甲午战争

This is not about three kingdoms anymore. I think I have more or less said what I wanted to say about that era....

'When there is nothing left to say, the only thing left to say is goodbye' -H.K.T.

During the Jiawu year of Qing Dynasty, Japan attacked China. (Japan was in the heat of things with the Meiji Reformation, becoming a strong country that subsequently defeated Russia in another war)

Due to the over-reliance on foreign negotiations with America and the rest of the western countries, China lost as everybody wanted to stand by the side and watch.....

Li Hongzhang was blamed entirely for the war as he was the one that had great confidence of foreign diplomatic ties....

But I dont think that he was the only person to blame..... Empress Dowager Cixi insisted on building the Summer Palace for her own birthday, pinning the national treasury under the huge weight of the expense......China had no money to buy powerful arms

I think sometimes fate is not fair to great men..... Li Hongzhang was a great man..... but was incapacitated by situation

I learnt this theory from Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei's outstanding student..... And I agree....

My point is?

Fate is not fair to great men.... Situations are never kind to capable men.....

More History stuff soon.... Haha