How useful can the navy and army, which had spent countless money on the Qing court, have? They lost all their energy in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

And if you lose it, there will be no place to replenish it. If you don’t have industry, no matter how many weapons you have, they can only be disposable fireworks and firecrackers.

Then the Qing government quickly figured it out that it turned out that it was only buying equipment and not learning advanced organizational methods, but its combat effectiveness was still poor and it could not play a role. Modern armaments must be controlled by modern army. Then Yuan Shikai trained the Beiyang New Army at a small station, and trained the new army across the country.

But the new army organized into new ways also changed its mind, and the Qing government's most worried thing happened.

Finally, the new army in Wuchang fired the first shot of the 1911, and the new army of Beiyang sent to suppress it, followed by the Qing court.

The Qing army itself had great problems, and guns, guns, boats and ships were behind, but it was not the main reason.

The Eight Banners Green Camp was not decayed in the late Qing Dynasty, but was useless early in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. It was even harder to pacify the Three Feudals and suppress the White Lotus Uprising. Its combat power was worse than that of the medieval army, and it was even more incapable of fighting against the invading modern armies.

Emperor Hua believed that Cixi was a good manager in management, without any cards in her hand, but she could make all local administrative agencies obedient. Li Hongzhang was indeed a good player in diplomacy. If the combination of these two people was almost invincible in the early Qing Dynasty, it was a pity that the Qing Dynasty's broken ship had been exhausted, and a cute president appeared again. With a gentle push, the Qing Dynasty would collapse early.

After the Eight Banners entered the pass, the Eight Banners soldiers immediately became rotten, and they were completely unable to fight during Shunzhi, and their cavalry and shooting were abolished. Later, they became simply a financial burden for the country.

During the White Lotus Sect's uprising, the elite Eight Banners did not even reach the front line and collapsed without fighting.

The Eight Banners system was originally a very, very backward primitive tribal system, which was deteriorated from the top-level design of the founding country.

When the Three Feudalists were pacified, the Green Camp had become the main force, but it also rotted by the Qianlong period, and the White Lotus Uprising was defeated repeatedly during the White Lotus Uprising.

The Green Camp is a world-wide military system, but its equipment and treatment are much lower than that of the Eight Banners. In order to survive, officers and soldiers had to operate industries. The training was completely sloppy and became empty camps, and even the weapons were sold. When it arrived at the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Green Camp collapsed at once and was completely useless.

The Green Camp was organized in chaos, garrisoned and scattered since the beginning of the founding of the Qing Dynasty. The Green Camp in the Eight Banners was low in combat power. The Qing Dynasty's courts were not unaware of it, but they had almost never made effective reforms and just lived through it.

The Qing Dynasty imperial guards could not even defend the imperial city. The cult uprising was directly invaded to the Da Nei Ban with only a few hundred mobs. If Jiaqing had not been in the palace at that time, he might have done it in a confused manner.

When the Chinese army entered the pass, they had almost no resistance. This is how it came. It was a little difficult to fight from the south to the north, but to fight from Shanhaiguan to Beijing, it was completely like fighting wherever it went.

The Qing army could not even keep the emperor's bedroom. Can you expect them to go to the front line to fight?

Interestingly, multiple departments had been informed of this incident, but because the officials were shirking each other, they did not respond in the end. Afterwards, even Jiaqing himself couldn't figure out what was going on.

The corruption and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty's military and political affairs was unimaginable, and it broke through the lower limit of thousands of years.

When the Qing army encountered the modern British army in the two Opium Wars, it actually exposed the problems accumulated over the past hundred years to the battlefield, and the loss was no suspense or unjust.

The overall deployment of the Qing army was inefficient, had incompetent logistics, inconvenient transportation, and had no subordinates to each other, so they could not gather quickly. The total number of British troops was not large, but they fought more and less on each battlefield.

The morale of the Qing army was extremely low, and the team had almost no concept of a queue. They would not aim when shooting and would rush around.

The British army's tactics when encountering the Qing army was to quickly charge and fight in close combat after encountering the Qing army. When encountering this, the Qing army scattered and passed without any injuries. If they shoot in the air, the Qing army could still hold on for a while and get shots a few times.

The Qing army lacked training and had zero education. The cannon fire was not aimed at the cannons, and even the cannon seats were welded to death. The correct amount of filling was not grasped, the shells were not fired enough, or the chamber was exploded.

Overall, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's old army was lower than that of the uprising peasant army. This was not a problem of equipment at all, but a problem of the system.

As a medieval army, the Qing army did not reach the average level of medieval army at all.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty's demise had already appeared in the so-called Kanggan period. Even if there was no foreign invasion, the Qing Dynasty during the Jiaqing period should have almost died.

Such a regime lasted for more than 200 years, which only means that the war is not good, but it is very good at controlling it. It uses an army with almost no combat power to control hundreds of millions of Han people. This is what Emperor Hua admires the most.

When the Qing army suppressed the Taiping Army, the Han army's armed forces became the main force, and the court began to lose power. After the Taiping Army was pacified, these army training troops were quickly destroyed. At the same time, the Han ministers became chief officials and began to try modern reforms in all aspects. The most important thing was to train new troops. Buy ships and train troops, and the money spent was like flowing water.

But at this time, whether it was an external economic invasion or an internal civil rebellion, it had already made the Qing government unable to make up for the situation.

Moreover, it is even more funny to want to build an army by buying new weapons from the great powers. The rifle production line that Emperor Hua originally bought and brought a large number of technicians from Europe and the United States. Although most of them were private and workshop-style small bosses, it worked very well. Emperor Hua bought technology, not weapons.

Even if the Qing court bought a lot of arms, the great powers would just sell newer and newer junk to you, and you still couldn't beat the equipment that was one level behind others.

Therefore, if you want to be self-reliant, you have to lit the technology tree yourself. However, the technology tree that is fully counted has no chance of development. Under the feudal system, no matter how much money it costs, the technology tree is still dead.

In addition, the Qing government had no money. The Qing Dynasty could pay huge amounts of silver to foreigners. These compensations were not directly given, but were filled with tariff mortgages at the gates and normal profits from domestic and foreign trade. In this case, the Qing Dynasty's finances increased by a certain proportion due to the trade in the gates.

The banks established by the Westernization Party and the external and domestic debt investment also burdened the Qing Dynasty's financial gaps. In the original history, in addition to the openness of the central allocation, the Beiyang Fleet also subsidized the dividends of Li Hongzhang's comprador local institutions.

Judging from the politics and situation after the Second Opium War, the Qing Dynasty's military system had become independent of the central and local functional departments.

The central government only has nominal local jurisdiction, but the local government has become independent, especially the southeast coast. In the original history, after the "Southeast Mutual Protection" in 1900, the local government and the central government officially broke.

For most countries of this era, the nineteenth century was a century of nationalism. The state machine was working at full capacity to promote nationalism, which could not only cover up class contradictions but also deal with external threats.

However, for the Qing Dynasty, the most threatening of these three problems was nationalism, and the external threat was the least.

No country can control China and is unwilling to let others succeed. As a result, countries are restraining each other, and the Qing Dynasty's rule became as stable as Mount Tai.

At the same time, even if the Qing Dynasty wanted to mobilize the people to fight against foreigners, it did not have the ability to mobilize the whole country. Unlike the ruling classes in other countries, the Qing Dynasty relied on Han elites to suppress the people, but was afraid of Han elites opposing them.

Due to ethnic conflicts, the Qing rulers were neither able to unite the ruling class and work together to suppress the people like Tsarist Russia, nor could they mobilize civilians to strengthen their rule like France and Germany. They could only use the Han elites to guard against them and implement iron-fisted suppression on the general public.

Emperor Hua knew very well that the importance of industry was far above purchasing arms, so Emperor Hua was actually very opposed to war. Before the industrial system was established, the Chinese country could not afford to consume it, so it should try its best to avoid a large-scale war with the British army head-on. This is also the reason why Emperor Hua came to Britain.

Half a month passed in a flash, and it was soon the birthday of Queen Victoria of England.

The Queen of England and the British government had no reason to not let the Emperor go to the palace.

This happened to fall into the assassination plan carefully planned and instigated by Ru Feili.
Chapter completed!