"Japan is a country that I admire very much in some aspects."
Zhou Hexuan did not go all the way, otherwise he would appear too low-profile and might even make European students think he was too mean. After telling the history of sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty, he also talked about the situation of the Meiji Restoration, and concluded: "The Japanese worship and learn from
, attached to the strong. When China was strong, Japan sent envoys to China, which allowed Japan to rise rapidly in the first half of the 7th century AD. When Europe and the United States became strong, Japan immediately abandoned its former suzerainty and fully turned to the West.
Thus, it becomes one of the world's great powers. Such a country and nation are respectable, formidable, and worthy of deep thought."
After saying this, the Japanese students immediately turned from anger to joy, obviously very satisfied with it.
"Everyone must have heard of a story, which comes from "Aesop's Fables." Zhou Hexuan suddenly sneered. "In the cold winter, the farmer found a frozen snake, so he put it in his arms to keep warm. etc.
The snake fully woke up, and it immediately killed the farmer in revenge. The Japanese archipelago is like a long snake in shape, and the Japanese nation is also like a poisonous snake in spirit, with its natural tendency to be aggressive."
The Japanese students' expressions immediately changed and they almost rushed to attack Zhou Hexuan.
"Why do I say Japan is a poisonous snake," Zhou Hexuan continued his analysis. "The fundamental purpose of Japan's sixth dispatch of Tang envoys to China is to repair Sino-Japanese relations. The previous five dispatches of Tang envoys greatly increased Japan's national power.
Hesitantly chose to expand externally. Not only did it attack the Korean Peninsula, it also directly went to war with the Tang Dynasty of China, and was defeated at the mouth of the Baijiang River. This was the first time that Japan wanted to get involved in the East Asian continent. In the next more than a thousand years, as long as Japan was strong,
If it rises, it will inevitably invade North Korea and China. And once it weakens, it will regard China as its suzerain state and take everything from it."
"The whole world now advocates pacifism, but Japan's national policy is exactly the opposite. They have been engaging in foreign aggression. In 1874, Japan invaded Taiwan, China; in 1879, Japan annexed the Ryukyu Kingdom and reestablished Okinawa Prefecture; in 1875 and 1876,
Japan invaded Korea five times in 1882, 1884, and 1894. Until now, Japan has completely occupied Taiwan, China, and the entire Korean Peninsula. They have also occupied four provinces in Northeast China, and are actively planning to occupy five provinces in North China.
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"Japan's war of aggression is often accompanied by bloody massacres. Please take a look at the slideshow."
Slides have appeared very early. For example, Mr. Lu Xun recorded in detail his viewing of slides in Japan in the preface to "The Scream".
The light of the projector shone on the white curtain, and a tragic scene immediately appeared. Several Japanese soldiers were walking in a show of force, and the streets were filled with the corpses of Chinese people.
Zhou Hexuan recounted in a sad tone: "On November 21, 1894, the Japanese army captured Lushun in Liaodong, China, and immediately launched a massacre of four days and three nights. The British writer Allen described it this way: The Japanese soldiers chased the fleeing people with guns and
and bayonet against everyone, and stabbed those who fell down fiercely. Walking on the street, there were dead bodies everywhere underfoot... It was dark, and the massacre was still going on... The ground was soaked with blood, and people were lying everywhere.
There were corpses with mutilated limbs. Some small alleys were almost blocked by dead bodies... The Japanese army penetrated women's chests with bayonets, strung together children under two years old, and deliberately raised them high into the sky for people to watch..."
"New York Times reporter Kleeman described: I saw a man kneeling in front of a Japanese soldier, kowtowing and begging for his life. The Japanese soldier stabbed his head into the ground with a rifle-tail knife in one hand, and cut off his head with a sword in the other hand... There was an old man.
Kneeling in the street, the Japanese soldiers cut him into two pieces... A group of Japanese soldiers chased three people, one of whom was holding a baby... After one o'clock, I saw that the baby was dead, two people were knocked down by bullets, and the third person
The father of the baby stumbled and fell, and the Japanese soldiers were able to catch him on the back. I stepped forward and pointed at the red cross on the white cloth on my arm to save him, but could not stop him. The Japanese soldiers stabbed the fallen man's chest with his knife.
Hit the neck three or four times, and then immediately leave him lying on the ground waiting to die..."
"Mr. Holland, a doctor from the University of Oxford in the UK, once quoted Villiers' relevant records: Starting from the second day after the war, they (Japanese soldiers) brutally massacred non-combatants, women and children for four consecutive days. In this massacre
, there were only 36 Chinese people left in the entire city who could survive, and these 36 people were left entirely to drive them to bury the corpses of their compatriots... One of the survivors said: When we came to collect the corpses,
I saw some people being stabbed to death while sitting on chairs. What’s even worse is that there was a mother on a kang surrounded by four or five children, and the youngest one was tortured to death while still nursing..."
The slides were being shown one after another, showing scenes of massacre one after another. The bloody brutality was unbearable to watch. Coupled with Zhou Hexuan's citations from literature reports and various descriptions of the scene, there was a sudden silence in the classroom.
European professors and students, while feeling horrified, were also deeply impressed by the brutality of the Japanese.
As for the Chinese students present, all of them had tears in their eyes, and Ma Jue even threw herself on the table and began to sip.
Several Japanese students had cold hands and feet at this time, and they didn't know what to do. Because Zhou Hexuan not only had relevant articles by European and American writers, but also dozens of photos taken by European and American reporters, which they could not deny at all.
"Oh, God, that's terrible!"
"These damn savages."
"How come I haven't heard about this before?"
"..."
European students whispered that those photos would ruin their outlook.
Although European and American countries developed through bloody colonization, by the 20th century they had already claimed to be civilized. They could understand millions of casualties in wars, but the massacre of civilians was unforgivable.
Historically, even the great devil Hitler, after learning the news of the Nanjing Massacre, became furious and cursed Japan as a pig teammate. Well, Hitler believed that Japan's killing methods were too bloody, and they should use poison gas, hanging and other bloodless methods.
This way, killing people is more civilized. Germany is a civilized nation.
Wearing a veil of civilization, when Europeans look at the massacre caused by Japan, they are completely unable to accept it.
Zhou Hexuan continued: "Why is the British report on the Lushun Massacre distorted? Because major news agencies, including Central News Agency, Reuters, etc., have been paid heavily by the Japanese. Whenever there are reports that are unfavorable to Japan, the two news agencies immediately help counter-propaganda. The British
The Central News Agency even said: "Except for legitimate killings during wartime, the Japanese army did not kill a single Chinese." According to this statement, did the tens of thousands of people in Lushun commit suicide? Today, since we are calling for peace
, naturally we must restore the truth of history!”
