In addition, the powers carved up China, leased the harbor, and divided the sphere of influence, which also increased Cixi's xenophobia, and even made her dissatisfied with the interference in the family affairs of the abolished emperor.
At this time, the Boxer Rebellion developed under the slogan of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries", and Galeries Lafayette, who had a high fever, openly declared war on eleven world powers, including Britain, France, Germany and Japan.
Later, as we all know, this war ended with the defeat of the Qing Dynasty and the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty" which humiliated the country!
However, in this war, the Qing army and the Boxer Rebellion * * * nearly 250,000 troops. While there are only 50,000 people in Eight-Nation Alliance, why did the Qing Dynasty still lose when its strength was five times that of the enemy?
First of all, Empress Dowager Cixi believed the rumors of the corrupt minister about the Boxer Rebellion.
Speaking of the Boxers, the essence is still good. They are a group of patriotic groups composed of the lower classes, which came into being under the situation that the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation is intensifying day by day.
Is a strong and pure patriotism, completely spontaneous violence by the people (wrong is violence! ) national salvation movement.
However, when the Boxer Rebellion first emerged, most of its members were ignorant. And at the instigation of the leader, I believe that sticking a symbol can make bullets invulnerable and fall off at close range.
When Empress Dowager Cixi sent someone to "persuade the Boxer Rebellion" (actually, they came to inspect), two imperial envoys Zhao Shuqiao and He Naiying who came back from me tried their best to show Galeries Lafayette that the Boxer Rebellion existed.
They also blindly advocate that they are magic soldiers, who can be invulnerable and scatter beans into soldiers! This shows the decadence of civil servants in the late Qing Dynasty.
Hearing this, Galeries Lafayette thought he had a bargaining chip against the great powers and declared war excitedly. As a result, these people who were not magic weapons died under the guns of foreigners, and their souls returned to their hometowns, and the rout was out of control!
Secondly, a very important reason is that the Qing army, as a standing armed force of the country, has long lost its combat effectiveness.
Compared with the galloping of the Eight Banners fighters in the early Qing Dynasty, its performance after the Sino-Japanese War was ordinary!
From 65438 to 0840, opium flowed into China. After a hundred years of peace, most of the Qing army became addicted to cigarettes.
The sword in his hand was gradually replaced by the big pipe in his hand. What's more, even the nomadic people lost their riding and shooting ability. In the end, the horse was a problem, and the generals even changed their sedan chairs!
In this way, as a national standing army, corruption has reached such a level, how can we expect them to fight against foreigners and defeat them?
Although the Qing army experienced modern changes at this time, such an army with lax military discipline could not save them even after several westernization movements.
History has finally proved that under the decadent rule of Qing Dynasty, an army without soul, no matter how many people there are, will collapse on the battlefield!