Empress Dowager Cixi, the ruler of China in the late Qing Dynasty.
But even so, the Qing government, which will be reviled by China's descendants for thousands of years, still left tens of millions of square kilometers of land, not all of it? A gift? To foreigners! But how did the weak Qing government protect China's tens of millions of square kilometers?
Map of the heyday of Qing dynasty
Everyone knows that the territory area in the heyday of the Qing Dynasty was13160,000 square kilometers! However, this vast territory is gradually shaken in complacency and will gradually be overthrown in a hundred years!
Territory seized by the great powers.
Current situation map in late Qing dynasty
China in the late Qing Dynasty was a huge piece of fat meat of the great powers, and every great power was salivating and wanted to make a splash in China. Having said that, I remembered the situation map of the late Qing Dynasty. He compared all big countries to different animals and things entrenched in the territory of China. At that time, China was the fish on the chopping block, and even a tiny country in the East regarded China as the meat in its mouth! How much territory did China lose in the hands of the Qing government?
China and Russia signed the Treaty of Love.
As we all know, Russia alone took nearly1600,000 square miles of territory from the Qing government through a series of unequal treaties, such as the Aihui Treaty and the Beijing Treaty. And the territory seized by all the great powers from the Qing Dynasty adds up to several million square kilometers! Then why is the Qing government so weak and incompetent that the territory has not been completely divided by the powers? Does it belong to a powerful country? Compassion? Overflow?
The national spirit of the Chinese nation
Left to recover Xinjiang
In fact, China was not completely divided by the great powers, mainly because of the uncompromising spirit of China people, and it was not completely in this hypocritical peace! Although the Qing government has become the mud that can't help the wall, there are still many patriots in the Qing court by then. I believe everyone has heard the story of Zuo recovering Xinjiang. The Westernization Movement and the Reform Movement of 1898 were both aimed at saving China in dire straits!
Boxer Movement in the National Uprising
Not only in the Qing court, there were patriots, but also among the people and foreigners who found it difficult to be snobbish. At the end of Qing Dynasty, more and more rampant powers were discussing how to carve up China. At that time, because of the uneven distribution of spoils and internal discord, their plan to carve up China was blocked, and they were faced with the Boxer Rebellion initiated by the people, so the people of China would not agree to completely carve up China and unify the Qing government!
What do we know? Open the door? Policy, is to eliminate the resistance of the people of China, continue to grab benefits! Although the powers gave up the idea of dividing up China's power in China, they moved towards it? Use China to control China? Road!
As the saying goes? Clay figurine or three points of soil? Not to mention the Chinese nation for thousands of years! China's territory was bought by Chinese people with flesh and blood. How can friendship surrender!