When meeting with Zhang Taiyan, Yang Rui felt that he had become fat, and his face was also very ruddy, when he jokingly asked why this happened, his expression suddenly dimmed, "Wei Dan is not dead, I'm afraid I can't live." In the past few months, the prison patrols have arranged for me to work in the dormitory, and if I eat well and work less, I will naturally gain weight. ”

Zou Rong didn't mention it, Yang Rui forgot about it for a while, he is now buried in Japan, and Yang Rui still has to see him when he goes to Japan that day. Suppressing this matter, Yang Rui said, "Uncle Mei, we discussed it, and in April and May next year, we want to bail you out of prison." ”

"April or May next year, this is?" Zhang Taiyan's sentence is three years, and from the day he was captured, he will be released from prison at the end of June next year.

"The Ministry of Industry and Bureau will not dare to poison you again, but it is difficult to say on the Manchu side. We want to get you out of the country in advance by means of medical parole, and then we will hold an enlarged meeting in April or May next year to arrange the next step of the revolution. Yang Rui explained.

"Is the Manchu Qing going to be constitutional?" Zhang Taiyan asked, the West Prison is not as comfortable as the patrol room, where you can't read newspapers, you can only write letters and visit once a while.

"Yes, the Manchus are going to be constitutional. We are now thinking of countermeasures. Yang Rui's face was heavy, and it was not the Manchus who were worried, but the gentry. Historically, if Xinhai had not been opposed to the water, it would not have become such a scale, but it is precisely in this way that their influence on China in the future is extremely huge, and the enemy of the Revival Society in the future will be the gentry.

"Hmm. With you here, I have nothing to worry about. Zhang Taiyan stroked his long beard and said with a smile. In addition to leading the revolutionary trend when Su reported the case. He didn't actually do anything, but that one time was enough, not to mention that he was in the West Prison. I can't do anything I want. After that, he glanced at Yang Rui and said, "What happened to the marriage, did the girl find it?" ”

Yang Rui was embarrassed when he heard this, now that the important things were finished, and the two hours he spent money to buy were still free, Zhang Taiyan began to gossip. He stubbornly said, "Found it, found it." That's right. Uncle Mei, I found a book of Tao Te Ching some time ago......" Yang Rui changed the topic, and took out the Tao Te Ching he was carrying as he spoke. "This book is a gift from a Taoist priest, it seems to be different from the common version now, and I have to ask Uncle Mei for advice on this."

Zhang Taiyan took it, looked through it and said, "This is not an antiquity." I copied it by hand. This book is preceded by the Book of Virtues. The Taoist Sutra is in the back, and it must be the version of the Warring States. It's a pity that the original is missing. ”

The book actually belonged to the Warring States, Yang Rui asked: "Didn't the Warring States use bamboo slips, how can it be maintained until now?" Besides, this Tao Te Ching Tao Ching, why isn't it the Tao Ching in front? ”

Guwen is Yang Rui's weakness, but it is Zhang Taiyan's strength, which leads the topic here. Just scratching the itch of Zhongzhang Taiyan, he smiled when he heard the words: "This Tao Te Ching written by Lao Tzu." It's not called the Tao Te Ching. Or called Lao Tzu, or called five thousand words, and then those sour Confucians, changed their names indiscriminately, and in order to pay attention to what benevolence, righteousness and morality, they changed this book to the Tao Te Ching, and the book of the Warring States period in addition to bamboo slips, there are also silk books. Eighty percent of this scripture was copied by the Taoist priest according to the silk book of the Warring States Period. ”

There is still a lot of time, Yang Rui then asked, "This book is not only different in layout and common, but also different in content, especially the words and sentences in some chapters have been deleted." ”

The Tao Te Ching has been passed down for thousands of years, and there are many typos, but if you want to say that the whole sentence has been deleted, it has not come out. Zhang Taiyan said curiously, "Didn't you copy it?" ”

Yang Rui pointed to the place he saw last time and said: "Here the sentence 'fish cannot be separated from the abyss' has been deleted." ”

After Zhang Taiyan read it, sure enough, this sentence had been deleted, he didn't think so, but after reading the whole book, he suddenly stood up and took steps in the reception room, his expression became solemn. Yang Rui only felt that he was making a little fuss, and jokingly thought in his heart that he wouldn't be crazy.

Zhang Taiyan walked around the room for a while, and only stopped when Yang Rui was dizzy to read it, "Who gave this book?" ”

"Ahh Yang Rui's head seemed to be a little faint again, "This book is called in the Fengtian City family...... The Taoist temple of Taiqing Palace......"

"Oh, it turned out to be a lackey of the Tartars, no wonder there are Taoist classics. It seems that this book is true. Zhang Taiyan sneered, afraid that Yang Rui would be puzzled, and continued: "Taiqing Palace must be the Taoist temple of the Quanzhen Sect, and this Quanzhen Sect was created by Wang Chongyang at the end of the Song Dynasty. These Taoist classics were collected at that time, and this Taiqing Palace is the remnant of the Quanzhen Sect, and it is normal to have this classic. ”

Zhang Taiyan's topic is a thousand years, Yang Rui has only seen Wang Chongyangqiu's machine in Jin Yong's martial arts, and he didn't expect these people to be real, no wonder the Condor Hero reported at that time, Zhang Taiyan strongly asked to replace Qiu Chuji.

When Yang Rui was thinking about it, Zhang Taiyan said with some excitement: "I didn't find out that these two sentences were added by later generations, and now it seems that the deletion of these two sentences is more in line with Lao Tzu's original intention, and it is really inappropriate to have these two sentences." ”

Seeing his excited appearance, Yang Rui asked, "Is it so important to delete two sentences?" ”

"Hmm. Extremely important. Zhang Taiyan stroked his beard and said, "It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an astonishing discovery of academics." ”

Yang Rui smiled, puzzled.

"Have you read Han Feizi?" Zhang Taiyan asked.

Yang Rui said: "I read it earlier, but now I forgot about it." ”

"It doesn't matter if you forget it, does Han Feizi remember that there are two texts in Xie Lao and Yu Lao?"

"I remember. But what does that mean?"

"Hehe, everyone in the world regards Lao Tzu as a Legalist because of Han Feizi's interpretation of Lao Yu Lao's text, and the reason why Xie Lao Yu Lao can say Lao Tzu as a Legalist is above this sentence, if there is no such sentence, then Lao Tzu is Lao Tzu, and Han Feizi is Han Feizi. Its article on the interpretation of the old and the old cannot be based at all. ”

Yang Rui listened a little tastelessly, in his opinion, Lao Zhuang is a family, but Han Feizi is a Legalist. Whether the two can be completely distinguished is an academic matter.

Zhang Taiyan walked around the room as he spoke, and when he turned around, he saw Yang Rui yawning, knowing that he was not interested in this, and smiled. "It seems that Cheng just doesn't like sour Confucianism?"

"Well, Confucianism seems to be benevolent, righteous and moral, but it is just coaxing people. How can there be benevolence and righteousness in the higher-ups. "Yang Rui has always had no good impression of people who are full of benevolence and morality. What is the use of benevolence, righteousness and morality? There is no use except for the foolish people. Now China's 300,000 primary school students and more than 400 million slaves were brought by Confucianism.

"Hey, I only saw the Confucian art of slavery, but not the Legalist imperial technique," Zhang Taiyan shook his head, obviously dissatisfied with Yang Rui being so dissatisfied.

"Then please ask Uncle Mei to solve your doubts." Yang Rui really didn't know, so he had to ask shamelessly.

"Confucian benevolence, righteousness, and morality. It's just that the grass people believe in it, and if any of the powerful men is about benevolence, righteousness and morality, it is to speak. It's just a show. This is for the use of foolish people, who can be slaughtered by others without resisting, and will not be eaten by natural and man-made disasters. They will not raise the flag to rebel. The reason why this Manchu Qing Dynasty did not collapse in a hundred years like the Mengyuan Dynasty. It was the use of some Confucian scholars to advocate the way of Confucianism, so that we enslaved the Han people for more than 260 years. Everyone now understands the scourge of Confucianism, but few people are really vigilant against this scourge of Legalism, and some even regard it as a Western law. For thousands of years in China, if it is said that Confucianism is a liar. The Legalists are hooligans. One hand is soft and the other is hard, coaxing and killing. That's how it has been a dictatorship for thousands of years. ”

Confucianism is hateful, but the Legalist Yang Rui can't hate it a little, and immediately said: "But the Qin State ......"

"I know that you want to talk about the Qin State," Zhang Taiyan said: "No matter how strong the Qin State is, what does it have to do with the small people?" Moreover, the Qin State is strong, and it is only strong outside and strong in the middle, it is a strong time, and it can be strong for a lifetime? It turned out that you said before that there would be a cultural revolution, and this cultural revolution is to build a majestic dynasty, or to rejuvenate our Han nationality for thousands of years? ”

Yang Rui was stunned by his question, he said it before that the rejuvenating Han nationality for thousands of years, and the reason why he said this was because of the revolution in the past two years, he did not enjoy the slightest taste of power, and he felt that this revolution was an extremely hard work. If it is not revolutionary, in the teahouse brothel in Shanghai, the old wine is just right, the chick bubbles, the life is not too happy, which is like the dog running around now, and there is a danger to life. It's just that there is no turning back when the bow is opened, and he will not let go if the revolution is not successful.

"Of course, it is to rejuvenate my Han people for thousands of years!" Yang Rui's answer was categorical, which made me ashamed every time I thought about it many years later.

"That is the case, if the Han people are not prosperous, what is the benefit of the prosperity of the country?" Zhang Taiyan seemed to have entered a state, and he almost fanned the paper fan, "Let me ask again, can you know the original appearance of my Han people?" ”

"What was it like? This, does this Han look like it was originally unsuccessful? ”

"It's really the same as it used to be, but everyone has forgotten about it. Hey, the original appearance of the Han people is contained in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. After Zhang Taiyan finished speaking, he sighed, as if he was regretting.

"Haha, Uncle Mei, this Classic of Mountains and Seas is a myth and legend, how can you believe it." Yang Rui heard him say the Book of Mountains and Seas, and he was immediately happy.

"Then let me ask you, is what is contained in the historical records true?" Seeing that Yang Rui didn't believe it, Zhang Taiyan retorted.

"The historical record was written by Taishi Gong for decades, but it is not true, and it cannot be fake."

"Huh. Chinese historians since ancient times have all told lies, and if they don't say anything else, they just say this Confucius, what does the historical record say? It is said that 'Kongqiu, after the sage, will be destroyed in the Song Dynasty', but if you look closely, since you are a Song person, then you are like the ancestor of the Song Kingdom, and you are a remnant of Yin Shang. At that time, King Wu cut down, Boyi and Shuqi starved to death and did not eat Zhou Su, Jizi moved to North Korea, and Weizi descended to Zhou, so it was divided into Song, and there was a Song country. This Confucius is a native of the Song Dynasty, when he is a merchant and a people, he does not think about his homeland, but he is devoted to Zhou, where is his so-called loyalty? Filial piety, where is filial piety? Did Sima Qian dare to write that Confucius was a remnant of Yin Shang, he didn't dare! China's last 3,000 years of civilization has been tampered with since the beginning of the history books, if we want to carry out a cultural revolution, we should go back 3,000 years, starting from the Yin Shang dynasty. ”

Zhang Taiyan seemed to be tired from talking, but sat down. But Yang Rui was confused by a sentence that dates back to three thousand years: "Isn't that Yin Shang very unreasonable, King Wu is not because of the King of Xu's wine pond meat forest, digging out the belly and digging the heart?" ”

"Hehe, this was also changed by the sour Confucians, the historical records were the first to be changed, and then in the Ming Dynasty, someone wrote the Romance of the Gods, and turned the black and white of things upside down. The pastoral oath of King Wu Ji when he made the war was nothing more than saying that the king listened to the woman's words, and the hen was just in the morning, what else was the crime? Then King Wu Ji Fa played the song of the court, Yin Min was not convinced, he had to ask Yin Xian Jizi, Jizi taught his Hong Fan Jiuchou, King Wu followed, but a few years later he died in politics, and his younger brother King Wen suppressed Yin Min, so he played the Yi system. The change of Chinese politics and culture was at the turn of Yin and Zhou, and the names of monarchs and ministers were undecided. And then the more later, the more the monarch and the minister. This book of Lao Tzu was written in the last years of the Zhou Dynasty. He thought about Yin Shang and compared with the Zhou Dynasty, and made it with heart and feeling, but this book was covered up for thousands of years because of Han Fei's interpretation of the old and the old.

Culture needs to be renewed. We must not only see through the sour Confucianism, but also recall the true nature of our ancestors. This classic of mountains and seas is a myth, but it is precisely because it is a myth. If you don't resort to words, you won't be deliberately deleted. It's just word of mouth, and although it will lose its form, it will remain true. Myths of Western countries. Isn't it all like that? Read Greek mythology. You can see the ancient Greeks, read Germanic mythology, you can see the ancient Germans, read Hindu mythology, you can see the ancient Indians. The ancestors who were not contaminated by the art of rituals and religions only survived in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which were simple and natural, uninhibited and untamed; After three thousand years, he was vile and filthy, servile and servile. If you don't go back in time, I'm afraid that no matter how the culture is reformed, it will not be new. The Han people can't prosper no matter how much they prosper. ”

Zhang Taiyan's description seems to make Yang Rui see a conspiracy of 3,000 years, for 3,000 years, the Legalists have killed the authoritarian rebels with butcher knives over and over again, and Confucianism has painted the true history layer after layer with pen and ink. Since it has been concealed, what is the true nature of Chinese culture, and now that the west is blowing eastward, what should we learn and what should we keep? Yang Rui wanted to ask, but the time for the prison visit had arrived, and Zhang Taiyan had already been brought in.

Although Zhang Taiyan left, his words washed over Yang Rui's mind like a flood, and he only felt that his previous understanding of Chinese culture was completely wrong, and the three-thousand-year-old letter history had long been harmonized. In the confusion, he kept thinking about it, chewing on the deep meaning of these words, and suddenly remembered with a burst of applause, and Chen Guangshou next to him said: "Sir, it's time for you to come to the stage to speak." ”

"Ahh Yang Rui seemed to wake up from a dream, and suddenly looked around, it turned out that this was already the opening ceremony of Tongji University Hall, and there were nearly 1,000 famous students sitting in the auditorium, and more than students were famous figures from all walks of life in Shanghai, that is, the French consul who did not deal with Germany, and was also pulled by the British consul to sit on the right side of the same row as Yang Rui. At this time, the radio on the stage sounded: "Next, let us invite Mr. Yang from the China Education Association to give a speech." ”

As soon as the Germans in front of him went down, the Education Association was ranked third as the host, and Cai Yuanpei's consciously speaking skills were not as good as Yang Rui's, so he directly handed over this task, but Zhang Taiyan's words in the morning made Yang Rui not think about the afternoon speech at all, he stepped onto the stage and stood in front of the microphone for a long time.

Cai Yuanpei and others only felt that Yang Rui's behavior was strange today, and it was abnormal since he entered the venue in the afternoon, and now seeing that he was only by the microphone and did not speak, they couldn't help but worry in their hearts, although the host did not say that he was Yang Jingcheng when he introduced him, but in the future, everyone present knew that the person who was standing on the side of the stage and couldn't speak was the president of the Fuxing Association, so ......

When Cai Yuanpei was worried, Yang Rui on the stage bowed, but when he raised his head, he regained his previous high-spirited and calm appearance, he smiled apologetically, and then said: "Originally, I thought about what I wanted to say yesterday, but now in the face of you, I feel that it is all nonsense, so don't say it." ”

Yang Rui's words were dry, and the gentry were at a loss, but the students were laughing and applauding, and those foreigners who came today were accustomed to seeing the rigidity of the Chinese, and at this moment, when they first saw such a Chinese who was not subject to rules and was frank and self-assured, they immediately had a lot of good feelings.

"Today is the opening ceremony of Tongji University Hall, so it is natural to talk about the spirit of this university. If the university is compared to a person, then the spirit is the soul of the school, and only when the soul is present can it be said to be a university, and if the soul is lost, it can only be said to be a school. But if we want to talk about the spirit of the university, we must first talk about the spirit of science, after all, this university is a place to learn science. Someone once said, 'Middle school is the body, Western learning is for use', which sounds reasonable, and it protects our face, but in fact, this statement is extremely absurd. ”

Middle school for the body, Western learning for the use is the famous saying of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, Yang Rui said that this is a big fallacy, not only the gentry in the audience suddenly a little confused, but also the students are very confused. But Yang Rui above had already fully engaged in the speech, and he didn't care about the reaction of the people below.

"Why is it ridiculous, because this only sees science as a kind of art, and thinks that this kind of art can be held in one's own hands, and it can be respected from east to west. Although science has a spirit, in the minds of such people, science is just a corpse. In fact, as early as more than 2,000 years ago, Gongsun Long, who said that white horses are not horses, was killed by these people, so our Chinese scientific spirit has also been extinguished since then. Speaking of which, all of you here must think. What does this white horse have to do with the spirit of science, isn't this just the likes of famous people in the past, who were bored and played with their mouths when they were full. But in fact, the scientific spirit of the West comes directly from the philosophical and speculative tradition of ancient Greece, that is, boring rhetoric. Aristotle summarized the philosophical speculation of people at that time, and he believed that it was because of leisure, and if we look at the word "school" in the West, it is derived from the Greek word "leisure". From this, it is not difficult to see that the first rule of the scientific spirit is boredom, and it must be boring. Imagine. If Newton, a great scientist who was busy with his livelihood all day long and was hit in the head by an apple, would he think of gravity from the apple falling to the ground? ”

The first to be mobilized by Yang Rui's speech were the foreigners below, from the mouths of the translators. Hear an Oriental explanation with Eastern ideas derived from Western science. It made them very curious, and after Yang Rui finished speaking, they all laughed and applauded, and then the students and gentry also applauded. After a pause in applause, Yang Rui said again:

"Boredom is only the premise of science, but what is the purpose of science? In the eyes of those who 'learn from the West for use', science is for use. If it's useless, then don't learn. But in fact. The second spirit of science is precisely uselessness. Today, we see a lot of technology used in various parts of life, but the people who trace it to its original and find it are often not for it.

There is a story about the ancient Greek scholar Thales, who once fell into a puddle of water while he was walking and thinking about a problem, and a servant girl laughed at him and said, 'It's ridiculous that you can't even see things around you, but you always think about things in heaven.' Thales couldn't refute it for a while, and later, he refuted the vulgar servant girl with practical actions - he watched the sky at night, and knew that next year's olive harvest would be abundant, so he rented all the oil mills in advance, and sure enough, the next year's olive harvest was abundant, and Thales rented out the oil mills at a high price and made a lot of money. Aristotle said of this: 'It is easy for a philosopher to do it if he wants to make money, but his interest is not in that', while Hegel said: 'Only those who lie in the pit forever, and never look up to the sky, do not fall into the pit'.

It is precisely because of the spirit of speculation for the sake of speculation and the spirit of seeking knowledge for the sake of knowledge that the tradition of Western 'wisdom' is deduced. In the West, there used to be a utilitarian trend of thought, the Wise Movement, who made it their profession to impart wisdom, and in their view, wisdom was only a means to meet a utilitarian end. In this regard, Plato called these people 'merchants who wholesale and retail spiritual food'. Later, the wise man became almost synonymous with sophistry, and pure speculation ascended to the hall of elegance, forging the metaphysical tradition of the West for more than 2,000 years.

The boredom of science is due to the fact that there is leisure to study the things that make you feel different; The uselessness of science is due to the fact that the search for truth is not based on utilitarianism, but from the heart. Their love for the truth has gone beyond the scope of reason, and they believe that because of the original sin of stealing the forbidden fruit, people will always be bound by the heavy body, and if they want to get rid of this bondage, they can only rely on the power of the 'soul' to explore the metaphysical world, life is limited, and exploration is infinite. The meaning and value of life lies in breaking free from the finite and entering the infinite. This attitude of exploration and transcendence exists not only in the religious belief with Christianity at its core, but also in the spirit of science, and we have to say that the last description of the spirit of science should be infinite.

Boredom, uselessness, and infinity are the spirit of Western science, but the world only sees the foreigners' ships and artillery, but they do not know that this kind of ship, artillery, and ingenuity are completely secularization and practicalization of the by-products of scientific cultivators. They are at a loss to think that the strength of ships and guns is the fundamental reason why Westerners are stronger than the East, and they do not understand at all that the way of the West lies in thinking and debate, and this kind of thinking and debate is the debate of white horses and non-horses that have been annihilated for more than 2,000 years. This kind of speculative tradition, which has been interrupted for more than 2,000 years in Chinese history, will be re-excavated today and inherited well, in this inheritance, we must not be utilitarian, let alone impatient, because science is a kind of monasticism, and it is not for the purpose of being useful to the world, but to realize the infinity and eternity of life through the pursuit of truth. As the first university in China to be established in a completely imitation of the Western university, the spirit of the university should include the spirit of science, and the students who come out of it should know the way of speculation and the way of science. ”

This is the end of Yang Rui's speech. As soon as he said, "This is the end of the lecture, thank you", the foreign professors present immediately gave a standing ovation, these scientific cultivators who came from Germany thousands of miles and suffered a lot, although they were kind to the Bodhi tree in Tongji, they were still very worried about whether anyone could understand what real science was in this wild place of science, but this worry disappeared without a trace after listening to Yang Rui's speech. Boring, useless, and infinite, they were impressed by this oriental summary of science, so when Yang Rui left the stage, they were the first to stand up and applaud, and under their leadership, the students, consuls, and gentry also stood up and applauded.

Yang Rui didn't expect that his impromptu speech would be approved by so many people, and when he saw everyone standing up, he bowed again before going down. In the midst of the applause, Oda Kiri Manjunosuke applauded and said to Kozong Fangtaro: "This person really has insight into Western studies. Who the hell is he? Is it also a revival? ”

Kozong Fangtaro said: "This person has never been in Shanghai before. Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and said: "This person's surname is Yang, could it be ......"

"Well, investigate him!" Oda said neatly. (To be continued......)