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Author: Yi Pin Wen team brineqin is not authorized to transfer
Now there is a wave of expulsion for the Qing Dynasty, declaring that the Qing Dynasty has opened up territory and expanded tens of millions of territories, the emperor has not been a emperor, has never closed the country, has frequent foreign exchanges, and the army has developed science and technology, so why it has become a semi-colony, it is because China has lagged behind since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, not only that, the new thesis also says that the Qing Dynasty declared neutrality in the Russo-Japanese War on Chinese territory, in fact, saved China, so is this really the case?
Strange war, neutrality on their own land, still said to save China?
The Russo-Japanese War is part of the history of humiliation at the end of the Qing Dynasty, you know, since entering modern times, the territory of any country is sacred and inviolable, in the Qing Dynasty's foreign wars, although defeat, land cutting, and indemnities are commonplace, but only this Russo-Japanese War is a big spectacle, two countries are at war on the territory of a sovereign country, this sovereign country actually declared neutrality, it is really a laughable and heart-wrenching history.
At the same time, the Qing Dynasty adopted a policy of supporting Japan behind its backs, thwarting the ambitions of Tsarist Russia, allowing Japanese forces to compete with Russian forces, which belonged to the tiger and the wolf, and the Qing government sat on the benefits of fishermen and avoided the situation in which northeast China was monopolized by Tsarist Russia, which saved China.
How absurd is it that national sovereignty has been trampled upon, but it claims to have saved China?
The choice of the Qing government, neutral and helpful to Japan
At the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, Yuan Shikai, the minister of Beiyang at the time, was the main supporter of the neutral faction, and he believed that China was not capable of waging an all-out war, whether it was to unite with Russia or unite with Japan, and it would not be able to effectively defeat one side and ensure that it would gain sufficient benefits, for example, if it united with Russia to strike Japan, Japan's navy would attack China's southeast coast, and if it united with Japan to attack Russia, Russia would definitely have greater pressure on the Sino-Russian border. At that time, the call of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and other localities to send a coalition to carry Russia was suppressed.
After the United States, Britain, and other powers declared neutrality, the Qing government issued an edict saying: "Now that Japan and Russia have lost peace and employed troops, the imperial court is considering that each other are friends, and China should handle it according to the example of external neutrality..." It also issued a note to the governments: "The three provinces are guarded, the people's lives and property are not damaged" "Regardless of the victory or defeat of the two countries, all the territorial power of the three eastern provinces remains to China's independence, and neither country can occupy it."
So the two robbers were fighting over property in their own homes, and the master sat in the house and watched the heat, and what were they fighting for? The battle is the so-called Land of Longxing, the ancestral mausoleum of the Qing court, and the so-called hometown of the Manchus, you know, this fast place, until the last year of the Qing Dynasty, did not allow the Han people to enter a step, this time, nothing can be taken care of.
In fact, the Qing government was neutral on the surface, but in fact it was partial to Japan behind the scenes, probably because of the idea that a tiger is not as good as a near wolf, and a large number of Qing officials provided pensions for the families of Japanese casualties, and also recruited spies to provide intelligence for the Japanese, and even some people took out silver to buy explosives for the Japanese army, and many gentry went to work for the Japanese.
The Qing government's choice was wrong
Can the Qing government's policy of neutrality and partiality, which is superficially set and behind the scenes, betting that the Japanese will win, really save China?
In fact, at that time, both Japan and Russia were countries with considerable ambitions for northeast China, the Qing government as a weak side, the Japanese won the victory, Lai did not go in the northeast, turned the northeast into a Japanese colony, Russia's rights and interests were not much less, the end of the Qing Dynasty's actions was that Japan and Russia had considerable interests in the northeast, these two countries set up official offices in the northeast, collected taxes, stationed troops, and the northeast has become their colony, which is the end of the Qing government without shame and neutrality and partiality to help Japan.
In fact, China has a third way, but the stupid Qing government can't think of it.
The Russo-Japanese War was actually a war between Japan and Russia for hegemony in Asia, when Japan had just risen, there was no advantage, and later, it was Japan that won the Russo-Japanese War, it had the northeast, had a large number of labor and resources, so that it became a threat to the whole of Asia, launched a war of aggression against China that later caused tens of millions of casualties in China, at this time China, can choose to help Russia, although Russia has ambitions for China, but it is originally a great power, the world's vigilance against it is very large, Although the Qing government was not able to stop it, if it was biased against Tsarist Russia behind its backs and further led to Japan's defeat, Japan would not have the manpower and mineral resources of northeast China, and it would not be able to pose a threat to China, Korea and Asia.
After Tsarist Russia defeated Japan, the biggest gain was only the privilege of the northeast, the tsarist Russia had a lot of military bases and concessions in China, for China, at that time, the difference between letting Japan have the privilege of the northeast and letting the tsarist Russia have the privilege of the northeast was not big, but if it was the victory of the tsarist Russia, then China could gain the advantage of facing the tsarist Russia in the war that broke out not long after, the tsarist Russia collapsed in the war, and in the case of the enemy of the whole world after the revolution, China could take the opportunity to retake the northeast, and this third way prevented Japan It can also take back the northeast after a period of time, which may be a more feasible road.
In the Russo-Japanese War, the choice of the Qing government did not save China, and China's biggest disaster began with Japan's victory over Russia and the privilege of the northeast, and the Chinese nation entered the darkest period in history under the rule of the Qing government.
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