Chapter 148 Attachment - a journey of 70,000 miles seems generous

Guo Songtao was the first Chinese envoy sent abroad in modern times, which was unheard of at that time.People couldn't accept it, and there was a lot of discussion from the government and the opposition. Guo's hometown in Hunan was even more closed. How can you serve ghosts when you serve people, why go to the state of your parents.Candidates who were preparing for the provincial examination in Changsha not only burned down the Yuquan Shanlin Temple that Guo had restored, but also threatened to destroy his house and expel him from Hunan province.His old friend Liu Kunyi also questioned him: "Why do you belong to Hunan? Why do you treat future generations?" At that time, only Li Hongzhang understood him and praised him: "A journey of 70,000 miles seems to be generous."

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when reformation and conservatism were frequently contested, the university scholar Woren of the current dynasty opposed the recruitment of personnel who studied astronomy and mathematics.He used illness and injury as an excuse to resign from the post of Prime Minister's Office of State Affairs.Another minister, Xu Tong, also hated Western learning very much. He lived in Dongjiaomin Lane, and his house was adjacent to the embassy. Xu Tong is conservative and stubborn, and hates all foreign things.Seeing his son once, Xu Chengyu, who had already become the minister of punishment, walked in front of him with a cigar in his mouth, and immediately flew into a rage, and reprimanded him: "I am still alive, and you are like this; after I die, I will definitely report to you. King Yama, let you wear black clothes, ride and shoot as a slave to ghosts." He punished his son to kneel in the sun and expose himself to the sun.

At the beginning of the Wushu coup, Zhang Yuanji went to Xianliang Temple to have an audience with Li Hongzhang, and persuaded him that "Zhongtang is the most important thing in the world, and if he can fully explain Chen, there may be hope of transferring it."Li sighed and said: "What do children know!" Zhang Yuanji was dismissed by Cixi and never employed.Two years later, the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, and Li Hongzhang was transferred from the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to the governor of Zhili and Minister of Beiyang. Cixi wanted to use him to negotiate peace with foreigners.When Li Jing went to the north, Zhang Yuanji begged to see Li and persuaded him not to serve the Qing court anymore. Li scolded him again: "What do you children know!"

In 1898, Zhang Taiyan was wanted for his participation in the Restoration, and fled to Taiwan under Japanese occupation, where he served as a reporter for Taipei Daily.Later, Zhang Taiyan cut his braids and made a series of remarks against Manchu, which was even more intolerable to Yu Yue. In 1901, Zhang Taiyan happened to be teaching at Soochow University in Suzhou and came to visit his teacher. Yu Yue took this opportunity to scold him angrily: "I heard that you are traveling in Taiwan, and you are fond of hiding. Entering a foreign land now, carrying the tombs of parents' tombs, is not filial; suing to accuse captives of poisoning the Xia, writing letters to others to accuse Chengyu, unfaithful. Unfilial and loyal, it is not human, and the boy beats the drum and attacks!" For During this period of scolding, on the one hand, Zhang Taiyan moved out Gu Yanwu, the great ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, to refute it from the perspective of Confucianism; , and earnestly cover up his evil?"

After the London incident, Kang Youwei believed that linking his name with Sun Yat-sen was an extremely risky thing.His disciple Mai Menghua also denounced Sun as "a bandit, a party member, and a person who has disgraced China." As early as 1895, Sun Yat-sen and Kang Youwei had contacted each other.At that time, Sun Yat-sen was preparing for the Guangzhou Uprising, and he sent Chen Shaobai to Shanghai to find Kang Youwei.Chen Shaobai happened to live in the same inn as Kang Youwei, just one room away, so Sun Yat-sen's special envoy had a "very happy" conversation with Kang Youwei, all about how to overthrow the imperial government.But when the coup failed, Kang Liang fled, and when Sun Yat-sen intended to form a force with Kang Youwei, Sun Yat-sen was quite surprised by Kang Youwei's answer: "Today, the Holy Spirit will be restored one day. I have received a lot of kindness, and I can't forget it no matter what. The only thing I can do is to do my best and try my best to raise troops to serve the king and get rid of his imprisonment in Yingtai, and I don't know anything else."

After Liang Qichao was exiled to Japan in 1898, he accepted the baptism of new ideas, and had more and more conflicts with his teacher.Kang Youwei thought that protecting the emperor, protecting religion and worshiping the sky should be accompanied by Confucian righteousness and self-defense. Liang Shi didn't take it seriously: "There are many people who are not suitable for the new world of Confucianism, and even more advocating the preservation of it is going from south to north." In 1917, when Zhang Xun was restored, Kang Youwei crowned himself with the monkey, and then kneeled down. Liang Qichao accused Kang of being "the first rebel" and a "scholar with big words". The mother eats the father, Xing Tian dances and Qi Hu guards the pass. Pang Meng bends his bow and shoots Yi, and sits and watches the sunset and weeps."