categories, one is "predatory", such as Yuan Shikai, who has "the trouble of being powerful and self-defeating" in the country and the people; the other is "benevolent", such as Li Yuanhong, ", unable to settle in his position; one category of "arrogance", the representative is Sun Yat-sen, "if the power is stronger, it will be the same as the owl, and if the power is weaker, it will be the same as the benevolent and soft"; and among these three types of people, When there are owls and prey, the benevolent and the arrogant "will not be able to compete with each other."

Huang Kan once recorded Zhang Taiyan's words: "The teacher said a few days ago that the blindness of today's scholars: 1. Love novelty; 2. Rely on wisdom; 3. Rely on others; 4. Listen and trust." After Zhang Taiyan compared China and India, he believed that the Chinese suffered from six mental illnesses: shameless fraud, fear of death, greedy for profit, lazy and uneducated, rivalry for vanity, and suspicion of thieves. Zhang Taiyan tasted the cloud: "If you are a disciple of a big country master, you can only produce a master of two countries; if you are a disciple of a master of two countries, you can produce a master of a great power. Because the disciples of a master of great powers often follow the teacher's wishes and dare not think independently, so they cannot achieve great success. For example, Gu Yanwu's disciples, Those who are taller are no more than Pan Lei's generation; and the disciples of Er Guoshou, on the basis of the teacher, keep advancing, and often they can emerge from the blue. For example, under Jiang Yong's sect, there is such a student as Dai Zhen." In terms of learning, he is already higher than Naishi Zhang Taiyan, which is also one of the examples.

Zhang Taiyan insisted on promoting Chinese studies, which are the spiritual motivation when facing the challenge of the West. He said in the "Preface to the Seminar on Chinese Studies": "Scholars from the husband and country are the source of the establishment of the country. I heard that in a world of competition, only adhere to Chinese studies It is certainly not enough to establish a country. And I have never heard of a country that can stand on its own without the development of national studies." Zhang Taiyan once criticized the trend of Europeanism at that time: "Recently, there is a kind of person who is obsessed with Europeanization, who always says that the Chinese are far inferior to Westerners, so they are willing to give up, saying that China must perish and the yellow race must be exterminated, because he does not want to Knowing the strengths of China, and seeing nothing else to love, the patriotism and love for the species will be weakened day by day.” He told the overseas students at that time to promote Chinese studies: “God pays the rest with the quintessence of the Chinese nation. . . . …As for the study of China’s majestic and magnificent beauty, it is my crime to cut off its order, the country, its people, and its discipline.”

Zhang Taiyan said: "Gai Fanba's academics, such as philosophy, politics, and science, are all interlinked with others, but Chinese history is definitely the history of our Chinese nation, and there is no reason that can be interlinked with others." Zhang Taiyan's academic method is called "School on Earth", and his academic research has four words: don't use the full text to question the classics, don't use fakes to revise ancient history, don't use Jiawen to depose Xu Shu, and don't slander scholars with assumptions.