124 years ago today, on May 3, 1901 (March 15, 1901 lunar calendar), the Qing government paid four hundred million and fifty million taels to the foreign powers. On May 3, 1901, Yi Kuang and Li Hongzhang played, and the claims of various countries were "four hundred and fifty trillion taels". On the same day, the Qing court ordered all the governors to work together to raise funds. And issued three decrees for the compensation: 1. Order Yi Kuang and Li Hongzhang to negotiate with various countries to reduce the amount of silver and extend the number of years; 2. Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong carefully planned and properly raised the money; 3. Make the governors and governors of the provinces remove the middle full and return to the public trickle down. On May 7, the ministers of various countries held a meeting to discuss the issue of compensation. After the meeting, a note requesting compensation was officially submitted to Yi Kuang and Li Hongzhang. "The total losses suffered by the great powers up to July 1 amounted to four hundred million and fifty million taels, which will be greatly increased if the occupation of the Allied forces is extended beyond that date," the note said. "The plenipotentiaries of the various countries requested the Chinese ministers plenipotentiary to formally guarantee that they admitted responsibility for this sum, and asked them to inform the plenipotentiaries of the financial measures that China intends to take to pay off this debt." On May 11, Yi Kuang and Li Hongzhang, without the consent of the court, wrote to the ministers of the various countries, expressing their acceptance of the total amount of 450 million taels, and proposed that it be paid off within 30 years from July 1 this year, until December 31, 1940, and paid every year 15 million taels, excluding interest. On May 26, the Qing court sent a telegram to Yi Kuang and Li Hongzhang, agreeing to "a total of 450 trillion and four percent interest in reparations from various countries", "in order to withdraw troops quickly", but hoping to extend the time limit. Comments: This reparation is not generally calculated through war, but a humiliating reparation. At that time, China had a population of four hundred million to fifty million, and each person had one or two taels, and everyone would humiliate you once.