Those who are familiar with history know that Li Hongzhang once signed the Xinxiu Treaty on behalf of the Qing government to the great powers, and the Xinxiu Treaty can be said to be the most humiliating treaty of the Qing government.
It can be said that the signing of this treaty directly represents the Qing government's move towards a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and what is more fatal is that once this treaty is signed, it means that the Qing government has become a lackey of Western imperialist countries, completely relying on the eyes of Western countries, which can be said to be a treaty that humiliates the country in a pure sense.
And when the "Xinxiu Treaty" was signed, the Qing government was very interesting, ordinary ordinary courtiers could not cope with this kind of thing, and those who could really deal with this kind of thing were not willing to bear the name, Cixi Lafayette picked and chose to choose, and finally selected a person who could sign the treaty on behalf of the Qing government, so who was this person selected? That's right, the person chosen is Li Hongzhang.
But the key to the problem is that when Li Hongzhang signed the "Xinxiu Treaty", he did not directly sign his own name, and it stands to reason that when signing a certain treaty or an agreement, he must write his own name, but Li Hongzhang did not write it, but wrote a word, which is the "su" of "sujing".
Some friends began to make amends, the reason why Li Hongzhang signed the word "Su" of "Sujing", not Li Hongzhang's real name, is because Li Hongzhang is afraid of retaliation, afraid of leaving a bad name for eternity, plus Li Hongzhang's own title, and is a first-class Su Yi uncle, so Li Hongzhang's signature is also reasonable.
First, the refutation of this claim.
In fact, I myself strongly disagree with this statement, why not agree with this statement?
Because the "Xinxiu Treaty" was a very well-known international activity at that time, and even all the great powers participated in it, it stands to reason that such an event, no matter what word Li Hongzhang signed, would go down in history.
Yes, that is to say, Li Hongzhang does not need to worry about the smell of 10,000 years at all, because Li Hongzhang has been left smelly for 10,000 years at this time, anyway, he has been left behind for 10,000 years, and he can sign anything.
Moreover, Western powers like this kind of treaty will correct it verbatim for word, and if there is really some accident, it is not clear to say, so Li Hongzhang can pass customs by signing only this one word, and it must be that this word has a deep meaning, not something that ordinary people can understand at a glance.
More importantly, although Li Hongzhang has some connections with the "su" of "sujing", only one word of these associations is related, and it would be too far-fetched to change it because this one word is related?
Second, the real situation.
"Today, the above clauses are fixed with twelve points in the same text, and all of them shall be drawn by the ministers plenipotentiary of all countries, each of the plenipotentiary ministers of each country will deposit one point, and the minister plenipotentiary of China shall receive one point."
The above paragraph is the detailed provision of Article 12 of the Xinxiu Treaty when Li Hongzhang signed, if we explain it in the popular vernacular, that is, when signing, it must be by drawing a pledge, not simply signing a name.
Everyone has a name, and the way of drawing is different, and this word is the word written down by Li Hongzhang, in other words, this is not a text at all, but Li Hongzhang's requirements for the "Xinxiu Treaty", and give the corresponding process, in other words, Li Hongzhang does not have the right to sign it at all.
Such a signature pattern may indeed exist in some older areas or in some mountainous areas, but with the development of the times and social progress, this way of signing has slowly been replaced by the times.
Revelation.
Because just today, I just recorded a video related to the "Xinxiu Treaty", and interpreted in detail the great pain and helplessness brought by the "Xinxiao Treaty" to the Qing government to the Chinese people, so I also have a lot of feelings about the topic of ancestors.
Don't think that the "Xinxiu Treaty" is just a piece of paper, but just a reparation after defeating the war, it is not so simple, it can be said that the Western powers put the Qing government on the ground at that time and rubbed it back and forth.
More importantly, the Xinxiu Treaty seriously insulted every Chinese at that time, according to the provisions of the time, the Xinxiu Treaty required the Qing government to compensate 450 million taels of silver, why is it 450 million taels of silver, what is the trick behind it, the cat greasy is that the total population of the Qing government at that time was only 450 million people.
According to the logical needs of Western imperialism, everyone compensates one or two silver because of this matter, which is naked humiliation, and more importantly, if you want the Qing government to lose money, the premise is that the Qing government has to have money, but the Qing government is cleaner than the face in its pocket, what if there is no money?
It can only be said that the Western powers have firmly controlled the Qing government, and what is even more disgusting is that the Western powers still stationed troops in Tianjin and Beijing, so as to control the strategy and tactics of the Qing government, and completely control every inch of China's land by controlling the Qing government.
And for Germany and Japan, the aggressor side at that time, what does it mean that the Qing government actually needs to apologize to the aggressor party in order to gain forgiveness and recognition from the other side?
This means that the Qing government wants to kneel down to those who have bullied themselves and say whether your hand hurt when you hit me just now, what a humiliating thing it is, and this is how the Qing government actually did it and persisted.
What is even more disgusting is that the Qing government, which seems to have endless memories, Cixi Lafayette on the one hand severely punished the bureaucratic group involved in the war at that time, and at the same time ordered that as long as there are cases of resistance in any city, it must not participate in the imperial examination for 5 years, to a certain extent, the roots of cultural people are broken, so that places that dare to resist or have resistance genes cannot enter the imperial court at all.
But I am very sorry, the Qing government said to the outside world that we are lying down and tasting courage, but we can lie down and taste courage, once again proving to Western countries that soft eggs are soft eggs, and they are soft eggs that cannot be remedied, and this battle of the Qing government can be said to be a complete loss, laying the groundwork for the demise of the Qing Empire later.