There are three miracles in modern China, and missing one of them will change history and even lead to the destruction of the country. Without these three miracles, what would China be like today?
The first miracle, Daqing Oilfield.
The reason why Japan invaded China in the first place was, to a large extent, to seize China's resources. Japan itself is just a small country with a lack of resources, but it can create a large number of advanced countries to invade other countries, and their resources come from? Most of them are imported. For example, there are almost no oil resources in Japan that were crucial to the war.
Before 1941, 80 percent of Japan's oil resources came from the United States, 10 percent from Western colonies such as the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya, and 10 percent from small amounts from other countries and Japanese overseas territories, such as the oil fields in southern Sakhalin. Japan has also tried to artificially produce oil using the "synthetic oil" technology, but the production is extremely low, and it is a drop in the bucket compared to the huge demand generated by the war of aggression.
Therefore, the Japanese also understand the truth of taking strategic resources into their own hands. If you rely on imports for a long time, on the one hand, it will consume a lot of money, and on the other hand, it is easy to be "stuck" by people and threatened by cutting off exports. However, Japan's local resources are too scarce, so they have their eyes on China, which has a lot of land and resources.
In fact, long before Japan, Britain, the United States, Russia and other Western powers tried to explore oil resources in northeast China. After the signing of the "Xinchou Treaty," the United States even sent a special oil investigation delegation to explore the northeast. After 11 years of exploration, the Americans came to the conclusion that the Northeast could not have large areas of oil resources.
However, the Japanese did not believe in this conclusion, as early as 1928, Japan's "Manchurian Railway Geological Survey" staff member Shindai Kunitaro had infiltrated the northeast and conducted exploration in the area of the Mudanjiang River for more than two months, but found nothing. Unconvinced, Kunitaro Shinobi made a comeback in 1929 with a staff of 14, but returned a few months later.
At that time, Japan had not yet invaded Tohoku, so these two surveys were carried out secretly. In 1931, after Japan launched the "918 Incident" to invade and occupy Northeast China, it carried out open large-scale resource exploration in Northeast China. Although at this time the Japanese academic circles were also inclined to have no oil fields in Northeast China, the Japanese military headquarters issued an order requiring them to find oil fields in Northeast China.
Why was the Japanese military so tough? Because they know the importance of oil resources for the war effort. Whether it is tanks, armored vehicles, trucks on the ground, fighters and bombers in the sky, or ** and submarines at sea, if there is no oil, they will all lose their function and become a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.
And Japan's oil lifeline is in foreign hands, which the Japanese military cannot tolerate. So in 1934, Japan established the so-called "Manchuria Petroleum Co., Ltd." to explore oil in Fuxin, Qiqihar, Mudanjiang and other places. However, after seven years of investigation, they still have not found a large-scale oil field. In 1941, the oil exploration team was transferred to Southeast Asia, and Japan's oil exploration in Tohoku was basically completed.
In fact, Japan is only one step away from finding the all-important Daqing oil field. For example, the "Songji No. 1 Well" in the Daqing Oilfield has also been targeted by the exploration queue. However, this is the "guerrilla zone" of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, where the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation often launches guerrilla warfare and destroys Japanese military facilities.
Another example is the "Songji Mitsui" in the Daqing Oilfield, where the Japanese have explored on the spot and dug to a depth of 1,000 meters, but still no oil has been found. It's not impossible to dig any further, but the technical difficulty is very great, and it will take a longer time. But the Japanese didn't want to spend so much time in one place, and they were desperate to find a new oil field, so they abandoned Songji Mitsui and went elsewhere to explore.
But in fact, the oil production point of Songji Mitsui is at a depth of 1,300 meters, and the Chinese exploration team successfully discovered the oil field here after the founding of the People's Republic of China. And the oil fields are often distributed in patches, if the Japanese find oil in Songji Mitsui, they will inevitably carry out deep exploration in the surrounding area, and then discover the entire Daqing oil field. In other words, Japan is only 300 meters away from the Daqing oil field, which is rich in reserves. This distance was only 300 meters, and Japan was unable to cross it until the defeat.
And it is precisely because of this 300 meters that the Japanese did not find Songji Mitsui, and also missed the entire Daqing oilfield. Japan, which had failed in oil exploration in Tohoku, had to turn its attention to Southeast Asia and had the idea of seizing oil resources from its Western colonies. It can be said that Japan's eventual attack on Pearl Harbor and the West's turn of face are closely related to this.
And if Japan discovers the Daqing oil field, the consequences will be unimaginable. The annual output of the Daqing Oilfield far exceeds Japan's annual consumption, even if the oil exploitation technology during World War II is not so advanced, the resources of the Daqing Oilfield are enough to meet Japan's basic needs, and their war machine can continue to operate.
In this way, Japan may not launch aggression against Southeast Asia, or postpone it for several years, and China will be in danger. Even if Japan were to be defeated in the end, it would take longer and cost more sacrifices, and it would be more difficult to rebuild after the war. But Japan has not discovered the Daqing oilfield, which has to make people sigh that God blesses China.
The second miracle is the unity of the war of resistance.
Why was our country defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War, but it was able to defeat Japan, which was even more powerful than that year? To a large extent, this is because the Chinese nation is much more united and has a stronger mobilization capacity than it was back then.
During the First Sino-Japanese War, many people did not realize the importance of this war, and even most people did not know about the existence of this war at all. Even if they do, they tend to think that it is a matter between the government and the Japanese. Qing ** has neither the ability nor the ability to mobilize the masses. As a result, more people knew about the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi than about the First Sino-Japanese War, and the degree of support for the First Sino-Japanese War from all walks of life in China can be imagined.
Therefore, after the Japanese army invaded Liaoning and Shandong, the various departments of the Qing army still passed the buck to each other. Except for a small number of troops who desperately resisted and fought battles such as the bloody battle of Niuzhuang, most of the troops often fled in despair, or even refused to march. For example, when rescuing Weihaiwei in Shandong, the Qing troops from all walks of life were hesitant and slow to act. The imperial court urged many times, but in the end no reinforcements arrived in Weihaiwei. As a result, Weihaiwei was isolated and fell like this, and the retreat of the Qing troops from all walks of life was quite rapid.
The situation in Liaoning is the same, such as the important towns of Lushun and Dalian, where the Qing Dynasty originally built extremely strong fortifications, reserved a large number of materials, and set up heavy guards. As a result, when the Japanese army landed, no Qing army dared to stop it, but the local peasants spontaneously attacked the Japanese army, delaying the Japanese army's advance. After the Japanese army arrived in Dalian, Zhao Huaiye, the defender of Dalian, fled directly. The Japanese army immediately attacked Lushun, and most of the defenders fled without a fight, and the important town of Lushun was captured in one day.
All in all, China during the First Sino-Japanese War was a state of fragmentation and fragmentation, with a very low degree of unity, so Japan, which was still a small country at the time, was able to quickly force the Qing Dynasty to sue for peace. But the state of affairs during the War of Resistance was completely different, and although Japan was stronger and China was still in deep crisis, we were united.
In fact, a year before Japan launched the "September 18 Incident", a tragic civil war broke out in China -- the Central Plains War, and Japan also used this as a basis to believe that China was in chaos and could take advantage of the situation. But what they didn't expect was that although Chiang Kai-shek implemented the policy of "settling the inside before attacking the outside" and retreated to Japan step by step, the Chinese people from all walks of life set off a wave of resistance against Japan, and held demonstrations again and again to demand the war of resistance, such as the "129 Movement" in 1935.
Before Japan's full-scale invasion of China in 1937, China actually experienced several civil wars, such as Chiang Kai-shek's repeated "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army, the "Fujian Incident" of the 19th Route Army against Chiang Kai-shek, the "Liangguang Incident" of the warlords of Guangdong and Guangxi against Chiang Kai-shek, and the internal scuffle of the Sichuan warlords. However, when Japan really expanded its aggression and tried to annihilate China in one fell swoop, it was surprised to find that China was no longer what it used to be.
After a decade of civil war, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reunited and formed a united front. And the warlords in various places who were originally fighting each other actually united and jointly sent troops to resist the invasion.
For example, the Sichuan army, although it has a large number of people, has not had a good reputation in the past due to the perennial civil war. After the July 7 Incident, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang said: "In the Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million strong men, and supply tens of thousands of stone of grain!" ”
He also personally led the Sichuan army out of the Sichuan War of Resistance, at this time Liu Xiang was weak and sickly, some people advised him to recuperate in the rear, and did not have to go to the front line, but Liu Xiang said: "In the past, he fought a civil war for many years, and his face was not very glorious. Liu Xiang did what he said, and later died of illness in the process of commanding the Anti-Japanese War.
Not only the Sichuan army, but all the armies are fighting in the war, and they are really building a new Great Wall with flesh and blood. Whether it was the ** Army, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, or the Gui Army, the Guangdong Army, the Hunan Army, the Jin Sui Army and the Dian Army of the warlords in various places, they all paid great sacrifices in the War of Resistance. And even those who were not on the front line, such as Xinjiang and Gansu, provided a stable rear for the war of resistance, transported a lot of supplies, and also acted as a transit point for Soviet aid.
At the same time, overseas Chinese also donated money and materials for the Anti-Japanese War, and even returned directly to the motherland to participate in the Anti-Japanese War, which had never appeared in the First Sino-Japanese War. If China continues to be scattered as it was back then, I am afraid that it will be in danger of extinction. It was precisely because of the unprecedented unity of the Chinese nation that the Japanese invaders were finally defeated than those years.
The third miracle, China has a ***
Dongfang Hong, the sun rises, China has a *** He seeks happiness for the people, he is the people's savior" The lyrics of this song "Dongfang Hong" are the heartfelt words of countless Chinese. The emergence of ** can be said to have completely changed the history of China and reversed the fate of China, and he is a miracle of China in itself.
In 1910, ** left Shaoshan to study, leaving behind the poem "Why bury bones in the mulberry ground, life is everywhere green mountains", and began his legendary experience.
In 1921, the Communist Party of China was founded. As a representative of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he participated in this groundbreaking event.
In 1925, during the National Revolution, he published "An Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society", which pointed out the direction for the revolution.
In August 1927, in the face of the counter-revolutionary coups launched by Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei one after another, he put forward the slogan of "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" in an unprecedented critical situation, advocating armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries, and became a rare firm voice in a pessimistic and compromise rhetoric.
In 1928, in the face of the difficult situation of the revolution, he creatively proposed the road of "encircling the cities from the countryside and seizing power by armed force", clearly pointing out the direction of the victory of the revolution.
In 1930, in the pessimistic atmosphere of successive setbacks for the Red Army, he firmly pointed out that "a spark can start a prairie fire." At that difficult moment, he still firmly believed that the flame of revolution would burn throughout China.
In 1932, in the face of the Japanese invaders' continuous attack on China, and the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang, he resolutely issued the "Declaration of War against Japan", which was the first to make a tough response to Japan.
In 1934, in the gloomy fog after the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, he still maintained his confidence in victory and embarked on the road of the Long March.
In 1935, at the moment when the Red Army was in a desperate situation, he stood up at the Zunyi Conference and saved the fate of the Red Army. Four crossings of the Chishui, skillful crossing of the Jinsha River, and forcible crossing of the Dadu River, he created one military miracle after another.
In 1937, at the critical moment when Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, he gave priority to national interests, agreed to the reorganization of the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and went to the anti-Japanese front, and resolutely opposed compromise and surrender.
In 1938, the squadron was defeated on the battlefield, losing many large cities one after another, and the theory of surrender was very loud. However, he published "On Protracted War", which clearly pointed out that if we persist in resisting, victory will definitely belong to China.
In 1945, he and Huang Yanpei pointed out that they wanted to find a new way for China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he risked his life to go to Chongqing to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek, and reached the "Double Tenth Agreement".
In 1947, in the face of the Kuomintang army that was directly attacking northern Shaanxi, he resolutely gave up Yan'an and fought in northern Shaanxi, using himself as a bait to attract more than 200,000 Kuomintang troops, and finally annihilated Hu Zongnan's heavy army group, which greatly improved the situation of the Liberation War.
In 1949, he withstood the pressure from the Soviet Union and the United States and resolutely launched the battle to cross the river, liberating Nanjing in one fell swoop, and shattering the Kuomintang's dream of "dividing the river and ruling the country". On October 1, he presided over the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China and announced the founding of New China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he also made a series of far-reaching contributions.
He completely swept away China's "pornography, gambling, drug and blackness", and reformed the relevant personnel to make them citizens of the new society, accomplishing what previous dynasties and dynasties had not been able to accomplish.
He cleared out bandits and stabilized social order. For the first time, Chinese people saw the ideal vision of "Datong Society" and experienced the life of "never closing the door at night and not leaving the road behind".
He clearly proposed the equality of men and women, "women can hold up half the sky", changed the pattern of male superiority and inferiority of women in China for thousands of years, liberated half of China's population, and made them truly a member of society.
In addition, there are too many achievements to list them all. But what is certain is that without *** China's fate would be completely different. ** is a miracle of China in itself, and the people of Chinese will always remember him.