As the last feudal dynasty, the Qing Dynasty created the last prosperous era of feudal dynasties in Chinese history, but it also unveiled the history of China's humiliation for a hundred years.
As the foreign powers knocked on the door of the Qing Dynasty by force, this ancient land became a treasure land for the great powers to scramble to obtain benefits, and invaded ports and land in an attempt to maximize their interests by colonial means.
Although the great powers ceded a lot of land for a time, with the victory of World War II and the establishment of New China, all the land such as Hong Kong and Macao were recovered.
However, there are also some lands that have not been returned to us due to objective reasons. For example, Sakhalin and Vladivostok ...... in those years
In addition to these familiar names, there is also a small county town, which has not been returned after being cut off by the British.
This place is now the "Grape County" under the administration of Myanmar. Located on the border between China and Myanmar, there are only about 90,000 people in this place, and the transportation around it is quite underdeveloped.
Moreover, the local area mainly depends on growing grapes and other cash crops for a living, and the transportation is quite inconvenient, which has led to the fact that the place is still poor.
Only certain seasons of the year can come and go at will, once the rainy season comes, the residents of Grape County can only cats in the county, and all the roads around it are blocked, so it is strange that the economy can be developed in such a characteristic piece of land.
If Grape County is currently within the jurisdiction of China, it must have already achieved village-to-village communication, achieved poverty alleviation with us, and moved firmly in the direction of rural revitalization.
But the facts are here, how many people know how the British cut Grape County?
This matter has to start from the late Qing Dynasty, Britain could be known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and the number of overseas colonies is really not young and old.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the British set their sights on Asia, and in addition to the invasion of the Qing Dynasty, Vietnam in the south was also colonized by the French, and the British not only invaded the Qing Dynasty's land, but also took full control of the Burma region.
In addition, in order to prevent Tsarist Russia from occupying the vast ** region of China, they also ran to the ** area non-stop, and did not hesitate to fight with Tsarist Russia.
However, the Qing rulers at that time had lost their dominance, and in the face of the successive foreign powers, as well as the continuous uprisings and revolts in the country, the Qing rulers also adopted a strategy of silence for remote areas.
In fact, although Grape County was still in the hands of the Qing Dynasty rulers at that time, the actual control had already run into the hands of Burma, because the British were controlling Myanmar at that time, and Myanmar got the control of Grape County, which was equivalent to the British having a springboard for aggression.
However, before the British could do anything, World War II broke out, Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, and Britain also became the pillar of the European theater.
However, Britain, which had been beaten by the Germans, had no intention of abandoning its overseas colonies, and took advantage of its occupation of Burma to jam our necks. In order to keep the Yunnan-Burma Highway open and maintain the material mobilization on the front line, the people agreed to the British conditions and obtained the nominal control of Grape County.
In this way, Grape County was completely ceded away. However, although the British tried their best to pull on their side, the British on the battlefield of World War II were beaten to the point that they lost their dominance, and they colonized not only Burma, but also India.
After losing their dominance, both India and Myanmar began to brew independence. After the end of World War II, India and Burma became independent one after another, and the original resources became the wealth of Myanmar.
Although Burma became independent, they did not give us back the county and they did not have the energy to develop the city. Although in 1960, China and India signed the "Sino-Burmese Boundary Treaty" to recover Pianma, Banhong, Banlao and other places, but it did not include Grape County.
Although there is still a lot of land that we lost back then, with China's growing influence in the international community and the acceleration of the rise of the Chinese nation, everything is possible in the future.