In Lu You's poem "The Fisherman's Pride": "Write a book full of paper! Tears streaming down my face, the book will be returned next year. " Explain that ancient information is very smooth. The appearance of homing pigeons can only be said to effectively speed up the transmission of information. Carrier pigeons first appeared in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. At that time, the ancients found that they could make use of the habit of pigeons automatically finding nests and began to gradually cultivate and breed homing pigeons to help deliver letters. During this period, Japan just sent a large number of envoys to the Tang Dynasty, and the method of raising and cultivating homing pigeons also spread to Japan.
After a long period of cultivation and dissemination, carrier pigeons were widely used in the war in Japan during the Warring States period to help both sides pass information internally. With the passage of time, the scale of pigeon breeding in Japan has gradually begun to expand. During the Edo period, books handed down by homing pigeons among the people also began to spread widely to convey letters or some business information.
At that time, Japan's social and economic conditions were poor. Only wealthy businessmen and bureaucrats could raise homing pigeons, and ordinary people could not afford the economic pressure of raising homing pigeons. Businessmen use homing pigeons to transmit the price information of commodities, hoping to realize the rapid rise of prices in every place at the same time, improve their own economic interests and achieve the purpose of monopolizing the market. During the Meiji period, Japan's military strength began to rise rapidly, and homing pigeons became an essential communication tool for every army at that time. Before the army cultivated homing pigeons into military pigeons, it once searched for excellent pigeon varieties in China and carefully cultivated them. In A.D. 1894, that is, in the 26th year of Meiji, Japan officially established the first pigeon house in modern Japan, which marked that Japan officially entered a period of militarization and systematic cultivation of military pigeons.
In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese general pigeons were used in the war to transmit information in time on the battlefield, which increased the Japanese army's chances of winning. After feeling the importance of military pigeons in the war, Japan began to increase its investment in the cultivation of military pigeons and put in more manpower and material resources. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, a large number of territories in China were occupied, which made the Japanese front longer and longer, and the number of Japanese military pigeons was stretched. At that time, in order to support the war, many Japanese donated all the excellent pigeons at home to the army for free, and at the same time taught the secret of raising pigeons among the people to make the soldiers in the army better. It can be understood that the pigeons collected by the Japanese army from the people at that time were still the best in Japan, and these pigeons and people were regarded as accomplices of Japan's invasion of China.
In the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China's army didn't realize the importance of Japanese military pigeons, and then gradually understood its dangerous degree. This is also the case. At that time, the Eighth Route Army also set up a pigeon killing team for Japanese military pigeons. Their main task is to shoot pigeons flying in the air, prevent the information of our army from leaking and block the timely communication of the Japanese army. The fact is the same. If we let a military pigeon go, it may attract tens of thousands of Japanese troops and sacrifice more of our brave soldiers. These are all lessons of blood. Therefore, an important task of soldiers on the battlefield is to kill pigeons on their heads and then destroy the enemy. If the order is reversed, they will be punished by their superiors.
This situation makes Japanese military pigeons more and more insufficient. In order to solve the shortage of military pigeons, the Japanese army also built a large-scale breeding base near Nanjing, and even established a strict defense system for fear of our army attacking. When this base was established, the surrounding residents didn't understand the reason, thinking that only the Japanese army wanted to eat pigeon meat. A few days after knowing the reason, they began to spontaneously organize shooting military pigeons with slingshots or guns, but military pigeons were professionally trained and it was difficult for ordinary people to shoot them down.
For such a situation, Hua Ronglong, the captain of the pigeon killing team, began to worry. Finally, he came up with a brilliant idea. His little brother has to send fresh food to the Japanese army every day. Hua Ronglong disguised himself, sneaked into and sprinkled a lot of poison in the water source where military pigeons were raised, and killed more than half of them that day. After poisoning, Hua Ronglong and his younger brother fled Nanjing overnight. When the Japanese army traced it, they found that the building was empty. After the Japanese army surrendered, the people brought all the pigeons left by the Japanese army back to Nanjing, and then the whole city of Nanjing had a delicious pigeon feast.