If we look at it from the perspective of strength alone, the army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is obviously more powerful. But embarrassingly, it was the Xinhai Revolution that finally overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Why is that?
Military equipment
Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a large number of soldiers, their weapons were very backward. Many people even use their farm tools as weapons for battle.
Because of this, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom looked very intimidating and fierce in battle, the weapons and equipment were hard-core, and it was actually as difficult as imagined to defeat them.
At the time of the Xinhai Revolution, the people of the uprising were themselves very well equipped. Because there are many intellectuals in the ranks, they know the truth that if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first use his weapon.
Of course, their strategic thinking was also very good, and they occupied the arsenal and gunpowder factory of the imperial court not long after the war began. They not only enriched their own inventory, but also cut off the supply of the imperial court, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Attitudes towards the people are different
Because of its class limitations, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only satisfies the unlimited desires of high-ranking figures, without the slightest regard for the welfare of the masses. The purpose of the uprising sounds good, but in fact, it is just that the heavenly top brass has been constantly grabbing the interests of the people.
Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a very bad reputation among the people, and many people even call them robbers or even robbers. Although many people are crazy believers in the Balance Heavenly Kingdom, the number of people who oppose him is even greater.
In fact, there were also people with various voices within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. And they themselves are not united, naturally it is impossible to defeat the Qing government.
There is a big difference between the Xinhai Revolution and the Heavenly Balance Kingdom. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom arose by exploiting the people, and they demonstrated the ambitions of the rulers.
The Xinhai Revolution was more like the people's spokesmen, carrying out the people's will and swinging a heavy fist in the face of the Qing government. In this process, the members who participated in the Xinhai Revolution were basically unanimous to the outside world, never harming the people, but only targeting the Qing government.
It is precisely for this reason that the mass base of the Xinhai Revolution was particularly broad, and as far as the historical conditions of the time were concerned, they did so to represent the demands of the broad masses of the people.
The background of the times is different
At the time of the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, people's ideological concepts were still very traditional, and most people felt that imperial power was supreme in their hearts, so they hated and rejected the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that wanted to overthrow the Qing government.
At the time of the Xinhai Revolution, the idea of restoration had been widely disseminated. By then people had learned to see people with new eyes. The Xinhai Revolution was not so much resistance at the time, and the people only felt a little confused about the overthrow of the imperial power, and did not have the mood to maintain the old system.
After all, the Qing government at this time made the people feel too much shame, they longed for the country to become richer and stronger, and the Qing government that could not meet their demands would of course be overthrown.
To sum up, the Qing government was ostensibly overthrown by the ranks of the Xinhai Revolution, but in fact it was the ideologically awakened people who really overthrew the Qing government. In fact, from the moment when all the people were dissatisfied with the Qing government, the Qing government was already extinct in name only.