"Drunken lying on the battlefield Jun Mo smiled, Gu Lai conquered several people back." --"Liangzhou Words"
The battlefield is fierce, and the wine is tender, turning into tears of lovesickness.
This expedition, bent on serving the country, has long put personal safety aside, and the home country always has to be guarded.
It embodies the heroism and pride of the soldiers who are loyal to the country!
"Iron-clad far away from the hard work, Yu Zhen should cry away after leaving." The side wind fluttered that degree, and the vast expanse of the realm was even more so. "--Yan Song Xing"
Wanli went to the plane, and Guan Shandu flew. Shuo Qi spread the golden garnet, and the cold light shone on the iron coat.
Qiang Di why should he complain about Yang Liu, the spring wind does not pass the jade door.
Dressed in iron robes, desolate on the side, decades as a day,
What is reflected is the hard work of the border guards since ancient times, and the spirit of heroism and optimism in bitterness!
01, the imperial crisis
As we all know, the government of the late Qing Dynasty was once the hegemon of the world, but because it was closed to the country, first, it did not understand the changes around the world in time, and missed the innovation of the industrial revolution.
Second, in the context of the success of the Meiji Restoration in Japan after that, the Qing government still stuck to itself, did not implement a constitutional monarchy, and the rulers also changed their dreams because of their inherent thinking, vested interests, and did not change.
In modern times, after reform, Japan's strength and ambitions have swelled at the same time, and it has been the first to assume the role of the vanguard of the war of aggression against China.
After the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, Ye Zhichao, as the main general of Pyongyang, fled without a fight, ran wildly for 500 miles, and was completely nailed to the column of shame of history, and the signing of the "Maguan Treaty" set off a frenzy of dividing up China in all countries in the world.
The former heavenly dynasty has begun a century-long history of national suffering in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and such a strong contrast is worthy of lessons!
02, the end of the world lonely brigade
The whistle has been broken, and the end of the world has been alone ever since.
Time passes, since the defeat of the First Opium War in 1840, after the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, when the Qing government lost power and humiliated the country.
Fast forward to 1898, China and Britain signed the "Special Articles on Expanding Hong Kong Boundary Sites", and most of Hong Kong became a British colony. However, because of the last "stubbornness" of the Qing government, the treaty stipulated that the sovereignty of the Kowloon Walled City was vested on the Chinese side, and Hong Kong thus appeared as a city within a city.
It can be said that since the defeat of the first war, the war after the Qing Dynasty has always lost more and won less, even if it is occasionally won once,
For example, the patriotic general Feng Zicai's great victory at Zhennanguan, the Sino-French war at that time, in the end, could not escape the end of "undefeated and defeated", and the reason for this was that "backwardness will be beaten" became a lesson of blood and tears of the Chinese nation, and the determination to rise urgently and hard after that, and to continue to stand majestically among the nations of the world.
The story of this article also takes place in this context.
At that time, Hong Kong, because of historical problems, kowloon walled city, became a "city within a city".
Salt was of great importance in ancient taxes and was the most important part.
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the qi state name Xiang Guan Zhong, to the Duke of Qi Huan put forward the proposal of "taxing salt", salt as the most important material in ancient times, once had the saying that "the world's taxes, salt is mixed".
During the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, military expenditure depended on it, and during the Song Dynasty, the salt tax once accounted for 80% of the total tax revenue of the state finance.
In the Ming Dynasty, because of the loosening of the salt and iron monopoly policy, Zhang Shicheng, a salt merchant in the rich Jiangnan, had the capital to compete with the imperial court.
Kowloon Walled City
Kowloon City Walled city was established during the Song Dynasty, when the official established a garrison in Kowloon City Walled city in order to control the determination of salt to return to the country.
During the Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi and Jiaqing Emperors successively set up the Kowloon Flood and built forts here to strengthen the defense of the city.
After the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the Opium War in 1840, Hong Kong Island, next to the Kowloon Peninsula, became a British colony, which became the southeastern front of the Qing Empire. In 1847, Kowloon Flood was expanded to become Kowloon Village.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, because of the constraints of the 1898 "Special Article on Expanding the Boundaries of Hong Kong", the Qing Dynasty withdrew its troops from here, leaving only a few officials to quickly maintain local law and order.
The following year, the British, feeling that the city within a city, looked very distracting to the map, expelled the remaining personnel and wanted to annex it.
However, the Qing government took out a treaty and argued according to reason, and the British felt that the significance of occupying this place was of little value, so they chose to retreat, and in order to show their position, the Qing Dynasty sent a small number of troops to garrison here.
Later, the Qing Dynasty died, and no one noticed this distant southeast frontier land.
Or because of the warlords' melee, the situation is turbulent, and they don't care about this side.
The local defenders, still here, have chosen to hold out.
The Qing Empire died early, and the Yellow Dragon Banner, the banner symbolizing the Qing Dynasty, has been here The Kowloon City Walled City has thus become a three-way zone, and the ugly customs of polygamy here have also been maintained.
Time flies, the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984, and the return of Hong Kong in 1997 have become the trend of the times.
China set out for future development, and through negotiations, the issue of the Kowloon Walled City was finally resolved in 1993.
It was then transformed into a modern city such as gardens, and from 1898 to 1993, the Kowloon Walled City, which lasted for nearly a century, disappeared.
postscript
There are no good years, but someone is carrying the weight for you.
From ancient times to the present, since the concept of the state has been established, whether it is the east, west, south, north and south of the motherland, generations of border guards on the border line have put their personal safety aside.
It has always been the responsibility to loyally defend the sacred sovereignty of the national territory, the safety of the people, no matter the wind, frost, rain and snow, the extremely harsh environment, always brave the difficulties, willing as a gluttony.
They are the loveliest people.
Hats off to the Border Guard!