Chapter 9 Reasons for the coup d'état (January 12, 1899)

The saying goes: loyal ministers go to the country, and their names are unclean.A man commits himself to his country, but cannot carry out his aspirations, and even suffers a crushing defeat, drifting away from home, but he should keep his mouth shut and allow the world to kill, humiliate, laugh at, and scold him. Confession, is this what a man did?Although the matter is about the life of the emperor and the state of the whole country, it is impossible to remain silent. The commentator said: It goes without saying that China should reform, but this time, the reform should not be too frivolous, and if it is lost in a hurry, is it to worry about self-improvement?The debate said: China should be reformed, and it will be here in thirty years, but what is the reason for not seeing the effect of the reform, but only increasing its disadvantages?In all reforms, the old must be eliminated and the new must be established. The two must be equal in force, and then they will be effective.If we do not do away with the old and introduce the new, we will inevitably transfer all the evils of the old government to the new government, and the new government will increase its harm.As in the case of a sick person, the prescription for accumulating lumps is stuffed between the chest and abdomen. On the one hand, it must be given a purging agent to remove the accumulated lumps, and on the other hand, it must be given a warming and tonic agent to cultivate its vitality.If the disease is not attacked, but Shenling is used as daily bait, then Shenling can be used as a medium for increasing the disease, and the death of the person should be quicker.After Tongzhi in our country, the so-called reformers, such as military training, mining, and trade, negotiations with the General Administration of Embassies, education with Tongwen dialect centers and various Chinese and Western schools, are all so-called reformers by the people of the past.The husband talks about it in terms of military training. If generals don't come out of school, can they know soldiers?There is no limit to the selection of soldiers, random recruitment, half of the beggars, no one knows whether they are strong or not, regardless of whether they can read or not, can they use their lives?The general's salary is extremely thin, the soldier's salary is extremely small, and the military rank is extremely low. The scholars are ashamed to serve in the army, but the scoundrels accept their poverty. Can Nengjie die?Graphics is not good, Ersei doesn't know, can he win?Ships and machinery cannot be self-made, but relying on others, can it be as good as one's ambition?The navy does not travel to other countries, and the general does not learn from the wind and waves. Once facing the enemy, can he make any contribution?There is no police, the household registration is meaningless, and the soldiers trained will flee every day, so is it useful?If so, then training is like not training.And those who also use foreign generals to lead and train are authorized to foreigners. The country spends a lot of money every year to raise soldiers for others to eat themselves; Frontier quarrels, otherwise they will only harass Lu Yan, they cannot defend the country, but they can tire the people; if ships are purchased and placed in foreign countries, then officials and merchants will use it to enrich themselves and spend a lot of money to get goods.In terms of mining, it is not credible that the mining school is not prosperous, the mine masters are scarce, and the westerners are hired with a lot of money. Is it possible to make the most of the land?If the machine is not prepared, and the composition is not refined, can there be no waste materials?The road is impassable, and the freight from the mine to Haikou may be several times the original price. Is it beneficial?If so, mine, if not.Moreover, Westerners take over the contract, all countries coerce, lose all the land, and give it to others; otherwise, profiteers will run amok, corrupt officials will collude, and the provincial mining bureaus will only use the backup personnel for dry repairs, which is a waste of national funds.In terms of trade and business, if you don't talk about planning and learning, if you don't understand the principles of business and politics, can you keep rich?The craftsmanship is not popular, the manufacturing is not good, and there are very few local goods sales markets, can they compete for profit?The roads are blocked and the shipping costs are heavy. Can it be widely sold?Lika is all over the ground, and Yile stays there. It is like a tiger and a wolf. Can you persuade business?Consuls do not inspect foreign businesses, and the state does not protect overseas Chinese and merchants. How can they stand on their own?If so, trade is not possible.Moreover, the daily import of foreign products and the daily export of domestic currency, the pond is exhausted, and the people have no species.In terms of negotiation, there are more than a dozen old men in the prime minister's yamen, who sit grandly every day, and don't know the name of a foreign country. Regardless of international or domestic treaties, they don't know it. Regardless of public law, ministers, consuls and other officials of various countries are all obtained through competition. Without education, ministers have nothing else to do except presenting letters of credence, and consular attachés have nothing to do except to visit and eat.If so, there are diplomats; if there are no diplomats.Moreover, if the embassy and others are in foreign countries, they may be evil and rascal, or be stingy and shameless. It is better to have diplomats than to have no diplomats.In terms of education, but teaching dialects for translation, not teaching politics, not learning art, can it cultivate talents?The imperial examination remains the same, the career path does not leave the scholar's family, and the bright children are ashamed to go to school, can they get high talents?If so, there is a school, if there is no school.Moreover, in the school, there is no moral education, no patriotism, so there are disciples in the school, but they will no longer know their own country after being exposed to the evil wind of Ou Xixia and others. With the foundation of the country, it is better to have a school than to have no school.

All these and the like can be cited randomly, and they have disadvantages and are invalid, which is the case.From the rest of the ends, there is nothing better than this.However, the previous so-called reformers and so-called moderates have already achieved results.All these things are the ones that the famous ministers Zeng Guofan, Wen Xiang, Shen Baozhen, Li Hongzhang, and Zhang Zhidong have tried their best to achieve in the past thirty years, but their effect is like this.However, if we keep the basics unchanged, don't change the customs, don't fix the scale, don't take care of the overall situation, but still change the branches of the previous ones, even though many governors in each province are as talented as Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong If you assume that there is nothing to do in ten years, if you listen to it, if Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong did what they did, it will save China's weakness and perish a little bit.I know it must not be possible.Why?The foundation of a country is very complex, so the body of politics is also very complicated. There are roots in the branches, and there are general roots in the roots. They are the causes of each other and the results of each other.Therefore, if one wants to change A, he must first change B; and if he wants to change B, he must first change C. If this is the case, it will lead to infinity, but if all of them do not work together and work together, they will not be able to achieve merit, but will increase in vain. Its disadvantages.For example, there is a thousand-year-old house, the tiles are destroyed, the sills collapse, and it will collapse, and the people in the room are either snoring and snoring, and don't see anything; , in order to hope for support: Although the two have different intentions, when the wind and rain come, the house will collapse, and people will die together.Those who are snoring and sleeping are the same as the Manchurians; those who make up the gaps are the likes of Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong.The proverb says that if the leakage of the room is repaired, the more it is repaired, the more it will leak; the more it is tied, the more it will be broken.If you know the so-called moderate reformers in the world, you should be like Li and Zhang Yi. Haven't you seen Li Hongzhang training the navy's foreign exercises, and the naval academy and medical school he set up?Haven’t you seen Zhang Zhidong’s practical school, self-improvement school, iron political situation, and self-improvement army?Li Yi changed like this in thirty years, and Zhang Yi changed like this in fifteen years. Then let Li and Zhang change for another fifteen years, so that those like Li and Zhang will show their gentle methods and arrange them calmly. In ten years, there are only a few foreign exercises in such schools.Once something happens, it will be just like the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1985, when the wind and the wind collapse, and the country will perish, can it be saved a little?If it cannot save the nation, how is it different from not reforming?Husband thinks that Li and Zhang are as talented as he is, Li and Zhang have hope as he is, Li and Zhang see trust and bear power as he does, when Li and Zhang encounter nothing, they calmly arrange them for more than ten years, the so-called reformers are only in this way.What's more, in China and North Korea, they are conservative, mediocre and prospering, who use their qualifications to serve as high-ranking officials, and use bribes to get good jobs. Among the ministers, the income is as much as that of Li and Zhang?However, the pressure of foreign aggression varies from month to month and year to year, and who has more than ten years of calm time?However, there is no other way than to wait for death, and I don't know why the so-called moderates should treat them.The so-called impetuous people in the world, don't they take advantage of doubts and fears, and complain and slander, which are self-inflicted by the reformers?The saying goes: "The reason for the extreme, the people of the Li people are afraid." It is also said: "All the people can succeed, but it is difficult to worry about it." There are things in the world, and it is natural for him to be surprised when he sees the reform.What the former Li Hongzhang did was nothing more than the skin and skin of the Westerners, and he still bears the heavy slander of the world. Moreover, the official position is far below Li Hongzhang, and the reforms he wants to reform are more important than what Li Hongzhang has done. double?

If you don't get rid of the bad, you can't introduce the new, as I said before, but the thing of getting rid of the old bad is the most likely to offend the public's taboo and anger, so those who keep their position and cherish their reputation are always unwilling to do it.Let's not talk about other things now, just like the disadvantages of stereotyped taking scholars and blocking talents, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong don't know about it, why don't they feel sad and hate it.Zhang Zhidong often told Yu that the abolition of stereotyped writing was the first thing to do in the reform, and those who did not hear of his superiors asking for it to be abolished would probably touch hundreds of Hanlin, thousands of Jinshi, tens of thousands of candidates, hundreds of thousands of scholars, Millions of children are angry, fearing that they will join forces to slander themselves and crowd out themselves.Today's so-called patriots, if their actions are beneficial to the country, even if they ruin their own bodies and their own names, they should still do it.Now that you call yourself patriotic, you also love your body and your name again. When the three cannot be combined, you will abandon the country and love your body and name; when you cannot have both, you will give up your name and love your body. The so-called gentle people in the world are just like that, just like that!Yoshida Shoin said: "Wait and see and be prudent. Those who claim to be righteous can be found everywhere. The worst policy is how to break the situation lightly and quickly, and then Xu occupy the ground and lay stones to do it?" Woohoo!The so-called gentle person in the world is not seen or eliminated from Mr. Shoyin's Hill.That is to say, in terms of Japan, He Yifei, a vassal at the end of the Shogunate period, was an impetuous person, and Shoin and Nanzhou were especially impetuous giants.How can Japan be restored without such impatience?When you have been playing with accumulated disadvantages for a long time, how can you wake them up and rescue them without the means of thunderbolt and thunderbolt.Let alone Japan, let alone China's long-standing evils today are deeper than Japan's at the end of the Tokugawa period, and foreign troubles and internal troubles are urgent, and Japan's dramas are almost a hundred times more important!Today's so-called moderates still want to use the cause of reformation, and look forward to the elders of Jingyi and Ando.Therefore, Mr. Kang said in the emperor's book: "If you can't keep the old, you must change the law; if you can't change slowly, you must change quickly; if you don't make small changes, you must change completely." People are the same as those who do not change." Therefore, Mr. Chen Zhangzou, who coordinates the overall situation, whoever is on the 6th or 7th, the main point is to make an oath to the Taimiao to warn the officials, and to open a system bureau to determine the scale, and set up twelve bureaus In order to govern the New Deal, establish the Bureau of Civil Affairs and local self-government; others such as moving the capital, establishing schools, changing tax laws, cutting lijin, changing laws and regulations, increasing salaries, sending tours, sending study tours, setting up police, training rural soldiers, selecting generals, setting up a staff department, Running the navy, running Tibet, and Xinjiang are all things that should be done at the same time.And my majesty is well aware of this, because he has no power and cannot act hastily, so he repeatedly referred Mr. Zhang to the meeting of the General Administration of Military Aircraft, and severely reprimanded him for not being able to prevaricate with empty words. It is also decided by discussion.There is no such thing as an old and conservative minister, who has been reprimanded repeatedly but does not respond; there is a queen who seizes power and is suspicious, and asks for orders but fails.Therefore, none of the reforms that the emperor and Mr. Kang wanted to achieve were possible.If not, then within three months, the old malpractices should have been rectified, the new policies should have been fully implemented, the scale of the institutional bureau should have been prepared, the rules of the twelve bureaus should have been detailed, the laws and regulations should have been changed, and the huge salary should be paid. When preparations have been made, the police should have been set up, the militia should have been trained, the southern capital should have been moved, the general staff should have been established, and the overall situation should be raised, and the world should be in awe.Now because of the lack of power, everything he did was not his original intention. The emperor and Mr. Kang feel guilty every day for being too gentle, but the world blames them with urgency. How contrary!Sigh!It has been a long time since outsiders have been able to understand the twists and turns and difficulties of those in the game.With Tan Sitong's loyalty, bravery and enlightenment, when he was conscripted into the capital at the beginning, he said that the emperor had no power, but he still didn't believe it.And on July 27, the emperor wanted to open the Maoqin Hall, set up an advisor, and ordered Tan to check the completed records of the previous dynasties, and he would invite them to the West Empress accordingly.As a result, Tan Nai suddenly understood the emperor's difficulties, and knew that the reforms in the past few months were not enough to satisfy the emperor's wish.This is the case with Tan Sitong, not to mention others!The husband thinks that the emperor and Mr. Kang are in the most difficult situation, but the difficulties are not shared by the world, so there is no need to hurt them.And I am especially afraid that from now on, the people of our country will not judge the overall situation, and only talk about success or failure, and say that it is the fault of impatience, and it is also a lesson from impatience. .The above ones are in the mending room, with quail clothes, branches and branches, fearful of the head and the tail, and think they are gentle.And our country will never rise again, and our 400 million compatriots are slaves, and there is no way to save them.This is a great worry, so we can't help but argue.