Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: The Great Swordsman Five

It was already the spring of 1898 when Liang Qichao returned to Shanghai.This year is the 24th year of Guangxu, the year of 1898, and the business operations of the past few years have quickly yielded results in this year.First, Emperor Guangxu summoned Kang Youwei on April 28; seventeen days later, on May 15, the emperor summoned Liang Qichao again, awarded him the title of sixth-rank official, and asked him to handle the affairs of the printing office.This was a very strange summoning. According to the imperial court regulations, one must be an official of the fourth rank or above to be eligible to be summoned by the emperor. The emperor does not summon ministers.At that time, Liang Qichao was only twenty-six years old. Not only was he not a minister, he was simply a commoner. It was rare for the emperor to summon a commoner since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.

The rarity doesn't stop there.In July, Tan Sitong was also summoned.On July 20th, four military aircraft chapters were published. Military aircraft Zhangjing was like an official in charge of political affairs in the Tang Dynasty. His official position was not high, but he was close to the emperor and had the actual power of a prime minister. Emperor Guangxu thought that Kang Youwei was too famous , Afraid of stabbing the Queen Mother's eyes, Kang Youwei was arranged outside the palace, and the two sides kept in touch through Sizhangjing.Therefore, after retreating from the court and returning from get off work, in the Nanhai Guild Hall and Liuyang Guild Hall, there were many footprints of everyone gathering.

However, for Tan Sitong, gatherings are not very simple.Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, and the other three Zhang Jing, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Lin Xu, etc., were purely intellectuals, so-called scholars, and their circle of acquaintances was narrow, but Tan Sitong was not.In addition to scholars like him, his friends also include people from all walks of life from all over the world, which is the lower class in the eyes of scholars.Tan Sitong read Zuo Taichong's poems when he was a child, and he read that there are no geniuses in He Shi, but they are left in Caoze, and he appreciates them very much.He believed that there must be geniuses in the grass, just as Confucius believed that there must be faithfulness in ten rooms.And this kind of genius is not easy to find among scholars. Huang Zhongze's poem says that every generation of dog is slaughtered with righteousness, which is this kind of point of view.Tan Sitong wants to make friends with heroes from all corners of the country, because he believes that to save China, it is not enough for scholars to talk empty words and write articles, but it must be accompanied by actions. The lower class go find it, especially lower class gang figures.The first thing he thought of was the people from Hongmen.The Hongmen was a secret organization organized by the survivors of the late Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty.Its distant origin comes from Taiwan.Back then, when Zheng Chenggong refused to rule the Qing Dynasty and retreated to Taiwan, he and his subordinates pledged to become brothers and engage in the great cause of fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.He established the Jintai Mountain and the Mingyuan Hall, and established the Hanliu, which means that it is the legacy of the unyielding Han under the Manchu rule.Five more generals were sent to infiltrate the mainland, and they became the former five patriarchs of the Hongmen, with the Shaolin Temple in Jiulianshan, Fujian as their base camp.In order to trace the origin to Taiwan, Tan Sitong persuaded his second elder brother Tan Sixiang to go to Taiwan to trace Zheng Chenggong's footsteps.But the result of the second brother's follow-up was very discouraged. He wrote to tell Tan Sitong that Taiwan is no longer the Taiwan of Zheng Chenggong's era. .Therefore, Tan Sitong decided to find comrades among the lower classes in the Central Plains, and in this way, he met Wang Wu.

Wang Wu is from Beijing. His surname is Bai. He was orphaned when he was eight years old.He and his younger brother begged for food along the street, and found a Beijing Shunxing police station. The shopkeeper Wang of the police station saw that he was very good-looking, so he took him in, considered him an adopted son, and changed his surname to Wang.Eleven years later, shopkeeper Wang died, and he inherited the bureau.Because of his chivalry, straightforwardness, and high martial arts skills, he is called the Great Swordsman Wang Wu. His real name is Wang Zhengyi. The bureaucracy is a strange industry.People who do this business are invited by dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and merchants to be bodyguards, protecting people or escorting goods on the road until their destination.This kind of business is called escort.To walk, or by water, or by land, you have to take a lot of risks. Risks are robbers on the road, generally called thieves.

If you can't see the thieves, you can't fight the thieves. The price is too high, and you can't fight.On the contrary, not only is it not fighting, but peace talks.When encountering a thief blocking the way, the head of the bureau would always step forward, with a smile on his face, clasped his fists, bowed to the thief, and said in greeting: "It's hard work being in charge!"Those who are thieves also have to be sensible, and let them go as soon as they can.Will also answer: the hard work of the shopkeeper!Then the thief will ask the guard's name: which one?The bodyguard will report the name.So, I started to talk in Chundian, Chundian is slang.

The scope of spring points includes the masters and gangs in the world. If it involves distant ancestors or fellow disciples, everyone will pass it on from the same master, so it's easy to say.To give face to the thief, to admit that the thief is convenient, is to reward the bureau.Then there is this dialogue: Whose clothes are you wearing?The thief asked. wearing a friend's clothes.The bodyguard answered. Whose meal did you eat?The thief asked. A meal with friends.The bodyguard answered. This is the truth, because bodyguards eat like thieves. Without thieves, who would need bodyguards?Thieves are the parents of food and clothing!

After a while, the spring point was pulled down, and the thief gave way to the road, indicating that he was allowed to go.Before leaving, the bodyguard had to be polite.explain: Master, thank you for borrowing the way.What do you bring? I'll go over there and be back in a few days. I didn't bring any.Thieves are also polite.Shopkeeper, you have worked hard. Thieves do not ask to bring things, but thieves will come to the city to play.When playing, they will also find the police, who will definitely protect them and prevent the officials from catching them.If caught, the signboard will be smashed.After going on the road, the rivers and lakes will never go well.

Although Wang Wu of the Great Swordsman is one of the eight bureaus in Beijing, due to Wang Wu's great reputation, as long as Wang Wu's hall name is displayed during the walk, there will be no surprises in the surrounding green forests. Buy it.It is precisely because Wang Wu has a good relationship with the thief, so if there are some troubles, he will be provoked.Once, dozens of robberies occurred in a row, and most of the robbed were corrupt officials, which aroused the shock of the Ministry of Punishment and ordered the prefect Pu Wenxian to arrest them.Taishou Pu sent hundreds of officers and soldiers to Wang Wu's house outside Xuanwu Gate to arrest people, but Wang Wu resisted the arrest with 20 people, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to enter the house by force. Take it off.The next day, Wang Wu suddenly surrendered himself to Taishou Pu.Prefect Pu was surprised:

If you are arrested, you resist arrest, if you are not arrested, you surrender yourself, what's going on? Wang Wu said: "If you come hard, I will do it hard; if you withdraw your troops, I will surrender." Taishou Pu said: I know you have long since washed your hands and quit doing things like robbers, but you always want to help me solve the case. Dozens of cases come together, wouldn't it be a good look for an official! Wang Wu said: I will definitely help my lord. The question is, do you want stolen goods or someone?If you want stolen goods, I can help you recover them; if you want someone, you have to take the blame on me.

Pu Taishou decided that he only wanted to recover the stolen goods.That's it, problem solved. Later, Wang Wu felt that Taishou Pu was an upright and good official, and he did not accuse him of being a bandit. When Taishou Pu stepped down and went to Henan, he sent someone to send him off. Wang Wu is nicknamed the hero of the capital because people praise him for his chivalry.On the other hand, his martial arts are also top-notch. The big sword is only one side of his martial arts. He is also good at swordsmanship. Among the students who learn swords from him, there is a Hunanese, Tan Sitong.

Tan Sitong was introduced to Wang Wu by Hu Qi, nicknamed the Armed Ape.He called Wang Wu the fifth master, Hu Qi the seventh brother, and Wang Wu and Hu Qi Tan Sitong the third brother.Wang Wu's buddies are all called Sange.Tan Sitong is the only intellectual among these people, but he is not proud of it. Instead, he walks with these vulgar people and calls them brothers.Everyone knows that the third brother is a good reader, knowledgeable, and willing to teach them, without putting on airs.Everyone is willing to get close to the third brother and listen to the third brother talking about the past and the present.Everyone knows that the old man of the third brother is an official, and the third brother is the young master of the official.However, we are buddies, and we treat each other with all our hearts, and just like that, we made friends and worshiped Wang Wu and Hu Qi as brothers, and it has been ten years in a blink of an eye. During the ten years, Wang Wu and his buddies talked to Tan Sitong about the gang many times, and they clearly expressed their opposition to the Manchurian tradition.However, when the issue of Manchurians came up, Tan Sitong seemed a little reluctant to say more.However, he didn't spoil their interest, nor did he say that they were wrong, he smiled and watched them yelling and scolding.Probably because the attitude is not clear, the buddies are simple-minded, thinking that the third brother is also against the Manchurians. We have been friends for the tenth year, and 1898 has arrived.Tan Sitong was summoned to the palace to meet Emperor Guangxu, and served as one of the four chapters at the Military Aircraft Office. The news spread throughout the city of Beijing, and also to the bureau. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ He went to see the emperor!He went to see the emperor!Six words, like six nails driven into the air, Wang Wu and the others were stunned.They looked at each other without speaking.Some people lowered their heads in frustration. Tan Sitong betrayed us!Hu Qi was suddenly decisive. No, Tan Sitong did not betray you!A firm voice sounded at the door, and it was Tan Sitong standing there. Third brother!Wang Wuda yelled, he stood up suddenly, his face flushed.Third brother, what are you doing to see him!Where do we stand?What is their position?What is there to talk about between us and them?There is nothing to talk about between us and them!If there is, it means they wipe us and we wipe them!Wang Wu's right palm is made into a knife shape, and he makes a beheading gesture back and forth.Third brother, you are educated, unlike our brothers who are rough, you are more sensible than us, tell me why you went to meet the Manchurians, what do you want us to do if you want to do this kind of thing?how to treat you That's why I don't tell you first, I can't make it difficult for you, and make you mentally burdened first.If I told you first, you would definitely not agree to my going.Before I went, I was not sure whether the result would be good or bad, so I would rather go and try it out first. If the result is not good, it would be my own fault of judgment, without implicating Fifth Master and everyone.If I told you first, you would definitely not agree to my going. If the result is good, you will block the result. Wouldn’t I be trapped in your judgment error again?So, I decided not to tell you guys first.I you!you!You fucking nonsense!Hu Qishou stood up, rolled up his sleeves, and everyone stood up too.Wang Wu put his left hand palm down and slid it outwards from his left chest, implying not to act rashly.Tan Sitong sat motionless on one side of the square table, and said calmly, "Fifth Master, everyone, you should listen to me first."After finishing talking, everyone get together and break up, and understand! Damn you went to meet the Manchurians, and you met the Manchurian chiefs at first sight, you betrayed us, what else do you have to say!We think highly of you like this, so you betrayed us!Hu Qi roared. Seventh Brother Tan Sitong spoke. Don't call me Seventh Brother!Seventh Brother is your name!Our friendship is over today!Don't call me Seventh Brother! Well, I'm not calling, I'm just asking you, I I don't want to listen to you, me, me, we made obeisance, and today we will share the incense with you; we swear to die in the same year, the same month, the same day, remember, next year today will be your death day!While roaring, Hu Qi jumped over the square table and rushed towards Tan Sitong, and everyone rushed forward.The teacup rolled to the ground. Hold | hand!Wang Wu's loud shout made everyone shrink back immediately.Tan Sitong sat there peacefully, with blood dripping from his nostrils and tea splashed all over his body.He let the nosebleed drip down drop by drop without wiping it off.He is as stable as a Buddha statue, not a vajra glaring, but a bodhisattva with low eyebrows. Wang Wu suddenly opened his small coat and took out the dagger at his waist. It was shining brightly. Everyone looked at him, but Tan Sitong acted as if nothing had happened.Wang Wu unbuttoned the last button of his white gown, pulled up the corner of the gown with his left hand, cut off the gown with a dagger, cut off a square piece of cloth, put away the dagger, spread the cloth on his left palm, and covered Tan Sitong's nose, He pressed Tan Sitong's shoulder with his right hand, and said: "Lie on your back on the bed." Wang Wufu and Tan Sitong lay on the bed and asked someone to bring him two wet towels. He wiped off the blood on his face with one hand, folded the other and put it on his forehead.He stretched out his hand and pulled the quilt away, covering it for Tan Sitong.Then he gestured to go out, but he didn't go first, let everyone go out first, and then gently closed the door. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ Everyone was on the grass outside the house, squatting, squatting.Wang Wu didn't speak, he took out the dry pipe, filled it with shredded tobacco, took out the yellow cotton from the flint bag, put it on the cigarette, lit the yellow cotton with a flint, and smoked one after another.Everyone followed and lit their cigarettes. Hu Qi didn't smoke. He squatted there and used a branch to draw a fork on the ground. . Brother, Hu Qi couldn't help but speak up, I really don't understand why a person like Tan Sange betrayed us? Wang Wu smoked dry tobacco, did not look at Hu Qi, but only looked at the sky, and said coldly: He did not betray us, if he did, he would not come. Hu Qi thought for a while, and suddenly realized something: It is true, if he betrays, he should understand that if he comes again, he will die?Doesn't he understand that we won't spare him?He also told us last time that Ma Fuyi and his gang in Hunan, who were the top four, broke the rules a while ago. The brothers decided to ask him to jump off the top of the mountain. In the end, the brothers sent him up the mountain. He took care of his eldest brother while walking. , Said: Brother, walk carefully, the mountain road is too slippery.Ma Fuyi is the third brother's fellow villager and friend. Doesn't the third brother know the rules of the gang?I do not believe. Maybe he didn't think he broke the rules?So he dared to come back.someone said. Whether he fouled or not, the question is, if he betrayed, why would he come back?He has to have a purpose, right?Someone else said. The purpose is to pull us into the sea with him and be the slaves of the Manchurians together. It is not enough for him to do it alone!Hu Qi threw away the branch and said loudly. Wang Wu looked at the sky, held a cigarette in his mouth, but didn't smoke.Finally turned around: Stop guessing.The third brother must have his reasons. This reason is not something that you can guess, nor is it something that I, Wang Wu, can guess.He has too much knowledge, we are rough people, we don't know.I only know that Tan Sitong is definitely not the one who betrayed his friends. I dare to guarantee with this head that I, Wang Wu, have lived for decades, traveled all over the world, and read countless people.Tan Sitong has a problem, don't let him jump from the mountain, I will jump first!Not only jump first, but also goug my eyes before jumping! Of course we believe in Big Brother, and we believe that Big Brother will not be mistaken.Hu Qi said calmly, "I did it just now, and I can't explain why, maybe the third brother didn't tell us, and didn't let us vulgar people understand, so he became angry." Wang Wubai gave him a look: No, he wanted to tell us, he seemed to say that you should listen to me first, and he also said that you should get together and break up, so you understand.But you didn't listen, so you moved your hands. Everyone looked at Wang Wu and lowered their heads, and Hu Qi also lowered his head.He lowered his head, then raised his head again, looking at Wang Wu: This is how to do?Brother, what do you say? Still have to listen to him first.As Wang Wu said, he stood up.Everyone also stood up and went into the house together. ☆☆☆☆☆☆ When they entered the room again, Tan Sitong had already got up and was washing his face.The washbasin is made of enamel, but it is very old!The original basin bottom was rotten and was newly welded with foreign iron sheets.Welders in the north are called sawing bowls. They join the broken bowls together, drill nail holes on the broken pieces and the outer edges of the original bottom, and then buckle them into the nail holes with horseshoe-shaped copper buckles. Finally, they apply white glue and it becomes Refurbished new bowls.While sawing the bowl, you can use white iron sheet to weld the bottom of the pot, the bottom of the washbasin, and the bottom of the bucket. They are masters in waste utilization and repairers of household daily equipment.People in the industrial age and rich people rarely have the concept of repairing in their minds, but the poor Chinese in the agricultural age did not scrap anything that could be scrapped. They cherished the old, loved the old, and respected the old. If they have a relationship, they would rather fix it than replace the old with the new.The situation becomes a law, a habit, and finally an end in itself.Therefore, in the end, the question is no longer whether there is the ability to replace it with a new one, but to rule out replacement at all. It is only natural to maintain the old one first, and it is only natural to repair the old one if it cannot be maintained.Therefore, there are too many supplies in Chinese homes that have been used for decades, decades, or even hundreds of years. They are passed on from father to son, and son to grandson.The poverty of the agricultural era has formed the Chinese people's concept of cherishing the old, from a set of systems to a washbasin, without exception. While Tan Sitong was rubbing his face, Wang Wu came over: You have shed a lot of blood.They are so reckless. Tan Sitong smiled wryly.Scooped two spoonfuls of water from the water tank and washed the blood-red towel. Let them wash it, don't wash it.Wang Wu said. It doesn't matter, let's wash it yourself, it's not bad to have a chance to wash your own blood.One day he suddenly raised his head thoughtfully, stopped for a while, and then lowered it again. The blood would flow even more, and he couldn't wash himself even if he wanted to wash it. The brothers are too reckless, third brother don't mind.Wang Wu said. how come.Tan Sitong said, I should also blame myself.I have never done a good job of making this clear to everyone. Then let's discuss it clearly.For more than ten years, everyone has worshiped the third brother, and no one does not admire the third brother.However, everyone has always been clear about their position on the Manchurians.Now that the third brother is doing this, it will hurt the feelings of the brothers.People in our gang have absolutely no understanding for the Manchurians.Now, since the matter has escalated, let's figure it out.Wang Wu said. also good.As Tan Sitong said, he pressed his hand down to signal everyone to sit down. Do you remember the third brother?Wang Wu was the first to speak. During the Kangxi period, the old men of the Xilu Kingdom in the northeast disturbed China. The Manchus could not calm down, because they needed people who could swim and fight at the same time to fight with the Xilu people. Northeast people cannot swim. Not to mention combat.At that time, someone suggested to Emperor Kangxi, why not requisition these Hokkien people who moved to Beijing after flattening Taiwan? They are all pirate families of Zheng Chenggong. Old man Xilu. When you say that, I seem to remember.Tan Sitong scratched his head. Didn't the battle be fought with the help of 128 monks from the Shaolin Temple in Jiulianshan, Putian, Fujian? The third brother is really a scholar, not bad at all.At that time, Emperor Kangxi expropriated these Hokkien people. Because they belonged to a family of pirates, Kangxi did not want them to live in Taiwan after the pacification of Taiwan, so they were forced to immigrate to the north to avoid future troubles.This time, in order to beat the old men of Xilu and recruit them, there are 500 people available, and they are not happy to do it. At this time, 128 monks from Shaolin Temple came from Fujian, and everyone discussed it in Hokkien. : The Manchurians are our enemies. They copied our hometown. This revenge must be avenged. This is an opportunity. The Manchurians have something to ask us this time to fight against foreigners. We might as well cooperate with them once. How bad people are, after all, is it against the Chinese, after all, this battle is against foreigners, foreign wars are more important than internal wars; secondly, if the battle is won, the Manchus owe us, at least they have a good impression of us, high-pressure The policy will be changed and eased, we can maintain our strength, and Xu Tu will make a big move.So these Hokkien people were willing. In the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi, they fought a water fight with the old man Xilu. The way of fighting was that each Chinese person put a big sign on his head Let me interrupt, that sign is made by Fujiko. Ah, that's amazing!How did the third brother know?Amazing! After defeating Lao Maozi in Xilu, the Manchurians printed a book called "Strategies for Pacifying the Rakshasa", which mentioned Fujian rattan soldiers, referring to these Hokkien people.Tan Sitong added. By the way, we read too few books, you are knowledgeable if you are knowledgeable, really good!Really good! But I don't know how the rattan soldiers fight. The rattan soldiers swim in the river, use the rattan shields as shields, rush to the side of the old Maozi Xilu's boat, and chisel the old Maozi's boat. The old Maozi can't figure out why this strange way of fighting came about, and they call them big hat tartars .They are really unlucky. They have tried to kill Tartars in Taiwan for many years, but in the end they are called Tartars by others. Later, not to mention later, there was another incident of burning Shaolin Temple! The battle was won, and the Manchurians said that everyone has made meritorious deeds and should be rewarded.The monks did not accept it. On the surface, they said that we are monks and are not subject to the glory of the world; in their hearts, they do not recognize that you Manchus are eligible for rewards.Soon after the monks returned to Shaolin Temple, the Manchurians sent troops to set fire to them. Of the 128 monks, only five escaped, and the rest died.The five who escaped found Zhu Hongzhu, the grandson of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and they all formed an alliance. When they were sworn brothers, there was a red light in the sky. Those five monks are the former five patriarchs of Hongmen.When the former Fifth Patriarch just escaped from Shaolin Temple, he broke off a branch at Shawankou and swore: the sky is long, For a long time. Throughout thousands of years. I also swear to avenge this! So Hongmen's doctrine is to take revenge, fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and fight the Manchus to the end.Later in the defeat in Wuchang, Zhu Hongzhu disappeared, everyone had to break up into pieces, Xu Tu developed, and finally left a poem as a proof of future contact: Five people share a poem, No one knows Hong Ying on him, This matter was passed on to all the brothers, Later when we meet and reunite. So each opened a mountain hall and developed it secretly.It developed into the Triad Club, the Tiandi Club, the Three Point Club, the Ge Lao Club, the Qingshui Club, the Dagger Club, and the Double Sword Club, and no one can figure it out.The third brother is a scholar, so he should know better than us. That's not to say, the Hongmen has always been a secret, so there is almost no written material, everything is passed down by word of mouth, and it is inevitable that the transmission will be out of shape.What I know is also very limited, but judging from some official materials, sometimes it can just cooperate with oral transmission, like the rattan soldiers mentioned by the fifth master just now, which is an example. The third brother is right. For another example, in the "Laws of the Great Qing Dynasty", it is said that Fujianese who have blood-stained alliances and burned their watches to become righteous should be punished as rebellion. Why is it so serious?Just to deal with Hongmen.Manchurians paid attention to the Hongmen, and couldn't understand the Hongmen's propaganda. Apart from passing it on from mouth to mouth, it must be convenient to write it down. It has been talking about for 150 or 60 years.Only during the Xianfeng period did I discover a book, none other than Romance of the Three Kingdoms. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is characterized by advocating the restoration of the Han Dynasty, Taoyuan three sworn brothers, everyone worships the handle, can achieve great things, and be loyal for thousands of years.Therefore, Emperor Xianfeng banned "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Oh, that's why.Things after Hongmen are too complicated to understand.I only know that the establishment of Hongmen was to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, but later found that many brothers cooperated with the Qing Dynasty. Everyone couldn't figure out what was going on. If they wanted to oppose him, how could they cooperate with him again?Cooperation, cooperation, didn't the former five ancestors of the Hongmen have been fooled by cooperation, and the rabbit died, and the Shaolin Temple was set on fire, how could they still cooperate?Third brother, what is going on? This is a long story, and we have to start with the Manchu race before we can explain it clearly.Tan Sitong took a sip of water first. There are three major human races in the world: the yellow Mongolian race, the white Caucasian race, and the black Negro race.The Chinese are of the yellow race, and among them are the Han, Man, and Mongol clans.Among the great clans, the Han nationality has always been the boss on the land of China. In the thousands of years of history, the land of China was completely ruled by other races. It was only the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty in the 13th century, and the Manchus from the 17th century to today. Only three hundred and forty years.The Mongols are relatively short, with black eyes and less beards, but the ancestor of the Mongols, Genghis Khan, had gray eyes, taller, and long beards, which may be mixed with Manchu blood.After the Mongols occupied China in the 13th century, it ranked the Manchus as the third, called the Manchus Han, and ranked the Hans as the fourth, called the Southerners; when the Manchus occupied China in the 17th century, it also ranked the Mongols before the Hans, and intermarried with the Mongols. To build a Lama Temple for Mongolian monks, Han people are not allowed to plant Mongolian land, nor are they allowed to intermarry with Mongolian people, and Han people are required to do business in Mongolian places with a certain period of residence.The intention of the Manchu is obvious. He wants to unite with the Mongolians and boycott the Han. Why did the Manchu guard against the Han?Because the Han nationality has been the boss in China for too long, its roots are too deep, there are too many people, and its culture is high, so its influence and assimilation power must be restrained.When the Manchus went south, they crossed the Great Wall from the northeast of China, which symbolized the failure of the Han nationality. The Great Wall could no longer hold back races other than the Han nationality.At that time, the commander-in-chief of the Han nationality guarding the Great Wall was General Wu Sangui, who was supremely in love. He heard that the capital, Beijing, was invaded by bandits and the emperor hanged himself. He couldn't bear it anymore, so he held hands with the hostile Manchus and borrowed Manchu soldiers to rescue his Chen Yuanyuan. The consequences of this can be imagined. The Manchus entered Beijing and never left.He used the most solemn funeral ceremony to mourn the martyred emperor of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he buried an eunuch who died alone with the emperor next to the emperor who committed suicide at the age of thirty-five. They wiped out the invaders who invaded Beijing. Rogue bandits, and then Manchu emperors appeared in Beijing. The Manchus said to the Han people: The one who killed our emperor was our enemy rogue; the one who killed our enemy rogue was our emperor.This is a clever substitution. The negatives of the emperors of the Han nationality and the negatives of the emperors of the Manchu nationality were refolded and developed. The term emperor and the symbol did not change, but the appearance on the photo was different. The Manchus decided to use some specific and obvious methods to bring the Han into submission, so they started from the beginning, changing the hairstyle of the Han.Use whether you are willing to change your hairstyle, and you can tell at a glance whether you are willing to submit.The old hairstyle of the Han people is to wear long hair, but the Manchu people wear braids. Today, even though we hate the Manchus, we still have to wear braids. However, although the Manchus are hated by the Han people, it is actually wrong for the Han people to say that the Manchus are aliens and barbarians.Because everyone is Chinese.Ancient China was small, and the Central Plains were only places like Henan and Shanxi. At that time, everyone thought that except for the people in this place, everyone else was of a different race. In fact, it was all the nonsense of the ancestors!Moreover, the category and definition of aliens have also been changed again and again due to different nonsense.In the eyes of the Zhou Dynasty in Shaanxi, Confucius after the Yin Dynasty in Shandong was an out-and-out foreigner; but not long ago, Yin and Zhou were separated and became a family; The so-called land of Jingchu is the area of ​​barbarians, so Qu Yuan became a foreign race again; but not long ago, Hubei people also squeezed under the ass of Shandong and Shaanxi people, and they were no longer a foreign race; So they joined hands again and developed southward, treating Sichuan and Guizhou people as aliens, and the so-called Yelang's arrogance and other sarcastic remarks were scolding Southwesterners. These inexhaustible and interesting changes in the barbarian and Di standards allow us to re-examine China's national history from its point of view.Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has shown everywhere the traces of confusion that Yi and Xia cannot guard against.The end point of the first confusion was the Qin Dynasty, which had completely assimilated the Dongyi and Nanman Jingwu, as well as part of Baiyue, Xirong, and Beidi; the second confusion was from the Han Dynasty to the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. The big confusion, the Xiongnu, Di, Qiang, Donghu, Nanman, Southwestern Yi, etc., all mated with Chinese people in large numbers, and gave birth to a large number of hybrids; the third confusion was from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty, from Turks, Khitan, Jurchen, until Mongolia, China has added a new record of ethnic mixing; the fourth time is after the Ming Dynasty, until today Manchu-Han intermarriage, another batch of new bastards came out.It is precisely because of this kind of confusion again and again, again and again, three times and four times, as time goes by, we often forget the barbarians in our Han nationality.We forgot that Tang Taizong's mother was a foreigner, and we also forgot that Ming Chengzu's mother was a foreigner. In fact, in the Tang Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, the blood of their royal relatives and relatives had long been hybrids.Thus, a very ridiculous contradiction occurred.This contradiction is: the descendants of Ming Chengzu, the emperors after Ming Dynasty Chengzu, don't they obviously have the factor of Yidi in their blood?With this kind of factor, whether it is Shi Kefa, Zhang Huangyan, or even Gu Yanwu's mother in the late Ming Dynasty, it is a bit regrettable that they stood up and died for the reason they flaunted.For the martyrs who died in the late Ming Dynasty, the reason for their martyrdom was that they did not care about barbarians, but they forgot that the present-day sage whom they loyally served was a barbarian in a broad sense! Not only the current saints, but even the martyrs themselves, none of them can guarantee that they are the descendants of the Yellow Emperor in the line of eternity, and no one can guarantee that their ancestors were not harassed when they were mixed up many times in Wuhuluanhua. In their blood, it is absolutely clean and has no foul smell! Therefore, strictly speaking, the barbarian and Di concept handed down by our ancestors is fundamentally wrong, and it is hard to say who is a Chinese today.Looking back at the history of China for 5,000 years, going back to 5,000 years ago, and going back and forth, if the scope of the backtracking is limited to Henan, Shanxi and other places, and other places outside the Central Plains are left alone, or all of them are treated as barbarians, then This approach is not to underestimate China and the Chinese nation, so what else?Those who lived in Henan, Shanxi and other places at that time were certainly of the Chinese nationality, but how could those who lived outside these Central Plains areas not be the Chinese nation?In the eyes of people in the Central Plains, these belong to Dongyi, Jingwu, Baiyue, Donghu, Sushen, Huns, Turks, Mongols, Shiqiang, and Tubo.The Miao people, the Luo Luo Burma, the Bo Shan, and even the white Chinese of the Western Regions, the short people of the Three Kingdoms, the Kunlun slaves of the Tang Dynasty and other black Chinese, why not all of them are Chinese?From this point of view, from this scientific and broad point of view, we have to say that the history of the Chinese nation, fighting back and forth, is still a history of genocide. Whether it is chasing the Eastern barbarians, or attacking the Xiongnu in the west, or even conquering the north and the south, there are many things going on with the barbarians.They rushed here and there to kill, but the target they chased and killed was not a real foreign devil, but an out-and-out Chinese!When we read the ancient texts about ancient battlefields, we must remember the sentences describing the so-called Qin and Han martial arts. The Great Wall from the Qin Dynasty has nothing to do with the sea. The settlement of supplementary troubles, now that we think about it, what do we feel?We have to believe that from the Yellow Emperor, the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, to the so-called Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu, their many great achievements, especially the great achievements of the so-called fight against the unification of different races in China, are all worthy of us. Suspect!In the 5,000-year history of China, except for the British devils who first invaded our home in the Opium War 58 years ago, before 1840, after 2674 BC in the era of the Yellow Emperor, the long 4,510 years In fourteen years, there was no such thing as a foreign race at all!There is no real Yidi, they are all Chinese! It can be seen from this that the so-called distinction between the Central Plains and the barbarians and the Han and the Manchus is meaningless. Everyone has made a mistake, and the measurement is very narrow. It is not like a man, who is so petty. Think of your compatriots as foreigners all day long? As for the gangs, and the anti-Qing and Fuming gangs, they are actually not so confident.Take the triad society as an example. The origin of the triad society began with the killing of monks in the Shaolin Temple in the Kangxi era. At that time, it was against the officials, not against the Manchus; It was the era when Qianlong was in power, and its expansion was still after Tongzhi. The main reason for the expansion was that some Hunan troops were dismissed and unemployed.Therefore, the gang's anti-Qing and Ming-ming campaign is not as pure as most people imagine.As for the anti-Qing and Fuming that spread to all parts of China, other than the Triad Society and the Gelaohui, it is actually very limited. The anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty has been in the world for more than 250 years, and the Ming Dynasty has perished for more than 250 years. They didn't reply back, so who would have the nerve to talk about anti-Qing and Fuming?Who has the face to talk about anti-Qing and Fuming?What is the need to talk about anti-Qing and Fuming? And, recovering the Ming, recovering the Ming, what about recovering the Ming?Is it worth repeating?Those who understand history will know that the politics of the Qing Dynasty is much more decent than that of the Ming Dynasty. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty, except for the Queen Mother, are better than the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and the system is also better.Just look at the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty who were in power, but the eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty just got a little money and power.At most, it's just someone like Li Lianying, so what, compared to the Ming Dynasty, it's not enough.When Li Zicheng entered Beijing at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were 70,000 eunuchs in the palace, and as many as 100,000 eunuchs outside.Each eunuch has an average of four house slaves, which amounts to 400,000.It is used to illegally control the world, what kind of world is this!The eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty had such a scene!During the Ming Dynasty, five hundred warriors lined up under the Fengtian Gate, saying they wanted to correct their manners. As soon as they pointed out that an official had lost their manners, they immediately grabbed their hats, stripped off their clothes, and beat them severely.現在清朝的午門，至多只是皇上叫太監奉旨申斥罵一兩個官員的地方，但在明朝，就是當眾脫褲子打屁股的地方，有的還先罰跪。有一次一百零七名官員一起罰跪五天，然後一律打屁股，每人分到三十廷杖。像這類羞辱臣下，被當場打死或打得終生殘廢的，數也數不清，有的還說奉有聖旨，打到家門來的；有的還打到別的衙門去的像這樣子胡鬧的、黑暗的明朝政治，清朝是沒有的。滿洲人的天下也黑暗，但是天下烏鴉，絕不一般黑，五十步和百步，對受害的老百姓而言，還是不同的。因此，我們除非有辦法驅逐黑烏鴉，否則的話，如果有不那麼黑的、有可能變白一點的，我們還是不要失掉機會。這樣才對老百姓真的好。 今天的皇上雖是滿洲人，但卻是個好人，是個想有一番大作為的好皇帝，他既然有心在西太后選出的爛攤子上變法圖強，既然找到我們漢人頭上，我們應該幫助他。這種幫助。是對大家都好的。你們哥兒們人人留著辮子，口口聲聲的反對滿洲人，從前輩的哥兒們起算，反了兩百五十多年了，還反不出成績來，可見此路不通，大家方向都搞錯了。今天我話就說到這裏，各位兄弟願意平心靜氣的想想，想通這番道理，你們自然還把我譚嗣同當兄弟；如果想不通，或想通了仍認為你們對，你們可以說服我，說服我辭去這軍機章京不幹，跟你們去三刀六眼的幹。How about it? 說著，譚嗣同站了起來、氣雄萬夫的站了起來。所有的眼睛都盯住他，全屋是一片死寂。王五的旱煙早都熄火了。他盯著譚嗣同，緩慢地點著頭。他挺著腰桿，魁梧的上身，隨著點頭而前後搖動。弟兄們的眼睛，從譚嗣同身上轉到王五身上，他們沒有意見，大哥的意見就是他們的意見，他們要等大哥一句話。最後，王五開口了： 三哥，我們是粗人，我們不知道那些麻煩的大道理。我們只知道你是我們哥兒們，你贊成的我們就贊成、你反對的我們就反對、你要推翻的我們就推翻。反過來說，欺負你的就是欺負我們，惹了你的就是惹了我們，砍了你的我們就還他三刀。我們心連著心，一條線，水來水裏去、火來火裏去，全沒話說。三哥，你是有大學問的，我們不懂，但我們信你，你是我們的燈、我們的神，我們信你總沒錯，我們懂就懂，不懂就不懂。信你就是。但這次這這次，好像總有點不對勁，不對勁。 五爺，有什麼不對勁，你儘管說，咱們哥兒們，有什麼話都不能悶在肚子裏，五爺，你儘管說。 咳，到底怎麼不對勁，我也說不大出來，只是只是覺得咳覺得有點不對勁，覺得有點不那麼順。 你是說你是說我不該跟康有為去？ 那那倒也不是，康有為天大學問，那裏會錯。但我們總覺得只是覺得，康有為走跟滿洲人合作的路，這條路，到底行得通不通？是不是真成了與虎謀皮了？康有為天大學問，我們不懂，我們只是擔心有天大學問的人除非不犯錯，要犯就一定是大錯，大得收不了攤，要人頭落地。康有為天大學問，我們根本沾不上邊，所以全靠三哥判斷、三哥做主，三哥了解康有為，三哥知道康有為對還是不對，是不是犯了大錯。 五爺的意思，我懂。譚嗣同說。 還是老話，我們是粗人，我們只信三哥。王五說。 我們信三哥。大家眾口一聲。 三哥信康有為，我們也只好跟著信。王五說。 如我沒猜錯，五爺你們對信康有為有點勉強。譚嗣同說。 話倒不是這麼說，我們根本不知道康有為對還是不對，如果不對，為什麼不對，我們根本說不上來。王五頓了一下，如果犯了大錯，錯在那兒，我們也根本說不上來。剛才說了半天，說的不是大道理，而是我們的感覺，感覺有點不對勁、不那麼順。三哥，我們跟你完全不同，你是書裏出來的，我們是血裏出來的，我們從小就在道上混，三刀六眼，整天過著玩命的日子，但玩了這麼多年，居然還沒把命玩掉，原因也有一點：哥兒們的照應、自己的武藝、祖上的積德、佛爺的保佑、再加上大家的運氣都是原因，這些原因以外，還有一個，說出來也不怕三哥笑，就是事前的那種感覺。那種感覺到底是什麼，一點也說不上來，但真的，真的有那麼一點。那種感覺不是每次都有，但有時候它真的有，弄得你彆彆扭扭的，心神有點不安，直到換一換、變一變，才覺得順。這麼多年來，有幾次，直到事後回想，才發現幸虧在緊要關頭那麼換一換、變一變，才死裏逃了生。這話說來有點玄，但的確有這麼一種感覺，好像又不能不信。 五爺，我跟康有為的事，五爺有這種感覺？ 好像有一點。三哥你會笑我？ 五爺這種感覺，我一點也不笑你，並且可以告訴你，我也有這種預感。但是，我們沒有選擇。不瞞五爺和各位說，我來北方，結交你們這些英雄好漢；我在南方，也結交五湖四海、其中有不少我湖南家鄉的人物，這些人物中，有一位叫黃軫草頭黃、珍貴的珍字左邊去掉斜玉旁換成車馬炮的車字。他比我小八歲，今年二十五。這人文的考上秀才，出身湖南嶽麓書院；武的能空手奪白刃，南拳北腿，幾個人近不了他的身。他為人行俠仗義，跟哥老會關係極深。像黃軫這種哥兒們．他們相信要救中國，路只有一條，就是革命，只有趕走滿洲人，中國才有救。跟滿洲人合作，是絕對不行的。他們那種擔心與虎謀皮的心理，比五爺還強烈。我這次北上，他們特別為我餞行，也特別勸我小心，甚至勸我不要應滿洲皇帝之召，而跟他們一起搞革命。坦白說，如果不是受了康有為影響，如果不是碰到光緒皇帝，我很可能走上革命的路。但是，變法維新的道理，康有為已寫得那麼頭頭是道，令人心服；而對變法維新的誠意，光緒皇帝又表現得那麼求才若渴，令人感動。我不得不承認這是一個機會、一個千載難逢的機會，也許可以用得君行道的方法救中國，無須人頭落地，革命總要人頭落地的，流誰的血都是中國人的血，總是不好的。我把這番意思講給黃軫他們聽，他們也無法不承認這的確是一個機會，不過與虎謀皮，成功的希望很低。我呢，也相信困難重重，希望不高，我心裏也正如五爺所預感的，不覺得順。但是，既然機會是千載難逢的，也只好把握住，要試一試。如果成功了，成績歸大家；如果失敗了，犧牲歸自己。我今天來通知五爺和各位，並不是拉大家一起跟我下水，只是告訴大家：我譚嗣同不論做老百姓還是做官，都沒有變，都是你們的兄弟。各位兄弟如了解我、今天就是來通知；各位兄弟如不諒解我，今天就是來道別。也許有一天，在看不到想不到的地方、在看不到想不到的時候，我們再會相聚，或者化為泥土，大家相聚，不論怎麼樣，我們一旦是哥兒們，永遠是哥兒們。我們此去是成是敗，全不可知，知道的是如果失敗，我將永遠不再回來。保重了，各位弟兄。譚嗣同向大家拱手為禮，然後向前一步撲身下跪，五爺，請受我一拜。又轉向胡七，七哥，也受我一拜。 王五、胡七都爭著扶起譚嗣同來。譚嗣同轉身退去，大家望著他的背影，消失在黑暗裏。