1895 After the news that the Qing government signed the treaty of shimonoseki came out, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others joined thousands of candidates to write to Emperor Guangxu, opposing the Qing government's signing of the treaty of shimonoseki, which humiliated the country and demanded political reform. This is the famous bus letter. On June 1898+0 1 day, Emperor Guangxu promulgated the imperial edict of "making the country a state", announcing the beginning of the Reform Movement of 1898. The Reform Movement of 1898 played an enlightening role in society and laid the foundation for the spread of bourgeois ideas.