Why did the Japanese army enter the northeast of China during the Zhang period?

After treaty of shimonoseki, the Qing court, which completely lost its popularity, actually stopped working.

The Qing court not only lost the command of the army, but also lost the ability to restrain the local government. Eight-Nation Alliance organized a group to invade China and hit the imperial capital of the Qing Dynasty. Facing the unreasonable demands of western powers to rewrite the treaty, the Qing court could rely on non-governmental organizations like the Boxer Movement.

Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, breached the imperial city of Beijing, and Cixi fled. At this time, local governors did not lead troops to Beijing, but colluded with western powers to protect themselves. The most famous is Southeast Mutual Insurance. After Cixi returned to Beijing, she completely lost control of the regime. In order to save the Qing court and restore the morale of the people, Cixi gradually delegated power to Emperor Guangxu.

However, Emperor Guangxu was not cut out to do practical things. Be fooled and fucked by Kang Youwei. The Qing court did not re-establish its prestige and trust. The Qing court has completely become an empty shelf. Western powers just want to weaken the Qing court, so as to jointly exploit the interests of the domestic people and get more, rather than completely overthrow the Qing court.

With the distribution of interests, great contradictions have arisen among big countries. The main contradiction is the contradiction between Britain and Russia. In order to gain access to the sea, Russia sent170,000 troops to forcibly annex the northeast, thus gaining access to the sea in Dalian. Other powers demanded that Russia withdraw its troops, but Russia occupied the Northeast for a long time, even? Yellow Russia plan? .

At this time, for the situation in the northeast. The Qing court has actually lost its right to speak. The 90,000 troops of the Qing court stationed in the northeast have been wiped out by the 170,000 troops of Russia. In the northeast, except the area directly controlled by Russia, other areas are controlled by Mao Wang like Zhang.

The Qing court is unreliable, and Britain can only rely on Japan. Britain and Japan signed an alliance treaty and gave Japan a lot of loans. Therefore, Japan has the ability to wage war against Russia. Sino-Japanese relations in history cannot be clearly explained in one or two sentences. Russia's occupation of Northeast China is a violation of interests for Britain, and a strong emotional violation for Japan.

It's hard to explain. However, judging from Japan's military and economic strength and specific interests at that time, it was not necessary for Japan to launch a million-person Russo-Japanese war. The Russo-Japanese War lasted for more than a year, and Japan's human and financial resources far exceeded its interests.

From the perspective of interests, it is not worthwhile for Japan to launch such a large-scale Russo-Japanese war. So we can only analyze it from the feeling. As the king of grass roots, Zhang grew up by taking refuge in Russia.

After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Russia could not rely entirely on supplies from the rear in the face of the powerful Japanese offensive. After all, Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, and its railway capacity is limited. Russia can only rely on local strength to resist the Japanese attack. At this time, Zhang won the first bucket of gold with the support of Russia.

However, it is difficult to explain clearly the feelings of Japan towards the people of China, and so are the feelings of the people of China towards the Japanese. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of overseas students chose to study in Japan, and many words invented by Japan in modern times were applied to China, which is a cultural phenomenon.

For the northeast people at that time, Japan was one of their own. Therefore, Zhang turned to take refuge and participated in the counterattack against Russia. Finally, Russia retreated from the northeast. Northeast China was returned to the Qing court by Japan. At that time, the population in Northeast China was small. In order to prevent Russia from invading again, the Qing court, which lost control of Northeast China, could only hope on Japan.

The Qing court handed over the railway management right of Manchuria and the areas along the line to Japan, including Lushun and Dalian, which were originally controlled by Russia, and allowed Japanese immigrants to reclaim land and station troops in the northeast.

After Japan obtained these rights and interests, it set up the Kanto Governor's Office, and set up six brigades and about one division to take charge of the security work along the Nanman Railway. This is the earliest Japanese garrison in northeast China.

Kanto does not refer to Japan's Kanto. However, during the Russian occupation, Russia called the area east of Shanhaiguan Guandong County, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Russian central government. Later this name was adopted by Japan.

At the same time, the Qing court, which lost control of the local government, had to win over grass-roots kings like Zhang. Zhang was recognized by the Qing court, and was appointed as the governor of Fengtian and the governor of the three northeastern provinces. With the approval of the Qing court, Zhang gradually ate other Wang Cao in Northeast China and became the king of Northeast China.