During the Second Opium War, according to the Tianjin Treaty, China paid two million taels of military expenditure to Britain and France and two million taels to British businessmen. The Beijing Treaty stipulates that the reparations to Britain and France will be increased to 8 million taels of silver each.
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Because of China's thought of "closing the country to the outside world", the Qing Dynasty was in a backward position in the world. In order to open the door to China's foreign trade, Britain began to import a large number of opium from China.
/kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, China imported more than 4,000 boxes of opium. Due to the continuous importation of opium, opium poisoning has occurred in China. More and more people take opium and are eroded by it.
At that time, a large amount of silver flowed out of China, and the users suffered great physical and mental damage. At the same time, it also destroyed the social productive forces in China, and caused the industrial and commercial economic depression in some areas of the Qing government. Therefore, the Qing government had to take measures to ban opium smoking.
During the six-year Opium War, because China was in a backward state, the Qing government was forced to sign many unequal treaties. The first Opium War signed China's first unequal treaty, treaty of nanking. Since then, the Qing government began to cede land and pay reparations, forcing China to lose a large territory.
Economically, foreign invasion forces spread to the coastal provinces of China, and extended to the inland of China, which facilitated the dumping of goods by foreign powers, plundered cheap raw materials and labor, and made China suffer the aggressive impact of capitalist economy.
After the Second Opium War, the legalization of opium trade, Chinese workers going abroad and allowing foreigners to preach in the mainland all intensified social contradictions in China.
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