To go out to stand up is a simple phrase that even children today understand. However, the Qing Dynasty, which was powerful during the Qing Dynasty, ignored this truth. Even in the face of the envoys who came to establish diplomatic relations with our country, they maintained the posture of heaven and heaven. As everyone knows, under the development of many years, the former hegemon of the world has long been surpassed, and Qianlong's refusal at that time was also one of the reasons for our backwardness in the later period, and even Hong Kong was leased for ninety-nine years!
When Ma Garni's diplomatic mission was frustrated in front of Qianlong, he returned to China and told him about the latest situation in China, and even bluntly criticized the Qing Dynasty as a tattered first-class cabin. Such a statement makes the British feel that the once powerful East is now just like this, and it is not impossible to win. And this kind of mentality became the basis for the British to invade our country later, and because of the Second Opium War, the Qing Dynasty was forced to lease the Hong Kong area to the British for ninety-nine years.
In fact, Britain's aggression did not happen overnight, and at the beginning Britain was still afraid of the former powerful East, so it initially adopted the strategy of dumping goods. However, what the British did not expect was that although the Qing Dynasty had always been in the dream of the heavenly kingdom, it had achieved self-sufficiency at that time, so the sales of British goods in China were very difficult, and even some simple small commodities could not be sold. In desperation, Britain began to sell opium, and the real invasion began.
After all, opium is a poisonous substance that makes people addicted to addiction, and it quickly occupied the market after it began to be sold in China. The Qing Dynasty, aware of the wolf ambitions of the British, launched a smoking campaign, but such a struggle for interests soon developed into war. However, it was the war that made the British find that their strength was already stronger than this former big brother, and sure enough, the Qing Dynasty was defeated and signed a treaty of loss of power. Who thought it was over, who had thought it was just the beginning of a nightmare. The British saw the corruption of the Qing Dynasty, so they thought of a way to start the Second Opium War, after which we not only compensated huge reparations, but also lost part of the territory, of which the British gained ninety-nine years of rule over Hong Kong.
However, many people do not know that there is another small episode in this ninety-nine-year loan. It turned out that the British were ready to directly lease Hong Kong for a hundred years, but the Qing Dynasty did not give in to this year's time, preferring to use its last strength to fight with the British, rather than let the British lease for a hundred years. But obviously it is only a one-year gap, why should we strive for this year's time, is it not just a simple pity?
Of course, things are not so simple, although the original Qing Dynasty has been ruined and is no longer the heavenly kingdom it once was. However, there are still some capable people in the country, and even many people have gone abroad to understand foreign affairs. And these people know one thing, once a certain area of a country is leased by another country for a hundred years or more, then the territory is not owned by the original country. Although the Qing Dynasty was already weakening at that time, it would not directly cede territory, so it would maintain a firm attitude towards this year' time.
Perhaps the British also thought that the Qing Dynasty did not go abroad, and did not know much about such regulations, so they wanted to set a hundred years of time, but in fact, they seized the territory. Fortunately, there were still some far-sighted people in the Qing Dynasty at that time who understood the international situation. What is everyone's opinion on the humiliating treaty signed during the Qing Dynasty, but what is the matter of the time of the year?