关于第二次鸦片战争中清政府的赔款问题,尤其是对《北京条约》中英国赔款数额如何表述的问题,争论由来已久。《中学历史教学参考》2000年第7期第11页分别刊载杨飞和蒋清泓两位老师的文章,他们引用《北京条约》原文,指出《北京条约》中对英国800万两白银的赔款包括军费和英商损失费两项,而不能像教材中那样笼统地说“赔偿英法两国 With regard to the issue of the compensation of the Qing government in the Second Opium War, especially the issue of how the amount of compensation in the United Kingdom in the “Beijing Treaty” was expressed, the debate has been long overdue. The “Secondary History Teaching Reference” in 2000, No.7, p.11, published the articles of two teachers, Yang Fei and Jiang Qingyi, respectively. They quoted the original “Beijing Treaty” and pointed out that the compensation for the 8 million silver in the “Beijing Treaty” includes military expenditure. And British businessmen’s loss costs, and cannot be said in a general way as in the textbook “Compensating English and French