Chapter 126 Conversation beyond time and space

"...In China in our era, there was no emperor." Xu Fan smiled, "European kings have become powerless decorations, and only play a little ritual role. That era was indeed much more enlightened, more democratic, and more technologically prosperous. Even ordinary people have a rich and colorful life..."

"...It seems that people here are natural things, but sometimes it is difficult for me to accept." Xu Fan's smile was a little bitter, "The same is true in reverse. If the concept is too predecessor, it is difficult to be recognized in this era."

"What do you mean?"

"It's hard for me to accept the imperial system." Xu Fan said frankly. "The relationship between us can be roughly based on the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Before Sino-Japanese War, the four of us were always very united and had a consistent concept, that is, to drive away the Qing Dynasty and establish a nation-state. However, after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, we defeated Japan and stopped Russia's interference in our headquarters. There were also huge differences within us."

"The teacher advocates a constitutional monarchy, and A Tie also supports it. Of course, I think his original intention is to engage in military dictatorship... It is the thing he proposed to the Tiewei Army in this mutiny. Dalei advocates republic and proposed to cancel private property step by step, all state ownership. I think that the presidential republic first, establish the foundation of a strong country, and then gradually transition to parliamentary democracy, and realize sovereignty in the people." Xu Fan said with a wry smile, "But in the end the teacher insisted on the imperial system. Of course, after these years, I have to admit that the teacher's choice is still reasonable, but it also brought many sequelae. This time, these problems were exposed very clearly. The regime is inevitable, and the military and other powerful parties are obsessed with absolute power, the people's blind obedience and weakness of authority, and the constitution and the legal system are no match for the will of strong people..."

Zheng Yu nodded silently.

"After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, Dalei began to spread this difference among the people he screened, and used his ideas to deceive a lot of power. He knew that the teacher had always been vigilant about military-civilian interference, so he proposed the separation of military and political affairs, and set up the Ministry of National Defense to restrain the six navy and undermine the teacher step by step. In the end, the teacher and we all understood that he could no longer look back, so we... solved Dalei and also carried out a great purge of his believers." Xu Fan continued, "But that time, including the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the differences caused a crack in the original united relationship between us, and the concept that originally supported and condensed our entire Baath Party began to collapse from the level."

Xu Fan sighed: "Fortunately, the teacher planned a long time ago that he would hold a war against Russia and Japan roughly ten years after the founding of the country to establish the country's status as a strong country and completely consolidate the regime. The great internal division prompted the teacher to be more careful and force Japan and Russia to lead the war step by step, and use the pressure of foreign enemies to increase internal cohesion, so that he had to indulge and even stimulate radical nationalism. A Tie must have found an opportunity at that time and began to make more preparations. In my judgment, he would not want to mutiny against the teacher, but once the teacher had an accident or was seriously ill, he might take action."

"So, in a sense, this time the incident can be said to be caused by the teacher himself." Xu Fan looked sad, "Ge Shaojie was determined to assassinate you because he opposed the family and the teacher's disagreement, so he wanted to assassinate you, making the imperial system unable to be inherited; Xiao Feng and Changsheng, because of Chen Lei's affairs and the teacher's suppression of soldiers, and went to the path of assassination; Jiang Wenda had personal grudges with the teacher, but his brain was burned by radical nationalist education. The young officer of the National Defense Forces was able to go to Beijing to seize power at the order of Mu Tie, and pointed the gun at the army because the teacher indulged in radical nationalist ideas, allowing these educated soldiers to have their own political requirements. After all, the teacher is not a god. I am ashamed of many things he did, but he probably did not expect the consequences he brought."

Zheng Yu looked at this sad military boss and felt mixed feelings.

This is by no means a natural power person. But fate's arrangement forces him to walk away from a sunny boy with a scattered sunshine, and make his unwilling choices again and again under the pressure of fate. So he instinctively resists power and evades power, but in order to protect himself and the people around him, he has to protect his power. For all this, he has to attack many people who were once very close.

This is politics.

He, his teacher and brother, killed his classmate Chen Lei.

Now, he and his teacher's adopted son deceived and defeated his brothers, pushing the other party to the Fa Ting and execution ground.

What does all this mean to this person? Will he still have the opportunity to pursue his always dream, travel around the world, and travel the great rivers of the world?

These time travelers who had been a few decades earlier, inexplicably traveled through time, ups and downs, and colorful life set off such a magnificent wave in this era! But when they walked to the single-plank bridge of power, they could no longer look back. There was abyss next to them, and there was only a narrow road that was becoming increasingly difficult and lonely in front of them. They had to kill all the obstacles, and even in order to compete for the increasingly narrow paths, they killed the peers who had shared the joys and sorrows before.

The four of them came to this world together, and now there is only an old man who is mentally and physically exhausted and sad. Are they really happy? Is it happy? Is it worth it?

Xu Fan looked at the young man quietly and said slowly: "How is it?"

"Unbelievable." Zheng Yu said frankly, "but I believe it is true."

Even though Xu Fan was always calm, he was stunned at this moment: "Don't you find it incredible?"

"It's really incredible." Zheng Yu nodded simply, "But since it was what you said, I certainly have to believe it. And more importantly, many questions are only possible with this explanation."

Xu Fan's pupils contracted: "Many questions?"

"Yes, a lot." Zheng Yu looked at him seriously, "For example, how could my father grasp the international situation and the situation within the Qing Dynasty so accurately? Why could China suddenly have an army that was ahead of the West with military ideas? Why did China use so twenty or thirty years to gradually catch up with the West in the financial field? Why could China build cars that were better than the West? Why could my father get so many oilfield mines abroad? Why could China take the lead in various military equipment, especially warships, and use design ideas that were ahead of the West? Why did China be so sensitive to emerging intellectuals such as radio and telephones, and even often be at the forefront of the world? Why could my father excavate many foreign imperial patents? Why did you have those ideas about democracy and democracy? Too many, too many..."

Xu Fan stared at Zheng Yu, his expression becoming more complicated.

"This old empire that is difficult to return has been transformed in just 20 to 30 years, and has gradually entered the ranks of modern countries, and has begun to truly catch up with the powerful countries that have developed a capitalist economy for two to three hundred years. This is not scientific at all." Zheng Yu shook his head, "We are not an extreme nation like Japan. Anyone who wants to learn can be copied, and even better than the original template. But we pursue the doctrine of the mean, and we take three steps in one step and take a slow step to leave a way out. Therefore, when learning about the West to catch up with the West, according to China's original situation, it may take at least one or two hundred years. But you have done it in just over twenty years. If it is not from the future, you must be stars from the sky, otherwise it really doesn't make sense."

"More importantly, the ideas of you are really incompatible with the times. I can't imagine that even if you grew up abroad, you can't be so distorted." Zheng Yu said seriously, "Many people say that you are stars from the sky. I originally thought that I could only explain this. What you are talking about now makes me realize it."

Xu Fan looked at him, his face was extremely wonderful.

"Yu, now I really doubt whether there is anything in this world that can really surprise you." Xu Fan, who has always been calm and composed, had a sense of frustration at this moment, and his eyes were full of incredible. "You just believe it? Well? You just believe it? Don't you think this is incredible?"

Zheng Yu grinned his eyebrows and smiled heartlessly: "Uncle, all these things are in front of me. Do you think I have other choices? There are always some things in this world that we cannot understand. Since that is the case, I only have one principle. For things that I can't figure out, the most reasonable explanation for things I can't figure out, no matter how incredible it is, it may be the closest to the truth. So, no matter how you think, I really believe it anyway. Why don't you give me another explanation?"

Xu Fan swallowed, stared at Zheng Yu for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say, "Damn... you, what a freak!"

Zheng Yu looked at the self-proclaimed time traveler, chewing on this familiar and somewhat unfamiliar words, and felt a warm feeling in his heart.

He could understand the old man opposite.

He was the only four people who came together. The teacher, classmates, and brothers died one by one. The time traveler must have felt a kind of loneliness and fear.

He may be afraid of the inexplicable power of self-repair in time and space, and is afraid that one day he will be completely erased by this invisible hand in some form, so that the secret will be buried in the mistakes of time and space; he may be trying to use this confession to increase his weight in front of himself, the new emperor, and guide the country in the direction he envisioned; he may be worried that the important clues of the future he knows will disappear with him one day, and cannot continue to help the country move forward; he may just feel a kind of bleakness and desire to express.

In any case, his confession showed trust in this student.

Zheng Yu looked at Xu Fan and silently analyzed each subtle change of the other party.

"You child has always been very unusual." Xu Fan smiled bitterly, his eyes gradually drifting, and he seemed to fall into memories again. "You seem to instinctively know who can trust and who should be wary of it. When you are very good, you can be very immersed in the essence of things and take the most direct and effective methods to solve it. And sometimes, you do not hesitate to spend a lot of effort to carefully lay out and consider all the details. Many times, when teaching you things, I have an inexplicable feeling, that is, you can understand whatever I teach..."

Zheng Yu smiled bitterly and said nothing.

"I've seen you when you were two years old." Xu Fan said quietly, "At that time, Xue would often take Wei to you to class and play with you. At that time, you were already very smart and well-behaved. Xue liked you the most."

Zheng Yu was stunned, and some memory fragments left in his mind finally showed a hint of inspiration: "Auntie Sugar Man?!"

Xu Fan nodded: "At that time, she always used Candy Man to lure you to sing and dance. You all call her Auntie Candy Man."

Zheng Yu scratched his head embarrassedly, but felt a little strange in his heart.

"Your children are actually the teacher's adopted sons." Xu Fan said, "At that time, the teacher was almost fifty years old and had been married for ten years, but he had not had children... I suggest that the teacher accept an orphan with excellent qualifications as the heirs, so that we can avoid some thoughts from the problems of the heirs. In fact, my thoughts, in addition to not wanting the teacher to put me in the stove, I also think that such a fatherless orphan can support them in peace with their old age by spending their old age with the teacher and his wife. Only such a child can fully inherit one of our ideas and pass on this cause."

Zheng Yu was fascinated by the sound of hearing and couldn't help asking, "Who are my biological parents?"

"I don't know this either." Xu Fan shook his head, "You have a very big life. It is said that the bandits slaughtered the village and were discovered by the troops. If you are a little later, you may die. Your hometown should be in Luotian, Hubei, and the south of the Dabie Mountains."

Zheng Yu was speechless. That was his hometown in his previous life. What was going on?

In his past and present lives, Zheng Yu and Zheng Yu also lost their voices for a while.

"During this period, I will talk to you about the history in my memory." Xu Fan said seriously, "When mastering these historical situations, it will be of great help to you and this country in the future."

Zheng Yu nodded.

"It's time for you to ask questions now," said Xu Fan. "What do you have to ask about the history of us and the future we know about?"

Zheng Yu stared at the other party and said for a long time: "The first thing I can't understand is how you thought of using Jews and British people back then, and how did you use it for so many years."

Xu Fan nodded: "This is indeed a very complicated issue."

"First, this is related to our situation at that time." Xu Fan continued, after drinking a sip of red wine, "At that time, we had some previous military ideas, some previous economic and political ideas, but due to lack of strength, it was difficult to materialize these ideas. What we needed first was funds and channels with the West, and we also needed the protection and support of major powers like Britain and France to avoid being strangled by hostile forces in the early stage."

"At that time, the teacher and we analyzed the situation in Annan with us. The teacher believed that China's decline opened up the ambitions of Britain and France for expansion in Indochina and the Indochina Peninsula. At that time, there was only one Siam in the entire region, and it was in the gap between Britain and France, and could only get along with each other. The situation in the Indochina Peninsula was a dispute between Britain and France," Xu Fan said. "At that time, France occupied southern Annan, prepared to advance northward, and further invaded Cambodia and Laos, which belonged to Siam. The British were preparing to expand from India to Myanmar, but due to French interference and the Qing Dynasty's protection of Myanmar."

"The French are the most threatening to us. According to history, we know that the British colonial expansion is gradually approaching the limit of their national strength, and the teacher believes that the British are an alliance that can be used. So the teacher established a connection with the British Far East colonial authorities." Xu Fan said, "But at the beginning, the British were skeptical of us. It was just because we spoke good English and sorted out the country's political, economic and military situation clearly, so we gave courtesy and reported to London, but we just thought that we were a force that could be used to restrain the French. We might as well consider 'give appropriate support'. At this time, we met a person."

"Nathaniel Rothschild, the current patriarch of the Rothschild family." Xu Fan smiled and seemed to remember some interesting things. "At that time, his father arranged for him to travel to the East to inspect business. He met us disguised in the French colony of Coast Palm. After talking, he felt good about each other. Later, he followed us to the north and they were very close to each other."

"The teacher discussed with us at that time, thinking that the power of the Jews, especially the Rothschild family, could be used as a bond to leverage the entire Jewish world in Europe, America and Britain." Xu Fan continued, "presumably because the Jewish business philosophy was more profit-oriented, and the rulers of various countries also intended to direct social dissatisfaction to these scapegoats. Europe has always had an anti-Semitism tradition. Especially after the Napoleonic War, Europe launched new resources in the half of the 19th century.

After that, many countries began to deliberately direct social dissatisfaction with exploitation and oppression to national conflicts, that is, the so-called Jewish merchants, and adopted a great suppression of the Jews. Russia massacred Jews in Eastern Europe. After the 1870s, a new wave of anti-Semitism appeared in almost all Western and Central European countries, especially France as a typical example. They directly passed legislation and incited mass movements to incite fanatical anti-Semitism."
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