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As early as the last century, when our country was still under the rule of the Qing government, the domestic situation was quite grim, with warlord forces surging inside and great powers looking at the tiger and eyeing our country. At that time, due to the long-term closure of the Qing government, when the great powers had foreign guns and cannons to pry open the door of our country, the rulers at that time did not have a good way to deal with it except to blindly avoid war and seek peace. Blindly avoiding war and seeking peace encouraged the arrogance of imperialism, the weaker the Qing government showed, the more these Western powers intensified, the Qing government's national fortunes at that time had come to an end, but there were still many patriots who tried to save the Qing Dynasty, which was on the verge of collapse.
Li Hongzhang was a generation of famous courtiers in the late Qing Dynasty, although he launched the Foreign Affairs Movement, but the symptoms were not cured, for the Qing government, which was deeply rooted in feudal thinking at that time, it was tantamount to a cup of water, and this stone thrown on the lake only stirred up a wave, and it was impossible to save the decadent situation of the Qing Dynasty. In 1894, Japan launched an attack on the Qing government, and the Qing government hurriedly sent the Beiyang Marine Division to meet the battle, but due to the disparity in strength between the two sides, the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed, and the end of the war was declared with the tearful martyrdom of Deng Shichang.
After the war, the Qing government had no other choice but to pay reparations for land cession. When the Qing government signed a treaty of mourning power and humiliation with the great powers, it was basically signed by Li Hongzhang, a generation of famous ministers. It was precisely because of this that Li Hongzhang was given the title of "traitor", but Li Hongzhang was only a client of Empress Dowager Cixi at that time, and it was Empress Dowager Cixi herself who really expressed her position. When signing the "Maguan Treaty" with Japan, Li Hongzhang also made a prophecy, that is, "if this country is not eliminated, it will become a major disaster."
At that time, no one paid attention to Li Hongzhang's words, until 40 years later, Japan stretched out its claws on China's soil and launched a war of aggression against China that shocked the world, and Li Hongzhang's prediction was also fulfilled. In fact, not only Li Hongzhang, but also the famous British minister Montgomery also said a sentence "Don't believe that Japan will be honest" is enough to show that Japan, no matter when, will not really be honest.