What can we learn from the different endings of Meiji Restoration in Japan and the Reform Movement of 1898 in China?

First, you can win only if you are stable, and you should be practical in doing things.

Second, in their words, reactionaries will not be willing to fail.

Meiji Restoration adopted a redemption system for the aristocratic status and privileges of Japan, that is, to redeem the privileges in the hands of nobles with heavy money.

After gaining the understanding and even support of most old nobles and military generals, they attacked the stubborn and conservative shogunate, that is, the "curtain war" during the Meiji Restoration.

China's Reform Movement of 1898 is a typical scholar who loves his country and mistakes his country.

There is no repayment mechanism. As soon as the reformists were appreciated by the emperor, they infiltrated into the organs of state power unscrupulously, and at the same time they advocated the unconditional abolition of all the privileges of the old aristocracy. In fact, they did.

It is a good thing to dare to think and do, but Guangxu had no ruling experience and did not inherit the spirit of forbearance and cruelty of his ancestors, which eventually led to a full-scale counterattack by most people in the Qing Dynasty and relatives. It is strange that they can succeed.