Suzhou in winter is not as cold as Jiangbei, and the warmth under the direct sunlight is very refreshing and pleasant.Yan Yuting and Pan Qiaoyu are the vane of Suzhou's fashion industry at this time, and the women in the city who have just untied their shackles are all on par with the two of them, what trendy clothes they wear today, and the women on the street tomorrow are all dressed like this, so thanks to Yan Yuting.Yan Yuting's position as women's chairperson has never been idle, and she has not only developed the women's organization to all corners of Suzhou Prefecture, but also has a tendency to spread to the cities occupied by the Qing army.In order to improve women's rights, Yan Yuting racked her brains.First, Qiao Zhiqing persuaded Liang Guifen to recruit female students in Huaxing Academy, but because Liang Guifen has not been very enthusiastic about this matter, although the old man is open-minded, after all, he grew up accepting the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women, so Huaxing Academy only recruited less than 100 female students before and after.Yan Yuting was angry, pestered Qiao Zhiqing all day long, and finally asked him to allocate 100,000 taels from the military expenses, and according to the scale of Huaxing Academy, a new school specializing in women's education was built in the south of the city, named "Huaxing Women's Academy".Like Qiao Zhiqing, Yan Yuting is only the honorary president of the women's academy, and the dean is served by a figure as famous as Feng Guifen, that is, a legendary figure in the south of the Yangtze River, Rong Hong.He is a native of Guangzhou Prefecture of Han nationality and a poor peasant family.As a teenager, he attended the Morrison School in Hong Kong, which was sponsored by the American Church.During the Daoguang years, he went to the United States to study with Principal Brown.Xianfeng graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in arts in four years, and was the first international student in China to graduate from an American institution of higher learning.Later, when he returned to China, just in time for the vigorous Tianping Rebellion, out of sympathy for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he also went to Nanjing to meet Hong Renji in person, and put forward seven suggestions to Hong Renji to organize a modern army, set up a military school and a naval school, establish an effective government, and promulgate an education system, and expressed his willingness to serve the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom if adopted.Hong Renji agreed with his proposal, but due to the situation, he could not implement it.After Rong Hong returned disappointed, he gave up politics and business, and worked in Shanghai Baoshun Foreign Company, running a silk tea business.After Poon Kee & Co. settled in Suzhou, Baoshun & Co. also set up an office in Suzhou in due course, and Yung Wing often traveled back and forth between Suzhou and Shanghai.Qiao Zhiqing's new policies in Suzhou Rong Hong saw clearly, and some of those new policies were even more radical than the political ideas in his heart.But he is no longer the returnee student who is ignorant of the world, and out of cautious considerations, he has been in a wait-and-see state for Qiao Zhiqing.Qiao Zhiqing invited Rong Hong several times and was ready to entrust him with important tasks.He only coped politely, and always politely refused every time.Later, Suzhou Women's Academy was established, and Qiao Zhiqing recommended Rong Hong to Yan Yuting.Unable to resist Yan Yuting's repeated pleas, Rong Hong finally resigned from Baoshun Foreign Bank and became the first president of Huaxing Women's Academy.Yan Yuting is not like Qiao Zhiqing, Rong Hong disagrees for a day, so she comes to invite her for a day.No matter how hard-hearted Ren Ronghong is, he can't stand the repeated pleas of a peerless beauty, and there is no political risk in becoming the dean of the girls' academy, even if Qiao Zhiqing falls, he will not be implicated.Because of Rong Hong's relationship, Huaxing Women's Academy became famous for a while, and the first phase of female students it recruited was as many as thousands of people, which shocked the entire Jiangnan.Suzhou also set off a feminist liberation movement at this time, when the woman who had been suppressed for thousands of years suddenly removed the shackles around her neck, the pursuit of freedom and cherishing more fiercely than men, the first newspaper in the modern sense of Suzhou City and even the Qing Dynasty was founded by the students of Huaxing Women's Academy, the student was born in a scholarly family, surnamed Wei Mingziyou, and his grandfather was called Wei Yuan, who was called the first person to open his eyes to the world by later generations.Wei Ziyou lived with her father in Shanghai since she was a child, and after the establishment of Huaxing Women's Academy, her father Wei Guodong was strongly invited by Rong Hong to be the lecturer of the academy, and she followed her father to live in Suzhou and became the first batch of students of Huaxing Girls' Academy.Wei Ziyou grew up in Shanghai's Shili Foreign Field, so he naturally knew the new things of foreigners well, and his thoughts in the academy were also the most active.Her idea of starting a newspaper was born from a series of talks founded by foreigners in Shanghai.After her father relayed this idea to Rong Hong, he received the full support of Rong Hong, provided her with 1,000 taels of silver as start-up capital, and nominated the newspaper as "Huaxing Women's New Newspaper", referred to as "Huaxing Women's Daily".The first issue of Huaxing Women's Newspaper was written by Rong Hong herself, and nearly 1,000 words were sprinkled on both sides, comparing Chinese and Western educational concepts and methods, discussing the importance of women's education, refuting the traditional educational idea of "women are virtuous if they are not talented", emphasizing the practicality of Western learning and the confinement of traditional Confucianism, and advocating the "" of education.Because of Rong Hong's prestige among the scholars of Jiangnan, the 1,000 copies of the newspaper printed in the first issue were sold out in an instant, and the content published on it instantly set off a huge wave in the cultural circles of Jiangnan.The second issue of the newspaper has been increased to two copies, with four pages on the front and back, one every two days.The content of the newspaper ranges from court secrets to parents.For the first time in Suzhou, reporters were seen gathering news and tracking current affairs in the streets and alleys.Because of Rong Hong's suggestion, the newspaper's funding problem has also been completely solved, and it is more profitable, and the secret is advertising.Among them, the garment factory founded by Pan Kee & Co. is an important customer of Huaxing Women's Daily, and the front page of each issue of the newspaper has an advertisement about Pan Kee's new clothing.If any lady wants to keep up with the fashion trend, then Huaxing Women's Newspaper has become another must-have thing in addition to the "Seven Things to Open the Door".After the great success of Huaxing Women's Newspaper, the scholars of Huaxing Academy were naturally unwilling to be left behind.They had more connections and financial advantages than the girls' college, and they followed up with the creation of a newspaper called "Huaxing Current Affairs News", referred to as "Huaxing Times".The initiator of this newspaper is Sheng Xuanhuai, who is known as one of the "Three Heroes of Huaxing".He has been in charge of Jinkui City for many days, as soon as he saw the Huaxing Women's Newspaper, he was like a treasure, and after combining with his two good brothers Zheng Guanying and Wu Tingfang, he immediately raised funds and founded this newspaper.Of course, the first issue also asked his dean Feng Guifen to put pen to paper, but Feng Guifen adhered to the golden mean, and her words were not as fierce as Rong Hong's.It only made a specific exposition of today's Chinese and Western education, and put forward the educational viewpoint of "taking China's famous education as the original, supplemented by the art of prosperity and strength of other countries".That is, it is based on traditional Confucianism and supplemented by Western practical science to enrich the country and strengthen the army.If it is according to the normal development of history, the view of "middle school as the body, Western learning as the use" put forward by the Westernists in later generations comes from this.That is, on the basis of maintaining the Manchu court, it advocated the use of specific methods such as building Western ships and cannons, building railways, opening mines, erecting electric wires, natural science, culture and education, etc., to save the crisis of Manchu rule.As soon as Huaxing Daily came out, it had a strong official color, and compared with Huaxing Women's Daily, it had a more serious flavor.The articles published by it have always been decent current political news, not the same as Huaxing Women's Daily, gossip is flying around, and even the private life of Nanjing Hong Tianwang in the harem is often declassified, and every news has become the talk and joke of the common people after dinner.It is worth mentioning that in the Battle of Zhenjiang, due to the special relationship of Huaxing Sanjie in the army, Huaxing Daily sent war reporters to the front line for the first time, and transmitted the latest war situation back to Suzhou from time to time.It was the first time for the people of Suzhou to participate in this battle from such a close perspective, and even the coachman who didn't know a single word about the rental carriage had a Huaxing Daily, and when he saw the guests, he pretended to blow up nonsense, "You see Huaxing Daily, this battle is really beautiful enough to fight without our handsome."
The Twist Army has set up a ninety-nine eighty-one chain formation in Zhenjiang, and it is said that even the immortals can't get out.But guess what, as soon as our handsome arrived at the front line, he stretched out his fingers and broke the formation, do you say that our Qiao Dashuai is not the martial arts star in the sky" Huaxing Daily has also become famous since then, and its sales have surpassed Huaxing Women's Daily in one fell swoop.During the battle of Zhenjiang, Huaxing Daily only serialized the news for seven days, but in just seven days, 70,000 copies of the newspaper were sold, and the workers in the printing department also worked in two shifts, and some workers even fainted at their posts because they were too tired.These newspapers were even exported to Shanghai and Zhejiang.Li Hongzhang's Huai army in Shanghai and Zuo Zongtang's Chu army in Zhejiang, the generals were all one hand, and they gathered in one place all day to discuss Qiao Zhiqing's way of using troops.Liu Xiucheng's Taiping Army did not have to risk running around to spy on the military situation, drinking tea in the Suzhou teahouse, listening to small songs, and then buying a copy of Huaxing Daily and copying a paragraph, it was a piece of information, and it was easy to send it back to Li Xiucheng.Qiao Zhiqing and Pan Qiaoyu took a rental carriage to the gate of the match factory, and as soon as they got off the carriage, more than a dozen newspaper reporters came up with shorthand paper and pencils.In addition to the two newspapers in Suzhou, even newspaper reporters founded by Shanghai Ocean people also came to join in the fun.Qiao Zhiqing has now become a news celebrity, and once there is news about him in the newspaper, it can be a big seller."
Qiao Dashuai, may I ask you to attack Nanjing when you are ready, can you easily disclose it" "Qiao Dashuai, I heard that you have just been appointed by the imperial court as the commander-in-chief of Jiangsu this time, do you have any testimonials" "Qiao Dashuai, may I ask what the military uniform of your Qingzi Army is designed based on, and is there any particularity" "Qiao Dashuai, what is your opinion on the current situation, when do you think the long-haired thief rebellion can be calmed down" The reporters stared at Qiao Zhiqing's every move with anticipation, hoping to extract valuable news from Qiao Zhiqing's mouth.Qiao Zhiqing always had a slight smile on his face, shrugged his shoulders and did not make any answer, trying his best to support a pair of powerful arms to protect the delicate Pan Qiaoyu beside him.The soldiers behind him immediately arranged security measures at the scene, and after the crowd of onlookers got out of the way, Qiao Zhiqing helped Pan Qiaoyu slowly enter the factory
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