To be honest, this kind of question is relatively mild. The students from Peking University below didn’t pay much attention to it.
But when Zeng Yi heard this question, he immediately became excited: "This classmate, I just bought this book. After a few glances, I threw it away. You want to hear my true evaluation.
Is that? Nonsense! If you add another comment, it is sensationalism and misleading! Especially the slanderous words against the heroes of the Meiji Restoration are simply crazy. And you think that our country has always been a great power? Isn’t that a joke? A century of humiliation
Where did it come from?..."
The audience below was stunned. How could they react so strongly? Didn't they throw your child into the well? And what was written in that book about casinos? It actually caused Teacher Zeng to curse loudly?
A female classmate next to her quietly asked Ying Xin: "Xinxin, the interview you did a few days ago was about "Casino" written by him."
Ying Xin was also confused. She didn't expect that Zeng Yi would suddenly turn against her. She nodded blankly: "Yes."
"Then do you know whether the author has real materials? Or is he just sensationalizing and talking nonsense, as Teacher Zeng said?"
Ying Xin was stunned for a moment: "Of course it is real material. The editor-in-chief of the Army Publishing House gave high praise. At least the book quoted so much information, put forward its own opinions, and made logical conclusions.
Analysis, most people simply can’t do it!”
When she said this, Ying Xin felt a little guilty because these words were borrowed from Zhang Hui's comments. How could this girl read a book written by Big Pig Tou?
But as a friend, of course your elbows should be turned inward.
Did you hear that? Big Pig Tou, you owe me another favor!
"Hehe, now it's going to be interesting." The female classmate looked at the fun and didn't mind it, "It's best to invite Brother Yuan over and let them have a fight on the spot."
"This won't work." Ying Xin blurted out without thinking, "You don't know how bad that person is. If he sells you, you will help him count the money. Hum."
"Ah?" The female classmate looked at Ying Xin strangely.
Ying Xin finally reacted. Her pretty face turned red and she felt her ears were burning.
I just helped count the money after the sale. Isn’t this just talking about myself?
…
In the book "Casino", Li Yuan put forward two brand-new academic viewpoints, which were the result of the quarrel between keyboard warriors on the forum. They were the result of constant collision and quarrel.
You know, keyboard warriors have no limitations in their thinking, and they can discuss all their wild ideas. Anyway, there is a dog sitting behind the network cable, and no one else will know about it. So some views will be very different from those so-called orthodox views.
Here, the first one is - the Meiji Restoration patriarch just said this!
In the book "Casino", Li Yuan actually did not deny the huge contribution of this group of people in the Meiji Restoration.
Western colonists entered the East at about the same time. At that time, both China and Japan were insular. So why did the Meiji Restoration succeed? But the Central Empire did not succeed? It is not that there was no effort, such as the failed Reform Movement of 1898, and
Was there the later Westernization Movement and so on?
Mainly because of the world structure at that time, the Western powers headed by the Sun Never Set were dividing colonial territory. It was very similar to the national situation in Japan at that time - headed by the Tokugawa shogunate, the daimyo in various places were de facto divided. There was constant intrigue.
From time to time, he would also come up and down.
So by the time of the Meiji Restoration, the politicians in Japan were very accustomed to this world structure. It was just that the Western powers were roughly equal to the Tokugawa shogunate, and Japan was equal to a daimyo? They tried every means to annex the territory of other daimyo, and from time to time they tried to defeat the Western powers?
The Central Empire was completely dumbfounded. They originally had a tribute system? There was no such separation at all, so they didn't know how to deal with the Western powers or how to engage in diplomacy? In addition to various other reasons, so
It failed.
The other is the group of elders of the Meiji Restoration. They originally all supported seclusion and the so-called "respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians". Their purpose was actually to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate and compete for the supreme power of the country.
But when those veterans came to power, they immediately made a 180-degree U-turn - comprehensive Westernization. They even later proposed such ridiculous ideas as leaving Asia and joining Europe?
By the way, you can tear off a yellow skin and replace it with white skin. Otherwise, how can you leave Asia and join Europe?
So those elders have no ideals at all!
And later on, a very strange political situation formed in the country. The army and navy did not care about the civilian government at all. They went their separate ways, and there became a "deep hatred" between the two?
The army and navy are also in a similar state. The Choshu clan in the army and the Satsuma clan in the navy should all know this, but they still have small groups inside and have clan politics?
It is precisely because of this that the strong gambling nature of the book is reflected - if we lose, the country will suffer anyway; if we win, my small group will make a lot of money.
In fact, there are more exchanges with the outside world now, and we have a lot of contact with Benzi. What kind of desperate gambling spirit do they have in their daily lives? Not at all, right?
To use the words in "Casino", they are a group of idealistic and refined egoists!
Just for the interests of his own small group, above the interests of the entire country. Hirobumi Ito, the only one who had a bigger picture, was assassinated by them in the end?
Of course, it was precisely because the Central Empire was in a worse state at that time that those elders stood out, thus "making Zhuzi famous"!
Because of this, Benzi's army and navy have a strong gambling habit. It also closely adheres to the theme of "The Vast Ocean is a Casino". Therefore, it is understandable that Benzi's navy made desperate decisions several times.
Another academic point of view is - the theory of Chinese great powers!
Concerning this point of view, it seems a bit difficult for the great powers to listen, and it is better to use the theory of great powers.
In fact, both in the diplomacy of the Western powers and in their academic research, they have always recognized that China is a very important power. But officials like you have to kneel on the ground. If you don't take advantage, won't you become a pig?
Just to give you an example, why did the United Nations give our country a permanent seat on the Security Council when it was established? You wouldn’t give it to us by paying your phone bill, right? It’s because it recognizes that you are a powerful country!
However, from the Duck War, to the Beiyang government, to the Republic of China..., domestic foreign relations have never been able to position themselves correctly. Either they pretend to be ostriches and turn a deaf ear, or they are phobic and accept blackmail, and they never learn to proceed from their own position.
Ask for the benefits you deserve.
For example, at the Paris Peace Conference, the Western powers collectively set up a fight.
This also led to Benzi's ambitions becoming bigger and bigger, and his gambling nature becoming bigger and bigger.