1900 Spring, the Boxer Rebellion became the fuse of Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China. Eight-Nation Alliance used this as an excuse to carve up and plunder the Qing Empire in the name of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion.
The total number of troops invading China is about 50 thousand, which is well-equipped and powerful. 1900 On August 4th, Beijing was completely occupied. Wherever Eight-Nation Alliance went, he killed, set fire to, raped and plundered.
Among them, Yuanmingyuan, the famous garden of thousands of gardens, was looted again after the British and French allied forces, and eventually became a ruin. 190 1 On September 7th, China was completely reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
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After the Boxer Rebellion, foreign powers took the opportunity to send troops to China and plundered it. The news reached Russia, and the czar government thought it was an excellent opportunity to invade China.
In addition to actively participating in Eight-Nation Alliance, in July 1900 and 16, the Hailan gun tragedy was created. Almost all the thousands of China people living in Hailanpao were brutally killed by the Russian army, and less than 100 people swam to escape.
From 17 to 2 1 year, the Russian invaders drove more than 10,000 residents of 64 villages in Jiangdong to the Heilongjiang River and were shot or hacked to death with axes. The rest were driven into Heilongjiang and drowned, and only a few people made a living by swimming.
On August 28th, Russian troops occupied Qiqihar, and Heilongjiang general Shoushan committed suicide. On September 22nd, Jilin was occupied, and on September 28th, Liaoyang was occupied. 65438+1 October1entered Shengjing.
Wherever the Russian army went, it burned, killed and looted, doing all kinds of evil. 1900165438+1October, Russia coerced General Zeng Qi to sign the provisional charter of Fengtian in an attempt to legalize the military occupation.
I want to fix Russia's monopoly on the three northeastern provinces in legal form. Invalidated due to Chinese and foreign opposition. Russian troops seized the opportunity of military occupation and plundered gold mines, coal mines and forest resources in northeast China.
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