Spain has become a joke.

In fact, this is only because China's minister of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wenshao, confused Spain with Japan and mistakenly thought that Japan wanted to cheat money in China under another name.

At the end of Qing Dynasty, there was a minister named Wang Wenshao, who was a wonderful flower. Many people may not know Wang Wenshao, but he is actually a big official. Take Li Hongzhang as an example. Li Hongzhang devoted his life to the country. He served as a lot of officials, but Wang Wenshao not only did what Li Hongzhang did, but also did what Li Hongzhang could not do.

Wang Wenshao not only worked as a governor, governor, university student and prime minister, but also worked as a university student and minister of military aircraft in Wuyingdian. His skill as an official is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, that is, to be smooth and not to express targeted views easily, so as not to cause trouble because of words. However, such a tartar can often keep his position and life. During the Boxer Rebellion, he did not express his views easily, and finally escaped the fate of being executed with others.

However, Wang Wenshao has been such a big official, but he knows little about foreign countries. At that time, Spanish envoys came to China and wanted to form an alliance with China, expressing their sincerity. Hearing this, Wang Wenshao angrily rebuked: "Japan changed its name again to cheat China's money?"

But why did he say that Spain is Japan? In fact, it was because Spain was translated into "Risbania" by some people in China who didn't know much English at that time. Just because of the beginning of a Japanese word, Wang Wenshao thought he was Japanese and changed his name. The joke played by this official has been circulated by people so far and has become a joke. It can be seen that a person still needs to expand his knowledge, otherwise it will only add to the laughing stock.