The first to invade China and occupy China's territory was not the so-called England, which is known as the sun never sets, nor France, which is known as the strongest land war in Europe, but precisely this small country, the Netherlands. In 1624, they had already occupied our treasure island of Taiwan. Colonization was carried out there. And that was the end of the Ming Dynasty. Don't be surprised, there's more ruthless than him!
When Portugal landed on the Chinese land of Macao in 1553, it was still in the Jiajing period, belonging to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, think about how old it was, but since that time, the Western colonizers have coveted and "cared" about us, a large country in the East. In 1557, Portugal obtained the right of residence in Macao. In 1623, he appointed the Governor of Macau. Step by step, he completely turned Macao into his own colony.
Think about the Netherlands and Portugal now, who now treat them as a dish, if you talk about the international situation, they are completely negligible existence, causing any impact on the international situation. But if you think about it back then, these two menacing European bosses played the role of anxious pioneers in the history of the West's invasion of the East. In 1510, the Portuguese occupied Goa in India. In 1511, they captured Malacca. The naval forces are directly aimed at China, and they are eyeing us! Do you dare to imagine that all this happened in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, more than 300 years before the Opium War! Think about how ill-intentioned and wolf-like ambitions it is for the Western colonizers to turn the huge China into their colony, plunder our population as their slaves, and rob us of our resources to produce industrial products for them.
It is precisely because from the very beginning that we did not resolutely resist the invasion of these Western countries that they were unscrupulous and fearless, riding on us and ravaging us in every way. Every bit of history is written in our history books, which gives people a profound awakening!
