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Chapter 123 Treaty
Relying on the perseverance of wanting to know what bad things the unfilial descendants of future generations have done, Kangxi soon woke up after fainting and continued to lie down. Unexpectedly, the more he listened, the more he had a heart attack.
They did not have Nanjing in the Qing Dynasty, only Jiangning Prefecture, but when it comes to Nanjing, everyone knows where it is.
As an emperor, the most important thing in his heart is his own rule.
Some people only care about power, and some people only care about enjoyment. However, the current Kangxi and his sons undoubtedly care about power and rule, and some care about the people and territories under their rule.
The information they have received so far is that from Nanjing to Xinchou, in the past 60 years, the Qing Dynasty has been encroached by foreigners and turned into a "semi-colony".
The definition of a semi-colony is a traitorous local government.
I used to see how they laughed when the anchor scolded the Song Dynasty. Now it's the anchor's turn to say how ugly their faces are.
Everyone in the Kangxi Dynasty saw all this, and they all came up with the same idea: people from outside the country really have no sense of belonging to anything in the Central Plains.
They eagerly wanted to know what the Qing government did later and what was written in those treaties that could be called traitors.
Lucky viewer No. 5 Zhou Panyin fulfilled their wish.
"Anchor, how was the first unequal treaty signed?"
[“In June 1840, the British launched a war of aggression against China on the pretext of Lin Zexu’s ‘Humen De-Opium’ campaign, which was known as the ‘Opium War’ in history and was also the ‘First Opium War’.
Forty-seven British ships and 47 troops, led by Rear Admiral George Yilu and Commercial Supervisor of China Elu, arrived outside the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong and blocked the seaport. The Opium War began.
The Opium War ended with China losing and paying reparations and ceding territory. China and Britain signed the Treaty of Nanjing, the first unequal treaty in Chinese history that was humiliating and humiliating. "
These words were very familiar to Xiaoxiao, but she hated this familiarity. 】
how many people?
They didn't know how big the 47 ships were and how many people there were, but the army only had 4000 people. With only 4000 troops, they beat the Qing government and signed a treaty?
Zhu Yuanzhang calmed his breathing and tried not to be angry, but he still couldn't help but his face turned dark.
"In future generations, my country, the Ming Dynasty, was seized by such a dynasty?"
Zhu Biao shook his head. He felt that this was not the case: "Dad, that Britain has already started the first industrial revolution at this time, and it is an empire on which the sun never sets."
Many people who looked at the small island of England on the map were reminded of this.
Various weapons from later generations flashed in my mind again. If the Qing court did not have those weapons, it would not be an unjust defeat.
["The "Treaty of Nanjing" has a total of thirteen articles, I will briefly mention a few.
First, pay compensation of 21 million taels of silver; second, cede Hong Kong Island; third, open Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai as treaty ports.
Fourth, it requires that customs tariffs must be clearly stipulated in the treaty and cannot be modified without the consent of both countries. This is called "agreement tariff".
Fifth, British people in China are only subject to British laws and British courts, which is called ‘extraterritoriality’. "
The content of this treaty is something that will never be forgotten in modern history. Just thinking about it makes Xiaoxiao depressed, and he doesn’t even want to write about it when answering questions.
"This year, a special exhibition on the late Qing Dynasty was opened in the UK, and the original copy of the Treaty of Nanjing was displayed in it."]
The anchor even found a photo of the treaty and showed it to them.
On the yellowed edge of the paper, there are foreign characters on the left and Chinese characters on the right. There are the signatures of Qiying, Yilibu and Niujian, as well as the red seal of the Imperial Envoy.
This treaty had a huge impact on everyone. It was evidence that spanned time and showed the incompetence of the Qing government to people in different time and space.
I was beaten at my doorstep by outsiders from far away in the West, and I lost the fight. I signed a bunch of treaties, and the embarrassing originals were put on display in some museum for everyone to see.
Many emperors and ministers have the feeling that they have been around for a long time.
When have they seen this kind of thing in all these years?
Liu Che felt that he was really young. Compared with these emperors in later generations, Emperor Gaozu's Baideng siege was nothing.
I thought that the people of the Song Dynasty were rich enough. During the Jingkang period, they would give away money to others. But now look at this Qing Dynasty, people are talking about 21 million taels of silver.
This number really made everyone in the dynasty tremble. Where did they get so much money?
People in the Kangxi Dynasty were also dimmed.
The common people and businessmen kept silent, but looked sad. The court compensated the money, but didn't the court still take money from them?
More than 20 million taels of silver, these astronomical figures, how much more will be plundered from them?
Officials, who were counting the court's annual taxes and expenditures, were settling accounts.
During Kangxi's reign for so many years, the annual tax revenue was about 13 million silver.
The salt tax, grain tax, population tax, customs duties, etc. in various provinces and regions were all transferred to the Qing Dynasty treasury, except for the part of the tax money that was left for each province to transfer.
About 900 million taels of silver are distributed to all officials every year as salaries. In addition to various expenses and royal family expenses, after deducting these large expenses, there is actually about 200 million taels of silver left in the treasury.
With these tax dollars, even if there is no war and a little saving on official salaries and other expenses, we can get up to three to four million per year.
Paying off such a large amount of compensation will require the whole country to tighten their belts for at least five or six years, not to mention that this is still the best-case scenario expected.
What if another war or multiple natural disasters breaks out at this time...
Apart from anything else, as for the extraterritoriality, this one made the Qin and Han Legalists, who paid special attention to order, a dark look.
If foreigners made mistakes in their own country, they could not let the Qing government take control of them. They had to deal with them themselves. The consequences would be endless.
Human nature needs to be restrained. With this law, no matter how someone commits crimes in your place, the court has no right to intervene. If things go on like this, where is the majesty of the court and where is the binding force of the law?
There was also the agreement on tariffs, and the treaty ports were opened. After the Qing Dynasty, the taxes could not be changed indiscriminately, and they had to find an agreement there.
Even the power of taxation has been ceded. Such a court is really amazing.
After reading a few general articles, each one makes people's eyes darken.
There was chaos in the Qianqing Palace. Everyone was afraid that the emperor would be angry and didn't dare to show off, for fear that the descendants would be their own descendants.
Qiao Yan of the Song Dynasty was the lucky spectator No. 6. He wanted to know why the Qing court lost.
["As for the specific reasons for losing, professional scholars have analyzed a lot. Let me find some information for you to look at."
Xiaoxiao can speak a little, but her knowledge reserve is definitely very different from the analysis of professional scholars. This still needs more reliable content. 】
After drinking hot tea on a cold winter day, Kangxi asked someone to help him up. He also wanted to see how Qing would lose in the future.
The information the anchor found was indeed very valuable, and he analyzed both sides from all aspects.
As for the weapon, it is a soldier's shotgun in the Qing Dynasty. It is a front-loaded smoothbore matchlock gun. It is 2 meters long. The lead bullet weighs 1 qian and the gunpowder is 3 qian. The range is about 100 meters and the rate of fire is about 1 to 2 rounds/minute.
The British Burke-style front-loading smoothbore flintlock gun is ignited by friction flint. The gun body is 1.16 meters long, the caliber is 15.3 mm, the projectile weighs 35 grams, the range is about 200 meters, and the rate of fire is 2 to 3 rounds per minute.
The weapon's top-notch bowgun is too long, inconvenient to use, slow to reload, and has a short range, which is inferior to others.
What's more important is that due to the corruption and serious damage of the army, nearly half of the people still use spears and swords.
Okay, just looking at the disparity in muskets and weapons, they can already imagine the tragic scene of someone else using a gun to fire directly, and here they rush up with a machete.
The artillery was all front-loaded, but in the Qing Dynasty, it was cast for too long and was shoddily made. It had not been replaced for a long time and was severely worn. Bore blasting was a daily practice.
Gunpowder is all black powder, but the Qing Dynasty still used the Ming Dynasty production method, and the quality was worrying.
There is no need to compare the ships of the Navy. It is written that since the Qing-Dutch allied forces destroyed Zheng Ming during the Kangxi period, the Qing Navy has been in ruins. Even large sailing ships like the Fuchuan have never appeared again, and the ships have small guns and few guns.
Finally, the casualty ratio of both sides is listed above, 523:.
Suddenly, all dynasties had a shadow and sent people to check the armament situation in various places.
In addition to the gap in weapons and equipment and the lack of pay for the lower-level soldiers, the replacement of "trash" is also an important reason.
Oh, maybe for the Manchus, this kind of thing is not waste.
The Han people in the Qing Dynasty did not expect that they were all fighting with foreigners outside, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still thinking about them.
That one was Deputy Commander-in-Chief Hai Ling. Before the British attack, he was worried that the Han people would rebel by cooperating with the outside world: the Commander-in-Chief sent people to catch the traitors, and every family was afraid behind closed doors. It is difficult to redress the injustice caused by being thrown into a trap by mistake, and the blood in the primary school is still fresh.
It is only roughly estimated by later generations that more than 10,000 Zhenjiang citizens died due to this misfortune.
The people of Zhenjiang were really angry.
Aren't the Zhenjiang people worried when the foreigners call? At this time, they are still on guard against the Han people. If they have the skills to kill the Han people, they should kill the foreigners!
In particular, the "Manuscript History of the Qing Dynasty" mentioned above praises Hai's age by saying, "A dedicated official will sacrifice himself for his country and never return his righteousness." This kind of court...
Looking at the information above, the people of the Qing Dynasty knew that it was most likely true. After all, the purpose of garrisoning the Eight Banners in various places was to prevent Han rebellion.
The Qing Dynasty was angry and disappointed not only in Zhenjiang, but also in various places along the southeast coast.
Because the information clearly stated in black and white, at that time, the people on the coast actively cooperated with the Qing army to fight against foreign enemies and organized their own spontaneous resistance.
And these people don't care about the territory of country Z at all, nor do they care about the territory and people. They only think about themselves.
The people of the Qing Dynasty knew why this treaty was signed, because the British army even captured Zhenjiang.
In the Qing Dynasty, grain from the south of Zhenjiang was transported northward to the capital via water transport. The capital side signed this treaty in order to feed themselves and fear that the Han people across the country would take the opportunity to rebel.
For the first time, they really missed the Ming Dynasty.
I used to think that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people were in dire straits and the officialdom was rotten, but I didn't expect that they could be better than the poor.
Liu Song of the Song Dynasty found it unbelievable that there was a worse dynasty than the Song Dynasty during the Jingkang humiliation.
"Anchor, how did the Manchus come to dominate the Central Plains?"
["I was lucky to meet Ming Mo, who was so bad that I couldn't save him."
After saying that, Xiao Xiao added: "That's what my dad said. I'm not very clear about the details. The research on the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties is also very complicated. If I have time someday, I'll look for information and let's take a look. look."】
Emperors of the Ming Dynasty: Wait a minute, what does it mean to be hopelessly dead?
The Qing Dynasty royal family in the Palace of Qianqing: It’s not all about luck, the ancestors are quite capable, and the Eight Banners are also very effective in fighting...
Lucky spectator No. 8 is Yang Quwen of the Yongle Dynasty. He is just an old scholar with no fame, but he doesn't understand why the Qing government doesn't care about ruling the people at all.
[This Xiaoxiao could only shake his head helplessly: "Maybe they feel that their rule is above all else, they only recognize the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they have never felt any belonging to China.
Since the country is so big, I am not afraid of cutting off some of it; it doesn't matter if the people don't take it, as long as it does not endanger their rule. ”]
Even if it is a family world, more or less the rulers will regard the family and the country as one, and do not want to let outsiders get involved.
But the Qing Dynasty was different. They might regard the world they acquired as their private property, but they never regarded this world as their home.
The people of the Qing Dynasty really wanted the anchor to stop talking and stop talking.
Although it is true that many of them think this way, and various policies are implemented in this way, but those who are capable cannot say it. If it is said outright, rebellions in various places will only become more and more rampant in the future.
Lucky viewer No. 9, Dengdai, is from the Zhengde Dynasty. She is curious about what opium is, what the destruction of opium in Humen is, and why the two countries started fighting because of this.
["I will talk about this later, after the tenth lucky audience member has finished speaking."
When talking about Xiangzi's era, we need to start with the beginning of everything.
"The tenth lucky audience member, it's your turn."]
The last lucky audience member was Yi Wentong from the Kangxi Dynasty. The topics discussed tonight were too heavy, which made him, the only Qing native, a little scared.
Whatever he asks will be remembered by everyone, and the outcome is unknown.
After much thought, he gave up such a lucky opportunity and chose not to ask anything.
People who were also from the Qing Dynasty saw nothing, and everyone thought it was normal. Sun You and the guys who dared to publish Wang Fu's book were the few bold people.
In the face of wealth and life, no one who is not determined to rebel against the Qing Dynasty dares to
People of all dynasties have been waiting for a long time, but they never expected that for such a lucky opportunity, some people would give up without even daring to do anything.
Li Shimin was thoughtful, guessing that he didn't dare to ask.
As soon as this thought came out, he felt angry.
Some of the Qing people I drew earlier were those who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Qing court and wanted to rebel, and there were also various people who did not dare to talk about political affairs and advertise.
They were so frightened when they spoke across the sky. One can only imagine what kind of measures they usually take against the Han people.
Such people who control the people have no regard for the world and all the people. They are no different from what the anchor described. They are completely barbaric and do not regard themselves as part of the world at all.
If he had the chance, he really wanted to ask the anchor where the ancestors of this Qing Dynasty came from. He would be happy to help future generations share their worries now.
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