I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

It doesn't mean that it can stop Daming's group of killing embryos, at least it can have some bargaining chips, and can negotiate with them and negotiate one or two.

Obviously, Li Hongzhang is the strongman they chose.

Therefore, it is best to hear that Li Hongzhang wants to build a new army. Although he has no intention of donating money, he still has the intention of preparing some local products to serve in the army.

At the end of November, gongs and drums blared outside Suzhou City, and colorful flags fluttered.

The big landlords in Suxichang and the merchant gangs in southern Huizhou brought fine wine, pigs and sheep to march for the Huai army.

Mr. Yang, a big landlord in Jiangyin, Wuxi, held Li Hongzhang's hand, and said cordially, "Grandpa Li, you must go and capture more Gangbo people to serve as soldiers! Gangbo people fight the most fiercely, just as fierce as you Anhui people." , we are very relieved!"

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In this way, the Mingzi Camp, Dingzi Camp, Kaizi Camp, Qizi Camp, and Songzi Camp of the Huai Army, a total of 2 people, marched northward along the Grand Canal.

By the way, the Grand Canal of this era has long been abandoned.

Historically, even with the obstruction of the Taiping Army and the existence of realistic factors such as the diversion of the Yellow River and sedimentation, the dispute over water and sea transportation has continued for many years.

The main reason is the so-called food and clothing of the million slot workers.

But now a million slot workers have gone to North America to open up wasteland, and the Grand Canal that Yang Guang gambled his head to dig has long been silted up. He can only wait silently for the birth of the new wonder of "South-to-North Water Diversion" one day, and it will be used as a diversion channel for the Eastern Front. Unblocked again.

The spectacle of the South-to-North Water Diversion lies in Zhu Fugui's "Victory of the Spectacle Party" notebook, and it is still far away to realize it.

In fact, the priority of the "South-to-North Water Diversion" is still after the Daming Panama Canal.

It's not that Zhu Fugui puts commercial interests above people's livelihood, but it's really unnecessary.

In the future, as long as the Ming Dynasty can control the big granaries of the Mihe Plain, the Mekong River Delta, the Red River Delta, and the Heijiliao Great Plain, the water pressure on the North China Plain, which is full of saline-alkali land, will be greatly reduced.

Ever since Dagu used the Yellow River as a natural danger to prevent the Liao people from going south and allowed the Yellow River to flood and divert, the situation of water shortage and unsuitable farming in North China has been difficult to reverse naturally.

For future generations, there is no way for food security and national survival.

Now as long as the ring is too bright, food security is a false proposition, and the suffering people of the Central Plains in our country no longer need to be tied to the land, living so hard.

At the same time that the Huai army was going north to the yellow area, another old Li was in the distant Nanyang, setting foot on the place where his predecessors had stopped.

British Malaya, Penang.

Bencheng, also known as Penang Island, guards the northern mouth of the Strait of Malacca and faces the Malay Peninsula with a 3-kilometer-wide strait. Its geographical location is very important.

The name Penang was first derived from the "Zheng He Navigation Chart" written in the Yongle period.

As early as the 15th century, there were clear records of trade with Penang in Chinese literature, and there were related charts.

However, in 1786, Captain Wright of the British East India Company "discovered" Penang, and then took it for granted as a British colony.

Today, Penang has become an important rubber market and transshipment center in British Malaya.

Things like rubber seem ordinary, but with the development of the times, especially after the invention of vulcanized rubber technology, the importance of rubber has become more and more prominent.

Especially after the end of the Second Ming-French War, all European countries realized the important military value of rubber.

Therefore, Penang is also becoming more and more important.

In fact, throughout the British Malaya region, rubber plantations have sprung up everywhere, but why is Penang so important?

This is because this is actually a Chinese city.

There is no doubt about the hard work of the Chinese, even the Celtic people like the Irish are willing to bow down, let alone the Nanyang natives.

There are many Chinese in the plantations all over Nanyang, and there are especially many Chinese in Penang.

There are even many Chinese who have become plantation supervisors by virtue of their ingenuity.

Gu Ziyun is such a "successful" Chinese, and he even has a blonde wife.

His son was Gu Hongming, who was later known as the "Master of Chinese Studies", "13 doctorates", "learned both Chinese and Western", and a spiritual man of the Qing Dynasty.

Among his titles, I am afraid that only Spiritual Qingren does not need quotation marks.

However, Gu Hongming at this time is not the so-called romantic talent who was born in Nanyang, studied in the West, married in the East, and worked in Beiyang in the future, but just a ten-year-old kid playing with mud in the rubber plantation.

The rubber plantation owners Brown and his wife are preparing to return to the UK.

Due to the sudden eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, the Brown couple's plantation was severely damaged.

Coupled with Mrs. Brown's poor health, the couple is going to return to the UK.

And Gu Hongming was preparing to leave with them, heading for the dream empire where the sun never sets.

However, just one month before their departure, several large ships flying the sun and moon flags suddenly stopped in the port of Penang.

"Tangshan", a word that is both familiar and unfamiliar, began to appear frequently in Gu Hongming's ears.

Chapter 401 Gu Hongming

"Hong Ming, did you have a good church with Mr. Brown today?"

"Hong Ming, don't play with wild children!"

"Hongming, I've prepared everything for you to go to England to be a father. When you get there, remember to be low-key and humble, don't cause trouble, and don't conflict with foreigners!"

"Hong Ming, let me recite "Paradise Lost" to my father again today!"

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Although there is still one month before going to England, during this month, my father's exhortations to Gu Hongming have become more and more frequent.

It is rumored in later generations that Gu Hongming's father, Gu Ziyun, was a person who valued Sinology education.

Even when Gu Hongming went to England, Gu Ziyun asked him to wear braids and long robes.

In this way, Gu Hongming's crazy Confucian character of "not forgetting the ancestors" was established.

However, this is not true.

From the very beginning, his father wanted him to be a decent western gentleman.

Gu Hongming, as a symbol of the times full of contradictions, has been touted and distorted too much.

It is nonsense to say that he has learned everything and is a master of Chinese studies.

Gu Hongming did not study Chinese culture systematically in Nanyang and Xiyang at all, but made up for it after returning to China.

It is true that his talent is very good, and he quickly learned something, but even with the title of "Master of Chinese Studies" that was rampant in the Republic of China, Gu Hongming's level of Chinese studies is far from the standard.

His few original anthologies have a low dissemination rate, and the academic value and artistic value are discussed.

Even he can't even write Chinese characters very neatly, and there are often typos.

In terms of Western learning, Gu Hongming has not made much achievements. The so-called 13 doctoral degrees have no provenance, and most of them have been falsified.

In fact, he himself only recognized the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Edinburgh.

In fact, the only academic achievement that Gu Hongming can produce is probably the translation of a number of Confucian classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics to the West, and he has made a small effort in cultural export.

From today's point of view, Gu Hongming is just an international student with good language talent.

It may be an exaggeration to say that it is mediocre, but it can be said that it is far from what a generation of masters and what country's humerus is.

But in this special era, both Yung Wing, who graduated from Yale, and Gu Hongming, who had studied abroad in Europe, monopolized the right to interpret Western learning in a stagnant and hopeless Qing Dynasty, either actively or passively. A layer of holy false aura.

Some later generations claim that 2000 marines can quell the situation in the Taiwan Strait, stifle all plots of the Communist Party of Afghanistan, defeat the Soviet Red Army in 7 days, and raise the flag of Gambia on Red Square, the most powerful country in the universe - Gambia.

The country's first president was named Jawala.

The reason why this gentleman can become the president of Gambia is because he is the only one in the country of Gambia with a per capita prenatal education degree. He is the only one who has obtained a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Edinburgh and is also an alumnus of Gu Hongming.

Relying on this advantage, he became the president. Except for a few free free clinics on farms, he has never done a good thing that benefits the country and the people.

Stripping off the layer of so-called "knowing the West", Jawara is just a typical black man.

The so-called situation makes heroes, one is time, and the other is situation.

Time refers to a specific time, and situation is the general trend of Western civilization sweeping all over the world and conquering the world.

But one thing is indisputable, that is, although Gu Hongming has traveled to Western countries, relying on this aura of experience to get an exorbitant evaluation, although his academic level is not high, but Gu Hongming is one of the few people in this era who has seen through the essence of Western civilization.

He seems to be obsessed with the past, but at least he is far more upright than Hu Shi and his like.

In fact, Gu Hongming may not like traditional Chinese culture very much, and he may not really think it is good to bind feet and wear braids, but he understands the West better than Hu Shi, and he has more insight into the West.

He has seen all the hypocrisy of the Western world, and he has seen clearly that this world is a worse world, and the West is by no means more civilized.

And when it comes to bad luck, this is His Majesty Zhu Fugui's strong point.

My Daming is by no means perfect, it all depends on the foil of my peers.

Today's Gu Hongming is not the braided weirdo of the future, but a young man who is full of fantasy about the Western world. In the relatively isolated Penang, he even vaguely knows that there is a rising Chinese country that has a bad relationship with Western countries.

But these things are still too far away from Gu Hongming, he has never really cared about them.

As a young master with no worries about food and clothing, Gu Hongming reads Western enlightenment books and participates in various Christian activities. If he does not "go abroad", he may never be patriotic for the rest of his life.

Brown, an Englishman, is Gu Hongming's father's boss and Gu Hongming's godfather. In addition to being the owner of a rubber plantation, he is also a pastor.

After finishing the worship service and accepting the Western enlightenment test at his father, Gu Hongming got some time for himself.

He tiptoed to avoid his father's sight and came to a fence of the manor.

He drilled out of a particularly wide gap in the railing with ease, and a world completely different from the decent and tidy western-style villa area appeared in front of his eyes.

"Wu Peng?"

Gu Hongming happily shouted the name of his little friend.

Wu Peng's father was a worker in a rubber plantation, and Xiao Gu became friends with him by chance.

"Master Gu, you are here!" Wu Peng replied cautiously.

"Your sister's illness can't be delayed any longer. Here, take this!" Gu Hongming took out a small bag of coins from his pocket, about 8 shillings and 5-6 pence.

The money is equivalent to about six or seven hundred yuan in later generations, which is a huge sum of money for the young Gu Hongming.

This is all his savings at present.

The reason why he sneaked out today is to give the money to his only friend in Penang.

Wu Peng hurriedly said: "Thank you, Young Master Gu, thank you, Young Master Gu... But we don't need this money anymore!"

"what?"

Little Gu Hongming's tears flowed out immediately, "Little sister...Little sister, has she already..."

"Yes, my little sister has recovered." Wu Peng nodded happily.

"Hey, it's all my fault. I found the opportunity to come out so late. If I could have been earlier...wait? What did you say?!"

Gu Hongming raised his head in surprise, and said: "Healed? That's a swing, it can't be just an interval between cold and heat?"

It has been several generations since the Gu family came to Nanyang, and his father is one of the best Chinese in Penang. Naturally, Gu Hongming knows how terrible the disease is, that is, malaria!

Southeast Asia is humid and warm, and it is a high-incidence area for malaria and falciparum malaria.

Krakatoa erupted this summer, and in an instant, energy equivalent to the power of 13000 Hiroshima atomic bombs spewed out of the earth in an instant.

The loud explosion can be heard as far away as Australia, 3500 kilometers away, and the island of Mauritius, 4800 kilometers away.

Volcanic ash spewed to an altitude of 80 kilometers and caused a strong earthquake and tsunami, with a tsunami exceeding 30 meters.

The earthquake and tsunami caused a large number of casualties.

But that's not the scariest thing.

Krakatoa spewed almost 21 cubic kilometers of rock fragments into the air, and a large amount of volcanic ash fell over an area as wide as 80 square kilometers.

This caused the global temperature of the earth to drop by 0.6 degrees Celsius that year.

Naturally, it was a big blow to the already difficult Chinese agriculture, making more farmers become Nianzi, and then became naturalized targets of Ming Dynasty.

For Nanyang, there is no shortage of food or anything.

But the drop in summer temperatures has led to an increase in mosquito populations.

That's right, if it's too hot, mosquitoes can't stand it, and mosquitoes will also "fever in summer".

The volcanic ash blocked sunlight and caused the temperature to drop, which in turn caused damage to rubber plantations and increased mosquitoes and flies.

Plagues like dengue fever and malaria followed.

For a long time, neither the East nor the West had a good solution to malaria.

"Nanzhou is warm and hot, and there is miasma, and the dead will be four or five out of ten." Most of them refer to malaria.