After a long war, the country has consumed not only manpower and financial resources, but also some ancient buildings with great history and culture have also been destroyed to the point of being destroyed. For example, the original brilliant Yuanmingyuan, after being destroyed by the Eight-Nation Alliance, everything became the appearance of a broken wall, which is the attrition brought about by the war.
The Forbidden City, which was left over from history, has now become a famous historical site in China. In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army captured Peiping. Although they occupied Peiping, what was surprising was that they did not destroy the Forbidden City.
The complete fall of Peiping
The puppet state of Manchukuo was established immediately after the Japanese occupation of the three northeastern provinces, and the reason for doing so was to justifiably invade the rest of China. Faced with Japan's constant provocations, the Qing government chose a weak compromise. It was precisely because of this compromise and concession that they were able to gain inches, and eventually the Japanese army launched an attack on Peiping. Although the people's army struggled to resist, it ultimately failed.
According to the original behavior, the Japanese army will definitely take destructive measures against the Forbidden City. However, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Forbidden City remained like that and was not destroyed in the slightest. Historical records record that the Japanese army slaughtered the people in the forbidden city when it first entered the city, and the Japanese officers at that time even sat on the dragon chair and implemented the three-light policy throughout the city.
The reason why the Japanese army did not destroy the Forbidden City was actually because of Puyi. Puyi was the emperor of puppet Manchukuo in the northeast at the time, and after he learned of the fall of Peiping, he communicated with the Japanese, and Puyi proposed not to destroy the Forbidden City if he wanted to continue to be emperor himself.
The Forbidden City is a symbol of the dignity of the feudal dynasty, and every Chinese is in awe of it. At the time of the July 7 Incident, Peiping fell completely, and in order to protect the treasures in the Forbidden City, people secretly took them all away. One of them has made great contributions to the protection of the Forbidden City, and that is Zhang Tingji. Zhang Tingji continued to negotiate with the Japanese and gradually took over the power of the Forbidden City, which allowed the Forbidden City to escape this disaster.
Useful lessons from the past
The Invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance and the subsequent burning of the Yuanmingyuan is a well-known thing, in which we lost too much and too much, greedy foreigners ruthlessly plundered our treasures, and now people still feel resentful in retrospect. With such a painful lesson, before the Japanese army entered Peiping, most of the cultural relics in the Forbidden City had been quietly transferred.
The implication is that even if the Japanese army enters the Forbidden City, they cannot get anything good, which is the blood lesson we have learned from the lessons of the former car. Experts at the time predicted that after the fall of the northeast, the Japanese army would surely attack Peiping. If Beiping did not transfer the treasures in the Forbidden City one after another at that time, then the ending may be very different, and history will be rewritten because of this.
The most inhumane thing about the Japanese army is their "three-light policy", from which we can see that their ambitions and animalism can no longer be covered. Even though the Japanese military had a lofty strategic layout at the level of rule and wanted to make up their minds to protect the artifacts, the enforcers were soldiers, and some of them had difficulty fully implementing the opinions of the leadership.
The wolf ambitions of the Japanese
The capture of the three northeastern provinces was a beginning for the Japanese army, China's territory is very vast, their ambitions are in the whole of China, but the occupation of all Of China is not an easy task. The war was extremely costly to both sides, and the Japanese wanted to control China in other ways, which was one of the reasons why they did not destroy the Forbidden City.
They had ostensibly submitted to the imperial princes and nobles represented by Puyi, and the Japanese army hoped that in this way, we would use our feudal ideas to control the people. In fact, we can also see that Puyi's behavior is also in line with the Japanese plan. The Forbidden City is the home of the emperors, imperial relatives and nobles, and if the Japanese invade on a large scale, it will inevitably touch the interests of the imperial relatives and nobles. At that time, if everyone were to oppose them, it would be too much to lose, and such a situation would not be conducive to Japan's occupation of all of China.
The last reason is because the Japanese have their own little calculations in mind. The Forbidden City is not only a historical building, it is more a representation of political majesty, although most of the political participants, imperial relatives and nobles have submitted to the Japanese, but the power of the people is still very huge.
Once it stirs up public anger, it will trigger the whole society to be touched, and the Japanese people know that they are very bad at that situation. Under the joint constraints of internal and external factors, the occurrence of this tragedy was avoided.
epilogue:
After the war years, the Forbidden City has been preserved in its entirety, so that we can see its true appearance in peacetime. Although it has experienced the baptism of war, it still maintains its original appearance, just like an old man who has gone through vicissitudes, and under the baptism of time, it is more and more kind and solemn.
Reference: Qing Shilu