Do you believe that people can lame themselves?
A personal conjecture can support this topic, after the success of Nurhaci's army, for military and political needs, he has been publicizing the invincibility of the Houjin Cavalry, claiming: Full of invincible.
In history, all kinds of musket-type armies such as the Divine Machine Battalion of the Ming Dynasty were indeed beaten by them not lightly, and they naturally looked down on firearms.
The most typical is the Battle of Salhu and the Battle of Dalinghe, which are all turning points.
During the Kangxi and Yongzheng years, the two rulers were to inherit the ancestral style of adapting to local conditions and discussing things according to facts, adjust policies to meet the needs of the environment, and slowly create a peaceful and prosperous world.
When Qianlong began to eat the old books, he only blindly went to heaven and the state, and for the civilization that came from Europe, he rejected their technology because of the etiquette problem.
When he arrived in Jiaqing, it was even more white, and the ability and spirit of the old ancestor to adapt to the environment had long disappeared, and in the face of the ills of the entire Wang Chao, he thought hard and meditated, and finally summed up the four words "Respecting the Heavenly Ancestors".
Civilization is produced in exchanges and collisions, which can only be touched by the giant ships and firearms of the West.
On the other hand, the founding of New China, judging the hour and sizing up the situation, the Korean War, India, and Vietnam, just one word, hit. Veterans say a lot, they don't fight, then the next generation fights.
To sum up
Thoughts determine actions. From the bottom of my heart, I thought that the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were not good, and it was better for them to charge on horseback, and naturally entered the era of cold weapons.
Then there is the closed country, the heavenly dynasty is on the state, and even if it does not kneel for the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, then go aside, you can't see the power of firearms, and naturally you can't talk about development.
Eventually, it was created, and the Qing Dynasty directly returned to the era of cold weapons, until the "Foreign Affairs Movement".
