The sins of the Manchu Qing were not only to steal the fruits of the great changes at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but also because the Manchu reactions interrupted the process of great social change and caused a great retrogression in social development. This has directly led to the result of the east lagging behind the west and the world in modern society.
The Manchu Qing regime is not equal to the state, still less to the Chinese nation. Since the opium war was in operation, the Manchu Qing regime was the beneficiary of it, not the complete victim, including the late Western affairs movement, and the shiyi long skill to control the yi essentially became the shiyi long skill to control the Chinese. In fact, the Manchu Qing dynasty was likely to end in the Taiping Rebellion.
In the south there was the Taiping Rebellion, and in the north there was the Twister Rebellion. After the collapse of the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion collapsed one after another, disturbing the people more than enough to face the enemy. Almost at the touch of collapse, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom intensified. In this context, the Manchu Qing dynasty was forced to open up local regimental training and prepare for the establishment of a large camp in Jiangnan. The Manchu Qing had no soldiers to defend.
Secondly, during the Opium War, the British fleet hit a nail in Guangzhou and went all the way north to attack the coastal towns near Zhejiang, and the local officials would actually say that Guangdong had offended you, and you should look for them. The British want to send diplomatic letters to the emperor, and this matter is completely irrelevant to my Zhejiang, and you have something to find Lin Zexu in Guangzhou.
Another example is that during the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Far East Fleet was taken over by Japan, and the Tsar sent the Baltic Fleet around Asia to support it.
At that time, Japan was very worried, and the national mobilization was ready to meet the Russian fleet. But it is difficult to say whether the Russian fleet will take the Tsushima Strait between Japan and the Korean Peninsula or bypass the sea off Japan. Togo Heihachiro judged that he was approaching the Tsushima Strait, but no one could say for sure.
Therefore, many reconnaissance ships and merchant ships could only be sent to inquire everywhere. When the Russian fleet appeared, a Japanese fisherman found out and immediately put down his work to report to the village chief, but there were no communication facilities on the island, and the two men rowed for several hours to the island with telegrams to report.
Moreover, because mobilization comes at a price, the people demand more than the British. The masses of the people lined up to face the king's cavalry, and if the people succeeded, then a republic would be established.
The number of cavalry is extremely limited compared to that of citizen infantry, and it is highly mobile. Horses eat well and drink well, and do not demand political power, so cavalry is a very economical class of soldiers, as long as money, not citizenship. The more mobile the troops, the more likely they are to acquire the status of nobility and the more they support the monarchy.
Mobilizing the people is the other side of the coin. A united community can fight against the cavalry, and naturally they can also fight against the monarch. The government of the late Qing Dynasty itself was a capitulationist, and no matter how fierce the common people were, it was useless. On the other hand, the Communist government is full of fighting spirit and sacrifice spirit, so even if the remnants of the Kuomintang are defeated and will be accepted and reorganized by the People's Liberation Army, they will become the tiger and wolf division that humiliated the US imperialists in Korea.
The power of advanced spirit and faith is evident. For more than two hundred years since the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs, various anti-Qing and anti-Ming organizations in the people have been rising and falling one after another, and during the Jiaqing period, there were even members of the Tianli Sect who could enter the Forbidden City, even if the Qing Dynasty ruler Kong Meng's Confucianism was well learned, how many people would debate the scriptures.
It has always been difficult to become the so-called orthodox in the eyes of ordinary Han people. Otherwise, Sun Yat-sen would not have put forward the slogan of expelling The Slaves and restoring China. In this case, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty would never dare to develop the ordinary people, because as long as they could not control it, it would not be foreigners who died, but themselves.
To tell the truth, even if it can be mobilized nationwide, it is useless, people can see it very clearly, so they sent a fleet led by two third-class sail battleships that are not in the current to clean up the country. If you really want to dispatch a first-class battleship, don't mention what mobilization is not mobilized for this kind of dimensionality reduction strike, just kneel!
The mobilization of the whole country for such a difficult action is basically impossible to achieve without means of communication such as telegraphs, telephones, radios, and means of transportation such as trains and cars. It is difficult to pass on the mobilization order quickly and efficiently with the level at that time.
Another point, and if most men were mobilized to go out of work to fight, the women at that time could not take over the task of childbirth, and they could not get off the ground to wrap their feet or anything. In this way, there will be logistical problems and the battle will not be able to continue.
In addition, the British did not want to conquer the whole country like the Japanese, and they desperately wanted you to destroy the country and the extinction of the species, but to do business with you, which was not unacceptable in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, so there was no motivation to mobilize to fight hard.