海关主权本是一个独立国家的基本主权,却在长达近百年的时间里受制于西方列强。1900年的初冬,庚子事变后的北京阴风飒飒、断壁残垣。在靠近紫禁城东墙根的一处被焚毁的宅院里,清朝海关总税务司赫德在一间残存的马厩里边呵手边用鹅毛笔急书。庚子事变中,八国联军占领了北京城,洋务派李鸿章、庆亲王前去议和。尽管李鸿章百般周全应承,但列强企图以瓜分中国为目标。从1854年就来到中国, The sovereignty of the Customs, which is the basic sovereignty of an independent country, has been subject to the Western powers for nearly a hundred years. The early winter of 1900, Gengzijing Beijing after the wind chills, ruins. In a dilapidated house near the root of the east wall of the Forbidden City, Hurd, the General Taxation Division of the Qing Customs, wiped his goose-head pencils urgently in a remnants stable. Geng Incident, the Eight-Power Allied Forces occupied the city of Beijing, Westernization sent Li Hongzhang, celebrate the Prince before the meeting. Although Li Hung-chang is thoroughly determined, the powers attempt to divide China. Came to China from 1854,