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鸦片战争之前(1836年),一份来自广州的英国间谍报告曾经这样指出:无论清政府是否掌握着世界上最庞大的财富,但是,大清的根本缺陷就体现在其陆军陈旧的大炮(所谓“平辽大将军”的红衣大炮)和“丑陋的如同滑稽表演的海军”身上。
Before the Opium War (1836), a British espionage report from Guangzhou once pointed out: Regardless of whether the Qing government possesses the greatest wealth in the world, the fundamental flaw of the Qing Empire manifests itself in its army’s old artillery “General Ping Liao ” red cannons) and “ugly as the comic show Navy ” body.