After Li Yu's article was published in Pulitzer's "World", it still had some effect. After all, it was all conclusive evidence compiled by later historians.
It’s just that Kang Youwei’s Royalist Association now has hundreds of thousands of members, and the membership fees and donations alone exceed one million U.S. dollars, and the specific amount is difficult to estimate.
Kang Youwei should really go and see how hard the Chinese workers recruited by the United Railway Company worked, and how they defrauded people of their money without any sense of guilt.
But it is a pity that many Chinese people cannot read this newspaper. After all, many Chinese people do not understand English very well, or they can only communicate in simple oral English and cannot read articles.
Fortunately, the elite still understand English, and at least they can stop Kang Youwei from donating. This is at least half the proportion, and the proportion will become higher and higher in the future.
Kang Youwei was extremely angry after reading the newspaper, "This Li Yu! Shameless! What nonsense!"
Kang Youwei was really angry. Not only did people like Zhang Taiyan, who had incredible combat prowess, continue to criticize him, but even his disciples such as Liang Qichao and others had dissatisfaction. But he refused to change and believed from the bottom of his heart that he was right!
Kang Youwei also wrote in the New York Times:
"It's hard to imagine that a Chinese who cut off his pigtails could become the emperor's master, and he could also slander me with such nonsense. What have I done? What has he done? What I am doing is a great undertaking, and Li Yu is a child with a yellow mouth.
What's the use of just delving into weird and obscene techniques?"
The New York Times was founded after some of Pulitzer's employees left, and there was a long-standing competition between the two. Pulitzer later took the lead in withdrawing from the vicious competition that was criticized by everyone, and returned to the true spirit of running a newspaper.
This is also one of the reasons why he was so highly regarded in the press.
However, Kang Youwei's article had the opposite effect. His mention of "emperor's master" directly made many Chinese feel that Li Yu was an extraordinary figure.
James said happily: "The President is right to do this! I have told my students long ago that excessive exploitation only has short-term benefits, which is not in line with our spirit. Since the President also intends to do so, I can write another letter to the President,
Urging him to get this done."
James said: "As you Chinese say, reciprocate with courtesy. And I have always believed that our institutions of higher learning today are far better than those in Europe and Japan in meeting the desire of Chinese students to understand advanced civilization."
The two exchanged views on physics, astronomy and mathematics for a while. James was really surprised by Li Yu's knowledge. As a principal who has seen countless outstanding students, he had never seen such a talent among his peers.
Profound.
American universities are known as the Ivy League, which includes eight prestigious schools including Harvard and Yale, all of which are private universities.
Kang Youwei's face turned red. He didn't even understand photography and didn't dare to discuss this topic with Li Yu in depth. He had to write another ambiguous article, but the level was indeed too low. Even the New York Times didn't
Willing to publish.
Li Yu said: "The Four Books do represent Chinese culture, but it is still difficult to understand China through them."
However, this kind of self-confidence has always been present in the culture of Laos and the United States, and it is worth learning: it is not okay to always belittle oneself.
"There are so many ancient sayings in China," James said with a smile, "Does it mean that everyone who has studied in China knows so much ancient knowledge?"
Li Yu nodded: "It is true."
Americans have been extremely passionate about coffee since very early days. Li Yu has drunk American coffee in KFC many times before, but this time the coffee in his mouth felt really bitter.
Li Yu said: "Definitely not! Although China is a moderate country, the Chinese cannot be driven by arbitrary occupation."
An American thousands of miles away can understand the situation of the Qing Dynasty, but there are still many people who are obsessed with it. A simple sentence "just because I am in this mountain" cannot explain it.
James was already very candid. Li Yu said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you have more output. China is a melting pot now. The more ideas you throw into it, the better the effect will be."
James said: "I once read the Analects of Confucius and The Doctrine of the Mean translated by the great Chinese scholar Gu Hongming, and said that these are the most valued classics by Chinese scholars."
James also means what he says.
But people are confident!
It's just blind confidence...
Li Yu said: "I really admire you for being able to see the subtleties and understand the work, rather than blinding your eyes to the mountains."
Historically, he did write this letter to President Roosevelt, and it had a great influence on Roosevelt. To a certain extent, he contributed to the United States returning the Boxer Indemnity and investing in education.
Moreover, they were influenced by Kang Youwei's propaganda that Emperor Guangxu was a "Mingjun", and they all felt that Li Yu was a key figure who could influence Guangxu.
After that, there were the so-called "public Ivies", which were also very powerful, including the University of Illinois.
"China has sent hundreds, even thousands, of young people to study abroad. It is said that there are five thousand in Japan and hundreds in Europe - there are three hundred in the small country of Belgium alone. This means that these people will guide them after they return to China.
China follows Europe instead of the United States, and follows the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, rather than the United States.
The United States of America; this means that they will recommend British, French and German teachers and engineers to hold important positions in China instead of recommending Americans; this means that the Chinese will buy British, French and German goods instead of American goods; various
This industrial concession will be given to Europe, not the United States."
Li Yu wrote: "Regardless of whether you understand what science is, I will just talk about the two issues you avoid talking about, which are your fraud I mentioned before. The things are obvious. First, you can't produce the emperor's
Authentic, secondly, I can’t get the original photo. If it’s a fake, I can do it, and I can also create a photo of me playing cards with the Jade Emperor and Buddha!”
"Of course I understand," James said. "I have known about China's history for too long. And I have always believed that China is facing a revolution. It's just that China has a large population and vast land. As far as I know, it's not even
Less than ours in the United States of America. So if for no other reason, I don’t think the Chinese revolution will happen as quickly as the Japanese revolution. Even if there are temporary setbacks, this revolution that has begun will not fail."
Well, he is indeed full of confidence.
Therefore it is understandable.
President James said: "I agree with you. In fact, I have been asked many times by missions from China. They want to hire young Americans who are willing to take positions in China. I think this is a way for our cultures to communicate.
, but I also want to solemnly declare that in this process, it will be our cultural output."
Look at Kang Youwei, and then look at what the principal said, and you can immediately judge his level.
I have to admit that it is really convenient to build railways in this area of the United States. There are large plains, and economic benefits can be seen quickly, effectively connecting coal and iron production areas with several big cities.
From then on, Gu Hongming switched from export to domestic sales, and quickly became a big celebrity in China by leveraging his fame abroad.
Just like many people in China think that as long as you are a Beijinger and study casually, you can go to Tsinghua University. For example, Tsinghua University. Even if the proportion of Beijing candidates admitted to Tsinghua University is much higher than that of Shandong, Henan and so on, it is still from 40,000 to 50,000.
Only about 500 students are recruited.——The author is also a candidate from Shandong Province. I just want to say
Never ignore larger subjective reasons because of objective reasons that you cannot change. Otherwise, if you lose your will to struggle, your future life may be even worse. Just like the early twentieth century people who were beginning to crawl out of the quagmire of the late Qing Dynasty.
China, like Europe and the United States, has a lower starting point than Europe and the United States, but it has persevered and come down.
Li Yu took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire: "There are many people like me in China's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
Especially in international relations at the beginning of the twentieth century, there was no such thing as morality.
Principal James added: "I heard that you also met with Mr. President and mentioned the matter of sending international students?"
Principal James asked: "What does the president think?"
James smiled and said, "You can just come to our University of Illinois and give a speech."
Fortunately, Li Yu's ears were clear and he continued his journey to Chicago.
"I am Edmond James, the president of the University of Illinois. I read several of your great discoveries in the newspaper recently. I was very surprised. Many of my students also want to meet you."
Li Yu did not expect that Principal James would take the initiative and said, "The principal is really a wise man. On behalf of all the students in China, I would like to express my highest respect to you."
But James said: "It's not wise, because I don't want to hide it from you, and I have my own selfish motives for doing this."
It's a bit biased. When it comes to the happy education in the United States, they are actually from the bottom of the United States. Of course they are very confident after going to school for a few years. Although many interviews show a world map, many American adults even
Can't point it out anywhere.
"Isn't this a business without capital? I'm making too much money." Li Yu said with a smile.
"If the United States had succeeded in attracting the wave of Chinese students studying in the United States thirty years ago and made it prosperous (it seemed to be almost successful at one time), then today we can learn about it culturally, intellectually and spiritually.
China's new generation of elites exerts a profound influence and influences its direction in the most satisfying and subtle ways."
So James can also be regarded as a meritorious person.
Li Yu said: "Yes, I wonder who you are sir?"
That he is so famous abroad is closely related to this. Many foreigners at this time even thought that Gu Hongming was the person who knew Chinese studies best.
Li Yu laughed: "That makes sense."
Although Americans are still a bit different from Chinese in terms of literary expressions such as parallelism, the effect is indeed achieved.
Of course Li Yu understands that he is doing this in the interests of the United States, but allowing international students to stay in the United States is definitely a win-win situation.
James said: "Like the alchemy furnace in your mythology?"
But I don’t know why. Many Chinese people think that American education is a happy education. They don’t study anything every day, have fun in class, have no homework, no pressure, and can go to a prestigious university. They feel very happy.
Li Yu said with a smile: "It's great to have friends from far away. It's not easy for the principal to know this."
But it is estimated that "Gu Hongming" in this sentence will soon become "Li Yu".
It’s impossible to think about it!
Even in the 21st century, elite education in the United States is no less difficult than in China, Japan, and South Korea. Students are very hardworking and hardworking.
Sierra had been waiting for a long time, and the two got on the train together.
That's why there is a saying spread abroad: "You can go to China without seeing the Three Great Halls, but you must see Gu Hongming."
Li Yu said: "I really don't know how to thank the principal."
One hundred years later, Indians still worship and even kneel and lick the colonizers, but inexplicably regard China as an imaginary enemy. Even if there are political considerations, it is really embarrassing and speechless.
As soon as I got off the train, I was greeted by a stranger who took off his hat and asked, "Is this you Li Yu?"
Long before Gu Hongming, there were foreign missionaries who translated the Four Books into foreign languages, but their level was too low, their sentences were unclear, and they made frequent mistakes. It was not until Gu Hongming took action that these classical Chinese classics from two thousand years ago were translated more clearly.
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Of course, American education later evolved into two types, one is elite education and the other is happiness education.
James said: "Then I should write this letter more carefully. I can't let thousands of Chinese students go to Japan every year."
Now India has been occupied by the British, and the British have domesticated the Indians very well.
And James also gave Roosevelt a way to get around the previous Chinese Exclusion Act, "We can not accept Chinese workers, but we can treat Chinese students decently and provide them with our educational facilities. We just need to let them pay attention (American Educational Resources
Stronger) these facts to ensure that when they arrive, favorable results will naturally arise from this opportunity that can affect all their thoughts and emotions."
Li Yu said in surprise: "Principal James actually came to greet me in person, which really flattered me."
Kang Youwei never expected this to happen, and Li Yu's counterattack made it difficult for him to deal with him.
"President Roosevelt must have agreed and also intended to return the Boxer Indemnity," Li Yu said.
Principal James said: "But I think it's time to combine China and the West, because I don't want to see the next India."
President James said: "Originally, I wanted to write to you jointly with the President of the University of Chicago, but suddenly I learned that you were coming to Chicago. I heard your Chinese cultural sage Confucius said that it is a joy to have friends from far away. We are really happy.
Very good!"
Although most of this letter talks about the interests of the United States, smart people should also be able to see that if the benefits that the United States can obtain are not included in it, how can the top leaders of the United States agree?
International relations, to put it bluntly, is driven by interests.
For example, James clearly stated the view that the use of cultural exports is more effective than forceful occupation, "Which country can successfully educate this generation of Chinese youth, and the efforts that country has made for this will have a moral, cultural and commercial influence."
to get the most bang for your buck.”
"Sir, you are really talented and knowledgeable. No wonder you were able to obtain the extremely difficult-to-obtain qualification of a foreign academician of the Royal Society." James sighed.
It’s just that what Li Yu was doing was science that Westerners were good at.
Li Yu said: "There are so many Chinese classics, so many. I only know a little."
President James said: "Mr. Li Yu's academic quality is probably among the best today. As the president of a university, shouldn't I be courteous to outstanding scholars like you? I know that Mr. Li is still busy, but the journey is hard, so it would be better if he was nearby.
Let’s chat for a while at the cafe?”
Li Yu looked at Sierra, who shrugged: "It doesn't matter, we don't lack time anyway."
Since then, the United States has adopted a relatively loose policy for studying abroad.
This kind of trust cannot be viewed in ordinary terms, but can only be viewed in the context of international relations, which means that they use each other and compete with each other.
It's just that at this time, China didn't have much leverage at all, so it could only passively accept many things, and then slowly seek opportunities.
Otherwise, if we don’t send overseas students abroad, there will be no talent emerge, and the situation will definitely become more difficult.