Russian Border Immigrants in Qing Dynasty

On July 1900, 1 1, Russian troops entered Jiangdongtun, where China people lived in the northeast. In order to occupy this land where China people have lived for generations, the Russian army began to treat the local residents inhumanely. At the same time, tens of thousands of people were killed in Hailanpao, not far from Jiangdongtun. This is the famous Boxer Russia disaster.

Location of Jiangdongtun

Thousands of China people were killed, and the territory of China was occupied and trampled by the Russians. What was the Qing court, the ruler of China, doing? Why not deal with it?

This is really not that the Qing court doesn't want to manage it, but that it can't manage it at all. At that time, not only Jiangdongtun and Hailanpao along the coast of Heilongjiang, but also the three northeastern provinces were occupied by the Russians. Even after Beijing, the capital of the Qing court, was occupied by Eight-Nation Alliance, several incidents occurred. Empress Dowager Cixi, the supreme ruler of the Qing court, was also forced to flee to xi 'an with Emperor Guangxu.

Therefore, when Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, the dominance of the Qing Dynasty was in jeopardy, and the opponent was not only Russia, but almost all the great powers on the earth at that time. The Qing court naturally didn't have the energy and ability to take care of Hailanpao and Jiangdongtun in the frontier.

Eight-Power Allied Forces

Of course, when Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, it ended with the Xin Chou Treaty, which paid 450 million taels of silver. The Qing court, which regained its dominant position in China, did not completely give up Hailanpao and Jiangdongtun.

In A.D. 1902, after repeated negotiations by the Qing court and the interference of foreign powers, China and Russia concluded the Treaty of Concession in the Three Eastern Provinces, which stipulated that Russia should return all areas south of Heilongjiang. However, Jiangdongtun is not included in the return. At the same time, in addition to the tens of thousands of Chinese who were killed, some people fled the two places and gathered in Aihui and other places, making them homeless.

1904 to 1905, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and this large-scale modern war ended in Russia's defeat. The Qing government also took the opportunity to demand the immediate return of Jiangdongtun. However, Russia, which still occupied the Northeast at that time, turned a deaf ear to the demands of the Qing court.

Eight-Nation Alliance went to Beijing.

In the thirty-third year of Guangxu, namely 1907, Xu Shichang, then the governor of the three northeastern provinces, and Cheng Dequan, then the governor of Heilongjiang, once again presented a note to the governor of Amur province in Russia, demanding the return of Jiangdongtun. The following year, Aihui Vice President Yao also reiterated this request. Yao even sent spies into Jiangdongtun many times to investigate the situation of Russian immigrants and obtain details of Russian immigrants and troops stationed in Jiangdongtun.

But at this time, the Qing court was obviously unable to defeat the Russian army, and there was no possibility of recovering Jiangdongtun. Therefore, the Russians not only ignored the request of returning Jiangdongtun, but strengthened their rule over China.

In June of Xuantongyuan, Puyi ascended the throne after Guangxu's death, and Zhou Shumo, the governor of Heilongjiang, once again demanded the return of Jiangdongtun. According to the Sino-Russian "Love Faint Treaty" and "Beijing Treaty", Zhou Shumo proposed that the Qing government had legal rights to this place. Although China's demands are well-founded, how could Russia, which has always been famous for its greed, voluntarily return China's territory in the late Qing Dynasty? This requires natural sinking into the sea.

The map of the situation in which the great powers carved up China.

After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, China entered the period of the Republic of China in which warlords fought each other. Even so, the Beiyang government of the Republic of China still did not forget the hope of recovering Jiangdongtun. Especially after the Russian revolution, the newly-born Soviet government claimed that it had no intention to inherit the territory occupied by China during the czarist Russia, so as to win? A godsend? Beiyang government decided to take the opportunity to recover Jiangdongtun occupied by cups.

Including Aihui local government, the governor of Heilongjiang, and the governor of the three northeastern provinces. , also discussed and supported this decision many times. However, after repeated negotiations with the Soviet government, no conclusion has been reached. In 12 of the Republic of China, that is, 1923, 10, due to the end of the Soviet-Russian civil war, the Soviet Union's rule over China became more and more stable, and the Soviet Union's reasonable demands for China became prevarication again and again, with no intention to return to Jiangdongtun, China.

Russia occupied the territory of China.

Perhaps, from the beginning, when the Soviet Union renounced imperialism and Russia's privileges, the Soviet government had no intention of abandoning Jiangdongtun. A statement that seems to be very friendly to China may just be an expedient measure to change the extremely bad diplomatic environment of the Soviet government caused by the extremely fierce Russian civil war. In an international society where the law of the jungle prevails, there is no choice but to regain territory.