Chapter 96 Morality - civil servants have three hands, military officers have four feet

Before the Sino-Japanese War, China and Japan competed in Korea.As the suzerain of Korea, China did not take appropriate measures in terms of protection, which allowed Japan to make progress. The Qing army retreated from Korea to Liaodong, and suffered repeated defeats. Xu Dachun's "Tao Love Poems" said: "Students are the worst, and reading modern literature is as rotten as mud."The country was originally a strategy for talent, but it turned into a trick for deceiving others.Three sentences continue the topic, two sentences break the topic, and shake your head. You are the disciple of the Holy Gate. You can know what kind of article the three links and the four links are. The Han ancestor Tang Zong was the emperor of that dynasty?Put high-end sermons on the table, buy new sharp tools in the store, read with shoulders up and down, quarreling, chewing bagasse, what's the taste?Live up to the time, passed out in vain.Even if he is taught to deceive high-ranking officials, it is only a bad luck for the common people and the court!

The Reform Reform failed, and Yuan Shikai was appreciated by Cixi by means of double-dealing, and he was promoted and made a fortune.At that time, there was a folk proverb in the society, which said: "Six gentlemen, the head is given away, Yuan Xiangcheng, Dingzihong. Selling the party, inviting extraordinary achievements, Kang and Liang, in the dream, I don’t know him, they are heroes." At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were jingles circulating in the capital: prescriptions from the Taiyuan Hospital, articles from the Imperial Academy, memorials from the Metropolitan Police Academy, tea soup from Guanglu Temple, swords and guns from Luanyiwei, and women from Jinyuchi.It is useless to ridicule them.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, countless Chinese people have been tricked and abducted overseas to work as coolies. These people are called "pigboys", just like today's smugglers.At that time, when the children of Fujian and Guangdong people reached the age of 16, their fathers and brothers were specially ordered under martial law: "Be vigilant when you walk, and be careful not to be abducted by others to sell piglets!" The first judgment must be: "Hmph! I was kidnapped to sell piglets again!" In the late Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai, Zhang Zhidong, and Cen Chunxuan were the most powerful officials in the frontier. Chen Kuilong said: "At that time, it was said that Nanpi slaughtered wealth, Xiangcheng slaughtered people, and Xilin slaughtered officials. The name of the three slaughters has been spread several times in China and abroad. It is also said that Nanpi has knowledge but no skill, Xiangcheng has skill but no skill, Xilin has no knowledge but no skill.”

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of Xuantong, there was a popular song "Cross Qing Dynasty". The rumor said: "The Qing Dynasty was ordered by heaven, and it died after ten generations." The Qing Dynasty went from Shunzhi to Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi From Guangxu to Xuantong, it is indeed ten biography.There is also a ballad about Xuantong dismantling characters: "The three virtues are proclaimed daily, and the three traditions are counted in the calendar." Xie Yun: "The two characters of Xuantong all coincide with three numbers, and the character Tong is also a kind of categorical character. Is it true that Qing Zuo is as far as Xuantong?" Xuantong died in three years.

The Republic of China replaced the dynasty, which seemed to open a new page in Chinese history, but social chaos and political corruption did not decrease, and became more serious.Among them, Yuan Shikai's "eighty-three-day emperor's dream" of usurping power and stealing the country was the most ugly. At that time, there was a couplet saying: "The people are still the same, the country is still the same, and there is no distinction between north and south; in a word, generally speaking, it is not east and west." At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Zhang Yuanji presided over the Compilation Office of the Commercial Press. In addition to the compilation of textbooks, he also focused on the translation of Western cultural thoughts for general books, such as Yan Fu’s translation of "Tian Yan Lun" and other ideological classics.These ideas spread like wildfire to the efforts of many young people. Terms such as "natural evolution", "material competition", "elimination" and "natural selection" have gradually become idioms in newspaper articles and patriots' catchphrases. .Many people use these nouns as their own or their daughters' names. Hu Shi, whose original name is Hu Hongjun, also took the word "Shi" from "Natural Selection Survival of the Fittest" as his nickname and pen name.

After the Revolution of 1911, cutting off the braids of the Han people became a symbol of getting rid of the old and looking for the new. Zhang Xun was stubborn. After the Qing emperor abdicated, he still expressed his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty. On June 14, 1917, Zhang led thousands of "braided troops" into Beijing; on July 1, Zhang Xun supported the restoration of Puyi.At this moment, many braid-cutters in the capital panicked. There was a folk song: "If you don't cut your braids, you can't get along. If you cut your braids, you will be afraid of Zhang Xun." For a while, fake braids became popular in Beijing.Unexpectedly, only 12 days after the popularity of real and fake braids, the "rebel army" organized by Duan Qirui, the Prime Minister of the Beiyang Government, invaded Beijing, and the Xuantong Emperor Puyi once again announced his abdication, and a farce soon ended.Another song said: "Xuantong returned to the court, and the bald head will open the ladle. Xuantong ran away, and the bald head will be healed."