A hundred years of shame

The victory of the Chinese People's Volunteers in the Korean battlefield caused the whole country to rejoice. People express the joy in their hearts in various forms.

In a teahouse in Yanjing, several old gentlemen talked enthusiastically. I said Jin Liuye, I haven't seen you for a long time. Did you read the newspaper today? That's called an enjoyable, hundred-year-old shame, and now it's over." Listening to my granddaughter's reading, I'm happy today! That's when I came out to drink tea. I said Li Si'er, when you are happy, don't mention the past hundred years of shame that you can't look back on," the one who was called Jin Liuye replied a little dimly. Hum. Hmph, that's not a good thing that your Manchu ancestors did, but that's what the newspaper said, 'A hundred years of shame, now it will be wiped out in one fell swoop'" Li Si poured a cup of tea for Jin Liuye and said.

A middle-aged man who looked like a teacher took a sip of tea and said: "This can't completely blame Jin Liuye and them Manchurians, the Chinese realize the danger of China, and only then can they truly understand the world. The Chinese have always believed that China, the empire of the central government and the center of the world, has always regarded itself as the superior country of the Celestial Empire, a great country, a vast land, rich in natural resources, omnipotent, self-sufficient, and self-satisfied. Arrogant, closed-minded, and ignorant of what's going on outside. The barbarians who are foreign are even more persistent and dismissive. As a result, I don't know what happened to the compensation for being ceded land."" Or Mr. Liu is right" That Jin Liuye said while wiping a goatee: I read a book when I was a child, it was the fifteenth year of Daoguang, and Lin Zexu, the governor of Huguang, organized people to translate the "Records of the Four Kingdoms", and then the Chinese knew that the world was so big, and there were so many countries with strange names in addition to our central empire under the sky, what Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain really fucking hard to remember, and I don't want to remember, at that time, no matter what it was called, it was collectively called barbarians."" Mr. Lin was the most sober person in China at that time, the first person to open his eyes to the world," Mr. Liu said. Speaking of which, China's 100 years of shame are all caused by the Great Smoke of Yingyi. You can't fight without big smoke. I heard from the elders that those yellow hairs came to China to do business at the beginning and were honest. Take some knives, forks, swords, and halberds for eating and sell them, who will buy them? I also took a kerosene lamp and sent it to my home, and it burned up with a lot of smoke and choked people, and no one asked for it, and their foreign cloth looked very good, and no one bought it if it was thin and strong. Seeing that nothing could be sold, then they got bad at it. Started selling big cigarettes. Since the post-Yongzheng period, when Daoguang ascended the throne, it could be sold in a year, and there were 4,000 boxes of such a large box." Jin Liuye said as he gestured to the size of the box. It has increased tenfold in the eighteenth year of the Dao. The flood of smoke is overflowing, and the yellow muscles smoked by the Chinese are thin, and they can't do anything. The poor clanging bell at home still wants to smoke. Daoguang Ye can't see it. Daoguang asked the minister what to do? None of these ministers have an idea. Later, Lin Zexu, then the governor of Huguang, gave Daoguang Ye an excerpt and said: Opium is not forbidden, the country will be poor and weak in a few decades, and there is almost no army in the Central Plains that can resist the enemy, and there is no silver that can be paid. Impressed Daoguang, appointed Lin Zexu as the minister of the anti-smoking mission, and went to Guangdong to ban smoking. Jin Liuye took a sip of tea and said: "In March of the following year, Lord Lin arrived in Guangzhou, strictly investigated the tobacco dealers, and told the foreigners to hand over opium. In June of the same year, more than 2 million catties of confiscated cigarettes were destroyed in public on Humen Beach. This has provoked foreigners. It is hard to say that if you don't compensate for the loss. Daoguang Ye asked Lin Zexu, the minister of the Qin Mission, what are the chances of winning the fight? Lin Zexu thought it would be okay to defeat the British. He wrote in his recital to Daoguang: "Where he goes, he is only in the cannon and the ship, and once he reaches the shore, he should have no other skills, and he is wrapped all over, his waist and legs are stiff, and a servant can recover, not only a soldier can kill several enemies, that is, the townsmen are brave enough to control their lives, and the people of the country are different from each other, and the eyes and nose hair are very different from those of the Chinese. "The Art of War: Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Lord Lin's excerpt is really a foolish joke." Hey, Jin Liuye sighed again and continued: At that time, the Manchu Dynasty belonged to him who knew Yingyi best, and others knew even less. In June of the eighteenth year of Daoguang, more than 4,000 British sailed on more than 40 ships. Blocked the Pearl River estuary in Guangzhou, and saw that there were iron chains hanging on the river, and there was no gap to take advantage of. Driven north to Dinghai, Zhejiang, on the morning of July 6, the British army did not suffer any casualties. It didn't take a bag of cigarettes to wipe out 1,540 Dinghai Divisions. With 13 dead and wounded, the Dinghai Division gave up Dinghai to the British. Are these dog minions really useless? It's 1,540 pigs lying there, and the British will have to kill them for a few hours. Later, they went to Haikou in Tianjin, and sent a note from the British Foreign Secretary to Qi Shan, the governor of Zhili, who was ordered to go to the piercing nose outside the Tiger Gate in Tianjin, negotiate with the British commander-in-chief, and negotiate a draft treaty, known as the "Piercing Nose Grass Treaty" in history. China ceded Hong Kong, paid 6 million yuan in compensation, and Britain returned Dinghai. After hearing this, Daoguang was furious, so in January 27, 1841, the 21st year of Daoguang, Emperor Daoguang declared war on Britain; He also sent his imperial nephew Yishan as the general of Jing Rebellion and led his troops to fight in Guangdong. In February, the British captured the Humen Fort with 38 wounded, and Guan Tianpei, the commander of the Guangdong Naval Division, and more than 400 defenders were killed. "Sixth Master Jin, it's good for your old man to remember his surname, remember it!" That Mr. Liu said while pouring a new cup of tea for Jin Liuye.

When my grandfather was alive, he asked us children to remember these things, practice more skills, and say that in the future, when we have the ability, we will find these yellow-haired people to settle accounts." I think it was the mediocrity of the Daoguang Emperor at that time, who removed Lin Zexu, who was in the main battle, and activated a group of surrender factions. Li Si said indignantly.

Mr. Liu said, "What if you don't withdraw?" I think this is Daoguang to complete Lin Zexu and let him preserve his reputation. Chinese history, Chinese culture, and Chinese politics are extremely complicated, and when a "bad" thing happens, the Chinese people, from top to bottom, often do not bravely face the reality, seriously sum up the lessons and lessons, look for the inevitable factors that produce things, and solve them fundamentally. Instead, he was busy plucking himself from the "bad" things, and then looking for two scapegoats, so he said that it was a good thing, and it was because of these bad guys that he messed things up. If the country and the nation are harmed, otherwise it would never be so. Two more heroes, Ah Q. After that, the whole country was spiritually liberated. This concept of finding a scapegoat and the ancestral spirit of Ah Q have made many Chinese people unable to deeply understand the lessons of history. In my opinion, fundamentally speaking, the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China, had entered a crisis-ridden "era of decline" after the "prosperous Kangqian era" of the first two generations of founding emperors. "After more than a hundred years of "peace and prosperity" of the Manchu Dynasty, the founding emperor of the country lost almost the same amount of literary offensive and martial spirit. Even the blood of the nomadic people has been wiped out by a comfortable life. One by one, political dwarfs have been in charge of this huge Chinese empire from generation to generation."" That's right!" Li Si interjected and said: "The entire Manchu emperor is three times called the grasshopper under the donkey, and the generation is not as good as the generation." Daoguang was the sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and most of the arable land under his rule was concentrated in the hands of the imperial family, bureaucrats, and the landlord class. The peasants, who make up the vast majority of the country's population, have little or no land. Overwhelmed by heavy rents, taxes, forced labor, and usury, the vast number of peasants were plunged into a miserable state of poverty, bankruptcy, and displacement. The contradiction between the peasant class and the landlord class has risen to the level of the main contradiction and is constantly intensifying. The people's hearts are turned back." Mr. Liu said from a political point of view.

That Jin Liuye nodded and said: "Listen to my old man, after the British army landed, there was no such thing as Lin Zexu said, "Our people work together to annihilate the non-species," but a large number of 'Han Annihilation' appeared under the temptation of the British army's small profits, leading the way for the British army and providing all kinds of information for the British army. Jin Liuye took a sip of tea, picked up a five-spiced peanut and put it in his mouth and said, "These people are hateful, but this also shows that the people are dissatisfied with the court." I think there is another reason for the failure of the Opium War, that is, the emperor is arrogant and indulged in the dream of "the heavenly kingdom". Generally, the officials of the feudal territory are ignorant and closed, corruption and bribery are common in officialdom at all levels, and the governance of officials is corrupt. Corruption and bribery have become an irrepressible trend. Officials at all levels have made how to make money their first priority, and when faced with foreign invasions, officials at all levels are even more considerate of themselves in order to ensure their vested interests."" Mr. Liu, you're right. The officials are fucking making money. Who is a soldier and who still plays with his life. Even I won't do it," Li Si said, taking a puff of his hookah.

Jin Liuye said: "Yes, although there were more than 900,000 people in the Eight Banners and the green-clothed establishment in the Daoguang period, there was a lot of shortage, and the phenomenon of empty salaries for officers at all levels was common, the weapons were backward, the military affairs were lax, there was a lack of training, the military discipline of the soldiers was corrupted, and the opium smoking of officers and soldiers became a common practice. However, it consumed more than 20 million taels of silver every year, accounting for nearly half of Daoguangye's annual financial income at that time. These dog minions just want to make money. Therefore, in the face of a mere 4,000 British troops, they did not hold a single fortress that the British army wanted to attack, and did not recapture a stronghold that the British wanted to hold! At that time, it was really useless for the imperial court to raise this group of people, but it became a burden to the imperial court." Jin Liuye motioned to the tea boy to pour the tea, and then took a sip and continued: Daoguang was not easy at that time. He is a very diligent and thrifty emperor, listen to my elders say, he eats in the palace, each day must not exceed four bowls, even wear patched pants, at that time after the signing, the news reached Yanjing, Daoguang retreated, bowed his head on the steps of the palace, a night did not taste a respite, but the waiter heard the sound of Tai Xi, leaked five drums, and sighed at a moment's notice." After finishing speaking, Jin Liuye shook his head.

Li Si said: Jin Liuye, don't be funny, the emperor has four dishes and one soup for every meal, and he still wears torn pants?" Believe it or not, I've heard that too" Jin Liuye said very blandly.

Li Si refilled some tea for Jin Liuye and Mr. Liu respectively and said, "Jin Liuye, why don't you want to avenge his father in that Xianfeng?"

Jin Liuye's eyes widened: Who said that he didn't want revenge, after Xianfeng Ye succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did when he came to power was to avenge Daoguang Ye. He removed all the main peace factions of the Daoguang era and reactivated the main battle faction. Including Lin Zexu. But he, like Daoguang Ye, defeated the Second Opium War, and he lost worse than Daoguang Ye."

Mr. Liu nodded and said: Yes, in August 1860, 18,000 British and French troops landed from Beitang and occupied Tianjin. Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty, the concubine fled to Chengde. On October 18, the British and French forces occupied Yanjing and looted and burned the Old Summer Palace. The British and French troops looted and burned in the suburbs of Yanjing for nearly 50 days, and the royal gardens on the outskirts of Beijing, such as the Old Summer Palace, Qingyi Garden, Jingming Garden in Yuquan Mountain, Jingyi Garden in Xiangshan, and Changchun Garden, were all burned. The Qing court sent Yixin as a plenipotentiary minister to negotiate peace and sign the Treaty of Yanjing between China and Britain and China and France. In November, Tsarist Russia coerced Qing Zhengaxe to sign the Sino-Russian Treaty of Yanjing. China has paid huge compensation and lost 840,000 square kilometers of territorial sovereignty larger than the three northeastern provinces. "It's distressing to think about it now," Jin Liuye said distressedly. What's even more distressing?" Li Si said angrily.