Chapter 31: Speeches
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Zhang Yuan is actually in the west of the racecourse, the garden is built according to the Western style, the grass and flower beds in the garden, a taste of a Western manor, originally this place is built in accordance with the Western style, the house is tall and magnificent, and a tower is built inside, with a high roof. In the afternoon, Yang Rui passed, and before entering the gate, he saw two students of the school standing at the door, Yang Rui didn't know them, but they knew Yang Rui, after all, on New Year's Day last year, he almost invited all the students to dinner, and one of the two students took Yang Rui to the place where he gave a speech.
This hall called Ankaidi is very spacious, and it is not a problem to sit a **100 people like this. Towards the beginning, the hall was filled with the academy and tourists who came to play here - this garden is the most popular event mecca in Shanghai, and it is here that the Chinese parliament was hastily opened in the year of Gengzi, and it is famous. There are also various social activities such as speeches from time to time, and everyone is not only used to it, but also often joins in the fun. Cai Yuanpei and Zhang Taiyan and a few others arrived early, and everyone felt very cordial when they met after a month, and they sat together and waited for the speech to begin.
The first to give a speech was Zhang Taiyan, he was still dressed in a chic way in the past, with a robe and a suit on the stage, the students of the society were very accustomed to this, and it was not strange, but the others who came to listen to the lecture were in an uproar, because Cai Yuanpei introduced Zhang Taiyanjun, a master of Chinese culture, but now the one who came to the stage did not have everyone's demeanor at all, but was a little neurotic, because as soon as he came on stage, before he spoke, the hall was buzzing, and the words of the madman were endless.
Zhang Taiyan didn't care, he stood in front of the table at the moment, cleared his throat and began to speak: "Today, I am ashamed to accept all the gentlemen and invite me to give a speech, and the first thing I want to say today is that I am probably a person who is alive, and I am said to be crazy by others, and I categorically refuse to admit it. But the only brother confessed that I was insane, that I was insane, and that I was insane, and that I was very happy. ”
"Wow...", hearing Zhang Taiyan admit that he had a nervous disorder, the audience below was even more surprised, only to see that the speaker continued to speak without any concern about the audience's reaction. Why? Dafan is a very strange discussion, he is not a nervous patient, he can't think about it, he can't think about it, and he can't dare to say it. After saying that, when encountering hardships and hardships, he is not a nervous patient, and he must not turn back and go his own way. Therefore, in ancient times, if there was a university to achieve a great career, it must have a neuropathy to do it.
Ladies and gentlemen, look at the Greek philosopher Zocrates, isn't he insane? The Luso (Rousseau), who proposed civil rights and freedom, jumped over the river in order to chase a dog, which is also really a neurosis. Mohammed, the first patriarch of Islam, according to today's religious scholars, was sick with dirty disease. Like my Han people, Xiong Tingbi's military strategy in the Ming Dynasty is unique in ancient times, but looking at his "Biography of Qi Nature", Xiong Tingbi is a madman. In modern times, Zuo Zongtang's personality was insignificant to protect the Manchu slaves and kill the same kind. But his surprisingly winning strategy is admirable after all. This Zuo Zongtang boy's affairs in Yuelu Academy are all kinds of strange, and I think everyone knows about it. There is also a virtuous man Bismarck (Bismarck), who once called the court official in the hotel, and without answering, he opened fire, what kind of temperament is this? Looking at it carefully, the deeds of those six talents are all from neurosis. ”
The opening talk of neurosis immediately attracted the attention of the audience, and everyone listened attentively, and after he finished talking about neurosis, he began to speak his own opinion. "Although my brother is a psychopath, but this neuropathy is patriotic, since the first day of the Sino-Japanese War, our country's national strength is declining, all the monarchs here are trying to try to reverse the national situation, but after thinking about it for a long time, this way to save China, I only think that two things are the most important: first, it is to publicize more revolution; Second, it is necessary to carry out a full-fledged revolution.
Today, everyone is gnashing their teeth on Manchuria, and thinking about Shuntian with revolution is not because of hatred of the Manchus. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the slaughter of the Manchurians was miserable, so let's put it aside. Just look at the Manchurian people today, there are many disasters to China if they can't govern China, they are mediocre and incompetent, and nothing can save my China's big 6. Looking at Taiwan to Japan, Jiaozhou to Germany, Luda to Russia, and Weihai to Britain, all of them are the mediocrity and incompetence of Manchuria......"
Shanghai is worthy of being the concession of all countries, the residents here have really seen any bird, and they are not surprised to avoid seeing such a fierce row of speeches, but listen to it with relish, Yang Rui is insightful, no wonder it is said that Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China was the cultural and ideological center of the whole China. The rise of Zhang Taiyan's speech, the words were very eloquent, and the scheduled time had passed, but the audience was still unsatisfied.
After a long time, Cai Yuanpei went up to introduce Yang Rui and invited him to give a speech on stage, under the gaze of everyone, Yang Rui walked to the stage, he was not afraid of things like speeches, but when he went on stage, his feet were not raised, and he was almost knocked down by the carpet, and the audience was still reminiscing about Zhang Taiyan's raging revolutionary words, and they all laughed when they saw this, and they all laughed with a "coax", feeling that there are strange people in this patriotic society, and in front of him was a neurotic person who came to the stage and shouted for a long time, and the more he listened, the more reasonable it was. Now, there is such a young gentleman who looks like a student, and he says that he has learned from the West, but he almost fell before he could speak, which is really funny.
Yang Rui was almost fallen, his face was red when the blood gushed up, his face was very embarrassed, he came to the stage, took a deep breath and calmed down and said: "I'm really sorry, I was too distracted when I came to the stage just now, so that I was rude, very rude." After saying that, he bowed. The students in the audience applauded in encouragement. Yang Rui is not a clever person, and even hates those "clever" practices, and he disdains to use some words such as "the enthusiasm of the audience almost made me fall" to find the bottom of the stairs, a fall is a fall, and there is nothing to justify.
Amid the applause of the students, he slowly calmed down and began to talk about today: "I am talking about the root cause of today's differences between the East and the West. After saying this, he took out a box of matches from his pocket, struck one and waited for the match to light up and raise it, and everyone was puzzled by what the gentleman who almost fell was going to do, and there was no need to lift it so high to light a cigarette.
I saw the man who held this flame in front of the podium and said, "Everyone uses this thing often, and everyone calls it Yanghuo, and the name Yanghuo doesn't sound strange to us now, but if it had been a few decades ago, it would not have been called Yanghuo, but Yihuo." Just like this concession, now everyone says that it is a ten-mile foreign field, but they don't know that a few decades ago it was called Yichang, and those Westerners outside were still called Yiren instead of the current foreigners a few decades ago. This Yi and Yang are just different from our names, so why do we change our names -- it's because our thoughts are different.
Nowadays, China has such a understanding, as long as it is marked with foreign things are good, foreign oil, foreign lamps, foreign cloth, foreign ships, foreign guns, etc., everyone realizes that as long as it is a foreign thing, it is good, so everyone likes foreign things, but in the thirteenth century, there was a man named Marco in the West. The Polo people came to China, and also to Hangzhou, and he was so impressed with admiration for the Orient that he returned to the book "The Travels of Marco Polo," in which he wrote: "There is no doubt that the city is the most beautiful and noble city in the world, and that the inhabitants of it are covered in silk and splendid clothes, and their silk garments and jewels are so expensive that they are unimaginable...... This travelogue became widely circulated after he returned to the West, and Westerners yearned for it, but on the other hand, they did not believe that there was such a rich and prosperous place in the world. ”
Yang Rui paused for a moment, took a sip of water and continued: "Gentlemen, there is nothing wrong with many things alone, just like just now we thought that there was nothing wrong with the name of foreign fire, now we look at the West as a qiē is revered, as long as it is a foreigner's things are better than ours, but in the thirteenth century, even in the previous dynasty, Westerners saw us as good at everything, and they couldn't imagine it, they couldn't believe it. Then what has happened in the past 700 years? What is it that makes a worship of us in the West over us? ”
Seeing that everyone was thinking, thinking about what had happened in the past seven hundred years to turn the relationship between the two sides upside down, Yang Rui was not in a hurry to give an answer, and wanted everyone to think about it. Yang Ruicai said: "You have come up with a lot of answers, but I can guarantee that no matter what answer you get, the result will be wrong. ”
He took out a dollar from his pocket, held it up to the crowd and said, "This is a foreign dollar, I believe everyone has it in their pockets, where did this foreign dollar come from?" The above sign indicates that he came from the Americas, and what caused the West to cross us in the course of seven hundred years? The answer is that this eagle ocean caused the West to cross the East for 700 years. I have here a number of numbers to prove this, that from 1521-16oo Spain alone shipped from Peru and Mexico one hundred and eighteen thousand tons of silver and two hundred tons of gold, after Columbus now came the New Great 6.
Of course, this was only the beginning, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, a merchant in London, England had a fortune of three hundred pounds, but by the middle of the sixteenth century, the estate of any merchant after his death was not a house, and the cash alone was three thousand pounds, and you were too embarrassed to admit that you were rich without a hundred thousand pounds. Where did the money come from, from the Americas. From the 16th century to the present, Westerners have plundered countless amounts of gold and silver in the Americas, including the government, merchants, and pirates.
And in order to plunder these gold and silver wealth, the Westerners need to slaughter these American natives who will stop them, at that time, the Spaniards are now using guns and swords to kill people is too inefficient, at the end of the day, it is to kill thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, the population of the Americas is 50 million, when will this be killed, then they understand the virus weapon - take the quilt used by smallpox patients and give it to the Tu. In the Americas 6, there was no smallpox virus, unlike the Eurasian 6, because there was often smallpox and everyone had the ability to resist, so the mortality rate was very low, but for the American people who had never encountered smallpox, the infection of smallpox was extremely deadly, according to rough statistics, the survival rate of the American people who met smallpox was only 5%, and the smallpox killing efficiency was very high, and soon, the number of Native Americans decreased from 50 million to 5 million......"
Yang Rui described the colonial history of the Americas in a very cold language, and then analyzed the changes that occurred after such a large-scale inflow of gold and silver into Europe, from the inflow of gold and silver to the restructuring of wealth, to the rise and fall of classes and institutional innovation, and finally to financial innovation and economic growth. Basically, it was based on a book I had read in college about the Americas, gold and silver and the rise of the Western world, and the lecture was very long, and it ended after an hour and a half. If Zhang Taiyan's speech is a revolutionary fire, enthusiastic and sincere, after listening to it, his blood is boiling; Then Yang Rui's speech is a piece of ice, indifferent and rational, and those who listen to it are creepy but can't help but think more deeply. After Yang Rui finished speaking, there were no words in the hall for a long time, and they were shocked by the cold and cold facts.
After Yang Rui returned to his seat, Cai Yuanpei saw that no one went up to give a speech, so he announced that the rally was over. After the end of the show, a man dressed as a wealthy businessman came over and said, "Mr. Yang is invited." ”
Yang Rui didn't know why, so he had to ask, "Who is this gentleman?" ”
The other party smiled and said: "The surname is Chen, now I am running the Su newspaper in Shanghai, just now I saw Mr. on the stage talking eloquently, everything he said is chiseled, for us and other unheard of things, after listening to it, I know how the foreigners are pressing us, so I want to publish Mr. Speech in the newspaper for readers." As if he was afraid that Yang Rui would not agree, he immediately added: "Of course, the manuscript fee is preferential, and the manuscript fee is preferential." ”
Yang Rui heard that it was Su Bao, but he smiled in his heart, this person seemed to be the boss of Su Bao, and many of his articles were published in Su Bao, so he smiled and said: "Mr. Chen, many articles are in your newspaper, this time the speech will be sent to your newspaper after going back to polish." ”
Mr. Chen nodded and asked, "Mr. is in disdain, can you see your name?" In this era, not only Yang Rui uses a pen name, many people use pen names, such as Zhang Taiyan is called Mr. Yu Hang, Cai Yuanpei is called Huijishan, everyone is a newspaper critic of this vest, as if it is in the jar of later generations.
Yang Rui saw that he was the owner of the newspaper and knew that there was nothing to hide, so he said: "The contemptible people have taken a name called Tingzijian......
Mr. Chen was surprised, pointed at Yang Rui and said, "Oh...... It turns out that Mr. Yang is Mr. Tingzijian, no wonder, no wonder, when I listened to the lecture, I felt that Mr. Tingzijian's articles were very similar. ”
Yang Rui smiled, didn't say anything, and promised to send the manuscript to the newspaper in a few days, and then said goodbye and left.