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"Hopes for world peace are dashed, and the world will be ravaged. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

It was a headline in large print in the newspaper, followed by another story.

"The Four Emperors Alliance is officially signed."

This was another headline in the newspaper, and the headlines such as these were overwhelming all over the world for a while -- "The End of World Peace," "Britain Faces a Test," "Will the Next One Be War?" ", "The Chinese fleet advances into the Atlantic", "The Four Emperors Alliance tests Britain"......

The serial maps published in the newspapers showed the position of Germany, Austria, Russia, and the newly joined China in the world, and even predicted how they would cross the borders of one country and expand to another after the outbreak of war.

In the spring of 1910, with the signing of the Four Emperors Alliance, based on the Treaty of Berlin, the world finally realized that the end of peace was approaching - at a time when people were fully aware that peace really seemed to be a dream - and that the arms race had intensified over the past few years.

When Great Britain's resources were nearly exhausted and Britain's will was being tested to the greatest extent, Germany finally dealt the most fatal blow to Britain by drawing China into its alliance -- the accession of the world's third largest naval power and fundamentally reversed the fact that the naval strength of the Three Emperors Alliance was inferior to that of Britain, France, and the United States.

What kind of fact is this?

A country with a standing army of 1.65 million and 41 battleships of 1346612 tons became an ally of Germany, an ally with an almost unlimited war mobilization potential – China, with a population of 450 million, had more mobilization potential than all of Europe and the United States.

Its industrial strength may be inferior to that of Germany, but through the completion of the "First Five-Year Plan" and the half-way "Second Five-Year Plan", its industrial strength far exceeds that of France, and industries such as automobiles exceed the sum of Europe, even the United States cannot compare.

Of course, this is still a country that has just begun to industrialize, and until now, in his industrial sector, it is still impossible to get rid of engineers from various countries, and even together with its proud "Emperor-class" battleships, it also needs technology from Britain, Germany, and even the United States, as well as technical guidance from experts from various countries, and the tense atmosphere around the world has not affected China's technology import.

After all, capital is always profit-seeking! After all, for the capitalists, the gold and silver coins paid in China are as attractive as the gold pounds, gold dollars, gold marks, and gold rubles, and the gold and silver coins in China are plentiful - the currency reform that began eight years ago, through the nationalization of silver, and the paper money of the currency in circulation, enabled the Imperial Central Bank to hold nearly a billion taels of silver, and it was this silver reserve that supported the funds needed for early industrialization, but in fact, it was trade that really solved the problem of capital. The export of hundreds of millions of yuan of raw silk and other native products and the export of rare metals and other mineral resources have fundamentally solved the foreign exchange problem. Since five years ago, more than 700 million Chinese dollars of industrial consumer goods have been exported annually, replacing raw silk and mineral resources as the most important export products.

Exporting goods to the outside world provided the necessary funds for importing goods, enabling the government, which had foreign exchange, to purchase enough machinery and equipment to expand its industrial strength. Now, after eight years of amassing power, the country is finally starting to show the world what it has.

"Our capital needs the market!"

Whether people want it or not, as far as China is concerned, there is actually no other choice at all -- as a backward country, when the world has been divided, it can only rely on the handouts of other countries if it wants to seek a market, and when other countries refuse, then for it, there is only one choice left - to seek a market for capital with guns.

Almost every day, in the Imperial Senate in Nanking, there are always radical councillors there discussing the question - where is our future? Where is our world when the world is completely occupied by other countries? This is actually some kind of "shifting gaze".

Eight years!

For example, in the past eight years, China's education system has produced more than 200,000 college students, and these highly educated college students are flooded in all sectors of society, and they have all accepted the concept of constitutionalism while receiving higher education, and even millions of young people with secondary education have also accepted this concept.

In order to divert domestic attention or attention, under the leadership of the government, the news orientation in the newspapers has changed -- such as the news of Chinese exclusion in various countries appearing in the newspapers, Chinese goods are boycotted abroad, although they are cheap, and there are even news reports that Chinese are excluded overseas.

"In fact, this is an inevitable conflict between Eastern and Western civilizations!"

Zhou Shuren picked out one from the gold-plated cigarette case, then lit a cigarette, looked at Chen Qiansheng in front of him and said:

"From the first ten years of the empire, the rise of the present in Korea, put forward the "East Asia with the same text", the lost Oriental civilization is also complicated, at that time, the Oriental, the old Japan tried to Westernize the rise of the restoration, with the intention of imitating the West into the mainland, thinking that it was rich and strong, but the assassination of the Russian prince directly led to the death of the old Japan, 40 million Dongying people fell into Russian colonial rule, therefore, the Oriental civilization really awakened, and it was from then on, the battle between the East and the West has become inevitable, after the Sino-Russian war, It is not so much caused by the conflict of interests, but rather the inevitability of the clash of civilizations, our country took advantage of the contradictions between the Western countries to win this war, but it has not fundamentally changed a situation, the clash of civilizations between the East and the West has not been resolved, and because of the rise of China, it has further intensified, we see the current situation ......"

In the next ten minutes, Zhou Shuren, an official of the Ministry of Education, recounted the conflicts between China and Westerners in the past few years from the perspective of officials and individuals, and although most of those conflicts stayed at the political and economic levels, and were eventually resolved, they sent a signal to the outside world that the West's hostility towards China was increasing, and the ambition of the Western powers to try to destroy the Eastern civilization was clearly exposed.

"I just talked about the ambitions of the West for the East...... Isn't Germany also a Western country? ”

Chen Qiansheng said with a smile that he was not an official, but just a teacher at Nanjing Higher Normal College, and he met Zhou Shuren at a meeting and became friends.

"Contradictions among Western powers."

Zhou Shuren gave him an answer, which was a standard answer.

"Last time, we used the contradiction between Britain and Russia to turn Britain into use, and then won the war, and now, we also need to use the contradiction between the West, after all, our strength is too weak compared to the West!"

This is exactly the reality of the alliance, when the strength is not strong, the alliance is the best way to avoid a four-front war, with the strong one, against another strong one, is the inevitable to increase the chance of victory, and it is precisely because of this, under the leadership of the government, the feelings of the Chinese people towards Germany are getting better and better.

"Yes, so now Germany, Austria-Hungary, and even Russia have become our good friends!"

Chen Qiansheng said in a mocking tone.

It seems that everyone has forgotten that the first person to shout "****" was the second emperor of Germany, and now, he has become an "old friend of China"! ”

This is a great irony, the most cheerful people who shouted "****" became "China's old friends", as for the time when it could almost be regarded as sparing no effort to support China, but became a "imperial power that does not die in my heart", in short, there are only eternal interests between countries, which can be said to be fully visible.

"That's politics! It is to deal with each other, and for the imperial government, interests are the most important thing! It is also the only thing that needs to be considered in the exchanges between countries! ”

Calmly exhaling these words, Zhou Shuren took a deep breath of cigarette, if it was a few years ago, maybe he would not have been able to accept this point of view, but now, he has been able to accept all this calmly.

"Continuing with what you said in the past, the government needs to go to war to divert the predicament at home, is that what you mean? The current clash of civilizations is actually deliberately created by the government in order to divert the voice of the people in the country from the constitution, right? ”

Chen Qiansheng seems to be very interested in the topic just now, and he has been advocating the constitution-making, and it can be said that to a certain extent, he is equivalent to the "constitutionalist faction" in the Senate, but now, a more serious "situation" is in front of the Chinese people, so that the Chinese people have to "face" the "threat" from the outside.

"It's not just the government......"

Pressing the cigarette butt into the ashtray, Zhou Shuren smiled and continued while lighting another cigarette.

"Let's put it this way, the military is eager to conquer the Quartet and establish meritorious deeds; Politicians hope to use war to divert social contradictions and fundamentally revitalize the economy; The chaebols hope to obtain cheaper raw materials and open up a wider market through war; Ordinary citizens look forward to changing their fate, such as getting rich, acquiring land, and so on. Behind this, there are mainstream trends of thought that have gradually penetrated into all strata through education and the media over the years, such as Chineseism, kingship, well, and the now prevailing Asianism, military-nationalism, the theory of Asian integration, the theory of responsibility, the theory of the Chinese mandate of heaven, and so on. From soldiers to students, from workers to peasants, they have been exposed to these ideas year after year, attending classes, reading newspapers, listening to the radio, watching movies, marching with the Boy Scouts, propaganda among veterans of the Township Soldiers' Association, and arguing with classmates and friends, almost everything refers to the two words "war" and ......

Taking a puff of cigarette, Zhou Shuren's expression became a little solemn.

“…… Eight years ago, students' learning is learning, and now, all students have to receive military training, girls have to receive nursing training, and there are civil defense regiments, now there are almost 100 million civil defense regiments in the country, and even there are military competitions between villages, in order to win dozens of yuan in bonuses for their respective primary schools, all of them send the best team members, the whole country from top to bottom, in fact, are preparing for war, living in such an atmosphere, most people will naturally not oppose the war, and now you see, Asian unity, **** The theory of responsibility, the Chinese doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven, all of this is yearning for war in the name of justice. ”

This is what really worries people -- the whole country from top to bottom is running on the road to war, and even when he inspected the senior elementary school, he once saw the students under the leadership of military instructors conducting exercises there to attack a certain village, and the strong atmosphere of war made Zhou Shuren think that China was not at war for a while.

"But there are many people who oppose the war,"

Spit out a smoke ring, Chen Qiansheng said.

"Aren't there people in the newspapers who write articles criticizing the current system? Advocating that peace is precious, benevolence is teaching, and belligerence will perish, of course, is just a point of view! ”

"It's not about the big picture!"

Shrugging, Zhou Shuren continued:

"As far as I know, those people don't have a problem with the current situation at all, the current situation is that even primary school students are talking about the threat of the West, I went to Yunnan last year, and many children there are full of sympathy for the Nanyang people living under colonial rule, and they know that I am an official who has inspected the past from Nanjing, and they have asked me when our army will go to liberate hundreds of millions of people in Nanyang!"

"Crazy!"

With a sneer, Chen Qiansheng said:

"The more we behaved so wildly, the more Western countries felt that we had ambitions for the South Seas. In recent years, the Tongwen Society has called for the emperor to be honored, and their supreme justice is the destiny of the empire to save the hundreds of millions of people enslaved by the white colonizers, and between patriotism and traitor, sponsors of Asian liberation or lackeys of white colonialists, the two must choose one or the other, hehehehe...... The hat of a traitor and a lackey of a white colonizer is not light. ”

"No matter how you look at it, I believe in the supreme justice, at least 45,000,000 people believe in it now, whether you believe it or not, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the environment forces you to believe it."

Zhou Shuren's expression became extremely serious, and now all this is about everyone's position.

"I also believe,"

While nodding, Chen Qiansheng shook his head again.

"But the empire should be the real liberator, not the new enslaver, but I doubt that, for example, in the case of the Philippines, the imperial government is extremely indifferent, we are enforcing colonial rule there, and at the same time, we are advocating the theory of Asian liberation at home, this completely different view of life is really helpless!"

"...... of Interests"

Zhou Shuren calmly spit out two words, and then smiled faintly:

"It's all because of interests, and it's interests that make us need to maintain colonial rule there, and it's also interests that make us advocate the liberation of Asia, you know, what I'm most worried about right now?"

"What?"

Looking at his friend in surprise, Chen Qiansheng asked rhetorically.

"I'm worried that one day when this trend of thought gets out of control, what will happen today?" (To be continued.) )