The first aid to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty defeated the Japanese invaders, but it consumed a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources. The rising economy suffered setbacks, and the military strength was weakened, which provided opportunities for the development of the surrounding foreign forces. For example, Yang Yinglong of Panzhou took the opportunity to launch a rebellion, and the Jurchen of Jianzhou rose rapidly. The Ming Dynasty quickly plunged into a comprehensive political and economic crisis and perished less than 50 years after the war.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, China's Westernization Movement failed, and China's journey to modern times was interrupted. Instead, China "compensated" Japan for 230 million taels of silver, equivalent to Japan's fiscal revenue for seven years at that time. China's huge reparations have injected powerful capital blood into the rise of Japan. It is equivalent to relying on China to create a new Japan. It also provided the best motivation for Japanese to covet China many times. Today, beside the Chunfan Building where treaty of shimonoseki was negotiated, the Japanese government still stands such a monument. The inscription reads: Today's national prestige is really rooted in the Sino-Japanese War. This maritime war provoked by the Japanese ended in "treaty of shimonoseki", which humiliated all China people and denied all the achievements of the Westernization Movement. There is no way out without reform, and the fruits of reform have been ruined by Japan. Ancient China, therefore, missed a good opportunity for a rich country, Qiang Bing. The Japanese threat, like a nightmare, has brought devastating blows to China again and again.
The Japanese war of aggression against China, which started on 193 1 for the third time, caused huge losses of people and property to China and hit the whole national system hard. After years of research and calculation, China historians have come to the conclusion that in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China suffered more than 35 million casualties and China lost more than 560 billion dollars in property and war consumption.
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