"Is this … really going to be a debate?" Sitting in the office of the university's auditorium building, Wang Shizhen asked the embassy comrade in disbelief. Since discussing the revolution with Queen Cecilia, the upper class of Hungary suddenly became very enthusiastic about Wang Shizhen. After two consecutive days of visits, those who felt that the discussion with Wang Shizhen was not satisfying enough invited Wang Shizhen to Budapest's Roland University for a public debate.
"Yes. Such debates are often held in Hungary. "The embassy comrade was familiar with the situation in Hungary and gave Wang Shizhen a clear answer. After that, he felt a little worried and asked, "Comrade Wang Shizhen, are you ready for the debate?"
Wang Shizhen replied straightforwardly, "I've taught Japanese before, and I feel that debating is about reasoning. I don't understand Hungarian, and my German is terrible. If I encounter difficulties, I can fix the translation. "
This frightened the embassy comrade, and he quickly said, "Comrade Wang Shizhen, this is a debate, not a speech."
"Oh …" Wang Shizhen was inspired. After thinking for a few seconds, he smiled and said, "I will try my best to turn the debate into a speech."
The embassy comrade lowered his head and put his hand on his forehead. Wang Shizhen's reaction made him speechless.
The two sides of the debate sat on the stage of the auditorium, and Wang Shizhen first looked at the other side. There were five people on the other side, plus two translators, and seven people sat in a row. On his side, there was only Wang Shizhen himself and the embassy comrade who acted as an interpreter. 'Two translators are a good idea,' Wang Shizhen thought.
After looking at the other side, Wang Shizhen glanced at the audience and saw young people sitting in rows, the aisle was also full of people, and there were people at the gate and even outside the gate. Wang Shizhen was a little puzzled. Since the debate was serious, why was the level of the Hungarian revolutionary party so bad? It was really incredible that such a bad level could encourage Emperor Vézé to send professionals. The embassy comrade did not give Wang Shizhen an explanation in this regard, which really disappointed Wang Shizhen.
Then the debate began, and the content of the debate was the agrarian revolution or the step-by-step reform. Perhaps it was because she had never really been exposed to the European ideology, Wang Shizhen fell into confusion after she was sure that the Hungarian organizer sincerely believed that the improvement was promising. If the improvements were really useful, the nineteen-year revolutionary war of the Min dynasty, starting from the Taiping Rebellion, would not have ended with mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
The first to speak was a member of the upper echelon of Hungary who supported the reform. Judging from his attire, the upper echelon should be from the academic world. This academic did not blindly sing praises for the old system, but to a certain extent, criticized the evil of the old system. But the solution was not to destroy the old system, but to restrict it to a certain extent, and to punish the evildoers. Through this model, a brand new Hungary could be built.
From what Wang Mingshan heard, this person was very dissatisfied with the old power distribution system. This representative first claimed to be the 'people's representative', and then shouted to the masses that he represented the interests of the people. No matter how glib his tongue was, it all boiled down to two sentences: 'Power belongs to me' and 'Send the people to their deaths'.
Everyone was given five minutes to express their main ideas. As Wang Shizhen listened to the translated content, his brain worked quickly to decide and adjust the content of his speech. Now he felt that the situation of the Hungarian revolution was not as bad as he had imagined. At least there were still some people who wanted to seize power under the guise of the people's will. During the process of the academic figure's speech, the young students were excited. Some people kept applauding, and the students below could not help but cheer. After finishing the main content in a few minutes, the students stood up and applauded, with the attitude of someone who had found a confidant.
When Wang Shizhen spoke, the excitement of the students had not completely subsided. Many people below continued to talk, and the auditorium seemed to have become a big beehive. Wang Shizhen sat steadily in his seat. When the host asked Wang Shizhen to speak, he just pointed at the students below him and then pointed at his ears, making a very funny but definitely not misunderstood gesture.
The host had to go up to the microphone and ask the students below to be quiet. Wang Shizhen waited for the students to quiet down, then went up and asked in Chinese, English, and French, "Who can understand this language, please raise your hand." No students understood Chinese, one-tenth of the students understood English, and one-sixth of the students understood French. In the end, Wang Shizhen spoke in not fluent German, but one-third of the students said that they could understand it.
After showing off his language ability, Wang Shizhen still expressed his own argument in Chinese. In Wang Shizhen's view, the speech was just a tool. He had to lead a group of Japanese, and it was necessary to reason with them. Therefore, Wang Shizhen was confident in controlling the rhythm. As for the content of the argument, it was plagiarism.
Revolution was to change the destiny of Hungary, and the destiny of Hungary was the nobles and landlords. They made profits through private ownership of land. The relationship caused by private ownership of land had developed to an unprecedented level in China, which was explained in great detail in the party's lesson. Wang Shizhen casually picked out some basic land relations and made the group of students below stupefied.
Fortunately, the organizer did not go too far. Because of the translation problem, Wang Shizhen got ten minutes. And these ten minutes were fully used. It didn't take long for Wang Shizhen to draw the map of private ownership of land and the distribution of the land. The big words on it mentioned the basic means of exploitation of farmers, such as rent, taxes, and usury.
The final conclusion was: "The reform is to admit the existence of these rentier classes based on the land, and the revolution is to completely eliminate these rentier classes. The reform will not succeed, and even if it works in the short term, it will be full of opposition from both sides. The revolution is to turn the rentier classes into self-supporting workers. From the standpoint of the revolution, this is a great good. Because the goal of the revolution is to build a new world where workers are the masters of the country. "
Wang Shizhen completed the first stage of the theory within the allotted time. It could be seen that the students below were all dumbfounded and could not react at all. For them, this was the first time they had heard of such a revolution. In the content they came into contact with, revolutions without exception were all fierce and brutal killings, a combination of destruction, chaos, and despair. It was a terrible torrent of "trampling on the bones of the nobles, and burning the palace treasury into beautiful ashes." But in Wang Shizhen's theory, the core of the revolution was actually very limited in its connection with violence. Revolution even had an indescribable inner meaning.
It could be seen that the few gentlemen on the other side also saw that the atmosphere was not very favorable to them, so the debate entered the next stage. They questioned each other. Because there were many people on the other side, and they were the first to speak, the few gentlemen asked several questions in rapid succession. These questions were very close to the thoughts of the students, and all of them revolved around the violence of the revolution.
As the questions were asked, the students below responded enthusiastically. It could be seen that these students had the dissatisfaction of the current system unique to young people, but this dissatisfaction was completely inferior to the wariness of foreigners, and the fear of the destruction of the revolution brought by foreigners.
At this time, Wang Shizhen somewhat understood that the guys who encouraged the debate really had a deep and farsighted plan. While they could effectively incite the students to support their reformism, they could also attack the "revolutionary terror" from China. These guys could benefit from both sides and greatly increase their own influence.
This world was full of people who did not give things for free. Wang Shizhen suddenly felt a kind of peace in her heart. If the world was as cowardly and incompetent as she had seen these days, Wang Shizhen would feel uneasy. If a country did not have the existence of people who understood the situation, this was absolutely abnormal. Even if a country was rotten to the core, there would still be people who were wise and discerning. Now that this group of people was operating in the dark, there was no doubt that they were smart people.
As for those questions, Wang Shizhen stood up and looked at the debate opponents on the opposite side, then he turned to the students. "Excuse me, everyone, have you had breakfast today?"
This question made everyone feel very surprised. What did eating have to do with the debate? At least the Hungarian students could not understand.
"I was a soldier. For me, I get up at six in the morning for breakfast, and around noon for lunch. If I didn't eat, I would feel very hungry at most in the afternoon. If I didn't eat at night, I would feel weak. "Wang Shizhen calmly recounted his experience.
"For humans, they have to eat every day. Revolutionaries are not angels or demons, they are also human beings, and revolutionaries also have to eat. Of course, those reformists are the same. Then let me ask you a question, where does the food they eat come from? In order to maintain the ability to move, what do these reformists eat? Who provides them with food and lets them carry out their actions? "Wang Shizhen adopted a rhetorical approach.
It had to be said that very few students, especially university students, thought about the problem in this way. In the Min dynasty, those who could go to university were students with good grades. If their families were poor, they could apply for a student loan. If their families were poor, they could still apply for a part-time job. However, in Hungary, there were college students who could not eat their fill, but there were no college students whose families could not afford to go to university. If their families were poor, they would not be given the opportunity to go to university.
Therefore, Wang Shizhen's question was like a bucket of cold water to the students. And then Wang Shizhen threw out a large handful of colder snowflakes. "What I really want to ask is, do these reformists take money from the rich or from the poor?"
There was also an advantage of being born in a wealthy family, which was that they could understand the loaded words. After Wang Shizhen's attack was thrown out, it really moved many smart students. Whether it was for or against, they understood the meaning behind Wang Shizhen's words. Although they did not speak the Chinese language, Hungarians also knew the principle of taking money to do things. How could the poor have money? They had to take money from the rich to eat. If you took money from the rich, no matter how you shouted, "Take money from the rich, do things for the poor," it would make people think, "Take money from the rich, do things for the poor."
When Wang Shizhen revealed a small corner of the cruel reality to the students, many people really felt that it was really an eye-opener and a burst of chill.
The students in the audience did not have the right to speak, but the people opposite Wang Shizhen did. After listening to Wang Shizhen's words, the people in the group were really angry. As the saying goes, hit people not in the face, scold people not in the shortcomings. These people had taken money from the rich, and these people had done things for the rich. Even if Wang Shizhen did not know those things, these people did not consider this reality in their hearts. Then, they became angry out of embarrassment.
"God's lover. Revolutionaries do not love. "When the reformists encountered a setback, it was easy for them to turn to religion for help.
Wang Shizhen smiled slightly. In North America, there were many religions, and there was always a lot of training in this area. He smiled and said, "Christ was also against usury. When he shouted, 'Let the children come to me!', he did not mean to favor one and discriminate against the other. The poor did not have usury, and the poor wanted their children to be treated equally. And the revolution, at least in our country's revolution, everyone got equal opportunities. "
"Christ loves everyone, whether rich or poor." The academic on the opposite side did not expect Wang Shizhen to talk about the Bible, and immediately retorted.
"It is more difficult for a rich man to enter heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. This is also what Jesus said. "The political department of the Liberation Army had never been stingy in teaching these basic verbal tricks.
"This does not mean that Christ does not love the world. His love is equal!" Wang Shizhen's rebuttal was a little exasperated.
Wang Shizhen did not expect the other party to not be fooled by such small talk. He was not angry at all. He calmly replied, "I do not deny the position of Jesus that you said. But this is enough to explain Jesus' judgment on the world. "
The students in the venue could not help but whisper. The upper echelons of the academic world could not be misled by this. However, it was easy for young students to associate being rich with being heartless.
The host saw that things were not right and immediately came out to smooth things over. "We are here to discuss revolution and reform, not to discuss theology. I hope everyone will not bring up topics that have nothing to do with the topic. "
This was agreed by most students, but there were already a small number of students who felt some of the underlying meaning of this debate.
The subsequent debate was very difficult. Wang Shizhen's attitude was very simple. Human beings needed to eat, drink, and spend money. The revolutionaries became a member of the masses by combining with the people. The reformists, on the other hand, were paid to do things, and they could not rely on themselves to support the movement. In the long run, they were bound to become the lackeys of the rich and powerful, working for these people.
The last debate ended in discord. The people above were not happy, and the students below were completely unable to express their views. For the school, the debate was not really to understand anything, but to teach students a skill through the debate. In this kind of skill class, facing the inner interrogation of the world, values, and outlook on life, no one would feel relaxed.
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