Chapter 40: Difficult Changes (Part 1)

  The dispatch of the Zhongyong Army was originally quite secretive, how could it have startled Rong Yu?

  Since Zhou Yu collaborated with Morgan in the United States, a large number of various talents have arrived in the United States for further study every year, and Yale University in the United States also has many personnel sent by Zhou Yu for further study.

  Other places may be unfamiliar to him, but Yale University is a different story.

  In 1847, at the age of 19, Yung Wing arrived in New York after a 98-day voyage and went on to study at Yale University.

  After graduating in 1874, Yung Wing gave up a lucrative career in the United States to return to China and persuade the Qing government to send students to America.

  After 18 years of hard work, he finally succeeded with the help of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang in leading more than a hundred 13-year-old children to study in the United States over the next few years.

  According to Rong Hong's idea, if China sends a considerable number of students abroad every year and persists for 100 years, the demand for high-level talents in China's modernization construction can be met, and the old China can slowly become a strong new China like the United States.

  So, he was extremely familiar with Yale University, where he had studied and socialized. In the late 1881, the Qing government began to recall Chinese students studying in the US due to concerns about their Westernization, thus shattering Rong Hong's hopes.

  After Rong Xiang's hopes were dashed, he was especially disheartened and distressed. He sank into despair for a while before shifting his gaze to self-funded overseas students in China.

  It was at this time that his good friend from Yale University told him some exciting news: there were now several hundred Chinese students at Yale.

  After thorough investigation, he found that these overseas students were basically from Vietnam and Hawaii, with very few from mainland China, and the introducer was always Morgan of the American company J.P. Morgan.

  Then he found Morgan himself, but Morgan didn't tell him the specifics of the situation. After several twists and turns, he still didn't get any useful information.

  While he was wandering around, he unexpectedly received an invitation from Zhou Yu to go to Hawaii, saying that there were things about studying in the US, so he went to Hawaii with joy.

  Morgan, after discovering that Rong Yunduo had been inquiring about the Zhongyong Military Academy students, felt a bit uneasy, fearing it would affect his cooperation with Zhou Yu, so he sent a telegram to inform Zhou Yu: There's something...

  Zhou Yu learned that: it was Dr. Rong Huang who, after inquiring about his own affairs, sent an invitation signal to Rong Huang without hesitation, inviting him to meet in Hawaii.

  According to historical records, Hong Rengan proposed seven suggestions to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, including organizing a well-trained army, setting up military and naval schools, establishing an effective government, and promulgating educational systems. However, he did not dare to believe that they would be implemented. In addition, when Hong Xiuquan granted him a fourth-class official seal, Yang Xiuqing firmly declined it.

  At that time, he had a strong desire to improve the quality of the nation, and one of the seven proposals was to send students to study in Western countries. It can be seen how eager his reformist sentiments were.

  In today's Qing government, after closing the study abroad channel, how can Zhou Yu still suspect Rong Yun's motive for being in a hurry to seek medical attention, and why would he let go of Rong Yun, the most outstanding talent of the Chinese nation at that time?

  Zhou Yu has always admired Rong Kuang from the bottom of his heart, admiring him as a patriot who devoted his whole life to improving the quality of the Chinese nation with all his heart and soul.

  At the beginning, Rong Yiren gave up his superior job in the United States and returned to China. If it were placed in later generations, how many people would humble themselves for a so-called green card, and some women would even sacrifice their dignity.

  Is the sky in foreign countries really that blue? The answer is: utterly wrong, a thousand miles off, without the prosperity of our motherland, those so-called drifters are just rootless duckweeds, to be bullied at will.

  These yellow-skinned and white-hearted banana people will ultimately meet their demise in a foreign land, only those who are truly human will be granted a little bit of so-called democracy by others.

  Zhou Yu remembered: In later generations, there was a young woman from Shanghai who married a Japanese man in order to achieve her goal of going abroad. She spent a lot of money on this, but when she arrived in Japan, she found that the so-called successful husband she had boasted about in China was actually a farmer in Japan. The economic conditions were vastly different from what she had imagined, and her miserable life in Japan was worlds apart from her comfortable life in Shanghai.

  Finally, the lady divorced and returned to her country in a huff. Later on, she actually put her experience online for all to see! Alas, foolish people! Always thinking of gaining without effort, but the result is: losing both wife and soldiers, what's the point of it all?!

  In the later generations, Zhou Yu has seen too many banana people. How can he not admire the heavy national righteousness of Rong Yuan from the bone marrow? Zhou Yu knows that the Chinese nation is at a very critical moment and needs the support of many people to restore the great national spirit of the Chinese nation, which is important and arduous. Since he was arranged by heaven in this space, he cannot let the humiliating history of the Chinese nation reappear in this space again. His ultimate goal is to revive the glory of the Chinese nation. Talents like Rong Yuan are rare and precious, how can Zhou Yu give up on him?

  In late 1882, when Rong Hong arrived in Hawaii, he was also amazed by the changes in Hawaii. He found that Chinese people were everywhere on the Hawaiian Islands, all of whom were full of spirit and had a rosy complexion, their words and deeds were filled with confidence and ease, no longer like before, with a listless and weak appearance every day.

  The overall environment of Hawaii has also undergone a complete change, the streets here are clean and spacious, the traffic is in the four-wheeled leather cars that are very popular in the United States, and there are electric trains that run throughout the island, factories, shops, and high-rise buildings are everywhere, the overall environment is more prosperous than New York in the United States.

  The whole island is heavily guarded, with a team of Chinese patrol teams passing by from time to time. They also frequently greet the local indigenous people, whites and Chinese, and the atmosphere between them is extremely harmonious. There is no behavior of white people excluding Chinese here, only friendly and harmonious attitudes between people of all colors.

  If this were in America, it would be an unthinkable thing, but here it seems ordinary.

  Rong Xuan muttered secretly in his heart; this place is simply a paradise for Chinese people, a utopia!

  At the Hawaii dock, he was greeted by his old acquaintance Chen Fang. In '81, he had recommended Chen Fang for the position of Consul General at the Qing Dynasty's Legation in Hawaii, but Chen Fang politely declined.

  At that time, Chen Fang had already established an alliance with Zhou Yu, and through their joint efforts, the Chinese in Hawaii could enjoy better rights than consular protection, namely Hawaiian citizenship. It would be unnecessary to go under the name of the Qing Consul again, let alone Zhou Yu told him that Hawaii would become a territory of China in the future!

  Two old acquaintances met, and naturally they couldn't help but be polite for a while. When Chen Fang brought Rong Yun to Zhou Yu's Pearl Harbor villa, Rong Yun was shocked again. Inside the Pearl Harbor base, what he saw were majestic buildings everywhere, as well as those factories with thick black smoke billowing from their huge chimneys.

  The entire base is vast and stern, visible from afar, with the huge cannons facing the ocean deep within the base, as well as the densely packed defense facilities arranged in order inside the base.

  In fact, all of this was arranged by Zhou Yu, who wanted to give Rong Yoon a visual shock and an inner tremor, making him feel a soul-stirring power of the Zhongyong Army from the bottom of his heart, in order to achieve his goal of winning him over.

  Zhou Yu received Yong You in his luxurious villa.

  Mr. Rong, hello! I'm so sorry that I couldn't personally come to the dock to pick you up due to my recent busy schedule with mundane matters. Zhou Yuman greeted Mr. Rong with a big smile and extreme politeness, inviting him into the house and having him sit down. After the servant had arranged the tea, he hurriedly apologized repeatedly to Mr. Rong.

  It doesn't matter, Mr. Zhou, please don't be polite, I have plenty of time recently and am a free man, you are busy with official duties and needn't worry about this!

  I've come today! Mainly to ask Mr. Zhou for advice on matters related to Chinese students in the US, and I hope Mr. Zhou can enlighten me. In his anxious state, Rong Yun looked at Zhou Yu with pleading eyes, even abandoning basic courtesy, revealing how urgent he felt about the matter of overseas students.

  How dare I, how dare I! Everyone is working hard for the Chinese nation. Mr. Kong sought a good way to save the people and pioneered our country's overseas education! I have infinite admiration for your integrity!

  Recently, the Chinese students in the US were all dispatched by me. You don't have to worry about this matter anymore, Mr. My purpose is the same as Mr. Rong's; we are both dedicated to improving the quality of the Chinese nation and cultivating a large number of useful talents for China.

  However, the approach of the humble one and Mr. Rong is different. The humble one first instills patriotic education in the dispatched overseas students. Patriotism is a banner that mobilizes and inspires the unity and struggle of the Chinese people, it is a huge driving force for advancing the social history of our country, and it is the common spiritual pillar of the entire Chinese nation.

  The patriotism I told everyone is: loving the Hua Xia nation, not the Manchu Qing dynasty. The current Manchu Qing dynasty can no longer represent my vast Hua Xia people, and the Hua Xia nation is the true 'state' of the vast laboring people.

  Popularizing patriotic education is of great practical significance for invigorating the national spirit, pooling the strength of the whole nation, uniting people of all ethnic groups across the country, achieving self-reliance and hard work, and striving for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

  After undergoing a spiritual baptism, overseas students have developed a conscious sense of maintaining the reputation, dignity, unity and interests of their country and nation. After returning to China, they will also voluntarily contribute to the prosperity and strength of their motherland.

  Mr. Rong's approach is mainly to send those simple-minded children to study abroad, but their character, psychology and body are not mature, under the premise of no dominant ideology, they are very likely to accept some new and fresh things from the West that are different from Confucian culture without distinguishing good from bad.

  Some people even go so far as to become banana people with yellow skin and white hearts, who are likely to become traitors that harm national and ethnic security in their future work.

  So, here I sincerely ask Mr. Rong to be cautious in dealing with the issue of sending Chinese students abroad, and never again send out a blank sheet of paper like a young child.

  When some countries make use of these Chinese, the energy they emit will be astonishing and fatal to our Chinese nation! After saying this, Zhou Yu thought of the humiliating history that China experienced in the late Qing Dynasty, and with a sincere gaze, he looked at Rong Yun with an extremely solemn expression.

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