Ten is one day dry, twelve is one earth branch, so one reincarnation of heaven and earth branch is one jiazi, sixty years.
This year, 2020, is the year of Gengzi. In 2002, it was the Year of noon. The last year was 1942, when the Declaration of the United Nations was signed and the World Anti-Fascist League was founded.
In 1882, the last year of the afternoon, in East Asia, "inequality" was still the tone of this era. It's just that the objects of oppression and oppression are a bit beyond our understanding.
''1880s', 'China'' what comes to mind when we see these two words? Was it the Sino-US Renewal Treaty signed between China and the United States, the Maguan Treaty between China and Japan, or the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty?
However, in addition to this treaty that humiliated China, there was also a "Sino-DPRK Merchants' Charter on Land and Water Trade."
The protagonists of this treaty are China and North Korea. Here, China has changed the face of the oppressed side in modern times and become an "aggressor" and oppressor. And North Korea, helplessly playing the role of "green leaves", "setting off" China at this time.
Why China and the DPRK signed this "Sino-DPRK Merchants' And People's Land and Water Trade Charter" needs to look back at the Korean Mutiny that occurred in July of that year and the situation in North Korea before.
In the fifth year of the reign of Qing Tongzhi (i.e. the third year of Gojong of Joseon, 1866), the fifteen-year-old King of Joseon, Lee Hee, openly chose a concubine. At that time, the real power of the state was in the hands of Li Xi's biological father Li Yanying, and Li Yunying's wife Min Shi was also named the Grand Lady of Lixing Province. In order to ensure that the situation is controllable, Li Yun should set two criteria for the selection of concubines: first, those who have no worries about foreign relations and arbitrariness; second, obey themselves and do not interfere with the people of the regime.
With these two criteria, it is reasonable to say that the Li family should be able to choose a suitable princess for Li Xi. What they didn't expect, however, was that even with the rules in place, they eventually lured wolves into the room and introduced the future Empress Mingcheng into the political center.
This Empress Mingcheng, although she has long been fatherless and motherless, is actively motivated. In the first three years of entering the palace, although she failed to get the favor of Li Xi and failed to give birth to an heir, she took this opportunity to read poetry and get close to Li Xi's adoptive mother, Queen Shenzhen.
It is precisely because of Empress Mingcheng's indisputable and gentle and amiable appearance that the whole palace has a good feeling for her. Li Yunying and his wife even promoted many people of the Min clan as compensation. We don't look at it from the perspective of later generations, and we all have to sigh that Empress Mingcheng's chess game is really big and really stable.
The operation of the palace in the early years became an important capital for Empress Mingcheng to participate in political affairs in the future.
Li Yunying, who had supported her earlier, gradually became at odds with Empress Mingcheng because of the issue of who to make her son. In fact, Li Yanying also perceived that Empress Mingcheng was superior in intelligence, but he conceitedly believed that Empress Mingcheng was just a pawn of his, and he wanted to use it and abandon it if he wanted.
However, Empress Mingcheng firmly believed in overthrowing Li Yunying, a dictator, and privately contacted the ministers, gradually forming a political group with Min's foreign relatives as the core.
In the 10th year of Gojong of Joseon (1837), Empress Myeongseong took advantage of the dissatisfaction with Li Yunying in the court to reach a climax, encouraging Li Xi to declare the beginning of "pro-government" and taking away Li Yunying's power. Lee Hee, although she was the husband of Empress Myeongseong, had long since become her political "puppet", and the power of Korea soon fell into the hands of the Min clique.
However, Empress Mingcheng spent a lot of effort to become the number one of the country, but did not make many political achievements. During her reign, she was nepotistic, corrupt everywhere, and the opposition between the government and the opposition was constant. And she firmly believes in witchcraft, blessings, etc., ''Make incense coins, go to famous mountains every day, while witch blessings and magic are forbidden to enter and exit, and steal Wei Fu''.'
Under her rule, North Korea ran a fiscal deficit for years, so much so that for thirteen months it did not pay its generals. In addition, at that time, Japan squeezed Korea through the "Ganghwa Treaty" and trained a new type of army in Korea, which made the Korean people complain even more.
Finally, on the ninth day of the first month of June (July 23, 1882), an uprising broke out in Seoul (present-day Seoul, South Korea). Rebel soldiers and citizens burned the Japanese embassy and stormed the palace. Li Xi, Empress Mingcheng, and others fled in the chaos, and Li Yunying was once again supported by the upper government.
However, because the mutiny affected Japanese interests in Korea, Japanese forces soon intervened. But once Japan intervened, the incident was no longer a simple civil strife in North Korea. China, which has always been the suzerainty of North Korea, has also been half-pushed and half-locally mixed into it.
In fact, the Qing Dynasty has long had the intention of interfering in Korea. In modern times, North Korea has been influenced by Japan and other foreign forces, and its relations with China have become increasingly weak, and Sino-North Korean trade has tended to be sluggish. The Korean side has had similar thoughts since the second half of the eighteenth century. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Noonday Mutiny, Li Xi's faction consulted with the Beiyang government of China and signed a "Sino-DPRK Regulations on Water and Land Trade between Merchants and Civilians."
The reason why the two sides coordinated so quickly was also related to China's promise to help Li Xi and Empress Mingcheng to remove Li Yunying from power. Of course, China kept its promises, but the final plan was disappointed.
Three years after the signing of the Sino-DPRK Regulations on Water and Land Trade between Merchants and People, the Treaty of Maguan was signed, and China itself was unable to protect itself in the face of the menacing force of capitalism.
Korea, on the other hand, was also controlled by Japan during the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, and the unequal "Sino-DPRK Merchants and People's Regulations on Land and Water Trade" was completely annulled under Japan's interference. As for Empress Mingcheng, she made good use of the power of the Qing Dynasty, made a comeback, and won another coup.
''The 1880s'' and 'China' have always been the key to connecting the two. The Asia of that era was the Asia of oppression.
Therefore, a "Sino-DPRK Merchants' And People's Land and Water Trade Charter" between China and North Korea is not China's "return to the light", but a manifestation of inequality.
Behind this contract, in fact, the struggle between the forces of China, Japan, and the DPRK and the struggle for interests is disgraceful and unpleasant.