What would have happened if the late Qing Dynasty had only ceded land and not paid compensation?

The imperialists will launch a new round of attacks, the imperialists are so ambitious, it is impossible to be limited to such a small thing as land cutting, they not only need land but also money, so that when they attack China, they can have a lot of funds, otherwise, when they are halfway through the battle, they suddenly find that they have no economy, what a terrible thing this is. <>

The imperialists not only wanted to carve China off the land, but they also wanted to hollow out the whole of China financially, so that their aspirations to conquer China could be realized. It is precisely because of the late Qing Dynasty that the Qing Dynasty has been cutting land, so the scope of our land in China has been shrinking. At that time, our territory in China was a cow, but now it is a chicken that has been scratched.

If the compensation had not been paid at the beginning, the people's lives would not have been under such pressure, and they would have lived a miserable life every day. At that time, there was no money in the Qing ** treasury, and all the money was scraped from the hands of the people. Imperialism oppressed the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty tried to oppress the people.

During the defeat of the late Qing Dynasty, China faced invasion and aggression by foreign powers, and its economic and military strength was relatively backward. In a series of wars and treaties, the late Qing Dynasty was often forced to cede territory and pay huge indemnities. There are many reasons behind this behavior, which boil down to the following:

Military weakness: The military strength of the late Qing Dynasty was relatively weak and could not resist the military aggression of the great powers. This led to the fact that in a series of wars, the late Qing Dynasty had hardly ever won.

Due to military weakness, the late Qing Dynasty had to negotiate with the great powers, and finally exchanged peace for land reparations.

Economic Difficulties: During the late Qing Dynasty, China's economy was experiencing its first crisis. With the rise of industrialization, European countries have greatly increased their productivity and commodity competitiveness.

As a traditional agricultural civilization, China's industrialization and commodity production levels are relatively low, requiring Weiling to introduce technology and capital to the outside world. The land reparations could provide the late Qing Dynasty with the funds needed to improve China's economic and social problems.

Hope to protect the interests of local bureaucrats: In the late Qing Dynasty, local ** often thought that giving up a part of their territory and interests could protect their current interests. As a result, they tend to support the policy of land cession and reparations.

Influence of the Ideological Background of Intellectuals: In the late Qing Dynasty, Chinese intellectuals believed that peaceful contact with foreign powers could increase China's cultural and intellectual reserves by learning and absorbing foreign cultures. Therefore, they were in favour of land reparations and unequal treaties.

In short, the act of late land reparation is not only a helpless move, but also reflects the uncertainty of its own strength and future prospects.

No, the country with the most reparations is Germany.

Germany's reparations for its World War I and World War II were $389 billion, equivalent to 100,000 tons**, more than twice that of the Qing Dynasty.

After Germany's surrender, the 18 victorious powers met in Paris in the autumn and winter of 1945 to discuss Germany's World War II reparations. It was decided that each country had the right to confiscate German assets abroad in its territory, and that the proportion of compensation to be distributed among the countries was also established. Greece also participated in the negotiations of the Paris Reparations Conference on material compensation and other forms of reparation in the distribution programme.

But with the division of Germany into the West and the East and the beginning of the Cold War, reparations also changed. The two regions have suffered very different reparations fates. In the Eastern Zone, due to the huge losses of infrastructure and industrial equipment caused by the Soviet Union in the war, Germany was required to compensate in kind, dismantle it, and transport it to the Soviet Union.

The large-scale factory demolition lasted for three years, and according to statistics, the compensation received by the Soviet Union from the demolition of the eastern occupation zone accounted for 35%-45% of all capital equipment in the eastern zone, and in some key industrial fields, such as iron and steel chemical industry, the eastern district lost almost all industrial equipment.

As a result of the drastic decline in the standard of living in the GDR, in 1953 the Soviet Union wrote off the $100 million in compensation arrears owed by the GDR at that time, formally abandoning all claims for compensation to the GDR.

The Soviet Union had announced that East Germany had paid a total of $100 million (at the 1938 exchange rate) in compensation, including the demolition of industry and equipment. The United States and Britain demanded relatively modest reparations for the Western Occupation Zone, which did not want to destroy its economy and thus become a burden to Europe.

The Qing Dynasty was the dynasty that paid the most land reparations in Chinese history. Especially in the late Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi "hung the curtain to listen to the government" era, the Western powers coveted our country's great rivers and mountains, and the Manchu Qing ** in order to maintain their dominance, the total indemnity was 1326323847 silver dollars, which was equivalent to 11 times the fiscal revenue of the Qing ** in 1901.

It can't be said that at the height of the British Empire, the territory of the world was a quarter, and now?

Germany's reparations for defeat were also large, and they were not paid off until 2010.

It can't be counted. The Qing Dynasty ceded land mainly as a no-man's land, and the only territories of real value were Taiwan and part of Trans-Manchuria. The Qing Dynasty generally tried to fight for territories of great strategic value, such as the recovery of Xinjiang in the later period.

The Qing Dynasty was one of the most powerful dynasties in China to control the frontier provinces. Without the defense lines built by the Qing Dynasty in Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia, and Manchuria, Tsarist Russia would easily press the Great Wall line.

In modern times, Turkey should have suffered the most from a great power, and gradually became the sick man of West Asia.

If you only count the land, the Qing Dynasty has the most, and if you calculate proportionally, North Korea has cut half.

The Ming Dynasty was the only one among the dynasties that did not compromise with the outside world.

Of course not, the Ming Dynasty is a real hard bone.

If there is no Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty lasts until modern times, will it cede land and pay compensation like the Qing Dynasty? The answer is: Yes.

Because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there had already begun to be some political crises, and if the Ming Dynasty was allowed to continue to develop, the Ming Dynasty would most likely be trampled and ravaged by foreign invaders like the Qing Dynasty. At the time of the Opium War, in 1840, Britain had completed the first industrial revolution, and they must have plundered a large number of colonies as their own territory, and the reason for China's decline in modern times was the limitation of feudalism.

The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Youzhen.

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In 1842, 1860, 1895 and 1901, the Qing Dynasty ceded more than 160 square kilometers of China. From the early Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, more than 300,000 square kilometers of land was lost due to the occupation or "independence" of neighboring countries and other countries.

It will not perish a hundred years early, but if you don't sign an agreement to admit it, the loss will not be small.

For the first time the opium was pierced, the British army did not just open fire along the coast and destroy some batteries, but occupied a lot of Chinese territory in a solid manner.

For example, in July 1840, he captured Dinghai (present-day Zhoushan City) in Zhejiang Province as a base for advancement. In August 1841, Dinghai was captured again, and it was entrenched for two years, and the army withdrew as early as 1842 when the Treaty of Nanjing was signed.

Dinghai was only one of the places occupied by the British, and in 1841, during the second northward attack, the British army successively occupied Guangzhou in Guangdong, Xiamen in Fujian, Ningbo in Zhejiang, Shanghai and Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, and approached the important town of Nanjing.

As long as the British are willing, they can completely occupy Nanjing and Yangzhou, and cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the main artery of Chinese mainland transportation.

This was a catastrophe for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which relied on Cao Yun to maintain its finances.

At the same time, the British could have marched west along the Yangtze River and captured the Chinese hinterland, including Wuhan, rather than fighting only along the coast.

When the time comes, China will be terrible.

In addition, at that time, the British army also fought outside the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin, and if necessary, they could also march west along the river and approach the city of Beijing, where Daoguang was located.

When the time comes, even Daoguang himself will not be able to keep it.

Naturally, objectively speaking, the British army did not have the power to conquer China, and even stationed it for a long time.

However, the British army can still leave you with a lot of vitality, and the losses are ten times greater than the indemnity paid by the Treaty of Nanking.

Naturally, if the Manchus did not give in, fought hard with the British, and fought a protracted war, the British might eventually give in and not demand the cession of Hong Kong and the like, and reduce the reparations.

However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not afford to delay, because the domestic problems were very serious, taking Guangdong, the main battlefield of the Opium War, as an example, the Heaven and Earth Society where the anti-Qing and Ming restoration would be very strong and constantly rebelled.

If the Manchus blindly fought with the foreigners, the Han people were likely to take the opportunity to restore the country and overthrow the Manchu rule.

In this case, we can only "rather give friends than domestic slaves".

It's possible. At that time, China had always been under a beating, and if it did not give the Western powers any benefit, it would definitely be in constant war. Of course, they were given benefits, and they wouldn't stop there.

But if they don't give anything, the Eight-Nation Alliance will definitely come to the door long ago, and they want to be high-sounding when they attack the Qing Dynasty. Under the circumstances of the time, the land reparations were intended to slightly prevent the Eight-Nation Coalition from encroaching on their benefits.

If Emperor Daoguang does not agree to cede the land and pay compensation. Then the Western powers would have invaded the Manchus**. At that time, the Qing ** will definitely perish, and then we will become a colonial country.

I don't think so, at that time, the great powers did not have many troops at all, and their strength was not enough to capture 9.6 million square kilometers of our country's territory, and at that time, there were people with lofty ideals who had already repelled them, but because of the weakness and incompetence of the Qing **, they were forced to fail, so that they harvested the land and indemnity in vain.

It is possible that if ** does not agree to cede land and pay compensation, the Qing Dynasty ** may have perished a hundred years ahead of schedule.

Yes. Daoguang does not agree to cede the land and pay compensation, the foreigners will not give up, they will fight to the end, and the Qing ** will perish in advance.

No, the Qing Dynasty did not perish so easily.

The British and French armies were limited in number and too far away, and the area they could control would not be too large.

If the Qing Dynasty did not sign a treaty at that time, China might win, at that time Japan had been hollowed out, and there was no money to recruit troops and buy troops, to fight a protracted war, the longer it dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for Japan, and in the end it might be China that won

It will be sent by Japan to continue to attack, and the Qing will continue to lose manpower, material resources, and troops, which will eventually intensify the people's support and accelerate the demise of the Qing Dynasty.

If the Qing ** does not cede the land and pay compensation, it will fall into a protracted war, the Qing army will suffer heavy casualties, most areas will also fall, and due to the incompetence of the Qing **, sooner or later it will also become a colony.

Reference to India. In the northeast, Xinjiang was annexed by Tsarist Russia and completely reduced to a colony.

How can it be? The First and Second Opium Wars, only a few people came to Britain, can they destroy China? Even if he hits the strategic depth of Beijing China, what else can he do?

China lost the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, and it was not easy for Japan to win, does it still have the strength to conduct a land war? At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was beaten so badly not because of backwardness in science and technology, backwardness in science and technology can be learned, like Japan, China was very rich at that time, the most important thing is the enslaving ideology of the Qing Dynasty, if you defeat it, you will spend money, and you can live well and don't think about anything else, for example, the military expenditure of the Beiyang Fleet is not as important as Cixi's birthday.