120 years ago, our country was in the stormy rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, due to the decline of the country, the entire feudal society was like a thin sun hanging in the West Mountain, and the sun of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a matter of time, it was only a matter of time.
In those years, there were many complaints in the country, and the people's uprisings continued one after another, with the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in front and the Boxer Rebellion that was all over the place in less than three months. In addition, as early as the 70s of the 19th century, the country experienced an unprecedented famine, and the people were even more corpses everywhere, and the people were struggling to make a living, and the whole country was in an extremely difficult situation.
In the international arena, the capitalist countries of Western Europe, represented by the British and French coalition forces, have often eyed our country and have repeatedly invaded our country to create conflicts and frictions with the common people. In the eastern part of our country, Japan and the two countries have long coveted our country. In this situation of internal and external troubles, everyone cannot be immune to themselves. Although the Manchus had made many compromises with these powers, they were still unable to protect the imperial court.
Even in the Second Opium War, our country won the victory, and in the end, in order to calm the situation, it bowed its head to France. When you become the lion of East Asia, one day the dignity of the country has reached such a humble level, which is really something that has not been done in a thousand years. However, these Western powers did not intend to let us go, but instead intensified their efforts and sought their benefit by signing unequal treaties with our country
Especially in 1900, the madness index of these powers reached its peak, and in the summer of that year, Britain, the United States, Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, and Austria mobilized nearly 50,000 soldiers to come to the capital from different places to clash with our country.
And along the way, they burned, killed, looted, and committed heinous crimes. Chillingly,The Empress Dowager Cixi, the authority at that time, did not summon up the courage to call on the people to resist foreign invaders, but fled with the royal family at this time of crisis, completely ignoring the lives of the people in the capital, and letting the entire country face be trampled on by these Western powers.
When these unscrupulous Western powers broke into the Forbidden City, it is conceivable that they plundered a large number of rare treasures in the palace, including calligraphy and paintings of famous people in the past. Among them, China's famous large-scale book "Yongle Canon" was also in calamity and was collected by the foreign powers.
Wherever the great powers went, all kinds of precious cultural relics and buildings were destroyed, and when they left, they also snatched all the scriptures in the royal temple, and finally did not forget to pick up a knife and scrape the gilded patterns on the stone carvings of the temple.
But the suffering people did not know that what the Eight-Nation Alliance had done in the capital was only the beginning. What happened next was even more absurd, these powers went so far as to openly demand compensation from our country. Obviously, as robbers, they have violated social morality by invading our country, but they are not satisfied, and they have made many unreasonable demands, and they have made strong demands to make our country compensate them. This includes compensation for these countries4500 million taels**.
At that time, the common people of our country had 4500 million people, this 4500 million taels**, which is equivalent to grabbing one tael of silver from every ordinary person. This kind of heat is not only seriously insulting, but also has a vicious meaning of deliberately oppressing the common people of our country.
However, at the very beginning, the Western powers did not directly ask our country to compensate them economically, and deep down they tried to carve up our country. It's just that while several other countries are debating how to divide up our country, there is one country that stands up against it, and that country is the United States.
Is it really out of guilt that the United States opposes other countries doing this? The answer is obviously not, the United States did not do this with good intentions or compassion, but with its own considerations.
Don't forget that the United States is a very shrewd country, and they never do things that are not profitable. Even when the United States has repeatedly waged wars against foreign countries, it has done so out of consideration for its own interests. Therefore, the reason why the Americans at that time opposed the partition of our country was mainly for the following two reasons.
First, the United States was not particularly strong at that time, and they urgently needed capital turnover. After all, the United States is a young country that has been founded for a relatively short time, and they cannot be compared with Britain, France, and Japan, and it is clear that the United States at that time was not firmly rooted.
Coupled with years of civil war, the US treasury has long been very empty. Moreover, from an economic point of view, there were many subprime mortgage crises in the United States in the 19th century, and these subprime mortgage crises indirectly affected the world economic pattern. Therefore, if the United States wants to achieve further economic development and expand its strength, it can only start from the material aspect and enrich its treasury by plundering our country's gold, silver, and other resources.
Second, the United States simply cannot afford to build a colony in our country. The old capitalist countries such as Britain, France, and the Netherlands were very experienced in building overseas colonies, and they could easily build centuries of colonial rule overseas. Although these countries are small in size, their military and naval strength are unprecedented.
In addition, although Japan and Tsarist Russia are rising stars among the capitalist countries and have no experience in expanding colonies overseas, they are not far from China after all. If the partition is really successful, it will be more conducive to the development of these two countries at that time.
On the other hand, not only does the United States have no experience in expanding its colonies overseas, its founding history is very short, and most importantly, it is separated from China by a huge Pacific Ocean. If you want to cross the ocean and build a colony on the other side of the world, it will not only be exhausting, but it will also drag down the country's economic strength, and it will inevitably be difficult to take care of both ends at that time.
For these two reasons, the United States strongly opposes the partition. In the end, after everyone's deliberation, it was decided to end this invasion of China by making our country compensate.
It is worth mentioning. The impact of this blockade by the United States on our country is very far-reachingOn the one hand, it has prevented our country from falling into the frenzy of being carved up by imperialism again, which has also allowed our country to reduce many territorial disputes in the future.
And on the other hand, let our country compensate 4The 500 million taels ** plan indirectly dragged down China's economic system, exacerbated the demise of the Qing Dynasty, and deepened the burden on the people.
In the end, with the intervention of the United States, the United States received 73 million** in reparations. The United States has also used these reparations to enrich its military strength, and this country can be described as a typical example of "sitting on the profits of fishermen".
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