Sadly, Qin and Han made soil in the middle of the road, and the palace was made of soil. Rejoice, the people suffer. Death, the people suffer!
——Zhang Yanghao, "Hillside Sheep Tong Cares for The Ancients"
Whether a dynasty prospers or perishes, it is the ordinary people who ultimately suffer.
All the disasters and sufferings are experienced by the people, and in the Qing Dynasty after 1840, this is even more so, when young girls become "animals" and have no dignity.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty still refused to wake up in the dream of extravagance and pleasure, and the upper-class royal nobles blindfolded their eyes and immersed themselves in the glory and wealth, paper drunken gold fans, and did not know that the world had long since changed.
A book that serves as the key to opening the ancient country of the East
When Marco Polo came to China in the Yuan Dynasty and traveled to China for 17 years, Marco Polo's Travels became the key to the Mysterious East for The European powers.
At that time, China had porcelain, tea, and silk that other countries did not have, and these were exactly what the Western aristocracy sought after.
They are very eager to have these luxuries, and greed turns them into hungry beasts, eyeing this ancient country of the East full of mysteries.
During the Ming Dynasty, after Zheng He went to the West seven times and traded a large number of tea, porcelain, silk and other items that were considered very luxurious in the West, this greed was even more inflated to the extreme.
Only at that time, this eastern country was a behemoth, and they did not dare to easily cover the existence of tiger whiskers, but could only pay tribute and establish diplomatic relations in the name of the country, and take official channels to obtain what they most longed for.
Our country has always promoted Confucian ideas, others treat each other with courtesy, we pay more attention to etiquette, and the emperor will "reward" a large number of precious things.
As everyone knows, this has fueled their ambitions, making them even more hungry and red-eyed, and have been waiting for the opportunity to devour this land that they see as "everywhere gold".
Finally, the opportunity came, the late Qing was weak and poor, the national strength declined, on the contrary, the Western countries experienced the industrial revolution, the strength soared, and under this and the other, they set their sights on the mysterious East.
At first it was still normal business dealings and they brought their own country's specialties and precious goods.
When they wanted to come here in exchange for more benefits, they found that only the nobles in the country would buy a small part of the goods they brought, and the common people were self-sufficient and rarely traded with them.
This led to the shattering of their dream of traveling thousands of miles to the East to make a fortune, so how could they be willing? Therefore, as a stepping stone for them to come to this land again to pan for gold, the "Fushou Paste" successfully knocked on the door of this mysterious ancient oriental country.
The powerless people will eventually become lambs to be slaughtered in the hands of foreigners
The "Fushou Ointment", a poisonous weapon that is addictive and physically weakened, has successfully pushed the country into the fire pit according to their established ideas.
Let them pull countless gold and silver ships back to China, which also makes more gold prospectors turn their eyes here.
During the Guangxu years, the people have long been out of the question, selling children and selling daughters has long become the norm, the poorer the family, the more difficult it is to grow up the children born, the parents will choose to sell them in exchange for the money and food of the family's life.
At that time, China's idea of favoring sons over daughters was particularly serious, and when buying and selling children, they usually gave priority to selling their daughters, and the better ones were to be the maids or child brides of large families, and the worse ones would be sold to those dark places.
The arrival of the "Fushou Ointment" not only caused the poor people to suffer more, but even the high-ranking officials and nobles could not escape this poisonous trap until the family was destroyed. Some powerful and powerful will choose to squeeze the people to obtain drug money.
Some ordinary people who are dyed with "Fushou cream" are even more eager to sell their sons and even wives for a good price in exchange for more silver money to buy "Fushou cream".
That dark age was filled with unimaginably distorted human nature, and it also made foreigners who came to pan for gold smell business opportunities.
The ill-fated late Qing dynasty girl eventually became a plaything
At that time, there was a pair of Kahn brothers from the United States, who had seen the huge profits brought by black slaves.
Coming to this eastern land, they smell similar business opportunities. On the surface they are serious businessmen, but behind the scenes they are engaged in the business of buying and selling people.
In their eyes, the oriental people's black hair and dark eyes and yellow skin were very different from what they had seen before, and the women in this land were still three inches of golden lotus, which was even more strange.
At that time, many people in the West had never seen the appearance of orientals in their entire lives, not to mention that there was a pair of small feet that were not the size of a palm.
This is really curious for them. The Kahn brothers also valued this, so their sinful hands reached out to the ignorant oriental maiden.
In the name of "performance", they falsely claimed to take people to the United States to make a lot of money, and deceived the parents of a petite girl with a face sign and a small foot with a golden lotus to sign a contract called a job, which was actually a contract for selling women.
Unable to resist her parents, the girl was taken on board and arrived in the United States with a vision of the future.
Upon getting off the boat, what awaited her was not what she thought was "money-making work," but like an animal, the Caen brothers, torn in disguise, were put in cages and visited by whites.
At that time, it only took 50 cents to see the body of a petite and mysterious oriental woman who was different from himself, which deeply attracted the Americans at that time, and everyone flocked to it.
The Kahn brothers are also very profitable, even if the girl resists with all her strength, but in a foreign country, she is still a girl with no chicken power, how to fight two black-hearted businessmen, she has to accept the reality.
The numbness was at her mercy, allowing Americans to visit her body, and even the deformed "golden lotus little feet" that were ridiculed.
Until many years have passed, there is not much "appreciation value", she was swept out by the Kahn brothers, but even if she escaped from the clutches of the devil, in this unaccompanied foreign country, she does not have any survival skills.
Only by virtue of his oriental appearance, he entered the circus, still betrayed his body, and then drowned in this foreign city, and has not been heard from since.
epilogue
What an irony, that countries that advocate freedom and shout for equality have happened to be so unhurried that they are not ashamed but proud.
"The murderer kills forever", karma, under the impact of more democratic ideas, their fig leaf was violently torn off. We need to be thankful that in that era of poverty and weakness, we still have people with lofty ideals who have led the country out of the devastation, from humiliation to standing up with their heads held high.
"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the man", we must remember the scars of history, the lessons of history are never repeated, in order to not repeat the tragedy, in order to protect the land of our culture that has been passed down for more than 5,000 years, we must use our own hands to build this country stronger. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will certainly be realized in the near future.