Chapter 30 Chapter 10 Politics Makes Literature Simple

According to Mr. Liu Yazi's self-report, when he was a boy, the person he admired the most was the character Jia Baoyu in the movie, and he himself used Jia Baoyu as a model everywhere, and he went to wherever there were many girls.Therefore, Mr. Liu Yazi created Pan Xiaohuang, a woman from Songling out of thin air, to awaken the masses, but this revolutionary style is also most suitable for him. At the age of twelve, Liu Yazi had a new idol to worship, and he no longer used Jia Baoyu as a template to plan his life. At the age of twelve, Liu Yazi began to worship Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao.

This is because Kang Youwei has a different style from Su Manshu, Chen Duxiu, and others. Whether it is Su Manshu or Chen Duxiu, they all follow the route of "using novels to oppose the imperial court". . Kang Youwei, who is known as the sage of the South China Sea, is outspoken in discussing politics, unlike Su Manshu and Chen Duxiu who are secretive, and not like Zhou Yucai who has the ability to make simple things extremely complicated. The poem written by the Volunteer Army has been debated by historians for a hundred years. What does this sentence mean? "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood", how to recommend?

Literature complicates politics, and politics simplifies literature. This was the case at that time. While Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were making a public letter, calling on the imperial court to immediately promote political reform and implement reforms, they were translating the Japanese novel "The Adventures of a Beautiful Woman", hoping to awaken the Chinese people from their slumber with oriental beauties... Be it Lu Xun, Su Manshu, Chen Duxiu, or Liang Qichao, why are they all rushing to translate novels?How come no one translates science or philosophy? This matter... Wei Yuan created "Pictures of the Sea Country", and clearly put forward the idea of ​​learning from the barbarian's skills to control the barbarian. Millions of volumes.Basically, as long as the Japanese are literate, they have read this book.

However, this book sold very badly in the Qing Dynasty. Several bookstores resolutely published it successively, but readers refused to buy it. So in the end, everyone had to translate novels, such as Lin Shu, whose retranslation of the famous French novel "La Traviata in Paris" was published, and caused a sensation all over the country. In short, the mentality of the people of the Qing Dynasty is that first, they love to watch love stories, and second, they hope that a saint will come out and take care of everything for them. Therefore, it is reasonable for Kang Shengren to be born out of nowhere.

Yuan Shikai was naturally indispensable to this excitement. According to the records in "The Disciples of Rong'an", when Yuan Shikai first saw Kang Youwei, he extended his hand to greet Kang Youwei affectionately, and called him "big brother..." Kang Youwei kept muttering in his heart, wondering when his mother would come back again. I gave birth to such a big brother... Then Yuan Shikai rushed forward, touched Liang Qichao's head affectionately, and said: "Young man is not bad, do a good job... I love his youth and handsomeness, and he is a genius." Since Yuan Shikai met Kang Youwei and called him Big Brother familiarly, this only shows one thing:

Nanhai Kangsheng has come to the capital. Kang Youwei, with little ambition, was smart, eager to learn, diligent in thinking, ambitious, and had a high self-esteem. "A man who thinks he is a sage laughs with joy, but suddenly thinks about the hardships of the common people and then cries in boredom." "Since the people's livelihood is difficult, God and I can save it with wisdom. It is mourning the world and governing the world"... In short, it is the earth If you leave him, you won't turn around anymore, which means that China is finished if you leave him. The saint has come, and the Chinese finally have hope.