With the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the compensation payments signed by the Qing Dynasty and the great powers did not disappear. However, these compensation payments were not fully compensated to the great powers. I will leave it up to you what the specific situation will be. Come together. Why is there this compensation? ?
The late Qing government can be said to be the most useless dynasty in the history of our country, except for the Jin Dynasty. Facing the invasion of foreign powers, the late Qing government seemed powerless. It could only lose money or cede territory. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 alone, Japan was compensated 230 million taels of silver, which was the hard-earned money of hundreds of millions of Qing people.
After the Qing government was defeated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the rulers of the Qing government did not work hard and continued to live their luxurious and immoral lives.
In 1901, Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on eleven countries at the same time. These eleven countries were Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Austria, etc.
The Empress Dowager Cixi had the courage to declare war, but she did not have the strength and determination to fight with it. Soon the Eight-Nation Allied Forces attacked the city of Beijing. After the Eight-Nation Allied Forces invaded, the Empress Dowager Cixi became timid again. To save his own life, he quietly escaped from Beijing overnight.
After the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, they burned, killed, and looted in the city. The people in Beijing felt like they were in hell. After these foreigners destroyed Beijing, they also stole a large number of cultural relics and treasures.
The Eight-Power Allied Forces were still not satisfied after they had finished looting. They also forced the Qing government to sign the "Xin Chou Treaty" that was humiliating and humiliating the country. It was this "Xin Chou Treaty" that made the burden on the Chinese people even heavier. The treaty required the Qing government to compensate the General Secretary of the Eight-Power Allied Forces 450 million taels of silver.
The compensation ratios of these 450 million taels of silver are: Russia 28.97, Germany 20.02, France 15.75, Britain 11.25, Japan 7.73, the United States 7.32, Italy 5.91, ratio 1.89.
The Qing Dynasty was already poor at that time. It had just sent hundreds of millions to Japan in 1895, and now it had to compensate 450 million yuan. The loan was used to repay the money, plus the loan interest, the total amount reached 960 million taels of silver, which was repaid in 39 years. It must be said that the rulers of the Qing government were really powerful, and their feelings did not require them to work, which would only increase the burden on the people. How could the late Qing government survive? The demise of the Qing Dynasty and the compromise of the Beiyang regime?
In 1912, under the pressure of the revolutionary wave in the south and the Beiyang forces in the north, the Qing Dynasty came to an end.
The demise of the Qing Dynasty was also attributed to Duan Qirui. Duan Qirui once "made peace three times" in his life. In 1911, Duan Qirui led 46 frontline Beiyang generals to jointly call the Qing government calling on the Qing emperor to abdicate, ending China's feudal monarchy that had lasted for more than two thousand years.
When Yuan Shikai deliberately proclaimed himself emperor, he opposed the imperial system. In 1917, Zhang Xun was restored to power, and Duan Qirui led his troops to attack him, causing the restoration to go bankrupt.
In fact, Duan Qirui's purpose of "three creations of peace" was to fight for power for himself. After overthrowing the monarchy of Yuan Shikai and Zhang Xun, he still implemented dictatorial rule.
This is what Duan Qirui did for the Republic of China, and more importantly for his own power.
After the fall of the Qing government, the newly established Republic of China was actually controlled by the Beiyang warlords who evolved from the new army trained by the Qing government. In order to gain support from foreign countries, Yuan Shikai's "Message to Allies" " issued a statement stating that all treaties signed by the Qing Dynasty and everyone will still be recognized by the Republic of China!
This means that although the Qing Dynasty is gone, our Republic of China government still recognizes that it will continue to repay the money owed to you by the Qing government. Countries have given up on reparations one after another?
In the third year after signing the unequal "Xin Chou Treaty" with the great powers, Liang Cheng, the Qing Dynasty's minister to the United States, discovered that the amount of compensation the Qing Dynasty wanted to pay to the United States was actually too much.
Liang Cheng reported this issue to the Qing court. At the same time, he also questioned the Americans in the United States. The Americans originally wanted to pretend to be confused, but seeing that they could no longer be deceived, they had no choice but to charge more. The money was returned.
The Americans returned more than 12.5 million U.S. dollars from 1909 to 1924. When the Americans returned the money, they also attached a condition, that is, the money could only be used by China. Education, thus Tsinghua University was born.
Just after the fall of the Qing government, the famous World War I broke out in 1914. During this period, a large number of Chinese workers participated in the war.
The First World War ended with the defeat of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, etc. The Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated and died directly after its defeat, and the unequal treaties signed by the Qing Dynasty with it were wiped out. As the victorious country, China also canceled its compensation to Germany.
In the late period of World War I, the October Revolution broke out in Russia. After the success of the Russian October Revolution, Lenin abrogated the unequal treaties signed between Tsarist Russia and the Qing Dynasty, and Russian money was not used. Return it again.
After Russia gave up its debt to China, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy also gave up their claims against China.
In the end, the only country that continues to demand compensation from us is Japan. Although Japan is a country that is in the same boat as us, they are the most cruel to us, China. Not only have they not given up their claims against China, , and still think of ways to launch wars and invade China every day.