Chapter 51: The Russo-Japanese War Comes to an End

  The Sino-Russian War had many subsequent impacts, the most profound of which was to make progressive Chinese people at that time realize that they did not necessarily have to follow Japan's path in order to become a military power.

  When the Russo-Japanese War ended, many students went to Japan, but Jiang Yu chose to travel in Europe, and Jiang Yu walked out of his own way.

  This war was called "Renzi Outer Mongolia War" or "Renzi War" by the people of that time, and later historians formally named it "Renzi Sino-Russian War".

  In the year of Renzi, it's the year of the Rat! The heavenly stem and earthly branch are both water elements in the five elements, making this year's flow of the five elements relatively pure. People who dislike water will have a very unlucky year, while those who like water will have a very good fortune this year.

  At this time, Chinese society still widely uses the traditional lunar calendar left by our ancestors, with a 60-year cycle as a time concept. In fact, the 'Tian Gan Di Zhi' system left by our ancestors is the most scientific, with a 60-year cycle that does not differ in time. The Western solar calendar, on the other hand, has a somewhat rigid and forced feeling, and does not have a deeper function.

  With the return of a large number of so-called 'progressive students' who studied abroad, they are very unfamiliar with the traditional culture of their ancestors. As a result, they blindly deny traditional culture and excessively idolize Western culture, leading to the decline of traditional culture.

  Jiang Yu, who also returned from studying abroad, remained extremely sober.

  The cultural system of Westerners is immature, and many theories are actually wrong. Westerners develop from primary micro to macro, while ancient China was able to see the universe and all things through the perspective of saints and sages, observing the extremely microscopic world to determine macro-theory, summarizing the 'Tian Gan Di Zhi', 'Ba Gua Jiu Gong' system that allows ordinary people to understand the way of Qi Yun.

  Although the two cultural systems may ultimately have the same end point, it cannot be denied that at this time Westerners have only been exploring for less than 200 years, far less than China's exploration of thousands of years.

  At this time, Jiang Yu is actively trying to convert those hot-blooded young people who are infatuated with Japan, while also attempting to make those who are infatuated with Western culture deeply understand the advantages of traditional culture.

  Traditional culture is not backward, Taoism is also a simple materialism. If ancient China really developed along the route guided by Taoism, it would eventually form a scientific system.

  It's just that ancient China didn't want to develop these things. What if they did? It would only disrupt the world's peace and harmony.

  This is what the ancient sages thought.

  But at this time, the harmony of the world has been thoroughly destroyed by Westerners, and the world has entered an era full of noise and conflict.

  China's traditional culture must also be awakened, and in the education system, Jiang Yu will incorporate traditional culture into it, and every student will have to learn 'Tian Gan Di Zhi' and 'Bagua Jiugong'.

  In fact, it's easy to remember Tian Gan Di Zhi and Bagua Jiu Gong, and it doesn't take too much time.

  With this foundation, it will be possible to cultivate a large number of reliable Chinese medicine practitioners in the future. Perhaps it may also give birth to a large group of fortune-telling and Feng Shui masters, and perhaps make these traditional national arts reach the peak level of the Song Dynasty again.

  During the Song Dynasty, Chinese medicine, fortune-telling and Feng Shui reached their peak. This was because the emperors of the Song Dynasty did not kill scholars, so people flocked to study, but not everyone could pass the imperial examination. These scholars more or less understood the I Ching, as the imperial examination included questions on the I Ching, so it was natural for them to also learn Chinese medicine, fortune-telling and Feng Shui.

  By the Ming Dynasty, national arts had weakened due to war, and further declined in the Qing Dynasty. By the time of the Republic of China, there were still some remaining essence, but it was far from the level of the Song Dynasty.

  Jiang Yu hopes that in the future China will not only return to the world's summit in military terms, but also in cultural terms, overthrowing the current Western theoretical system.

  It is entirely possible with the maturity of traditional culture. To take many phenomena as examples, the Western system cannot explain them at all, while in terms of China's traditional cultural system, they are very normal phenomena.

  Of course, in order for Chinese people to get out of their current worship of foreign things and fawning over foreigners mentality and be more confident and firmly believe in their own culture, there is still a very long way to go.

  If one day Chinese ordinary people no longer think that foreign moon is rounder than China's, then this nation will regain its confidence.

  The 'Sino-Russian War' is the first step for the nation to regain its confidence, and the victory of this foreign war has filled the people with confidence in the newly established Republic of China.

  But there are also negative effects, which make people even more convinced of so-called 'republic', 'democratic freedom'.

  So-called freedom is like a wolf telling a flock of sheep huddled together: I'll give you freedom!

  In the end, the sheep no longer huddled together and were eaten one by one by the wolf. And that wolf was America, which loudly proclaimed democracy and freedom, but in reality, freedom is just selfishness.

  Jiang Yu won't expose this lie because he has decided to take the road of a plutocratic clique and needs this lie to cheat the world.

  In China, people's minds have been thoroughly messed up. Under Japan's influence, they no longer firmly believe in the imperial system and autocratic environment, so Jiangsu can only follow a path similar to that of the United States.

  In the end, it's up to each one's own ability to see who will get the deer.

  The United States has accumulated so much industry and foundation, China's only hope to catch up is the population advantage of 400 million people. If the 400 million population is added with more advanced productivity than the United States, theoretically, national strength can surpass the United States before World War II.

  Of course, China also has an advantage, which is being able to fight a war.

  American soldiers can only say one word when fighting - rotten!

  Even if national strength is inferior to that of the United States, as long as it reaches a certain degree, it can still rely on violence to destroy the US's post-World War II hegemonic position.

  The existence of these advantages also made Jiang Yu less willing to take risks and embark on the path of imperialism.

  Moreover, the United States' economic colonization of the world after World War II was very successful. If it had taken a divine path and not followed the oligarchic route of commercialization, after World War II, it could only have chosen to colonize other countries like Britain did, using low-level colonial means. At that time, China would have had to colonize other countries by fighting its way in and suppressing them along the way.

  Those who are good at fighting will perish! This is a profound lesson left by the Qin Empire for future generations.

  Economic colonization is even more hidden, who can say that a certain country in the future has not been economically colonized? It's worth noting that at that time, foreign capital extracted wealth equivalent to 60% of its GDP from a certain country every year.

  Of course, it's up to later generations to make their own judgments about what is right or wrong. No matter how good the eulogy sounds now, it's useless.

  At this time, Jiang Yu also did not know whether he could successfully replace the United States as the world's hegemon after World War II, but even if he couldn't, at least relying on the national barrier to defend the entire Asian continent and share the world with the United States was still completely possible, as long as there were no problems in implementing the route.

  This war also brought Jiang Yiwu great fame and established a huge deterrent in the hearts of various provincial warlords, at least during his tenure as governor of the northwest, the northwestern warlords did not dare to disobey his will.

  Jiang Yu would still return to Huai'an, although he was the Governor of the Northwest, but for the control and development of the Northwest, it was only necessary to determine the direction and some details, and the specific ones were left to be handled by others, and he did not need to preside over the Northwest in person.

  Yuan Keding's reward to the army was late in coming, but this was just a gesture. Before Jiang Yu decided to withdraw and return to Huai'an, Yuan Keding finally arrived.

  Yuan Keding brought a "General" rank to Jiang Yu, and Jiang Yu's military rank can be said to have risen to the sky, and further up is the "Special General".

  At the same time, Yuan Keding also brought 30 million taels of silver to reward the army. Jiang Yu directly divided the silver evenly among them, with officers and soldiers receiving the same amount. The 3 million-strong army each received about 10 taels of silver.

  It is said that General Jiang divided the silver equally and even the soldiers of the various provinces' coalition forces were deeply moved.

  The instructors dispatched to the provincial coalition forces took the opportunity to spread the word: "Follow General Jiang, and we soldiers will never go hungry again."

  The soldiers of the joint army of various provinces have seen Jiang Yu's generosity and open-mindedness, and after returning to their respective provinces, they will inevitably achieve a great propaganda effect.

  Each soldier of the provincial coalition army also received a "Sino-Russian War Medal" awarded by Jiang. With this medal, each soldier can proudly tell his grandson in the future: "Grandpa followed General Jiang to fight against the Russians in Outer Mongolia back then."

  Before the withdrawal, soldiers of various provincial coalition forces all realized that being a soldier under Jiang Yiwu not only had better treatment but also allowed them to fight against foreigners and win battles with him, bringing them glory.

  This laid a solid foundation for Jiang Jieshi's later absorption of various provincial warlords' armed forces.

  This is also the reason why Jiang Yu did not take back the equipment of the 100,000 Allied troops, while other provincial troops that arrived later were also issued firearms, but as soon as the ceasefire agreement was reached, they immediately took them back.

  Jiang Yu gave very advanced equipment, light and heavy machine guns, submachine guns, pistols were given a lot, mortars were also given some, but after all, it was just firearms and small artillery, no heavy equipment, not worth much money.

  Take back those unused Allied equipment, just to tell them that this world has no free lunch, if you want to get benefits from him, you must have made efforts.

  The best treatment was given to the Zhejiang Army, which was closely related to the Revival Army. Not only did they receive firearms, but also heavy equipment. The two divisions that had just been mobilized from Zhejiang, although they did not catch up with the previous battle, were not recalled after being issued equipment.

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  It's 00:10 now, let's start rushing for the top! This chapter is considered as yesterday's second update.

  It's Monday again, and the book "Rainfall" is about to be released. Due to the late signing of the contract, it will only take a few more days for it to drop off the charts. Although it didn't make it to number one on the newcomer chart, which is regrettable, in an environment where newcomers are dominated by brush-penned novels, having just one small recommendation and still managing to reach third place on the newcomer chart with the support of classmates has made Rainfall feel quite relieved.

  I hope we can get a good result in this final sprint! Next time our goal is the click-through rate chart!

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