How shameless are the Japanese? Not to mention grabbing the guano resources on the mainland's Dongsha Island, he even wanted to occupy the entire territory of the mainland. Since 1901, the Japanese businessman Nishizawa Yoshiji inadvertently discovered that the abundant guano on the mainland's Dongsha Islands, Japan's actions against the Dongsha Islands, have become more and more out of bounds.
At first, the Qing government was still "gentle" with Japan's behavior, but it only erected a monument on Dongsha Island and swore an oath of sovereignty to Japan, and after that, the Japanese did have restraint.
Until 1906, things changed, when Japan implemented the policy of "breeding and rejuvenating the industry", vigorously supported the growth of Japanese capitalism, and also advocated the merchant group to carry out the "southward migration of aquatic products", and used the military armed forces as a backing to escort the development of merchants.
In this way, under the three major forces of the army, the government and merchants, Japan began to send ships to the Dongsha Islands on the mainland to plunder the rich phosphate mineral resources on the islands.
