Didn't Eight-Nation Alliance burn the Summer Palace?

It was Yuanmingyuan that was burned.

Yuanmingyuan has nothing to do with Eight-Nation Alliance. It was the British and French allied forces that burned the Yuanmingyuan.

At that time, Britain and France sent diplomatic envoys to Beijing to renew the contract with the Qing government. Because the Qing government did not dare to let foreigners go to Beijing to scare the emperor, it ordered the monks to shell the ships of the British and French diplomatic envoys in Dagukou, which was a great success.

Britain and France immediately sent British and French Coalition forces to conquer Dagukou and capture Beijing all the way. Emperor Xianfeng fled to Chengde in fear, but Manchu officials and nobles who stayed in Beijing were afraid to sign contracts with Britain and France for fear of taking responsibility.

The British and French allied forces then burned Yuanmingyuan to force the Qing government to negotiate and sign a contract with it, and finally forced the Qing government to sign a contract.

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I have to admit that although the British and French allied forces also robbed in Beijing, they did not go out of line, because they rarely robbed civilians, but more robbed the official property of the Qing government. Including Yuanmingyuan, it is also the official property of Manchu.

At that time, the Qing army entered the customs and needed the help of civilian workers. It just went out to catch them, but it didn't give them food. It starved to death.

On the contrary, the British and French allied forces need civilian personnel, but they honestly spend money to hire them and pay them by the day.

There is even information that when the British and French allied forces withdrew from China, they were detained by some city residents, because these city residents were afraid that after the withdrawal of the British and French allied forces, the Qing army would slaughter the city to celebrate the recapture of the city. So the British and French allied forces forced Manchu officials to promise not to slaughter the city before withdrawing troops-it sounds sad, doesn't it?

No way, the Chinese civilization at that time, after two thousand years of Confucian ignorance and more than two hundred years of Manchu enslavement, was not much better than the Tusi tribe in black Africa.

To tell the truth, I am a right-wing Nazi nationalist, but if I travel around the Second Opium War, I will never try to save Yuanmingyuan. On the contrary, I will try to overthrow the Manchu dynasty with the help of the British and French Coalition forces.

If a Yuanmingyuan can be exchanged for the fall of the Qing Dynasty 50 years ago, it is definitely a good deal for Chinese civilization.