Chapter 148 Chapter 13 Masters who bully girls

On December 2, 1908, the three-year-old Puyi ascended the throne and changed the name of the country to Xuantong. Kang Youwei, who was in exile overseas, sent a congratulatory message, asking Yuan Shikai to be punished. All the censors in the country congratulate Yuan Shikai, please punish him. Among the more than a thousand civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty, only one minister, Yan Xiu, suggested not to be punished, and all the remaining ministers demanded to be punished. Empress Longyu was promoted to empress dowager, and she was always admonishing: Everyone said they want to be punished, so let's do it.

Zaifeng was promoted to be the regent. He always hated Yuan Shikai and punished him! Zhen Guogong Zaize said: "Punishment should be punished... However, according to Kang Youwei, Yuan Shikai is not easy to punish... The regent was furious: what is there to punish? Prince Qing hurriedly jumped out: It is easy to punish Yuan Shikai, but...what if Yuan Shikai is punished and the Beiyang army revolts? Prince Regent Zaifeng: Don't talk about whether to punish him or not... Has any of you seen Yuan Shikai? No one saw him.Yuan Shikai had fled at this time. Accompanied by his confidant Zhang Huaizhi, and Yang Shicong, the younger brother of Zhili Governor Yang Shixiang and the supervisor of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, Yuan Shikai personally carried a gun to protect him. Yuan Shikai disguised himself as a Shanxi coal boss and fled to Tianjin. It wasn't until he stayed in the Lide Hotel in the British Concession that he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly contacted the foreign reporter Morrison, asking Morrison for help. Yuan Shikai asked for political asylum in the UK...

Yuan Shikai was busy fleeing, and the imperial court issued a missing person notice, looking for Yuan Shikai everywhere, and repeatedly promised not to kill him... This missing person notice was first received by the former governor of Zhili, Yang Shixiang, so Yang Shixiang was in a hurry His eldest son Yang Yuying ran forward to the concession to tell Yuan Shikai the good news. When Yang Yuying ran over with a wheeze, Yuan Shikai was sitting upright, accepting an exclusive interview with foreign reporter Morrison. If you want an exclusive interview, you must have an exclusive interview. We must use the form of exclusive interviews to let the British people know that there is a Chinese reformer Yuan Shikai on the other side of the ocean. His advanced constitutional philosophy and tragic personal experience must make the British people cry bitterly...

A hundred years later, Yuan Shikai's exclusive interview is still vivid in my mind. Many of his thoughts on governing the country, when I read it now, brush away the dust of history, but still have extraordinary value: Morrison: "The management system and the people of the Qing Dynasty are essentially democratic. If the democratic process is started, it will greatly increase the possibility of the revival of the empire. What do you think of this?" Yuan Shikai: "Our internal management system must be fundamentally reformed, but this is easier said than done, because it involves completely changing or even overturning certain aspects of the current system. And this system It has been around for many centuries and many factors are deeply intertwined. As far as the state of popular support is concerned, I feel sure that if we give us time and opportunity, we can achieve reform at any rate. part of the target."

——Looking at Yuan Shikai's words, we know that his mind is very clear. He knows that the biggest difficulty facing China's political reform is the traditional customs that have been formed for thousands of years. This is actually Li Hongzhang's "unprecedented in three thousand years Changing the situation, a powerful enemy unseen in three thousand years" theory. Morrison: "What needs reform most?" Yuan Shikai: "Fiscal system, currency circulation system, and legal structure. Only when these things are done well can the Qing Dynasty truly sort out the country's normal economic and political life. Any one of these three reforms is closely related to the other two. inseparable dependencies."

——Analyzing this text, we must mention at least two characters, one is the poet Xu Zhimo, and the other is the master of Chinese studies Jin Yuelin. During the period of the Republic of China, poets Xu Zhimo and Jin Yuelin studied in Germany. At that time, Xu Zhimo was pursuing the saint Lin Huiyin in his heart, but his first wife Zhang Youyi cried and refused to divorce, and Zhang Youyi happened to be pregnant. Xu Zhimo ordered his wife coldly: Immediately go and kill the child. Zhang Youyi begged: I heard that abortion will kill people. The poet's answer is: people will die if you take the train. Are you going to stop taking the train for the rest of your life?

No matter how persecuted by Ren Xu Zhimo, Zhang Youyi refused to obey.Xu Zhimo couldn't figure out what to do, so he went to a restaurant to treat guests, and asked everyone to help him figure out how to get rid of Zhang Youyi. Those who participated in this dinner were all future masters of Chinese studies, including Chen Yinke, Fu Sinian, Yu Dawei, Luo Jialun, Tong Guanxian, and Mao Zishui... In short, many masters of Chinese studies gathered together to discuss how to help Xu Zhimo get rid of him. Zhang Youyi. So many Chinese masters bullied a girl... Alas, young Meng Lang! What's even more irritating is that the masters of Chinese studies tricked Zhang Youyi into paying them for the meal. While eating Zhang Youyi, the masters plotted against this girl. Someone suddenly remembered that Jin Yuelin was single and had no wife, so he suggested Let Jin Yuelin take over Zhang Youyi, let the two of them form a couple, and free up Xu Zhimo to chase Lin Huiyin. After hearing this, everyone applauded.

The masters were only applauding, but they didn't expect that Jin Yuelin was eating in the adjacent private room. Hearing what these guys were thinking about, Jin Yuelin came over and yelled. The masters were shocked and fled... Now we are talking about the academic contributions of Jin Yuelin, a master of Chinese studies. After China’s reform and opening up, the master Jin Yuelin once introduced one of his academic thoughts. He believes that the reason why China’s feudal regime has remained unchanged for thousands of years is because of the country’s political, economic and The three cultures form a triangular relationship that restricts each other. If you want to reform politics, the economy and culture will restrict you. If you want to develop the economy, you will be restricted by politics and culture. A little innovation, politics and economics will limit you again...

It was already in the 1970s when Jin Yuelin proposed this idea. Now let us look at Yuan Shikai’s words. As early as the late Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai discovered that China’s financial system, currency circulation system and laws are mutually restrictive.If you want to change the fiscal system of the Qing Dynasty, the currency circulation system and the old laws restrict you. If you want to change the currency circulation system, the fiscal system and the old laws will make you achieve nothing. You are at a loss... It is quite normal for a master of Chinese studies to come up with an academic idea, but Yuan Shikai has not read a few books, but he also came up with an academic idea, which makes us have to look at Yuan Shikai again.

Yuan Shikai's exclusive interview is worth more than several academic monographs of the master.