Great time travel

Chapter 67, South China Sea Railway Journey ([-])
As a "three haves" traveler with integrity, ambition, and ideals, since Yu Guozhen came to this time and space, he has been full of great ambitions to save the country and the people, and save China's fortune.Although he was hit hard enough by the dark and cruel social reality and the bad relatives who killed each other in the early stage, before he came into contact with the real Donglin Party, the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrat political group that has long controlled the world's public opinion and dominated the court in the late Ming Dynasty, he still had a deep understanding of these "Gentlemen of integrity" hold a trace of fantasy—although these guys have fierce internal party struggles and their bones are a little weak, but in the dark world of stagnant water, the Donglin Party should at least be the same as the Revolutionary Party in the late Qing Dynasty, at least a little bit Improve your breath.

Then, after thoroughly seeing the true face of the Donglin Party members, Yu Guozhen finally completely despaired of the prospect of the Ming Empire.

He originally thought that his road to wealth was already bloody and dirty enough, but who would have thought that this group of Donglin gentlemen who are usually full of benevolence, righteousness and morality have done a lot more vile - what use? Natural disasters broke through the embankment, flooded other people's good fields, and then used the excuse of relief to distribute money and grain to the people, and by the way, privately bought the land of these disaster-stricken people, and even turned other people's wives and daughters into their own crotches. Download the toys.Under the banner of building bridges and paving roads, renovating temples, setting up free schools, etc. under the banner of being upright, they levied and extorted money, enriched their own pockets, and earned a good reputation for nothing.What is the long-term black-box manipulation of the imperial examination, pre-determining the list of Jinshi as "folks", buying and selling the number of scholars and candidates, non-Donglin bosses nod to be rejected, playing the emperor and the court like monkeys, blocking the advancement of poor scholars Way to go!They brag all day long, saying that literati and gentlemen are the cornerstones of the country and the country, and models of moral sentiment. In fact, every family's buttocks are full of excrement, blood and tears.

Of course, these hypocritical words and deeds of the Donglin Party members are nothing, after all, politicians all over the world are so duplicity.

On the other hand, the corruption of officials of the Donglin Party is also not the most disgusting problem. The politics of backward feudal countries are certainly rotten, and the politics of early capitalist countries are also corrupt to the stink. ——The army of the British Empire Until the [-]th century, officials were still being sold. Lieutenant officers and school officers were all "donations" bought by rich people. They all relied on reselling supplies on the battlefield, plundering and extorting to get back their money and make a fortune, but they still went all over the world. The invincible hand mobilized only a few thousand people during the Opium War, and then ran to the other side of the world to beat the Qing Dynasty to the point where it couldn't take care of itself.The modern Japanese imperial government has been extremely corrupt since the Meiji Restoration. It is not uncommon for senior officials and dignitaries to directly collude with chaebols to carve up state assets. However, they still defeated China and Russia on the battlefield and ruled the East for a while. The miracle of the snake swallowing an elephant.

And the cruel exploitation of ordinary people by these gentry and gentry is not the cause of despair—in the Victorian era, the most prosperous period of the British Empire, the lives of British workers were still unimaginably miserable. Textile workers usually entered the factory within three years. Will be exhausted, the whole of Britain is a huge slum except for the manors of tens of thousands of gentlemen and ladies, and the apartments of hundreds of thousands of decent people; the average life expectancy of the working class is only 15 years old... "... the power of British industry Sustained only by the brutal treatment of the workers, by the destruction of their health, by neglect of the social relations, physical and spiritual development of whole generations..." (Engels) Then, in the old Japanese Imperial Army In the era when the frontier was the sharpest, the living standards of the common people were also extremely miserable, even worse than that of the Chinese in the troubled times of the Republic of China. The girls in the whole village were sold overseas as prostitutes... But all the cruel exploitation and tragic conditions did not hinder They became great powers and achieved a great and glorious empire.

From the perspective of history and social development, the real problem of the Donglin party members in the late Ming Dynasty was extreme selfishness and arrogance to the point of being stubborn—only one of them is not a problem, but when the two are added together , the Donglin Party has become an extremist organization similar to the Arab fundamentalist terrorists in the Middle East in later generations, or the square movement experts and neo-Nazi violent groups in Ukraine. The damage to the entire civilization is far greater than the advancement, and there is no improvement and the possibility of evolution.If coupled with the unrepentant habit of emphasizing civility over martial arts... then it is completely dead.

First of all, as a political group composed of Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats, Donglin Party members represented the interests of merchants and landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang at that time. Taking advantage of the opportunity when Emperor Chongzhen eliminated Wei Zhongxian’s forces, they substantially canceled or reduced the overseas trade tax and mining tax in the Jiangnan area. Tax burdens such as salt tax, tea tax, etc. brought the imperial finances of the late Ming Dynasty to the brink of collapse, and fiscal expenditures were almost entirely apportioned to farmers who were already overwhelmed. Bankruptcy and exile directly led to the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty that swept across the Central Plains.

To put it simply, a group of rich people refused to pay taxes, and pushed all taxes on the poor, directly forcing the poor, leading to the end of the country's subjugation.

There is no way, no matter how nice the slogan is, how you flaunt your "uprightness, integrity, and iron bones", but in terms of class composition, the behind-the-scenes donors of the Donglin Party are a large group of wealthy men who refuse to pay taxes. Its main political goal is to let the rich not pay taxes and let the poor die. Even if some moral scholars can't understand this kind of thing, but they are constrained by the forces behind them, they have to open their eyes and say Nonsense—just like the politicians in the United States of America, no matter how beautiful they are during the campaign, it is difficult to disobey the wishes of the big financial groups behind them after taking office.

Secondly, under such severe class oppression, the entire Chinese society in the late Ming Dynasty has long been turned into a sizzling powder keg. The strategy of repression, while bloodily suppressing the people's resistance at home, launched foreign wars and diverted social conflicts: no matter how poor a country is, as long as it continues to win foreign wars, the cohesion of the people will still remain. Some, the regime's support rate will barely maintain within an acceptable range.

In fact, modern Japanese chaebols were also extravagant and extravagant, but they imposed exorbitant taxes on the poor people, forcing the Japanese people to live in poverty, but at least they knew to advocate force, relying on militarism to suppress internal expansion and overseas expansion. transfer contradictions.However, the Donglin Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty was actually a well-known specialist in death in history.At the same time, they tried their best to suppress the status of the military, desperately weakened the combat effectiveness of the army, ruined the reputation of the soldiers, and maintained the pattern of civil and military inferiority - any proposal to improve the treatment of soldiers and increase the combat effectiveness of the army will be met with madness by the Donglin Party and the entire landlord and gentry class. Suppression, not to mention launching a war of aggression abroad to pass on social conflicts.

Even the slave owners in ancient Rome knew that they had to raise a group of tough thug overseers in order to drive the slaves to work, but the Donglin Party refused to admit this truth.Imagine if the Japanese army during World War II was the same as the imperial army at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Ordnance and ammunition were resold, soldiers starved to death in camps in groups, rifles and artillery were garbage that exploded when fired, and the navy fleet It is a piece of junk that sinks as soon as it goes to sea. Soldiers need to rob houses all the way to collect military rations when they go to war, and they have to "enjoy" pariah treatment and various discriminations when they return to China... Then it is estimated that Zhang Xueliang, young and old, can parade in Tokyo.

Third, Yu Guozhen, a traveler, once had high expectations for the "Western learning craze" that appeared among the scholar-bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty, thinking that it was a progressive expression of "opening eyes to see the world".As a result, when he actually talked with a few "Christians in the late Ming Dynasty" and "lovers of Western learning", he was immediately disappointed. If we say that although the Westernization School in the late Qing Dynasty had many problems, at least they still had the ability to "learn skills from barbarians to control barbarians." The progressive significance and the simple enthusiasm for saving and strengthening the country, so the so-called "Eastward Spread of Western Learning" that appeared in China in the late Ming Dynasty was really just a pastime for the scholar-bureaucrats to eat and have nothing to do.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, facing the rapidly changing world after the Industrial Revolution and the reality that the country was opened by shells, some scholar-officials had to reluctantly admit the strength of the Westerners and began to learn from them.In China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Westerners were not so powerful in the far east, and the technological level between the East and the West was not too far apart. The scholar-officials of the Ming Dynasty did not think that they were advanced in their hearts.

The reason why Western learning became popular at the end of the Ming Dynasty was because the wealth and power of the entire society had been divided up and the social class had solidified at that time.Those dudes from wealthy gentry families can live comfortably by relying on their ancestral property. A considerable number of them are naturally keen on fame and official career, but there are also many people who are not expected to be officials, so they focus on various pastimes ——Those who are more traditional are naturally obsessed with poetry and want to be famous in the literary world; Buy Lolita to play double cultivation; the last few scholar-bureaucrats who like trendy, will study all kinds of Western learning and miscellaneous learning.Just as modern rich people compare mansions, luxury cars, yachts, private jets and horse racing with each other; as well as the British Empire, which was at its peak in the Victorian era, there were many alternative British aristocrats who had no intention of official career, and took overseas adventures as their main business—— There was a time when being an adventurer was fashionable for the British aristocrats, and could easily have become the darling of London society.

But precisely because these Western learnings were only regarded as personal interests and pastimes, rather than any truly useful techniques for seeking officials and wealth, enriching the country and strengthening the army, those scholar-bureaucrats who could accept Western learning in the late Ming Dynasty were generally "3-minute enthusiasm". Lack of enthusiasm and plan to apply what you have learned.Although Xu Guangqi promoted overseas crops and Sun Yuanhua experimented with Western methods to cast cannons, etc., they still remained at the level of personal behavior and had little impact on society.

The last and most desperate point is that most of these Donglin gentlemen are stubborn in their thinking and refuse any flexibility—unless they are put on the neck with a knife.Otherwise, no matter whether these scholars are stupid in reading or not, at least in terms of asking others, they will only cling to Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism sage (of course they basically don't follow it).In short, everything that does not conform to the maximization of the interests of the landlord class and the traditional concepts will be regarded as "rebellious", and one is unwilling to even look at it, let alone learn and think about these crooked ways.

At several gatherings of Donglin Scholars, Yu Guozhen tried to put forward some suggestions, such as carrying out capitalist farm management on the farm to increase production, and not just renting out the land to tenants just to save worry, which is not good for water conservancy and breeding. Whether to hear or not... and to develop a variety of characteristic operations, etc., is already a way to use lures as much as possible, trying to make them interested in new knowledge.Unexpectedly, he was extremely despised by the officials and dandies of the Donglin Party, thinking that he was vulgar and ignorant, so he actually said such "degrading and dirty things" to these noble scholars.Even Yu Guozhen, who was in charge of the cultivation of freshwater pearls by himself, was ridiculed, saying that he was willing to be lowly and stole the work of the servants...

In this regard, Yu Guozhen spent a lot of energy before finally understanding the extremely distorted mentality of these guys: on the one hand, they are insatiably greedy for wealth, and on the other hand, they don't bother to run any industry at all, and only think about how to use power to seize wealth Pick.They hold a disdainful attitude towards all production activities from agriculture to handicrafts, thinking that this is something done by inferior people, and these distinguished scholars only need to be responsible for enjoying and squandering.The only "progressive" righteous way recognized by these "Pride of Heaven" is that "you can become an official if you study, and you can get fame if you can't be an official, so as to gain privileges and wealth." disregard and contempt.You talk to him about gewu, and he talks about the way; you talk about the way with him, and you talk about philosophy; Won't work, same must be uncompromising with psycho-terrorists.Only bullets and butcher knives are the only means of communication they can understand.

In fact, the Donglin Party, to be precise, the Jiangnan feudal landlord and gentry group represented politically by the Donglin Party, except at the fateful juncture at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which pushed the destiny of the nation into the abyss, even in the Qing Dynasty. Still persistently disgusting people.For example, although Emperor Yongzheng's many reforms were aimed at maintaining the dominance of the Qing Dynasty, they also benefited the ordinary people to a certain extent. For example, the group of gentry moths were required to bear some taxes and apportion part of the labor, thereby reducing the burden on the ordinary people at the bottom. .As a result, this hard-working emperor who was not brutal enough became an unprecedented vicious tyrant in the mouths of these miserly manipulators who manipulated public opinion... If it was in the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid they would have planned how to kill the king and abolish the emperor!
Therefore, Yu Guozhen quickly concluded in despair that the ruling class in the late Ming Dynasty had completely lost the possibility of improvement and progress.On the surface, the famous Donglin Party was actually the most corrupt and conservative group of people, and it was even one of the direct driving forces for the subjugation of the Ming Dynasty.Those so-called Qingliu gentlemen are basically the scum of scum, and their bottom line is lower than that of animals. Before new ideas with more fighting power enter China, their status cannot be shaken, and only by external force Only by completely smashing this hopeless old world and using the courage and strength to create a sea of ​​blood can we destroy those things that are not as good as animals, and let this country and nation have the possibility of being born again—fortunately, in this overcrowded In time and space, the forces capable of smashing the old world, apart from the barbaric Manchu Tartars, there are also various travelers from all over the world...

Therefore, when Qian Qianyi put forward the "threat theory of thieves" and "rebellion theory of the Funing Army" at the Donglin Party in West Lake, Hangzhou, Yu Guozhen, who had completely despaired of the Donglin Party and the Ming Dynasty, took advantage of the situation and joined the party. Lingnan observes the "investigation team" of "Xiaoqing" - although in his opinion, this is a group of playboys who want to find an excuse to spend their parents' money to travel far away, eating, drinking, having fun and seeing the scenery to gain knowledge.

Then, when everyone else was intoxicated in Guangzhou Ziming Building, enjoying the exotic customs of bunny girls and cat-eared girls, Yu Guozhen was collecting various information about the Hainan Island Traveling Group, and quickly felt the relationship between this group and the current situation. The vigorous vitality that is incompatible with the times-obviously, the basis of this group's rule is the liberated tenant farmers, soldiers, craftsmen, slaves, and small and medium-sized landlords who have been persecuted.At the same time, he tried his best to expand the area of ​​education, cultivated his own new type of cadre team, and replaced those unreliable, stubborn and ignorant traditional gentry...

Therefore, when the group of "Donglin Party Travel Group" finally set foot on Hainan Island, they saw a brand-new society that they could not understand, and found that the "Sage's Way" and "The Supreme Principle of Heaven and Earth" they had learned were very relevant to this strange place on Hainan Island. It is completely meaningless in terms of the organization of the organization. This regime does not recognize the various privileges enjoyed by these "heavenly favored sons" and the landlord class they represent, and does not recognize that the core basis of its rule is the inferior people they looked down on before. ... Even the scholars who were not too hostile to the "Australians" became hysterical.

As for the local Ming scholars who lived under the rule of the bandits, they have been hysterical for several years.

Of course, hysteria is hysteria, but at best it is just a few curses behind the back.After all, they are all traditional literati, and they are only responsible for blowing their mouths and spouting saliva. As for the death-dealing things like defeating the thieves, there will naturally be ignorant cannon fodder, no, it is done by loyal and brave men...

In addition, if the price offered by the Australian thieves is right, most scholars actually don’t mind selling themselves to join them. Since the thieves swept across the Pearl River and bombarded Guangzhou, and made a name for themselves on the ground in Lingnan, they have come to join the thieves in various ways. Unhappy poor children born sour talents really popped up wave after wave like mushrooms after the rain.The problem is that among these people, there are too few people who sincerely come to ask for a job, and too many people who are daydreaming to reach the sky in one step... As a result, after getting a bad nose, they still can only go home to eat old rice and continue to sulk hysterically .

However, no matter what kind of thoughts are turning in the granite heads of these Ming scholars, Yu Guozhen has no plans to continue to work with them anyway. After judging their nature, goals and style, we have a plan to contact and cooperate with them.

When he followed the team to Lingao, he saw the modern landing ships with the five-star red flag hanging on the sea, the giant airships with "August 21" badges flying past in the sky, and military cars and camouflage military uniforms sporadically appearing on the streets. Yu Guozhen is even more determined to hug his thighs—there is likely to be a time-space gate connecting the modern world in the [-]st century here!
So, Yu Guozhen found an opportunity, sneaked out of the team, found a PLA soldier who was chewing gum and playing with his mobile phone, managed to reveal the identity of the traverser, and then was searched by the half-believing PLA soldiers and sent to Bairen City, where he accepted Lingao The cross-examination by the Senate of the Traverser... However, although his identity was quickly recognized, he didn't seem to be taken seriously. Yu Guozhen was actually asked to go to Sanya to report by himself, and he was assigned a task to get the " "Donglin Tourism Group" also took him there, and someone was in charge of meeting him near the Sanya station...

Fortunately, just when Yu Guozhen was worried about how to lure everyone to Sanya, Fang Yizhi, the leader, had already offered to find out the true face of the "Australian Supreme Emperor" in Sanya... I strongly support Fang Yizhi's feat of "going deep into the tiger's den", so this trip to Sanya is equivalent to throwing himself into a trap...

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"...Woooooo——Kangdang, Kuangdang, Kuangdang..."

Accompanied by the sharp whistle and gushing white steam, the bus that had been driving for a day finally stopped slowly at the terminal Sanya New City.Looking up as far as the eye can see, the evening sun is about to fall to the ground level, and the western half of the sky is full of colorful fire clouds.

Then, as soon as the steam train came to a stop, passengers carrying all kinds of bags, boxes and baskets moved their numb legs and rushed out of the carriage in a mess.Fang Yizhi and several Donglin scholars covered their heads and faces with their sleeves, and managed to squeeze out of the sweaty crowd.Then they met the servants who were sitting in the second-class and third-class carriages on the platform, counted the heads and luggage without missing anything, and then walked out of the station.

Then, as soon as they walked out of the gate of the station, with the twilight at dusk, they saw some vague thing in the distant sky, which was breathing out a bright orange-red flame, roaring straight into the sky, and after a while After a while, it disappeared among the clouds and sunset...

"... Tsk tsk, it's not dark yet, why are the Australians already starting to set off fireworks? What a waste of money..."

A Donglin scholar was taken aback for a moment, then smacked his lips with disdain, shook his head and said contemptuously, and the others also agreed.Only Yu Guozhen vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he only had a hazy intuition, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

——What none of them knew was that the "firework" just now was actually a launch vehicle heading straight into the orbit of a satellite...

Since the establishment of the base in Sanya, Hainan Island in this time and space, the "relevant departments" have begun to use the newly arrived Doraemon magical props [mini communication satellites] to deploy a global satellite communication system to the world, so as to facilitate the scattered The traverser forces on various continents are connected.At the same time, there are two [cosmic lifeboats] carrying the traversers from the Far East Fleet of the Republic of China and the Republic of the East Coast, each with a set of satellite communication equipment and central red head documents, and landed on the coast of New York and Uruguay in this time and space. It brought great shock to the crossing forces in the New World.

At the same time, accompanied by the four members of the Ming family and the little loli Jin Lingxue, the first Jinshi in Lingao County, Hainan Island in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Dalin, the head of the Molixuan Academy, also leaned on a walking stick, somewhat Trembling out of the station.

Then, amidst the hustle and bustle of people, he began to squint and look at Sanya in the twilight: the strange high-rise buildings standing like a jungle around the station square, the bustling shops with colorful lights, and the vendors with the smell of food, not far away The tall cranes on the wharf, the piles of goods of all kinds, and the ships gathered in the port feel both familiar and strange—remember when he was young, he once traveled the whole territory of Qiongzhou with a sword, and came to Passing here, I clearly remember that there are only barren grass, sandy beaches, and clumps of mangroves in this place. There is no human habitation in a radius of more than ten miles, and there is not even a small fishing boat in the harbor.I didn't want to, but now it has turned into this prosperous appearance!

These "Australians" who refused to submit to the Tartars after the fall of the Song Dynasty and drifted out to sea are really amazing!
Hmm, maybe it would be much better for the common people in the world to let them rule the world instead of the old Zhu family?
Just as Liu Dalin was frowning and thinking hard, an open electric sightseeing car had already driven to his side.Before the old Jinshi came back to his senses, the little loli Jin Lingxue was already carrying a heavy luggage bag, jumped up to take a seat first, and then turned around to wave to him, "...Grandpa Liu Come up quickly! If you don't hurry up, it will be dark today!"

Therefore, Liu Dalin, a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, smiled in relief, didn't think about anything, just leaned on his crutches and got into the car.

On the other side, Yu Guozhen looked enviously at the group of people boarding the open-top electric sightseeing car one by one, and then left in a hurry... Didn't it be agreed in Lingao that someone would be in charge at the gate of the station?Where is the guy who came to meet him now?