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Chapter 11 On the general trend of national competition in modern times and the future of China (October 15, 1899)

Section 1 Differences between Nationals and Countries The Chinese do not know that there are nationals. For thousands of years, the common language has only been called by the word country, and no one has been called by the word national.Who is the country?What are the nationals?The country is also called the country as a private property.The origin of the ancient country must come from the family.The elders of a clan, if they are brave, lead their clan to compete with other clans, and over time, they turn their families into a country, and their power is unlimited. Slaves and flocks of animals, whips and lords, a family loses power, and other families replace it. When it is time, it is called a country.Citizens are called the country as the common property of the people.A country is formed by accumulating people, and without the people, there is no country.The people of a country rule the affairs of a country, determine the laws of a country, seek the benefits of a country, and defend a country's troubles. If the people cannot be obtained, they will be insulted, and the country will be destroyed if they cannot obtain it. This is what is called a citizen.

Section 2 Differences between national competition and national competition There is competition among countries, and there is competition among citizens.Competitors of the country are those whose monarch corrupts their people to compete with other countries; national competitors are those who each of the people of a country competes with other countries for the relationship of life and property.Confucius' unrighteous warfare, Mozi's non-offensive, and Mencius' so-called cannibalism of the land, which is a crime that cannot be tolerated by death, are all words of national competitors.Modern European experts said: "Competitors are the mother of evolution; warlords are the mediators of civilization." This is what national competitors say.National competition is weak, national competition is strong; national competition is short, and national competition is long.Today's husband Qin Shihuang, Alexander, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and the people who are known as the most powerful martial arts in ancient and modern Eastern and Western history books, their battles are all born of the ambition of being a hog and a snake, sweeping all the aspirations, chasing after each other, It can no longer be controlled, so he does not hesitate to drive people from a country to die.Its war is also a war of one person, not a war of one country.Only one man's battle, so all those who follow the battle are forced to go to it, and those who can avoid it are lucky to be spared. Because of this, the army's will is easy to lose, and the army's spirit is easy to be discouraged, so it is said to be weak. ; Only one person's war, so once the person is defeated, once he dies, the battle will disappear and disintegrate without leaving its influence, so it is said that the time is short.If the national competition is the opposite.Anyone who is in charge of state affairs should regard the enemy country as the competition of the country when the country is in trouble?Competition for the people?Then you can talk about the method of defense.

Section 3 Competitiveness in today's world and its origin Woohoo, the fate of world competition is so extreme today!Its driving force originated in Europe, turned to battle and advanced, twisted like a whirlwind, as fast as an electric shock, suddenly smashed, and spread all over the world.Try to put on a map, there are six continents in the world, five of them are white, and the rest is only one continent of Asia.And this Asia, one-half of its area and four-tenths of its population, already belongs to the elbow and armpit of white people.Covering the entire continent from the middle to the north, it is already owned by the Russians, and the Caspian Sea is almost like the inner lake of Russia.The entire territory of Central India in the south is occupied by British slaves, and Afghanistan and Baloch, which are adjacent to India to the west, are also British protectorates and fall within their sphere of influence.Forty years ago, France began to get involved in the southeast of Asia; in the first year of Tongzhi, it occupied Jiaozhi and destroyed Cambodia; in the tenth year of Guangxu, it fell to Annan;The British died in Burma in the eleventh year of Guangxu and captured their king.However, Persia was left with only a remnant due to the equal power of Britain and Russia.Because of the agreement between Russia and Japan, Koryo is in talks to save the rest of its life.As far as the Europeans can compete, in addition to the other four continents, those who have obtained territories in Asia are:

Its competitiveness is strong and so is its past achievements.Today, we are moving to the east, and all the horses are working together to gather in our country.However, the origin of its power and its ultimate destination must be paid attention to with anxiety. Since the last century, with the rise of science, the rise of machinery, the rise of capital, and the rise of industry, the whole of Europe has suffered from overproduction, and its products have to find places to sell. It is called a new world, and it is said to be enough to adjust the expansion of Europe. However, for hundreds of years, it has become a land of its own products, and what was once the territory of European colonization is now seeking to colonize other territories.Secondly, like India, like Australia, the Europeans run it with all their strength, and they will rely on it as a place to consume their products. It will not be able to be consumed for a few decades, and the products produced locally are also actively seeking to be sold in the market. other places.As a result, the Europeans were in great embarrassment and had no choice but to divide Asia and Africa, and the whole continent was in a frenzy. Today, even a grain of sand in the Sahara Desert has sovereignty.Although, with European industry and commerce, and wanting to patronize Africans, although painstaking efforts have been made to open it up, the results will be achieved after hundreds of years, and the situation of overproduction cannot last forever.As a result, the Europeans became very embarrassed, so the emperor looked around, looking around at the vast land, and had to blink his eagle eyes and salivate at his tiger's mouth, secretly sucking away my four-thousand-year-old civilized motherland, China, which is a rich and fertile heaven for 20,000,000 miles.

Section 4 Competition in the world today National competition is also From this point of view, the competition between Europe and the United States today is not like Qin Shihuang, Alexander, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon's followers who carried out their ambitions and ransom their soldiers for a quick time. Resentment, seeking temporary self-interest, and raising troops to build grievances, its driving force is the struggle for self-preservation among the people.Inferring it based on the common practice of natural selection of natural performers, superiors win and inferior losers, it means that those who have desires but cannot do so.Therefore, its contention is not a matter of the state, but a matter of the crowd; it is not a matter of the monarch, but a matter of the people; Things.In the past, the disputes between husband and wife belonged to the politics of the monarchy, and the people may not necessarily have the same desires; today, everyone is fighting for their lives and property, and all people are as one.In the past, the disputes belonged to the monarchy and politics of the country, and they could be stopped after the time passed; now, they are always fighting for their lives and property, and there is no end to the past.Woohoo, it's in danger!Whoever bears the brunt, how to resist it?

Section 5 Future of China The mourning guest said: "Alas, I don't know that there are citizens in China."I don't know that there are citizens, so I mistake the competition of the nationals for the competition of the country, so I can't treat it according to the way, and it is finally controlled by it.How to treat it?Said: Those who invade by the country can be resisted by the power of the country; those who invade by the people must be resisted by the power of the people.The national power is the most powerful and persevering among all powers!The development of national power in Europe has only been a matter of more than a hundred years, but it has been used to denounce the eight poles, poison the world, and do it with ease.Although, a country that is within its power must be a country that has no national power.If there is a country with national power, the European front will have to be stopped, and the rudder will have to be turned.How to prove it?In the past, in countries other than Caucasians, it was rare to have such power. Thirty years ago, Japan encountered it once, and recently, it encountered it again in the Philippines. Republic, close to war with Great Britain).If you compare Japan thirty years ago with the Philippines and De Langs of today, the strengths and weaknesses of the European and American heroes are incomparable. ?With the power of the people, to resist the invasion of other people's competition, what it does is appropriate and the effect is easy.

Today in China, what is said about the national territory is the private property of the family; what is said about the international (that is, negotiation incidents) is the private affairs of the family; what is said about the national calamity is the private disaster of the family;The people do not know that there is a country, and the country does not know that there are people. It may be possible to survive in the world where the previous countries compete with each other. Now it is also when the national competition is the fiercest.How will it stand up to it! !Europeans know the origin of the disease, so they often threaten our country with violent force, and invade our people with dark force.Why did Wei Guo use such force?Knowing that the power of the country will not be enough to resist us, and the state affairs are beyond the people's control, and the people have no patriotism, even if they destroy their country, they will not be angry.Why do we need to use dark force to invade the people?Knowing that the government does not love the people, even if it invades it, it will not be enough to move their hearts. I am afraid that once the people know it, their power will be released and they will not be able to control it.Alas!Aren't today's railways, mines, customs duties, concessions, and missionary affairs all done by hidden forces?To make full use of the power of the dark force, we must put all our power on today's government and officials in various provinces, and coerce them to suppress our people, so that our people will never be awakened, and the power of the people will never be developed. The so-called overproduction and the imperial struggle for self-survival can be achieved by using our country as a foreign government, and there is no need to worry about it. This is the ambition of the Europeans.Alas!Does anyone in our country know this?If it is not known, I would like it to know because it thinks; if it is known, I would like it to act because it thinks.How to do it?Said that it is still in the power of the people.How can the people be powerful?Strength is something that no one else can give me. I own it and stretch it out, seek it and get it myself.Those European citizens are so powerful that they don't know how many heads and blood are spilled to change them.The nationals, the nationals, are they striving for self-preservation, or are they not as good as the Philippines and De Langshi?

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