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In the newspaper room of the Guangzhou railway station, three telegraph machines produced by the Industrial Telecom Company were rattling, and only an expert could understand the incessant whispers.

Both operators were young. Perhaps they are just newspaper operators who have just graduated in recent months, and since they have started their work, the telegrams they have sent and received by their hands may be only a few thousand meters, at most tens of thousands of meters, and the relatively older operators with their colleagues have exceeded hundreds of thousands of meters.

When he received the newspaper, he didn't have to look at the notes and frown, as they did, to spell out the unrecognizable words and sentences. Based on the click of the telegraph, he was able to translate the telegram and copy it word by word on the paper. Now he is listening to and recording the message: "The same message is sent to all stations, the same message is sent to all stations, and the same message is sent to all stations"

The old newspaper operator thought to himself as he transcribed it.

"Probably the latest decision of some empire."

At this time, the sun is rising outside, and it is all the warm winter appearance of the southern country, and Guangzhou, which is known as the flower city, has never had any feeling of cold winter wax moon.

He was so engrossed that he forgot to listen to the sound of the machine. When he turned around, he had already missed a message, and he held up the note and read: "...... at 6:50 a.m. on November 4."

He quickly copied the message, then put down the note, put his head in his hand, and continued listening.

"The ...... between the Chinese Empire and the Japanese Empire"

He took his time as he jotted it down. He did not know how many telegrams he had listened to in the course of his newspaper work, but he was always the first to know all kinds of news. He had long since lost sight of what those short and incomplete sentences were saying. He listened with his ears and memorized mechanically with his hands, paying no attention to its contents.

It's just some news, there's nothing to surprise about, the monotonous work has already made him numb to all the news. By this time, the older operator had forgotten the first few words of the message.

"The same text is sent to all stations, the same text is sent to all stations, and the same text is sent to all stations"

The machine clicked, and every time four Chinese characters and numbers appeared, he listened and translated: "Here...... Enter...... Enter...... War...... Contend...... Shape...... State ......"

He sat there calmly, already a little tired. Maybe I don't know that country is at war with that country again, but it's just a news cable. After skillfully copying down the news, his face still looked very calm, these news had nothing to do with him, he was just a bystander.

The machine clicks out a few points, a stroke, a few points, and another stroke. The old newspaper operator listened to the familiar voice, and immediately translated the first number, wrote a number on the message paper, and then wrote down another number, every four numbers would become a Chinese character in his mind, and then he wrote this Chinese character in the telegraph.

The receiver then typed out the intervals, and it took him only a tenth of a second to glance at the sets of numbers that had just been transcribed, and then put him together, and finally he breathed a sigh of relief when the last word appeared, which was the end of the telegram.

The ticker was still rattling, but the expressions of the two young operators had changed.

When he looked at the telegram in his hand for the last time, the old operator realized that it was much longer than he had imagined, and that it was a telegram of thousands of words. He carefully read the contents of the telegram again to check that there were no typos.

"Jingyuan". How? …… Jingyuan? ……

He took the telegram farther away, looked at the full text of the telegram, this time he finally understood what telegram he had received, he stared at it for a long time, he couldn't even believe the content of the telegram he saw, he had been doing this for more than 20 years, and this was the second time that he did not believe the telegram he had copied by himself. …,

The last time was five years ago

He read the telegram three times, and it seemed that the content remained the same, and it was still a declaration of war full of anger after suffering an undeclared war, a declaration of war by the Chinese Empire against the Japanese Empire.

Looking at the telegram, the old operator jumped up from his seat, grabbed the curled note, and stared at it with both eyes. The news he couldn't believe was confirmed by this long, thin note

He turned his pale face to two colleagues, who had already known the news, and who had not yet cultivated a numb heart like he did.

"The Empire has declared war on Japan"

The astonishing news slipped out of the newspaper room through the open door, spread like a gust of wind through the station, and then rushed to the whole city of Guangzhou.

When the dawn sun slowly crossed the city wall and shone into Guangzhou, Guangzhou, which had been silent all night, was once again lively, and the endless flow of people began to leave the streets of Switzerland, inns, teahouses, taverns, and shops opened their doors one after another, and the small food stalls on the street also began to do business, and there were people in front of the small food stalls of roasted wheat, rice noodles, and rolled noodles, as if this was another day that was no different from the past.

At the bulletin board at the intersection of the street, two policemen who had been holding the notice there early in the morning were posting it, and as soon as the notice was posted, the policeman wearing a baton with a black police uniform and a baton at his waist saw people surrounding him, and immediately read the notice aloud.

"At about 4 o'clock this morning, the battleship Jingyuan of the Imperial Zhenyang Fleet was conducting routine normal sea training in the South Seas, and was suddenly attacked by the Japanese Southern Fleet, and the Japanese Empire did not declare war on our Chinese Empire......

"The Outer Empire declares war on Japan"

"Outside the Japanese despicable sneak attack, our country angrily declared war on it"

"The two ships of Jingyuan and Hairong won the decisive battle with the Nanyang and the Japanese Grand Fleet"

"Extra ......"

In the next moment, the sudden sound of the horn echoed in the street, and the guests who were eating breakfast stopped at first, their expressions were slightly stunned at first, and then it seemed that at the same time, everyone went to grab the outside, a copper plate the size of a palm, but in an instant, the street seemed to fall into silence.

Those who grabbed the number hurriedly went to look at the number, those who did not grab it gathered around them and watched, and the illiterate people listened with their ears pricked up to listen to others reading the contents of the number.

War was declared

China declared war on Japan

No, it should be said that after the despicable and shameless sneak attack of Japan, after Japan declared war on China, His Majesty the Emperor signed the holy parable of declaring war on Japan.

War broke out

While people were looking at the palm-sized piece of paper, more people were nervously looking at the report on the palm-sized piece of paper about the naval battle in the South China Sea.

Finally, when they nervously read the report of just a few hundred words, and looked at the report of "using inferior troops, taking and sinking the enemy's four ships, forcing the enemy to retreat, and capturing hundreds of enemies who fell into the water", many people were relieved to have tears in their eyes.

"In the chaos of clouds, the weather is fierce, and the whole army is the only one...... The drum wheel sailed angrily, and the cannons were fired along the way, endlessly, and rushed straight to the Japanese team. ”

With tears in their eyes, when people finished reading the last moment of the Hairong's collision and applauding the last torpedo hitting the target, they suddenly didn't know who shouted.

"Captain Deng Haohong, that, isn't that the eldest son of Zhuangjiegong?"

Zhuang Jie Gong

At this time, the people on the street were silent at first, and then they cried and cheered, and suddenly, people walked in one direction, where Panyu had the ancestral hall of the Deng family and the tomb of Zhuang Jiegong.

At the same time, not far from Guangzhou, not far from Guangzhou, near the Pearl River, Panyu Deng Family Ancestral Hall Zhuangjie Gongjie Tomb came early, and most of them knelt there as if praying for something.

"The heroic spirit of the Hope Strong Festival is in the sky, bless the empire with a great victory over Japan......"...,

Grief and indignation, grief and indignation in Guangzhou, but also in almost every city in China, especially in Nanjing, in the heart of the Chinese Empire, early in the morning, when the ambassadors, ministers, and embassy personnel of various countries in the embassy district were awakened from their sleep by the news that they had come from, they were stunned to find that in just a few dozen minutes, Nanjing was boiling, the newsboy was shouting in a hoarse voice, and constantly shouting the news of the declaration of war, and the students in the six universities in the city of Nanjing poured out. But in just a few dozen minutes, they unfurled banners written in bed sheets, and one has to admit that Chinese university students have now learned to march and are becoming more and more proficient.

Tens of thousands of students joined in a wave on the Avenue, and many more citizens joined in the stormy wave, which headed for the Imperial Council, knowing that His Majesty was in the Imperial Council at this time, and that the Imperial Council would approve the declaration of war against Japan as usual.

"Declaring war on Japan and fighting to Japan......"

The roar of hundreds of thousands of students and people resounded throughout Nanjing, and at this time, in the eyes of everyone, the shameless sneak attack of the Japanese had blocked all roads to peace, and the only solution now was war.

War against war

"Fight to Japan and capture Meiji ...... alive"

As a reporter, Shao Zhenqing, who followed the crowd, felt the atmosphere around him and felt dizzy, and when he heard the roar like thunder in his ears, Shao Zhenqing only felt dizzy, and the whole person seemed to be in the waves, floating up and down with the sound, and in this wave, he was like a seasick passenger.

Dizzy, dizzy

He was in the midst of stormy seas. Even feeling that he had lost his way, and he didn't know what words to use to describe his feelings, watching the figures beside him keep shaking in front of him, and from the anger in their faces, he could feel their anger and agitation at this time.

"Brother Wanderer, see no, this is the power of the people, long live the people"

And the colleagues who followed him, this will also not be calm, the environment and atmosphere can affect everyone's psychology, and even thoughts, in yesterday, maybe many of them are still talking about what **, what empire, what republic.

And here and now, in the hearts of many people, there is only excitement and anger, of course, more patriotism, they hysterically follow the young students and citizens to roar and roar loudly.

"The war is coming"

"China will win"

And so on, words and phrases that used to be in the mouths of some people, and may even be despised by them, will become their only words to express their patriotism.

national

What a great name, since the restoration of the nation, the citizens of the empire have been constantly instilled in them, through newspapers, novels, and articles, to every student and citizen.

The tragic history of 260 years of alien slavery aroused the national feelings of the people, and then the propaganda of nationalism followed, from the citizens of China to the citizens of the empire, it was a process, and the state was no longer the state of a single person or a family, but the country of all.

Perhaps, the House of Representatives has only part of its powers, and perhaps the members of the Council, as the representatives of the people, are only used to vote most of the time, but this does not prevent them from throwing themselves into national politics with their own enthusiasm, and it does not prevent the gathering of national sentiment in their hearts after the fermentation of nationalism.

Finally, after winning the "Neutrality Campaign" a few months ago, the Chinese, who had won a foreign war for the first time, were really obsessed with the "nationals", they saw that China was becoming stronger step by step, China was recovering power step by step, and they also saw that foreigners seemed to have begun to respect China, and in this process, they were all involved in the whole process. …,

From the recovery of the right of way to the recovery of tariffs, every Chinese has participated in one movement after another because of the "boycott", and it is these movements that have made the Chinese people realize for the first time that they have so much power as citizens.

And in this process, the country always attributed its success to "the boycott of the people and the unanimous determination of the whole country, so that the government has recovered the national power, the empire thanks every citizen, it is the 450 million citizens who have made everything the Chinese empire today", for the people, the government will never hesitate to praise the words, and the praise from the government makes people float, and after people begin to enjoy the power of the people, they find that it turns out that these powers are what they have always had, they are born, but, They haven't used it in the past.

Hundreds of millions of people are united as one, and we ask who in the world can be the enemy

Under the influence of this emotion, those who have begun to try the power of the nation, and thus enjoy the honor of the nation, begin to understand how to express their emotions, and sometimes this emotion is the most powerful weapon.

"We demand that the Reich must immediately declare war on the despicable and shameless Japan"

"We demand that the Empire never make peace with Japan until it reaches the Japanese mainland and makes Japan pay the price for its shameful act of treachery by force."

"We demand that the law must be passed and the whole country must be unanimous, and before Japan pays the price, anyone who dares to speak out for peace with Japan will be punished as a traitor."

"We ask for ......"

In front of the Imperial Council, the petition representatives of the people loudly submitted the petition to Yang Du, the vice president of the Imperial Council, without the polish of the words, only the words that seemed to be orders. One by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, the patriotic heart of each fist is gathered under this sky.

And this patriotic heart is undoubtedly reminding everyone of the power that the common people have, and reminding everyone of what they will suffer when they turn their backs on the common people.

"If one day, anyone turns their backs on them will be guillotined"

Standing in the lounge of the Imperial Council, through the glass window, looking at the angry people outside the window, this sentence that he had heard many times, but had almost never been confirmed, appeared in his ears, looking at the people, Chen Moran couldn't help but smile bitterly, what is it to be cocooned? Maybe it's the feeling I should experience now, isn't I just cocooning myself now?

I've always been advocating national consciousness, but in the end?

But after seeing the consciousness of the people, I was relieved at the same time, but I didn't feel fear? However, shaking his head and not wanting to think about this issue anymore, Chen Moran sighed, one step at a time

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that we will win this battle no matter what"

Zhang Zhidong, who had been standing behind His Majesty, suddenly said confidently that the big victory in this sea encounter made him realize for the first time that victory was just around the corner, and there was not even any risk to talk about.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now, the empire should be in one go, swing from Liaodong to Korea, sweep Korea by land, and then gather the navy to enter the coastal waters of Japan, seeking a decisive ......."

Before the meeting of the House of Councillors, the ministers in this lounge all expressed their opinions, and every time they thought of the victory in the South China Sea, they could not help but feel proud, and from time to time words such as attacking Korea today and attacking Japan tomorrow came out of their mouths, and in the face of victory, any minister would put forward his own opinion, of course, an optimistic view.

"Oh"

Just laughing, Chen Moran didn't answer them directly, and occasionally smiled bitterly in his heart, of course, many of them felt that they should seek peace at any cost, and now? Two ships fought seven ships in the South China Sea, and as a result, four warships, including two battleships and one 10,000-ton armored cruiser, were sunk.

"I think Your Majesty has already made up your mind."

Sensing that His Majesty didn't seem to have the intention of giving an answer immediately, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but muttered in his heart, and then he looked at Guan Mingtang on the side, only to see the God of Wealth standing by the window, with his eyes half-closed, all of them looking like he had no interest in this kind of conversation, and his demeanor strengthened Yuan Shikai's speculation in his heart, so he took a few steps forward.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that before the naval battle is won, the northeast region should be on the defensive"

Yuan Shikai's words only made Chen Moran look at him a few more times, and this Yuan Shikai was too much.

"Minister Yuan, if you say this, it will inevitably increase the morale of the Japanese people, and destroy our prestige."

Without waiting for Chen Moran to speak, someone immediately retorted, and this made Chen Moran happy in his heart, now let them guess

"Your Majesty......"

At this time, an attendant officer came over and handed Chen Moran a telegram ......,