Tower of Babel

In Europe, France received a large amount of interest-free loans to build the impregnable Maginot Line. Germany, except for the navy, received a comprehensive strategic relaxation. Many technologies that originally needed to be secretly researched can now be studied openly. Stimulated by the Soviet Union's military, tanks, aircraft and artillery are much more advanced than in the same period of history.

Unlike history, there are not three camps in the world now, but two camps with clear flags. The Soviet Union is particularly powerful, which makes the capitalist camp merge with fascism. Although they still have their own little calculations, they have to hate the enemy in the face of a big enemy.

Although both sides are enemies and contradictions, they need to take a breath after the war. Before the Russians have recovered, it is impossible for them to rely solely on aid to shed the last drop of blood for the world revolution. The Western powers are also unlikely to continue the war regardless of the trauma of the war. The world has become peaceful in such a hostile atmosphere.

It is impossible for Zhang Cheng to come to Beijing just for business. Naturally, he has political ideas and considerations. However, Zhang Cheng was not interested in the warlords. Whether he supported or attacked any faction, his level was too low, because all the warlords were helpless due to their own fetters. He had no choice but to start a new business.

Even if they had money and beauties, and all kinds of famous actors and actresses, they were not enough to tempt Zhang Cheng. It was not that Zhang Cheng had gotten rid of low tastes. It was a different perspective. He had heard and seen all kinds of things in the 21st century, and the great practice after gaining a country in another world. Zhang Cheng's harem was well-versed in both Chinese and Western learning. But what level were the photos of beauties in your Ming Dynasty?

In addition to different aesthetics, the social places in the north during the Republic of China were mainly brothels and opium dens. Although the Republic of China stopped smoking, there were figures of the powers behind the scenes of the opium dens. Many of them were blatant and openly operated. Even the warlords themselves participated in this business. Quitting smoking was just quitting smuggling cigarettes. Zhang Cheng did not want to go along with them. After occupying the lease, he did not only openly crack down on drug trafficking.

And he issued a warning that anyone involved in drug-related crimes in the lease would be sentenced to death. Outside the lease and the jurisdiction, he would not accept any visits or contacts from drug addicts, and would not sign any cooperation treaties with them, even diplomats and businessmen. This was very unconventional in the society of the Republic of China, and it was even difficult to move forward.

But strength determines everything. Zhang Cheng has the ability to be unconventional and to change the will of the majority of people. He has established a clear stream in the Republic of China. If you send opium, you will be thrown out and your legs will be broken. Don't say anything. The harsh communication conditions made many. Many drug-addicted warlords had to hire agents to trade with Zhang Cheng in a roundabout way.

Compared with these warlords who were driven by interests and scrambled to cling to him, Zhang Cheng was more respectful to the middle and lower-level intellectuals. In particular, he visited a large number of university scholars of the Hanlin Academy in the late Qing Dynasty. The core of Chinese cultural inheritance is not the Confucius Temple private schools and Confucian scholars in various places, but the Hanlin Academy. The Confucius Temple private schools teach Confucian loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and learn the moral articles of chapters and sentences. The Hanlin Academy teaches the knowledge of governing the country and saving the world.What they learned was Legalism, not Confucianism. This is the reason why Chinese Confucianism is Confucianism, but Legalism is hidden. Abolishing all schools of thought does not mean that the Legalism tradition is broken.

The biggest loss of modern China is the loss of confidence in culture. It worships foreign things and fawns on foreigners. This kind of worship is universal. All Chinese traditions are denied as unscientific, including the law and the way of governing the country. If it is an indisputable fact that modern science is backward and the feudal monarchy is ugly, we can just let it go.

But if you say that the ruling experience and legal experience of thousands of years are dross, that is pure bullshit! How long has Western civilization been established? How much ruling experience have they had? And Westerners never know how to learn from experience and lessons. This is good and that is good. A plague reveals the truth. There are many so-called laws that are in line with the world, but in fact they are full of drawbacks. For example, abolishing the death penalty, China has never done such a stupid thing in 5,000 years.

Why is false accusation a feudal dregs? If you touch porcelain, you have the responsibility to correct your ignorance and encourage yourself. Can you just say it to settle the matter? So that touch porcelain has developed into an industry? The same is true for adultery. Why is there no place to seek justice for extramarital affairs? The problem is that the West is not without similar crimes. In line with international standards, which international standards have you followed? It took a long time to learn to learn from others. Even today, if you check the Qing Dynasty laws, you will find that the ancients had already thought of the shortcomings of many laws and regulations. Those who made new laws at the beginning must have used the Qing Dynasty laws as ass-wiping paper - they looked at them with their ass eyes! This is the so-called expert. What's more, what the West asks you to learn is not necessarily a good thing. To put it nicely, it is called cultural infiltration, and to put it bluntly, it is digging a pit for you to jump into.

At least half of the Hanlin Academy in the late Qing Dynasty were royalists. What these people learned throughout their lives were all the techniques of emperors. As for the techniques of emperors, no matter how deep their personal background is, it is impossible to surpass the royal family. If you want to understand the real techniques of emperors, you can't get around the last emperor. No matter how unreliable Puyi was, he still lived in the Forbidden City. The royal collection of books is definitely not fake.

Zhang Cheng regarded himself as a descendant of the Ming Dynasty and paid homage to the Ming Tombs, but he did not deny the Qing Dynasty. After thinking it over, he notified the Beiyang government to ask them to be a witness and sent a visiting card to Puyi. As the highest representative of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi's life was actually very pitiful. He had always lived in the emperor dream woven by others for him, living in illusion, until he woke up from the dream while accepting labor reform in the prison of New China.

Of course, from another perspective, he was also happy. In this turbulent era of millennium change, he lived in a dream, while many people lived in dire straits and struggled to make a living. But he had everything he wanted. Zhang Cheng had no prejudice against him, but he thought he was pitiful, because people who lived in illusion all their lives were no different from delusional people.

Under the witness of the Republic of China government, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Far East Military Region asked for an audience and was received by Puyi with great ceremony. After all, being an emperor behind closed doors was just self-deception, and Puyi was extremely eager to gain real power. Although engaging in state affairs does not mean gaining real power, it is what the emperor and king should do in today's constitutional monarchy, which naturally made Puyi very yearning for it.

The visiting card did not state the purpose of the visit, but Puyi attached great importance to it. After receiving the visiting card, he immediately ordered people to decorate the main door with lights and colors to welcome the distinguished guest. They shook hands and hugged each other. After some international etiquette, Puyi let Zhang Cheng into the southern study. The two sides sat down as host and guest. After a lot of flattery such as young and promising, Puyi said in high spirits: "I have heard that Mr. Luo Qiyan supports constitutionalism. I wonder if it is true?"

Winter has gone, spring has come, and summer has arrived. The Far East chapter is coming to an end. There are only a few more chapters to end, but the story is not over yet. The next chapter will continue. Please look forward to it

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