"Let's not be merciful, we don't want to live, our purpose is to make Chinese mention Germany a thousand years later, still trembling, and even let our flag stay on the Great Wall forever."
Who are the fanatics who uttered these words? How could it make Chinese fear for a thousand years, and let the flag stay on the Great Wall forever? The maniac was the German Emperor Wilhelm II, a speech he gave in 1900 to German soldiers who were about to leave for China to suppress the Boxers.
German Emperor Wilhelm II, a fanatic who had suffered from Erb's paralysis and caused his left arm to shrink since childhood, was known for his arrogance and brutality. Wilhelm II was the initiator of the doctrine of the supremacy of Germanic descent, and his ambition was to dominate Europe and dominate the world, so that the people of the whole world would be enslaved by the Germans. To this end, William II provoked the First World War, which led to the deaths of thousands of people. Wilhelm II was the culprit of German militarist policies and the doctrine of blood superiority, and he vigorously promoted militarism at home in a vain attempt to use colonial expansion to find a place "under the sun" for Germany. The implication is that wherever the solar energy hits, it should be German.
William's arrogance was not merely rhetorical, but frantically put into practice. He even wrote his own theory into the book World War: The German Dream, frantically pursuing his policy of militarism and colonial expansion. The later war maniac Hitler basically inherited the mantle of Wilhelm II, and even his thinking was basically the same.
William II was a war maniac and an expansion maniac, who, while making a mess of Europe, had a different hatred for China in the east. Why did Wilhelm II hate China? The reason for this is difficult to say, perhaps based on the psychological shadow left on Europeans when the Mongol cavalry swept through Europe.
In 1895, Wilhelm II painted an oil painting that he had a court painter revise and print and distribute to the monarchs of The European countries of the time. On this oil painting, 7 warriors are depicted, representing 7 European countries of Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Austria and Russia, who stand on a cliff holding a long contradiction card, the archangel Michael standing on the edge of the cliff pointing to the east, and not far from the east there is a Buddha statue sitting on a dragon symbolizing China.
This is the infamous "Yellow Peril Map", Wilhelm II's Yellow Peril Theory and Yellow Peril Diagram are not small, which has caused the West to misunderstand China for more than 100 years in the future, and regard China as a potential threat. In a word, this arrogant polio sufferer has a different kind of hatred for China, which comes from the bullying of the weak and from his ambition to dominate the world.
The ugly deeds of Wilhelm II are nothing more than Western powers looking for excuses for dirty crimes of aggression and glorifying their aggressive acts in China. Westerners regard aggression as justice, slavery as salvation, and cloaked in the cloak of modern industrial civilization, but they are desperately trying to pull China into the waters of the colonies. Every pore of imperialism is shed of dirty blood.
Wilhelm II looked down on the Qing government, but foolishly looked down on Chinese and down on the bloodiness of Chinese. When the corrupt and incompetent Qing government was unable to save the country and protect its subjects, the Germans and even the invading Eight-Power Alliance found that the Hungry Chinese peasants, the good men in the green forest who robbed their homes, the beggars who were hungry and cold, they raised their sickles and hoes to the front, and used their anger to protect themselves from enslavement.
In the face of the great national righteousness of the country, Chinese have the most resolute determination and courage to die. In the face of the Eight-Power Alliance led by Germany, they fought with their flesh and blood to the death. Some called them bandits, called them ignorant and stupid mobs. Under the circumstances of that time, they could not put forward the idea of expelling the Tartars and eliminating imperialism, because they were the lowest peasants, they did not know these metaphysical theories, they only knew "Whoever beats me, I will fight whom".
As a result, thousands of Boxers took up rudimentary, primitive weapons to fight the Eight-Power Alliance, using their flesh and blood to confront the arrogant coalition and protect themselves with death. So they made great sacrifices, and thousands of Boxers died under foreign guns and cannons.
The outcome of the war can be imagined, the Boxers were defeated, and a large number of Boxer soldiers were arrested and killed. However, the commander-in-chief of the coalition, Wadesi, believed that China had won the war, and he told Kaiser Wilhelm II: "We cannot regard the people of China as weak or morally deficient people." In fact, they have infinite vitality. Chinese has always had the spirit of heroism and good war, and has not been lost."
Immediately after that, he stressed: "No country in Europe, America, or Japan has the brainpower and military strength to rule over a quarter of the world's beings." Therefore, the division of the matter is really the next policy. ”
Wadesi's words directly hit William II in the face. A few months ago, the fanatic who was still clamoring to make Chinese afraid of a thousand years clearly saw the power of Chinese and the will and determination of the Chinese people. From then on, Kaiser Wilhelm II never dared to speak such arrogantly to China. If Wilhelm II had been modest and cautious and studied well, he should have known that even Napoleon did not dare to underestimate Chinese. Napoleon's ability and merit in conquering Europe far exceeded that of William II, napoleon is still like this, what is there to be crazy about William II?
What was the end of the madman William II? Wilhelm II, who personally provoked the First World War, Germany was defeated by the Allies in the war, Wilhelm II's dream of world domination was shattered, and his close confidant German Field Marshal Hindenburg and others forced him to abdicate. After his abdication, Wilhelm II could not stay in Germany and was forced into exile in the Netherlands, where he lived in a manor house and lived on the help of the Queen of England. In his later years, Wilhelm II was not happy, his son was trapped by love and shot himself, after his death his body was buried in the Netherlands as a civilian, and his last wish was to be transported back to Germany for burial after his death, but it has not been realized.
The end of the madman William II was tragic, and the madman who clamored to make Chinese afraid of a thousand years gave him the best answer. China has a history of five thousand years, withstood countless wind and rain and foreign aggression, and still stands and maintains its vitality, and no one has ever dared to make such a wild statement, to make Chinese afraid for a thousand years.
William II was really self-sufficient, and eventually became the laughing stock of posterity. 【End of this article/Barnyard Shi Hou said】