"Ten years ago, when I was studying at home, I only knew how to eat and sleep every day. Even if you are working hard, you are just reading articles, trying to cheat a few layers of fame, and glorifying the lintel, how do you know what the country is and what does it have to do with me? In the first year of the First Wu Dynasty, I heard people say that there was something called our own country that defeated our China. In the year of Gengzi, I heard that the combined forces of Britain, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, the United States, Austria, and Ben defeated China. At this time, I realized that the people of the world were originally divided into one country and one country, and each frontier was not inferior to each other. We are also one of the countries in the world, and I am also one of the people of China, and why are I from China ruled by foreign races? …… When I grew up in my twenties, I realized that there is a country, that there is a nation, that the country is the people of the whole country, that everyone has the great righteousness of the whole people, and that everyone should do their best to fulfill the great righteousness of the nation. ”

On May 31, 4602, Yan Huang said "Declaration" -- Saying that the country and the nation first have nationalism, then there is the concept of the state, and then there is patriotism! Without the concept of the nation-state as the foundation of a country, it is impossible for any country to achieve its prosperity and strength. Compared with the countries that fought hard for their own national interests, the weakness and lack of national consciousness of the Chinese in Yanhuang 4602 is an indisputable fact, and for the vast majority of Chinese, no matter who the ruler is, they are nothing more than sheep donated.

The rapid rise of Gengzi after the completion of the transformation of the nation-state, and the outbreak of the Russo-Russian War on Chinese soil, to a large extent, stimulated and led to the awakening of nationalism in China, and there was no nationalism before the First Sino-Japanese War, and there was no nation-state before the empire. With the victory of the Japanese army in the Northeast Theater, the nationalized yellow Asians proved to be completely capable of defeating the white race and becoming a great power.

At the time of the "great national uprising", the Liberation Society put forward the demand for "national liberation" in a clear-cut manner, and national liberation was the most basic task and became the most basic driving force for the Chinese people.

Awakened nationalism quickly combined with the emerging new Chinese military power. A large number of intellectuals have thrown their pen to paper in the face of the enslavement of the nation and the humiliation of the country. These enthusiastic young Chinese [***] people have long recalled accepting the nationalist slogan of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China", cut off the braids that symbolize the slaves, and held the belief that "the name of the revolution is internal, but it is actually external, and the most important external issue is the military", and they took "the general Tige, drive out the Tatar slaves" and "complete my aspirations with the glory of China" as the primary goal of struggle.

The young Huangpu officers, with an average age of only 17.5 years old, became the most reliable and powerful force in the national uprising that swept the whole of China, and the young soldiers became the harbingers of national awakening. Everything is pale and powerless in the face of this nationalist force, whether republican or imperial, they must submit to the nationalist armed soldiers.

In the event of a national uprising, the soldiers could blow up the imperial tombs of the Manchus, execute the Manchu banner people, and the officers armed with nationalism did everything possible and did their best to build a "nationalized, Chinese" state, whether it was imperial or republican, for young young officers, they established a state, and then the fate of the country was decided by the national compatriots, and the mission of the military was to ensure the establishment of the nation-state and defend the nation-state.

During the "Great National Uprising", the power of nationalism was quickly brought into play, and the nationalized army was by no means comparable to the Manchu army composed of recruited scoundrels, and in 4602 Yanhuang easily buried the Manchu colonial regime that set national oppression, feudalism, and betrayal for glory, and in the following half a year, when the army was ordered to arrest any officials and civilians who tried to sing the praises of that empire and lament its destruction, and directly condemned the Han annihilation...... When the executions were carried out for the only crime that did not require a court trial, nationalism was fuelled in China, fueled by a political axe.

And on March 13, 4603, a modern squadron completely armed with nationalism, in the northeastern battlefield, when fighting desperately for the interests of the nation, the [***] people were no longer insensitive spectators, but soldiers who fought bloodily for the survival of the nation.

In the world, there is nothing more than war to awaken the consciousness of a country and a nation, especially when the latent national consciousness is fermenting and brewing, and an appropriate war can awaken the national consciousness of the entire nation.

When the news of the breakdown of the negotiations broke, the newspapers added fuel to the fire and reported the threat of "wanting to speak with guns", and there was no disappointment or despair in the face of this situation, but an emotion that had never been brewed in the sky over this country, and people contributed their own strength to this country in their own way.

"Who is the master of China's splendid country? We are 40,000 Yanhuang compatriots. Forcibly invade the Kou and be violent, quickly and permanently resist and take revenge, the family can be broken, the country must be protected, the body can be killed, indomitable, one heart and one strength, unity is strong! Fight the head for the country! Fight hard to kill the enemy and swear not to spare ......"

At this moment, a burst of singing reached Guan Mingtang's ears, and he looked towards another street along the song, only to see that the center of the Senate Square was crowded with pedestrians, and a platform was set up in the north corner of the square.

Listening to the song and looking at the stage, Guan Mingtang, who had been busy all day, walked over there involuntarily. When he walked to the side of the street preaching stage, the "Song of Resistance to the Enemy" had already been sung, and Guan Mingtang, who was in the crowd, looked at the stage and the audience, many of them were students and teachers, and more were citizens.

The bright clothes made Guan Mingtang extremely conspicuous in this crowd, and even the people around him deliberately kept some distance from him.

Amid the applause, a girl wearing a cyan student skirt and short ear-length hair walked up to the choir and bowed deeply: "Compatriots! Brothers and sisters! The land of the Northeast had fallen five years ago, and the incompetence of the Manchus had caused tens of millions of compatriots to be enslaved and slaughtered, but today we have the determination to defend the motherland, and China will never again be humiliated in its own land. At this time, the heroic soldiers are fighting bloody battles on the front line to defend the country's territory and dignity!

However, when the empire was first established, the financial and material resources were not as good as the enemies who invaded our land, and the soldiers on the front line were not good at ammunition, and they even had to fight to the death with big swords, they were defending our country with their own flesh and blood, and every one of us who had a patriotic heart should not sit idly by, please contribute your strength! As long as you donate a dime, you can buy two more bullets for the soldiers on the front line, thank you! Thank you ......."

The female students bowed to the people in front of the stage, and in the bowing of the female students and the student choir, people took out paper tickets, silver dollars, and copper dollars from their pockets, and stuffed them into the donation boxes.

In the crowd of people, Guan Mingtang walked to the front of the stage, looked at the fundraising box in the hands of the female students, although he knew that most of the fundraising in various places were civil acts, but he still did not hesitate to take out the wallet from his pocket, and then threw more than a dozen banknotes of different denominations in the wallet into the fundraising box, and at this time, someone obviously recognized the middle-aged man in the "new clothes".

"It's the Chancellor of the Exchequer!"

"The Chancellor of the Exchequer is here to donate!"

"Minister Guan, please say a few words!"

The students who recognized him looked at this "high-ranking official" with some excitement, for thousands of years, the Chinese have always had the consciousness of the official position, although the imperial prime minister is a prominent official, but the outside world knows that this chancellor is a "meritorious minister from the dragon", an official of His Majesty's close attendant, naturally hopes that he can say something here.

Walking to the stage, Guan Mingtang first looked at the thousands of onlookers under the stage, and even some reporters with camera racks around, he coughed lightly.

"In the past, people used to say that China is a mess! China is not to be feared, because we are a country with no nationalist foundation, and it is not even a country at all! ”

As soon as he opened his mouth, he told a fact that a Chinese person had always been unwilling to face.

"However, now, I am glad to see that the current China is by no means the Manchu Qing Dynasty of yesterday, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty of yesterday, we don't know what the country is, it is only because the country is not our country, but now we say that all the people can unite the country and seek national strength! When the news of the war victory came from the front, millions of people cheered, and when the country faced financial difficulties, it was the people who stood up and took out your hard-earned money to donate money to help the war!

Today, there was a report in the "Yunnan Daily" that at the people's fund-raising rally in Kunming, two beggars carrying porridge jars unexpectedly appeared and took out a handful of copper from their bodies, and they said to the staff with shameful faces.

"Our brothers have been begging for three days, only these 2 cents and 9 points, but they haven't made up enough 3 corners, please accept it. If you want food, you are already inferior, and if you become a slave again, I am afraid that you will have to go underground. ””

At this time, Guan Mingtang's voice became a little muffled.

"Yes, if you become a slave to the country, I'm afraid you have to go underground! We have been slaves for 260 years, and more than 200 million ancestors have been killed by foreign races, which is the reward of slaves! On the 12th of last month, when the Empire decided to secure the Northeast by force, His Majesty told us that if we did not fight, the enemy would kill us, and then pointed his bayonet at our bones and said, "Look, this is the slave!" ”

At this time, Guan Mingtang quietly changed the sentence that His Majesty inadvertently spit out a few days ago to the pre-war decision-making.

Look, this is a slave!

One sentence shocked everyone as suddenly as thunderous, they never thought that His Majesty would say such straightforward and realistic words, in the past October, if anything was engraved into their bones, I am afraid that it is the bloody history of the 200 million ancestors who were killed in the Jiashen year.

A country and a nation are the easiest to mobilize and arouse when they are oppressed by foreign enemies to the last moment. In Chinese history, it may be the first time that people have raised donations for the country, but everything always needs a start, and the amount of money is not the main thing, but the important thing is that it is awakening a sleeping nation and a scarred lion.

In the west pavilion of the palace garden, after leaving the fundraising site, Guan Mingtang, who came directly to the palace, was painting moving scenes.

Standing on the side of the pavilion verandah, overlooking the dark night sky of Nanjing, Chen Moran was speechless for a long time. After a while, he turned around and said to Guan Mingtang.

"No matter how much it is, this money must not be misused. In addition, the list of total donations of various provinces, municipalities and localities should be published in newspapers, and if a typical case is found, it may be canonized by the civil affairs department. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Moran's brows raised again, and his face showed some joy.

"Until now, there are still some people who are unhappy, why are they unhappy, they have such and such reasons to oppose this war, yes, the country was just established, and it can't withstand the risks, so it is necessary to be stable, and I have to compromise, but what about this nation?"

As soon as his voice sank, Chen Moran slapped the stone corridor railing hard.

"This nation has been commissioned for 261 years, and we can't continue to be compromised, and then we can continue to compromise, and the soul of the nation that we have not yet built will disappear without a trace, and now, we seem to have spent more than 50 million yuan on the war, but we have sold more than 40 million bonds in China and in Nanyang, and there are more than 10 million donations in China, what is this money? These cent-by-cent donations are the soul of the nation! ”

Shouting out those three words vigorously, Chen Moran's brows jumped from time to time.

"The soul of the nation...... The soul of the nation, if this country can one day build its national soul, it is worth cutting off my head, a few years ago, we didn't know the country, we didn't know the nation, we were all sheep, we were all slaves who paid grain and taxes, but now? The common people know the country through the war, they cheer for a little victory of the army at the front, and the pride of the nation and the country is being built, can money buy it? ”

The words paused for a moment, but this would be locked together again, and a group of figures appeared in Chen Moran's mind, those who were against the war, and they always had such and such reasons.

"The soul of the nation, the national consciousness, nationalism, in the end, all this will become patriotism, there is no national outlook without a national outlook, without nationalism, where does patriotism come from, our generation is destined to be sacrificed, young people sacrifice their youth, life, what to establish?"

When he asked this rhetorical question, he seemed to be asking more of himself.

"We keep shouting that we want to build a modern industry, not inferior to the army of any country, but if we do not have a doctrine, a spirit in the hearts of the people, then, we are just following the old road of the Manchu Qing Westernization Movement, in the end, others only need a finger, a light poke to break, so, we want to build a strong national country! This...... That's what we're aiming for."

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Guan Mingtang gently patted His Majesty on the back, and a proper horse's ass is still necessary.

Listening to his sycophants, Chen Moran first waved his hand.

"Don't say I'm Shengming, I can't afford those two words."

Then he let out a long sigh and added.

"That's why I say that this battle is not so much about the survival of the nation as it is about the survival of the country!"

As the direct commander of the war, Chen Moran knew better than anyone the intention of this war, and the original intention of the war was not to fight for the survival of the country, but only to "fight for others", to fight for the people, and to seek national pride.

In the same way, it is also for foreigners to see, for reputation, and they have used their military victories to prove to the world that they already have the capital to squeeze into a strong country, and for China, the only thing that needs to be done at present is only to "seek equal treatment of China by all countries".

Only through a proper war, which does not damage the bones of the country, will it be possible for countries to face up to China's military power and thus to China's demands.

"Your Majesty, this goal is directly related to the security of our country in the next ten years, and even the foundation of national rejuvenation, if a country cannot prove that it has the ability to protect itself, then it will be difficult to attract external capital for its own construction, if China cannot prove itself on the battlefield, that is, no other country will face up to our country, and now, because of this war, China's image has changed in Europe and the United States, and China is no longer a member of the "Chinese Alliance", nor is it a decadent and immortal country of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, It is a new country full of vitality and forging ahead! ”

Guan Mingtang still insisted on his main motivation for persuading His Majesty to start this war, and after more than 20 years in the United States, he knew Europe and the United States better than anyone in this cabinet, and understood how the people of that country viewed China.

"I know that!"

Nodding his head, Chen Moran was silent for a while, looked up at the dark sky and said.

"At most, it will be more than a month of effort, and the Russian naval war may be able to divide the victory and defeat, and at that time, what we will face is not something we can predict, so we must end this war before the artillery of the Navy comes from the sea, and the key to ending the war lies in the United States, so we must strengthen public relations in the United States! According to the report of the Embassy in the United States, although the Americans are now feeling a little confused about the war between China and the two countries, on the whole, gratifying progress has been made, and now the US financial circles are skeptical about whether we can win, so their attitude is extremely delicate; the more we are at this time, the more we need to pay attention to tackling key problems with US public opinion, so the more we must pay attention to tackling key problems with US public opinion, so the special public relations expenditure of $100,000 a week is absolutely indispensable. This money doesn't need to be used, Huang Caishen, and he won't be greedy for this little money. ”

(To be continued)