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Chapter 71 Diplomacy is a Continuation of Politics
Time was running fast, and finally came to the opening of the Beijing Spring Games.

However, Liang Rengong's visit this time is not just for academics, but more about the current situation.

In order to have enough strength to do things, he, Tang Hualong, and Cai Yuanpei set up the National Diplomatic Support Association, with the purpose of promoting the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany.

Cheng Nuo was just trying to persuade him: "Mr. Ren, on the surface, the courtroom is for discussion and voting, and the minority obeys the majority. In fact, it is just a traditional exchange relationship of favor and loyalty. Duan can be left and right, and the president can be left and right. It is not up to those of us in the ruling and opposition parties to decide whether to influence the president."

Cai Yuanpei also sighed: "The secretarial office and the military department in the presidential palace are all from Li's hometown or the old ministry. At that time, people jokingly called the presidential palace the 'Hubei Provincial Guild Hall'. It is better to say that the two factions are at odds than the differences of foreign teachers."

Diplomacy is an extension of politics, and it is quite appropriate to use it at this time.

When the question of participating in the war arose, Li's subordinates once said bluntly: "If Duan participates in the war, he will be a great success, and he must be defeated first. If Duan goes away, the successor will still participate in the war, and he will succeed himself."

Duan's side also held the same view: "The government cannot cooperate, not only the issue of participating in the war must be resolved, but all future issues must also be resolved."

Liang Rengong was included in it at this time, and it was just Duan taking advantage of his reputation. He will regret it at the end of this year.

But it's hard to persuade a stubborn person with good words, so Cheng Nuo stopped the topic when he couldn't say anything.

But while chatting, the conversation turned to Kang Youwei. When talking about this former mentor, Liang Rengong gave a large number of special approvals regardless of the relationship between master and apprentice.

Both of them opposed Yuan Datou's proclaiming emperor at the beginning, but their starting points were quite different.

The purpose of Kang Youwei is to support the re-employment of Qing emperor Pu Yi as emperor, and to realize his idea of ​​a republic of virtual monarchs.And Liang Rengong is purely for maintaining the republican system.

Originally, it was estimated that there was a trace of face, but Liang Rengong showed respect everywhere, but Kang You published the article "A Strategist for the Nation's Stability" and blatantly advocated the restoration of the Qing emperor.

Liang Rengong clenched his fists tightly: "The current Chinese people's opposition to the imperial system is not a question of who owns the imperial system, but that no one can claim the title of emperor. Their restorationists are just a group of brazen opportunists who are enemies of the public and help the thieves to open their eyes. "

Cai Yuanpei deeply agrees: "Those who dream of restoration nowadays, if they say that the national system does not need to be based on the people's sentiments, it is really stupid and foolish.

However, after the two expressed their disdain, there was still a trace of worry in their hearts, that is, although the restoration was against the trend of the times, the rumored braided army was not a fake, and it might be that the time would be ruined again.

Cheng Nuo smiled and said nothing, drinking the tea in his hand peacefully.

It was Cai Yuanpei who had sharp eyes and asked curiously, "Zhiyuan, do you have some great ideas, why don't you come and hear them?"

Cheng Nuo drank the tea and said with a smile: "The two gentlemen are the authorities who are obsessed with the bystanders. How is Zhang Xun's power compared to Duan Li and the two?"

After Liang Rengong thought for a while, he said firmly: "It's not as good as it is."

Cheng Nuo asked again: "The restoration is in the interests of Duan Li and the others?"

Liang Rengong shook his head: "It doesn't match either."

"Then the problem is very clear. Zhang Xun is just a pawn between the two of you." Cheng Nuo spread his hands and explained: "Now that Duan is being driven to Tianjin, if there is an attack by the braided army, Duan is even better." Take advantage of the opportunity to seek rebellion, firstly to raise your own prestige, and secondly to use prestige to force Li, it can be said to kill two birds with one stone, sir, you can rest assured."

The reason why Cheng Nuo threw these things out was also to let Liang Rengong understand the complexity of politics. He is really not suitable for this messy water. It is better to abandon politics as soon as possible and study.

Among other things, his nine children alone can become talents, and a third academician proves that Liang Rengong is quite insightful in education, and it would be a waste not to make good use of it.

But looking at Liang Rengong's hesitant eyes, maybe he didn't listen to this much, and he was willing to believe that the restoration was just a rumor.

Originally, he wanted to add something to prove his point of view, but after seeing Cai Yuanpei shaking his head quietly beside him, Cheng Nuo withdrew his words.

However, this political topic obviously couldn't continue. After chatting, Cheng Nuo discovered that the Chinese Vocational Education Association had also invited Liang Rengong.

Speaking of this, Liang Rengong looked pale: "The purpose of education is to broaden the wisdom of the people, cultivate unique nationals, and cultivate talented people who can stand on their own in society, but our vocational education is too far behind. The annual agricultural output value of the United States is [-] silver. One hundred trillion taels, but we only have three hundred trillion taels, what a pity."

Although he didn't know how the other party's data came from, Cheng Nuo still agreed with it. After all, the development of industry cannot be separated from the support of industrial workers.

Especially in an era when the illiteracy rate remains high, every industrial worker is extremely precious, and the best way to train them in batches is vocational education.

While expressing his support, Cai Yuanpei also expressed his point of view: "The goal of secondary education is to cultivate vocational ability, so it can be considered to divert students after graduating from primary school, while using middle schools to implement general education, and at the same time to establish middle-level agriculture, industry and commerce. Schools implement vocational education.”

Good guy, secondary school diversion in later generations has caused widespread heated discussions. Cai Yuanpei directly wants to be diverted in elementary school. Although there is a time limit, it is too radical and utilitarian in Cheng Nuo's view.

But Cheng Nuo was not in a hurry to refute. After all, the association has not yet been established, and the three of them are not the principals. Even if they win the debate, it is of little significance. It is better to wait until the Shanghai Stock Exchange in front of many celebrities, and then generously present hold head high.

However, the business here is the Beijing Spring Games after all, so there is still work to be done on the surface. After watching a few important games, everyone separated.

When he got home, Liang Rengong found that his eldest son was all smiles, and he didn't know what to draw on the paper. He walked over quietly and saw that it was the popular gymnastics at Peking University.

However, Liang Rengong obviously didn't know what it was, thinking that his son was peeking at some "Martial Arts Collection", and his face was a little angry.

"Sicheng, have you ever finished your homework? I remember that Tsinghua School's homework is relatively heavy. Don't waste your time on such useless books."

Liang Sicheng was startled, and wanted to take the notes back, but realized in a blink of an eye that he had been discovered, and doing so was useless, and might even add fuel to the flames, so he murmured: "Father, this is not one of the three heroes and five righteous men." It’s a new type of gymnastics invented by Professor Cheng, and it’s said that it’s not much better than Taijiquan.”

Liang Rengong's face softened a little. He believed that Cheng Nuo would not do anything useless, so he took his notes and watched silently.

But the more I looked at it, the more I felt that there was a hidden mystery in it, and it was infinitely mysterious, so I asked Liang Sicheng to practice it and learn it by myself.

After doing a few rounds, I felt refreshed all over my body, and I couldn't help sighing: "In my opinion, it is not inferior to Baduanjin."

It's just that as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly thought of Cheng Nuo's advice, and believed in that word even more in his heart.

"Could it be that I'm really not suitable for the court. It's just a teacher, a teacher, you must not make it difficult for me as a student, otherwise we will really turn against each other in the 'politics'."

The screen changed and came to Peking University.

Cheng Nuo also decided to leave for the south after finishing the final matter of the spring sports meeting.

For one thing, Tesla and the others will come over in a while, and they will be carrying a lot of equipment at that time, and the development level in the south is better at this time, so Cheng Nuo can buy some things in advance.

Second, the development of the chemical industry in the future will require the support of industrialists and various associations. This time I can go to investigate and find out the bottom line.

Thirdly, I want to join the China Vocational Education Association. In order to promote educational ideas, the founder Huang Yanpei mobilized more than 40 people from the education, business, and North and South political circles, with a huge momentum.

For example, Zhang Jian, Liang Rengong, Cai Yuanpei, Jiang Menglin, Fan Yuanlian, Chen Jiageng, etc., those who have money will contribute money, and those who are powerful will contribute. Non-top people from all walks of life will not get this invitation letter.

However, it is not easy to think of traveling far these days, especially from Beiping to Shanghai, which spans half the distance of the motherland, and the transportation is even more inconvenient.

There is only one train every week. When you arrive at Jinling Pukou, you need to change the ferry to cross the river. After crossing the river, you need to change to another train. It is time-consuming and laborious. The whole journey will take at least 50 hours. It is also common for geniuses to arrive.

But even so, Cheng Nuo still chose the land route instead of the sea route, just because he wanted to be able to observe the people's sentiments on both sides.

Most areas are okay, but some places are really bad.

Passing a cigarette to the middle-aged man seated opposite him, Cheng Nuo asked, "Sir, we have reached the border of Hubei Province, right? Why have all the residential buildings collapsed?"

"Good cigarette." The middle-aged man took the cigarette with a smile, sniffed it on his nose and smoked it reluctantly, clamped it to his ear, and sighed: "Hey, it was fine a year ago. Turn over, the house has collapsed a lot, it’s good for people to be alive.”

Cheng Nuo asked again, "Then the nearby provinces were also affected a lot, right?"

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, "The situation in Anhui Province is not good. It is rumored that volcanoes have been discovered in Huoshan County. If you talk about an earth dragon and a fire dragon, it really hurts the local people."

"However, these two brothers are unlucky enough. This year's spring drought and crops have been destroyed. Summer will soon begin. When the river rises, Hubei Province will be flooded again, and then the downstream Anhui Province will also suffer. Bah, bah, bah, my crow's mouth , what did you say?"

The two of them just asked and answered, and the time passed, and they had a preliminary understanding of the provinces along the way.

When he arrived at the Shanghai stock market, Cheng Nuo was surprised to find that someone picked him up, and it wasn't Li Tianfu and others from the Shanghai Flour Union, but another industrialist.

The famous number one industrialist - Zhang Jian.

"Little friend, I kept you waiting."

　Thanks to book friend An Gang for the reward of 500 starting coins and the foggy 100 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)