Chapter Thirteen: Ouyouxin Video
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In October of the 18th year of the Guangxu period, Suiyuan City.
This famous capital on the gate is a channel connecting the inside and outside the mouth. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with the rebellion of Hui tribe and the West Mongolian Republic, it became the biggest road for exchanges between the western and the Central Plains. Mongolia's fur, livestock, tea bricks, ironware, and salt all intersect here. As the country's gates gradually opened, various foreign goods began to flow here. Compared with the British, American and foreign goods in the Central Plains, the difference here is that there are more Russian merchants selling their somewhat crude goods.
The whole city was noisy and noisy, and people from all ethnic groups were intersecting. Teams of camels and teams of carriages and horses were constantly passing through the city. Wooden wheels wrapped in iron circles made sparks splash on the stone slabs on the streets. The bulging Mongolians had knives on their waists, and looked at the signs of shops around them like dioramas. The people of the Central Plains also followed the customs and wore black-faced lamb-skin robes and felt hats here, and only the big braids were swaying behind them.
Like other cities in the Qing Dynasty, beggars were everywhere, walking around the streets and alleys. The soldiers of the Jingbian Army and the Yi Army who were patrolling Suiyuan were wearing tattered jackets and basking in the sun in the city gate.
The whole city is full of wonderful vitality.
Several guys stood at the gate of the north city, leaning out their heads and looking out. Suddenly, one of them jumped up: "Da Shengkui and the men who are making friends are back!"
A shout made the idle beggars around him surrounded. Sure enough, a group of carriages and horses were winding outside the north gate. Da Shengkui's flag recognition and the escort flags from the escort agency were all beaten out. Walking in front were several escorts, all of whom were washed clean today. They were riding on the horse and showed their aura, pointing at their chest with a thumbs up.
A few days ago, Da Shengkui's horse report had already spread the news, but this time the meeting showed his big face. Less than a hundred corpses defeated the thousands of horse thieves in the middle and outside the mouth of the horses!
The more people gathered at the city gate, watching the convoy gradually approaching, several idle men were already shouting: "Fifth Master is shocked outside the border!"
Wang Wu rode a big green horse and came out from behind. He bowed to the crowd with a smile on his face: "Dear men, love me!" The people below praised again.
"Look at that knife! The amount is probably this number..."
"How many?"
"One hundred and twenty-eight pounds and six taels!"
"Drink, you can't use it without shirtlessness!"
"Fifth Master, sing!"
Wang Wu's face was shining. The man in the world was just like this. He shook his horse whip and roared out after passing five passes and killing six generals. There was another cheer below!
The few guys guarding the city gate were Da Shengkui's men. They had already come over and took the bridle of the carriage in front of them and took them to the warehouse.
Old Manager Han was in his carriage, leaning in front of the window, looking quietly at a few pages of paper in the sunshine. The carriage wheel rolled over a stone at the city gate, and he jumped up in shock, which was stunning.
The old man beat his waist, opened the curtain to take a look, and saw Wang Wu leading the way with a proud look in front of him. Er Dezi had already followed him, holding the dart flag higher than Wang Wu's chest.
Several greeting friends had come over: "Master, several managers of the semicolons are waiting for you! You have been staying outside the mouth for a long time this time. I heard that you meet the Qilin, our Dashengkui, like an ant on a hot pan!"
Old shopkeeper Han smiled and waved his hand: "Tell me a few people in charge, we have distinguished guests today! We will discuss matters in the evening, so no one will run away!" A guy agreed to report the message quickly. The old man put down the curtain and picked up the pieces of paper. But he didn't read it, pondering and patting his legs: "What kind of way does this young man surnamed Xu have? The book he wrote and the suggestions he gave us Dashengkui were all thought of by himself? What exactly does this young man want?"
Xu Yifan had already started writing this book along the way. The title of the book is "The Record of the Heart of the European Travels". The Qing Dynasty was facing changes that had not been seen in three thousand years, and this central empire was associated with the world situation like never before. In this era, people also vaguely realized that it was necessary to change, so many powerful people bullied them one after another. Why others were strong and why the "Huangqing" were always beaten and paid compensation has become a problem that the scholars and officials could not understand. Some people closed their eyes and became ostrich, but they were still immersed in the dreams of the central empire, but more people wanted to open their eyes to see the world. Learn what changes had happened in the world.
But it’s a shame to say that during the period of the Meiji Restoration, Japan also had figures like Fukuzawa Yukiki. With his ten years of traveling in Europe and the United States, he wrote a large-scale book like "The West Memorial" to introduce Western books to the country. Kido Takayun, Okubo Rito, Ito Hirofumi and other figures learned about the West, learned about the West, and promoted domestic things. Policies like national education were basically copied directly from the West Memorial.
However, in China, I have been talking about Wei Yuan's "Haiguo Tuzhi" for decades. This book not only involves some of the Western subtleties, but probably things like strong ships and powerful cannons, but more importantly, there are many fallacies. In the most critical twenty years at the end of the 19th century, China did not have a single book that systematically introduced the West and studied the West!
Even with the "Dianshizhai Pictorial" and Guo Songtao's diary, there are some contents that introduce the West. However, they are all superficial, and they are more keen on introducing overseas strange things.
The scholar-official class did not need such systematic books. In 1903, Dai Hongci's diary of the nine European countries was sold for the price of paper in Luoyang. At that time, a military aircraft boss filmed the book and complained: "If we had known it, how could we declare war on all countries? How could we have eaten Japanese children in the Northeast and suffered such great losses as Russians?"
The ruling class at that time also needed personnel who were familiar with the Westernization Affairs. As a result, those who could use it were either trained by the Translation Bookstore and only knew how to translate foreign languages, or few young children studying in the United States back then. It was difficult to talk about understanding the domestic situation in the world at that time. Even the diplomatic style of Li Hongzhang's bluffing and finally lying down and getting hammered was boasted as Eastern Bismarck, and the rest can be imagined.
Since I could not follow the path of entering the literati class with the imperial examination, I could only use this trick to make the ministers and make a fortune in one fell swoop. Two years later, on July 15, the 19th day of the Sino-Japanese War, this empire suffered an unprecedented change.
I am not waiting for time.
Xu Yifan also had the confidence to make his book famous. The European Games Movie Record avoided the style of literati notes and books at that time. He rigorously introduced the political, economic, educational, military, diplomatic and other aspects of the major powers at that time, and explained the historical evolution of various countries in detail. In particular, the five countries that were introduced were introduced in detail.
On the shaking carriage, he wrote like crazy every day. He didn't care much about the scenery outside the car, whether he was about to reach Suiyuan.
The little beauty has been honest these days and hasn't looked for him. Occasionally, she met her when she was having dinner, and she also lowered her head and walked away quickly. Wang Wu saw him moving his pen, and the hero who had been playing with knives in his life simply flashed far away. According to his words: "Men, they feel a headache when they see books and pens. Brother, I'm not afraid of death, just afraid of this one!"
Only the shopkeeper of Old Han was very concerned about his behavior. He came over and asked him to write it out after borrowing it. Xu Yifan was on a whim and wrote a note about Dashengkui's business. He saw that the shopkeeper was bored in his carriage for a whole day and didn't even come out for dinner.
"... Since the Meiji Kaiji, the Japanese have become famous in China, and they have indeed become more powerful. Ito, Inoue, Gui and others are known as the heroes of the time. Politics come from top to bottom, refreshing and promoting, and spare no effort. All education, economy, trade, and military are all in the Western Paradise. The Japanese are fierce and cruel, and they are in remote island corners, and under a hundred generations, and they are all in a state of precariousness and uneasy. Only by moving westward to the mainland can we relieve the terminal illness of their national power. Pingfan Korea, before and after the Renchen Incident, the Japanese and our dynasties had already opened. The Japanese are devoted to this, and they are violent, and I am gentle. They are quick, and I am slow. They are newly trained by the Western French nationwide, and I am only practicing the six camps of the country. They are elites of the whole country, and I am a minister of Korea Affairs. I am afraid that the disaster of Xiao Wall will not be in the after Xia Dynasty, but in the contemporary era!"
Xu Yifan looked at the words he wrote and suddenly felt that he had written the Japanese very well. He hurriedly turned to the previous customs chapter and added another sentence viciously: "The Japanese men and women are very lustful, with all kinds of tricks, including *, fools, creampie, facial cumshots, etc. The Japanese men are not capable of being weak. Those who know are not worth a shit..."
As soon as I felt a little Ah Q-like victory, I heard the sound outside, which was Wang Wu's loud voice: "Old shopkeeper, I can't do it! I have spent 80,000 taels of silver this time, and I shouldn't have received this silver medal. How can I afford it? There is no such rule!"
Why did the trouble happen outside?
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