The wind is whistling and the Yishui is cold, and the heroes will never return once they leave.●⌒,

One day in late September 1910, a scene appeared in front of the most prosperous Tianjin Railway Station in the world, just like a tragic scene more than two thousand years ago.

The actors who starred in the guise were naturally not Prince Dan of Yan and Jing Ke, but several famous scholars of Qingliu, Zhang Peilun, Wen Tingshi, Zhang Jian, and Yang Du.

Yes, read it right. In this time and space, Zhang Peilun and Wen Tingshi are still alive. Although they look old and desolate and may be tilted at any time, they can feel a still vigorous vitality and fighting spirit when they look at them.

Needless to say, Zhang Jian was the top scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, but he actively devoted himself to the industry and commerce industry. After more than ten years of experience, he gathered tens of millions of property and became the leading financial supporter among the world's Qingliu literati. He strongly supported and hosted several newspapers and established many literary and social institutions. His reputation was a temporary choice.

As a younger generation, Yang Du is not a big deal here.

He was originally a new generation of leader who was regarded as a Qingliu Literary. In recent years, he personally organized the China New News, joining forces with many brothers, comrades and friends such as Liang Qichao and Liu Kuiyi to promote China's constitutional monarchy, and trying to restore the old system of literati and officials and emperors who have been governing the world since ancient times. He is the flag bearer who opposes the reluctance of the great head of state and has created two parties, opposition parties, democratic parties and other dirty policies and systems.

However, today, the four of them are all "Jing Ke" who may never go back.

The place I was going to was Yining, the western border, which had been regarded as a wild land by literati of the Central Plains dynasty for thousands of years. He was almost sent to the shore of the Balkhash Lake, which was renamed "Yibohai".

It is a journey from Tianjin to there, and if you want to use ancient transportation conditions, you will basically never come back in your lifetime.

Although there are direct trains now and can be reached in more than ten days of travel, when you think of the far distance, for these literati leaders, there is no difference between them and the exiled Tangnu Wulianghai in the Qing Dynasty.

The reason why these people were thrown there was naturally because over the past few months, the head of state has "pulled the snake out of the hole" and deliberately let Yang Hao spread some arguments to cause major discussions across the country, and then fished out these big fishes hiding in the backstage. In the end, they were caught all in one go.

In the big discussions that have triggered before, the focus was originally limited to a few aspects such as "whether to be an official should do things" and "Neominologists did not cause the regression of Chinese culture and led to the delay in entering modern civilization" and other aspects.

Its core is also a tit-for-tat refutation and questioning that will be carried out around the general norms of Chinese traditional culture that will be promoted nationwide and the whole world.

Because according to the new cultural norms, the study of Confucius and Mencius, which flows from the "Book of Changes", is a core element of Chinese culture. The original intention is not only to let Confucian students learn how to become officials and find jobs, but also to learn to do things. Or it can be barely explained by Wang Yangming's theory of "unity of knowledge and action".

According to the meaning of the new norms and combined with the remarks instructed by the head of state, it can be summarized as: "A qualified official must first be a moral model, and secondly, he must have real talent and knowledge. He must also understand the sufferings of the people, rather than just sitting on the upper floor, imagine thousands of miles away from the people, and talk nonsense. Again, officials should not just talk about things, and the assessment standards must also be the equal restoration index of the people under his jurisdiction, rather than creating all kinds of auspiciousness, fabricating all kinds of lies, and creating a so-called peaceful and prosperous era with a new record. Fool the leaders to be the so-called saint king, and then regard this as their own contribution and write it into historical records."

Although they did not ask them to "worry about the world first and worry about the world first and enjoy the world later" like Fan Zhongyan. They did not expect them to "serve the people first and suffer first and enjoy later", at least, you cannot be a corpse and eat without working just by getting a salary.

Those who were used as negative teaching materials were the prime ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty who were given high wages of tens of millions of yuan, but they would only intrigue in the court, spit on the emperor's face, enjoy interfering in the emperor's private affairs, exaggerating the emperor's more concubines and having to take care of them! They even did the matter of pulling the concubines out of the palace and getting them away.

The top talents from the country who emerged from hundreds of millions of people all day long are circling around an emperor and using their brains. You can imagine what the world's major events will be like.

The new norms clearly require the basic qualities that civil servants should have, so the "strict" assessment method will naturally cause widespread controversy and boycott.

This is different from the reform system that was forced to be promoted in the previous revolutionary war stage. It is used to educate thousands of descendants. If it is not stopped, the leisurely lifestyle of Chinese literati since the Song Dynasty can be declared forever.

How can this happen if the literati class loses its superior status and does not have the privilege of transcending the law?

They had been relying on the fact that after the overall situation in the country was stable, they began to resume this "tradition" step by step. As a result, they found that the head of state was serious and everyone was equal before the law. They were really anxious!

Therefore, the debate was limited from the beginning, and it took not long to make a breakthrough, which soon affected the arguments of the superior wisdom and the inferior fool, those who worked hard to govern people, and those who were cultural must be higher than those who were workers, and so on. Inside and outside, it echoed the statement that traditional scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and even the nobles, landlords, and gentry that even the world's powers must be nobler than ordinary people.

In the final analysis, it is still necessary to punish the literati and officials.

The peak of the debate is to call for a change in the current political system of a leader and the rule of both parties, to learn from the European powers to play the constitutional monarchy, to respect the great head of state ascend the throne, to reopen the Forbidden City into an imperial palace, and to turn the republic into an empire.

Public opinion naturally reached this point, and no one felt that there was any problem, but only a few people at the top knew that this was a red line that was absolutely untouchable. Whoever stepped on it was unlucky. The head of state was waiting for them, and they jumped into this trap.

So, when the big debate reached its most extraordinary moment in September, the group of people who jumped the most were immediately caught in one place on charges of violating the Constitution and planning to undermine the republic!

When the agents from the Ministry of State Security came to arrest people, all the Qingliu bosses and literati leaders were confused. This is not right! We are passionate and loyal, all for the good of the head of state. How can we arrest us? We must have made a mistake!

I immediately found out that it was right, and they were arrested. The articles they wrote, the speeches they delivered, the gatherings and initiatives held on various occasions were inciting a large number of people to siege government agencies and propaganda units. All of them were illegal and unconstitutional, and the evidence was conclusive.

No one can open the country in accordance with the law. The national land reform has just ended not long ago, and the scene of people being chopped down from then on is still vivid in my mind. So few people dared to jump out of the law to ask for extrajudicial mercy - people with that kind of thought are now the targets of arrest.

Then these people felt that it would not be so easy to deal with it if we arrested us, right? We are all the leaders of public opinion and propaganda in the world, the so-called leaders of Shilin, celebrities that hundreds of millions of people must respect. If we arrest this way, we are not afraid of arousing widespread opposition and condemnation and ruining the national order?

But unfortunately, there are very few people who dare to jump out and call for justice for them and question the government's decisions. Among the general public, only a few old literati and some gentry in cities stepped forward and asked why the government parliament at all levels did this. But if we say that mobilizing troops and launching a tide of opposition, there is no cliff.

The leader of the Qingliu and the leader of the literati were stunned. How could this be done?

Over the past few months, many of their remarks have been published in newspapers. I don’t know how many people I see them, so how could they respond in a little? Isn’t there any conscience among the vast majority of billions of people? Where is their ability to distinguish?

Many people speculate that it is likely that countless good people with conscience came out to call for justice, but were ruthlessly suppressed.

But the truth is that the various jumps of these people over the past few months actually have a very limited scope of influence. Their articles and remarks are mainly in various cities. Only old-style literati with less than one-tenth of the population. Together, they can survive by dying millions.

The people in the countryside and major factories either cannot see their newspapers or simply cannot understand the classical Chinese they wrote.

The wired and wireless radio stations that can truly affect everyone are all directly under the Propaganda Department controlled by the Head of State. As the mouthpiece of the head of state, how could it be used by these guys?

So, in the final analysis, it was a big show. The poor guys were fooled one after another, and so many people suddenly jumped out, all of which were recorded in Xiao Hei's notebook, and then arrested and prosecuted according to the law.

The result is very shocking. Together, at least tens of thousands of people across the country can handle it. The lightest thing is to talk and educate.

The plot is extremely serious and the impact is extremely bad, including Zhang Peilun, Wen Tingshi, Yang Du and other leaders. Zhang Jian, as a legal person and financial owner of the newspaper industry, naturally could not escape.

Just when these people thought they might be killed as traitors, they all wrote desperate poems in sighs, or scolded and criticized them indignantly, and were preparing to deliver a final speech before beheading or shooting them in the future. Suddenly they heard the decision to deal with them that stunned them.

Everyone, regardless of the severity of the circumstances, was all sent to the border to serve their efforts. This was not to go to jail or to serve their sentences, but to give them the opportunity to educate barbarians and promote Chinese culture. If you want to come back, you have to complete the corresponding contribution value. That is, they can educate the border residents who understand Chinese culture, and they can exchange for points. If they have enough, they can go back to their hometown. If they can't get enough, you'll die there.

Since ancient times, have Confucian scholars kept shouting to educate? From ancient times to the present, they have been shouting for a thousand or two years, but they have not really educated them. Instead, they have educated the people in their own country and lost their spirit of resistance, killing the barbarians and barbarians one after another.

This time, the head of state finally gave them a chance. More than 100,000 scholars and scholars went to the frontier to have fun and educated, and they might not come back.

This is already a blessing from outside the law, and there is no better result. It is better than putting them in prison and snatching steamed buns with a bunch of mud legs to eat? If they really follow the labor reform, they can commit suicide by hitting the wall in shame.

Moreover, as long as they go to the frontier, they can get a glorious name to "respond to the government's call". Although they are not voluntarily, they are finally not humiliated. When they really go to the frontier, they are all top cultural masters at a high level. Can't those barbarians be offered the same kind of ancestors?

It is better than other stages in history. They don’t have to worry about being killed by the barbarians and dig out their hearts and wine. The Frontier Construction Corps and hundreds of thousands of troops were the only one who could use their hands to teach and slap people. Once the border Chineseization is completely completed, they still have the opportunity to erect monuments and record them in history.

There is no choice at all. Zhang Peilun and Wenting-style two old Qingliu, who are in their sixties, are taking a large group of young men in their forties and fifties, and a few young backbones like Yang Du, who are in their thirties, are full of passion and are ready to pedal west.

When we arrived at the train station, the few people couldn't help but feel sad, and the old tears fell down.

Looking at the heavy troops on the platform, gangs of "reading seeds" dragged their families into the car, Zhang Peilun sighed with infinite emotion: "I never thought that after a thousand years, we saints and disciples had such a disaster. If I had known today, why did we have so many troubles at the beginning? It ruined the foundation of the world's cultural education in vain, resulting in later generations not knowing the true meaning of our Chinese academics. The saints' moral system does not exist, which is our sin!"

Well, in his opinion, the implementation of the cultural model that almost erased Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was simply a heresy theory. To promote the world to educate the people, it would be a severance of the root of Confucius and Mencius's way of teaching.

Wen Tingshi clenched his fists indignantly and gritted his teeth and said, "How can the inheritance of the ages be broken by us? As long as the breath remains, we must fight to the end! So what about Western Xinjiang? There are also tens of millions of immigrants there. As long as we cultivate more decent talents in our lifetime, we will cheer up one day."

He turned his head and stared at Yang Du and said solemnly: "Xizi, you are still young and have time. When you return in a few years, your academic career will be successful. And the people in the world will also see the reality of the false and real of the false studies, and it will be just a hit, so that they can see the orthodox Taoism style of ours."

People around them nodded in agreement: "Yes! Yes! Nowadays, the customs are full of the court and the country, the flowers are charming, and the people are dull, so I am afraid they can't tell the difference. They must truly see the harm before they know the benefits of our true academics. It will be easier to promote it at that time."

After cheering each other up, the sad parting feeling became much smaller.

Zhang Peilun and others wiped their tears, turned around and bowed to a short and fat official with a short figure opposite, and said with a cold face: "We'll get in the car now, so Lord Yuan doesn't have to worry about staring at it. Humph, I misunderstood you!"

That short and fat man was Yuan Shikai. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!