Chapter 682: Ending the War (3)
As countries that are not parties to the parties, the news media of Germany and the United States have reported on the battle in the Taiwan Strait more from their own standpoint.
The German [Rheinische Zeitung] published an editorial that the defeat of the Far East Expeditionary Force symbolizes the official end of Britain's hegemony for more than 200 years, and the Royal Navy is no longer an invincible maritime power. What can be done, other countries can also do, so in the future international affairs, Germany can completely ignore the British attitude and adopt a more aggressive plan to win a broader space for the survival and development of its own nation, so that the German nation can stand tall at the peak of the world's nations.
The [Berlin Zeitung] published an article saying that in the battle of the Taiwan Strait, there were many battleships, armored cruisers, and protective cruisers made in the People's Army Navy made in Germany, or Germany sent technicians to assist in East China. These warships have performed very well in this time, including the previous Battle of Tsushima and the Battle of the Natuna Islands, which is the basic guarantee for the victory of East China, which shows that Germany's shipbuilding capacity has reached the world's leading level, which is the pride of Germany.
The Washington Post of the United States published a long commentary, holding that the battle of the Taiwan Strait means that the Far East War, which lasted nearly three years, will end with a complete victory over East China. East China has not only gained huge geostrategic benefits from the war, but also is very likely to obtain a huge amount of war reparations after the end of the war, plus the vast territory of Northeast China that has been obtained, so a new power is suddenly rising on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, although this power has a good relationship with the United States before, but it will inevitably pose a serious challenge to the interests of the United States in Asia, and the United States must do a good job of countering measures and plans as soon as possible.
The Liberty Beacon newspaper believes that although East China is not yet a formal country, after winning the Far East War, there is little power that can stop this political bloc, which has only been emerging for six years, to replace the old, decaying, backward, and weak empire, and become the new master of this country with a territory of more than 10 million square kilometers and a long coastline. And this change will not be too long, it will be completed in the next 5-10 years. This country already has a huge population and abundant resources, and under the rule of a new and powerful leader, it will inevitably become a regional power with both land and sea, which will inevitably completely change the power structure of the entire Far East, and will also inevitably challenge all countries with interests in the Far East, including the United States, and in this great change, the United States will certainly be ready to meet this challenge.
Of course, the most lively public opinion is still in China, and the day after the victory in the Battle of the Taiwan Strait, East China ** issued a declaration declaring victory, and of course, it also once again affirmed the great and righteous image of East China ** in safeguarding national sovereignty and territory, resisting foreign aggression, and seizing the moral high ground; at the same time, it severely rebuked the Qing court and some Chinese for not only not supporting East China ** in this battle, but colluding with foreign forces to interfere with East China**, contain elbows, and set up obstacles to the traitorous behavior of the country, and so on. In the declaration, a question was raised why East China was able to defeat foreign invaders repeatedly, while the Qing court was repeatedly defeated by foreign countries. He also said that starting the next day, a series of long articles will be published for six consecutive days to answer this question.
This is also the first in East China before the war, taking advantage of the opportunity of this great victory, to carry out a comprehensive public opinion guidance, six days and six long articles, not only expounded in detail since the establishment of East China, to protect the country's sovereignty and territory, to protect overseas Chinese, to carry out land reform at home, to benefit the peasants, to achieve social fairness and justice; to open up a new style of teaching, to broaden the wisdom of the people, to cultivate high-quality talents, and to make the best use of the people; to actively develop modern industry, to rejuvenate the country, and to achieve tremendous economic achievements, in East China. The living standards of the people under his rule have been greatly improved, and so on.
On the other hand, a series of numerical comparisons are also listed, including the comparison of the socio-economic and people's livelihood indicators of Shandong before and after the establishment of East China; the comparison of the socio-economic and livelihood indicators of Shandong and other provinces after the establishment of East China; and the comparison of a series of indicators between East China and the Qing court, which are detailed, clear and definite, far more convincing than empty talk, and the civilized, civilized, efficient and enterprising of East China ** and the conservative, stupid, bottom-up and backward of the Qing court formed a sharp contrast.
And also counted the time traveler landed since the landing, originally wanted to serve the country, but the Qing court ignored the traverser's great achievement of saving the country, suppressed, interfered, and restrained the traverser, forced the traverser and the Qing court to break with each other, and established East China**, separating one side, not being bound by the Qing court, and doing its own thing; This is to completely scandalize, dwarf, and blacken the Qing court, and further make the Qing court completely lose its moral advantage as the current legitimate ruler of China.
Finally, it is to list all kinds of administrative matters of the Qing court since the Opium War, pointing out that the Qing court is the biggest obstacle to China's civilization, modernity, wealth, and strength, as long as the Qing court exists, China can not really become strong, so East China believes that it is necessary to completely overthrow the Qing court and establish a new China, only in this way can China completely get rid of the fetters and move towards a rich and strong civilization.
Although East China has completely broken with the Qing Court, and everyone knows that East China will replace the Qing Court, everyone knows that they will not say it. And this time, it was East China ** who officially and openly put forward the political proposition of overthrowing the Qing court and establishing New China.
After the publication of these seven long articles, in China, because it is among the intellectuals, it has indeed caused a great sensation, because East China ** has a high prestige and credibility in China. Originally, the Qing court took advantage of the expeditionary force to suppress the momentum of East China a little, because in terms of the ranking of the strength of the great powers, Britain and France are definitely in the top two, and Japan and Russia have to stand behind. And East China's ** Jingran insisted on offending these two powers, provoking them to jointly send troops to fight China, which really made many people disgusted with East China**, turning from pink to black.
But East China really beat the expeditionary fleet, you must know that this is the world's strongest and second strongest army, not comparable to the Japanese and Russian armies, not to mention the symbolic dispatch of troops to the Eight-Nation Alliance, but the elite fleet sent from the mainland, the result was defeated by East China, and the huge contrast suddenly caused a strong rebound in the support of East China, and the momentum naturally rose higher. Not only did the people who originally turned black turn back into fans, but also a large number of people who were originally indifferent to East China have turned to support East China, after all, except for a very small number of people, there are no people who do not want their country to be strong. Although East China is not yet a country, it is not a fan or a black, and everyone agrees that East China is a part of the Chinese nation, and even a considerable number of people who are indifferent to East China have also joined the ranks of supporting East China.
And the seven series of long articles have pushed an emotion to the top, because now East China is at the forefront of public opinion, of course, how to say how reasonable, not to mention that the Qing court's actions are really not enough, plus in the past few decades, the Qing court has indeed not done a few things that can be compatible, so the series of long articles overthrew the Qing court and established a new China, which has aroused the resonance of many people, who are young people, and the older people only sighed when they saw it, and said: "Heaven is evil, it is forgivable, self-inflicted, and you can't live." ”
Subsequently, Huadong ** collected these seven series of long articles, plus more than 30 other articles published before, into a book, and published it with the title of "Seven Days Talk". The first edition of 30,000 copies sold out in less than 10 days, and was later reprinted twice in a row, with a total of more than 100,000 copies.
During this period, almost every day, a large number of people from all over the country, mainly young people, defected to East China in order to pursue national independence and national prosperity. Although some people have reminded that among these defectors, there may be hidden spies from the Qing court or other countries, but after discussion, East China ** still decided not to refuse to come, all of them are accepted, after all, as long as management, supervision and education are strengthened, even if there are spies, there is no need to be afraid, Bi Jing in the face of the general trend of the world, spies can not make much waves.
In addition, East China ** proposed to Germany that it hoped that Germany would come forward to mediate the relations between East China ** and the Netherlands, and Germany ** was really very interested in this role and soon expressed its willingness to take on the role of this mediator. Now Germany is at the peak of its national strength, the world's first industrial strength, the world's second largest economic strength, and has a strong armed armament, so it began to pursue an international status that matches its own strength, to be a big country with a strong voice, to be able to make its own voice heard in international affairs, for which Germany did not hesitate to provoke the Monaco crisis last year.
The Far East War has now become the focus of international attention, if Germany can mediate between East China and the Netherlands, and promote a peace agreement between the two sides, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance Germany's international status, and mediation is not in vain, once the mediation is successful, Germany will definitely ask East China and the Netherlands for payment, and the goal is to obtain a port and colony in the Far East. Moreover, Germany can not only mediate between East China and the Netherlands, but also between East China and Russia, and take the opportunity to break up the Franco-Russian alliance and pull Russia into the framework of the Three Emperors Alliance again.