Fukuzawa Yukichi's thoughts.

It was Fukuzawa Yukichi who told the Japanese how to rise. He is a famous Japanese thinker and educator. He once advocated giving up studying the decadent and backward "Qing Empire", but studying the European powers in an all-round way to realize "leaving Asia and entering Europe".

Fukuzawa Yukichi said that a nation needs to change three aspects if it wants to rise:

The first is the change of people's thinking, completely throwing away the dross of "traditional thinking" that lags behind the times.

The second is the change of political system, learning from European political system.

The third is the change of utensils, shipbuilding and railway repair, with foreign guns and guns.

Fukuzawa Yukichi emphasized that the order of these three changes cannot be reversed. On the other hand, Japan can become strong in a short time, but this strength is only hollow.

As a result, Japan, a small country, declined in the order listed by Fukuzawa Yukichi.

The Qing dynasty stubbornly did the opposite, and launched a vigorous Westernization Movement to change the "artifacts" on the premise of "the people's hearts remain unchanged and the political system remains unchanged" ...

Soon after, in 1888, Qing established the "Beiyang Navy", which was then known as the eighth in the world and the first in Asia.

However, only six years later, in 1894, the famous Beiyang Navy was completely annihilated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1895.

And Japan became the eighth power in the world and began to carve up China with the world powers such as Britain and France. ...