In the semi-colonial and semi-feudal history of the late Qing Dynasty in China, there was a very important war, the Sino-Japanese War. The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War and China's great defeat followed by the frenzy of dividing up China by the imperial powers, the signing of the Treaty of Maguan, which lost the country and humiliated its rights, the development of the "Restoration and Reform of the Law" movement, its upswings and failures, the launch of the "Xinhai Revolution", and the collapse of the Qing Dynasty.
However, in this period of history of state affairs, loss of power and humiliation of the country, political agitation, and reform, there is such a person, who after the defeat in the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle of The First Sino-Japanese War, he vigorously advocated a protracted war with Japan, went deep into the Japanese mainland to sneak attack, and won a surprise victory, he is Known as the "first person in Sichuan history to open his eyes to the world" Song Yuren.
Odd Man Song Yuren
Regarding Song Yuren, he has many titles, such as the giant of new learning, the leader of the Bashu Restoration, and the originator of the Sichuan newspaper industry. So many titles are actually very much related to his life experience and career.
Born in Fushun, Sichuan, Song Yuren was brilliant and talented when he was 18 years old. The following year, Song Yuren, who had excellent grades, was selected by the Zun Jing College founded by Zhang Zhidong with the aim of cultivating talents who could be used through the scriptures.
Song Yuren was deeply influenced by dean Wang Min's "practical application of the scriptures", and wrote the book "Ten Kinds of Zhou Li", which later became the foundation and inspiration of Kang Youwei's "New Study of Pseudo-Classical Examination" and "Confucius Reform Examination". From here, we know Song Yuren's extraordinary talent and talent, superhuman consciousness and ideas.
Song Yuren, along with Yang Rui, Liao Jiping, and Wu Zhiying, was known as the "Four Masters" of the Zunjing Academy, of which Yang Rui was one of the "Six Gentlemen of Wushu", and the two of them were called "Song Yu and Yang Xiong" by Chang wang Min Yunyu. It turns out that the achievements of the two of them are also the greatest.
At the age of 29, he entered the Beijing Examination, successfully passed the Examination and the Temple Examination, and was elected to the Hanlin Academy as a Shujishi. In the year of his founding, he wrote the first draft of the "Theory of Current Affairs", which attracted the eyes of the government and the public.
This manuscript proposes how to change the law from all aspects of economy, politics, ideology, and culture, whether in terms of time or achievement, Song Yuren's is indeed one step ahead of the "restoration and change method", but when talking about the late Qing Dynasty Restoration thinkers, they only remember Kang Liang, but few people know Song Yuren.
He went abroad to investigate, saw all the foreign capitalist democratic systems, penetrated the root causes of national backwardness, and his keen insight into the current situation and his views on the world pattern were one step ahead of others, leading the innovation and change of the law, leading the trend of the times, and advocating "retro restoration" and "Togu reform".
His thinking was advanced and his behavior was progressive, so he was called a "new giant", and he was called an advanced thinker who led the world trend in the early days of the restoration school.
Ancient and strange schemes, can not be reused
And such a scholarly character is in a military at his own expense, at his own expense, pouring into a big gamble.
He strategized in a major battle that determined the status of China and Japan, and he single-handedly borrowed huge sums of money to buy sea ships, recruit sailors, make a surprise attack on Japan, and reverse the situation, but on the eve of the battle, he was blocked by the lord and faction represented by Empress Dowager Cixi.
A man's strength cannot resist a crumbling and decaying court, and his ingenuity is gone.
If Cixi hadn't stopped him, the Sichuan minister might have gone straight to Japan to start a war. In fact, at the time of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Song Yuren was still in distant Paris, but he always paid attention to national affairs, and when he heard that China had lost to Japan in the Sino-Japanese War, he germinated a bold idea: to raid the Japanese mainland.
This idea seemed very incredible at the time, Japan embarked on the capitalist road after the Meiji Restoration, production began to industrialize, weapons and equipment were also very advanced, attacking the Japanese mainland is not to crash into the muzzle of the gun?
However, Song Yuren also had his own considerations, he once wrote to the Qing government that "the soldiers are small and poor, and they are long enough to be trapped", and Japan's small land resources are small and cannot withstand a protracted war.
After the Sino-Japanese War, Japan's domestic economy was indeed on the verge of bankruptcy, and the Western powers looked around, observed the situation, waited for Japan or China to fall, put cold arrows in the back, and waited for the endgame to share a piece of the pie.
On the way to the Qing government, he began to prepare for this matter, and even had loans from Britain, borrowed warships, etc., and everything was ready, only to owe the East Wind.
However, he did not expect that the peace-seeking faction represented by Empress Dowager Cixi resolutely resisted and wanted to put an end to the matter, and Song Yuren's plan could only be stillborn, and the success of the defeat was lost, and the opportunity to turn defeat into victory was lost.
In order to curry favor with Japan, the decadent and ignorant Qing government signed the "Maguan Treaty" that humiliated the country, and the regulations in the "Maguan Treaty" were harsh and aggressive, and it was also this treaty that made Japan return blood and further endangered China.
After returning to China, Song Yuren wrote a "Borrowed Book", which recorded this incident and exposed the decaying nature of the Qing government.
If time goes back and Song Yuren's plan can be implemented, Japan may really lose to China, the world pattern will change, and the Western bandits will have to weigh up their desire to divide China, and perhaps China's fate after the Sino-Japanese War can really be changed.
The military plan has not been accomplished, and the industry has sought prosperity
The Sino-Japanese Naval Battle was a foregone conclusion, but he never gave up on finding a way out for the country, and in the same year after the signing of the Treaty of Maguan, Song Yuren was hired by Kang You to establish the "Strong Society" for Liang Qichao, giving a lecture on "The Study of China's Self-Improvement".
At the same time, Song Yuren constantly sought the art of change from the government, but he was always obstructed by the conservative faction and was not used.
When he was not confused, he was ordered to return to his hometown, set up industry, mining affairs, and commerce, vigorously develop Bashu industry, turn the ideas and ideas of the restoration into facts, found a number of private enterprises, boycott foreign goods, "self-improvement, seek prosperity", vigorously develop industry and commerce, and save the country in practice.
Suddenly, bashu's industry sprung up like a mushroom, national industry and commerce developed tremendously, and China's early capitalism developed tremendously, so he was also known as the "originator of Sichuan newspaper industry", also because of the economic development of Sichuan.
He not only vigorously developed the advanced economy of industry and commerce in his career, but also vigorously disseminated the "idea of restoration" ideologically; he founded the first newspaper in Sichuan, "Yu Bao", to disseminate the idea and culture of the restoration, to enlighten the people of Sichuan and Chongqing, to propagate foreign science and technology and ideas, to save the country through industry, and other ideological theories, and to answer many difficult problems for many industries and commerces.
He also served as the dean of the Zunjing Academy in Chengdu, opened a new school, and established the "Shu Society" to vigorously disseminate the idea of "restoration", enlighten the people's wisdom, publicize democratic science, and lead the "new atmosphere".
He also founded the newspaper "Shu Journal" in Chengdu and the "Yu Bao" to publicize the idea of restoration, introduce international forms, and publicize for the Sichuan industrialists, which had a great impact on the Sichuan-Chongqing region.
Song Yuren was known as the "Leader of the Bashu Restoration".
During the Republic of China period, he also vigorously resisted Yuan Shikai's restoration of the imperial system, preached Chinese studies, and advocated for New Chinese Ideas, becoming one of the "Five Old and Seven Sages" in Chengdu. At the age of 74, he died of overwork and dedication to the progress of the country.
In that era, there were countless people like Song Yuren who ran for the country and sought progress, history was like a sandbox, great people will always shine, eternally shining in the river, we can't forget that period of history, we can't go to where those who are always shining in history.