The Qing Dynasty was a controversial era. It not only promoted the rapid development of agriculture and promoted the integration of the nation;It has been criticized for future generations.
Not to mention the policy of the retreat of locking the country at the time, it also made the Qing Dynasty lag behind the world for more than 300 years.During this period, one thing happened. When Daoguang heard that Britain was in charge of the regime, a 22 -year -old woman was asked, and she asked a question, but became the laughing stock of later generations.
Absurd
The Qing Dynasty was the last in our countryDuring the period of Daoguangs administration, because of the decay of decay, it caused the failure of the Opium War. Unfortunately, this war did not wake up the decaying rulers of the Qing Dynasty.When they finally caught a British captive.Out of curiosity about Britain, how could a great country in the heavenly dynasty be lost to a small country?
So Emperor Daoguang asked the captive, and when he learned from a 22 -year -old woman who was governing in the UK today, he asked:Is she married?At this time, Emperor Daoguang thought of Na Fei.
Whats more ridiculous is that he has forgotten the defeat of the Qing Dynasty during the Opium War, how the Britain is in the United Kingdom, what is Britain?The gate of the Qing Dynasty was forcibly opened with the artillery. Those soldiers who bravely killed the enemy in this war would probably disappoint them.Who is the queen who allows him to ask this question?Lets first understand this queen.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria in his administration made Britain from an ordinary country into aA power of the power, formed an unknown empire, and later became the Victorian era.But such a strong woman has a lost childhood.
Victors mother has a strong desire to protect. For young Victoria, the mother transitionsThe protection caused her resentment.But he can not resist the mother, and can only do what he doesnt like under the arrangement of his mother.Until later, when he became the monarch of the UK, the mother still did not give up to interfere with her, and even her personal secretary had to be replaced by the mothers arrangement, but at this time Victor was not the little girl who did not know to resist. She did not know.The mothers arrangement was rejected, and she was the first time that she had broken away from her mother.
She became the queen. In order to allow her countrys items to circulate with all over the world, Queen Victoria began to expand her foreign trade outward.Her gaze was turned towards China, an ancient and mysterious country.It was originally a good foreign trade, why was there a later Opium War, so how did this war burst?
War eruption
At this time, the Qing Dynasty looked like a pieceSettle, but the dark waves are turbulent.It is ridiculous that when the dynasty governors are still dreaming of a strong country, at this time the West has completed the industrial revolution and entered the era of capitalism. The British undoubtedly became the number one industrial power at that time. They continued to colonize outward colonization.The expansion of doctrines, plunder the colonies, expand its own territory.This is not enough for Britain, so he turned his eyes to China.
In order to better open the Chinese market, it was transported to China to cloth, woolen, etc.The step plan has suffered Waterloo, because China itself is a society where male and female weaving, so these cloth cannot survive in the Chinese market.In contrast, tea, silk, etc., which China transported to the United Kingdom, has a strong sales.Under this legitimate trade, China is in a transcendental position.
In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, Britain decided to smuggle opium to China.According to historical records, more than 400,000 boxes of opium smuggled from the end of the eighteenth century to the Typress War, which made China directly lose a lot of silver.
The flood of opium is not only an inestimable loss of the Qing Dynastys economy. At the same timeOf course, the loss of money must be replenished from the people of those people, so the people of the Qing Dynasty were very difficult at that time. At the same time, many officials and soldiers sucked opium, which not only severely destroyed their physique, but also increased the combat effectiveness of the army.Not only that, there are some poor people also put on opium. Once they touch, it is difficult to quit, so they sell houses to buy. They are not enough to sell their wives and sell children. A good family is broken because of the Opium family.
These phenomena have aroused the people of insight in the ruling class, Lin Zexu is one of them, heThe book urged the emperor that if the opium can not stop entering China, then decades later, China not only has no soldiers, but also has no silver.His words made Emperor Daoguang tremble, and immediately ordered the appointment of Lin Zexu as the minister of the mission to prohibit smoking in Guangzhou.
But how can Britain easily abandon the fat of China, and Lin Zexus trip is destined not to be smooth.
Lin Zexu will start work as soon as he arrives in Guangzhou, but there are more and more troubles, whether it is the protests of the foreign merchants, or theThe people who have become addicted to the addiction, and the ministers of the Central DPRK.But these did not affect the pace of Lin Zexus promotion of smoking. His feat on Humen finally was praised by future generations.
It is a pity that Emperor Daoguang was indifferent, because Lin Zexus move violated foreign invaders.In order to be able to continue trading with them, they talked about Lin Zei with "misunderstanding of the country and not good".Then the Opium War broke out.After the Opium Campaign, the Qing Army ended with a comprehensive defeat of the Qing army, thereby signed the first treaty "Nanjing Treaty", which was the first treaty of humiliation.This treaty completely reduced China into a semi -feudal and semi -colonial society.At this point, the history of humiliation in China for nearly a century.The compromise of the Qing Dynasty this time made the subsequent powers unscrupulous, and the unequal treaty has come to the following.
In this war, although the Qing soldiers were defeated, they also caught a British soldier, which happened above.It is enough to see how ignorant and ridiculous the rulers of the Qing Dynasty.With such ruler, the defeat of the Qing Dynasty was already doomed.
Summary
The story of Emperor Daoguang reflectedHow backward it is in China, the faintness of the ruler, even if the powers came in, thought it was only its own interests.Regardless of the safety of those people, how can such a decaying dynasty be not insulted by the powers?
In the face of history, especially when the people of our country have the least peace of mind, we need to remember history and mission.With our youth, guard this prosperous China.
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