Chapter 2211: Learning From Barbarian Skills to Control Barbarians

"How much have you learned from the Three Character Classic? How far has it been memorized?" Ji Zongbu guessed based on Shen Long's age and what Mr. Hu said earlier. He guessed that the child might not have learned much before.

"I'll recite it for you, 'At the beginning of human beings, nature is good, nature is similar, habits are far away...'" Shen Long started to recite it, and recited it from the beginning to the end in one breath, "'...Diligence pays off, play is useless, and caution That's right, I should work hard', Mr. Ji, how is my recitation?"

"Okay, there are 1,140 characters in the whole article, and none of them is wrong!" Ji Zongbu couldn't help applauding it. Even the entry-level "San Zi Jing" can do one word at Shen Long's age. Not many good ones.

In fact, Shen Long was still a little guilty, but fortunately he managed it, and he didn't say "Daoxianjian, chaos started. At the beginning of Britain and France, disturbances were contemptible. After Tongguang, Xuantong was weak. Passing on the Nine Emperors, the Manchu Dynasty died. The revolution flourished, Abolish the monarchy. Establish a constitution and build a republic of China" Recite these few sentences, otherwise Ji Zongbu will not be scared to death?

You must know that the "San Zi Jing" was born in the Song Dynasty, and has undergone many revisions since then. Shen Long still glanced at the Qing Dynasty version when studying historical materials in the late Qing Dynasty. If you recite it according to the modern popular version, there will definitely be problems.

At first, Ji Zongbu only heard that the Bai family was looking for a private school teacher. He thought of that brave child on a whim, but he didn't expect to meet a child prodigy. Now he thought more and more about educating Shen Long, "Since he can memorize the Three Character Classic , then "Hundred Surnames" is probably not to mention, let's memorize "Thousand Characters"!"

"San Zi Jing", "Hundred Surnames" and "Thousand Characters" are also known as the three major readings of traditional Chinese elementary studies, collectively known as "Three Hundred Thousands", and the difficulty is also increasing in order. "Hundred Surnames" is the simplest, "Thousand Characters" " was the most difficult, Ji Zongbu saw that Shen Long had memorized the "Three Character Classic", so he directly increased the difficulty to "Thousand Character Classic".

"'The heaven and the earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is prehistoric, the sun and the moon are full, and the celestial constellations are listed... The ignorant and ignorant wait for the scolding, and the predicate is to help those who say it." Shen Long similarly summed up the thousand-character thousand words in one breath. The words were memorized.

"Okay, okay!" Ji Zongbu is considered one of the few bannermen who are up to the challenge, how can he hold back when he meets such a smart child prodigy? For a scholar like him, it is also a great blessing in life to teach a proud student. "What else have you learned? How much "The Analects" have you read?"

If you want to talk about "The Analects of Confucius", I can definitely be your teacher, but Shen Long didn't show off too much, he is just a child now, if you show off too much, it's over, so he shook his head and said, " I only recited a few chapters." Then I recited three chapters of "Xueer", "Weizheng" and "Bayou" for Ji Zongbu, and did not continue to memorize.

"I heard that you used to be stubborn by nature and never studied hard. It is not bad to have such achievements, but you are good at work and hard at work. Since you have this talent, you have to put your mind on studying. You can't do it anymore. Waste of time! Now that you have started studying "The Analects of Confucius",

Then I will start from here and tell you about it. Today, I will talk about the meaning of the article "For Learning". "Ji Zongbu can't wait to pass on everything he has learned all his life to Shen Long right now.

However, Shen Long didn't have much interest in learning, "Mr. Ji, I don't want to learn these things, you should teach me the knowledge of foreigners!" Hey, if I continue to learn Chinese studies from you, I will be so uncomfortable. What you said is wrong, should I point it out or pretend not to hear?

"Why do you want to learn from foreigners so much?" Ji Zongbu was curious. This was the second time Shen Long said it, so he couldn't help but ignore it.

"Can't we beat foreigners now? When I can't beat other people in the courtyard, I have to think about who he learned kung fu from and what kind of kung fu he learned, and then focus on learning what he learned. Fight back, since we can't beat foreigners, don't we have to learn from foreigners?" Shen Long replied.

This answer made Ji Zongbu stunned on the spot, and it seemed that Shen Long took a long time to smile wryly, "Teaching barbarians to master skills to control barbarians is a truth that every child understands, but none of the important officials in the court understands, you What the hell is this?"

In 1842, "Pictures of Haiguo" came out. The author Wei Yuan pointed out the purpose of the book in the book "Original History", "Why is this book written?" Learning from barbarian skills is based on controlling barbarians." The so-called "teaching barbarians" mainly refers to learning a set of strengths in military technology from Western capitalist countries, and "the barbarian's skills are three: first, warships, second, firearms, and third, training soldiers." method."

Therefore, the phrase "learn from barbarians to master skills to control barbarians" has been born for decades. Unfortunately, in these decades, few people have really studied Western technology seriously. There is no way. For a long time, inertia exists not only in physical movement, but also in social activities.

The political system that has not changed for thousands of years has gradually solidified the thinking of the upper class. Even if a few people of insight speak out loudly, it is difficult for them to turn around. Therefore, the country has to be smashed to pieces to be reborn from the ashes. This is the answer that has been proved by the history of more than a hundred years since then.

"Okay, I'll just say this to you, I'll teach you the knowledge of foreigners! But we can't forget our own knowledge, you must know that "the right way is to use Chinese ethics and famous teaching as the foundation, supplemented by the art of prosperity and strength of various countries. . "This is the inertia of history. Even if Ji Zongbu has stayed abroad to see the world, he only regards Western technology as a tool, and does not understand the interaction between productivity and production relations at all. If he wants to really catch up with the West, he will not be able to catch up with the West." Changing the existing system is not an option.

However, Shen Long did not argue with him, he is just a child now, it is too sensational to say these things, and there is still a long time in the future, some time is to convince Ji Zongbu with facts, since Shen Long is here, naturally he will not let him Ji Zongbu died in the hands of the Eight-Power Allied Forces like in the TV series.

Although Ji Zongbu is a Manchu, he is also a true patriot. The next few decades will be a historical stage in which all Chinese nationalities strive to become stronger and fight against foreign enemies. When the title was conferred in 1999, there were thirty-six founding generals from ethnic minorities, including four from the Manchus. At Ji Zongbu's age, he must not be able to catch up with this wave, but he can still do a lot of things.

"Today, let's talk about "The Analects of Confucius". After studying "The Analects of Confucius", let's learn foreign language!" Ji Zongbu said.