The Qing court spent countless dollars to build a navy division and an army, and how much use it could have in the First Sino-Japanese War was lost.And if you throw it away, there is no place to replenish it, you don't have an industry, and no matter how many weapons you have, it can only be disposable fireworks.Then the Qing government quickly figured it out, the original only to buy equipment, did not learn advanced organizational methods, combat effectiveness is still poor, can not play a role, modern armaments, must be mastered by the modern army.Then there is Yuan Shikai's small station to train the Beiyang New Army, and the New Army is trained all over the country.But the new army, which was organized in a new way, also changed its brain, and what the Qing government feared most happened.In the end, the new army of Wuchang fired the first shot of Xinhai, and the Beiyang new army sent by the imperial court to suppress it followed together to overthrow the Qing court.The Manchu army itself had great problems, the guns and ships lagged behind, but this was not the main reason.The Eight Banners Green Battalion was not decayed at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but it was useless early in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, and it was even difficult to level the three feudatories and suppress the White Lotus Uprising, and its combat power was worse than that of the medieval army, and it was completely unable to fight against the invading modern army.Emperor Hua believes that Cixi is a good hand in management, no cards in his hand, but can make all the local administrative agencies obedient, Li Hongzhang is indeed a good hand in diplomacy, the combination of these two people, if placed in the early Qing Dynasty, almost invincible, but it is a pity that the broken ship of the Qing Dynasty has run out, and the Meng president has emerged, and with a gentle push, the Qing Kingdom will collapse in advance.After the Eight Banners entered the customs, the Eight Banners immediately rotted, and they were completely unable to fight in Shunzhi, and the cavalry and shooting were all abandoned, and later they simply became the financial burden of the state.When the White Lotus Sect revolted, the elite of the Eight Banners didn't even go to the front line, and collapsed without a fight.The Eight Banners system was originally a very, very backward primitive tribal system, which was crooked from the top-level design of the founding of the country.The Green Camp had become the main force during the Ping San Domain, but it was also rotten during the Qianlong period, and it was repeatedly defeated in the White Lotus Uprising.The Green Battalion is a world military system, but its equipment and treatment are much lower than those of the Eight Banners, and the officers and men have to run industries in order to survive, and their training is completely slack, and they have become empty battalions, and even their ordnance has been sold.By the time they arrived at the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Green Camp was completely useless at the touch of a button.From the very beginning of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the Green Battalion was disorganized, garrisoned and dispersed.The combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Green Battalion was low, and the successive courts of the Qing Dynasty were not unaware of it, but they almost never made effective reforms.The forbidden army of the Qing Dynasty could not even defend the imperial city, and the cult uprising was only a few hundred mobs, and it was even directly before the Great Inner Ban, if Jiaqing was not in the palace at the time, he might have been killed directly.When the Chinese army first entered the customs, it almost did not encounter any resistance, and this is how it came to be, and it was a little difficult to fight from the south to the north, but to fight from Shanhaiguan to Beijing, it was completely a matter of going where to fight.The Manchu army could not even keep the emperor's dormitory, and they could be expected to go to the front line to fight Interestingly, this incident had already been reported by multiple departments, but in the end there was no response because the officials passed the buck to each other.Afterwards, even Jiaqing himself couldn't figure out what was going on.The degree of decay and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty's military and government is unimaginable, and it has broken through the lower limit of thousands of years all the way.When the Qing army encountered the modern British army in the two Opium Wars, it actually exposed the ills accumulated over the past hundred years on the battlefield, and the loss was unsuspenseful and unjust.The overall deployment of the Qing army was inefficient, the logistics were incompetent, the transportation was inconvenient, and they were not subordinate to each other, so they could not assemble quickly.The total number of British troops was small, but they fought more and less in every battlefield.The morale of the Qing army was extremely low, and the team had almost no concept of a queue, and they would not aim when shooting.The tactics of the British army when encountering the Qing army were to quickly charge and engage in a white-knuckle battle after the encounter, and the Qing army was scattered in a hurry, and the British army passed the test without injury.If they shoot from the air, the Qing army can still hold out for a while and get a few shots.The Qing army lacked training and had zero education.The guns of the turret will not be aimed, and even the gun mounts are welded to death.It is impossible to grasp the correct amount of charge, the shell does not have enough range, or the bore is blown up.Generally speaking, the combat strength of the old Qing army was lower than that of the rebel peasant army, and this was not a problem of equipment at all, but a problem of the system.The Qing army, as a medieval army, did not reach the average level of a medieval army at all.In fact, the image of the Qing court's demise had already appeared in the so-called prosperous Kangqian era.Even if there was no foreign invasion, the Qing Dynasty in Jiaqing would have almost died.Such a regime lasted for more than 200 years, which can only show that it is not possible to fight, but it is very good at control, and it controls hundreds of millions of Han people with an army with almost no combat effectiveness, which is what the emperor admires most about the Qing court.When the Qing army suppressed the Taiping army, the Han people trained their arms and became the main force, and from then on, the imperial court also began to lose power.After the Taiping army was pacified, these regimental training units also quickly rotted.At the same time, the Han ministers became feudal officials and began to try to modernize and reform in various aspects, the most important of which was to train the new army.Buying a boat to train the army, the money spent is like flowing water.But at this time, whether it was an external economic invasion or an internal civil uprising, the Qing government was powerless to recover.Moreover, it is even more funny to want to build an army by buying new weapons from the great powers, the rifle production line that Huahuang bought at the beginning, and got a large number of technicians from Europe and the United States, although most of them are civilian, workshop-style small bosses, but it is very effective, Huahuang buys technology, not weapons.Even if the Qing court buys a large number of armaments, the great powers are nothing more than selling you the updated rags, and you and others still can't beat the equipment that is one level behind.Therefore, if you want to be self-reliant, you have to light up the technology tree yourself, but the technology tree of the Manchurian inventory has no chance of development at all, and under the feudal system, no matter how much money is spent, the technology tree is also dead.In addition, the Qing government did not have money, and the Manchus were able to pay huge amounts of silver to foreigners, and these indemnities were not directly given but were used as collateral for customs duties and normal domestic and foreign trade profits to make up for the indemnities.Under these circumstances, the finances of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were increased to a certain extent because of the trade at the gates.The banks established by the Westernists and the foreign and domestic creditor's rights also bore the burden of making up for the financial gaps of the Manchus.In the original history, the Beiyang Fleet except for the bright side of the central appropriation.The dividends of Li Hongzhang's comprador local institutions are also subsidized.In terms of politics and the situation after the Second Opium War, the military system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has become independent into two functional departments, the central and the local.The central government has nominal local jurisdiction, but in fact the localities have become independent, especially on the southeast coast.In the original history, by the 1900's after the "South-East Mutual Insurance", the local and central governments officially broke up.For most countries of this era, the nineteenth century was the century of nationalism, with the state apparatus propagating nationalism at full throttle, both to cover up class contradictions and to deal with external threats.But for the Manchus, the greatest threat of these three problems was nationalism, and the least external threat.None of the countries was able to monopolize China and were unwilling to let others get it, and as a result, the countries held each other back, and the Qing Dynasty ruled as peaceful.At the same time, even if the Qing Dynasty wanted to mobilize the common people against the foreigners, it did not have the ability to mobilize the whole country.Unlike the ruling classes of other countries, the Manchus relied on the Han elite to suppress the common people, but feared that the Han elite would oppose them.Due to ethnic conflicts, the Manchu rulers had no way to unite the ruling class to suppress the common people like Tsarist Russia, nor to mobilize the common people to strengthen their rule like France and Germany, but could only use the Han elite while guarding against them and suppress the common people with an iron fist.The Emperor knew very well that the importance of industry was far above the purchase of armaments, so the Emperor was actually very opposed to war, and before the establishment of the industrial system, the Chinese could not afford to consume, and should try to avoid a large-scale war with the British army, which is why the Emperor came to Britain.Half a month passed in a flash, and soon it was Queen Victoria's birthday.Stretching out his hand and not smiling people, the Emperor Hua visited in person, and under the banner of celebrating the 60th birthday of Queen Victoria, the Queen of England and the top of the British government have no reason not to let the Emperor Hua go to the palace.This happened to fall into the assassination plan that Jouferi had carefully planned and instigated.t1706231537: