Taiwan Network Author: and ten
2020-04-17 19:31
In the Beijing Military Museum, there is a large iron anchor on display, which is the equipment of the "Zhenyuan" ship of the Beiyang Marine Division. On September 17, 1894, during the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the "Zhenyuan" ship followed the flagship of the Beiyang Marine Division, the "Dingyuan", and fought a bloody battle with the Japanese fleet. In the fierce battle, the 305 mm cannon of the "Zhenyuan" ship hit the Japanese flagship "Matsushima", causing a large explosion, and the Japanese troops on board suffered nearly 100 casualties. Although the Beiyang Navy was defeated in the Battle of Jiawu, the two ironclad warships "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" still existed, and their combat effectiveness was still there. Unfortunately, "Zhenyuan" ran aground on Liugong Island on the 12th and 18th, and lost its combat effectiveness, and was captured by the Japanese in the Defense of Weihai two months later. Jinyuan, who was incorporated into the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and was not retired until World War I.
However, to the great shame of Chinese, Japan put the iron anchor of the "Zhenyuan" ship on display in Tokyo's Ueno Park and other places, until Japan's defeat in World War II, as the victorious China, transported the iron anchor of Ueno back to China, and later displayed it in the military museum to warn future generations.
The Battle of Weihai in February 1895 was a continuation of the Battle of Jia-Wu in 1894. In the Battle of Jiawu, China lost more than the Beiyang Marine Division. On April 17, 1895, Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang, endured a gunshot wound on his face and signed the "Maguan Treaty" with a trembling hand, and China's largest island, Taiwan Province of China, was ceded to Japan, and Taiwan became a Japanese colony.
On May 29, 1895, under the command of Prince Nohisa of Kita hyakugawa Palace, the Japanese Guards Division landed at Taipei's Aodi and began the conquest of Taiwan. To Japan's surprise, the Japanese army, on this island that the Qing Dynasty was forced to abandon, encountered the most resolute and fierce resistance since the Sino-Japanese War, and the Japanese army that fought hard all over Taiwan had to increase its troops step by step. On October 11, Japanese Lieutenant General Nogi Nogi led more than 10,000 people to land in Fangliao, Pingtung, southern Taiwan. After landing, the Japanese army immediately attacked the Hakka rebels who were firmly entrenched in Xiaojiabao, and the famous Battle of Buyuelou took place here.
Pingtung is a place worthy of Chinese commemoration and study. In the 50 years that Japan has colonized Taiwan, there have been 19 governors, of which the first 6 and the last 3 are soldiers. The third was no lesser than a Hakka rebel who had landed in Pingtung to suppress the Hakka rebels. This Nogi Washo was also responsible for the "Lushun Massacre" in the Sino-Japanese War, and he later commanded the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, killing people in the mainland and Taiwan. Nogi Yoshinori served as governor of Taiwan for only one year and four months, far inferior to Sakuma Zuoma, who started by slaughtering local ethnic minorities in Pingtung. Sakuma was the fifth governor of Taiwan, serving for nine years and one month from 1906 to 1915.
This Sakuma Zuo Matai is a person who must not be forgotten in the history of Pingtung. In 1874, under the pretext that Ryukyu fishermen were killed in Taiwan, Japan sent troops to Taiwan under the leadership of Saigo Congdao, which was the "Peony Society Incident" in history. After the Japanese army landed at Sheliao in Pingtung, the local ethnic minorities resisted according to the Shimen Heavenly Danger. At that time, Sakuma ZuoMatai, who was only a lieutenant, climbed the cliff to sneak attack, and the father and son of the leader of the Peony Society were slashed, and they were known as the "Ikuban Nemesis". The first governor of Japan to colonize Taiwan, Shigeki Birchyama, was also related to Pingtung, and he went to the Pingtung area to spy on intelligence before the "Peony Society Incident" to understand Taiwan's social situation and prepare for Japan's invasion of Taiwan. The "Peony Incident" was Japan's first use of foreign troops after the Meiji Restoration, and it was also the first time that Japan invaded China in modern times. Although the war ended hastily, Japan cultivated talents through this war, began to build a navy, and increased its ambitions for foreign aggression. Sakuma Zoma is the representative who came out of this battle. After he became governor, he formulated two "five-year rational" plans to brutally suppress a small number of people in Taiwan, and the extermination of the Hualien Taroko clan in 1915 was personally commanded by him.
Paradoxically, the Pingtung people, who had a blood feud with the Japanese colonizers, are now the most pro-Japanese people in Taiwan. There is a temple dedicated to Japanese officers in Pingtung, which is the first place to restore a Japanese shrine, and the only Taiwanese who is qualified to preside over the shrine festival is also in Pingtung. After the DPP returned to power in 2016, the Pingtung County Cultural Bureau chiseled off the text of the "Clarify Haiyu And Return My Rivers and Mountains" monument. This monument was originally a memorial to Xixiang Congdao, who created the "Peony Society Incident," and the Pingtung County Cultural Bureau of the Democratic Progressive Party wanted to restore its original appearance, but the original text "Monument to the Governor of Xixiang" has long ceased to exist.
Such a Pingtung cannot but be said to be the far-reaching impact on Taiwan caused by Japan's "imperialization" movement in those years.
After the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, colonial education began to be implemented, and by 1936, a "imperialization" campaign to eliminate Chinese culture was launched. "Imperial nationalization" is to implant the genes of Japanese culture into the hearts and minds of Taiwanese people, and to completely transform Taiwanese people into "Taiwanese Japanese". It can be said that it is the source of "Taiwan independence" on the island of Taiwan, the "imperial people" gene has become the mother of the "Taiwan independence" gene, and most of the "Taiwan independence" elements in Taiwan have "imperial people" blood. Looking at Pingtung, Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen is from Fenggang, Pingtung, and Su Zhenchang, head of Taiwan's administrative department, is from Pingtung. The "imperial people" know the fundamental role of transforming cultural genes, and they have spared no effort to promote "cultural detachment from China," replacing the "Chinese" genes of young people in Taiwan with the "Taiwan independence" genes, and looking at the current "anti-mainland" atmosphere on the island, it cannot but be said that the plots of the "Taiwan independence" elements are bearing fruit. In the past few days, the "renaming of China Airlines" and the so-called "passport" revision notes initiated by "Taiwan independence" elements on the island have been cheered by one-sided cheers on the island.
At the top of a shrine called The Sea Shrine in Okayama Fukuda, in southern Honshu, Japan, is placed an iron anchor inscribed with the Sanskrit inscription "Immovable Zun". This is another iron anchor of the "Zhenyuan" ship of that year, and on its ridge can also be recognized the inscription and hexagonal star factory logo of the German Voltaire Shipyard, and there are still dents on the body that were hit by shells. Gently stroke the anchor ring, as if you can hear the guns of the naval battle that year. There are many such "Ko-noon relics" in Japan. Today, 125 years after the "Maguan Treaty," we can calmly face this "relic of jiawu." However, Taiwan's "Pearl of Jia Wu", which has not yet returned to the motherland, still deeply stings the hearts of the Chinese people, and the "Taiwan independence" tendency evolved from the "imperial people" on the island is even more Chinese heart of the "Jia Wu Left Behind Hate". If the "A-noon relic" is not removed, the "A-noon relict pearl" is difficult to return.
125 years ago, due to the corruption of the dynasty, the motherland was forced to give up Taiwan. For 125 years, just as the remains of the "Dingyuan" ship were not buried by the sea sand, the souls of those Beiyang who died in the sea of Dadonggou and Liugong Island, the generals of the Black Flag Army who died in the battle in Changhua Tainan, and the Hakka rebels who died in the Battle of Buyuelou, they were shouting, because what they sacrificed for them was the unification of the rivers and mountains of the Great Qing.
What to comfort these "A-noon ghosts"? Only the reunification of the two sides of the strait is the best tribute to them!
Is this day still far away?