Chapter 4 Settle down in the Republic of China

On this day, May 11, 1912, a traveler came to the ancient city of Beijing, which is now in the city ruled by Yuan Shikai of the Beiyang Army.

Wang Mao had a place to stand and a little spare money in his hands, so he bought horses first, and because someone in Puji's family worked in the police station, he had a pass order and could freely enter and exit the Beiping City Gate. He sold the watch in his hand and earned two thousand taels of silver, and hired a family on the street to escape the famine, and his family became popular.

entrusted Pu Ji to find his second brother and help Wang Maoru find a family tree, and learned that there were five families surnamed Wang before the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing in Dongjiaomin Lane, two of which were three small families, one large family moved to the south, and the other four households were more or less destroyed in the war more than ten years ago. Pu Ji's follower Yao Quan'er took Wang Maoru to find a surviving family surnamed Wang who was in Dongjiaomin Lane at the time, but this family was driven to the countryside, and Wang Maoru went to that family to ask about Dongjiaomin Lane before.

The family said that in their early years, their ancestors had a foreign comprador who lost it somehow. Wang Maoru left 200 silver to this down-and-out family with the same surname, and the family happily helped Wang Maoru become a naturalized citizen, and he finally had an identity in this era.

Pu Ji is a typical son-in-law, he likes to play music, but he is also a down-and-out son-in-law, the ancestral foundation has long been squandered, and there is no income in the family, but he is good at recruiting friends and friends, and he is very popular, and he is known as the third young master in Beijing. Pu Sanshao has a new friend, generous, elegant conversation, polite treatment, and is returning from studying in Europe, talking about European folk customs and people's livelihood interesting stories, but let many people know Europe for the first time.

The two of them often went to Shouchun Lou to eat and drink, and a few inquisitive people followed, including a Japanese named Gongzang Pingliang, who was a reporter for the "Shuntian Times". This man has been in China for three years and knows the Chinese well, and as a reporter, he has made friends with many people, and Puji's circle of friends once invited him to listen to the drama and chat. Wang Maoru knows what these sons like to hear, what they like to hear is why Europe is an emperor system, but it is so strong, and China has also reformed, but the emperor is gone. The massive amount of information in his previous life made it very easy for Wang Maoru to fool these sons and brothers who had never even been out of Beijing.

Later, he met Gong Zang Pingliang, talked with him and discussed the systems and development of various countries, and between his words, he brought in a lot of knowledge from the "Rise of a Great Power" that he had seen before, which made Gong Zang Pingliang greatly admired, and then asked him for a manuscript. Probably wanting to act as a cultural person, and also wanted to make a name for himself in the era of the Republic of China, so he took Mr. Xiusheng as the pen name, bored at home for three days, and wrote more than 100,000 words of "Japan Chapter on the Rise of Great Powers". As soon as he went out, his eyes were red, and Pu Ji was scared to think that he had pink eye.

After handing over this article "The Rise of a Great Power: Japan's Centennial Restoration" to Gong Zang Pingliang, Wang Maoru went back to the kang and slept for a day and a night, and then he regained his vitality.

How can the rise of a great power be explained clearly in a few words, this Japanese chapter is actually to attract people's attention. Nowadays, literate people in North China have subscribed to the "Shuntian Times" at home, and Gong Zang Pingliang saw that this article has a novel idea, between the words, and the perspective is broad, from the international form, from the information of the times, and from the analysis of regional relations, which can be called a true insight of every word, and was immediately published in the "Shuntian Times". Seven thousand words are published every day, and they are temporarily released for three days. Unexpectedly, the response was good, not only the Chinese were deeply touched after reading it, but also the Japanese saw it, and also exclaimed how many Chinese talents there were.

In particular, some people can't help but feel gloomy when they see the Centennial Restoration, if the Qing Dynasty insists on the Restoration......

Gong Zang Pingliang hurriedly sent Wang Maoru a manuscript fee of 2,000 yen, and then "The Rise of a Great Power: Japan: A Hundred Years of Restoration" was serialized, and Wang Maoru gave him another 100,000-word "The Rise of a Great Power: Portugal and Spain - Ocean Adventure". Kozo went back to negotiate with the president and shareholders of the newspaper to raise the fee for an article from 2,000 yuan to 3,500 yen.

Later, Wang Maoru took out "The Rise of a Great Power: The Netherlands - The Great Cause of a Small Country", "The Rise of a Great Power: Britain - Industry", "The Rise of a Great Power: French Films-Romantic Passion", "The Rise of a Great Power: Germany - Iron-blooded Order", "The Rise of a Great Power: Russia - Breaking the Territory", "The United States of the Rise of a Great Power - Dream Country", "The Rise of a Great Power: Austria-Hungary - The Heart of Europe".

For several months, Wang Maoru stayed at home and concentrated on studying the articles, but what he didn't know was that his series of articles on "The Rise of Great Powers" was published in the "Shuntian Times", which attracted the attention of many scholars. Yan Fu, the most famous scholar at that time, literati, bourgeois enlightener, translator, and educator, immediately found the president of Suncheon Times after watching the series of articles "The Rise of a Great Power", and inquired about Mr. Xiusheng's residence.

At this time, Yan Fu's comparative view of Chinese and Western cultures matured, and began to enter the stage of self-reflection, tending to return to traditional culture. He feared that China's loss of its own "national identity" would be "like a fish separated from water and empty, like the cripple abducted to walk, like the opium of the shorter than the spirit, which is called the loss of its nature," and "the loss of its nature will not last long." Out of such a deeper concern for the future and destiny of the Chinese nation, Yan Fu once tried to combine the liberal arts and classics of Peking University into one, and completely used them to cure the old learning, "so as to maintain the four or five thousand years of the Compendium of the Holy Saints of our country." ”

However, although Yan Fu obeyed the Tao, he was not conservative, especially against the current Westernism in the cultural circles of the Chinese people, and some people are even advocating the replacement of Chinese characters with letters and changing the writing habits of thousands of years. When Yan Fu saw in the newspaper that Mr. Xiusheng in the series of the rise of great powers, the countries of the world have maintained their own culture and praised him, as if he had found a bosom friend, he ran to Wang Maoru's house to find him.

Wang Maoru saw that it was an old man wearing a melon skin hat and braids, and he was eager to see him, which caught him off guard. Wang Maoru has been writing articles at home these days, and he doesn't even have time to accompany Pu Ji to go shopping in the flower street. However, he didn't have nothing to do, and instructed Pu Ji to find a bookstore and sell his "Rise of a Great Power" series of prints, the price should not be too expensive, and the paper did not have to be very sophisticated. Pu Ji said strangely that he made money by publishing books, and if he didn't do a good job, how could he make money. Wang Maoru smiled and said with a smile that others publish books to make money, I only make a reputation when I publish books, and the money earned, you and I will divide it in half, and I will hand it over to you to take care of.

Napu Ji was proud, there were already many commercial printing houses and printing houses, or big booksellers came to visit Wang Maoru, and learned that all the things about the book were handed over to Pu Ji, which also made Pu Ji, a lost nobleman, have the feeling of calling forward and calling for the first time.

However, Yan Fu was the president of Peking University after all, and Pu Ji was proud and did not dare to offend celebrities in Beijing's cultural circles, so he brought him to Wang Maoru. Wang Maoru was surprised to learn that this person was actually the president of Peking University, this Yan Fu spoke elegantly and was proficient in many Chinese. Wang Maoru, on the other hand, stands in the world of future generations, looks at the world of his predecessors, analyzes events step by step, and looks at the abyss. The two also chatted about the current state political system, the political system, and even the Southern ** Party, which is now renamed the Kuomintang, and so on.

When the two chatted in detail, from time to time because of the views on things and disputes, although Yan Fu is famous, the heart is very strict with academics, the two chatted for a day and a night, and at night Wang Maoru called the housekeeper, called the wine and food, and the two talked about the world while eating and drinking. Wang Maoru's eloquence was exercised as early as when he was doing business, and his response was also fast, and his conversation was novel, which was quite insightful in Yan Fu's opinion.

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