Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, China's history has established a heavenly dynasty system with China as the suzerainty and neighboring countries as subordinate and vassal states. When it came to the Qing Dynasty, it was even more extreme, but in fact, the West has quietly surpassed the Qing Dynasty, but the declining Qing Dynasty is still a blind intoxication, which is very ridiculous, without a little self-awareness.
At the height of the Qing Dynasty, there were 19 vassal states around it, but with the continuous invasion of the West, gradually breaking the emotional clan system, the surrounding little brothers would come to the Qing dynasty from time to time to file a complaint, making the Qing court a mess, but the Qing government at this time mud bodhisattva crossing the river itself is difficult to protect, the surrounding little brothers simply can not take care of.
The relationship between Burma and the Qing Dynasty is not very good, although other vassal states are not honest, but it is rare for myanmar to be dishonest.
But Burma was, after all, a nominal vassal state, and if it sat idly by and watched the British invade, it would be impossible to say it in both face and morality.
Objectively speaking, the Qing government was also a mud bodhisattva crossing the river itself, but before the French invasion of Vietnam, the Qing government did not hesitate to fight with France, although in the end undefeated and defeated, forced to admit the French demand, but this can only be said to be inferior to people.
So in the face of the fall of Burma, why did the Qing government ignore it?
The British invasion of Burma was much earlier, but in the early days, Burma was able to resist a little. After the 19th century, when britain gained a foothold in the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia and most of India was annexed, Britain began to put invasion of Burma on the agenda. From 1824 onwards, britain began to wage war against Burma. All the way to
The annexation of all of Burma was completed in 1886 and incorporated into British India. After the British annexed Burma, the Qing government protested, and the two sides began to come to the negotiating table intermittently.
Li Hongzhang once said openly, "Myanmar has not paid tribute since the last year of tongzhi, and we do not care about his affairs now." "So I'm afraid it won't be possible to expect the Qing Dynasty to fight the British like it did with Vietnam."
After the British annexed Burma, it was bound to use this as a springboard to encroach on China's southwest border, which was something that the Qing government was more worried about.
But even so, the Qing government still paid more attention to fame, so in the negotiation process, the survival of the Burmese kingdom and the continuation of the tribute were still the first condition.
The Qing government did not have any advantage in negotiations with britain, and was always led by the nose, even Zeng Jize probably did not have much confidence, and the British annexation of Burma was already a matter of certainty, and it was impossible for the British to spit it out, and they could only strive for some interests and let the Qing government get by.
So in the Burmese Clause of the Sino-British Conference, the Qing government recognized the British privilege in Burma, but in order to make the Qing government change some face, the British agreed to Burma
Every ten-year "routine" to China "presents the square thing".
However, in fact, this is just a sentence on the document, the real situation is not at all so, in fact, the Qing Dynasty and Burma have no previous tributary relations.