We all know that the northeast region of our country borders Russia, and hundreds of years ago, Russia was not called Russia, it was called Russia. The Russians lived in the icy siberia, with low productivity and scarce supplies, and could not make any delicate things except from the forest to make leather robes. So what to do? So they often came to our northeast to rob our ancestors and loot supplies. It was only later, when the Qing government and the Russians signed a treaty allowing for trade, that the situation improved.
But few people know that the treaty at that time was a treaty that looked "equal" in name, and even seemed to have taken advantage of us but actually suffered a big loss. In ancient China, heavy agriculture suppressed businessmen, and merchants were often the lowest level that the world despised, even if the rich people in the world such as Hu Xueyan also wanted to get a black gauze hat to wear. The Russians took advantage of this and exchanged their worthless fur for our tea silk, and at that time the underdevelopment of Chinese commerce led the people to not understand the mystery at all, and signed a treaty with Russia on the trade of furs, so it was almost equivalent to giving us good things for free, but only returned the furs that the Russians did not want at all.
So what exactly is the treaty, and how is it signed? This matter has to start from more than two hundred years ago, that is, when the Kangxi Emperor was still prosperous, and the national strength was very strong, and no one dared to mess with it at all. However, at that time, the old Maozi of Siberia was bold, and when he saw that the imperial court had no time to take care of it, he made trouble in the border areas of the northeast and Russia, and made the people on the frontier miserable. The Kangxi Emperor had just ascended the throne, and he had no time to take care of the northeast when he was busy cleaning up the mess, so maozi, who had tasted the sweetness, had to inch in and seize a lot of land in the northeast.
When the Kangxi Emperor eased up, he directly sent troops to beat the Russians down. The Russians, seeing that things were not good, hurriedly surrendered and negotiated peace with the Qing government, but it was strange that the Kangxi Emperor did not ask the Russians to return the land they occupied, and signed a treaty, including the provisions allowing the Russians to trade on our northeastern border. This may also be to let Russia at that time see how the kangxi emperor's benevolence at that time was, and how China did not care.
It is estimated that the Russians have not learned any lessons in this matter, lost the war and lost nothing, and have gained a bunch of benefits in vain, and they have to laugh and wake up in their dreams. Many people who know history know that China now has a much smaller territory than it did during the Qing Dynasty. Losing about one-tenth of the current land area, during the Qing Dynasty, Outer Mongolia, as well as some places further to the northeast, also belonged to China, and later the independence of Outer Mongolia and the occupation of the Russians, china's territory became what it is today. If the Kangxi Emperor at that time had been tougher, he would have directly driven the Russians back to Siberia after beating them to the ground. Perhaps in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Russians did not dare to take advantage of the fire and loot anymore. There will be no more cases of Russia taking advantage of China's internal and external troubles to invade and occupy China's land.