The death of the late Qing Dynasty was really due to the sloppy power, Cixi was nominally the Empress Dowager Lafayette was worshiped by hundreds of officials, and she did not dare to make trouble without dying any Xiaoxiao. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the Gengzi Incident, Cixi declared war on all countries, and as a result, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi and others directly came to the southeast to protect themselves, that is, they directly told the foreigners, we do not recognize the imperial court's declaration of war, if you like to fight Beijing, go to fight Beijing, you can't fight us anyway.

As a result, the foreigners really agreed, and the eight-nation coalition forces in the southeastern provinces did not intrude in the slightest during the whole war, and as a result, the war was all smashed in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

There was a record in the history of the wilderness that Cixi escaped from Beijing and went all the way to the west, and there was no news for nearly a month in between, and no one in the imperial court knew whether Cixi was dead or alive.

At that time, these governors in the southeast who were protecting themselves had secretly conspired to resign Li Hongzhang as president and reform the republic.

Even Gu Hongming also proposed to Zhang Zhidong to ask Jiangnan to become independent, establish a country, and prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Sometimes the truth of history is hidden in the wild history, maybe what is recorded in the wild history is not necessarily true, but later generations can see the wild history at that time, which shows that the literati who wrote the wild history at that time, his thoughts represent the thoughts of a large part of the people, and his thoughts or fabricated fantasies are what the people are willing to see and even eager to see.

It is precisely because the people have this desire in their hearts that they will work hard to spread it, so that the wild history can be passed down for hundreds of years so that future generations can see it.

This is a very important circumstantial contribution of the wild history to history, you don't want to ask him to be absolutely correct, the wild history cannot be absolutely correct, because even the official history can't do this.

However, the fact that the wild history can be passed down for hundreds of years has not disappeared shows that this wild history represents the mainstream public opinion at that time, which is a very important circumstantial evidence for studying the trend of people's hearts in that era.

From only one southeast mutual protection incident, we can see the decentralization of power in the late Qing Dynasty, and Cixi's control of the late Qing Empire could not achieve the concentration of power, let alone count on Tongzhi, Guangxu and other sick seedlings.

The more power is dispersed, the more serious the phenomenon of restraint will be! The empire's resources cannot be concentrated, and of course it will not be able to carry out some great projects that will reverse the fortunes of the country.

What's even more terrifying is that the political system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was originally imperfect, and it was born with the gene of decentralization, and the ghost of the Eight Kings of Politics wandered in the hearts of every banner person.

When the emperor's authority collapses, it will be difficult to establish it again! To put it in layman's terms, the entire Eight Banners clique does not want another Kangxi, Yongzheng, or Qianlong to be produced.

How dangerous and aggrieved it is to do it with such a powerful emperor! If you want to cut off your head, you can cut off your head, if you want to get rid of your officials, you can do it, and even destroy your nine clans is a matter of one sentence.

With such a master, even corruption has to be careful, or with a cowardly and incompetent emperor, everyone is corrupt together, even the imperial dining room is greedy for the emperor's silver, and the emperor knows that he can't do it, how good is this.

Therefore, the revival of the imperial party of Emperor Tongzhi will definitely anger all the nobles of the Eight Banners!

The rotten Eight Banners group is inherently opposed to centralization, which has become a 'crab bucket effect' What is the crab bucket effect?

It's a crab catcher on the beach, he carries a bucket without a lid, and when he catches a crab, he throws it in, and the crab can't run away without a lid.

Is it because the edges of the crab barrel are smooth? Actually, no, the crab barrel is very ordinary, and any crab can easily climb up it, but don't forget that crabs don't know anything about civility and courtesy.

Half a bucket of crabs will run away from you, and this one climbs up, and the other drags his feet and goes up, and then the third one goes up as well, and finally all of them fall to the bottom of the bucket.

Just restrain each other, entangle each other, and mess with each other, as a result, the crab bucket does not need to be covered with a lid or watched, and half a bucket of crabs basically can't escape.

This is the crab bucket effect, and the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty is actually like this, the Eight Banners and the Hanchen are crabs one by one, staring at each other like black-eyed chickens.

Let's just talk about the 30,000 new troops in the Xishan Battalion, who will give the command to whom? In fact, it can't be given to anyone...... Are you happy to give Yi Yi and are you happy to give Yi Yi, and are you happy to give Yi a salute? Everyone thinks so, and everyone is extremely wary of outsiders.

Because there is this kind of gene in the Eight Banners Military Group, they know very well that whoever has soldiers in their hands is the master and the ancestor, and if he has the right, he will definitely bully and oppress others.

You guard against me, I'm afraid of you, all the courtiers are afraid of beating wolves like hemp sticks, and in the end it caused a strange phenomenon, the Qing Dynasty, which has more than 10 million square kilometers of land, has to rely on the Beiyang of the Han people to support the scene.

After Tongzhi, there is no strong army in the Eight Banners, and in the final analysis, an important factor is that all the nobles of the Eight Banners hope to have a strong army in their hearts, but they don't want others to have this strong army, they all hope that they have this strong army.

The more you think about it, the greater the suspicion between people, and the greater the suspicion, the more constrained, and the final result is that everyone wants to be good, but no one can be better.

It can be seen that the root cause of the fall of the late Qing Dynasty had been planted as early as the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the resurgence of the idea of the Eight Kings of Parliament and Politics in the struggle for power and profit was an important factor in the desperation of the Qing Empire.

After figuring out this, you can also figure out the defeat of Beiyang in the First Sino-Japanese War in history, before the First Sino-Japanese War, all the applications for adding warships, fast guns, and ammunition in Beiyang were all rejected, and even the Beiyang Navy burned the most garbage pieces of broken coal, while the Japanese Navy burned all high-heat white coal and anthracite.

This phenomenon is definitely not explained by the corruption and incompetence of the Manchu government, and the fundamental reason for this is the balance of constraints within the imperial court.

You Li Hongzhang have already spent tens of millions of taels of silver, are you still not satisfied? Do you want to add ships and artillery? Do you want to rebel? Buy you one less warship, and the other departments of the imperial court will be able to share several million taels of silver.

The late Qing Dynasty was such a tangled society, on the one hand, they desperately wanted to have a strong navy, because they were afraid of foreigners, and they had to have some self-preservation power.

On the other hand, they naturally don't believe in these superintendent generals with heavy armies, not to mention you Han people, even the Manchu people themselves are this general, and the court is afraid of it.

In fact, according to the national strength of the Qing Dynasty in the early years of Guangxu, the Manchu Qing Dynasty only needed to put down the internal mustard and work together to build a purely Western-style strong army of about 100,000 people, which was the same as playing.

How much money can be spent on 100,000 purely Western-style strong troops? For the Qing Empire, which was more than 10 million square kilometers, this amount of money was simply a drizzle, and it was enough to raise some money and grain from Shanxi, Shandong, and Zhili provinces without the need for food and salary in the south of the Yangtze River.

Looking at the warlord melee in the early years of the Republic of China, a warlord in a province could pull out hundreds of thousands of Western-style troops. At that time, Yan Xishan, the well-known king of Shanxi, started from a province in Shanxi, with 400,000 soldiers at the peak and 100,000 troops at the lowest point.

Even Yan Xishan, who is backed by a province, can pull out an army with such strength, not to mention the Manchu Qing who owns the whole country, which is enough to prove that the Manchus do not have the strength to reform, but they do not want to change at all.