Chapter VII Professors

After thinking about it carefully, he still felt that his life was important, so Wang Maoru took out another 1,000 taels, and sold 20 guns with bullets in one piece, and sent them to his house in one go, costing him 2,400 taels of silver.

It has always been much faster to do private errands in China than to run errands in public offices, and the next day, the manager of Lihe & Foreign Firm in Beijing sent a gun photo, gun, bullet, and magazine to his house.

Wang Maoru was so excited that he took a gun and bullets and ran to the suburbs, regardless of whether he aimed accurately or not, he played with guns for a day, not to mention hundreds of bullets, not to mention a rabbit. Later, with the help of Pu Ji, he hired a coachman and two bodyguards, both from the countryside of Hebei, from the coolie market, to come to Beijing to beg for a living. One of the two bodyguards is called locked, and the other is called Ergen, who is still from Cangzhou, Hebei Province, and has practiced the style for a period of time. Some time ago, there was a military disaster, and Cangzhou was not spared, these two people were not fellow villagers, but they came to Beijing together because of the military disaster.

More than a dozen Cangzhou villagers who begged for a living together in Beijing looked for jobs one after another, and these two people also went to the train station to carry bags with the villagers.

But all Chinese people have regional complexes, and the same is true for those who carry bags at this railway station, and the bags are divided into three groups, the Zhili Gang in Hebei, the Shandong Gang and the Henan Gang, and the three groups of people are fighting endlessly. Wang Maoru also went to Tianjin to take the train, and saw the fight, these two young men are extraordinary in martial arts, so he invited them to come over to be his bodyguards, with food and shelter, four oceans a month, and the two of them were happy enough to give up their coolies to be bodyguards.

The two are honest and respectful to people, and after knowing that the owner is a university scholar, they are full of respect for scholars in this era. Wang Mao Ruxin said, I graduated from a third-rate university, and I have become a university scholar here. After inspecting these two people a few times, Wang Maoru saw that these two people were honest, so they gave them a shell gun to protect their safety, and these two people were even more surprised. The owner trusts himself too much, how expensive this gun is, after learning that a gun costs a hundred oceans before and after, the two of them slept in their arms and were reluctant to put it aside.

Peking University has opened, and as a newly established discipline, international relations has attracted many people to listen to the lectures. Wang Maoru thought that there would not be many students, but he didn't expect that in the first class of school, the room was full of people, and there were more than a dozen professors and lecturers from Peking University sitting in the front row, all of whom came to listen to the lecture of Mr. Xiusheng, who wrote "The Rise of a Great Power". made Wang Maoru very nervous in the first class, and he has not been a teacher for many years......

Wang Maoru's lecture was on international relations, and because he did not have a textbook, he compiled a book by himself, the main theme of which was national interests, and it was divided into two volumes and 14 chapters. Four classes a week, one chapter every two weeks.

In the first section of today's first chapter, the content of the first chapter is the history of China's diplomacy, which counts China's national foreign policy from ancient times to the present. For example, the Han Dynasty's harmony and conquest, the Tang Dynasty's Han-Hu integration, the Song Dynasty's annual tribute, the Ming Dynasty's Son of Heaven died Sheji, and the Qing Dynasty's retreat and seclusion. Of course, now that it is the Republic of China, everyone does not know what the diplomacy of the Republic of China should be, and they are all looking forward to the answer.

"The tribute of the Song Dynasty, in the eyes of today's people, is a kind of humiliating and humble diplomacy. However, the amount of tribute was not justified for the Song Dynasty, because the Song Dynasty was too economically powerful. Since the Tang Dynasty, the center of the economy has shifted from the north to the south, and the government has relied almost entirely on the south for its revenues. To put it another way, the money of the South has been used to maintain the rule of the North. In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the countries were divided. The countries of the south no longer had to spend their taxes on the north, and their economic conditions were better than those of the Tang dynasty, and the extravagance of the royal family was unbelievable. Economically, therefore, the rule of the North was a burden to the South. Therefore, although the Song Dynasty begged for peace with Liao, called the ministers, and paid tribute, showing a weak nest, it has always maintained an advantage in the economy. And if you take into account the ruling expenses used in the north during the Tang Dynasty, the burden of tribute is not very heavy. On the contrary, for the economically underdeveloped North, the tribute was more like a subsidy to the huge trade balance. In fact, for tea, which is mostly produced in the south, Daikin once issued a "tea ban" to officials with more than six grades. At that time, the north and south of China had become economically integrated, so the tribute was also a different form of capital turnover in a sense. Without this tribute, it would cause an economic crisis in the northern countries. Although the tribute itself has the nature of being forced by the Song Dynasty, it is essentially the northern countries that are economically dependent on the Song Dynasty. In addition, in addition to the large amount of indemnity paid in some special periods, the tribute was not only not a great burden for the Song Dynasty, but also became a powerful sugar-coated cannonball for the dynasty, and successfully completed the task of weakening the Liaojin, although the Song Dynasty people did not have such intentions. The Liao and Jin were founded by the Khitan and Jurchen tribes, one originally nomadic herding in the grasslands, and the other originally hunting and gathering in the forest. Both countries have a strict problem, that is, how to maintain the original national character. The Khitan and Jurchen even their own writings were inspired by the Han nationality to create zào, and they belonged to the backward people in terms of civilization, and lacked resistance to the long and splendid culture of the Han people. Especially after receiving economic benefits such as tribute, these originally simple peoples lived a luxurious life, and thus lost their original wildness and power. However, the monetary effect as a result does not directly imply the sense of purpose of the parties. Regarding national self-esteem, both the Khitan and the Jurchens at that time were extremely strong, but this was also because of their deep sense of inferiority to their own national backwardness. The people of the Song Dynasty who had advanced culture did not have this kind of inferiority complex, but it was not that the Song people did not care about decency and reputation. From the historical background, although the Sui Gong was not as shameful as imagined, it was not fully utilized into the strategy by the Song Dynasty people, and due to the indecency of the Sui Gong, what made the Song Dynasty people lose their national self-confidence. ”

When Wang Maoru said this, he took a sip of water, his throat was smoking, he took a break, and continued: "This is just like our modern times, what are the Chinese people losing? It is national self-confidence, and what today's Chinese people lose is national self-confidence. National self-confidence, on the other hand, is won by the state, and the state is dominated by a small number of people. When a person who has lost national self-confidence takes over the leadership of the government, we can imagine that this person will not care even if he loses power and humiliates the country. All of you students are the future of our Republic of China, and you may enter the State Council, various provincial departments, the Overseer's Office, foreign firms, newspapers, or business. However, remember, you must remember that you must maintain a national self-confidence, and do not think that your country is weak and lose your expectations of the country, because the country is created by us, not waited for. Well, the first chapter of today's international relations, the history of Chinese diplomacy, will be reduced to the first section for the time being. Here I leave you an assignment and ask you to write an article with me. The content is the method of the Song Dynasty's means of dragging down Liaojin, please don't bother, speak freely. In the next class, we will analyze the rights and wrongs of the students, okay, the end of class. ”

As soon as the "class" was finished, the bell rang, and the bell ringer was so consistent with Wang Maoru's schedule, which made everyone laugh.

As soon as class ended, Wang Maoru was surrounded by many students, and everyone was concerned about the things in "The Rise of a Great Power", what British enclosure movement, people eat sheep, what German iron-blooded prime minister and so on. Wang Maoru didn't dare to occupy the classroom, so he walked out while chatting with the students. A girl with short ear-length hair and big eyes suddenly came over and said, "Mr. Xiusheng, Mr. Xiusheng, sign me." Blushing and handing over a piece of paper, Wang Maoru was a little embarrassed and scratched his head embarrassedly, "My words are very ugly, I'm afraid it's better to grow up in Chinese culture." But he took out a fountain pen and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Tang Baoqi." The girl said shyly.

"I wish: Tang Baoqi, study hard, make progress every day, and succeed in your studies." Wang Maoru wrote and said at the same time, handed it to the shy Tang Baoqi, the little girl stuck out her tongue and ran out of the crowd, chatting with a few female students from Peking University, a very cute little girl.

Later, at the invitation of Yan Fu, after getting off class, I had a meal with several teachers and professors from Peking University, drank some wine, and after Wang Maoru settled the bill, other teachers did not allow it, saying that everyone should be responsible for welcoming new teachers. Yan Fu said improperly: "Do you know how much money Xiusheng makes by buying books, we are a big eater today, and we can't eat him." Wang Maoru smiled bitterly and said that Mr. Yan drank wine, and he became a different person.

Naturally, there are those who like him and appreciate him, and there are those who don't like him, and Tang Erhe, a professor at Peking University, doesn't like Wang Maoru and thinks that he is just a person who sells his reputation and reputation. Wang Maoru was calm about the mutual tilting in the education system, which became inevitable in later generations, otherwise he would not have given up the teaching profession and turned to business.

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