China in the late Qing Dynasty can be said to have written a heinous history of humiliation, and the great countries in the past five thousand years have begun to pay reparations for land and embark on the road of semi-colonial and semi-feudal non-return, and all advantages have ceased to exist, whether it is the Western powers in Europe or the Eastern Uighur countries in neighboring countries, they all want to get a piece of the pie, which can be said to be internal and external troubles, and it is really difficult to look back.
After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, the foreign affairs movement was completely defeated, and China's international status declined sharply, and it was at this time that the upsurge of land division arose, especially Japan, which was already a small country, stared at China's fragrant food.
The so-called hero of the chaotic world is that at this time, such a person really appeared, eager to save the country in the national peril. He was a Sichuan minister named Song Yuren. At that time, there were not many ministers who saved the country and survived, and most of them cowered and cowered behind Cixi, afraid that their lives would not be guaranteed. If Empress Dowager Cixi had not stopped her, would the Sichuan minister have been able to reach Japan and change the history of humiliation?
Song Yuren is known as the first person in Sichuan history to see the world, in 1894, Song Yuren went abroad to many Western countries, simply put, a diplomat, he deliberately to understand Western society, to observe their social system, political situation, found that the current China is far behind in many aspects, there is a big gap. Especially after learning of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he was far away in England, and he quickly wrote a letter to the imperial court, saying that the national strength of the Japanese Army was certainly inferior to that of our great country, and as long as we continued to resist the war, we would certainly be able to win.
To say that Song Yuren is also a bold artist, he assumes that the strange soldiers may be able to turn defeat into victory, and prepare to go directly to Japan to start a war and start preparing for his war. During Gong Zhaoyi's return to China, it was time for him to implement the plan. Colleague Yang Yizhi, translator Wang Fenghao and other like-minded people secretly discussed the matter and quickly made a precise and detailed plan. In terms of armament, five warships, ten torpedo boats, and more than two thousand Australian sailors were recruited to form an elite force, which planned to attack Nagasaki and Tokyo in Japan disguised as a group of merchants from Australia.
Later, in fact, there are Japanese historical records that Japan consumed a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in order to fight the Sino-Japanese War, which can be said to be a desperate bet, after all, the national strength is limited, if Japan loses this war, it may be their last battle. However, compared with the Qing government at that time, Empress Dowager Cixi turned a deaf ear to the state of affairs and only paid attention to her 60th birthday, and even after hearing the news that Song Yuren wanted to resist the war, she also had no war heart, and only felt that Song Yuren was adding disasters to herself for no reason, and the matter of his recruitment and buying horses was all invalidated, and a telegram recalled the country.
A few days later, the Qing government signed the "Maguan Treaty", if Cixi had not prevented Song Yuren from going to war at that time, the situation at that time might have been a little different, at least it would have given Japan some deterrence, let him see our strength, and later did not dare to do wrong, all this has become history for us, and now his heroic deeds are also inspiring many people.