The dignity of the country has always needed to be defended by armed forces, for example, in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period in China's history, the weak Spring and Autumn period countries were swallowed up one by one, thus giving birth to the seven major warring states with strong force, and the Qin state finally completed the great cause of reunification because of the backing of the Great Qin Iron Horse.
At that time, the Qin state was really a soldier for all the people, and all the warriors did not care about life and death, and they went forward for the interests of the country. At that time, a strong country, the monarch will consider for the people, there is no policy of fooling the people, but hope that the more powerful the people, the better, "Zhao Zhao old Qin, go to the country together", is the loudest slogan of that era.
But the feudal dynasties that followed for thousands of years completely changed this situation, they began to depose hundreds of families, began to implement a policy of fooling the people, began to fear that the people were strong, and they put their authority first, without considering the interests of the people.
This situation intensified in the Qing Dynasty, and the rulers even forbade the use of cold weapons by the people, and even more forbidden the people from studying firearms. Suddenly, the people had to turn to the study of boxing, which also led to the defeat of a series of subsequent wars.
The outbreak of the Opium War was the beginning of China's century of humiliation, when Britain, known as the "Empire of the Sun Never Sets", defeated China with only a few thousand men, an event that made the Western powers clap their fists, who did not want to bully a weak power and share the benefits? So the Second Opium War, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the outbreak of war after war, the result was the same - the Qing government bowed its knees and cut the land to pay reparations.
Such a result made the Western powers even more excited, and it turned out that as long as such a weak country dared to send troops, it was enough to win many battles, and there was indemnity for victory and land cutting.
So in 1900, Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland, the United States of America, the French Third Republic, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy these eight countries joined forces to invade China, the result is obvious, the Qing government once again lost the battle, cut land, reparations, and the money actually reached 450 million taels of silver, and China at that time paid 1 tael of silver per person, how shameless!
What is even more shameless is that they not only asked for reparations this time, but also looted the Yuanmingyuan, which was swept away by them with countless rare treasures, took away what they could take, smashed what they couldn't take, and finally even burned the remaining treasures. They took the treasures stolen from the Yuanmingyuan back to collect them in their own museums as treasures of their own country, while China has no way to get their treasures back, which is really painful!
However, in this world, after all, there is still justice, and only 2 of the countries that have invaded China have apologized to China for their actions in that year and returned the national treasure. First, the Soviet Union, which established diplomatic relations with China after the founding of New China, became friends, and returned 64 copies of the Yongle Canon in 1951; first, Germany, which dared to wage war and dared to admit crimes, returned some of the treasures stolen in China, and returned 3 volumes of the Yongle Canon in 1955.
Today, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and Germany is no longer the Same Germany that we returned the Yongle Canon in 1955.
Having said that, the Yongle Canon, written in the Ming Dynasty, has a total of 22,937 volumes, compiled into 11,095 volumes by more than 2,000 scholars, and only more than 800 volumes remain today and are scattered all over the world, which cannot but be said to be a huge loss in Chinese history.
Therefore, weak countries have no diplomacy and their armed forces are not strong, which is an important reason for being bullied. Today, all people are working hard Chinese to realize the Chinese dream, and hope that our country can always stand among the nations of the world!