"Cixi? You're jumping straight to modern history! Weng Xiupin said.

According to the division of Chinese history, the year 1840 is the dividing line between ancient Chinese history and modern history.

However, this is a division of middle school textbooks, and in the academic world, there are many ways to divide the specific time of modern history.

For example, some people believe that China has entered modern history since the Tang and Song dynasties, and the so-called "Tang and Song Dynasty Theory of Change" was put forward by Japanese scholars, and it still has some status in Chinese historiography. Some scholars believe that before the founding of New China, it was all ancient history......

Anyway, each school has its own theoretical basis, so the Ancient Chinese Historical Association does not make too many restrictions on this, as long as the scope is before the Xinhai Revolution, it is considered correct.

Chen Kan smiled: "I just feel that this old woman is quite interesting, so I will study it." ”

"Tell me, which direction are you going to do?" Weng Xiupin asked, she knew that Chen Kan was "quite interesting", and that was usually the result of research had already been produced.

"Senior sister, don't you think that Cixi, this old woman, is actually quite funny?" Chen Kan asked rhetorically.

"How?"

"First of all, how can Cixi say that she is also an experienced old politician, why would she declare war on all nations at the same time?" Chen Kan asked with a smile.

Cixi can be said to have set a world record, that is, to declare war with all the countries with which the country has diplomatic relations at the same time, which is unique in the history of the world, and it is simply a strange fighter.

In history textbooks, this incident occurred during the Boxer Rebellion, followed by the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and then by the Xinchou Treaty, which completely reduced China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

In 1900, Cixi declared war on all the countries with diplomatic relations, and the explanation in the textbook was nothing more than two points, the first point was that Cixi believed the so-called "invulnerability" words of the Boxers, and the other point was that Cixi, an old woman, was confused.

But is that really the case?

Of course not, a few days before the declaration of war, Cixi also asked her cronie Rong Lu to lead troops to encircle and suppress the Boxers, but Rong Lu was recalled by Cixi for unknown reasons halfway through, as for the so-called "invulnerability" of the Boxers, it was even more of a joke.

This matter was personally experimented with at that time, and he really arrested a few Boxer brothers and shot them to see if they were really invulnerable, and it turned out that there would still be a blood hole, and the person who experimented with this experiment was also Cixi's cronies, he was Yuan Shikai.

It was this Yuan Shikai who suppressed the Boxers the most in Shandong, and it did have great results, in China's feudal dynasty, the imperial court and the peasant uprising were absolutely incompatible, and Cixi was always very resolute in her determination to suppress the Boxers.

So what was the reason for Cixi to receive the Boxers, let the Boxers enter Beijing, and later incorporated the Boxers to deal with the foreigners?

"Cixi is confused!" Weng Xiupin said with a smile.

Chen Kan smiled and shook his head, of course he knew that Weng Xiupin was joking.

As an old politician, Cixi is still very powerful, after 1840, the Qing Dynasty and the great powers fought a lot of wars, almost all of them were defeats, the only victory was the Sino-French War, although in the end it was the Qing Dynasty admitted, but the war itself was won, this war was presided over by Cixi, during the period of Cixi's reign, China and foreign countries basically did not have any major conflicts.

Cixi in Guangxu after adulthood, in fact, has already retired, in 1879 Guangxu took power, Cixi has basically not done anything, such as the Sino-Japanese War we know, according to historical records, at that time it was Cixi and Li Hongzhang who opposed this war, but Cixi looked at Guangxu so resolutely, it didn't matter.

Later, because of the Wuxu coup d'état, Liang Qichao and their reformists were arrested, Cixi ****, this is also a point in the textbook attacking Cixi, so you say that Cixi is a conservative, this actually doesn't make sense, because after the Eight-Nation Alliance, Cixi returned to the capital and began a drastic reform, which was even greater than the reform of the law.

This Cixi is not confused in the front, and she is not confused in the back, why was she stupid in 1900!

In fact, there are several interesting things in the reform of the law, first of all, it is aimed at the six gentlemen of Wuxu, Cixi directly dragged him to the vegetable market to behead him, without any trial, which is very unreasonable.

Maybe you will ask what's unreasonable about this, Cixi is doing bad things and dare not make it public, you must know that the imperial court is in the hands of Cixi, isn't it very simple to give them a crime? It's better than just cutting them down without saying anything.

Secondly, why did Cixi not abolish Guangxu?

Returning to Cixi's declaration of war on all the countries with which Cixi had diplomatic relations, it was not that as soon as Cixi declared war, the Eight Nations immediately organized a coalition army, and they also had to prepare, not so quickly, so it was the Qing Dynasty that took the initiative at the beginning, and the first target was those foreign embassies in the capital.

Hitting these embassies, Cixi dispatched her close confidant Rong Lu, and worked for a total of three months, but she didn't do it.

Maybe you will say that this is the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, and the small embassy can't be defeated, but in fact, this is, how incompetent, directly bombarded with artillery, cut off the water source, and everything will be fine!

In fact, it is not that the Qing Dynasty is not strong in combat, but that it is not a war at all, and you will find a lot of interesting things when you go to see this war besieging the embassy.

For example, the weather was very hot at that time, and the Qing Dynasty army transported a large number of ice cubes to foreign embassies, and a large number of vegetables and meat were also in constant supply.

In the past three months, whether it is a foreign country or the Qing Dynasty, there have been no substantial casualties on both sides, this is completely to protect these embassies, not to fight, you must know that the Boxers had already entered Beijing at that time, and these Qing Dynasty troops were more like protecting the embassies from being attacked by the Boxers.

There are actually a lot of such strange things.

"I can't use your research method." After listening to these questions, Weng Xiupin said.

Chen Kan is very traditional through historical materials, and then find problems, step by step, but Chen Kan has added some analytical and reasoning techniques compared with traditional historical materials, which is basically the same as the way Qin Shi Huang did his master's thesis back then.

Don't look at what Chen Kan said so simply, in fact, it is not simple at all, to find out all the historical materials, this is very difficult, and it requires a very high analytical ability, otherwise you will be messed up before you can analyze yourself.

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