The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Tianjin Concession, Li Mansion.

Li Jinglin finished a set of boxing and was drinking tea. He followed Yang Kuishan and walked quickly to report: "Master Li, someone sent a greeting card, and these newspapers are attached."

"Um?"

Li Jinglin hadn't seen someone posting greetings and delivering newspapers before, so he immediately became interested and said with a smile, "Let me have a look."

Yang Kuishan immediately offered it with both hands. He is not only Li Jinglin's confidant, but also Li Jinglin's in-house disciple and the only successor of Wudang Taiji Sword.

Li Jinglin opened the greeting card, and there was nothing written in it, except for an inexplicable inscription—Junior Zhou Hexuan pays homage to him!

WTF?

Li Jinglin looked through the newspapers again, and saw that all the newspapers were incomplete, but each one contained an article called "The Rise of a Great Power", and the author was signed by Zhou Hexuan.

Anyway, since he had nothing to do after leaving the field, Li Jinglin simply started reading from the beginning. After reading from the Portuguese chapter to the French chapter, Li Jinglin ran in and called him to eat, and Li Jinglin realized that it was already noon, and he read it for a long time without knowing it.

"It's really a good article!" Li Jinglin slapped the table and praised, and said to his entourage, "Bring me the food, I'm going to use Hongwen for dinner today."

The French revolution has been going on for nearly a hundred years. The First French Republic, the First French Empire, the Restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty, the July Dynasty, the Second French Republic, the Second French Empire, and the Third French Republic have really repeated themselves, you After Fang sings, I will appear on the stage.

Li Jinglin only knew that there had been many revolutions in France before, but this was the first time he had such a thorough understanding. In his view, the previous revolutions in France are like child's play, but when he thinks about China today, he finds that Du Nima is similar.

Is it true that China will have to undergo revolutions for hundreds of years before it can be truly unified?

Li Jinglin didn't even want to eat, and continued to read the following German chapter, which made him even more surprised.

It turns out that Germany was still in a divided state 100 years ago. There used to be more than 300 large and small states at the same time, using more than 6,000 different types of currencies. From Berlin to Switzerland, with a distance of 600 to 700 kilometers, you have to go through 10 states, go through 10 procedures, change currency 10 times, and pay 10 customs duties. The total tariff even exceeds the value of the goods.

The history of Germany is as humiliating as that of the late Qing Dynasty. When Napoleon invaded Germany, Prussia was forced to cede half of its territory and pay 150 million francs in war reparations. Even the Statue of Peace, which represented the national spirit, was removed by Napoleon and packaged as spoils of war and shipped back to France. Do exhibitions.

But such a country has been miraculously unified, and it has also become a world power. It has even surpassed the United Kingdom in an all-round way to become the world's second economic power after the United States!

"Excellent German!" Li Jinglin couldn't put down the book, his blood boiled with enthusiasm after reading the German chapter, and he wished he could turn himself into the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck.

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"Great German!"

In Shandong under the rule of the dog-meat general Zhang Zongchang, Liang Suming, director of the Provincial No. 6 High School, clapped his hands and shouted loudly.

Liang Suming was born in a scholarly family. At first, he believed in the reformist ideas of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. Later, he joined the Tongmenghui, and then became enthusiastic about socialism, writing books to promote the abolition of private ownership. His heart was very soft, and he could not see the suffering of the world, so he devoted himself to the study of Buddhism. He committed suicide several times and was rescued. He only had a high school diploma, but was invited by Cai Yuanpei to be a professor at Peking University, where he taught Indian philosophy.

This is a person whose thinking is constantly struggling and progressing. He founded the Shandong Rural Construction Research Institute in the past two years and devoted himself to the research of rural China. He believes that the development and construction of rural areas can save China. He has published "Rural Construction" and "Rural Construction Theory". and other works.

The Beijing-Tianjin Times could not be bought in Heze. Liang Suming read "The Rise of Great Powers" by accident. He immediately wrote to ask his friends in Tianjin to send him the newspaper regularly. Now he happens to be studying and reading the German article. .

What Li Jinglin saw from the article was iron and blood unity, but what Liang Suming saw was education to save the country.

When Napoleon invaded, King William III of Prussia said: "This country must use spiritual strength to make up for the loss of the body. It is because of poverty that education is needed. I have never heard of a country that is poor in education. Doom the country!"

While Prussia was still paying huge war reparations to Napoleon, the Humboldt University of Berlin was born. The king took out the last bit of his wealth and donated the luxurious palace to make university buildings. He also proposed that the state must provide material support for teaching and scientific research activities, but must not interfere with educational and academic activities.

Since then, in Prussia, education has become a mandatory obligation for citizens, just like military service. Students are registered for absence from class every month, and they will be fined 3 silver coins a day for skipping classes, which is heavier than taxes. Free education in Germany began in the middle of the 19th century, and until the reunification of Germany, the enrollment rate of school-age children had reached 97.5%.

That was more than 50 years ago. What is the literacy rate in China today?

Liang Suming couldn't help sighing, and deeply agreed with what Marshal Moltke said in the article: "Prussia's victory was decided as early as on the primary school teacher's podium."

Education, education must be done, education can save the country!

Liang Suming, who has been influenced by reformism, liberal democracy, socialism, and Buddhism, finally found the way to save the country from the article "The Rise of Great Powers".

Excited, Liang Suming spread out the letter paper and wrote a letter to Cai Yuanpei, who had just returned to China at the beginning of the year, explaining his idea of ​​saving the country through education, and strongly recommended the series of articles "The Rise of a Great Power", calling it "a great article to save the world and save the people".

He also hoped that Cai Yuanpei would take the lead in rebuilding the China Education Association, raise funds from warlords and rich businessmen and gentry in various places, and promote and popularize elementary school education throughout the country. He believes that when a large number of children who have received basic education grow up, it will be the day when China will become prosperous and powerful.

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And Meng Xiaodong, who is far away in the new Tianjin newspaper, is more interested in the French Revolution. Passion, romance, freedom, everything is full of legends, and it can be called an epic in the world.

If some of these stories are intercepted and compiled into a big drama, it will definitely be very popular.

Meng Xiaodong was sitting in front of the window, resting his cheeks in his jade hand in a daze, his thoughts had already wandered to nowhere.

That Mr. Zhou is really strange. He obviously has earth-shattering talent, but he is willing to be a junior adjutant under the warlord. Moreover, he is also very scheming in his actions, as can be seen from his rescue and subjugation of the Sun brothers, he is not a pedant who only talks empty words.

I persuaded him to go to the south, but he let me watch "The Rise of Great Powers". Does he think that the southern government can't get things done?

Meng Xiaodong put away the newspaper, his mind was full of doubts and curiosity. She was going to read the follow-up articles before talking about it. Perhaps his true thoughts were hidden in the unpublished Japanese, American, and Russian articles.

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In early June, Ye Ting's independent regiment conquered Youxian County, Hunan Province, and started the first victory of the Northern Expedition.

At the same time, after a period of fermentation, Zhou Hexuan's "The Rise of Great Powers" has gradually spread, and even in the southwest and northwest regions, people have already read this masterpiece.

This is the collective learning content organized by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in 2003. Based on this background, CCTV launched the "Rise of Great Powers" series of documentaries. It will be extremely valuable decades later, let alone the confused and chaotic Republic of China.

Li Jinglin, Liang Suming, and Meng Xiaodong are warlords, scholars, and actors, and they have seen different things through their articles. And more Chinese readers, after reading "The Rise of a Great Power", began to seriously think about how China can find its own way to rise as a great power.

Even many foreigners paid more and more attention to this series of articles after the serialization of the British, French and German articles. The Consul Generals of Tianjin in Britain and France specially sorted out the newspapers and sent them back, providing them to European scholars for reference research.

We will talk about Japan soon, and it is estimated that even Japanese spies will be watching Zhou Hexuan by then.

Be famous all over the world at this time!