Chapter 25 Twenty-five, micro-communication

Old news: During the period of the Republic of China, Zhao Guotai, the magistrate of Batang County, in order to serve his hometown and establish education, he also served as a primary school teacher in addition to official duties, teaching Chinese to students. Mystery: The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious mystery in European academic circles, the text on the manuscript is weird and bizarre, and the patterns are mysterious and unpredictable.Numerous experts have studied it, and one expert deciphered it and said: This manuscript is left by alien intelligent life from the Andromeda Nebula, and it may be a love letter from aliens...

Intervention: During World War II, Gandhi went on a hunger strike and was about to starve to death.Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly ordered Song Meiling to find the Americans and put pressure on Britain.The British Governor in India said angrily: It is Gandhi himself who wants to starve himself to death, so what does it matter to me?And lodged a strong protest to Chinese Foreign Minister Song Ziwen against China's interference.Soong Ziwen said perfunctorily: Soong Meiling is a lady, she is more emotional... Xenophobia: There was a cartoon in the Qing Dynasty called "Turtle Boy Carrying a Beauty".After the Boxer Rebellion, American President Roosevelt sent his daughter Alice to China. The Chinese people strongly protested and drew this cartoon, expressing that whoever dares to lift Alice will be a tortoise.However, the Empress Dowager Cixi was friendly to Alice and entrusted her to bring a portrait of herself to Roosevelt.Afterwards, Roosevelt advocated returning the Boxer indemnity, and the returned money was used to set up a school—now Tsinghua University.

Diplomacy: In the late Qing Dynasty, when Mexico was anti-Chinese, the diplomat Wu Tingfang was furious and declared war on Mexico on the spot. Mexico had to cancel the Chinese Exclusion Act.Not long after, Mexico discovered that the Qing Dynasty had not moved, and started anti-Chinese again, and Cuba also followed suit. It happened that a giant ship of the Qing Dynasty was wandering in the sea, so it rushed over, scaring both Mexico and Cuba to admit defeat-the reason for these diplomacy The reason for the success is that Wu Tingfang did not notify the Qing government at all, otherwise the diplomacy would inevitably fail.

Leaks: On the eve of the Gulf War, the New York Times revealed the war plan, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered an investigation, but the newspaper was not held accountable.Probably because U.S. law believes that citizens are not qualified to disclose secrets, and only staff responsible for managing secrets need to bear the responsibility for this.This kind of legal awareness has led to the United States becoming a big country of leaking secrets, and state secrets are published at will. Integrity: The Hong Kong police in the 20th century are the most enviable. The internal anti-corruption department disclosed that there are 1 billion Hong Kong dollars of corruption every year. HSBC is so envious.As a result, Hong Kong people took to the streets to demand anti-corruption. The deputy attorney general, Bai Liqu, published an article saying: Unless the anti-corruption department set up within the organization can be separated from the organization, anti-corruption will definitely be impossible...Let the corrupt criminals supervise themselves , just to tease the public, so the ICAC was established.

In the late Qing Dynasty, from 1861 to 1888, the imperial court spent 100 million taels of silver on the preparation of the navy, and the annual investment accounted for 4% to 10% of the fiscal year. It was absolutely crazy military expansion.Japan also desperately pursued it. From 1868 to 1894, the navy invested 60 million taels of silver, accounting for only 60% of the Qing Dynasty. But in the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty was defeated. Why?Because Japan pays equal attention to software and hardware, while investing money, it accepts new Western-style ideas. The Qing Dynasty spends money to protect the old brain, and it deserves to lose.

Qi Rushan, an opera writer, recalled: During the Boxer Rebellion, the bannermen and eunuchs hated Li Hongzhang the most, called Li Hongzhang a traitor, and wanted to trick Li Hongzhang to Beijing to kill him.When the Eight-Power Allied Forces came, the bannermen and eunuchs hated Li Hongzhang even more, hated Li Hongzhang for coming too slowly, and hoped that he would quickly negotiate peace with foreigners and save his life... The real traitors are those who call others traitors. , It is also unclear.When he is in power, he fights frantically, and when he loses power, he is terrified. In the early 1980s, Hu Sheng, the president of the Academy of Social Sciences, led a team to the United States and met Yu Yingshi.Hu Sheng said: We oppose Hu Shi politically, but respect him academically.Yu Yingshi laughed and said, this is exactly the opposite of overseas views.Hu Shi's academic research has been surpassed by later generations, because the waves behind push forward the waves ahead.However, Hu Shi's political views have never been implemented in China since the "May 4th Movement", so they are still fresh and not outdated.

Liang Qichao, the eldest son, architect Liang Sicheng, and the second son, archaeologist Liang Siyong, but their academic achievements are not valued by the world.Liang Sicheng was depressed. He wrote to his father in 1927, asking what was the use of these things.Liang Qichao said: This question is easy to answer. For example, in the era of Li Bai and Du Fu, there were no politicians at that time, and it did not affect history at all. But if there were no poems by Li Bai and Du Fu, Chinese history would suddenly be eclipsed. During the period of the Republic of China, both Hu Shi and Qian Mu taught at Peking University. Qian Mu talked about various schools of thought, while Hu Shi talked about pre-Qin philosophy.Countless students and the professor's wife listened to Hu Shi's class in the morning and Qian Mu's class in the afternoon.There were also students who strongly demanded that Hu Shi and Qian Mu be on stage at the same time, but Hu Shi and Qian Mu didn't dare, for fear that the fight would not end well... This is an academic debate, but we are unfamiliar with it.

The Chronicle of Chiang Kai-shek contains: The Northern Expedition Army captured many officers of Sun Chuanfang, so Chiang Kai-shek addressed the captives, saying: We have a regiment leader, Jin, who was captured by Sun Chuanfang.I thought that Sun Chuanfang would definitely not kill him, and would exchange you with Captain Jin.But Sun Chuanfang didn't care about your life or death, and actually killed Captain Jin.In Sun Chuanfang's eyes, your lives are worthless. Are you still willing to sacrifice your lives for him... It turns out that Lao Jiang also engages in political propaganda.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Ye Chengzhong was from a poor family. At the age of 14, he rowed a boat for others in Shanghai. When he was 17 years old, there was a Fan Lao (dialect, collectively referred to as European and American whites) on his boat. When he got off the boat, he dropped a bag full of banknotes and checks.Ye Chengzhong waited with his wallet in his arms. Fan Lao found it and asked him: Do you want to get rich?The answer is yes.Fan Lao said: If you want to, learn a foreign language first, if you don't know a foreign language, you will make a lot of money.So Ye Chengzhi studied foreign languages ​​hard, specialized in trading with foreigners, and became rich and successful... Morality, knowledge plus opportunities, changed destiny.

I also told a story today, which is Xiong Xianghui's memory.It is said that British Montgomery visited China, and the Chinese side arranged for him to watch it.As a result, Montgomery became anxious and said that women cannot be marshals.But I guess what Montgomery meant was that women shouldn't go to war.War is to protect the homeland, protect women and children, you started a war, the men squatted at home silently, and let twelve widows go to conquer the west, this... Isn't this a bit too thick-skinned? Let's talk about 1799. Two people died in this year.One is Emperor Qianlong of China, and the other is Washington of the United States.Both of them are famous in history.Washington, the United States, achieved the domestication of the rulers through the constitutional system and the representative system, and locked power in a cage, thus becoming a great man in the world.What about Emperor Qianlong of China?He spent 60 years implementing the Baojia system in China, prohibiting people from moving freely, and putting people in cages.

Mr. Yu Yunguo said: In the past, historical theory emphasized that history is progress and the future is bright.This leads people to blindly optimistic one-way thinking about the historical process, which is not in line with the thinking method of reverse thinking, and will also relax their vigilance against possible historical countercurrents, weakening people's selectivity in historical participation.I said to Mr. Chen Yinke that fifty years have been like the turning of the wheel, and I seem to have a sympathetic understanding for those who agree with the so-called degeneration theory. A friend said that Hayek's book is so difficult to read.This is because, the surface layer of his book is philosophy, which goes around east and west, but the base is a simple mathematical model.The model is the two sides of the game, and the consideration of interests leads to the reversal of the result.Then Hayek put a point of view on the model, put a point of view, got an opposite result, and refuted this point of view.So as long as you list his bibliography and list a few points in each section, you will understand everything. Objectivity: Do we need an objective attitude when we talk about things and problems?Philosopher of Science Mike Comas said: Any theory must start from an unprovable hypothesis, that is to say, the starting point of all theories is subjective, and it can never be objective.At best, a few scientific theories are infinitely close to objective.We can't be more objective, as long as we can be less subjective than others, then we have a better chance of winning.