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Since the Opium War, imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism have gradually become the three mountains that weigh on the Chinese people, and at that time, many people could not see the direction of the future.
At the most difficult time of the anti-Japanese war, some people felt that it had even reached the point of destroying the country and extinction, and pessimism was spreading.
However, every time we reach a critical juncture, there will always be a miracle that God blesses China, and if we miss a single thing, we may rewrite history, and some people cannot help but ask, does the national fortune really exist? What is the bottom line of the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization that has been stretched to this day?
Civilization survives, the discovery of oracle bones
In 1895, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, before the war began, the Qing government's naval ships were much larger than Japan's, and many people were full of confidence in the war with Japan.
However, the whole country was shocked, and the Qing government was defeated and forced to sign the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", which humiliated the country, which compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver and allowed Japanese businessmen to invest and set up factories in China, which directly set off a frenzy of Western powers to carve up China.
At that time, foreigners were rampant in the land of China, and the sign of "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter" was hung in front of the concession gate so nakedly, and the late Qing government also did its best to grovel to the Boxers, and even united with the foreign powers to kill the Boxers, and the Hundred Days Restoration was also hastily completed.
At that time, the Chinese nation reached its darkest moment, and many people felt that the Chinese nation was about to die in this generation, and some began to doubt the past history, and could not help but wonder: "Has Chinese civilization really existed for so long?"
Many people can't see where the hope for the future lies, and they go through it day after day like the walking dead.
It was at this dark moment that an official of the Qing Dynasty named Wang Yirong discovered the oracle bone inscription.
It was in 1899 that Wang Yirong went to the pharmacy to pick up medicine, and found a strange symbol on a pair of medicinal materials called dragon bones he bought, and he was so excited that after careful research it was determined that it was the text of the Shang Dynasty in 1700 BC.
The discovery of the oracle bone inscription shocked the world, because the written word is the most powerful proof of civilization, and the existence of the oracle bone inscription shows that the history of Chinese civilization is indeed long.
It's just that Wang Yirong was loyal to the Qing government after all, and when the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing, Wang Yirong, who was unwilling to compromise with the thieves, committed suicide with his wife and daughter-in-law and committed suicide.
Fortunately, Wang Yirong handed over all the tortoise shell and animal bones collected to his friend Liu He before his death, Liu He also had a profound foundation in Chinese culture, and he immediately analyzed and summarized the source of the oracle bone inscription and compiled it into the book "Iron Cloud Hidden Turtle", which has also become a compulsory subject for the study of oracle bone inscriptions.
Later, Liu He was also sent to the frontier, and the study of the oracle bone inscription was passed to the hands of his in-law Luo Zhenyu, who found the master of Chinese studies Wang Guowei to study together, and with the concerted efforts of the two, many oracle bone inscriptions were identified, and the history recorded on it was basically the same as that in the "Historical Records of Yin Benji".
As a result, the verifiable history of Chinese civilization was officially advanced to the Yin Shang period, and the research of Wang Guowei and others also gave great confidence to the people at that time, because facts have proved that Chinese civilization has indeed a long history and has never been broken.
This made more and more people of insight understand that the salvation and survival were no longer for the Qing government, but for the survival of the Chinese nation, and soon after, the Xinhai Revolution broke out.
It can be said that Wang Yirong's discovery of the oracle bone inscription by chance, as well as the relay research of masters of Chinese studies such as Liu He, Luo Zhenyu, and Wang Guowei, played a positive role in increasing the confidence of the Chinese people, and the discovery of the oracle bone inscription undoubtedly has a great element of luck.
Only 300 meters away, Daqing Oilfield made history
September 26, 1959 is a moment that hundreds of millions of people should always remember, on this day, the mainland's largest oil field so far Daqing Oilfield was explored and discovered, in one fell swoop put an end to the Westerners exaggerated "China's oil-free theory", for the mainland's industrial construction played an extremely important role in promoting.
Oil is the blood of modern industry, and without oil, it means that the hardware conditions for development are lost.
Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the famous geologists Li Siguang and Huang Jiqing of the mainland carried out surveys everywhere, just to find the big oil fields that belonged to us Chinese ourselves.
They traveled all over the motherland until 1959, when they finally discovered the Daqing oilfield with reserves of 6.7 billion tons, and China's industrial construction was accelerated.
The survival of the Daqing oil field is somewhat lucky, because during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese had carried out oil exploration nearby.
Japan is a resource-poor island nation, and during World War II, it also used war to feed its war, and plundering oil from overseas became an important means of maintaining the war.
Therefore, since Japan occupied the three eastern provinces, it sent a large number of experts and workers to the northeast to survey the places where the northeast may produce oil, and the location of the Daqing oilfield naturally did not escape the attention of the Japanese.
At that time, Japan's oil exploration technology was also world-class, and they also brought the latest drilling equipment from Japan, and they continued to drill to a depth of 1,000 meters, but still found no oil, and then stopped.
You know, we only discovered the Daqing oilfield when the drilling depth reached 1,300 meters, that is to say, if Japan had been ruthless at that time, and then delved into the technology, the excavation depth was extended down another 300 meters, the consequences may be unimaginable.
Because Japan's invasion of China at that time was an industrial country fighting an agricultural country, if Japan discovered the Daqing oil field again, then Japan's weapons and equipment would inevitably go to a higher level, and the War of Resistance would be even more difficult.
It can be said that these 300 meters determined the situation of the mainland's anti-Japanese war and the fate of the subsequent industrial development to a certain extent.
At that time, Japanese experts generally believed that the oil field should be located on the continental shelf near the sea, so they focused their exploration on the coastal area of Liaoning, but they still found nothing.
Later, surveys on the mainland showed that there was indeed a large oil field in the southern area of Liaoning, but the depth of the oil field reached 6,000 meters, which could not be discovered under the conditions of Japan at that time.
The survival of the Daqing Oilfield also has a luck component, after the discovery of the oilfield, hundreds of thousands of oil workers rushed to the front line, with great enthusiasm into the oil exploitation, among which the emergence of the iron man Wang Jinxi.
Thanks to their efforts, the mainland's industrial production received a steady supply of oil.
Marching to the whole country, the last pass of reunification
The third national fortune that occurred in modern times appeared in the late stage of the Liberation War, when the battle of crossing the river was about to begin.
In June 1947, Liu Deng's army leaped thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain, opening the prelude to the strategic counteroffensive of the People's Liberation Army.
But at the same time, interference from foreign powers is increasing.
At that time, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted China to complete reunification, because a divided China would be easier for them to infiltrate and control.
Therefore, seeing the successive victories of the People's Liberation Army, both countries began to exert constant pressure, especially after the end of the three major battles, when our army was preparing to cross the Yangtze River south, the United States and the Soviet Union could not sit still, and they kept calling for peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, in an attempt to divide the river between the two parties and rule.
You must know that with the strength of our army at that time, it was very difficult to compete with the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union, and once the United States and the Soviet Union directly intervened, it would be even more difficult to reunify the motherland.
However, at this critical juncture, the Berlin crisis occurred, and both the Soviet Union and the United States temporarily focused their attention on the European direction, and the United States happened to be experiencing a presidential election, and the new president had not yet taken office, and the reunification of the motherland ushered in a once-in-a-lifetime window period.
Chairman Mao also made a quick decision, firmly grasped this only opportunity, and immediately issued the order of "marching to the whole country", and in April 1949, the million-strong division crossed the Yangtze River to give the stubborn Kuomintang army a thunderous blow.
Immediately after the liberation of Nanjing, the People's Liberation Army did not rest, swept all the way south to west, basically unified the mainland in a very short time, and did not give the United States and the Soviet Union a chance to react to the layout, and when the United States was busy with European affairs, it was surprised to find that a new China was already standing in the east.
The unwilling United States brazenly intervened in the Korean Civil War in an attempt to spread the flames of war to Northeast China and give New China a little color, but the United States, which missed the best window period, could only usher in a counterattack by the officers and men of the Volunteer Army, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea directly cast a psychological shadow on the Americans.
And the reason why our army was able to win this war is inseparable from the full support of a basically unified motherland behind it.
Wang Yirong, Wang Guowei and others discovered and studied the oracle bone inscription, which gave the proof of the existence of civilization and gave countless people with lofty ideals the power of faith;
After several setbacks and setbacks, the Japanese invasion of China was only 300 meters away in the end, and still did not find a large oil field in the northeast, which allowed the Daqing oilfield to survive and gave New China an important material basis for the development of industry;
During the War of Liberation, the outbreak of the Berlin crisis in the Western world diverted the attention of the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, enabled our army to seize the opportunity to unify the mainland, and provided important logistical support for winning the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In recent history, any of these three miracles that God blessed China may change the trend of history, and all of them seem to confirm the existence of national fortunes.
However, Mao Zedong Thought tells us that we must proceed from reality in everything and seek truth from facts, and the reason why the Chinese nation has been able to stand firm despite 5,000 years of hardships and hardships is fundamentally due to the joint efforts of countless Chinese sons and daughters.
Among them are Wang Guowei, who devoted himself to the study of oracle bone inscriptions, Wang Jinxi, an iron man rooted in the oil production line, Chairman Mao's foresight, and the bloody battles of countless PLA soldiers.
To summarize it in Chairman Mao's poem: "For the sake of sacrifice and ambition, dare to change the sun and the moon for a new day." ”
Therefore, even if there is a national fortune, it is also the result of countless ancestors throwing their heads and spilling their blood, and the people, only the people are the fundamental driving force to promote the progress of history!