Chapter 12 Responding to Customer Difficulties (December 23, 1899)

Ren Gong said: "Zi is not an ancestor who described the Spring and Autumn Period as a righteous war. Is Mo Zi not an attacking scholar?"Today's words are so different.Ren Gong said: There is cosmopolitanism and nationalism. Those who do not fight righteously and do not attack are also cosmopolitan; those who fight against the enemy are also nationalistic.Cosmopolitanism belongs to ideals, nationalism belongs to facts; cosmopolitanism belongs to the future, and nationalism belongs to the present.Today's China is in dire straits, and this is not the time for our generation to talk about the future and ideals.Therefore, sitting in front of me and talking about the crime of harming the country, I dare not resign; if I say that my thinking has regressed today, I dare not resign.Thank you very much.

To suppress the nationalism of the Chinese, we can call it cosmopolitanism.Why?In today's world, there is nothing greater than the rise and fall of China's strength, and the biggest problem that the great politicians of all countries in the world have to deal with is the issue of China.Therefore, the issue of China is nothing more than a problem of the world; the Chinese people talk about nationalism, which is nothing more than talking about cosmopolitanism.However, my thinking today is by no means retrogressive.Thank you very much. The only thing to worry about is that there is a big difference between what I mean by soldiers and what Ronglu and Zhang Zhidong say about soldiers.What he said was the art of war of the rebels of the people; what I said was the soldiers of the people.The soldiers of the common people are enough to subjugate the country, and the soldiers of the people are enough to rejuvenate the country.I especially say that the soldiers who rejuvenate the country cannot do nothing. If you are the soldiers who subjugate the country, then my evil will be the same as before. There is no contradiction with what I said a few years ago.Thank you very much.