When it comes to the late Qing Dynasty, it is really unbearable to look back, the Qing government under the power of Empress Dowager Cixi is indeed extremely corrupt, and it can be called one of the greatest humiliations in Chinese history, in fact, what many people do not know is that although the military strength of the Qing Dynasty was backward at that time, its country's financial strength was unprecedentedly strong, which can be said to surpass all the countries in the world at that time.
According to common sense, such a rich person actually only needs to buy advanced weapons, in fact, fighting a war will also increase a lot of chances of winning, but unfortunately, when he met Cixi, an old demon woman, he only cared about his own enjoyment, and did not care about the safety of the country, and finally Tender let the Eight-Nation Alliance come in and make a blessing in the land of China.
It is true that he is not as famous as Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and others, but this person is a person who really read the world in the late Qing Dynasty, he is an absolute expert on international issues, and the whole Qing Dynasty estimates that there are almost very few people who understand the world like him!
This person is Song Yuren, first of all, a brief introduction to Song Yuren, Song Yuren is a native of Fushun, Sichuan, born in 1857, known as the first person to "open his eyes to see the world", Guangxu 12 years of jinshi, later became the Hanlin Yuan Shu Jishi, in 1894 was named the British, French and Italian Four State Envoy Counselor, in fact, the duty of this position is to investigate Western society for the Qing Dynasty government.
It is also because of this position that Song Yuren understands more and more about Western social civilization and deeply understands the tricks of Western civilization.
With the end of the Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Navy lost a complete defeat, and at this time Song Yuren learned that Empress Dowager Cixi had decided to surrender, in fact, Cixi was going to be at ease with her birthday, as for the war, he put aside, after learning the news, Song Yuren was naturally extremely angry, on the other hand, he knew that Japan was actually just a land of bullets, weak resources and manpower, in fact, could not support their long-term battle, so Song Yuren felt that it was necessary to fight with Japan, only in this way would he completely defeat Japan.
In this way, Song Yuren immediately wrote to Empress Dowager Cixi and made a very detailed explanation to her, the content of which was Song Yuren's view of the Japanese side, insisting that Japan was just the end of a strong crossbow, seemingly very tough, but in fact it was also very weak internally, as long as Empress Dowager Cixi ordered to continue the war, it was certain that Japan would be defeated.
As a result, Empress Dowager Cixi simply ignored it, and for Cixi, the most important thing at the moment was to do a good job in her own hand birthday.
Song Yuren was very helpless, but he was not willing, so he thought of a crazy plan, that is, to recruit sailors to form a plundering fleet, and then to plunder the Japanese rear, if this plan is realized, it can really be directly killed to Tokyo, and then Song Yuren also took the initiative to contact some Qing Dynasty feudal officials, hoping to get their support.
As a result, in the end, it was not understood by many people, Cixi was even more forgetful, and Li Hongzhang also clearly expressed his opposition, so Song Yuren was very angry and helpless, and it can be said that he was completely disheartened.
In the end, Song Yuren was also punished, and his official position was demoted two levels in a row, and after that, Song Yuren focused on Xiu Zhi's writings and did not ask about the world.