In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the decaying and declining Qing government lost power and humiliated the country, which not only completely reduced China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, but also occupied more than 1.6 million square kilometers of land by foreign powers.

Moreover, the corruption of Qing rule led to the misery of the people in China, coupled with the ravages of natural disasters, which eventually led to the Taiping Rebellion, which spread to most of China and caused hundreds of millions of casualties.

If there had not been the Taiping Rebellion, would the Qing Dynasty have lost so much land?

Of course not, although the Taiping Rebellion directly led to the loss of a large amount of land by the Qing Dynasty, even without the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty would not necessarily lose this land.

Obviously, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom added to the blockage of the Qing Dynasty, more than ten years of war, directly led to the emptiness of the Qing Dynasty's troops, until the end, the Qing Dynasty was unable to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had to call local regimental training, and successively trained a series of local armed forces such as the Hunan Army and the Huai Army.

As we all know, if it weren't for the Hunan army led by Zeng Guofan, perhaps the Qing Dynasty would have been overthrown, and during the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty ceded more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land to Tsarist Russia.

You must know that when signing this series of treaties, Tsarist Russia basically forced the Qing government to sign the treaty with an attitude of coercion and inducement, why could Tsarist Russia take so much land without spending a single soldier? On the one hand, the Qing army was indeed unable to cope with the war, and on the other hand, the Opium War had long frightened the Qing court.

It can be said that Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to sign a treaty, in fact, it also accounted for the light of the Opium War, and if there was no Opium War, the Qing court might not have ceded so much land, and in comparison, the influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was much smaller.

After the Taiping Rebellion was suppressed, China and Russia still signed many traitorous treaties and ceded a lot of land to Tsarist Russia, not only Tsarist Russia, but also Western powers invaded the Qing Dynasty and seized an unknown amount of land.

Although the Taiping Rebellion did cause the Qing government to lose control of its territory to some extent, it was the corruption of the Qing government itself that really led to the signing of numerous traitorous treaties by the Qing government.

Objectively speaking, the Taiping Rebellion did have a certain impact on the Qing government, and the Taiping Rebellion did make the Qing government unable to deal with the foreign powers, and it did increase the extent to which the foreign powers plundered the Qing government's territory, but even after the Taiping Rebellion ended, the Qing government was still unable to deal with the foreign powers.

In the 70s of the 19th century, when Agubo invaded Xinjiang and Tsarist Russia invaded Ili, the Qing government was likely to be unable to quell the rebellion, lost Xinjiang, lost the northwest barrier, and lost a large amount of land. The Sino-French war was also difficult to achieve.

Therefore, the more than ten years of counterinsurgency gave the Qing government time to think about and learn from the West, so that it would not quickly collapse in the subsequent wars.

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