In the 20th year of Daoguang, the Empire of sun never sets opened the gate of the Qing Dynasty with battleships and cannons, thus signing the first unfair treaty in modern China, the " Nanjing treaty.
It was known as the Opium War in history.
In 1860, the Empire of the unsetting sun came again, bringing its good brother France to beat up the " local moneybags " in the Far East. The two countries 'harvest was quite bountiful, and they earned a lot. He left happily and promised to come back next year ...
In addition, Russia also stepped in and forced the Qing Dynasty to cede 1.5 million square kilometers of vast territory in the northeast and Northwest.
The invasion of the great powers began to deepen.
In the middle, the Taiping country experienced a natural disaster. The people lived in poverty and the country's strength gradually declined. This once behemoth was no longer as powerful as it was in the past.
