The wheels of history should be rolling forward, but this Chinese carriage has tossed back and forth many times. The retreat of small steps is really reasonable, but the retreat of large steps is really indignant and indignant.
There are three major sinners in Chinese history, each of which is well-known, and they have set Back Chinese history by hundreds of years.
The first person was An Lushan.
In 732, An Lushan was caught stealing sheep, and Youzhou Jiedushi was originally ready to beat him to death, but An Lushan's bold speech made him a little interested, and An Lushan became the righteous son of the largest local official from a commoner, and from then on he went to the road of wealth and nobility, and the Tang Dynasty also slowly declined.
Because of his sleekness, An Lushan was praised by many people, and he seized the opportunity to bribe the officials with heavy money and ask them to help him say good things. Under the brainwashing over and over again, Tang Xuanzong firmly believed that An Lushan was a good person and began to use him heavily, and from then on, An Lushan became an important official in the imperial court. This time Tang Xuanzong favored him, but that Fan An Lushan had two sides and three swords, and he secretly plotted and prepared for rebellion. In 755, An Lushan rebelled, and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty was gone, and it could only survive for more than a hundred years.
In fact, An Lushan's guilt was not only to cause the decline of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, he also affected the future situation in China. Due to the Anshi rebellion, the imperial court was seriously injured, and the princes everywhere obviously had their own ideas, and the centralization of power in the Tang Dynasty was useless. Because An Lushan had armed forces in his hands, the late Tang Dynasty had already shown a phenomenon of heavy literature and light force on military attaches, and this phenomenon affected the later Song Dynasty, resulting in the Song Dynasty cutting land for many years.
The biggest influence is still in the control of the western region. Since Zhang Qian carved out the Western Regions, the countries of the Western Regions have become vassals of the Central Plains Dynasty. In order to solve the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had to repatriate the military forces around the Western Regions, resulting in a long time thereafter, the Western Regions and the Central Plains Dynasty were in a stage of hostility.
The second person was Shi Jingyao.
Shi Jingyao was a famous child emperor of China and notorious in Chinese history. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, all sides were powerful, and Shi Jingyao increased his strength, recognized the Khitan Emperor, who was younger than himself, as his father, and promised to cede Youyun Sixteen Degrees to the Khitans, in addition to paying them a large amount of money. This move, even his confidant Liu Zhiyuan did not approve, but Shi Jingyao insisted on going his own way. It was precisely because of this that he strengthened the power of the Khitan and expanded the ambitions of the Khitan and led to a confrontation between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan and other countries.
The first two are internal Contradictions in China, entanglement between ethnic minority regimes and the Central Plains Dynasty, but the third person is involved in entanglement with foreign forces, and this person is Cixi.
As the ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi cared more about his own pleasures than the strength of the country. She embezzled the money of the Beiyang Navy and used it as a birthday feast, which led to the defeat of the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle. The Sino-Japanese War not only made the Japanese arrogant, but also affected the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan, and even more made the great powers see the hope of dividing Up China.
In addition, she tried to prevent the 1898 Restoration, which led to the failure of the Restoration Movement and hindered China's progress. And China's anti-imperialist forces have been suppressed by her, resulting in the blood of countless patriots being sprinkled on Chinese soil, and they are still depressed before they die. If the Qing Dynasty had changed its rulers, China would not have been so backward, and perhaps in the confrontation with foreign countries, it would be able to turn defeat into victory, and the Chinese people would not have to suffer massacres.