Chapter 386 Li Hongzhang, how did you become a reformer? (Please order and vote)
Luo Xueyan finally set foot on the land of Shanghai Bund again. Li Hongzhang, several officials from the Shanghai Yamen, and the "hidden officials" who were hiding from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Shanghai Bund all straightened their robes and stepped forward solemnly. They saw the guard on the passenger boat. The few officers and soldiers of the Nanyang New Army stood at attention, and then Luo Yaoguo stooped and stepped out, followed by Wang Libin and Zhou Xiuying. When he saw Li Hongzhang and several waiting officials, he immediately ordered the gangplank to be lowered quickly.
"Sister Maria, did you see that? That tall guy with a bald head and short hair without braids is that monster!"
Yuan Bao was standing behind a window in the corner of the second floor of the Hunan Pier Terminal. He raised his hand and pointed at Luo Yaoguo, who was disembarking from the ship on the gangplank, and said through gritted teeth.
He was supposed to transfer to the "Geely" on the Shanghai-Tianjin route with Sushun to go north, but for some reason he stayed and walked with Maria, the "exorcist".
Maria smiled slightly and said, "Oh? How did Master Yuan know that he was a demon?"
Yuanbao was stunned and turned to look at the beautiful nun beside him: "What? You don't believe me? Then why are you coming all the way to Shanghai?"
"Of course I came to China to exorcise demons and search for more "Prophets"!" Maria said with a smile, "But I am not sure now that he is a demon. I need to conduct more investigations before I decide to Don't attack him! He is not an ordinary person, and if I make a mistake, I will be in big trouble."
"Yes, yes, that's necessary." Motobao coughed lightly, "We can't unjustly accuse a good person, and we can't let a bad person go!"
"Bad person?" Maria said, "I don't care if he is a bad person, I only care if he is a human being? As long as he is a human being, no matter how bad he is, I will not deal with him."
"Then what if he's not a human?" Motoho asked.
Maria blinked: "If he is not a human being, then I will deal with him the same way I deal with the devil."
Motoho asked curiously: "Sister Maria, what is the method you mentioned to deal with the devil?"
"I can't tell you this!" Maria put away her smile and said word by word, "But the Roman Church has been fighting the devil for more than a thousand years. So far, no devil has been able to escape the exorcism of the Holy See's exorcists. After traveling around Europe for so many days, have you ever heard of demons raging there?"
Motoho thought seriously: "It seems there really isn't one!"
"Then don't worry!" Maria said in a cold tone, "If he is really a devil, I will definitely drive him out of the world!"
"Okay, then I'm relieved!" Yuanbao said, "But you have to believe me, he is the devil. I saw him fall from the sky with my own eyes!"
"Miss Wan, please stand firm on this chair. I'll point it out to you to see if you can see it. That's the tall man wearing a blue-gray robe."
In another corner of the second floor of the waiting building, Weng Tonghe was handing a telescope to a petite, pink and tender girl standing on a bamboo chair. This girl was Concubine Yi's sister Wan Zhen.
"Brother Weng, there are two tall guys, which one are you talking about?" Wanzhen's face was red and shy, but she still couldn't help but look. When she looked, she saw two tall guys. There you worship me and I worship you.
Weng Tonghe took a closer look and found out that it was Luo Yaoguo who had met Li Hongzhang!
There are not many tall people these days, and the opportunity for two tall people to get together is even rarer.
"The shorter one," Weng Tonghe pointed at the "shorter one" among the two tall ones, "Miss Wan, look carefully. Does he have thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a beard? Is he energetic?"
As he spoke, he also touched his furry cheeks and chin - he also had a beard!
"That's wrong!" Wanzhen said, "Why doesn't he have braids? He can't be bald, right?"
"Bald?" Weng Tonghe was stunned for a moment and quickly shook his head, "No, no, he's not bald. He should have cut off his braids."
"Cut it off? How is that possible? The rule of this dynasty is to keep your hair or not!" Wanzhen was startled, her little face was full of fear.
"He has no hair!" Weng Tonghe said with a smile. "He has no hair or hair. I didn't say he had to have braids! Besides, he now has 30,000 troops, all of whom are British weapons and rifles, trained by French military advisers. No one dared to cut off his head."
"Isn't this self-respect for supporting soldiers?" Wanzhen looked at Weng Tonghe with wide eyes.
"You are right," Weng Tonghe nodded with a smile, "He is a vassal lord who supports his troops and respects himself!"
"Isn't that the same as King Ping Xi?"
"It's different!" Weng Tonghe shook his head and said seriously, "King Pingxi does not have a 30,000-ton gun team, nor does he have a Nanyang Navy. The Nanyang Navy has a 64-pound bombardment cannon on its big ship, and the barrel of the gun is very thick! "
Wanzhen was shocked: "Well, if he wants to rebel, what should I do?"
"What else can we do? Miss Wan, these are troubled times!" Weng Tonghe spread his hands, "If he rebels, then you can either be a queen or a concubine, with endless glory and wealth!"
"Ah" Wanzhen didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a moment.
She is marrying "Wu Sangui"! It's Wu Sangui who has a fleet of 30,000 foreign guns, strong ships and cannons!
"Xue Shuai, this time Hongzhang traveled to the West, it opened his eyes. Only then did he realize how vast the earth is, how powerful the European army is, and how prosperous the industrial technology is. What China is experiencing today is a strange change that has not happened in three thousand years! Without determined reform , work hard, learn the skills from the barbarians, which is not enough to survive and strengthen, so reform, work hard, learn the skills from the barbarians, and they are not all for Western learning, and do not touch the essence of Western learning!
Although this body of Western learning is not as broad and profound as our Chinese philosophy, it is applicable to today's world of the weak and the strong, and is the basis for the survival and decline of great powers.
The reason for this is that the remaining Western countries are actually the result of more than a thousand years of fighting in the warring states on the European continent.
Today's Western powers, just like our Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, have long since thoroughly studied the ways to enrich a country and strengthen its military.
If our country cannot choose those who are suitable for it and learn from them, and only knows how to buy some foreign guns and cannons, it will not be enough to become stronger and survive, and it will not even be able to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has now used Western methods, it can be said that there is no father and no father. The supreme republican method!
In Hongzhang's view, although this method is extremely unsuitable for China, it can have the effect of enriching the country and strengthening the army in a very short period of time. Among the Western countries, only the King's Constitution can resist the republican law. The law. Compared with the republic without a father or a king, the emperor and the ministers in the monarchy and the constitution are in their own way, and the officials and the gentry are united. This is actually the most suitable for China."
On the dock in Hunan, the person holding Luo Xueyan's hand and talking loudly was none other than Li Hongzhang, who had learned the essence of Western France in Europe.
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His words were ostensibly meant for Luo Xueyan, but in fact they were meant for everyone present. He was taking advantage of the opportunity of Shanghai's leading figures gathering to greet Luo Xueyan to promote his king. On the Constitutional Reform.
Luo Xueyan listened for a while and already showed a surprised expression - this Li Hongzhang had obviously learned some of the essence of Western Buddhism!
His current understanding of the Republic and the Constitution has probably surpassed that of Kang and Liang in history. He has seen through the surface and touched the fundamentals.
This monarchy constitution is actually the aristocracy and gentry joining forces to deprive the monarch upwards and suppress the poor downwards, thereby achieving the goal of firmly controlling the entire country. The process is often relatively mild, and it can be regarded as a reform.
Republics, on the other hand, are not so polite, and are usually more deadly revolutions.
After all, a republic does not require a monarch or aristocrats, so the process will naturally be more intense, and the interests of the gentry will also be affected to a considerable extent in the process.
For China's middle and upper classes, they definitely don't like fatal revolutions, but moderate reforms are acceptable to them.
But the choice of life or mildness does not lie with them, and certainly does not lie at the bottom. It lies in the contradiction between people and the land, and in how many people at the bottom really, really cannot survive.
However, this extremely acute contradiction between man and land cannot be seen in the Europeans who colonized most of the world and led the industrial revolution.
In today's Europe, countries that can be considered great powers have enough resources to keep their poor people away from hunger and cold.
In other words, among today's European powers, the main problem is distribution.
In China, the main problem now is that the total amount is insufficient or it is a serious shortage.
When the total amount is seriously insufficient, it is very, very difficult to take the reformist route.
Therefore, in Luo Xueyan's view, Li Hongzhang's reform route was as unworkable as the original Westernization route.
Moreover, Luo Xueyan would not allow him to pass through. Because the Qing Dynasty must die!
Chapter completed!