The Qing government, which prides itself on being the "kingdom of heaven and heaven," ruled China can be said to be the most humiliating and unbearable historical memory in history. The Qing Dynasty, which was closed to the outside world, was hit by the "foreign guns and cannons" of Western countries, and it was a stream of farts and urine, taking care of one or the other. They had to pay them a lot of money repeatedly, and they were forced to give concessions, and they forcibly opened all the major treaty ports, and the Qing government, which had always been bent on perfection, did not seem to have any temper at all.
Were the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty really all armed with long guns fighting western soldiers with mechanized weapons? Or is it that, in fact, there was no battle at all, and it had already fled before the war began?
But before the Qing Dynasty, China's firepower weapons also had advanced development, but I don't know why the Qing Dynasty's generation became declining.
For example, in the Song Dynasty era, China's research on thermal weapons has made initial progress, which belonged to a kind of "anti-heavenly existence" on the battlefield at that time. Then in the Ming Dynasty, the development of thermal weapons was more perfect, and the soldiers had a gun in their hands, and some artillery with sufficient gunpowder and equipment. It can be said that China's attainment of "modern weapons" has developed greatly in ancient times.
And then... It seems that China under the qing government has not made much progress in the development of thermal weapons.
In fact, this is not the case, although when we mention the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China, we will feel extremely resentful, and the first reaction is the defeat caused by our too poor and backward, but in the eyes of Western countries, the Qing Dynasty is a existence that is regarded as a powerful country by the Western powers.
In the final analysis, it was because the Qing government at that time did not pay enough attention to military weapons, believing that hot weapons were not suitable for Our soldiers to fight, thus weakening the soldiers' combat ability, so the war would be lost again and again.
The qing dynasty's weapons and equipment at that time compared with the Western powers is not a big gap, although there is the development of Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau and other industries, but the real rulers do not care about these things, the most widely used rifles and artillery at that time, the Qing Dynasty army is all owned, but the foolish rulers who covet pleasure, think that these things soldiers may not need, so there is no large number of distribution, in the end, or closed to the country to harm their own soldiers, but also harm the whole country.
Because some Qing rulers were accustomed to ease, the invasion of the Western powers made them feel afraid, just imagine, even the commanders are afraid of fighting, then the soldiers under them have no heart to resist foreign soldiers, tens of thousands of scattered Qing soldiers scattered in an instant, how to resist the enemy of foreign aggression?
Now that I think about it, it is precisely because of the corruption of the Qing Dynasty that wars with Western countries have been repeatedly defeated and defeated... Unequal treaties can only be concluded.
It seems that a country must have a strong enough military force, enough military field and strong enough to better go further in economic and social development.