Boxer starts? Help clean up the ocean? Empress Dowager Cixi took the opportunity to support and use it against foreigners.
This history can be traced back to A.D. 1897, when China was already in a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The external contradiction between class exploitation is far greater than the internal contradiction. At this time, the Qing government has not completely become the imperial court of foreigners, and some ministers and officials still have some sense of resistance, so the Boxer changed its slogan? Help clean up the ocean? .
However, the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion by the Qing government did not stop, so the Boxer Rebellion left Shandong and moved to Zhili (now Hebei), where the Boxer Rebellion developed rapidly.
With the continuous development of the boxer movement and the intervention of western foreigners, they changed the slogan of the team? Help clean up the ocean? . Empress Dowager Cixi realized that this was a good opportunity to confront foreigners, because western colonists had been dissatisfied with Empress Dowager Cixi's house arrest of Emperor Guangxu.
So in A.D. 1900, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered to help the Boxer Rebellion. Her real purpose was to use the power of the Boxer Rebellion against foreigners, and the Boxer Rebellion gradually developed and expanded in a short time. A large number of Boxer fighters who stayed in Shandong also began to move closer to Zhili, killing foreigners everywhere along the way, smashing foreign goods and cutting down foreigners' telephone poles. Finally, Empress Dowager Cixi saw that the Boxer Rebellion was so powerful that she thought it was time to declare war on the western powers, so the Boxer Rebellion officially broke out.
The Boxer Rebellion failed, and Empress Dowager Cixi killed the Boxer Rebellion in order to please foreigners.
After Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on western powers, foreigners responded one after another and mobilized troops to fight in Beijing. At this time, the Boxer Rebellion has settled down in Beijing, waiting to go to war with foreigners at any time.
Then came Eight-Nation Alliance's joint invasion of China. Although the soldiers of the Boxer Rebellion fought to the death with the troops of the Qing government, it was of no help. Finally, Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled with Emperor Guangxu.
Empress Dowager Cixi, who fled, also realized that once she offended foreigners, her position would be lost, and the Qing regime might cease to exist. For the sake of self-interest, Empress Dowager Cixi threw a sentence that seems shameful so far:
Measure China's material resources and win the favor of the country? . ? The Empress
In order to please foreigners, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the Qing army distributed all over the country to strangle the Boxer Rebellion. Under the strangulation of the Qing government and the reactionary forces of foreigners, the vigorous boxer movement was finally destroyed.