The Ryukyu incident was quickly resolved, but Lü Liang then instructed the Investigation Bureau to organize and set up a "Ryukyu Riot Study Group", which was not a farce, but a serious event with profound historical significance and research value.

From the perspective of a time-traveler, Lu Liang knows that the historical Asian independence movement arose after the First World War and reached its peak after the Second World War. With the awakening of the national consciousness of the colonies, the independence movement surged, and the great powers were unable to suppress the independence movement through war, so they could only recognize the independence of the colonies.

It was only in this era that due to the turmoil of Lu Liang, the trend of independence in Asia, especially in the Far East, had risen. The establishment of the Chinese state and the repeated thwarting of the intervention of the great powers led to the emergence of calls for independence against imperialism. Objectively, China played the role of a nationalist awakener, and people with lofty ideals in the colonized areas began to learn from China's experience and regarded China as a guiding light and revolutionary guide against the invaders.

In particular, the independence movement that broke out in Burma, after a year and a half of purging by the British, did not achieve much success. From mid-1905 to the present, the Free Army of Burma is still entrenched in northern Burma, and continues to penetrate deep into the central and southern parts of Burma to attack the British transport lines, strongholds, etc., which is a great headache for the British. It is said that Kitchener, the British general of the Burmese army, lost all his hair due to pressure, and this is no better than the empty South African highlands, where the tropical jungle combat tests the quality of an army the most, even in the second half of the 20 th century, the invincible American soldiers all over the world are in the tropical jungle and sink into the sand. Judging from the present, the combat effectiveness of the Free Army of Burma may not be much worse than that of the Yue Monkeys in later generations, but after the withdrawal of aid from China, the Free Army of Burma began to live a hard life, and the scale of the battle continued to shrink. It also allowed the British to breathe a sigh of relief.

The success of China and the insistence of Burma gave hope to people with lofty ideals in the colonized areas of Southeast Asia, and in the Malay Peninsula, the Indonesian archipelago, and the French Indochina region, various independent organizations were established one after another, but there was no such thing as the Ryukyuan people who openly organized military confrontation. It can only be said that the smaller the country, the more daring it is, from North Korea to Vietnam. to ridiculous Georgia. Despite the rise of China and the momentum of the Burmese independence movement, these two regions are not universal.

Huaguo is because of Lu Liang's invincible plug-in, and Burma is because Lu Liang is an obstruction, but at this time, the European powers are at their peak, if it were not for the containment of Europe's internal problems and the current concern about super battleships, the changes in the East would have been extinguished by the empire on which the sun never sets, how could they watch a lot of losses in the Far East.

Therefore, the "Ryukyu Riot Research Group" is not only looking at the Ryukyu incident. There are also the subsequent international repercussions, the independence movements in Asia, the measures that Britain and other powers will take in response to the colonial crisis, the impact on China, and what actions should be taken to deal with it.

Although he behaved extremely domineering and direct, Lu Liang had been waiting for Britain to make a move anxiously, he knew that the Russo-Japanese War was Britain's first step in response, and there would definitely be other ways to hinder the rise of China after it was disintegrated by China, so. At present, China must concentrate its energies on accomplishing the great cause of reunification as soon as possible. In this way, there is more than enough strength to deal with the encroachment of the British hooligans.

After the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, the focus of China's work immediately shifted to the north, and the stationing of troops, maintaining stability, and economic construction in Ryukyu, Taiwan, and Jeju Island were mere trivial matters. After arranging a new round of armament construction, a major event gave Lu Liang an excuse to send troops.

The overthrow of the Manchus has always been one of the main goals of the Zhenguo Party, but Lü Liang did not have the idea of a peaceful solution. Especially the more contact wars, the less you want to start a civil war. However, judging from the continuous expansion of the Beiyang Army and the fact that the garrison location is getting closer and closer to the north bank of the Yangtze River, Yuan Shikai is reluctant to give up his rights, and even if he suffers heavy losses in the stock turmoil, he has no intention of giving up the expansion of armaments.

January 1906. Beginning in 1905, the provinces of Henan, Shandong, and Hebei in the Central Plains began to experience drought, and agricultural harvests were greatly reduced, and in some places even grain crops were cut off, and farmers began to rely on eating grass roots and bark to survive, among which Henan Province was the most serious.

By 1906, the drought, which had lasted for more than eight months, had worsened, and in many places the grass roots had been eaten, the bark of the trees had been almost stripped away, and the victims began to die in large numbers. The Manchu court not only did not provide relief for the disaster, but because of foreign indemnities and stock turmoil, it intensified the exploitation of the peasants, and the taxes of the victims increased instead of decreasing. The Beiyang Army stationed in Henan regarded the disaster as nothing and put pressure on the local area to demand military rations!

The high-level leaders in the north sang and danced, and strictly controlled the news of the disaster, and in the past eight months, the victims had nowhere to survive and had no choice but to flee. The first place to visit was the relatively wealthy Shanxi region, but the Manchu Qing and Beiyang sent troops to block the main road to Shanxi, strictly prohibiting the victims from wandering around, and the Yangtze River was dangerous, so fewer people risked fleeing to the south.

Huaguo soon learned of the drought in the north, but at the beginning Huaguo's response was wrong, the civil affairs department provided a large amount of grain for sale to grain merchants in the north, hoping to use a large amount of grain to offset the high grain prices in the north, in order to alleviate the drought, but I didn't expect that a few months later, the feedback was that the grain was hoarded after buying grain in the south, and there was no reduction in food prices at all, and the situation of starving people was increasing unabated!

On January 12, 1906, Zhou Shuren arrived in Henan by horse-drawn carriage, accompanied by five armed guards and a communications liaison officer. He was given the task of inspecting the situation in the disaster-stricken areas in Henan and sending back the inspection reports at any time for the newspaper to report on the disaster-stricken areas in real time.

As the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Zhou Shuren was only slightly puzzled by this, and understood that this was the newspaper's attention to the people's disaster and the disclosure of the situation in the disaster area. Therefore, Zhou Shuren was very attentive, and after a day of preparation, he led the team to set off, and arrived in Henan two days later.

As a party newspaper, Zhenguo Bao embodies the will of Zhenguo Party, and fundamentally reflects the will of Lu Liang. Does the government lack information about the disaster area? As a party newspaper, is there a lack of information about that side? The answer was no, the information collected by the Investigation Bureau was comprehensive and detailed, from the towns to the villages, the information of the Investigation Bureau involved all aspects of the disaster area, objective and detailed, and the newspaper could use all kinds of information to disclose to the public.

However, this kind of report cannot fully achieve Lu Liang's goal, what he needs is for the people to take this opportunity to burst out with a united mentality, and to make the people realize that whether it is the north or the south, whether it is Xinjiang or the Ryukyus, all of them are the people of China, belonging to the same nation, regardless of you and me.

Such considerations come from a subtle change in the mentality of ordinary people in China, a small change that was captured by the Investigation Bureau and presented to Lu Liang. Compared with traitors and traitors, this incident made Lu Liang even more sad, the south of the Yangtze River, including the Sichuan region, with the improvement of the economic level, the people becoming richer and richer, and the gradual broadening of knowledge, actually discriminated against the people in the north of the Yangtze River, especially after a large number of refugees from the north poured into the south, this discrimination became more and more obvious. They belong to the same people, but they begin to be artificially divided into two kinds of people.

Lu Liang can't beat and scold him for this, and everyone is talking about money, and this kind of thing can only be guided, and there is also reunification as soon as possible and narrowing the economic gap between regions. In fact, this phenomenon is not new to Lu Liang, and this situation is very common in later generations, from the red sky people to discriminate against the mainlanders, from the late people to the mainlanders, from the easterners to the westerners, everywhere.

For example, if a mainlander is in the red sky, and a tourist spits, swears, or buys a luxury item, the red sky people interpret it as all the mainlanders are like that, and blame them, and there is a posture of dividing the racial level. This is not only discrimination, but also prejudice, prejudice that should not exist.

In the past, Lu Liang also had this kind of prejudice, until it was too late after the earthquake to become the area with the most donations, until he cried bitterly for the victims after the earthquake, he knew that the same root and the same species buried deep in the blood could not be broken, and the kinship that was connected by blood did not disappear, and once it broke out, he would be shocked.

Therefore, Lu Liang will take this opportunity to stimulate the sense of identity in the hearts of all people, the sense of identity that belongs to the same nation and race. Allowing Zhou Shuren to enter the disaster area for investigation and send back the investigation report for public publication at any time is also to use Zhou Shuren's emotional brushstrokes to stimulate this power to the greatest extent.

Perhaps, there is a deeper political purpose that has not been disclosed to Zhou Shuren, relatively speaking, that purpose seems a little dirty, and it also takes Lu Liang to pay a lot of courage to make such a decision, and it is the vulgar sacrifice of his small family for everyone to comfort himself.

Before arriving in Henan, the first report had been sent out through the liaison officer, stretching from Henan to the north bank of the Yangtze River, countless refugees with their families were looking for the legendary land of abundance, where there was no hunger, no oppression, a paradise for refugees, as long as they were willing to work, they could usher in a good life. It is this desire that propels the hungry refugees to move their emaciated bodies and roll south. (To be continued.) )