The Qing government in the Opium War, all the way to the defeat is quite miserable, the Qing army in the course of fighting with the British army, also happened to capture a few British prisoners, captured a few foreign guns, the Daoguang Emperor has been very curious, why the Qing army will not be able to defeat the British army, has long heard that the British guns are very powerful, these foreign guns were also sent to the palace.
Although the ministers at the bottom always felt that the Western toys were just strange tricks, the Daoguang Emperor was not pedantic, and after personally fiddling with foreign guns, he was full of praise for these things, and immediately ordered the relevant departments to study imitation, but imitation is so easy, the Qing Dynasty has not yet started, the British will hit the city of Nanjing.
Adhering to the consistent style of the feudal dynasty, if the war is won, it will be suppressed, and if it cannot be won, it will be soothed, the Qing Dynasty and the British have launched peace talks, fortunately, the main purpose of the British is to open up trade, the Qing government lost some money, cut a piece of land, everyone is at peace again, since the peace situation has been completed, naturally there is no need to continue to imitate weapons, the Qing army continues to guard the earth cannon shotgun, live a stable life.
Emotionally speaking, the Daoguang Emperor was really reluctant to open his mouth to trade, and it was the national policy set by his grandfather, the Yongzheng Emperor, until he had to, he could not change it without change, fortunately, after the negotiations with the British, although the door of the Qing government was opened, the officials at all levels below still closed the door of cooperation.
The government let the gentry encourage the people to resist foreign trade, foreigners wanted to enter the city to set up cards layer by layer, the British consul was forced to run a few years in the grass hut outside Fuzhou, which was relatively better than Shanghai, the people were also good at business, and the trade with foreigners was relatively good, but this could not withstand the toss of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement later.
The Treaty of Nanking, in today's view, is completely an unequal treaty, which is very shameful, but at that time, the Qing government still declared internally that this was a strategy to "soothe the situation", or a look of superiority, the official documents within the imperial court, Britain or England, in order to show that this is a barbarian country, do not forget to add a dog, where is the demoralized look when they are beaten on the battlefield to find teeth?
The governor of Liangguang, Qi Ying, had more contact with the British, and everyone could always talk about wine at the dinner table, but when facing the imperial court, Qi Ying immediately changed his appearance and was very contemptuous of the British. It was not until the Second Opium War, when the British defeated the Governor's Palace, that the British consul Li Thai discovered another side of Qi Ying in the captured archives, "Thanks to me for treating you as a 'brother', it turns out that you have not been able to look down on me!" "It made Qi Ying very embarrassed.
Similar situations abound, in the Qing Dynasty's foreign-related official documents, the Qing Dynasty has always been invincible, no matter which country the barbarians are still humble, so that after more than twenty years, the foreigners' legs can not be bent there is still a market, even the highly anticipated Zeng Greenqin is also after fighting with the British, only to understand how big the gap between the enemy and us is.
At this time, the ruler Xianfeng Emperor, whose ability and pattern were not as good as his father Daoguang, watched the British and French allied forces hit the city of Beijing, fled north in a hurry, in order not to meet with the foreigners, until death, they could not return to beijing city, and the foreigners were also miserable, in order to change the national letter This is more than ten years. #Historical Review ##历史杂谈 #
