Chapter 97 Morals of the World - Declares externally but does not fight, and does not declare civil war

During the First World War, Duan Qirui's government borrowed funds from Japan to participate in the war, and also trained "participating troops", but never sent a single soldier to participate in the war.His original intention was to train troops to fight civil war, so people said that he "declared war without war" externally, and "declared war without declaring war" internally. In June 1919, after Chen Duxiu was arrested, letters and telegrams from all walks of life across the country were sent to rescue him.The Anhui villagers are not willing to be left behind, and they all speak for him whether they know it or not.Ma Tongbo and Yao Shujie, the ancient writers of the Tongcheng School who opposed vernacular writing, believed that Chen’s “writings may not be without twists and turns. However, his knowledge and character are still respected by scholars.” Most Min", please grant bail.Lu Tiaoyuan, the governor of Anhui Province, also said: "Chen Duxiu in Huaining is fond of talking wild words, and he is a scholar. However, he is eager to learn and think deeply, and he must look down on the backwardness of his hometown, and save the province." Six years later, when Hu Shi mentioned it to Chen Duxiu, he still couldn't forget: "In the atmosphere where the opposition to vernacular literature is the most intense, there are actually a few elders in ancient Chinese who are willing to be famous and protect you. This society is barely enough to be a 'human society', and there is still a little bit of humanity."

In 1938, with the approach of the Japanese army, the collapse of Guangzhou was imminent. At that time, Yu Hanmou, Wu Tiecheng, Zeng Yangfu and other important officials who presided over the military and political planning of Guangdong Province and the city were completely helpless, so that there was such a joke in the tabloids: "Yu Han has no plan , Wu Tie lost the city, and he had no record of raising him." On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Yunsheng once said in an article: "Mr. Fu Mengzhen once said to me that he wanted to write a 'On Chinese Bureaucracy'. He said that China has always been treated as a concubine, and the bureaucratic style is the style of the concubine. The outlook on life of bureaucrats: try to flatter their masters, flatter and favor them; for their peers, crowd them out and be jealous; I agree, so I included it in the article.Wang said: "This truth is explained vividly. This bureaucratic theory has indeed dominated most of the personnel relations in Chinese history."

The war of resistance is over, and the robbery begins.At that time, there were many folk songs about robbery in the enemy-occupied area: "The ones floating in the river (going by ship) are not as good as the ones rolling in the ground (going nearby by car); the ones rolling in the ground are not as good as those flying in the sky (by plane) Those who come out of the sky are not as good as those who come out of the ground (it turns out that there are spies who mingle with the traitors there), and those who come out of the ground are not as good as those who sit still (referring to the traitors who have transformed themselves into self-robbing faster than anything else) .”

In 1946, the taxes levied by Taiwan Province increased by 58 times. It is said that an old man asked the tax official: "Do you ask us for all the taxes that the Qing government ceded Taiwan to Japan for 50 years?" People at the time described it as " Dogs go to fat pigs.” The Japanese are dogs, and the corrupt officials appointed by the central government are fat pigs. He also said: “The wolf has just been driven out of the front door, and the pig has jumped in at the back door.” In November 1949, the Beijing Public Security Bureau closed all 224 brothels in the city overnight, and organized prostitutes to learn labor skills so that they could become self-reliant laborers.The prostitutes wrote and performed live newspaper dramas, singing: "The thousand-year-old glaciers are frozen, and the ten thousand-year-old dead trees are turning green. The old society turns people into ghosts, and the new society turns ghosts into people."

Liu Yazi had thousands of acres of rice fields in his hometown, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government's grain requisition touched his property.His relatives and friends in the countryside were unable to pay the grain requisition money, so they sent letters one after another asking Yalao to intercede with the government, but Liu ignored them. In 1950, in Dong Liu Yazi’s article “Postscript to Mr. Zhongshan’s Calligraphy”, he expressed the feeling of “valuable compensation” for his own interests touched by the ongoing land reform: “Although Yu lost his farmer after the land reform, he used his jade as a member of the Central People’s Government. , so if you get a certain amount of rice in a month, you still don’t have to worry about freezing and starvation.”

In the late period of the "Cultural Revolution", there was a jingle quietly circulated among the people, which accurately summed up the history of the extreme left line: "Endless enemies, endless teams; endless self-criticism, endless crimes." "Xia Yan said according to the "Song of Whole People" rewritten from a song "Head Shaved Song" in the Qing Dynasty: "I heard that people must be rectified, but now they all have to be rectified. Everyone must be rectified. If you don't rectify, you will not be an adult. The rectification is free and others are rectified. People are still me. People. Look at those who punish people, and people punish others."

In the early 1990s, Gao Yang and Tang Haoming's historical novels became popular, and there were rumors in the market: "Hu Xueyan" is the one to do business, and "Zeng Guofan" to be an official.