If the Qing army had not entered the customs when the Ming Dynasty fell, would China have become better?
If the Qing Dynasty does not enter the customs, China may be Li Zicheng and Nanming La's war, Tsarist Russia and Han China did not first engage in the war, and Qing and Mongolia are blocked in northern China, unless Qing and Mongolia have been destroyed by Tsarist Russia, but the fact is that the Qing Dynasty at that time was in the rising period, Tsarist Russia
The Manchu Qing Dynasty was in a literary prison, with rigid thinking and backward technology, and the common people under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were like zombies of the walking dead. During the so-called prosperous period of the Kangqian period, Western countries were in the midst of the industrial revolution, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty completely lagged behind the world, which was the root cause of the backwardness and beating of the late Qing Dynasty
Li Zicheng really didn't have the ability to complete the reunification. Although the Battle of Shanhaiguan was a fiasco, it was not particularly painful for the millions of Shun troops. However, subsequently, Li Zicheng did not recognize his own strength, and either united the anti-Qing forces, consolidated and stabilized the front, or negotiated peace with the Qing army, but he did not do it, and carried the Qing army to the death, without any overall situation, resulting in rapid defeat
In fact, since the Ming Dynasty, it has been impossible to predict the subsequent development with the previous laws. Because productivity and destructive power are fundamentally changing. If the Qing Dynasty had not entered the minority to rule the majority, it is unlikely that any Han dynasty would have deliberately hindered the development of science and technology, at least the central government would have to control it.
The Han dynasty, which will not be detached from the development of the world's mainstream civilization, will be in a leading position in science and technology and culture for most of the time, and with population advantage, it is impossible to develop into a hundred years behind the world like the later period. With the substantial increase in productivity, the demand for resources will inevitably skyrocket, the surrounding land will no longer be a burden during the farming period, and the policy of any normal Central Plains dynasty towards the surrounding areas will also be fundamentally changed, and the probability will change from conservative to aggressive.
The industrial revolution requires capital accumulation, capital needs money, and finance, such as Huawei's chips and investment in research and development. The state needs to support science and technology with funds. The Ming Dynasty was notoriously short of money, and all capital went to land annexation. You look at history too superficially. Even if all the Han people in the Ming Dynasty were Newtons, they needed the government to give up the Four Books and Five Classics, and allocate financial funds to develop and promote industrialization. Industrialization is a set of systems, including education, resources, finance, and politics, and it is not a matter of Han people or Han people
Industrialization requires factories, it needs mass production, it needs colonies, it needs colonies, and it sells what is produced. Therefore, the industrialization of capitalism must be expanded and colonized, and the Ming Dynasty did not colonize the West and did not dump goods. At that time, there were no conditions for industrialization.