Chapter Thirty-Eight: Breaking the Way
The first three issues of the newspaper were all attached to teahouses and restaurants in various places. The cost price www.biquge.info of two cents is also very cheap -- the two cents here are two cents of the Nissin Bank, which is about equivalent to 20 copper coins of the Qing Dynasty, which is still good money, not a privately minted bad coin.
Then relying on the low cost of the shipping company to transport all over the place, to say that this empty boat is much more convenient and faster than the train of this era, and it does not need such a long construction period, only a large open space for take-off and landing, but it is not possible to take off and land in the farmland.
After being scolded for several issues in a row, some readers found that no one cared about these Japanese printing newspapers, so we simply got a newspaper and scolded them back. Under the patronage of several patrons, some scholars bought printing equipment, newsprint, and ink from the Japan Pavilion, and began to print their own newspapers.
The first copy of the newspaper, called "Celebrities of the Great Qing Dynasty", began to be sold, and it ignited a debate in the newspaper. scolded the Japanese for having no king and no father, and the gang often does not exist.
Seeing someone scolding him, Song Haiping was so happy that he personally wrote a press release and scolded back. In the article, he admitted that Japan is now imprisoning the emperor and the shogun. But so what! Xun Zi said: The king is rich and the overlord Fuji (this Fuji is not the other Fuji), and now the Japanese people are strong, and the spirit of the king is overflowing.
Mencius said: The people are the second king of your society, so it seems that for the sake of the people, what is the big deal to ban the emperor and generals.
These words were originally read by the readers, but they were only selectively forgotten, and the guidelines of the monarch and the courtier, father and son have often restrained the minds of the Chinese for too long. Now that it has been taken out by others, it is really like a thunderbolt and a lightning bolt that has slashed through the minds of Chinese readers.
There is no shortage of smart people in China, and many people, after reading Japanese newspapers and Japan's huge airships, all have the idea of going to Japan to have a look, that is, to study abroad.
For these students, Japan's official tourist route is Kannajo - Tokyo - Gakuen City (Aizu). Otherwise, we can't shake these traditional Chinese scholars.
If it is said that the tall wind power generation is nothing, the streets are full of Trojan horses and cattle (cleaning robots) that are always working, no matter whether anyone or no, the rows of street lamps made by the principle of lightning start to light up at night, the induction faucet, the large LCD screen that plays the song MV and the weather forecast at the intersection of the street, and the unmanned ticketed and driverless tram that automatically travels around the city - how can Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang have time to train old drivers, The good thing is that in the 22nd century, autonomous car safety is already high.
In short, it is to let me, who boast of being a great land, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, see the breath of civilization of despair, and in Japan there are only a few cities that can shake people a little, and generally a village has an electric horn that is the only electrical appliance in the village -- at this time, those who can hold flashlights in Japan must be cadres, not to mention those who play with flashlights.
Some scholars in despair, soon found hope, at this time no more than the Western science and technology of the primary Gewu books street bookstores have to sell, advanced knowledge is naturally stored in the school city, and in the situation of science and education films, that is, afraid that foreigners will copy away -- there is no Chinese level 4, even if he is allowed to watch science and education films, he may not be able to understand.
These scholars simply believed that what the Japanese could do, they could do if they understood the Japanese books. It's just that they don't know how difficult it is to build a complete industrial system, and an industrial ship in the 22nd century can be regarded as a small and medium-sized industrial system, but without a complete industrial system, an industrial ship cannot be built at all.
It would have been difficult to build an industrial system, but it was even more difficult to build the institutions needed to build an industrial system - at least the capitalists were completely unreliable, and they could either build an industrial system for the sake of profits, or dismantle and sell the industrial system when profits fell - that is, deindustrialize.
After coming and going, the southern governors at least understood Japan's strength, understood that at this time the law was a dead word, and it was also important to have good relations with Japan before that, so Song Haiping's proposal to recover Luzon was quickly agreed by the four governors - the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou at this time was Lao Chongguang, who also started with the suppression of the Taiping army, but it was far less famous in history than Zeng Li Hu Zuo and others.
January 1, 1859, was a memorable day for the Luzon people in Manila, as thousands of huge airships flew over the city of Manila in search of a place to land and assemble men.
The Manilans had just finished watching the airship transit, and the governor of Luzon, who always felt unsure, received a declaration of war from a Japanese businessman, and there were only four words in the book: war today.
Mr. Governor had just summoned the commander of the city defense and the commander of the navy, when the sound of ship guns firing outside was already ringing out, and Governor Sandik shouted: "Ados, can your fleet defeat the Japanese?" ”
Ados: "The glory of Spain has been gone for a long time, and you know that the ships under my command are wooden warships of several hundred tons and some old guns, and the Japanese ships, which I think you have also heard, are steamships of several thousand tons of iron. As far as I know, there are no iron-clad steam warships in Spain itself, let alone our colonies. All we have is the courage to move forward. ”
Governor Sandik asked the commander of the city defense army: "Francisco, how long can your city defense force hold off the Japanese?" ”
Francisco: "If the sea can't stop the Japanese, most of the batteries on the periphery can be abandoned, and they are all old guns like the ones on the ship, but the gunners on the batteries and the sailors on the ship might as well withdraw into the city, relying on the strong walls, at least more than 50,000 white soldiers can be recruited in the city, I think it can hold off the Japanese for at least three months." This is in the case that the big guys flying in the sky just now have nothing to do with the Japanese. At worst, it can last more than six months relying on the churches and monasteries in the city. ”
Churches and monasteries were very good as the last military fortresses, because the walls were thick enough and even thicker than they were tall. The effect of shelling such a fortress was often not great. And churches and monasteries have the habit of storing food, including wine.
However, in this era, there is no concept of space-based weapons, and the so-called space-based weapons refer to throwing a titanium alloy stick in satellite orbit, which will partially burn off after entering the atmosphere, and then bombard the ground at 10 to 20 times the speed of sound -- like a small meteorite. A titanium alloy stick can smooth a block, non-toxic, non-radiation, no pollution, and the effect of fighting tunnel warfare is also first-class.
Although Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang did not have space-based weapons in their hands, they still had air-based weapons, and the effect of several tons of aerial bombs dropped from tens of thousands of meters in the air was no less than that of earthquake bombs in World War II.
In order to capture more prisoners, the Japanese air force dropped several small aerial bombs to destroy some of Manila's strongest forts before the Spaniards could flee into churches and monasteries. This undoubtedly made the Spaniards desperate, and the retreat was cut off.