If you fall behind, you will be beaten! The government at the end of the Qing Dynasty was incompetent, not only cutting off land and paying compensation to the imperial powers, but also causing the people to suffer a lot of inhuman treatment. For example, the famous "Gengzi Russian Difficulty" that shocked the world is the biggest massacre and the biggest tragedy in the history of Heilongjiang!
Hailanpao, located on the right bank of the confluence of the Heilongjiang and Jingqili rivers, is an important town on the north bank of the upper and middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, originally belonging to China, and the Chinese living in Hailanpao are mainly engaged in commerce. In 1858, after the signing of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Yaohun, it was occupied by Tsarist Russia and renamed Blagoveshchensk, which reserved the permanent residence of Chinese residents in the Liushitou area of Jiangdong and the jurisdiction of the Qing government over the residents.
At the beginning of the Russian occupation, the Chinese were not expelled from Hailanpao because the Chinese was still valuable to them and a large number of Chinese laborers were needed to help them complete the infrastructure. Chinese lived here for a long time and built commercial fields, if they were all driven out at once, it would inevitably shake the economic foundation of Hailan Bubble and gain more than they lost.
With the passage of time, a large number of Tsarist Russians immigrated here, the foundation of Tsarist Russia gradually stabilized, and the contradiction between the Qing and the Tsarist Russians became larger and larger. The arrival of the Russian peasants meant that more land was needed, but Amur did not have enough land resources to be suitable for farming, so they set their sights on the sixty-four tun area, which was fertile and suitable for farming, and tried to encroach on the area.
Coupled with other contradictions, the Tsarist Russia wanted to drive the Qing people out of Hailan bubble, to unload and kill donkeys, and completely occupy this place. They made the Qing pay high taxes, sent troops to provoke disputes, and in 1893, Tsarist Officers and Soldiers destroyed more than 30 liquor stores, causing the Qing people to directly lose more than three million. The Tsarist government pressed forward step by step, constantly oppressing the Chinese, and the contradictions between the two sides intensified.
At the end of the 19th century, the "Boxer Rebellion" broke out in China, and their slogan was "Support the Qing Dynasty and Destroy the Oceans" to drive the imperialist powers out of Chinese territory. In June 1900, the movement spread to the northeast, reaching a climax in July. The Tsarist middle-length railway built in the northeast was demolished by the Boxers for a total of 550 versts; almost all telephone lines were destroyed; 1,600 flat cars were destroyed, and 4,500 bridges were burned, resulting in the suspension of all projects. Clashes broke out between China and Russia here, and five Russian soldiers were killed. Under this pretext, Tsarist Russia launched a four-day massacre in Highland Bubble and Sixty-Four Tun, almost killing Chinese in both places.
On July 16, 1900, the commander of the Amur Military District, Grebsky, ordered the arrest of all Chinese, men, women and children, even infants. The fleeing Chinese was also captured by the Russian army and imprisoned in the police station and the sawmill on the Jingqili River.
The next day, the Russians drove Chinese to the heilongjiang river and said that they would let Chinese cross the river to the other side. In fact, there is not a single ferry, their purpose is to kill all these people!
A Russian soldier who had participated in the massacre recorded the process of the massacre: after arriving in Highland Bubble, the Russian army armed with bayonets surrounded the Chinese on three sides, leaving only the riverbank, constantly compressing the encirclement, forcing Chinese to jump into the river, and immediately shooting those who disobeyed orders. The crowd fell into the Heilongjiang River like dumplings, and some people tried to escape the encirclement, and were slashed by soldiers with bayonets and axes, or kicked in the air by the horseshoes of cavalrymen, fell to their deaths, or shot by machine guns.
Some women put their children on the shore and begged the Russians to spare them. But the distraught Russian army did not spare them, but instead picked up the baby with a bayonet and cut it into pieces! Seeing the situation, the others no longer had the luxury of expecting the Russian army to be merciful, and they picked up their children and walked with themselves to the cold river.
When cleaning, the people on the shore are thrown into the river, whether dead or alive. The mountains of corpses stained the river red, and the corpses floated on the surface of the water like rafts, drifting with the water into the distance, and this terrible massacre lasted until the 21st.
The Russians slaughtered the people of Highlands at the same time as the residents of Sixty-Four Tuns, and the Russians gathered the inhabitants of the area into a large house and burned them alive. Later, the Russian army carried out the same massacre and sweep in other parts of the northeast, and the data recorded that the Chinese killed reached more than 200,000.
When the massacre reached the Qing government, Cixi did not hold Tsarist Russia accountable and sought justice for tens of thousands of people. Because she was busy dealing with the Eight-Power Alliance, she couldn't take care of herself.
International condemnation of Tsarist Russia grew louder, and in 1901, Tsarist Russia had no choice but to set up a military tribunal to investigate the matter. In 1902, the Russian government removed Grebsky from his position as commander, the main officer was sentenced to only three months in prison, and the other executioners were not punished as they deserved.