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Chapter 82 Wang Kaiyun's Aesthetics

Whenever he kills someone, Wang Yi always has the habit of walking in the museum of the affiliated primary school and his mood will calm down. The lights here are soft and the floor is covered with brilliant marble tiles. Wang Yi rarely participates in the specific decoration and layout of a building, but the museum is an exception. As his career grows bigger and bigger, he does more and more house searches, and the collections in the museum are becoming increasingly rich. Basically, exhibits are replaced every month, and sometimes special exhibitions are launched.

Zhang Quanbao loves to come to Wang Yi's museum, and sometimes donates some things. He is the honorary director of the Dashang Museum. In addition, Naid, Charles Fama and others are also frequent visitors here. Wang Yi also collects some Western artworks. Wang Yi has built galleries in various European countries and the United States, but he does not inquire about it himself. He only occasionally gives some advice and someone helps him take care of it. It contains a large number of works such as Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and others. Although many of them are not famous yet, Wang Yi is willing to wait.

These new paintings will be transported back to China together with the cultural relics from various countries they have acquired, and Wang Yi will collect them slowly.

Another special thing is that Wang Yi and several foreign companions organized a large archaeological team... In addition to the tomb robbers of our company, they also do some real archaeological work. For example, the ruins of Lagsh City, they reached the statues and clay boards in the second half of 3000 BC, which is considered to be the earliest unearthed cultural relics in Sumer. If you have never heard of this site, then the one being excavated now should be more famous, that is, the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon.

Wang Yi wandered in the exhibition hall alone. At this time, a middle-aged man walked across from him, a little rich and with a black beard. Seeing Wang Yi smiled slightly and said, "Nephew, you are here."

Wang Yi hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Uncle."

This person is the director of Wang Yi Museum, named Wang Kaiyun, with his courtesy name Renqiu and his pseudonym Xiangqi. If you don’t know him, you should have heard of his apprentice, Qi Baishi! Liu Guangdi (one of the Six Gentlemen of Wuxu), Yang Du... etc., wait, wait, wait, wait.

By the way, Wang Kaiyun was also a magical figure. During the Xianfeng Dynasty, he became famous too early and became the prince's think tank. Later, the British and French allied forces came to the door, and Xianfeng did not come up in one breath, blowing the lights and pulling out waxes. Su Shun was not careful, and was plotted by Cixi and Prince Gong Yi, and followed him. Sushun died, and Wang Kaiyun also became a party member! Since then, he has never had a better time. Apart from being an aide to Zeng Guofan for a period of time, he has basically not been successful in his career. Later, he simply resigned from his post and went home to teach.

Around 1878, Wang Yi spent a lot of money to invite Wang Kaiyun to Dashang. Of course, the people were interested in not the money given by Wang Yi, but the oracle bones collected by Wang Yi in the Dashang Museum and the Dunhuang books. Wang Kaiyun decided to stay. While studying various cultural relics here and sorting out oracle bone scripts, he taught Chinese history to Dashang students.

In addition, he became interested in Dashang's libraries, and various new versions of books and Western classics also made him linger.

To be honest, Wang Yi knew not many celebrities in the late Qing Dynasty. In addition to Wang Kaiyun, he also invited Yu Yue, Sun Yirang and Yang Shoujing. They taught students in the affiliated schools, mostly history, calligraphy, painting, and researched knowledge. However, compared with later generations, their academic vision has long been different from the past.

As for the others, they either look down on Da Shang, or have their own priorities, so there are not many people coming. However, those who come should not regret it. Wang Yi gave them a door to travel through history. While opening his eyes, he also admired Wang Yi.

Although Wang Kaiyun and Wang Yi were not peer-to-peer friends, over the past year, Wang Kaiyun thought that Wang Yi was a good person, sincerely, treated his students sincerely, was strict, loving, and respected their respective developments. In this regard, the two were quite similar. Later generations Wang Kaiyun was engaged in education throughout his life, and there were thousands of disciples, not only the children of officials like Yang Du, but also carpenters like Qi Baishi. It is truly unparalleled.

Because the two had the same surname and Wang Yi had no relatives in the Qing Dynasty, he later called Wang Kaiyun an uncle. However, Wang Yi underestimated Wang Kaiyun and did not know that this person was not only a famous educator in the late Qing Dynasty, but also a scholar and a great conspirator. When he was a staff member of Zeng Guofan, he persuaded Zeng Guofan to rebel, and was given a false name by Zeng Guofan. Later, Zeng Guoquan invited him to write a book called "Xiang Army Records". As a result, he spent seven years visiting various places, reviewing a large number of archives in the military aircraft, and asking someone to make a map. Unexpectedly, when the book was completed, it was his unlucky day. Perhaps it was Sima Qian and Ban Gu who possessed him, and the virtue of historians was the best. Wang Kaiyun's book was recorded too real.

I have a deep relationship with many Hunan Army generals and highly praised Zeng Guofan. However, in addition to commending the merits and achievements of the Hunan Army, I have not only praised the fierce momentum of the Taiping Army in the early stage, the contradictions between various factions within the Qing Dynasty, the devastating situation of the Hunan Army's repeated defeats in the early stage, and the situation of Zeng Guoquan's encirclement of the army and looting and swallowing property after the attack on Jiangning, and the narration was not covered up. Therefore, the seal of this book was attacked by some Hunan Army generals at the moment, thinking that it was a "slanderous book", forcing Wang Kaiyun to hand over the original version to Guo Gaotao to destroy it to avoid disaster. However, later scholars said that "Xiang Army Records" "has a high-end writing style, and it is the first erotic literature in the miscellaneous history of our country in the past thousand years." "The right and wrong are the best historical masters of the Tang Dynasty."

Since he arrived in the Shang Dynasty, Wang Kaiyun did not give advice to Wang Yi as a military advisor, and the reason was very simple. Because he could not understand what Wang Yisu did, and Wang Kaiyun did not know much about the enemies he faced, especially those foreign forces. As an aide, at least he had to have the ability to know himself and his enemy. Therefore, Wang Kaiyun felt that he was not qualified enough, so he did not say much about his own opinions. Of course, if he really encountered a big mistake, Wang Kaiyun would not care about it at all, and usually he would directly explain it.

"Xiaoyi, why did you have time to come to the museum today?" Wang Yiyun said with a smile.

"Yazhi has to learn Western painting tonight, Qianjia has to practice piano, and I am the only one left, so I came out and take a walk." Wang Yi pretended to be helpless. "Why is my uncle alone? What about Mr. Yinfu and the others?"

Yinfu is the name of Mr. Yu Yue, and he is also an educating everyone.

"With Zhongsong, go to the library."

Zhongsong is Sun Yirang's name. He claims to have the Palace of Puxue in the 300th year of the Qing Dynasty. Yu Yue is Master Puxue. Although the two are nearly thirty years apart, they get along well. As for Yang Shoujing, he is a geography person, so it is easy to find him, either in the classroom or in the library.

"By the way, you're here, I'm going to find you!"

Wang Yi was stunned and said, "Why don't your uncle look for me? Why do you have to come to me personally? I'll just call me in person."

"Go to my place! A few days ago, a friend came over there, and you can also meet him."

Wang nodded, but was puzzled.

The two left the museum together and walked towards the dormitory. Teachers from the primary school affiliated to Dashang usually have a common dormitory building, one person and one room. However, Wang Yi arranged a Chinese-style courtyard near the industrial laboratory for them, a unique courtyard, and some even doudao.

"I wonder who my uncle's friend's name is? Can I know him?"

"When it comes to Wen Zhenggong's most valued aide, this person's surname is Zhao, his name is Liewen, and his courtesy name is Huifu."

"Zhao Liewen?" Wang Yi had never heard of it. He knew that it was Zeng Guofan.

When Wang Kaiyun saw him like that, he knew what was going on, so he smiled and said, "Brother Huifu is one year older than me, but he is far from seeing me alone." Then Wang Kaiyun told Wang Yi a story.

On June 20, the sixth year of Tongzhi, that is, on the evening of July 21, 1867, Zeng Guofan, then the Governor of Liangjiang, chatted with Zhao Liewen. Zhao Liewen predicted that the destruction of the Qing Dynasty within 50 years and that the land of China would be an era of warlord separatism.

He once said: "People from the capital said that the weather in the capital was very bad, and open fire and war cases often occurred, and beggars were crowded in the market. Even women were naked and had no pants to wear. The people were poor and the money was gone, and there might be changes. What should I do?!"

Zhao said: "The world's public security has been unified for a long time, and it will inevitably be divided and analyzed. However, the master's virtue is heavy and the atmosphere has not yet been opened. If there is no excitement, the situation of collapse will not be achieved. I estimate that in the future, the disaster will be ruined first, and the state behind the scenes will have no master, and people will do their own affairs, and they will not last for fifty years!"

Zeng Guofan frowned for a long time and said, "Will he move south?"

Zhao said: "I'm afraid it's just a waste, and it may not be as peaceful as the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty."

He once said: "This dynasty has a more righteous moral character, or it may not be so."

Zhao said: "The king is virtuous, but when the country is prosperous, the scholars and officials have already paid the king's fortune to repay the king's kindness. The dynasty is too easy to start a business, and the killing is too heavy. It is too clever to seize the world. The way of heaven is difficult to know, and good and evil are not concealed. The virtues of the later king are not enough to rely on."

He once said: "I look at death day and night, and I am worried about the fall of the ancestral temple. Are you not a joke?"

Zhao said: "In front of you, although I am good at joking, why do you use this as a play?"

Speaking of this, Wang Kaiyun stopped and smiled and said to Wang Yi: "What does Brother Huifu say?"

"He really made the point!... No, I see what he said is true, it is almost the same as what I expected." Wang Yi was counting it! As a result, he said it casually. Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, resigned in 1912, and it has been less than fifty years! Could this person have also traveled through time?

"You should stop giving your face!" Wang Kaiyun laughed after hearing this.

While they were talking, the two came outside Wang Kaiyun's house. To be honest, when they met Wang Kaiyun on weekdays, they always went to teach all the students in the school. Wang Kaiyun would also listen to them and communicated more afterwards. As for the real visit to Wang Kaiyun's house, it was not the first time Wang Yi came, but it was the second time after the first time.

The reason is that Wang Kaiyun's aesthetic taste for women, Wang Yi felt a chill, and this old taste is unique...
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