As we all know, it is certainly not possible for a country to develop without resources. Modern Japanese people are deeply touched by this. As an island nation, Japan's land area is really not worth mentioning. The area of Yunnan alone in China exceeds the entire area of Japan. Therefore, after japan gained a certain degree of influence in modern times, it began to invade the outside world and compete for more resources.
Presumably, everyone also knows that in the Sino-Japanese War at the end of the nineteenth century, the Qing Dynasty was defeated and returned, especially the Beiyang Marine Division, which was built with huge funds, and the entire army was destroyed. After the defeat, the Qing government's consistent practice was to pay reparations for the cession of land. In fact, what many people don't know is that when the war had not yet settled, there was a prescient person who proposed a surprise attack plan, and this person was the first person in Sichuan history to open his eyes to the world, Song Yuren.
After the defeat in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Song Yuren was visiting Europe at the time. In order to change the situation of defeat, Song Yuren thought of a good way. That is to buy speedboats from abroad and recruit Australians to re-form a marine brigade. Ostensibly in the name of protecting the Australian merchant group, he marched north from the Philippines to attack Tokyo on the Japanese mainland. To put it simply, let the Japanese backyard catch fire.
Let's take a closer look, and this plan is entirely feasible if it is actually implemented. You must know that the paper strength of the Beiyang Marine Division is to surpass that of the Japanese Navy. Coupled with the frontal attack of the Beiyang Marine Division, it is entirely possible to defeat Japan and turn Japan into a province of our country. Subsequently, Song Yuren reported his ideas to the imperial court on the one hand, and on the other hand, he began to work on related recruitment.
What Song Yuren never expected was that the imperial court at that time had already thought of negotiating peace with Japan. Cixi ordered that the implementation of Song Yuren's plan be stopped, and he was urgently summoned back from Europe. In Cixi's view, Song Yuren's approach was a presumptuous incident. In this way, Song Yuren's good plan was stillborn if it could not be implemented. In fact, the late Qing Dynasty held the attitude of getting by and getting by, as long as it did not endanger its ruling position, Cixi did not care about the indemnity of the land. This is also one of the important reasons for the backwardness of modern China.