When the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, why did the common people give them food, watch the fire from the other side and even take the initiative to lead the way?
People are the most complicated, when the Qing army entered the customs, hundreds of thousands of troops entered the Central Plains, I don't know how many Han people brought them in, hundreds of years later, the Han people helped the great powers to rob them and drive them out, it can be said that water can carry boats and overturn boats, and the Han people are defeated and han. In 1900, because Cixi finally hardened a bit, and successively issued a war letter to 11 countries, the great powers did not say a word, very face-saving, with ships and guns to attack Beijing, Cixi Wenfeng disguised as an old woman to escape, even so, it is reasonable to say that the Qing soldiers and Boxer soldiers at that time had nearly 200,000 people, according to statistics, and the total strength ratio of the Eight-Nation Alliance was 10:1, even the equipment was not worse than the coalition, and even the Qing army had heavy weapons.
In this case, there was still an incredible scene, that is, the Qing soldiers fled one by one, leaving only the people wearing cloth robes, and these people competed for the escalator to help the coalition forces. Some of the people in the photos helped the coalition army to help the ladder, and some even received the coalition army at the head of the city, and some instigated the coalition army to cut down and kill the Qing generals, and some even personally slashed and killed the Boxer soldiers. Naturally, it was difficult for the coalition forces to understand, this was their home, how could they help others to invade their homeland?
According to the descriptions of the coalition soldiers, these people seem to have been liberated, eager to overthrow the corrupt Qing Dynasty as soon as possible, their faces are full of smiles, especially the kind of people who look at the bustle and do not think it is too big, they even take the initiative to take the food from their homes to the coalition troops, and people who are familiar with the area also bring the coalition army into the city. Therefore, many literary and historical scholars afterwards said that the Qing Dynasty was not defeated at the hands of the coalition forces, but lost to itself and to the common people, and the reason why these people helped the coalition army was mainly related to their own cognition and the situation of the country. The perception of the country at that time the Qing Dynasty was decadent, the people's living standards were low, many people were not enough to eat and wear, they were in contact with only the bureaucrats at the next level, there was no concept of the state at all, even if there was, it was a ruling country that often squeezed them, in such a country, the people were destitute, the coalition invaded, for them there was nothing to lose, they just wanted to live a better life, anyway, the Qing Dynasty in front of them was not what they wanted.
If the Qing Dynasty's system for the people is born, if it wants to gain the support of the people, it is undoubtedly to benefit the people, if it cannot bring them benefits or live a better life, who will support it? Especially in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the people did not feel the care of the Qing government at all, that is, some of the welfare of the people, but there were many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, bureaucratic oppression and arbitrary expropriation, and the people preferred to overthrow such a government, just when the arrival of the coalition army gave them the opportunity.
The nationality problem at that time the rulers were Manchus, the Han people were naturally unhappy, moreover, the Manchu Qing rule over the Han people was not equal, and the things they did have always been handed down, and the people all know that if the Manchu Qing government was not so corrupt in the later period, and the people could live and work in peace and contentment, who would think of helping the coalition forces.