Chapter Thirty-Six: Going South by Boat
With the introduction letter Zhang Yinyin wrote to him in his arms, Zhong Yang sat on the train and looked out the window alone. Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang had already fallen asleep. But Zhong Yang didn't want to sleep, and his modified body could not need sleep.
He just looked at the passing scenery outside the car window and felt a little sad. According to the original plan, the three of them took a train to Tianjin together, and then took a boat to Guangzhou to join the Chinese Revolutionary Party. This was also a decision made by Zhong Yang against the public. In the entire Northern China, the heartland area has been occupied by forces of all sizes, and it is difficult for Zhong Yang to find a suitable territory to show his skills.
Only in the south, there is still a small opportunity. Whether in Guangxi or Guangdong, the warlords are still weak, and they urgently need arms, which is where Zhong Yang can develop more peacefully. Moreover, Sun Dapao is also preparing to start building his own real army. This army has strong combat effectiveness, but lacks arms. This is an opportunity for Zhong Yang. Only by seizing it can he occupy a relatively favorable position in the near future.
It was not that Zhong Yang refused to be the boss himself and led a powerful army to sweep away other political forces. But as a decadent college student who was originally a decadent college student, having a half-hearted history knowledge made him participate in political competitions simply to die. Many times, in the early days of the Republic of China, not everyone could come in to stir up trouble.
Even time travelers should not think that if you know history well, you will be invincible. Behind history, there are always many unknown secrets. Everyone who leaves a name in history books is not easy to share. Don’t look down on yourself, and don’t underestimate others. Although Zhong Yang has a strong weapon and likes to fantasize, it does not mean that he is mentally retarded.
Everyone is definitely good at different things. Zhong Yang knows that he is not a person like Zhuge Liang, so he never plays conspiracy with people in this time and space, or engages in intrigue. If Zhong Yang really plays such cleverness, he will be mentally retarded.
Moreover, as a user of the smart factory "Yuan Jiao", Zhong Yang has never thought that the smart factory is his. This matter itself has deep doubts, but at this stage, Zhong Yang has no intention of caring about these things at all. He must first survive in this era before he can think about future things. He does not have much wisdom, but he definitely has enough patience and capital to wait. History is not taken for granted. Although the result is accidental in many cases, it is more inevitable, because history is actually the final result of everyone's choice.
Now Zhong Yang feels the most urgent need for future development is people. After the capital accumulation in that period, he has already had his first pot of gold. Next, he just needs to continue to develop like a snowball. However, recruiting talents is the most difficult thing. His current team is Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang, and there are obviously many things that cannot be accomplished by them alone. But for other people, Zhong Yang cannot be completely relieved. He will not believe in the so-called evaluation of history for some people. Zhong Yang only wants to believe in himself, and he will never make a big mistake if he is careful.
While Zhong Yang was thinking about these things, a night passed like this. The next morning, the train arrived at the railway station in Tianjin. After awakening the two, Zhong Yang and his party finally set out on the way to Guangzhou.
The process of buying tickets was not smooth. Due to the impact of the strike trend, many passenger ships were closed, and only a small number were still open. In order to board the passenger ship to Guangzhou, Zhong Yang had to buy three tickets from the scalpers at ten times the price. Now only a small number of rich people can afford these means of transportation. No matter how the anti-imperialist patriotism movement initiated by students in history, it was meaningless to the lower-class people of China during this period. Patriotism is really a luxury for these poor people who have not continued to eat.
It is difficult for Zhong Yang to explain which is more important, economy, politics, culture, and military, but he knows that China is now in a pathological situation. Some people shout slogans, fanatical and radical, but they do not see clearly now. Others advocate the theory of invincibility of the great powers, negative and cowardly, and they do not think of the glory of their ancestors. Some people, because of poverty and hardship, have long become numb because of their lack of choice.
Many times, Zhong Yang really feels sad for the current Chinese people. Many Chinese people have pushed their sins to their ancestors in the past, but they are looking forward to embarking on the same path as the West. They have been going to the West for decades to seek political mercy and the concept of governing the country. They have abandoned the glory and thoughts of their ancestors. These self-proclaimed pioneers of reform believe that tradition and conservatism have destroyed the entire country. Only by bringing the two ideologies that have achieved success in the West can we save the tumultuous land of China. As for the cultural heritage left by our ancestors, we wish we could erase them all and throw them into the stinky ditch.
Zhong Yang did not know how advanced the political concepts advocated by the reformers of this era were, nor did he know how much better the entire society was than the ancients. But history at least showed Zhong Yang one thing: in various periods of Chinese traditional culture, the ancestors of China made the entire empire above the world. This was not indulging in the glory of the past, but telling the undisputed facts. The real decline of Chinese civilization began with the entry of the Qing Dynasty. Until the future world, there was no more empire in the East that could suppress the world. China's orthodox status was even provoked by Japan and South Korea.
A group of unfilial descendants who criticized their ancestors were doing various funny performances on the world stage. Just like a group of prodigal sons, the family business was ruined because the ancestors had not left enough property. What a ridiculous logic. Zhong Yang was disappointed with this era for the first time when he looked at such ridiculous things. Zhong Yang was never a person with sympathy. Seeing the sufferings that many Chinese people in this era were suffering, he felt more sad about his misfortune and angry at him.
Zhong Yang only wanted to save those who deserve to be saved. To save those tribesmen who truly represent the belief in civilization like China. As for those new people who have given up inheriting the legacy of their ancestors, Zhong Yang was not very interested. He just wanted to build a fairyland of Taoyuan outside the world in this chaotic world, leave the seeds of civilization for China's future, and carry forward the unique knowledge for the past sages.
Zhong Yang does not want history to take the Western political path as before. Whether it is capital or society, it is the Western path, not China's own path. China should choose the future of China itself. Zhong Yang is not interested in guiding the so-called innocent general public. He just hopes to leave a way forward for those who still have hope for Chinese civilization.
The cultural wealth left by the ancestors of the Chinese martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine, Confucianism, Taoism, and various schools of thought are what Zhong Yang is most eager to protect. In this messy world, protecting these cultural heritages shining with the light of wisdom is more important than anything in Zhong Yang's heart.
Zhong Yang had already planned that the first thing he did when he went to Guangzhou was to give all the arms produced to Sun Dapao in exchange for the other party's political support. Then he established a school to revive ancient culture, recruit teachers and students with specialties and hobbies in this area, and work together to preserve the cultural heritage of his ancestors.
Zhong Yang is responsible for providing assistance in materials. He owns a smart factory and is playing the role of a product supplier. He is not a politician or a military strategist, but just a mercenary businessman who loves the nation. Stingy, stupid, short-sighted are all Zhong Yang's nature. The only thing worthy of praise is his persistence and unshakable belief, and he is obsessed with finding his own path for China, rather than following the butt of the Western world.
Of course, all these plans were still planned in Zhong Yang's mind, and he had not had time to discuss with Chen Ze and Liu Jinyang. However, even if he was opposed, Zhong Yang would continue to do it. He was not a guy who was willing to change his mind easily.
Looking at the history of this time and space, since the Opium War became the establishment of a stable and unified regime in the Republic of China, China was basically at the slaughter of diplomacy. A series of unequal treaties were signed from the Treaty of Nanjing, and the Qing Dynasty continued to lose its territory and sovereignty. The reason for this humiliating diplomatic history is that from the perspective of the international relations framework, the feudal world system led by China was impacted by the new expansion and aggressive international system of the West. At that time, because China's productivity was extremely behind the West, the politics, economy, and military based on productivity were also completely at a disadvantage, while culture was squeezed and distorted and deformed by the Qing Dynasty's own long-term cultural oppression and the aggression in the Western world.
Until the establishment of the Republic of China government, even if the Beiyang warlords actually controlled the Republic of China government, China began to reverse the history of humiliating diplomacy bit by bit. First, it started by taking back the concessions of various countries in China. China gradually took back the concessions of various countries in 1919. After World War I, the Chinese people first took back the Tianjin German, Austrian Concessions and Hankou German Concessions in 1919. Of course, this was not because of China's strength, but because Germany and Austria failed in the war.
And just today, Zhong Yang and the other two also came to Tianjin, a metropolis with ancient history and cultural heritage. Looking at the mottled traces of the entire city, you can feel the vicissitudes and changes that have been condensed throughout China over the past century.
Tianjin, abbreviated as Tianjin, also known as Tianjin, Jingu, etc. Tianjin is located in the North China Plain, in the northeast of the Haihe Plain, at the confluence of the five major tributaries of the Haihe River. Haihe is Tianjin's mother river.
This ancient city has been around for more than 600 years, especially in modern times, creating a unique urban style that combines Chinese and Western styles, compatible with ancient and modern times. "Looking at Tianjin in modern times" has become a consensus among the world.
After Tianjin became a trading port in 1860, many Western countries established concessions in Tianjin, and Tianjin became the forefront of the opening up of northern China and the base of the "Western Affairs" movement in modern China. The military modernization started from Tianjin, as well as the construction of railways, telegraphs, telephones, postals, mining, modern education, and justice, all set a precedent for China. Tianjin became one of the second largest industrial and commercial cities in China at that time and the largest financial and trade center in the north.
Although just passing by, Zhong Yang was also intoxicated by the unique charm shown by this city like Chen Ze and others. The ancient world is filled with the industrial atmosphere of the new era, and the black tone is combined with the gray and white sky, and there is a sense of calmness in facing the huge waves of history.
This is Tianjin, a city shining with dazzling light. It’s a pity that Zhong Yang’s footsteps cannot stop here, he must embark on a voyage south.
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