Looking at the entire modern history of the world, to put it bluntly, it is a history of the flow of capital, with a steady flow of gold, silver and raw materials from the colonized countries to the colonized countries. After the end of the modern era, the world order has been reshuffled, and those countries that were colonized are still developing with difficulty today, and those colonial powers, after accumulating primitive capital, are still rich after a hundred years.
Some people laugh and some people cry, and the rise of which country in modern times must be inseparable from the withering of another country. For example, the United States made a full two world wars of war wealth, and when the lives of Europe were destroyed, the United States made a lot of money. The tribulations of china's modern century have achieved the expansion of the two empires of Britain and France.
In fact, there are not only Britain and France, but also Tsarist Russia in the north of our country has also taken the opportunity to make a fortune in our country. How does it work? And listen to the author one by one.
After the reform of Peter I, Tsarist Russia became a country with great exaggerated ambitions, whether it was the later Catherine II or Peter II, they all inherited the tradition of Peter I's foreign aggression.
External expansion has no other purpose than to seize wealth. The reason why they expanded eastward to encroach on siberia was the local fur resources, which also became the most important economic source of foreign trade in Tsarist Russia at that time, and was also called "soft gold" by Russian merchants.
Later, their minions reached northeast of our country, at which time the Kangxi Emperor was not happy, so he launched a counterattack, known in history as the Yaksa War. The war ended in the victory of our army, and at the same time an agreement was signed with Tsarist Russia, called the Treaty of Nebuchadnezzar. In the treaty, China and Russia have clearly defined the national borders, and also stipulate that the people of the two countries who hold passports can cross the border and trade. It looks like our country has profited. In fact, this is exactly what Tsarist Russia wants.
Taking advantage of the opening of the ports by the Treaty of Nebuchadnezzar, Russia dumped a large amount of fur resources on our country. It turned out that their share in the European market had become saturated, coupled with the competition of the British, fur resources had been quite unsalable. Coupled with the perennial wars of expansion, the Tsarist Treasury was also rather empty.
Through our northern border, they sold 1,000 rubles worth of furs to China and re-bid them for a high price of 6,000 rubles. The royal nobles of the Qing Dynasty had been exposed to so much fur before, and with their wealth and wealth, they directly accepted them all at a high price of 6,000 rubles. The point is that under the terms of the Treaty of Nebuchadnezzar, this group of Russian fur traders did not have to pay any customs duties.
In this way, a large amount of real money and silver in our country flowed into Tsarist Russia and exchanged it for a pile of impractical furs. Since there were no tariffs, the Qing Dynasty could be said to have lost blood. The income from the dumping of furs into China alone accounted for one-third of the annual income of Tsarist Russia that year. It can be seen how great wealth our country has been seized.
However, it may also be because of the fur trade that a delicate balance was maintained between Tsarist Russia and the Qing Dynasty, and no more wars broke out between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia in the 170 years since the end of the Yaksa War. Until 1858, the fur resources of our market were also saturated, and the furs of Tsarist Russia could no longer be sold.
As a result, Tsarist Russia unilaterally tore up the "Treaty of Nebuchu" and began to invade and occupy the territory north of Heilongjiang and south of the Waixing'an Mountains in China, and at the same time forced the Qing government to sign the "Treaty of Yaohun", revealing its long-hidden aggressive ambitions. And that tsarist Russia was not afraid of the Qing government, after all, it was not the Qing Dynasty that Kangxi was in power. At that time, in the Qing Dynasty, every great power could use it as a soft persimmon pinch.
However, the Qing government did 170 years of wrongful head, buying the unsalable fur of Tsarist Russia at a high price, and finally being bitten by Tsarist Russia. It can be seen from this that backwardness means to be beaten, especially in modern times when the weak eat the strong. Bimes said that "the truth is only within the range of the cannon", without national strength, there is no right to speak, and to this day, this sentence is still thought-provoking.