"The Qing people are a bunch of apolitical fǔists! Defeat in wartime! ”

Eleven years ago, when Japan declared war on the Manchu Qing Dynasty with no chance of victory, the vast majority of Japanese were worried about whether Japan would perish because of this, whether there would be a Qing army rushing into Tokyo in the Ming Dynasty, and when it was time to flee there, a Japanese reporter who had lived in Shanghai for nearly ten years published this article in the newspaper "The Qing State Will Be Defeated!" The text is supplemented by his conversation with a well-known person. ##看xiǎo说必去##

"What does Japan have to do with you?"

"The state is the foundation of man, how can a person be a man without a root?"

"Hayata-kun was surprised! We are just passers-by who happened to be born in this country, and the state is nothing but a government that collects taxes. It's your own business to live. ”

"A bunch of nonsense ......"

"Hayata-kun! Even if the country is strong, does the country share your dividends? Are there any benefits for you? Of course, if you are a high-ranking official, or if you have relatives with a high-ranking official, that's a different story. ”

"Li Jun, people must have roots, right?"

"Shunxi, you come and tell him what human beings are."

"My root is our young master, our young master's root is my master, and the master's root is our master."

"The root of a person is the family, and the Li family is my foundation."

When a country, when it is not a country, is it still possible for them to win the war? As a result, just as the reporter named Hayada had predicted, as soon as the Japanese army rushed up, they tore the skin of the Manchu Westernization Movement to shreds.

And the dialogue between a Japanese and a Chinese in this story has become the best example of Chinese having a home and no country. People's numb nerves will be awakened by guns, there was no nationalism before the First Sino-Japanese War, and there was no national awakening before Gengzi, and it was the shame again and again that made this insensitive nation wake up from the muddy nightmare.

The country, the nation, for the Chinese, is such a heavy topic, sinking into foreign slavery for 260 years, the national backbone has been broken, the shame awakens the national consciousness sealed in the heart, when a nation is restored, people who have suffered hundreds of years of enslavement, for the first time, can tǐng up xiōng bore and say, "I am Han!" After a while, they said "I am Chinese", and the ruling fǔ's move to reduce and reduce harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes made them realize that "state" and "slavery" were different.

At the beginning of the Restoration, almost every major and every newspaper was instilling in people the responsibility of the nation, the state, the people and the citizens who knew what the country was for the first time, and the people of the country who knew the nation for the first time were delicate in their feelings towards the country, on the one hand, they did not know what the nation of the nation was and what benefits it had for them, on the other hand, they would settle the blood debts of the family at the time of the trial, so that they could understand that if the nation and the state fell, Then they are slaves of the country, and the Chinese have been slaves of the country for 260 years!

In the past few decades, the humiliation they have endured from foreigners is actually borne by slaves who have lost their country, and the simple and simple national consciousness is rooted in people's hearts along with national consciousness, and when the empire was founded, the Chinese were all immersed in this "Chinese imperial national" mood, although they did not feel that there was any difference between China and the Manchu Qing, but at least one point, the emperor was Han!

In this way, Chinese got the "state" for the first time, and in the ensuing war...... In the face of this national event, in the face of good news from the front line, even the "xiǎoxiǎo good news" that defeated a squadron of the Japanese army was enough to make the "people" surge a wave of excitement from the bottom of their hearts.

The country is strong!

Defeat the Orientals!

O dignity of the nation! O personal glory! Finally, you can tǐng up xiōng in front of foreigners! This is the simplest and most direct national consciousness!

Almost when the war was rolled up and the people became more and more excited with the good news, Cao Yinsheng's whole person also became fanatical, a year ago, he was still a "widow" who shouted that "there is no monarch and no father, and the disloyal and unrighteous luàn minister and thief", and even when Cixi was executed, he secretly ran to the shogunate mountain to put incense on the execution, who let his family be favored by the court?

A month after the conflict between Tohoku and Japan began, he changed his appearance and became as fanatical as everyone else. &&&Latest Chapter Baidu Search:&&

"I'm going to go with the army!"

As an editor of the "Jinling Morning Post", he asked the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Yan Ping again and again, but Yan Ping always looked embarrassed, when he asked him to work in the newspaper to take care of the son of an old friend, but now he has to go out with the army, but he once accused the newspaper of "the so-called labor is actually slavery" of the "young people of the previous dynasty". ,

"You can't be a soldier!"

Yan Ping replied in one sentence.

"Because of your article! If you go to the army and are known by your comrades, you will definitely be killed by them! ”

However, Cao Yinsheng did not listen to it at all, and once the young people became fanatical, they would become uncontrollable, and since then, the style of his articles has changed greatly, from articles praising soldiers and eulogizing the war, to interviewing honorary soldiers at the "Invalides Academy" in the Purple Mountain.

Although he still resisted the "empire" in his heart, he was surprisingly able to treat the invalids of the Liberation War differently, he called them "anti-thieves" in his heart, and he regarded the invalids of the "Northeast Neutral Conflict" as "national heroes".

"Perhaps, he himself is not aware of his own mentality!"

For this kind of húnluàn, every reporter and editor of the newspaper said this in sī. Finally, a week ago, the newspaper received a notice from the Admiralty that it could send another military correspondent to the front if it could.

"Uncle, you must let me go this time!"

Under Cao Yinsheng's plea, Yan Ping finally agreed after thinking about it for a long time, it is better to go to the navy and go to the army! The army is a liberation army, but the navy is ...... Well! Old wine in new bottles.

In order to make up for the lack of capacity, the navy even hired every merchant ship in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Qingdao, and Hong Kong, and 31 merchant ships carried more than 30,000 officers and men of the 102nd and 103rd Divisions of the Guards Army, while the Marine Brigade took a naval training ship.

"O glory! The dignity of the country will be restored in one day! ”

Standing on the side of the navy training ship and watching the group of army soldiers board the merchant ship, Cao Yinsheng said on the side of chún, but when his eyes saw the huge fleet of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet anchored in the berth area, there was a trace of sadness and indignation on his face.

"Lose power and humiliate the country! Let outsiders occupy the important port of the country! ”

"Look, Cao Braid is muttering there again!"

"According to the country's important port, why didn't he say that his master still leased the port to another country!"

"Oh...... I remember, it seems that the master of the family said something...... Well...... It is better to be a foreigner than a domestic slave! ”

"That's right! Isn't this Taiwan just for foreign countries, but this time it has been taken back by our China! ”

The bursts of ridicule made Cao Yinsheng, who was dressed in a newly customized gray sè "new clothes", only feel hot on his face, and wanted to refute them, but he couldn't find any words to refute them, he knew that fortunately, these people were literati, and if they were replaced by other people, they might have already passed by to beat themselves. ##看xiǎo说必去##

"Don't wait for the benefit of strong tongues!"

On the "Kangji" training ship, the cabin was divided into several layers, the upper floor was where the officer's cabin, the canteen, and the medical supplies were located, and the lower floor was the soldier's cabin...... Shoes!

Not only did they shine their shoes, but they even ironed their military uniforms, polished their medals, polished the rings of their cowhide belts, and even wiped the copper rivets on the bullet packs with white cloths, and everyone's expressions were extremely serious, what were they going to do.

"Ha ......"

He sighed at the copper buttons of the Marine Corps uniform, and the corporal carefully wiped the copper buttons with a white cloth, and his serious expression was as if he was wiping gold buttons.

"There's a stain here, keep rubbing!"

The officers who walked back and forth in the dining room reprimanded the soldiers who were doing such "useless work" from time to time.

"Why don't they wipe their guns?"

The scene in front of him only made Tang Yinsheng a little suspicious, what are these people going to do?

“…… When each company disembarks along the gangway, remember 32 steps, no more, no less, and ...... like a military parade"

When he walked out, at the dining table next to him, the words of several officers made Tang Yinsheng stunned.

"A military parade? Is that what they're going to do? ”

As he walked along the passage towards his cabin, Tang Yinsheng saw that most of the soldiers in the cabin were sitting on the multi-layered crane chuáng that could not straighten their waists, doing the same work.

"This kind of army can win battles! It's ......."

"It's incredible!"

On the Keelung Battery, Jiro Uchida looked at the horizon and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Chinese was able to defeat us, the main force of the 300,000 army was surrounded, it was really ...... It's incredible! ”,

After a long sigh, he added.

"The last time we were in the war, we were so powerful, we almost knocked down the entire Qing Kingdom with a light push! And this time, I really don't know if we have become weaker or if China has become stronger! ”

Heiji Matsui, who was originally silent, glanced sideways at Jiro Uchida when he heard Jiro Uchida's words.

"Uchida-kun, it's just that there are too many people who think like you, that's why Japan has fallen into the predicament of today!"

"Matsui-kun, why do you say that?"

Take a step forward and look at the 150 mm Krupp shore defense gun on the Keelung battery pointing directly at the coast, which is the trophy taken from Lushun after conquering Lushun ten years ago, first used in Tokyo Bay, and then dismantled to Keelung, after today, the artillery here is returned to the Chinese along with this island.

"In the last war, it wasn't that the imperial army was too powerful, but that the opponent was too weak!"

Yuko noticed that Jiro Uchida seemed to be a little puzzled, and Matsui explained further.

"The soldiers of the Qing State, from the very beginning, were self-defeating, their state power was Manchurian, and so was the emperor, and the soldiers of the Han nationality had no desire to dedicate themselves to the emperor and the government of the foreign race, so we easily defeated them, but the Japanese mistakenly thought that they had defeated the Qing State!"

Matsui's words made Uchida very dissatisfied, although he did not participate in the Sino-Japanese War, but his brother participated in the Sino-Japanese War, emotionally speaking, he certainly hoped that Japan would defeat the once strongest country in Asia, and that it would be a real victory over them, not as Matsui said.

"Yes...... But the Qing soldiers are really weak! ”

"Those Han people haven't been seriously beaten at all!"

Heiji Matsui still sticks to his opinion.

"In other words, one of the reasons for Japan's victory was caused by the Han soldiers?"

"Hmm!"

Uchida, who was quite dissatisfied, snorted, in his opinion, it should be the strong enemy who was exhausted in front of more powerful Japanese troops, and finally had to surrender, rather than the reason for the victory, was the other party's inner luàn.

"In the last war, the navy was brave and good at fighting as the newspapers said, but their technology was too bad!"

"Is it technically bad?"

"Just saying bad things may cause misunderstandings, in terms of the cooperation of the warship and the fleet, we performed very well, I think at that time only the British could compare with the Japanese navy, but the most important thing is that the gunnery is very poor!"

As a naval officer, Matsui naturally had roots in saying this.

"Is it a pào?"

"Yes, it is the technique of firing shè shells to hit enemy ships, this is the ultimate purpose of the fleet's attack, if this aspect is not good, no matter how strong the fleet will be defeated! And at that time we were almost to the point of being hopeless! ”

"Is it that bad?"

Feeling a little incredible, Uchida Jiro looked at Matsui in surprise, he was a naval officer, and he was an army officer, how could he increase the morale of others and destroy his own prestige.

It is precisely because he is an army that he is very dissatisfied with Matsui's remarks just now, after all, in his opinion, Japan won the Japan-Qing War openly, and it will never be as Matsui said, it was the internal problems of the Qing Kingdom that allowed Japan to win the war.

"Worse than you think!"

"If our artillery skills are very poor, what about the other party's proportions?"

Uchida, who likes to compare numbers, asked rhetorically.

"Ten years ago, this was a secret, when the European and American armies and navies would simply release such figures after the battle, but at that time, the army announced the bomb consumption figures, and the navy adopted secrecy, do you know why?"

Heiji Matsui turned his head to look at the civil war.

"I'm afraid of embarrassment! Worried about being seen by Europe and the United States, we will know how lucky our victory is! ”

Thinking of that inferior artillery technique, Matsui Heishi felt a blush.

"Three years ago, when I was still on Etajima, Colonel Mahan of the United States was the Mahan who wrote the theory of sea power! He once talked about the poor gunnery of the Japanese Navy throughout the war, and Colonel Mahan was a world authority on naval tactics, do you know what he said? ”

Matsui's rhetorical question was met with Uchida's head shake and interest.

"The Japanese Navy, first of all, is better than the Qing in terms of warships, and the quality of the weapons and ammunition is much better, and it is fully guaranteed, and it is much better than the enemy in terms of the ability of officers and soldiers, but the level of gunnery on both sides of the Japanese and Qing sides is very low, how can I say that it is good? According to the information released by the Japanese Navy, the Qing were slightly better than them in this regard, except for light guns under six pounds, the Japanese hit rate was 12 percent, and the Qing reached 20 percent! ”,

"Is the gap so big?"

Matsui nodded, looked at the army troops in the harbor who were boarding the ship and withdrawing, and spoke.

"Ten years ago, after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, the navy has been practicing gunnery, do you know what level to achieve? It is to reach the level of gunnery of the Qing Navy! The winner has to reach the level of the loser, this is only once in the world! ”

With a sigh, Matsui continued.

"Eleven years ago, we used the most advanced sights and rangefinders in the nineteenth century artillery technology to hit 12 percent, and the Qing ** used the ruler and sextant of the Trafalgar naval battle era, but the hit rate was twice that of our country, if they had speed guns and new shells, they could win the naval battle even with those old warships!"

Matsui's words reveal a secret that is not secret, and it is not a secret to the naval circles of various countries, but to the Chinese and Japanese people, it is a secret that only a few people know. Both sides have a common political goal and hide the truth from the people.

"Humph!"

With a cold snort, Uchida looked at Matsui seriously.

"At the end of the day, didn't we still win? If, as you said, we were able to defeat them easily because the Han people had no desire to dedicate themselves to the emperor and government of the alien race, then why would their navy play such a brilliant artillery skill! ”

When he said this, Uchida Jiro seemed to have noticed the mistake in Matsui's words, and his face could not help but show a hint of triumph, in his opinion, Matsui was simply looking for an excuse for "the navy cannot help each other" in this war, what better excuse than to exaggerate the enemy army?

If the navy could help the army, maybe Japan would not have suffered the humiliation of "ceding" Taiwan now, and now Matsui is better to not only exaggerate the current enemy, but even distort history here.

"It was at sea! Uchida-kun! ”

Heiji Matsui threw Uchida an idiot-like look, and then replied in a deep voice.

"If they don't fight hard at sea, they will be in danger of dying in the sea, if they are on land, they will probably have fled long ago, if it is now Westerners ruling Japan, you serve in this Japanese army, will you die for them?"

In Uchida's rebuttal, he added.

"Uchida, it's because there are too many people like you in Japan who can't see the truth clearly, and we defeated the Qing State, so we naturally think that the current China will be as incompetent as the Qing State, but what about the facts? That's the truth! ”

With a gesture of Matsui's hand, a trace of ship smoke appeared on the sea outside, it was a receiver sent by China!

To be continued)