Li Jinglin was drinking tea after finishing a set of boxing skills. He walked quickly with Yang Kuishan and announced: "Master Li, someone has sent a greeting card and these newspapers are attached."
"Um?"
Li Jinglin had never seen someone who sent greetings and delivered newspapers, so he immediately became interested and said with a smile: "Bring it to me and take a look."
Yang Kuishan immediately offered it with both hands. He was not only Li Jinglin's confidant, he was also Li Jinglin's disciple and the only successor of Wudang Tai Chi Sword.
Li Jinglin opened the greeting note, and there was nothing written in it, only an inexplicable signature—Greetings, junior Zhou Hexuan!
WTF?
Li Jinglin went to look through the newspapers again and saw that none of them were complete, but each one published an article called "The Rise of a Great Power", and the author's signature was none other than Zhou Hexuan.
Anyway, he had nothing to do after leaving the field, so Li Jinglin simply started reading from the beginning. He read from the Portuguese chapter to the French chapter. When he came in and called him to eat, Li Jinglin was shocked to realize that it was already noon, and he had been reading for a long time without knowing it.
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"What a great article!" Li Jinglin praised it and said to his attendant, "Bring me the food. I will use Hongwen to cook my meal today."
The revolution in France has been going on for nearly a hundred years. The First French Republic, the First French Empire, the Bourbon Restoration, the July Monarchy, the Second French Republic, the Second French Empire, and the Third French Republic have been repeated over and over again.
After Fang finished singing, I came on stage.
Li Jinglin had only known that France had had many revolutions before, but this was the first time he understood it so thoroughly. In his opinion, all the revolutions in France were child's play, but when he thought about China today, he found that they were almost the same.
Does it take a hundred years of revolution for China to be truly unified?
Li Jinglin didn't even want to eat, so he continued reading the German chapter. This content surprised him even more.
It turns out that Germany was still divided 100 years ago. There were more than 300 large and small states at the same time, and more than 6,000 different types of currencies were used. A few hours' drive in the country required passing through 10 states and going through 10 procedures.
, exchanged currency 10 times, paid 10 tariffs, the total tariff even exceeded the value of the goods.
Germany's history is as humiliating as that of the late Qing Dynasty. When Napoleon invaded Germany, Prussia was forced to cede half of its territory and pay a war indemnity of 150 million francs. Even the Statue of Peace, which represents the national spirit, was dismantled by Napoleon and transported back to France.
But such a country has been miraculously unified and has become one of the world's great powers. It has even surpassed the United Kingdom and become the world's second economic power after the United States!
"What a magnificent Germany!" Li Jinglin couldn't let go of the scroll. Reading the German chapter made his blood boil. He wished he could transform into the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck.
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"Mighty Germany!"
In Shandong under the rule of Dog Meat General Zhang Zongchang, Liang Suming, director of the Provincial No. 6 Middle School, clapped his hands and shouted loudly.
Liang Xuming was born in a scholarly family. He initially believed in the reformist ideas of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, and later joined the Tongmenghui. Then he became enthusiastic about socialism and wrote books to promote the abolition of private ownership. He had a soft heart and did not want to see the suffering of the world, so he devoted himself to
He studied Buddhism and committed suicide several times but was saved. He only had a high school diploma, but he was invited by Cai Yuanpei to be a professor at Peking University. His major was Indian philosophy.
This is a figure who is constantly striving to make progress in his thinking. He founded the Shandong Rural Construction Research Institute in the past two years and is committed to the study of China's rural areas. He believes that developing and constructing rural areas can save China. He has published "Rural Construction Essentials" and "Rural Construction Theory" successively.
and other works.
The "Beijing-Tianjin Times" was not available in Heze. Liang Xuming read "The Rise of the Great Powers" by chance. He immediately wrote a letter asking his friends in Tianjin to send him the newspaper regularly. Now he is studying and reading the German article.
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What Li Jinglin saw in the article was iron blood, but what Liang Xuming saw was education to save the country.
When encountering Napoleon's invasion, King William III of Prussia said: "This country must use the strength of the spirit to make up for the loss of the body. It is precisely because of poverty that it has to provide education. I have never heard of a country that is poor in providing education.
The country is being subjugated!"
When Prussia was still paying huge war reparations to Napoleon, the Humboldt University of Berlin was born. The king took out the last bit of his wealth and donated the luxurious palace to build the university campus. He also proposed that the country must give full support to teaching and scientific research activities.
Provide material support, but must not interfere with educational and academic activities.
From then on, in Prussia, education, like military service, became an obligation that citizens must fulfill. Students were required to register as absent from class every month, and they were fined 3 silver coins for skipping class for one day, which was heavier than taxes. Free education in Germany began in the mid-19th century
, until the unification of Germany, the enrollment rate of school-age children had reached 97.5%.
That was more than 50 years ago. What is China's literacy rate now?
Liang Yuming couldn't help but sigh, and deeply agreed with what Marshal Moltke said in the article: "Prussia's victory was decided as early as the primary school teacher's podium."
Education, education must be provided, education can save the country!
After being influenced by reformism, liberal democracy, socialism, and Buddhist thought, Liang Xuming finally discovered the way to save the country from the article "The Rise of a Great Power."
Excited, Liang Xuming spread out the letter paper and wrote a letter to Cai Yuanpei, who had just returned to China at the beginning of the year, explaining his philosophy of saving the country through education, and strongly recommended the series of articles "The Rise of Great Powers", calling it "a magnificent article to help the world and save the people." He also hoped that Cai Yuanpei would save the country.
He took the lead in rebuilding the China Education Association and raised funds from warlords and wealthy businessmen in various places to promote universal primary education across the country. He believed that when a large number of children who have received basic education grow up, China will become rich and powerful.
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Meng Xiaodong, who was far away in the New Tianjin Newspaper Office, was more interested in the French Revolution. Passion, romance, and freedom were all legendary and could be called an epic on earth.
If you intercept a few of these stories and compile them into a big drama, it will definitely be very popular.
Meng Xiaodong sat in front of the window, holding her cheek in her hand in a daze, her thoughts wandering to nowhere.
That Mr. Zhou is really strange. Although he has earth-shattering talents, he is willing to be a minor adjutant under the warlord. Moreover, he is also very scheming in his actions. It can be seen from his rescue and subjugation of the Sun brothers that he is not just a pedantic talker.
generation.
I persuaded him to go to the south, but he asked me to watch "The Rise of the Great Powers". Does he think that the southern government cannot succeed?
Meng Xiaodong put away the newspaper, her mind filled with doubts and curiosity. She planned to read the subsequent articles before talking about it. Perhaps his true thoughts were hidden in the Japanese, American and Russian articles that had not yet been published.
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In early June, Ye Ting's Independent Regiment captured You County in Hunan Province and started the first successful battle of the Northern Expedition.
At the same time, after a period of fermentation, Zhou Hexuan's "The Rise of the Great Powers" has gradually spread, and even people in the southwest and northwest regions are reading this masterpiece.
This is the collective learning content organized by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in 2003. Based on this, CCTV launched the documentary series "The Rise of Great Powers" in Beijing. It will be extremely valuable decades later, let alone confused and confused.
Republic of China.
Li Jinglin, Liang Suming, Meng Xiaodong, they are warlords, scholars, and actors, and they have seen different things through their articles. And more readers in China have also begun to seriously think about how China can find its own destiny after reading "The Rise of the Great Powers"
The road to the rise of a great power.
Even many foreigners paid more and more attention to this series of articles after the British, French and German articles were serialized. The British and French consuls general in Tianjin also specially sorted out the newspapers and sent them back to provide them to Europeans.
Scholars refer to research.
We will talk about Japan soon, and it is estimated that even Japanese spies will be keeping an eye on Zhou Hexuan.
