Chapter 160 big reward

Liang Qichao won the examination at the age of 17. Li Duanfen, the chief examiner at the time, believed that Liang Qichao was "unrivaled in the country", so he broke the concept of family status and betrothed his cousin Li Huixian to Liang Qichao as his wife. Li Duanfen asked Wang Renkan, the deputy examiner, to be a matchmaker, and betrothed his cousin to Liang Qichao.Liang Qichao's father, Liang Lianjian, refused with the words Qi Dafei from Hansu's family, expressing that he did not dare to climb high.Li Duanfen then sent someone to tell Liang Lianjian: "I know that Qichao is a lowly scholar, but this son is not a man in the pond. He is so prosperous that he is pointing directly at Gu Jian. I just look for talents, and don't use the rich and the poor to intervene. And I know that my younger brother is solid. Those who understand righteousness, dare to propose marriage for them. Don't refuse!"

It is said that Wang Renkan, the deputy examiner at the time, also wanted to marry, but because Li Duanfen spoke first, he gave up.According to Liang Qixun's "Manshushi Wuchen Notes": "In the fifteenth year of Guangxu's reign, he was ugly and seventeen years old. He was held in the township and ranked eighth. At that time, the main seat of the test was Li Yuan, Guizhou, and the deputy seat was Fujian Wang Ke. Zhuang. When the list was published, Li asked the king to be a matchmaker, and named his younger sister uncle. At the same time, Wang also had this intention, and Gai Wang had a son-in-law who was waiting for the letter. But when Li spoke first, he looked at each other and smiled."

After the Reform Movement of 1898 failed, Li Duanfen donated 200 taels of gold to Liang Qichao to help Liang found Qing Yi Bao in Yokohama, Japan. Huang Zunxian appreciated Liang Qichao and did not regard Liang as his descendant. He once compiled a collection of poems and essays, and asked Liang Qichao to review them.After reading it carefully, Liang Qichao said to Huang: "Mr.'s poems seem to be better than essays. Please praise the former and suppress the latter." Liang Qichao, who had just passed the age of weak crown, was invited by Chen Baozhen, Chen Sanli, Huang Zunxian and others of the Hunan Governor to serve as the head teacher of Hunan Current Affairs School.According to Chen Yinke's later recollection, Huang Zunxian originally planned to invite Kang Nanhai to be the chief teacher, but Chen Sanli thought that Qi Chao's knowledge seemed to be superior to that of his teacher, so he decided to invite Liang Rengong.

When Zhang Zhidong, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was in Hankou, he inspected Liang Qichao's knowledge.Zhang Zhidong published the first couplet and said: "The Sishui River is the first, and the Four Seasons Summer is the second. The old man lives in Jiangxia. Who is the first and who is the second." one person.Liang Qichao thought for a moment, and said to him: "Confucianism of the three religions comes first, people with three talents come after, and Confucians who are born with a small education, how dare they come first, how dare they come behind." Before the reform of Wushu, Liang Qi visited Zhang Zhidong when he passed Wuchang.Zhang ordered people to open the middle door and Nuan Pavilion to welcome Liang, and asked the inspector, "Can you fire the cannon?" The inspector told Zhang that Liang Qichao was only a candidate, and according to the imperial order, only imperial envoys and governors could open the middle door and fire the cannon meet.Zhang Zhidong didn't mention firing the cannon, and welcomed Liang into the city with generous gifts.It happened that Zhang's daughter was getting married that day, so Zhang ignored all the guests and talked with Liang until the second watch.

Liang Qichao and Tan Sitong became friends.After the Reform Movement of 1898 failed, Tan Sitong personally sent Liang to the Japanese embassy for refuge. Since he did not understand Japanese, he had to talk with the Japanese in writing.Tan Sitong wrote: "Mr. Liang is very useful, please protect him." Tan still misses Liang in prison.The two Kunluns in his poem "I smile to the sky from the side of my sword, and leave the two Kunluns with my heart and gallbladder" refer to Liang Qichao and himself.And Liang Qichao was extremely saddened by the death of his best friend Tan Sitong. In his later years, Liang Qichao also wrote "Tan Sitong Biography" to commemorate his friend.

The reform made Liang Qichao famous all over the world. At that time, foreign countries believed that "Liang Qichao is a rare noble man in China, and a scholar-bureaucrat who is enthusiastic about planning the fundamental reform of the Beijing government."After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Ito Hirobumi said to the Japanese Minister to China Hayashi Quansuke: "This young man surnamed Liang is an extraordinary guy! He is really an admirable guy...Save him and let him escape to Japan! When I arrived in Japan, I helped him. This young man Liang is a precious soul to China!" Afterwards, during his exile in Japan, Europe and the United States, Liang Qichao was often received as China's new political and cultural leader.

Defu Sufeng is called "the voice of the nation" by the Japanese people, and Liang Qichao is called "China's Tokufu Sufeng".When Tokutomi Su Feng saw Liang Qichao in Beijing, he said again and again: "How dare you, how dare you! You should call me 'Liang Qichao of Japan'!" When Liang Qichao gave a speech, Zhang Ji and others attempted to beat Liang. Liang explained to the Japanese that the dispute was "a dispute between puppets in this meeting, and it was neither attacking by another party nor destroying things and beating people."Japanese celebrities praised him for his "political virtue".

During Liang Qichao's more than ten years of exile overseas, Yang Du, who was in the fourth rank of the official residence at that time, had been running around for Liang's legal return to China.It took only one night for Yang to write the memorial that he was willing to risk the world's disgrace: "Records from Liang Qichao for the Memorial".After Liang Qichao learned of this, he wept behind closed doors, and his tears wet the manuscript.During the movement to protect the country, when someone asked Liang Qichao whether he should take Yang Duji to justice, Liang Qichao remembered the old friendship and instructed his subordinates to do things sloppily.

Yuan Shikai admired Zhang Taiyan and Liang Qichao the most, and he was most afraid of the brushes in their hands. He said that the strength of these two brushes was as powerful as several divisions of the army.After Yuan came to power, he spared no effort to win over Zhang and Liang. Wei Tiesan once collected ancient poems as a couplet and praised Liang Qichao's erudite talents: "Store ten thousand volumes of books in his belly (Liu Changqing's poem), and watched sheep at sea for nineteen years (Huang Tingjian's poem)." Chen Shutong admired Liang Qichao, and praised Liang in poems such as "There are extraordinary scales in the pool" and "Pearls are as precious as the world after all".

On Liang Qichao's fiftieth birthday, Lord Luo Ying wrote a birthday couplet to celebrate his birthday, saying: "every time it is an extraordinary event in the world, there are few people in the world who have not read the book."