"Because I learned Western culture, I unknowingly became a slave of foreign literature...... The Chinese people have succumbed to the rejection of Western culture, and have become arrogant and inferior to the inherent culture. Surrender to faith, to believe in what it is, to consider itself a faithful believer in a foreign doctrine; Inferiority turned into self-pity, which is extremely inferior, and bears insulting our inherent cultural heritage of China. ”

This passage is excerpted from "The Fate of China", Chang Kaishen's original intention was to smear the Communist Party and democrats, in which "a certain doctrine" specifically refers to communism and liberalism. However, he scolded all the new young people since May Fourth, and it seems that as long as the Chinese who have learned Western culture are all bastards who have forgotten their ancestors, and all lackeys who believe in the West.

"These national humiliations run counter to the hopes of our people, undermine our people's self-confidence, and provoke our people's strong revolutionary demands. The May Fourth Movement was the clearest expression of this demand, and under the strong revolutionary demands of the people, the politics of the warlords and bureaucrats had only one way to decline. ”

Here, Chang Kaishen became a praising and praising the May Fourth Movement, completely forgetting his own belittling of the May Fourth spirit. His logic is the logic of double standards, he said that the New Culture Movement was to learn Western cultural politics for the sake of self-improvement, and the communists and democrats forgot this starting point and became slaves of Western culture. And the Kuomintang and his Jiang people kept in mind the starting point, so they were able to overthrow the rule of Beiyang and become the great savior of the Chinese people.

When discussing the corruption of unequal treaties in China's ethics and morality, Lao Chiang cited various ugly phenomena in the concession to prove his point. He believed that the concession was a refuge for prostitutes, gamblers, and bandits, and that everyone in China had become unscrupulous and shameless, and that this bad atmosphere had spread from the concession to the whole country, and had taught all the simple and industrious Chinese people who adhered to etiquette and morality badly.

Chang Kaishen also attacked Christianity in the book, arguing that the Confucian way of Confucius and Mencius could stabilize society, educate the people, and enrich all things with virtue, while the introduction of Christianity destroyed the morality of the Chinese from the foundation.

It seems that without concessions, there would be no prostitution, gambling and bandits in China. It seems that without Christianity, Confucianism would have been able to make China worship good and ritual.

From culture to politics, Chang Kaishen used Yuan Shikai to proclaim himself emperor and Cao Kun to promulgate the constitution of bribery to argue that Western political theories are not suitable for China's reality. He believes that any Western doctrine should take into account China's current situation, and should not be blindly copied, but should be adjusted and improved in light of China's local conditions. It seems to make sense, but in fact, Chang Kaishen is saying very vaguely that those who believe in Marxism are scum, the democratic parties that believe in Western constitutionalism are also scum, and those who believe in Western culture and education are still scumbags -- there should be dictatorship in China and Confucianism in China.

All of the above, how can Zhou Hexuan help him wash it?

The book "The Fate of China" offended the democratic parties, intellectuals, educators, Christians, and Marxists at home and abroad.

Therefore, some people call the ideas expressed by Chang Kaishen in the book "Boxer Thought". Just like the Boxer Rebellion back then, foreigners' things are all garbage, foreign oil, foreign fire, foreign lamps, and foreign cloth are all filth, and it seems that as long as the foreign demons are destroyed, China will be able to rejuvenate and become strong immediately.

As for why China was backward in modern times, and why China's traditional ideology and culture would lead to the decline of the country, Lao Chiang put the blame on the Manchu government. He believed that there was no problem with traditional Chinese culture, but it was distorted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and that as long as the Manchu Qing mistakes were corrected, China would be able to rely on its own inherent culture to develop.

This view is very confusing, but he completely forgets that the cultural system of the Manchu dynasty was inherited from the Ming dynasty, and that Confucianism was distorted as early as the Song dynasty.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism at that time, and he had already distorted Confucianism, which had long been a miscellaneous family that integrated the ideas of a hundred schools of thought, but it was just dressed in the skin of Confucianism. Even if the Confucian tradition is to be restored, Han Confucianism should be restored, great unification, great revenge, and not cowardice, not Ming Confucianism, which was highly respected by Lao Jiang.

In Zhou Hexuan's view, Chang Kaishen's publication of "The Fate of China" is nothing more than to strengthen cultural propaganda and set the tone for the opposition to the Communist Party and the democratic constitutionalists. But his attack was too wide, and he didn't know how to win over one faction to fight the other, so he actually stood up and shouted: "I'm not targeting anyone, everyone here is rubbish!" ”

The most nonsense, what the hell is Lao Jiang's attack on the Westernization of education in the book? Even if some professors, including Southwest Associated University, provoke you, there is no need to fire at all the people in the education field.

When Zhou Hexuan was reading this book, he suddenly found that he was also scolded, and he was scolded in many aspects such as academics, ideology, and education.

In fact, Chang Kaishen only scolded the Manchus, imperialism, Beiyang warlords, democratic parties, and communists very clearly, and the others were all mentioned in passing, and perhaps there was really no malice in scolding the world. But his ideological theory is too vague, the argumentation process is too vague, and the map cannon is fired too much, causing all readers to feel that they are being scolded, including Chang Kaishen and his wife Song Meiling.

As the saying goes, Lao Tzu went crazy and even scolded himself!

At a time when "The Fate of China" was disgusted by readers, a month before the official publication of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", a battle of Stalingrad in the East broke out in China, the Battle of Shipai.

It was the original project money that was deducted by greed, and bamboo poles and lime were used to build river defenses, and Feng Yuxiang shot the chief officer to death when he heard the news.

On May 25, the Japanese army of 100,000 troops attacked the Shipai fortress, and the Chinese side successively invested 150,000 troops to defend it.

Shipai is located in the Three Gorges section and is a necessary place to enter the Sichuan. Once the Japanese army conquers Shipai, Sichuan will no longer have a dangerous fortress to defend, and the Japanese warships can easily swim against the current, and Chongqing, the capital of the city, will also suffer a serious threat.

The general of the national army who presided over the task was Hu Lian, who graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu and belonged to Chen Cheng's lineage.

Before the battle started, Hu Lian had already written two suicide notes.

One is for his wife: "When the sons grow up, it is still appropriate to be soldiers to avenge their fathers and serve their country...... The family can be thrifty, when you can have food and clothing, and you can be poor and happy...... More than ten years of horse career, you have a lot of mistakes, now when the key is goodbye, I am deeply grateful. A gold watch, a fountain pen, and a diary, talked about it for a few years...... In a hundred years of life, there will be a death, and it is appropriate to die a deserved, and it is appropriate to be happy......"

A letter addressed to my father: "...... There is a son who can die in the country, and the adult's affection is enough to comfort ......"

He said to his men: "From tomorrow we will engage the enemy in close combat...... Fight to the last one, bury the bones of the enemy here, and scribble our names and flesh on the rocks of the stone plaque. ”

In this battle, China's remaining air force and navy all went into battle, but in the face of the Japanese air force and navy, there was no comparison at all, and it could only play a small role in harassing and deterring.

It was the army that really relied on it, and the positions were bombed and bombed and bombed by Japanese planes and warships. The soldiers of the 1st platoon of the 34th Division fortified and fought in the thorn forest, but the Japanese could not attack it for a long time, so they brought in aircraft to support, and they directly blew the woods into bald tree stumps.

Although the national army resisted stubbornly, it was unable to defeat the Japanese invaders by sea, land and air in the end, and was gradually attacked by the Japanese invaders to the main position outside the Shipai Fortress. Fortunately, the mountains were steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Japanese warships and tanks were useless, so they could only use mountain artillery and aircraft bombing.

The Nationalist army could not withstand the strong bombing fire of the Japanese invaders, and the outlying positions were quickly breached. At this time, General Hu Lian resolutely launched a white-knuckle battle and ordered his soldiers to rush out to fight with the enemy, so that the Japanese planes did not dare to bomb wantonly.

Soldiers on both sides scuffled together, and no shots could be heard for three hours, because the white-knuckle battle had been so scorched that it was impossible to shoot, and it was the largest white-knuckle battle of World War II.

After using white-knuckle combat to drive the Japanese out of the main position on the outskirts, the Japanese invaders reorganized the attack the next day. The Chinese Air Force and the American Flying Tigers made frequent sorties at this time, and the Chinese Air Force bombed the Japanese supply lines and airfields, while the Flying Tigers engaged in air battles with Japanese planes and shot down six enemy planes. The Chinese navy withstood the bombardment of Japanese planes and laid drifting mines from the upper reaches to prevent Japanese warships from cooperating with the army.

After another day and one night, the Japanese finally wavered and turned around and fled eastward.

In this battle, our army wounded and killed more than 7,000 enemies.

The commander-in-chief, Hu Lian, was promoted to deputy commander for meritorious service and was awarded the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal.