As we all know, Japan's territory is not particularly large, it is equivalent to a province of China. More importantly, Japan once had a bad relationship with China, and there were many wars. The most famous, the Sino-Japanese War was a one. As everyone knows, during the Sino-Japanese War, China may turn defeat into victory.
Because in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a cattle man who almost turned Japan into a province of China, but unfortunately, in the end, a woman broke things. His name was Song Yuren, a jinshi of the twelfth year of Guangxu, who served as a soldier of The Hanlin Academy, and was known as the first person in Sichuan history to "open his eyes and see the world".
After analyzing the situation in Japan at that time, he felt that it was only a small country, and although it was now flaunting its might, they lacked materials and could not fight for a long time. Although our country is not rich, but the materials are still relatively sufficient, and the territory is vast and there are many personnel, as long as the troops are sent to actively resist the war, do not blindly shrink back and will succeed.
This analysis of Song Yuren reached Cixi's ears, but the woman was busy celebrating her birthday at the time, completely forgetting about it, and taking a dismissive attitude toward Song Yuren's ideas, and later Song Yuren proposed a reasonable strategy, which could send elite troops to attack Little Japan and catch them off guard.
He planned to find a way to buy a batch of foreign weapons on his own, and then hire the Australian Military District to sneak attack Japan in a trick. Unfortunately, just as Song Yuren was trying to raise money to buy weapons, this plan was heard by his colleague Gong Chaoyuan.
Although he was also very much in favor of this plan and practice, he personally believed that this matter was a major matter and still had to be reported to the imperial court. As a result, after Reading it, Cixi was very angry and immediately rejected this plan.