The Qing Dynasty fell into an unprecedented crisis due to its corruption and incompetence and the fragility of its national defense. They succumbed to the pressure of the great powers, not only for the sake of their own interests, but also for further exploitation of the people at the bottom. After the Second Opium War, the Qing signed a series of treaties that humiliated the country, causing the Qing society to fall further into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial situation.
After the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing, the "Xinchou Treaty" was signed, which reduced the Qing Dynasty to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and Dongjiaomin Lane was also classified as the exclusive territory of foreign embassies, so that China lost its jurisdiction over the region. ** A "start from scratch" policy has been adopted in an attempt to change the situation.
During the Pingjin Campaign, ** began to think about solving the problem of Beijing, the capital of the feudal dynasty. He proposed a solution to the forcible occupation of the city of Beijing and became aware of the problem of Dongjiaomin Lane, the remnants of imperialism that had long been stranded in Beijing. General Fu Zuoyi initially thought that he could rely on the strong walls of Tianjin's high city and hold out for more than three months, in the hope that the PLA would compromise.
However, General Liu Yalou conquered Tianjin in three days, far exceeding General Fu Zuoyi's expectations. The city of Tianjin was broken, and General Fu Zuoyi's last illusion was shattered, and he was ordered to sign the agreement on behalf of the representative. After his manipulation to isolate the forces in Beiping from the minions loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, more than 200,000 Kuomintang troops drove out of Beiping and successfully accepted the peaceful reorganization.
Before the People's Liberation Army entered Beiping City and officially took over Beiping, the key point was that Beiping City would return to the embrace of the people. The envoys of some great powers insist on staying here, and the people's troops should give some color to these cancerous tumors that have been powerful and blessed for more than a hundred years.
The entrenchment of the great powers here is like poking an awl in the heart of the Chinese and scratching the Chinese face, and they are oppressed and good around them, and the people of Beiping have suffered for a long time. On that day, the military music of the People's Liberation Army and the sound of neat advance sounded in unison, and they marched into Dongjiaomin Lane, which had been isolated from the Chinese for decades.
For a while, these envoys, who were usually arrogant and domineering, actually closed the door of the embassy and shrank in the embassy one by one. But even so, they still don't realize that their good days of being powerful in China are coming to an end, especially the envoys of the United States, who still think that even if China changes to ten, they don't dare to really provoke the United States.
They thought that in another year, the people's soldiers would dare to go to war with the US-led coalition forces, and they would even be able to repel them on the Korean battlefield. How did their arrogance and arrogance develop?How to reclaim this extraterritorial, and what obstacles are in the middle? Second, the bone and blood ointment and fat are close to happiness, and the silver beads and jade pay Changyang.
Just like the crooked poem written at the beginning of the article, "Strong ships and sharp guns break national defense, and calamity will eventually die for the people." Bone and blood ointment and fat are close to happiness, and silver beads and jade pay Changyang. The chaotic boat of the sea and river is about to go, and the twilight is drowsy and yellow. The world here is really bleak, and there is no home to stay in the vastness. ”。At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was in a state of isolation from the rest of the country, relying on the self-sufficiency of the small-scale peasant economy.
In 1840, the British opium war against the Qing Dynasty, in 1842, the Qing Dynasty began to sign the funeral treaty, began to distribute ore in various places, and began to degenerate into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. The corrupt Qing court, the greedy landlords, the arrogant powers, how many peasants dared to be angry and did not dare to speak. During this period, there was an incident in the south of the Budi Xiucai, and the feudal king of Jinling was called.
However, the Taiping rebellion was fraught with limitations, and not only was it difficult to change the situation in China, but it was not even ultimately successful. The Qing ** was even more subservient and pale after the Second Opium War, and the great powers were unscrupulous and began to deploy their embassies in Dongjiaomin Lane. In the twentieth year of Guangxu, several great powers were stationed here, and even before the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan dared to come to get a piece of the pie.
With the entry of the Eight-Nation Coalition into Beijing, it was officially designated as the exclusive territory of their ambassadors. Within this scope, life and death are all up to them, and China has no right to speak. Qing ** is weak and incompetent, and the country is poor and weak, so the people around him cannot hold their chests up in front of these foreigners, and they are Xi to this superior territorial status and disdain the countrymen.
Even in the seventeenth year, although the embassies of various countries have moved to Nanjing, the embassies in Dongjiaomin Lane still exist, and no one dares to offend. What is so special about Dongjiaomin Lane that foreigners can cherish it so much?Dongjiaomin Lane, formerly known as Dongjiang Rice Lane, is said to have been a place to sell Jiang rice during the Ming Dynasty, and later many imperial court departments set up government offices here.
During the Qing Dynasty, the silver treasury of the household department and the residences of many princes and nobles were also built here, and before the arrival of foreign powers, there was a state guest house for foreign envoys to stay for a short time. Although it is a people's alley, it is full of government treasury and rich mansions of princes, so it attracts the attention of the great powers. During the Second Opium War, foreign ministers were required to reside in the capital when they had business needs, according to the treaties signed.
Even the families of foreign envoys can stay permanently or come and go at will, and it can be said that the door of Beijing is open. At that time, the great powers demanded the formal establishment of an embassy here, and the Qing ** refused, but soon the British and French troops burned the Old Summer Palace and occupied a mansion and a royal palace as an embassy, and the rest of the countries followed suit. In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion attacked these embassies, causing much damage.
With the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion and the signing of the Treaty of Xincho, the status of these embassies was confirmed in the Qing Dynasty, and after more than ten years of renovation, it has completely become a neighborhood for foreigners, not only foreign embassies, but also churches, banks, government offices, entertainment venues, and everything.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, various powers amassed troops in China in an attempt to threaten the Qing imperial family. Foreigners are so unscrupulous in the region that the people of Beijing deride themselves at this place as a country within a country. However, with the stability of the country, ** began to completely eliminate these foreign forces that had taken root in China, so as to purify the soil of New China.
Within seven days after January 6, 1950, any military base and illegally occupied land by a foreign power in Beijing, no matter how large or small, would be recovered. Among them, Dongjiaomin Lane is regarded as the primary site for recovery. When the United States first received this order, the United States, which was the most powerful in the world at that time, thought that as long as it exerted pressure, New China would give in.
The United States stationed troops around the world, and in order to protect the rights and interests of the troops stationed in Dongjiaomin Lane, the United States consuls joined the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy to discuss cooperation. Even the White House sent a letter to Prime Minister to warn the CCP not to harm US interests in China. However, Chiang Kai-shek had been driven out, and their fantasies were ridiculous.
If the Communist Party of China can be threatened, how can it create a new China in the midst of storms?Instead of bothering with these imperialists, the letter was simply returned. It was difficult for Americans to accept for a moment that any country dared to treat them like this, not to mention that this was still China, which had been bullied in the past. So the United States forwarded the letter to *** through the British ambassador, but their tirade still went unanswered.
Seeing that the ambitions of the US imperialists did not stop, they ordered the army not only to close all foreign posts, but also to make all US consuls get out. At the insistence of **, the embassies of all countries that had not established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China withdrew from China, and the shadow of imperialism that hung over China in modern times was finally dispelled. In short, in the face of hostile forces, compromise will only provoke further aggression from them.
Just as the reason why Germany dared to start World War II back then, it was not because Britain, France, the Soviet Union and other countries compromised step by step and allowed Germany's ambitions to swell. Blind concessions often lead to greater provocations. Of course, it is not necessary for people to blindly stick to their own positions, or even make a big fuss, the key is to see whether the other party is a person who can cooperate and reason.