When the Qing Dynasty reached the time of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the national defense force was significantly weakened, and foreign powers wanted to carve up China. The foreign devils were afraid that the Boxer Rebellion would spread to the southeast and affect their interests. The Han courtiers, who controlled the southeast, signed a treaty with the great powers of the "Southeast Mutual Guarantee", did the fall of the Qing Dynasty really have a lot to do with the signing of this treaty? Is the Qing Dynasty really vulnerable?
Exterminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
In 1900, the Qing Dynasty, which survived in the cracks of internal and external troubles, sent Li Hongzhang to purge the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River. Li Hongzhang took advantage of the shortcomings of the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who all harbored ghosts, and wanted to implement the method of fragmentation to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
On this day, Li Hongzhang sent his henchman Sheng Huaixuan to send a banquet post to the eight kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in various parts of the country.
The content of the post is the same, which means that if you conform to the imperial court, the Qing Dynasty will definitely share half of your country in the future. These generous treatments made these kings salivate. Rather than guarding a small area, it is better to divide this large cup of the pie more cost-effectively.
When the eight kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came to the banquet hall one by one, none of them expected that they would be greeted with a chopping knife.
These defenseless kings have become unjust ghosts under the trap one by one.
As soon as the Eight Great Kings died, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lost its main marshal. The Jiangnan region was successfully controlled into the hands of Li Hongzhang and other one-man people.
Southeast Mutual Insurance Agreement
Li Hongzhang, who controlled Jiangnan, assigned all the Hanchen he trusted to the provinces to manage.
At this time, the Boxer Rebellion in North China was raging, and the eyes of the foreign powers were fixed on the southeast coast, fearing that the Boxer Rebellion would harm their interests.
The foreign devil telegraphed Yu Lianyuan and Sheng Xuanhuai, two important figures, to discuss with the Southeast Governor about the intention of peace talks.
Sheng Xuanhuai revealed this information to Li Hongzhang, who had a high prestige among Hanchen at that time and was an authoritative figure engaged in foreign affairs.
Under the facilitation of Li Hongzhang, the important officials of the southern provincial governments all agreed to act according to Li Zhongtang's wishes. The Eight-Nation Coalition and several governors headed by Li Hongzhang jointly signed a friendly agreement on the "Mutual Guarantee in the Southeast," which was brought into effect, and the two sides benefited each other and was effective for a long time.
At this point, most of China was under the control of the Han Chen, and only a few areas in the north were left in the Qing Dynasty, and the southern forces were also separated from Germany by the Qing Dynasty.
In fact, the Qing Dynasty has been suspended in the air.
The Great Powers carved up China
Although the Eight-Nation Coalition signed a non-interference agreement with Li Zhongtang and others, the ambition of the foreign devils of the 11 countries to eat China has not been dispelled.
Cixi Lafayette was very worried, and suddenly came the urge to defeat the 11 countries.
As a result, several urgent letters to Li Hongzhang were sent to Li Hongzhang, but they were all sunk into the sea, and there was no news.
Li Hongzhang lived comfortably in the south, pretending not to hear or see. This can make Lafayette anxious.
Seeing that the foreign devil was about to hit the door, he didn't see a savior.
In order to save the Qing Dynasty, Lafayette could only reorganize the cabinet and rectify corruption. Those Eight Banners disciples have already filled their pockets and become corrupt. After changing and changing, there is still no way to turn those situations around, those old antiques are all soft eggs, and they can't find a person who can stand up to the façade.
The power in the south is getting stronger, and the power on the part of Beijing is getting weaker and weaker. The imperial court basically did not control the local forces.
Hanchen not only ignored the life and death of the imperial court, but also stood on the edge of the Yangtze River to watch the excitement.
The pressure of the foreigners on Beijing forced Galeries Lafayette to abandon the capital and flee westward.
Lafayette led the little emperor to run away, and the threshold of the Qing Dynasty was about to be trampled by foreigners.
Foreign devils are rampant and domineering in China, doing all kinds of evil, and the city of Beijing has been hollowed out.
Cixi stayed in Xi'an for a year, and finally couldn't stay still. She was still not worried about the situation in the capital, and she was thinking more about her comfortable Cining Palace.
In Xi'an, Lafayette's food and accommodation are very shabby, and only Li Lianying can still say a few words. The former majesty is gone, and now it looks like a rogue.
Lafayette has been thinking about returning to the capital, thinking about it, thinking about it, I feel that the Qing Dynasty has money and things, sit down with foreigners to talk, give some real gold, and the matter will be solved.
It was decided to go, and the horses were quickly whipped along the way, and in less than half a month, Cixi arrived in Beijing.
Lafayette sneaked into the city in the dark, and then summoned the courtiers who stayed behind for a meeting. I explained the general meaning of the negotiation.
The ministers understood what Lafayette meant, only Li Zhongtang could deal with foreigners in this matter, and only Li Zhongtang came forward that foreigners could believe in the sincerity of Qing **.
Li Hongzhang is experienced in negotiating with foreigners, and he often does this kind of thing. Therefore, the imperial court was persuaded by some painstaking words, and finally formed the Qing Dynasty "Harmony Singing Group" represented by Li Hongzhang and Prince Yixuan of Qing.
At the beginning of the negotiations, the waist pole of the imperial court was still very hard, and later on, it didn't even have the strength to say a hard word.
At the negotiation table, foreigners have become masters, and Chinese have become outsiders, without a bit of dignity and majesty.
After a few days of war of words, the foreigners not only gained the upper hand, but also took away many lands and privileges from the Qing Dynasty.
The Xinchou Treaty turned China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, losing the face of the Chinese people, and Li Hongzhang became a well-known loser.
Under the spurning of the people of the whole country, the second year after the signing of the treaty, Li Hongzhang was drowned by the saliva of the Chinese people.
The destruction of the Qing Dynasty
After Li Hongzhang's death, the Qing court lost the only important minister who could fight against foreign devils. Lafayette was so grief-stricken that he couldn't eat or sleep. For a while, I felt that the building was about to collapse, and no one could touch it.
The Qing Dynasty lost its only arm, foreign devils became more rampant, and local forces fought for land.
China is in dire straits, and its people are suffering from war. Refugees dying of hunger are often found on the road. China, which is at the mercy of others, has experienced nearly a decade of war.
Local warlords are fighting each other, nominally to protect the country, but in fact they are all for their own pockets.
When the oil and water are enough, they will change to another place, and the people will not be able to make a living, and their homes will be in shambles.
After the death of Emperor Guangxu and Cixi, the end of the Qing Dynasty was approaching.
First, the Oriental devils occupied the three eastern provinces, and then Wang Jingwei became a big traitor. Pu Yi, the last little emperor of the Qing court, became a puppet in a daze.
China, which was grilled on a barbecue grill, was deboned by the great powers over and over again, and in the end only an empty shell remained.
Mr. Sun Yat-sen, who returned from studying abroad, learned advanced knowledge from abroad. The Xinhai Revolution led by him finally overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had lasted for more than 300 years.
The situation of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society came to an end.
A new era in Chinese history has officially begun.
Conclusion: In fact, the Qing court had a strong ability to fight against foreign devils, just because those Manchu imperial relatives only wanted to be corrupt themselves, regardless of the interests of the country and the nation. If the Qing Dynasty could show its momentum to fight against foreign powers, it would not have perished in the end. The fundamental reason for the fall of the Qing Dynasty was the weakness and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty, which allowed foreign devils to take advantage of it. Only when the country is self-reliant, can foreign countries not dare to look at us and bully us.