Chapter 172: Agriculture, Industry
Agriculture, industry.
These two were the root causes of all the contradictions in the early days, but in the present period, whether the revolutionaries or the so-called Qingliu elements, all they are looking at is the problem of the Qing Dynasty system, whether it is constitutional or republican, or something else - such as studying the scriptures or something.
No one cares about the so-called agriculture and the so-called industrial problems, all they care about is some illusory power tricks and institutional problems. And if the vast majority of the country's attention is on this, it proves that the country still needs at least a long time to find its way forward. Of course, this kind of environment is unavoidable, and the main culprit for this environmental atmosphere is the Manchu political axe itself.
This is because judging from the reform process of the Qing Dynasty itself, this can be regarded as a process of slow development of understanding. It is this slow process of understanding that has caused the overall misunderstanding of the current ** early years.
This process can be summarized into three stages.
The first stage is to perceive the embryonic stage of industry. This period was during the time of the First Opium War and the Second Opium. Some smart people in the Qing Kingdom realized the gap between the Qing warships and foreign warships, so a political group headed by Prince Gong engaged in a self-improvement movement. The original intention of the self-improvement movement was to allow the Qing State to have a certain industrial base, and it could also make its own warships and the like, so as to raze and conquer it. The general direction is right, if the Qing political axe takes this as the basic national policy and adheres to it for forty or fifty years, maybe the industrial base of the Qing country will rise. It is a pity that this basic national policy was assessed as a failure by the defeat of a very shallow Sino-Japanese War. As a result, some people in the Qing Dynasty engaged in self-denial, believing that pure industry could not make the country strong for the time being.
And what is it that industry does not make the country strong?
Why is it that the industrial base of Ben is not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty, but they have developed? The defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War made some people begin to realize again whether this is the right path of development.
Some have also cast doubt on the basic policies of the State.
This awareness has led some people to finally realize that learning industry may only be a superficial thing, and that some other things may be needed to make the Qing Kingdom strong. For example, the British system? This period is considered a period of self-exploration by some people, and the year is also after the First Sino-Japanese War, in this period, because some of the Qing countries' understanding is not very clear, they are not very afraid to make policies, on the contrary, this kind of inaction has made the private industry rise.
The private factories of the Qing Kingdom increased dozens of times during this period! However, when the private industry was just emerging, around 1900, some Qing people finally realized that the essence of the gap between the Qing and other countries was actually in all aspects of the system, so under the proposal of some people with lofty ideals, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao as representatives, put forward the reform of the system. The word revolution probably appeared in this period, which led to the fact that the revolution that everyone was concerned about in the early years of the current ** was a matter of system, a monarch, or a constitutional monarchy or a republic. It was also at this stage that Qing Zhengaxe suddenly realized that they might have found the right way. In this way, we have also come up with a policy of preparing for the constitution in 15 years. With this statement, he announced that the Qing government also believed that their backwardness was not an industrial problem, but a problem in the system, and that as long as the system was changed, China would sooner or later catch up with the world. Unfortunately, such a decision may still be wrong. In the period of industrial budding understanding and exploration, it took the Qing people twenty or thirty years, then the period of confusion, which took nearly ten years, and finally in the period of exploring the system -- this period, that is a long time. At least, this stage of the Beiyang period can be differentiated into the stage of exploring the system, this period of political activity, speech, and the prosperity of its various speeches can be compared to the Spring and Autumn Period. At this stage, whether it is students, workers, or leaders, each of them can discuss various republican and first-class issues, and the degree of participation is at least more than that of the hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During this period, the emergence of various political parties and warlords in various places also marked the highest level of institutional exploration. This is a time when the political system is discussed by the whole people, okay? History has proved that in this stage of searching for right and wrong, the country's industrial development has been slow or even stagnant for a time. In the early days, the tonnage of the navy reached more than 800,000 tons, but until the navy was replanned in 1926, the tonnage of the entire navy warships was only 670,000 tons. The tonnage of the navy, the representative of industry, has fallen instead of rising, which means that in such a period of exploring the system, the people's minds are running on the ethereal system problem. It wasn't until the start of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that the first at this time realized that China's degree of industrialization seemed too low. But is it useful to realize it? A series of debates about right and wrong consumed the golden twenty years of the Chinese from 1911 to 1937. So much so that when I called, China's land could only be retreated step by step, and the originally rich land was going to have a tragic "scorched earth war of resistance". In a period of exploring the system, the people's minds were all running on the illusory problem of the system. It wasn't until the start of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that the first at this time realized that China's degree of industrialization seemed too low. But is it useful to realize it? A series of debates about right and wrong consumed the golden twenty years of the Chinese from 1911 to 1937. So much so that when I called, China's land could only be retreated step by step, and the originally rich land was going to have a tragic "scorched earth war of resistance".
Whose fault is this?
If we use these 20 years to develop industry, will we Chinese be defeated by a small country? Moreover, during this period, there was not another opportunity for the First World War to accelerate the process of industrialization in China.
Didn't it take place after the First World War, and how much profit did they make in the war?
The tragedy in history, Chen Liqing is back, and naturally it will not be staged on the land of Shenzhou again.
Quickly mastering Guizhou is only Chen Liqing's first step.
Next, he wants to let some so-called people see, is it a problem of the system, or is it a problem of the overall direction?
Does China still need an emperor? Why did Ben still have an emperor, but they developed the same?
Chen Liqing has no interest in the future emperor or crusade against a certain gentleman. He just knew that since he had taken the first step to change Guizhou, no one would be able to stop him in the future.
In agriculture, Chen Liqing wants to let Yanjing and those people in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River see that even in remote mountainous areas, the people of Guizhou will live better than them. Chen Liqing will also tell some people that only when they master the so-called peasant brothers and solve the basic food and clothing problems that most people want, that is the foundation of the republic.
In terms of industry, Chen Liqing will also let some people who keep saying that the self-improvement movement has failed to see whether it is our country's industry that is not working, or whether it is the problem of some people's leadership.
Although Pingyue is small, but the fire of agriculture and industry has been ignited, and sooner or later, the Pingyue model will spread all over Guizhou and the whole country.
When Chen Liqing returned to Pingyue, he generally did these two things. As for the issue of future development, with the current foundation of Guizhou, we naturally cannot think much about it.
After determining the overall development direction, Chen Liqing's gaze shifted again, and this time, a group of people from Pingyue marched in the direction of the south again.
Time passed, and the reading power of Guizhou Province was soon drowned in the wave of reading power all over the country.
By late November, 14 of the country's 24 provinces and autonomous regions, including Shanghai, had broken away from Qing rule. The provinces and cities that have announced reading power are mainly in central and southern China, among which Hunan and Jiangxi in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and Jiangsu and Anhui in the lower reaches have a greater impact on Wuhan. In the northern provinces, due to the weakness of the revolutionary forces and the relatively stable feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, there were no provinces and regions with reading power, but the local members of the League and the revolutionary groups associated with the League also launched uprisings and riots of varying scales. In addition, the people of ethnic minorities in the northeast, Inner Mongolia, and northwest Gansu, Xinjiang Province, and southwest also broke out in anti-Qing struggles. These uprisings and riots invisibly played a positive role in responding to the Wuchang Uprising and formed a huge revolution. However, the Wuchang Uprising suddenly led the wave of revolutionary uprisings across the country was really unexpected by the League, so the leaders of the League such as Huang Xing and Hu Hanmin were not sufficiently prepared for the rapidly coming revolutionary situation, lacked strong leadership and overall planning, and their strength in the provinces was large and small, and their attitudes towards the revolution were also different, and the people who participated in the uprising were even more mixed, which made the reading power provinces appear in a complicated situation.
In some provinces, after the armed seizure of ** by the revolutionary faction, the constitutionalists and the old bureaucracy adopted conspiracy methods to steal real power, such as Hubei and Fujian. Some provinces were usurped by constitutionalists in bloody coups, such as Hunan. Under the impact of the torrent of revolution and forced by the situation, some provinces adopted the method of changing their appearance and merely replacing the old yamen with a new signboard, and the two provinces of Jiangsu and Guangxi did so, declaring the completion of a revolution.
Even in provinces where the revolutionaries were in power, some revolutionaries quickly became power-hungry politicians or local warlords such as Anhui and Shanxi. These provinces have their own plans for each other, and the internal situation is also unstable, so it is difficult to achieve unity of will and action.
But in spite of this, the reading power of the provinces still greatly isolated the Qing political axe and strengthened the revolutionary momentum. At the same time, because the revolutionaries attached great importance to the work of the new army, since the Wuchang New Army fired the first shot against the Qing Dynasty, in less than three months, among the 14 towns, 18 mixed associations, and four target new armies, about 7 towns, 10 mixed associations, and 3 targets were successively reversed, disbanded, and defeated, which greatly weakened the army strength of the Manchu political axe, and all of these laid the foundation for the final Qing Dynasty.
In short, the various changes on the land of China at this time have already foreshadowed one thing-
This uprising is a bit big! (To be continued.) )