Chapter 41: Counter-training

"You, what are you going to do?" Li Hongzhang finally understood Chen Congyun's true thoughts. Even when Li Hongzhang was at the peak of his career, he still couldn't even think about it. Loyal ministers and filial sons, concepts influenced by thousands of years of Confucianism, and those who were serious scholars dared to think about it? Even if they could think about it, how many people really put it into action?

Li Hongzhang's terrified look made Chen Congyun feel an incomparable sadness in the deepest part of his heart. This is the most representative figure among Chinese scholars. No matter how high their rights and strength reach, they would never think of rebelling. Zeng Guofan was like this, and Li Hongzhang was like this. In fact, the two masters and apprentices may not have not seen that the Manchu court was already rotten to the bottom. How powerful was Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army back then? Didn't he ask for a self-destruction? Li Hongzhang has been in Beiyang for 25 years. If he wants to think about some bad ideas, wouldn't there be many opportunities?

Chen Congyun sighed softly, reached out to support the shaky Li Hongzhang. After his face calmed down a little, he slowly sat back on the chair opposite him and whispered: "Manchu entered the pass, and how many Han people he killed, I'm afraid not many people remember. Why did Manchu kill so many people? You can't not know the names of Jin Tansheng and Dai Nanshan, right? So from the root, Manchu only wants slaves, what they want is their rule for generations. They don't care about the status and living space of this country and nation in the world. Manchu has already rotted from the day he entered the pass, and has been left far behind by the wheels of history."

When Chen Congyun said this, Li Hongzhang's face was as clear as earth, with blue veins on the back of his hands, and his breathing became more and more rapid. Chen Congyun had not had similar thoughts before, but such thoughts often flashed by, and then came the fear brought by the thoughts. Now Shen Congyun said it in front of him, Li Hongzhang was no different from being struck by lightning when he went out, and his mind was in chaos.

"I don't want to do Cao Cao and Wang Mang. What I want to do is change the world and eliminate the slave nature of the Chinese from the root. If the world wants great governance, it will first be a chaos. Now the chaos has emerged. This is indeed the autumn of national crisis. Congyun dares not be humble and takes it as his responsibility to revive China. This thought has been settled since he stepped onto this hot land. Even if he dies, he will not regret it. Why fear the few bald pens of those sour literati? Not to mention success, king, defeat, bandits, history has always been written by victors, and Manchus entered the pass that year. At that time, I'm afraid I might not think that this country can live in it, right? Did they never expect that Han elites like Lord Li would be loyal to them as slaves?" Chen Congyun's words were zipping back and forth in Li Hongzhang's heart like a knife. Those ideas that were already deeply rooted in their minds were strongly stimulated by the storm again and again. Li Hongzhang could no longer listen, but Chen Congyun's words continued.

"How did Manchu come from? How did it work steadily? Lord Li have you ever thought about it? Or didn't dare to think about it? Since they could use cruel means to seize the world, and use the so-called fate of heaven to frame the storefront, and Congyun used the same means to seize the world, what's wrong? What's more, Congyun didn't even think about being an emperor at all, but just thought about letting our great Chinese country rise to the country within thirty or fifty years and returning the grand occasion of the Han and Tang dynasties......"

Li Hongzhang's expression turned from a face that looked like earth to his old face turned red. He finally burst into a roar in a violent breathing: "Do you want all the loyalty, filial piety, etiquette, integrity and shame, what the saint said?"

Chen Congyun couldn't help but smile bitterly, and the old man was so poisoned that he could tell.

"Well, let's talk about this loyalty. In the Song Dynasty, when Yashan was in trouble, Lu Xiufu held his young master and threw himself into the sea. The servants were 400,000. Is this a comparison between the previous Ming Dynasty? In the late Ming Dynasty, Manchus entered the pass under the banner of avenging Chongzhen. What was the result? How did the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty die? Was it a man of Manchus strangled to death with a bowstring? Wu Sangui won't say anything about the so-called examples of scholars such as Hong Chengchou and Qian Qianyi. According to your concept, they should all die when the Southern Ming Dynasty was overthrown? In fact, Lord Li is well-read and well-known about history. I don't need to mention what they have done. Wake up? After saying so much, I'm afraid Lord Li will say that the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty in the past was that the energy was exhausted, and it was not related to Manren's affairs. So good, does the Qing Dynasty now account for the exhausted energy? Since the energy was exhausted, why should Lord Li use loyalty, filial piety, etiquette, integrity and shame? I want to say that this world is a masterless thing, and the virtues live in it. I, Chen Congyun, do not tell lies, I want to change the world and do this world. After I don't learn from Manren's pass, I find excuses to fool the people of the world. To put it bluntly, Manren's style is to be a bitch and set up a archway." Chen Congyun said passionately, Li Hongzhang's expression gradually calmed down.

"Zi Gui, have you ever thought that in this way, the world will inevitably be in chaos, and the people who suffer will eventually be the people in the world. Not to mention that when the great powers look around today, how do you face this situation of internal and external troubles?" After Li Hongzhang calmed down, his words came to the point.

Chen Congyun showed a disdainful expression and sneered: "As Lord Li said, Manchus continue to be in front of the world, and the lives of the people will be better? Open your eyes and look at the people in this world. They live in dire straits, are humiliated and bullied by foreigners, and exploited by bones and marrows inside. They are starving everywhere. On the surface, you are determined to take the Westernization Movement as your mission, but in fact? Hum! Not to mention the distant ones, the Sino-Japanese War in the Sino-Japanese War was recently pulled by the Beiyang Navy, and you didn't even have the shells for five hours. If I didn't remember Wrong, this is a masterpiece made by your nephew? If I hadn't spent a million taels of silver to buy shells, and if I hadn't had I increased my troops in Shandong in time, the Beiyang Navy would have long become the spoils of the Japanese. The Huai Army on the ground should not be mentioned. Do you know why Beiyang was defeated so miserably? Let me tell you that it was rotten in the system and at the root. Even if you, Lord Li, did you really treat the Huai Army and the Beiyang Navy as your own ban? As your bargaining chip to firmly sit in Beiyang? From the bottom of your heart, do you have the idea of ​​giving up for the future and destiny of this country? You don't have it!"

The more Chen Congyun said, the more severe Chen Congyun spoke, the more he became, and Li Hongzhang's face gradually turned pale. Although he wanted to refute Chen Congyun, every word Chen Congyun said was like a needle pricking on Li Hongzhang's heart, making him unable to refute and making him feel ashamed.

"You don't have it, nor does Manchu's court. Otherwise, with the power of our great country and the power of tens of millions of compatriots, why should I be afraid of a small Japanese in the East? What if the Northeast is lost? So what if Beijing is lost? As long as I am determined to die, the court can move the capital. If the Japanese fight for ten or eight years, it can drag down the Japanese. But in fact, once North Korea is defeated, the court's negotiating minister will go to Japan to shake his tail and beg for mercy. Do you know why this is happening? Because no matter how much money you pay and how much land you cut? As long as Manchu's rule can maintain Manchu's rule, Manchu will not care. Anyway, the wool comes from the sheep, and the suffering will only be the people of the world. Manchu's powerful people, including you, Lord Li, can still live a life of rich people with wine and meat."

Li Hongzhang's mood at this moment was like sitting on a red iron plate. Chen Congyun said mercilessly, as if he was whipping his face left and right. Originally, Li Hongzhang came here to seek punishment and asked Chen Congyun to give up some ideas, but now it turned around and became Chen Congyun to teach Li Hongzhang political lessons. How could Li Hongzhang not feel uncomfortable? But what Chen Congyun said was all facts and cannot be changed.

Li Hongzhang couldn't remember how he left. When Zhang Peilun and Yang Shixiang saw Li Hongzhang coming out of the Governor's Office in a daze, they were both frightened.

"Honey, Chen Congyun bullies others too much, I'll go to argue with him now." Yang Shixiang thought Chen Congyun had humiliated Li Hongzhang, so he was so anxious that his face turned red and his neck was about to rush in.

Li Hongzhang, who was completely disappointed, smiled and raised his hand and said, "Don't go. I am humiliating myself today, no wonder others. Chen Congyun can still let me wait for me to go in and out here, so I am very generous. Let's go back. Chen Congyun is right. I am indeed time to go home and be a peaceful and rich man."

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When Li Hongzhang left the Zhili Governor's Office, Zhang Zhidong was also worried about how to deal with Chen Congyun's proposal, and brought chief aide Gu Hongming to continue the topic in his study.

"Chen Congyun is going to rebel, and he also wants to pull me into the water."

"Why don't you stand up and shout and call out to denounce this traitor, there will be countless people in the world who will respond!" Gu Hongming was actually very dissatisfied.
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