红男爵

縂有點東西還是要記錄一下的，順路應景似的更新一下space。免得總是舊面孔。

先說說國家大事吧，呵呵，基本不談政治

早在03年時，（切换输入法）跟老摆一起在坦博被捕……，（虽然从侧面印证了，我跟老摆的形象也是英明神武，高大威猛，但是这个经历还是不太好，不细说了）

当时就跟老摆谈起，某位在贵州的同学告诉我，车载激光武器大进，还进行了陆基激光武器试验。回北大后，即与张统帅并明远谈起此事，

可惜时至去年才有官方报道验证，可怜我辈信息可信度打了折扣啊。

当然要说的不是这个，据说共军激光武器早已到了车载的程度。目下视线已经转移到了电磁武器。

再说说可怜的空军，在结束了文革干扰之后，在结束了集体所有制对生产力的束缚之后，在军转民减轻国家负担的背景下，飞机的质量却越来越差

且不说被洪某人一篇文章吹上了天的J7E，某团在改装止后，竟然五年之间摔了四架飞机，飞行员无一生还，西北某部竟然出现了，飞行机动中突然甩丢的发动机的重大安全事故。又说某团兴高采烈接回了新的J7E，第一个起降，飞机上的铆钉就丢了一半……；又某团在民用机场转场，起飞时发动机突然起火，事后飞行员感叹到，幸亏今天是民用机场，他为了看景多滑行了10s，如果飞上天的话，估计就没命下来了。

再说J8II，个人很喜欢此类飞机，高空高速，在J8IIF首飞时，曾亲自赐名曰：长杆。可惜还是不争气啊。但此机好歹还是先进装备，不多说了，可就经常出现火控跟导弹没法匹配这个问题……如鲁迅先生所说，“怪哉，这虫……”呵呵，这虫原来找不到出处。

80年代买办横行中美蜜月的时候，某些人以为什么都可以从美国主子那里买回来，当时就给空军某部装了一批GPS导航系统，号称全军第一，战则必胜啊

可怜，买回来之后发现常常接收不到信号不说，这些花了国家大把外汇买回来的东西，竟然定位精度还不如，北京皇冠出租车上的GPS

这天字第一号设备，自从买回来，除了给首长静态展示之外，就再也没有用过。

虽然种种不幸，好在现在领袖也回过神了，大家多读书读好书，也知道买办误国了，加大了军工投入，重建了很多厂子和研究所。虽是应急之时，多少还有弊病，但总比没有好。空军换装的速度已经超过的预期，就连包一机号称手工造的99，也大量出厂，呵呵，可喜可贺啊。

钢铁世界第一就不说了，大飞机，航空铝，铜，金，都排上号了。

海军像造香肠一样一样造新舰，新技术一下子堆满舰身，还真不习惯。早年某人贴过一张铺满消音瓦的宋级照片，当时真以为是刷了一层黑漆啊。哈哈

后来看美国主子的报道，才知道这东西大大的好啊。

核潜艇实在是太机密了，就不说了，反正某艇05年就做完了静浮力测试了，自己玩吧 呵呵

上次去大连就看到瓦良格已经可以自主航行了……

弹道导弹就更别提了，呵呵，凡是敌人封锁的，我们都大跃进了！！！

不过还是想说一个旅六颗值班，六颗战备，呵呵所以不要看帝国主义诋毁我们，吹嘘自己可以毁灭地球，

看看二炮有多少个旅，大概也可以知道我们能毁灭地球多少次。

伟大领袖毛主席教导我们说，一切反动派都是纸老虎！

 

今天就写到这里了，呵呵，看客笑一笑就好了，我已经被AA架走一次了，没有第二次了。

在国外呆得久了，各种类型的人也见得多了，奇谈怪论也听的多了，可是还没见过像下面记叙中这么无耻的，而且竟然是在一个会议上听到的

某关于科索沃问题的论坛，与会者为欧盟各国国际法学家，大部分都是欧盟委员会的顾问级人物。

期间一位女性西班牙籍法学家兴致勃发，跳上讲坛说道：“1885年柏林会议，我们伟大睿智的欧洲政治家，给非洲黑人带去的边界和国家的概念，把非洲从愚昧中拯救出来。”………………（中间省略数段），“我们西方文明国家就是要在世界范围内传播民主和法治，回忆过去穷凶极恶的苏联，被美国政治家所击败，现在又是有英明的美国政治家，阻止了破坏世界和平的中国，我们所能做的就是帮助我们的盟友，建立和平的世界，”………………（再省略若干）“我们一直支持巴勒斯坦行使民族自决权，但是他们愚蠢不堪，不自量力拿起武器对抗以色列，结果把家里的男人都打光了，现在连像样的投票选举都组织不了，而且他们倚仗有武器，欺压犹太定居者，逼以色列人清剿巴勒斯坦城市，巴勒斯坦不能建国，是咎由自取啊”………………再省略若干

此人连续使用了noble，brilliant, 等数个形容词来强调美国政治家的伟大……美国列席旁听的代表听了笑得跟牡丹花似的……

 

我正在郁闷之时，宣布休会，下午茶。

 

一帮人混在一起继续聊，见到一法国人跟一香港人（英藉）聊天，法国人在提到香港时连续说了几次，Hong Kong, China, 香港人突然反驳说Hong Kong is Hong Kong, China is China. They are different. 此时我实在忍不住了……当场摔了盘子……（再省略若干）

 

骂一句这些数典忘祖的二等公民，没有中华人民共和国，这些混蛋连国籍都没有。

一直想写点关于《赌博默示录》的东西，可是无奈懒惰……

偶然在网上看到一篇不错的文章，主体内容跟我想的差不多，就修改之后发布于此。算是广告吧  呵呵

 

我看过很多漫画和动画，其中不乏一些描写人性阴暗面的故事，比方说《金田一少年事件簿》、《死后文》、《绝望教师》，这些漫画/动画里面的人物的言行、所要揭露的黑暗，已经可以说接近变态了。不过这些漫画/动画，终究只是构筑一个虚设的世界或是寄托于虚幻的高于人类的存在，虽然里面的剧情让人战栗，但给人的真实感始终有限，仅仅是观看时的那一瞬的震撼。可《赌博默示录》却不同，它是勾勒出现实社会的漫画，描写社会各阶层间的残酷斗争和人吃人的悲剧。

身处社会底层的人们，因为种种理由，背负巨额债务，每天被讨债的人追着跑。而上流阶层的人，则每日挥金如土，过着奢华的生活。在《赌博默示录》中，这两种生活截然不同的人被连结在一起，低下阶层的人成了上流阶层的人的玩物；上流阶层的人过得太无聊了，所以他们渴望来点新鲜的、来点刺激的，来点可以突显出他们优越地位的游戏。那最佳的游戏对象就是那些在社会上毫无价值、背负巨额负债的人。

在《赌博默示录》之中，剧情可以分成三段。第一场游戏是猜拳，第二场游戏是过桥，第三场游戏则是皇帝牌。其中让人最不寒而栗的，莫过于第二场游戏，过桥。过桥的玩法是，每个债务人穿上缝有号码牌的衣服，来比赛看谁先走过位于10米高处的细长钢筋。他们成了赛马，有钱人则在底下一旁享受着美食，并且下注吆喝着。

这个游戏最令人心寒的是钢筋只有四座，比赛的人却有12个，而且规定只有第一、二名有奖金拿。于是后走的人为了胜利，只有把先走的人推下一途，不然即使你走完全程也没意义。当比赛的人意识到”不是你死就是我亡”这点时，他们都不由自主地哭了。我想他们是为自己的命运是如此地毫无选择而哭吧，如果不推下前面的人，就没办法拿到钱还债，那真的是相当复杂的眼泪。讽刺的是，哭归哭，大家还是在泪光中，把前面的人一个一个推下去。这真的相当疯狂。

在这部漫画中，你真的可以体认到很多东西，那是种现实社会的悲哀与无奈。或许我们不会跟那些比赛的人们一样，得要走铁桥还债，但现实中我们不也是在走着铁桥吗？每个人都想往上爬，但机会却是有限，所以必须把别人推下去。上班族应该最能铁会这种悲哀，当你加入这场往前走、向上爬的游戏时，你就不可能做个明哲保身的人；是的，不是人吃我，就是我吃人，这是吃与被吃的世界。此时此刻不由得想起鲁迅先生的文章，原来真的满本都是“吃人”两个字。

唉，看到在这部漫画中有钱人那副嘴脸，就想起初中政治课学到的。“资本主义的尽头，中间阶层只会渐渐消失，到最后只会剩下贫与富两种人。”悲哀的是，我们无力挣脱这种贫富拉大的命运，因为这的确是相当合情合理的预测，之前商业周刊不就发表类似的见解了吗？世界各国的中产阶级正在渐渐消失。

现在这个社会，已经不是努力，就一定能获得等值的收获。你拼了命打拼一辈子，可能也不过刚好够你晚年苟延残喘。你大部分付出所应该获得的收获，都被上流阶层的人以各种规则不知不觉地蚕食鲸吞。看了《赌博默示录》你就会深刻地体会到这点，你可能为了还钱忙了半天，到头来只是一场空，没赚也没陪，更惨的是搞不好你负债还增加。

在第一个游戏“猜拳”之中，就是这样的情况，你为了还债打拼，但到最后下船时，你只是增加了更多的负债，船上的生死搏斗好像如梦一场。为什么会这样？很简单，因为规则是上面的人在定的，乍看之下可能很合理很公平，但其实真正获得利益的只有他们，我们不过是白忙的小丑罢了。

在这部动画中，除了可以看到大环境的无奈之外，你还可以看到人性的丑恶。这在第一个游戏“猜拳”中最为深刻，主角带领两个同样濒临绝境同伴出生入死、过关斩将，而且牺牲自己把机会给了他们，但到最后那两个“同伴”却仍是为了利益出卖了他。

是的，这世界上没有真正的友情，在“利益”二字面前，友情变得如纸般轻薄！想要朋友拯救你，你就要有那个值得被拯救的价值，永远不要寄望友情这种虚妄的东西。就像漫画中那个同样跟主角一样输光被关的人那样，他为什么敢牺牲自己，先进入玻璃墙另一侧的囚室中为同伴打暗号？就因为他上带有价值千万的钻石，所以如果游戏结束时，朋友不花钱买他救他出来都不行。反观主角呢，在最后把一切都托付给了同伴，自己两手空空就进入了囚室，因为他没有了价值，所以也就被同伴给抛弃了、用完就丢。

这部动画对一个学生来说，真的是一部很沉重的动画片，因为它把你人生中过去相信的美好事物，一层一层地把它剥下来，露出在背后的丑恶人性。虽然如此，但我想这部漫画真的值得年轻人去看、去审思，如刘庸所说，一针很痛的预防针，总比事后的层层补救要好。与其让你以后才来惊觉，帮人数钞票的自己已经被人卖了，还不如一开始就让你有这个心理准备要好。

 

There are two main articles popular in western country which record the war between China and Japan during 1894-1895. One is The Battle of the Yalu by Philo Norton McGiffin in Century Magazine. The other one is Under the Dragon Flag - My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War by James Allan. This essay will discuss those two articles, and the image of the First Sino-Japanese War in western society.

The First Sino-Japanese War was a war fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan over the control of Korea. The Sino-Japanese War would come to symbolize the degeneration and enfeeblement of the Qing Dynasty and demonstrate how successful modernization had been in Japan since the Meiji Restoration as compared with the Self-Strengthening Movement in China. The principal results were a shift in regional dominance in Asia from China to Japan and a fatal blow to the Qing Dynasty and the Chinese classical tradition. These trends would result later in the 1911 Revolution.

Japan long had a desire to expand its realm to the mainland of east Asia. During Toyotomi Hideyoshi's rule in the late 16th century, Japan had invaded Korea (1592-1598) but after initial successes had failed to achieve complete victory and control of Korea.

After two centuries, the seclusion policy, or Sakoku, under the shoguns of the Edo period came to an end when the country was forced open to trade by American intervention in 1854. The years following the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and the fall of the Shogunate had seen Japan transform itself from a feudal and comparatively backward society to a modern industrial state. The Japanese had sent delegations and students around the world in order to learn and assimilate western arts and sciences, this was done to prevent Japan falling under foreign domination and also enable Japan to compete equally with the Western powers.

As a newly emergent country, Japan turned its attention towards Korea. It was vital for Japan, in order to protect its own interests and security, to either annex Korea before it fell prey (or was annexed) to another power or to insure its effective independence by opening its resources and reforming its administration. As one Japanese statesman put it, Korea was "an arrow pointed at the heart of Japan". Japan felt that another power having a military presence on the Korean peninsula would have been detrimental to Japanese national security, and so Japan resolved to end the centuries-old Chinese suzerainty over Korea. Moreover, Japan realized that Korea’s coal and iron ore deposits would benefit Japan's increasingly-expanding industrial base.

Korea had traditionally been a tributary state and continued to be so under the influence of China's Qing dynasty, which exerted large influence over the conservative Korean officials gathered around the royal family of the Joseon Dynasty. Opinion in Korea itself was split; conservatives wanted to retain the traditional subservient relationship with China, while reformists wanted to establish closer ties with Japan and western nations. After two Opium Wars and the Sino-French War, China had become weak and was unable to resist western intervention and encroachment (see Unequal Treaties). Japan saw this as an opportunity to replace Chinese influence in Korea with its own.

They then launched the war for Japanese is the most outstanding nation to be able to lead the Asia and even the whole world. In late 19th century, at that time, Japan's most influential community of the so-called great thinker Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901, was born in bushido family), in Darwin's natural selection theory of evolution. the survival of the fittest ideas such as a profound influence, he firmly believes, only experienced a few hundred years of educated samurais who have the ability to receive Western culture. He's thinking of this in 1885 when it evolved into his “Out of Asia, Into Europe”. Yukichi Fukuzawa believed that Japan should not stay with China, North Korea and other "backward" Asian countries, but should learn from the West. He said China, Korea and other Asian countries were all primitive in culture, with China, North Korea and other countries, Japan would be treated as uncivilized country. Therefore, When the Japanese government launched the First Sino-Japanese War to the Qing government of China, he was very agitated. He immediately launched a donation to support the war. Yukichi Fukuzawa's theory and guidance was through almost a hundred years in Japan's history.

On February 26, 1876, after certain incidents and confrontations involving Korean isolationists and the Japanese, Japan imposed the Treaty of Ganghwa on Korea, forcing Korea to open itself to Japanese and foreign trade and to proclaim its independence from China in its foreign relations.

In 1884 a group of pro-Japanese reformers briefly overthrow the pro-Chinese conservative Korean government in a bloody coup d'état. However, the pro-Chinese faction, with assistance from Chinese troops under General Yuan Shikai, succeeded in regaining control with an equally bloody counter-coup which resulted not only in the deaths of a number of the reformers, but also in the burning of the Japanese legation and the deaths of several legation guards and citizens in the process. This caused an incident between Japan and China, but was eventually settled by the Sino-Japanese Convention of Tientsin of 1885 in which the two sides agreed to (a) pull their expeditionary forces out of Korea simultaneously; (b) not send military instructors for the training of the Korean military; and (c) notify the other side beforehand should one decide to send troops to Korea. The Japanese, however, were frustrated by repeated Chinese attempts to undermine their influence in Korea.

The Japanese success during the war was the result of the modernisation and industrialisation embarked on two decades earlier. The war demonstrated the superiority of Japanese tactics and training as a result of the adoption of a western style military. The Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were able to inflict a string of defeats on the Chinese through foresight, endurance, strategy and power of organization. Japanese prestige rose in the eyes of the world. The victory established Japan as a regional power (if not a great power) on equal terms with the west and as the dominant power in Asia.

The war for China revealed the failure of its government, its policies, the corruption of the administration system and the decaying state of the Qing dynasty (something that had been recognised for decades). Anti-foreign sentiment and agitation grew and would later accumulate in the form of the Boxer Rebellion five years later. Throughout the 19th century the Qing dynasty was unable to prevent foreign encroachment—this together with calls for reform and the Boxer Rebellion would be the key factors that would lead to 1911 revolution and the downfall of the Qing dynasty in 1912.

Although Japan had achieved what it had set out to accomplish, namely to end Chinese influence over Korea, Japan reluctantly had been forced to relinquished the Liaodong Peninsula (Port Arthur) in exchange for an increased financial indemnity. The European powers (Russia especially) while having no objection to the other clauses of the treaty, did feel that Japan should not gain Port Arthur, for they had their own ambitions in that part of the world. Russia persuaded Germany and France to join her in applying diplomatic pressure on the Japanese, resulting in the Triple Intervention of 23 April 1895.

In 1898 Russia signed a 25-year lease on Liaodong Peninsula and preceded to set up a naval station at Port Arthur. Although this infuriated the Japanese, they were more concerned with Russian encroachment towards Korea than in Manchuria. Other powers, such as France, Germany, and Great Britain, took advantage of the situation in China and gained port and trade concessions at the expense of the decaying Qing Empire. Tsingtao and Kiaochow was acquired by Germany, Kwang-Chou-Wan by France, and Weihaiwei by Great Britain.

Tensions between Russia and Japan would increase in the years after the First Sino-Japanese war. During the Boxer Rebellion an eight member international force was sent to suppress and quell the uprising; Russia sent troops into Manchuria as part of this force. After the suppression of the Boxers the Russian Government agreed to vacate the area. However by 1903 it had actually increased the number of its forces in Manchuria. Negotiations between the two nations (1901–1904) to establish mutual recognition of respective spheres of influence (Russia over Manchuria and Japan over Korea) were repeatedly and intentionally stalled by the Russians. They felt that they were strong and confident enough not to accept any compromise and believed Japan would not dare go to war against a European power. Russia also had intentions to use Manchuria as a springboard for further expansion of its interests in the Far East.

In 1902, Japan formed an alliance with Britain the terms of which stated that if Japan went to war in the Far East, and that a third power entered the fight against Japan, then Britain would come to the aid of the Japanese. This was a check to prevent either Germany or France from intervening militarily in any future war with Russia. British reasons for joining the alliance were also to check the spread of Russian expansion into the Pacific, thereby threatening British interests.

Increasing tensions between Japan and Russia as a result of Russia's unwillingness to enter into a compromise and the prospect of Korea falling under Russia's domination, therefore coming into conflict with and undermining Japan's interests, compelled Japan to take action. This would be the deciding factor and catalyst that would lead to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–05.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan became more and more powerful. During Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan not only overcame the Chinese, but also got rid of control from western countries, Japan stood far away in front of the Chinese.

Japan's rapid rising brought hope to the oriental world, set up a good example for Asian countries to get rid of Western control and independent development. As the traffic inconvenience, it was too hard for the Chinese people travel to the West to study advanced develop theories. By then Japan’s experience became the only choice for the Chinese to study and copy, Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu and Sun Yat-sen those as China's political and intellectual elite traveled to Japan to study to explore China's self-reliant road, and some of them even use Japan as its base to fight against Qing Empire.