耆英是中国近代第一批从事对外交涉的主要代表之一。“务存大体,量为变通”是第一次鸦片战争时期耆英对外交涉的两个重要的原则。在对外交涉中,耆英试图尽力维护中国传统的对外观念及其对外体制,保持天朝上国的尊严。而在列强的军事恫吓下,他被迫签订了近代中国第一批不平等条约,丧失了大量的国家主权。对此,耆英则以“法穷则变,量为变通”为词来辩护。 Senior Citizens is one of the first representatives of foreign conspiracies in modern China. “Survival in General, the amount of workarounds” is the first time during the Opium War of the Senior Citizens’ two important principles. In foreign negotiations, Senior Citizens tried their best to uphold the traditional Chinese concept of foreign affairs and their external institutions and maintain the dignity of the heavenly nation. Under the mighty military intimidation, he was forced to sign the first unequal treaties in modern China and lost a great deal of state sovereignty. In this regard, the elders of the eligibility is to “change the law is poor, the amount of workarounds” to defend the word.