Original title: Ancient Coin Contemplation
Walking around in the morning, I found a round thing on the side of the floating soil outside the city wall, picked it up and looked at it, it was not big, and it was rusty. Judging by my many years of experience, this should be a coin, because the faint patterns and patterns reveal the vicissitudes of the times, and the handwriting, although vague, is full of mystery. Looking up at the surroundings, the wilderness under the sun is so quiet, only the winter breeze crosses the face, cool and moist, sneaking joy, put in the pocket and pressed, like Bian and picked up the jade, very excited.
I have always had a strong interest in copper coins, because each copper coin is a witness to a period of history, whether the dynasty at that time was prosperous or decaying, copper coins, as a hard coin, were direct participants and witnesses of history, so I say that the study of historical inscriptions and copper coins is an indispensable historical historical material, perhaps my ignorance and the limitations of my understanding of things, but from the above analysis, it seems that each dynasty has its own unique currency issuance, which is beyond doubt.
Back at home, take out this round coin, use a small knife to carefully and carefully remove the rust on the top, and then use your fingers to rub the pattern on the surface, after repeated rubbing, repeated removal, the handwriting and pattern on the top gradually became clearer, and the general content also surfaced. After repeated speculation on the oblique side view in the sun, several key traces are certain, this is a beautifully designed and cleverly conceived coin, with the word Zhouguo on the top of the front and Kant four years on the bottom. In the middle is a flag. Two words on the back, upper and lower structure: one point. One is traditional characters, one.
Kant's fourth year is 1937, the 26th year of the Republic of China, 85 years ago. Kant was the era name of the last emperor Puyi. We know that the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the Manchu Qing government that ruled China for 276 years and established a republican system, but the feudal emperors were like worms with a hundred feet and did not die, and after experiencing the farce of Yuan Shikai's restoration of emperor and Zhang Xun, people of insight saw the key, and the last Xuantong Puyi lived deep in the imperial palace of the Forbidden City, which gave hope to those guys who were bent on restoring the imperial system, so there was Feng Yuxiang and Lu Zhonglin's forced palace, and Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City, thus completely breaking the thoughts of those retro factions.
At that time, the national situation was complicated, the political situation was ups and downs, since Japan launched the September 18 Incident, the young marshal who called himself a hero in the middle of the country lost the three eastern provinces, the Japanese took Korea, occupied Liaodong, and wanted to use the three eastern provinces as a springboard to destroy our Chinese nation, after they invaded and occupied the northeast, the then National Government appealed to the international community, and the League of Nations at this time also sent a survey team to investigate the situation, so the Japanese at that time sent troops to the name of the unjustified, so they wanted to rush to support a puppet regime as a cover. At this time, Puyi is the most suitable candidate for them.
Since Puyi moved to Tianjin from the Forbidden City, he thought day and night about how to restore the inheritance of his ancestors, and this opportunity came, thinking that he could restore the country by taking advantage of the snobbery of the Japanese, but he could not imagine that the Japanese would use him as a puppet to annex China and make him a sinner in history. But at that time, it was a one-shot response to each other's needs, so Puyi fled to Tianjin, and under the protection and support of the Japanese, he quickly established Manchukuo after his safe arrival, and then officially crowned, put on a new style of emperor costume, and was manipulated by the Japanese to become a pseudo-emperor.
According to the data, in October 1932, the Assembly of the League of Nations issued the "Report of the Lytton Investigation Mission". On February 24, 1933, the Congress of the League of Nations adopted a report stating that sovereignty over Northeast China belonged to the Republic of China; that Japan had occupied And made it independent of China in violation of the League of Nations; that the Japanese army had acted in the "918 Incident" was not self-defense; that "Manchukuo" was organized under the guidance of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, that its existence was due to the existence of the Japanese army, and that "Manchukuo" was not a movement for national self-determination. To this end, Japan announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations on the same day. In 1934, "Manchukuo" was renamed "Manchukuo Empire."
Since the so-called state was established, it was imperative to issue a currency, and the currency of Manchukuo seemed to be out of the box, and in this way, a whole set of Manchurian currency was issued. The currency of the Central Bank of Manchuria adopts the silver standard system, the 1 yuan banknote contains 23.91 cm of pure silver, issues 5 kinds of banknotes of 100 yuan, 10 yuan, 5 yuan, 1 yuan and 5 corners, and mints 4 kinds of auxiliary coins such as 1 dime, 5 cents, 1 cent and 5 cents. And what I got in my hand was a cent of auxiliary coins, and I couldn't imagine that a small copper coin had such a rich historical background, which also witnessed the humiliation of our country at that time, and the National Government never recognized the establishment of Manchukuo, so it was called pseudo-Manchukuo. After the Surrender of the Japanese in 1945, Manchukuo also did birds and beasts, and Puyi, as a puppet emperor, also became a war criminal and was almost shot.
Therefore, the strength and prosperity of a great nation is first of all to unite and not to give foreign enemies an opportunity to take advantage of it, and the Japanese government at that time took advantage of the warlord melee in our country to invade our great rivers and mountains, causing great pain to our nation, and committing countless crimes on our Chinese land. Therefore, we must deeply love our country, and at the same time warn future generations, where is there a home without a country? Although the international environment is extremely severe, we have the confidence and courage to defeat all enemies, that is, the people's army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, as Marshal Peng Dehuai said, "The era when Western colonialists can occupy a country for hundreds of years as long as they erect a few cannons on a coastline in the east is gone." Puyi ignored the great righteousness of the nation for his own selfishness, was in the company of the jackal, and was close to the tiger and leopard, leaving an extremely disgraceful page on the trajectory of his life. Seeing this bronze coin, it is as if I saw the emaciated and round glasses, the Japanese's envy and grace, step by step slipped into the abyss of criminal history of the false emperor. What he left behind for posterity was endless reverie and contemplation. Although more than eighty years have passed, the background of this bronze coin is like being engraved on the column of shame of history, which will never be erased.
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