Signed in treaty of nanking 1842. After the British invaders successively captured Wusong, Shanghai and Zhenjiang, they drove their warships to the Nanjing River in early August and aimed their guns at Nanjing City. On the issue of ending the Opium War, Daoguang sent "old citizens" and Elibu as imperial envoys to the front line of Zhejiang to test the conditions for surrendering to the British invaders. At that time, when the British troops arrived at the gates of Nanjing, the old people in Nanjing arrived in a hurry. Without formal negotiations, they all accepted the "peace conditions" put forward by the invaders. 1842 On August 29th, aboard the British warship Hanhuali, Jianying and Yilibu signed the first unequal treaty in China's modern history-Jiangning Treaty. Jiangning is now Nanjing, so the Treaty of Jiangning is also called treaty of nanking. There are thirteen articles in treaty of nanking, mainly including the following points: (1) China ceded Hong Kong to Britain. Since then, Hong Kong has become a British military and commercial base in the Far East. (2) China opened Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai as trading ports; In these trading ports, the British can live freely, and Britain can send consular officials. (In this way, the door of feudal China was opened. (3) China compensated opium addicts for 6 million silver dollars, military expenses120,000 silver dollars, and merchants owed 3 million silver dollars, * * * 2 10/0,000 silver dollars. This is a shameless plunder of the people of China. (4) Britain's import and export goods should be taxed, "all should be fairly recognized" (that is, the tax rate of China's import and export goods must be negotiated with Britain, and China has no right to determine it by itself. This is the beginning of the agreed tariff. According to this privilege, the British bourgeoisie transported a lot of goods to China, controlled the China market, and made China Customs lose its role in protecting its industrial and agricultural production. (5) British businessmen can freely trade with China businessmen at various ports without any restrictions. From then on, British businessmen can freely contact with China businessmen, choose and train their agents. )