In modern history, the Spanish colonial empire is one of the first real global empires and colonial empires in the world, and it is also one of the largest empires in world history. At the beginning of the 17th century, Spain was very powerful. With the formation of the invincible team, it has defeated many countries, and its position in Europe is very prominent, firmly occupying the first place. The mighty Spain did not stop its ambitions for world domination. The Spanish colonists expanded their territory, seized Asian colonies, and even tried to use the Philippines as a base to covet the Asian continent and defeat the Ming Dynasty, which shows the arrogance of the Spaniards. Moreover, the claim that an army of less than 100 men could destroy the Ming Dynasty shows the blind confidence of the Spanish colonists.
But why didn't Spain implement a specific plan? In fact, in the planning of the Spanish Empire, which sits firmly as the hegemon of Europe, there is indeed a plan for 20,000 troops to conquer the Ming Dynasty. Not long before the Philippine governor Francisco de Sander came to Manila, the Chinese pirate Lin Feng led his troops to attack Manila on a large scale, and in the face of Chinese pirates who were driven from the coastline by the Daming Navy Division, the former governor of Sander fought hard to repel Boss Lin's attack.
Faced with a poor colony and a dangerous external environment, Sander finally decided to take the initiative in silence, and he wrote a letter to King Philip II in 1576: Use the Philippines as a springboard, Varming. Philip II was naturally very happy to see the letter, after all, because of the circulation of Marco Polo's travels in Europe, Europeans are very yearning for China, if they can occupy the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply the co-lord of the world. For this plan, in order to be on the safe side, Philip II decided to let Spain send 12,000 troops himself, then recruit 5,000 people in Japan and 3,000 in the Philippines, and organize a total of 20,000 armed forces to land from Guangzhou and fight Daming. And it was intended that one place should not interfere with the lives of the people, and that church schools would be quickly established, and cultural colonization would be carried out in order to entrench itself in a matter of reaching consensus with powerful people.
However, Spain's plan to defeat the Ming Dynasty with 20,000 people failed to be implemented mainly because the Spanish colonists lacked understanding of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the strength of the sleeping wolf on the side of the sleeping wolf of the rising star of Europe, etc., and finally after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel, and the rise of the "sea coachman" Holland, it was no longer possible to conquer the Ming Dynasty, and even to stabilize the original territory.
Moreover, the key question of this plan was whether the Spanish could invade the city of Beijing and whether the Ming dynasty was willing to compromise. For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, it is assumed that the strength is similar. Then the result will be two: first, neither dynasty can defeat Spain from the sea, after all, the Daming navy division's "treasure ship" fleet in the lower Western Ocean has not chased the deer in the Atlantic, and the Qing dynasty's embroidered pillow-like sailor is just a caretaker.
Second, Spain could not have invaded Beijing. If the Spanish army entered the mainland but could or did not capture the city of Beijing, the Qing might choose to surrender, but the Ming Dynasty was likely to continue fighting. After referring to the Opium War, the Qing government repented of the treaty, and then there was the second Opium War, and after invading the city of Beijing, the Qing government was helpless to submit. Then in the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese fleet defeated the last proud Beiyang naval division of the Qing government. And the eight-nation coalition completely shattered the Qing government's hope of taking advantage of the people's hearts to turn over. However, the Ming Dynasty was different, whether it was to talk about peace or surrender, Yan Guan could scold the emperor and the surrender faction to death.
So even though the Ming Dynasty may lose, the Ming Dynasty will not surrender. It can be referred to that the Ming Dynasty has not made peace with Mongolia, Jurchen and other forces in the real sense, so if it is deadlocked, it will be the Ming Dynasty that wins, and once it goes on land, Spain will have no advantage if it drags on for a long time. Moreover, the navy of the Ming Dynasty was an ironclad warship that had fought many times in actual combat, and there was no fully meaningful ironclad warship at that time.
If it is why the Qing Dynasty failed, to put it bluntly, it is a matter of the determination of the ruler, for example, the Daoguang Emperor was undecided on the ban on smoking, and he hesitated after the war, and the following wars were the same. For example, in the Sino-Japanese War, Ye Zhichao really fled because of timidity? The Yellow Sea had only a slight advantage in the first battle, but it was trapped in Weihai. In addition to strength, internal corruption, and more importantly, the determination above the temples of the Qing Dynasty, so it is as reckless as the Spanish Empire, and it cannot step into this siege.