In the conference room of the Far East North Korean Ministry of National Defense Building, after Li Ningyu gave a speech that indicated the Far East's future development plan, more than a dozen Far East executives sitting on the rostrum all recorded this sentence in their notebooks at the same time.
, don’t be a great power, benefit the people!
But in Li Ningyu's next speech, everyone was surprised, because Li Ningyu first brought up the current Boxer Rebellion in mainland China as an issue.
"According to the analysis of the General Staff Department, the fundamental reason for the outbreak of this movement was that at the end of the 19th century, various imperialists madly invaded China's border areas and neighboring countries, and new crises emerged in the border areas. Since the Qing government's failure in the Sino-Japanese War of 1898, imperialism has
Economically, they exported a large amount of capital to the mainland, and politically, they seized "leased land" and divided "spheres of influence," setting off a strong craze to carve up the mainland!"
"At the same time, they did not forget to go deep into various cities and villages through churches to carry out intellectual invasion activities, so that ordinary people had a sense of national crisis. As the situation became more and more serious, they finally
The anti-imperialist patriotic movement of the Boxer Rebellion broke out!”
"The cause was in early October 1899 in Lizhuang, Pingyuan County, Shandong Province. Because the church people were oppressing the local people, the Boxers immediately organized an attack on the local church. The magistrate sent troops to suppress it. Afterwards, 300 Boxer people fought with the Qing soldiers.
Fight and defeat it!"
"The fundamental reason for the failure analyzed by the General Staff Department is that the leading class of the Boxer Movement was the peasant class, and the basic groups were farmers and small craftsmen, who could not put forward realistic demands for the Qing government!"
"I personally agree with this, because at first, the Boxer Rebellion aimed to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and they were repeatedly suppressed by the Qing government. Finally, in the face of a serious national crisis, the Boxer Rebellion directed their struggle against imperialism and proposed
The slogan was to support the Qing Dynasty and destroy foreign countries. Due to the limitations of the peasant class, there was no leadership. In order to avoid the attack of the Boxer Rebellion, the Qing government, headed by the Empress Dowager Cixi, was forced to adopt the deceptive method of falsely declaring war and actually surrendering, and surrendered to foreign imperialism.
The internal suppression of the Boxer Movement put the Boxers in a position of internal and external attack, and they suffered defeat under the attack of domestic and foreign enemies!"
"The objective main reason is that the Chinese and foreign reactionary forces jointly strangled, and the subjective reason is: supporting the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Qing Dynasty in the foreign countries, which caused the Boxers to lose their due vigilance and blindly xenophobic!"
"But I think that the failure of the Boxer Rebellion is also the most important point, and that is the failure of ideology. Why do you say that?"
"First of all, the Boxers have their own simple patriotic ideas, and there is nothing wrong with this. The heavily armed members hate the disasters that foreign aggression has brought to China, so they said they hate the peace treaty most, which harms the country and the people. What they do is followed by the people.
The injustice will not be redressed! There are also some Boxer groups who hope to get the country out of its humiliating situation. If the red light shines, they announce that they will use magic to go to the East to claim back the ceded land and compensate for the silver!"
"Secondly, xenophobic thoughts and patriotic thoughts naturally lead to some xenophobic thoughts and actions. However, these behaviors are actually a complex phenomenon that should be analyzed realistically and cannot be treated simplistically!"
"I think everyone knows that the reason why the Far East is what it is today is because of the early purchase of advanced machinery and equipment from various powerful countries, and at the same time, a large number of students and engineers were sent to study in various countries. After many years of study, they were able to
Return to the Far East and start benefiting the people of the Far East! Do you think so?"
This is the first question raised by Li Ningyu, but it is a difficult question to answer, because if it is said to be true, then some people's original agreement with the Boxer Rebellion will not be true, but it is better to say that it is not true, then everything in the Far East now
But it is based on relying on Western countries in the early stage.
But after some people raised their hands, Li Ningyu did not immediately call out one or two officers, but continued: "As for what I just said, I believe there are different voices in everyone's hearts. Well, let's continue the analysis.
First, in order to resist the suppression of the Qing army or the attack of foreign invaders, the Boxers destroyed railways and pulled out electric poles in some areas. These actions were based on the needs of the war situation and did not involve hatred of foreign science and technology!"
"Secondly, some Boxer members destroyed Western artifacts on a large scale out of xenophobia. When they saw those selling foreign goods or those with tight clothes and narrow sleeves, or those items imitating Western styles, or those with foreign characters on them, they destroyed the items and killed them!"
"In addition, the Boxers also killed many innocent believers, as well as some intellectuals who accepted Western culture. I feel that these actions are a manifestation of feudal obscurantism! Because we in the Far East, including me, all senior officials
They are the object of hatred of the Boxers, but are we at fault?"
"Thirdly, the Boxers were a loose organization. While some Boxers were indiscriminate and exclusive, others did not completely reject Western artifacts. Some Boxers realized the advantages of foreign guns and used them in actual combat, and also used them.
Some Boxers did not demolish the railways as long as the situation required it, so the Boxers were just a loose patriotic movement group!"
"Also, the most important point is their superstitious ideas. Since the majority of Boxer members are farmers, they lack advanced ideological weapons and can only use backward superstitious ideas to explain the disasters that foreign invaders have brought to China.
, so the Boxers generally believed that China's disasters were caused by bad luck, and the source of the disasters were foreigners. This understanding played an important role in the rapid development of the Boxers in the early stage. At the same time, the Boxers also pinned their hopes of resisting foreign aggression on supernatural forces.
I hope to achieve the effect of invulnerability through superstitious rituals!”.
“However, these superstitious ideas played a certain role in the early days of the Boxer Movement. The common superstitious ideas became the link between various Boxer organizations, allowing the Boxers to persist in the struggle despite the loose organization. However, the Boxer’s superstitious ideas eventually became the mainstay of the Boxer Movement.
Tools of discipline!”
"Of course, superstitious ideas cannot win in the face of advanced technology. Therefore, in the later period of the Boxer Rebellion, superstitious ideas lost their effect to a large extent. The once high morale of some Boxer Rebellion members declined. Due to the poison of feudal ideas, many people had traditional
The idea of loyalty to the emperor is a manifestation of the slogan of supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying foreign countries during the Boxer Rebellion. However, loyalty to the emperor here should be understood as loyalty to the Empress Dowager Cixi rather than Emperor Guangxu!"
"So I analyze that the Boxers will be defeated!"
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