Subtitle of this chapter: Let's talk about history again

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"Then he is the only one among us who can be called a gentleman!"

Everyone looked in the direction of Yuan Yanshu's finger... It was Mr. Huang Zongyi, who was with the last seat.

"Cough! Cough! Cough!"

He didn't expect his uncle to turn the topic on him. At this moment, he was holding a sip of wine in his mouth. When he heard this, he was startled when he saw everyone's strange gaze, and he was choked.

He kept coughing and waved his hands in a hurry and said, "Cough cough cough... Uncle, I'm not what I am. Cough cough cough... Gentleman, cough cough... You are a prescription for me. Cough cough cough..."

"Hahaha..." Our Master Yuan chuckled a few times, "Tell me, I am not spending time on you, I am telling the truth."

He looked around everyone and asked seriously, "Everyone here knows history, right?"

This sentence is really nonsense!

The three masters of Harvard know very well. Others have also been taught since childhood and have been a little familiar with Western rules. If these people don’t know history, then no one in the world knows history.

Yuan Yan suddenly asked and answered: "I missed that old man Kong... when was Confucius from?"

"Of course it was the Eastern Zhou Dynasty when rituals and music collapsed!"

"Then when is the ritual and music he wants to return?"

"Of course, it is the Western Zhou Dynasty that is strict with the patriarchy!"

"So who is the gentleman who upholds the Western Zhou Dynasty's patriarchal law?"

"A gentleman who enters will be humble, and a strong martial man who comes out will be proud!"

"Compared with this, what kind of self can we, a scholar who is powerless, overcome? What kind of etiquette can we redeem? How can we talk about gentlemen!"

"SO...A gentleman, only my nephew taught me how to be a 'pointed man' who has been through the army can barely do it."

To be honest, Yuan Yan felt that the army of "three major disciplines and eight points of attention" was very "self-restrained and restored rituals".

If you violate discipline seriously and get shot to the end, you will be shot to death after committing the flower case. Isn’t this “self-discipline”? No wonder how the Puritan-born Royal Mission looked at them and liked them.

Isn’t this “rejuvenation of etiquette” by dividing family backgrounds and raising revolutionary soldiers to the top? It can be regarded as a modern replica of military merits in the pre-Qin and Han dynasties.

Of course, the Chinese studies masters here do not agree with his view very much.

Chen Yinke shook his head and said, "Brother Hongjian, I have to say that you are making a point of reasoning. The so-called world changes and time changes, and now it is not spring and autumn..."

"Brother Heshou, I can't catch up with the Spring and Autumn Period now!" Yuan Yanshu laughed "puff" and said without hesitation, "I know what you are going to say, it's nothing more than Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism's ultimate principles, and keep the laws of heaven and eliminate human desires."

Zhu Xi elevated the "ritual" in "self-restraining and restoring rituals" to the "reason" of the general law, and then deduced the saying "preserving the principles of heaven and eliminating human desires."

"The Confucian scholars after the Northern Song Dynasty survived, and had a Jingkang shame, a Yashan hatred, a Jiashen change, and a Gengzi year. It was such a major change of three thousand years..."

"I want my brothers, it's not that Confucianism is not good now, but that it has been no longer possible. It's just that the things that could compete with Confucianism for ideological high ground in the past could not catch up with Confucianism..."

"There are no better things like the barbarians like the Mongolian Tatars and Manchus than Confucianism, so they can use them just by themselves. However, when foreigners come, what is Qianjia Sect, what is Hunan Sect, what is Song Sect, what is Tongcheng Sect, what is the harmony Sect..."

"These sects, those sects, are all useless..."

"If Confucianism is useful, then we shouldn't be in New York now, but foreigners come to Peking and Shanghai... No, it should be Bianliang and Hangzhou!"

After hearing this, Wu Mi changed his sarcasm and said coldly: "Brother Hongjian, I'll ask you, you want to defeat the Kong family store as you said, so will we Chinese still be Chinese after this?"

Our Master Yuan suddenly stared at him with wide eyes and looked him up and down carefully, and suddenly laughed wildly: "Hahaha..."

He pointed to Wu Mi and said, "Brother Yu Seng, Brother Yu Seng, look at the hair you taught me to your parents..."

Everyone here has short hair... and that short hair has no beard. If you follow the "body, hair, skin, and skin, and you will be disobedient.

"Look at the left-sided Hu clothing you are wearing..."

The lapels of Western-style clothing are left and right. It is said that men are easy to draw swords and breastfeed. This is exactly the opposite of the men and women in the ancient Serris. Otherwise, how could Confucius say "Micro-tubes, I will put on my hair and go left"?

"By the way, Lingzun Lingtang is still alive, but you are traveling across the ocean. Are you going to travel far?"

"Brother Yu Seng, Brother Yu Seng, according to your Confucian standards, can you still say that you are Chinese?!"

"You..." As soon as this said, Wu Mi was so angry that she trembled and couldn't speak.

However, Chen Yinke spoke up to defend his friend and said, "Brother Hongjian, you are a bit of a slander. Confucianism is not outside but inside, but inside, but in the heart. This is the strength of our Eastern civilization. Haven't you seen that just a few years ago, Westerners were killed in a sea of ​​corpses and blood, and the whole of Europe was almost destroyed. Western civilization that advocates external things is still not as good as Eastern civilization that focuses on the inner."

"Hahaha...haha..." Our Master Yuan was so happy after hearing this, and he was so happy that he lay on the table.

After a while, he took out his handkerchief and wiped his tears, and said in a very creepy tone: "Brother Heshou, Brother Heshou, you are just fooling foreigners, and you say to Jiangnan people like me... that's to make fun of me, right?"

"I want to say that there were indeed a lot of people who died in the last battle of Europe, but... did there be many people who died in the Hong Yang Rebellion?"

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the largest "peasant uprising" in the history of the world and the most death-lost war.

At that time, the US ambassador to China, Roukeyi estimated that the number of deaths caused by the war was 20 million, which was the smallest number. After the 1980s, Chinese historians speculated based on historical data that the number of people who died directly was 70 million, which indirectly exceeded 100 million!

A total of 100 million. Not to mention World War I, even World War II cannot be compared with it, and it cannot even be compared with it in total.

"You great scholar Zeng Wenzheng, who only values ​​inner self but not external things, killed our Jiangnan into white land. Even my hometown Wuxi, my brother, and you have changed the accent of Nanjing, where you lived with me."

"Haha, you Confucianism is indeed..."

As a master's degree in economics, Yuan Hongjian does not understand historical materialism, but once history is materialized by itself, it will be different.

Based on his experience, Shi Jianlie, a native of Jinkui, wrote four volumes of "The Lost of Ji County - Ke Fu Yuan", which records the tragic tug-of-war between the two armies around Wuxi in detail.

After the war, the city walls could be seen directly from Chong'an Temple in the center of Wuxi City, because there were not many houses that had not fallen.

He believed that it was not all because of the Taiping Army's burning and killing. The brutality of the Qing army was even better than that of the Taiping Army in some places. This book was naturally listed as a banned book in our Qing Dynasty and was not allowed to be published. It was not until the Republic of China that the light of day was seen again.

By the way, their old Yuan family originally had thirteen houses, which was a prosperous population. However, after the end of the "Hongyang Rebellion", only two houses were left. One was an official from another place, and the other fled into Shanghai.

In short, as a person from Jiangnan, Yuan Yan Shu did not become a fan of Zeng Guofan like the descendants of the Demon and Chuanlin Beile. He did not call the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a "national liberation movement" like the real proletarian revolutionaries.

Our Master Yuan took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and said a famous saying that he once shaved his head: "If you are not a sage, you are a beast!"
Chapter completed!