Throughout the history of ancient China, the rise and fall of countless dynasties, of course, has a very important relationship with the emperor in the Ninth Five-Year Emperor, when a dynasty emperor is virtuous and virtuous, that dynasty can last a relatively long time, and an emperor becomes greedy for pleasure, pro-villain, far away from the sages, the kingdom is in danger.
Historically, there is also a dynasty that can be said to be the only dynasty without a emperor, but less than three hundred years later, it is still going to extinction, why is this? It is the Qing Dynasty.
Why is it said that there was no Emperor in the Qing Dynasty? Objectively speaking, the monarchs who led to the demise of the dynasty are roughly divided into two types, one is "Wang Qi here" Chen Hou Lord, "why not eat meat" Jin Hui Emperor's IQ is not on the line at all, and the other is that he likes to toss blindly, such as Wang Mang of the new dynasty, the Sui Emperor, the Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and so on.
As for the Twelve Emperors of the Qing Dynasty, from Nurhaci to Shunzhi who entered the customs, and finally Guangxu Puyi, it is true that these situations did not occur.
The reason, it is not difficult to understand, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty paid great attention to the cultivation of the emperor and grandson, requiring them to be proficient in writing Manchu Chinese, familiar with the Five Classics, good at riding and shooting, and have made long-term progress in early education.
In addition, the choice of the position of crown prince in the Qing Dynasty did not follow the succession system of the eldest son of the previous dynasty, starting from Yongzheng, the secret storage system adopted, which effectively promoted the healthy competition of the crown prince, enabling the emperor to select the best candidates and ensure the talent and ability of the new tianzi.
However, the Qing court is less than three hundred years, why did it eventually perish, the main reason is naturally the change of the times, qianlong in his later years, the Qing Dynasty has pacified Guo Erka, and won victory in the Qing-Burma War, still as the hegemon of Asia, but at this time, the Western powers, but have completed the accumulation of primitive capital, launched the industrial revolution, whether it is scientific and technological means, or military, far more than the Qing Dynasty.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the Eastern and Western countries fought in the battle, basically with the land cut reparations, according to statistics, from the opium war in 1840, the Qing court signed a total of 1125 unequal treaties, contracts, the indemnity of up to 1.3 billion silver, which led to a heavier burden on the domestic economy.
At the same time, the influx of new ideas in the country also created the conditions for a revolution to overthrow the Qing dynasty, and unlike the many peasant uprisings that have occurred over the millennia, many people have taken up guns, not to fill their stomachs.
As for the second point, it is still on the national issue, which, objectively speaking, has become the most serious stumbling block to the progress of modern China. As a minority aristocratic ruling group, the Qing court in the two hundred years of history, of course, the first thing to do, of course, is to ensure the interests of the imperial court, in the Shunzhi Kangxi and other years, few Han people were reused, this situation continued until the Cixi period, only forced to use Zeng Guofan Li Hongzhang and other local bureaucrats to save the situation, but often after the fact, there is no trust between the monarchs and subjects.
In the constitutional movement of the late Qing court to save itself, the nobles were still reluctant to let go of the power that was about to pass away, and the road of promoting the reform of the law was extremely difficult, and eventually caused greater dissatisfaction throughout the country, thus moving towards the end, from the performance of the Qing court to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the vitality exuded after this, honestly speaking, if it were not for the changes of the times, the feudal centralization had reached its peak, and the duration could exceed that of the Han Dynasty.