However, the western powers did not show any sympathy for the Qing government. They used guns to force the Qing government to open trading ports and threatened the Qing government to sign unequal treaties.
However, during this period, it was the helpless civilians who suffered from the war. They live at the bottom of society, but they endure unimaginable torture. In order to find a way out, the peasants who had been oppressed for a long time finally embarked on the road of uprising, which was the initial boxer movement.
In the following years, the Boxer Rebellion has been growing, especially in? Help clean up the ocean? Under the propaganda of the slogan, people all over the country echoed it.
The Boxer Rebellion is a non-governmental organization whose fundamental purpose is to benefit farmers. The biggest group in China is farmers, so the Boxer Rebellion attracted many people's attention as soon as it appeared. Did the boxer fight at first? Eliminate foreigners? Flag, which attracted the attention of others, but also made the western powers have a strong dissatisfaction with them.
After that, the Boxer changed its slogan to? Help clean up the ocean? Invisibly, it also wooed the Qing government and added more political power to itself. However, this did not play much role. Although the Qing government wanted to use the Boxer Rebellion against western powers, it was corrupt and backward, and had no power to compete with it. Soon defeated, the boxer became the biggest victim in this battle.
Although the Boxer Rebellion didn't exist for a long time in history, it was menacing, with a huge momentum and a broad mass base. But after calculation, the Boxer did not realize it. Destroy the ocean? Target, but few foreigners were killed.
Compared with the deadly long guns and cannons of western powers, most of the weapons of the Boxer Rebellion were traditional tools such as hoes and axes, which were completely incomparable, but the Boxer Rebellion did not give up. Who are the more people who support the Boxer Rebellion? Without hesitation? It is said that the Boxer Rebellion was formerly White Lotus Sect, and they have their own religious beliefs.
In their eyes, as long as they have a firm belief, they can get asylum. Inviolable? . From this point of view, the Boxer Rebellion was endowed with the color of feudal superstition, and it is precisely for this reason that the Boxer Rebellion attracted more and more people to join. After all, people in feudal society believed in ghosts and gods more.
In the eyes of people nowadays, it is undoubtedly nonsense to use flesh and blood to resist shooting and artillery fire. But most of the members of the Boxer Rebellion are farmers, and they don't have a correct understanding. More people joined the Boxer Rebellion to express their resentment against being oppressed by western powers, and resistance was nothing more than the arm of a gladiator.
The boxer movement began in the autumn of 1899 and ended on September 7, 1900. Only 23 1 foreigners were killed by the boxer movement. Among these people, nearly 50 are children. Even if the boxer killed them, it doesn't mean that they have strong fighting capacity.
In addition, under the pressure of western powers, the Boxer Rebellion has been in a passive situation for a long time and rarely took the initiative to attack. In a certain battle, the Boxer Rebellion just caught some old priests and nuns of foreign churches and killed them. Moreover, when attacking the church, the boxer made great efforts, and they were even more helpless in the face of vicious foreign troops.
In addition to the priests who killed foreigners, the Boxers killed more people in China. Some people in China believe in foreigners' religion, some are businessmen who buy goods for foreigners, and even officials of the Westernization Group have become the targets of the Boxer Rebellion.
If we want to compare the number of foreigners killed by the Boxer with the number of China people, the latter far exceeds the former, and even the number of China people killed by the Boxer can be called? Countless . Historically, the Boxer Rebellion broke the plan of western powers to carve up China? Sweet dreams? At the same time, it accelerated the collapse of Qing Dynasty. However, considering the fighters' own fighting capacity and organizational ability, they don't have enough strength, even? Fragile? .
This is also due to the origin of the boxer movement. After all, the members of the Boxer Rebellion are mainly farmers, which have certain limitations and particularities. Playing tricks? 、? Immortal possession? Feudal superstition and other means to win over members, and these illusory things were completely shattered under the guns of foreigners. Even though the Boxer Rebellion is huge, it is not as lethal as modern technology.