On February 12 of the first year of the Republic of China, Empress Dowager Longyu promulgated the Edict of Abdication in the name of empress dowager, announcing Puyi's abdication. It reads: "The psychology of the people of the whole country today is more inclined to republicanism" and "the will of the people is known." Yu Yi He endured the honor of a surname, and whisked the likes and dislikes of the people", "The special emperor made the ruling power public to the whole country, designated it as a constitutional republic, and comforted the heart of the sea that was disgusted with chaos and wanted to rule, and the ancient holy world was the righteousness of justice."
The change of dynasties is the inevitable development of history, and it is precisely because of the continuous change of dynasties that mankind will continue to develop. The Qing Dynasty, from the Shunzhi Emperor moving the capital to Beijing to Puyi's announcement of abdication, lasted 276 years, making it the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history.
We have a special affection for the Qing Dynasty, because it was the last prosperous dynasty in China's thousands of years of feudal society, and it was also a corrupt dynasty that brought countless wounds to modern China.
No matter which dynasty or generation, in order to consolidate their position, they will raise a certain number of troops as a guarantee. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was also the country with the largest number of troops in the world. So after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, where did the remaining 1 million Qing troops go? One of them was only discovered in 1987!
The main military forces in the early qing dynasty were divided into two types: the Eight Banner Army and the Green Battalion
The earliest prototype of the Qing army was to imitate the Manchurian Eight Flags system established by Nurhaci, and the main military forces in the early period were the Eight Flags Army and the Green Camp.
As the ace army of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banner Army was a well-trained, well-disciplined army with strong combat effectiveness, while the Green Battalion was a ming dynasty army and a provincial reorganization after the Qing army entered the customs.
Because the Eight Banner Army was provided by the government for a long time, during the Daoguang Xianfeng Emperor, because of the long-term non-surrender of troops, the soldiers practiced slackness, spent all day idle, and lingered in the Qinglou to buy drunks, without practicing martial arts, thus gradually losing their combat effectiveness.
This caused the retreat of the Qing Dynasty's armed forces, and by the time of the Daoguang years, the Eight Banners were basically decorations. Until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he was even dismissed to return to his hometown to farm, and some even joined warlords everywhere.
The Xiang Army created by Zeng Guofan withdrew from the stage of history, and the Beiyang Marine Division was established by Li Hongzhang
The Xiang Army was the main force in the late Qing Dynasty, and in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Zeng Guofan established the Xiang Army by establishing regiments, and successfully destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and preserved the Qing Dynasty.
Later, because of the fear of high merit and shock the lord, Zeng Guofan took the initiative to dismiss a large number of Xiang troops. The remaining part later followed Zuo Zongtang in quelling the Xinjiang rebellion. With the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Xiang Army was left with little, and later it completely withdrew from the stage of history.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government established the Beiyang Marine Division in order to defend against foreign enemies.
The Beiyang Marine Division was established by Li Hongzhang, and the Beiyang Marine Division was originally established on the basis of the Huai Army, a branch of the Xiang Army, so it can be regarded as a relatively special team in modern times.
In the early days of the establishment of the Beiyang Naval Division, because Li Hongzhang attached special importance to the Navy, so the investment was huge, and the Beiyang Navy at that time was also known as "the strongest navy in Asia", but unfortunately, in the later period, due to the corruption of the Manchu Qing government and Cixi's reduction of the funds of the Beiyang Marine Division to build the Summer Palace, the Beiyang Naval Division was difficult, and this directly led to the total annihilation of the Beiyang Naval Division in the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle.
The modern Army's Beiyang New Army was controlled by Yuan Shikai, and the garrisons in various provinces were fragmented
After the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government was completely dead to the Beiyang Navy and began a new type of training for the army.
After that, the modern army Beiyang New Army was held by Yuan Shikai and became a weapon for him to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of provincial garrisons were divided and controlled by local warlords.
Faced with such a situation, I don't know how the founders of the Qing Dynasty would feel if they saw it? You know, it is not an exaggeration to say that the former Qing Dynasty army was called a tiger and wolf division. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Emperor Taiji led nearly 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian Han armies to take Shanhaiguan and completely enter the Central Plains.
At that time, the Eight Banner Army could be described as brave and good at war, known as Batulu who grew up on horseback. Moreover, at that time, the most boastful thing about the entire Qing army was their eight-flag system of military-civilian integration, and it can be said that there were nearly 1 million troops of the whole people, and if it was necessary to fight and drink, the Eight Banners Army at that time was not afraid of anyone.
An army was forgotten and was only discovered in 1987
In addition to the above-mentioned army, there is another army that has been forgotten, and has been considering itself a Qing army after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and persisted until 1987 before it was discovered.
This matter should be mentioned after the Opium War, the British army forcibly occupied Kowloon and the New Territories, but at the time of the signing of the treaty, there was a place called Kowloon Village, although it was in the area controlled by the British army, but in the cession treaty, it was shown that Kowloon Village was still China's territory, so China had the right to send troops to defend the town.
At that time, after the fall of the Qing government, the Qing army in Kowloon Village did not want to return to China, so they stayed in Kowloon Village. In the end, it was still the territory of the Qing Dynasty, so there were still Qing troops stationed in the local area, and these Qing troops used Kowloon as a base, because legally they were not under the control of the British, and the Chinese government could not control it, so in this three-way boundary, they were like the existence of the Tu Emperor.
It was not until 1984, when China and Britain signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which decided to clear Kowloon Village and relocate residents, that the army finally disappeared from the stage of history.
brief summary
The collapse of a dynasty, its army will naturally collapse, this is the reason why several teenagers have not changed, for these soldiers who have fallen into the country, they have basically stayed in the army for most of their lives, so they have not used any skills in addition to being killed, the historical troops in addition to being killed, either into the new troops or disarmed and returned to the field, and the Qing government is more special, so this part of the Qing army that no one cares about in Kowloon Village can only stay in place and occupy a side, with this small group of troops want to protect themselves is as difficult as ascending to the sky, In the end, it was properly and humanely handled, which is also the best result.
References: Sino-British Joint Declaration, Abdication Edict
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