The late eighties and early nineties of the nineteenth century were eventful for our country, which was so devastated, that it was remembered with humiliation and misery.

A series of things have happened, and they are all big things.

One is the Boxer Rebellion, which is also known as the Gengzi Incident, and the most troublesome is in Shandong, Shanxi, and Zhili.

The other is the lesson plan incident.

The other is that the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and the Empress Dowager of the West fled in panic with Emperor Guangxu.

These three things are interrelated and cause and effect each other.

The Boxers are also known as the Boxers, the Boxer Incident, the Gengzi Incident, the Boxing Bandits, the Boxing Rebellion, the Gengzi Rebellion, etc. This organization is based on the slogan of helping the Qing Dynasty and extinguishing foreign countries, and the participants are mainly farmers, which can be said to cover all walks of life.

The predecessors of the Boxer Rebellion were mostly secret organizations with the slogan of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.

After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, in the face of the partition and aggression of the foreign powers against China, the well-intentioned people in the Boxers often had contradictions and disputes with the local villagers by using foreign missionaries and congregations, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the common people, and changed the slogan of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty to supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the foreigners.

For a long time, due to the limitations of education and access to materials, in the depths of many people's hearts, the Boxers were all admirable heroes.

With broadswords and spears, and even with his bare hands and flesh and blood, he bravely and fearlessly faced the fast guns and cannons of the foreign rifle team.

Later, with the establishment of the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, more and more things that had not been known before surfaced, more and more evil deeds were exposed, and various different interpretations of the Boxers increased.

Looking at some of the Boxer regiment rules, it seems to be okay.

For example: "Don't be greedy for money, don't be lustful, don't disobey your parents' orders, don't violate the court law, kill foreigners, kill dirty officials, you must bow down in the city, don't look left and right, and meet the same way." ”

It is recorded: "Seeing that there are no less than tens of thousands of people who come from various places in successive days, most of them are like foolish farmers in the countryside, and there is neither a leader nor a sharp weapon; And he brought his own axe, and he only ate small rice and cornmeal. Neither for fame nor for profit, he did not care about his life on the battlefield. All are of one mind; Moreover, it only kills foreigners and religious people, and does not harm the good people; From this point of view, it seems to be righteous. (Excerpt from "Gengzi Chronicles")

As we know, the Boxer Rebellion did not have a unified organization, but was an independent group that was independent of each other and went its own way. There must be good and bad, good and bad.

The one recorded above should be one of the good ones.

However, even this is good, and it is also necessary to draw a big question mark.

"Only kill foreigners and religious people", should all foreigners be killed? Should all the cultists be killed?

You see, the vast majority of those believers are good people! Whether Chinese or foreigner.

There is such a reward, 50 taels for killing a foreigner, 40 taels for killing a female foreigner, and 30 taels for killing a foreigner.

Whether you dare to believe it or not, but it's true.

It was the Qing government under the leadership of the Empress Dowager of the West. When the government declared war on the eleven countries of Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain (Spain), Belgium, the Netherlands, and Austria, a bounty was issued in the name of the country.

How barbaric, how despicable, how inhumane.

You must know how many of these foreigners who were killed by bounties came to China to propagate advanced ideas, such as breaking superstitions and opposing women's foot binding; How many people are doctors, who come to China to treat diseases and save people; And how many people really come to China to spread their religious beliefs?

And the Boxers killed foreigners when they saw them, regardless of women and children.

Not only that, as long as you get a little bit of foreign, you will be killed.

At that time, the Chinese people called foreigners Maozi. Foreigners are Da Maozi, Chinese who believe in Catholicism or Christianity are Ermaozi, Chinese who are familiar with foreign studies, can speak foreign languages, and even those who use foreign goods are Sanmaozi, and so on to ten Maozi.

It is recorded: "If paper cigarettes, small glasses, or even umbrellas and socks, the user will be punished with death." ”

There were six students who avoided the chaos in a hurry, because they brought a pencil and a piece of foreign paper, and they were searched by the bandits of the Tuan (Boxer) on the way, and they all died with knives. ”

How can such a thing happen? But it's true.

One book reads: "On June 27 (1900), the Catholic Church in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, southeast of the city, was attached to a clinic, an orphanage, and a girls' church school. From the morning, more and more crowds gathered in front of the church.

In the evening, the crowd began to stir, some people began to throw bricks and stones into the church, and others took the lead in shouting slogans. Burn it! Kill them! slogans come and go.

Amid shouts and throwing bricks, a fire broke out in the church hospital in front of the church.

"The sky was getting dark, and the Boxers began to attack. In the church, there are bishops, nuns, priests, handymen, doctors, teachers, and students. The men put up an armed resistance, and the women retreated to the basement. Resisting until midnight, with no way out, they rushed through the flames, rushed into the street, and met the Boxers on a narrow road.

"In the midst of the confusion, two students from the Church Girls' School, who had their feet bound and were laying their feet, were in great pain, unable to walk, and fell behind when they fled.

Their teacher, Miss Coombs, had fled to safety, and returned to the courtyard to find the two schoolgirls and carried them out one by one. Unfortunately, they were discovered by the Boxers, and poor Miss Coombs was thrown into the raging fire by the Boxers, who were five big and three rough Boxers.

Miss Coombs struggled to get out, and fell to her knees with her hands folded. Once again, the Boxers threw her into the flames and smashed a brick. Miss Coombs never climbed out again. ”

The article continues: In early July, officials in Taiyuan gathered more than 40 foreigners into a large courtyard in the name of protection.

The trial of Yuxian (the governor of Shanxi) stunned the judges of the world.

Yuxian was interrogated like this: "Where did it come from? ”

Answer: "United Kingdom"

Yuxian sentenced: "Kill!" ”

Bring in another one.

Q: "Where did it come from?" ”

Answer: "France." ”

Sentence: "Kill!" ”

On this day, Yuxian's mouth said forty-four words "kill".

It was July 9, 1900.

On this day, the Eight-Nation Coalition frantically attacked Tianjin, trying to rescue the foreigners who had been besieged and killed by the Yuxians.

On this day, General Nie Shicheng, the real hero of the Gengzi National Disaster, commanded with a cannonball, pierced his chest, died on the battlefield, and was loyal to the country.

Does Nie Shicheng know what Yuxian is doing? If Nie Shicheng knew, would he still be able to "be loyal to the country"?

What our world needs most is facts and truth. Telling the truth of the matter to one's own people is a kind of responsibility, and it is also the self-confidence and broad-mindedness of a society.

Such a society will definitely be sincerely supported by her people.

Those who are maintained by deception, by fooling the people, may be counted for a while, but after all, they will not last long.

A great man once said, "You can deceive all people at some time, and you can deceive some people at all times, but you can't deceive all people at all times." ”

About lesson plans.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Western missionaries were allowed to preach and establish churches in China.

Under extraterritoriality, not only were the Western clergy of the Church exempt from the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty, but ordinary Chinese believers were often protected by the Church.

Locally, Christian churches often clash with local people due to various reasons such as differences in culture and customs.

Some unscrupulous parishioners oppress the local people, but the local ** is often afraid of the extraterritoriality of the church and does not want to oppose the foreigners and cannot deal with it fairly.

Any case in which a dispute arises between the church and believers and non-believers is called a lesson plan.