On September 13, the Kamalan Hall in Taiwan [now Yilan].

The Taiwan warship slowly sailed into the port of Yilan and unloaded a squadron of Qin soldiers and more than 200 laborers, as well as three or four hundred tons of cement, steel bars and other goods. The whole port was full of people, and when they looked up, there were hundreds of people, and no one could have imagined that three months ago this place was still barren.

This Taiwan warship is the Osaka of the former small Japan, and now it is owned by the logistics department of the Qin army. Although the 120mm gun is meagre, it is much worse than a real warship. But for some Xiaoxiao, or for the Wanwan natives in Yilan, it is still very deterrent.

More than 200 laborers were soon divided into three groups on the flat land in the harbor, and then led by men to their own fields. These laborers were the greatest guarantee for the Qin army to develop Yilan, and there were those who built roads, built houses, reclaimed land, and so on.

Their safety and security were naturally the responsibility of the Qin soldiers, and even in the Yilan port area, you can see many short but sturdy Japanese samurai with swords. These people are mercenaries!

Liu Xian did not get the governor of Guangxi that he dreamed of, but was sent to Taiwan. But fortunately, Beijing City did not force him to be in a hurry, and the crown of the governor of Guangxi still belonged to the Qin army, which was borne by the Zhou army.

It was impossible for Liu Xian not to take office in Taiwan, and he chose to abide by the will of the imperial court. If it weren't for the fact that he almost immediately hired foreign companies to lay submarine cables from Taiwan to Hainan, Taiwan to Qinzhou, and Hainan to Hongji, Liu Xian would have been a typical example of high merit and low rewards.

His action of grasping power in Hongguoguo made the voices of the government and the opposition shouting 'injustice' for him immediately lowered by eight tones.

Liu Xian became the governor of Taiwan, and Taiwan was established as a province ten years earlier than the original time and space history. Similarly, Liu Xian also needs to face the same problem that Liu Mingchuan faced - the indigenous people of Fanqu.

Liu Mingchuan has a high reputation in Taiwan in later generations, and many people know the story of Liu Mingchuan's resistance to France. Knowing that it was Liu Mingchuan who opened the modern development history of Wanwan in Taiwan, he laid Taiwan's first railway in Taiwan, and he erected Taiwan's first telegraph line in Taiwan. But few people know that in addition to fighting with the French in Taiwan, Liu Mingchuan has also been closely entangled with Taiwan's life from beginning to end.

Conflict between the Bay Aborigines and mainland immigrants is inevitable. The number of the former is at its highest, but the number of the latter is constantly increasing and strengthening as everyone knows. There are many immigrants from the mainland, so it is natural to have arable land, so it is natural to compete with the indigenous people of Wanwan. In these places, the indigenous people were either exterminated, driven away, or subjugated. The reluctant Qing officials who came to Taiwan never developed a satisfactory "mountain policy," and the conflict between immigrants and Shengban persisted. The fight between Liu Mingchuan's department and Shengfan was very intense. Hundreds of soldiers and many cadres of the Ming Army contracted the disease and died in the miasma area. During his tenure in Taiwan, Liu Mingchuan fought a total of 40 battles against the "Shengfan", because of the complexity of the terrain, even though the Ming army had machine guns and field artillery, his troops still suffered several major defeats, for example, in 1889 near Yilan lost more than 270 officers and men, including his own nephew.

Liu Xian can use the Japanese method to deal with the Wanwan natives, but no matter how good the method is, the people will be damaged. Liu Xian thought of a way, he recruited soldiers from Japan and used the Japanese to deal with the cats in the deep mountains and dense forests of Taitung.

Yilan is the location of the first brigade of the Japanese Advance Team. There were more than 300 Japanese, most of them poor jingle samurai, and a small number of Japanese civilians who coveted mercenaries for high income. However, the entire standing team was less than 1,000 people, and in the face of the Qin army who had just beaten Japan, many Japanese samurai were still very disciplined.

The port area is not small, and the total area is not less than that of a county seat. The Qin army burned bricks, excavated stones, and reinforced concrete, and the construction progress was very fast. In particular, the streets closest to the port area have food, clothing, housing and transportation. Those Japanese got money, and many people's reaction was to save money and save it in the military savings bank run by the Qin army, but there were always some people who chose to squander it lavishly.

In fact, this group of people who chose to squander, especially those who called friends to squander, have always been the key surveillance targets of the Qin Army's military intelligence department. Liu Xian thought with his toes, and he could imagine that there must be people from the Japanese government in the team. He also counted on cultivating from the advance team a group of leading party members who would enter Japan in the future, spies, secret agents, and so on, all of which were pests that must be resolutely eradicated.

When opening up Yilan, the Qin army also gathered a lot of acquaintances, with a total number of more than 1,000 people. Among them, the strong men were assigned to participate in the construction, and the old and young women and children, according to the family unit, took the family and moved into a simple house built in the port area. Their future is very uncertain, either they stay in Yilan or are moved to other places by the Qin army, anyway, being assimilated is their only result.

Regardless of men and women, these Yilan acquaintances were shocked by the hot construction scene in the Yilan port area. Moreover, the Qin army was not cruel to the naturalized cooks, and they did not intend to embarrass them, except that they had to obey the command and engage in physical labor, safety and personal property would be guaranteed, and food supplies would be timely.

At night, a pile of fires lit up in the port area, and many laborers were still rushing to work at night. In the barracks on the side, the soldiers of the Qin Army who had just arrived in Yilan were huddled in the bathing room and rubbing their baths.

"Let's really back this time, Hongji, Hainan, Ryukyu, isn't this place better than Taiwan? Tainan, Changhua, Tamsui, Chiayi, which place is not better than Kamalan Hall? Lao Tzu's bonus has been in his pocket for more than two months, and he just left the gate of the injury camp, and he didn't have time to walk around the street, so he kicked him to this hellish place. ”

Before joining the army, Li Manjiang, who had never been able to satisfy his greed when he went shopping in the city, is now complaining that he has money and no place to spend it. The Qin army's battle to attack Japan made a fortune from top to bottom.

Seven or eight million taels of silver were in hand, and Liu Xian allocated a quarter to reward the soldiers of the Qin army in this battle. The highest-awarded general can get tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the least baggage soldiers can also get dozens of taels of combat allowance. Li Manjiang is a new soldier, a native of Guangxi, who only joined the army when the last batch of army expansions took place, but he fought from Taiwan to the imperial city gate, although he was a new soldier, his 'qualifications' were very deep, and he took as much as one hundred and twenty taels of silver, and he was quickly promoted from a third-class soldier to a first-class soldier.

One hundred and twenty taels of silver, according to Li Manjiang's status as a third-class soldier, he had to serve for two and a half years, and all the military salaries and allowances were not spent before he could save them. For his original home in Zhen'an Mansion, it is an astronomical amount that he would never dare to imagine in his life!

Now, with a war, with the bravery of two minor wounds and one slander, he has it in his hands. Li Manjiang didn't feel that this was what he deserved at all, and in Zhen'an Mansion, if he wanted to buy a young man, it was only less than twenty taels of silver. When encountering harsh people's teeth, ten taels is more. He didn't think that his life could cost more than a hundred taels of silver, not to mention that all the injuries in the middle were treated by the army.

Li Manjiang was grateful to Liu Xian wholeheartedly, and he was grateful to Liu Xian for giving him these.

This is the idea of the Chinese of the current era. The national ideology and sense of national honor that Liu Xian has always preached in the army are not as strong as the silver at least at this time.

Because of this, Liu Xian rewarded the soldiers of the Qin army who participated in the war this time. Following the Battle of Xinjiang and the Sino-French War of Vietnam, Liu Xian once again preached nationalism through the war of Japan, instilling the concept of national war to the soldiers!

In fact, Liu Xian feels that the current China really does not have the soil to awaken the 'modern national consciousness and national consciousness'.

As we all know, the concept of national consciousness and the nation-state consciousness derived from it is a foreign thing, and in the process of Westerners opposing clerical power, secular kingship becomes the image spokesperson against clerical power, and secular kingship represents a country instead of God and is above the nation. The nation-state literally means that the country belongs to our nation, not to aliens. Germany is German, and if the British want to intervene, we will not agree.

This is something that was born out of the special social structure and historical civilization of the West.

The completely different historical process and civilization and culture between China and Western countries determine that it is impossible for China to produce such a 'modern and modern' national and national consciousness.

Because China has been strong since ancient times and has been dominant in the East for 3,000 years, the long-term formation of cultural centrism and regional centrism, coupled with China's vast territory and abundant self-superiority, has strictly limited the vision of the rulers of China's feudal dynasties and the entire people. People have generally developed a carefree mentality, believing that the excellent situation of "China is at peace and the four countries are self-serving" and "all nations are clothed and crowned" can be maintained permanently. Therefore, the Qing government and even the dynasties above it never regarded other countries as partners or rivals on an equal footing with themselves, and therefore did not regard themselves as ordinary members of the nation-state system.

In order to produce the national consciousness and national consciousness of Western countries, it is first necessary to have a world consciousness, which is the necessary cognitive basis for the awakening of national consciousness in modern times. However, in China's traditional civilization and culture, there is no concept of the world at all, only the concept of "Tianxia". In the "world" of the Chinese, this world is not only the world of the emperor Lao Tzu alone, China is in an unparalleled center and supreme position. All other nations, either vassals or externalized barbarians, revolved and tributary around China. Even the original rulers and scholars of the Qing Dynasty still treated the Western powers with the mentality that "all other ethnic groups are uncivilized Diyi", and used words such as "Yi people" and "Yi chieftain" to show contempt in both civil complaints and government documents. In the eyes of the Chinese dynasty, to regard any country that has not been influenced by the Celestial Empire's religion as a civilized country, and to deign to conclude an equal treaty with it, would degrade one's own personality.

Only China, which is a self-satisfied kingdom of the Celestial Empire, has fallen into a state of backwardness and being beaten and has collapsed. Forced to sign a series of humiliating treaties, and being despised and looked down upon by the Western powers, they are forced to admit that they are "one of the nations", not only not superior to those Western countries, but in many respects inferior to others.

When China continues to sink and eventually becomes a fat meat to be slaughtered by others, the superiority of Western civilization over China will make many Chinese elites and intellectuals see that the question is no longer whether we can put down our dignity and treat others as equals, but whether others will wait for us equally. This kind of experience does not come from normal international relations and exchanges, but from a profound experience of the crisis of "national extinction and extinction". Only after the ancient dream of the Sinocentrism has been cleansed by the blood and fire of the Western powers, in the midst of exchanges and confrontations between countries, will people have a new understanding of the "nation" linked by race, geography, culture, and historical ties, and will the rudiments of the consciousness of the Chinese nation gradually emerge, instead of the traditional Chinese debate of 'Huayi'! Only then can we truly distinguish the difference between 'family and the world', 'the world' and 'the country', and only then can we truly understand what is the meaning of 'the world is not the world of one person and one surname, but the world of the people of the world'.

It is not enough for China to be beaten now, Liu Xian has won victories over Russia and France, and then defeated Japan, and he has also smoothed the wounds of China's 'dream of the heavenly empire', and has been poured a bowl of chicken soup for the soul by many self-deceiving people.

But sadly, even if Liu Xian has recognized this problem, it is impossible to stop his steps. Even, he is still using his own qiē and all to consolidate this dream of the Celestial Empire for China!

"The sky is above, the place is below, the one who lives in the middle of heaven and earth is China, and the one who lives in the middle of heaven and earth is four days and four places, and the four are outside, and China is also inside."

Liu Xian has never regarded the five Hu Chaohua and Mengyuan and the Manchu Qing Dynasty as a person who has achieved great national integration, Yue Fei is a towering monument in his heart, and he deserves to be a national hero.

He has never been a person who holds the stinky feet of the West and thinks that the Opium War is a milestone in opening China's door and promoting China's development of modern civilization. Slaughtering the sun, punching polar bears, kicking John Bull, and cutting down the South Sea monkeys were all daydreams he had countless times as a teenager.

From beginning to end, Liu Xian has put the dignity of China, an ancient empire, in the first place!

Two Opium Wars, Sino-French Wars, Sino-Japanese Wars, and the Eight-Nation Allied War of Aggression against China......

Britain in Tibet, France in Guangxi, Germany in Shandong, Russia in Xinjiang, Northeast China, and Outer Mongolia, and then there is Japan, a country that makes Liu Xian grit his teeth and cannot eat his flesh and sleep on his skin, which has brought incomparably heavy wounds to the land of China, an unprecedented crisis for the Chinese nation, an incomparably huge humiliation, a great danger of losing the country, the species, and the religion, and a great change unseen in 3,000 years......

This qiē, Liu Xian can't control what has happened, and Liu Xian resolutely does not allow it to happen yet!

Perhaps the rising China will no longer have those people with lofty ideals who regard death as their home in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and there will be no great generals and generals in the Red Dynasty who 'count the romantic figures and look at the present dynasty', as well as those martyrs who can't be counted.

In a word, China's innovation will not be as thorough as it was in the original time and space.

However, Liu Xian's love for the motherland is as sincere as that of the people's heroes who sacrificed their lives in all struggles in order to oppose internal and external enemies and fight for national independence and the freedom and happiness of the people from then on.

ps: It's off topic when it's written. A word for the family! R1152