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The Empress Dowager Cixi and the reformers led by Kang Liang were on the same page

The Empress Dowager Cixi's shame on history was to avenge the old revenge of killing the six gentlemen in the vegetable market. There has always been a lack of deep reflection in China's cultural tradition. The most common way is to catch a "scapegoat" and shift all the blame to this person, and the rest of the association can be passed and continue to be perfunctory.

Until now, the mainstream opinion in Chinese academic circles still blames the main responsibility for the defeat of the Beiyang Navy in the First Sino-Japanese War on the embezzlement of naval military funds by the Empress Dowager Cixi for the construction of the "Three Seas Project" and the renovation of the Summer Palace. If the Empress Dowager Cixi had not used the navy's military spending, the Beiyang Navy would not have stopped purchasing ships after it was established in 1888. If the Beiyang Navy is not defeated, Japan will not be able to gain complete sea supremacy, and the First Sino-Japanese War may be another outcome.

The question of how much naval military funds the Empress Dowager Cixi embezzled to build the garden is still an unsolved mystery.

Among them, the least believes that there are only millions of taels**, the most thinks that there are 80 million taels**, and the general use of academics is 20 million taels** and 30 million taels**. The huge discrepancies between these figures alone suggest that these figures are basically speculations without solid evidence, and that there may be significant differences between them and the basic historical facts.

Since the formation of the Beiyang Navy in 1888, it has indeed stopped purchasing**

Around this time, the "Three Seas Project" and the renovation of the Summer Palace did cost a lot of money, and in the process of building the garden, the funds of the Navy Yamen were indeed used. As for the question of whose responsibility is really difficult to answer!

The defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War was due to the lack of foresight and insufficient preparation for the war, Li Hongzhang believed in ** determinism too much, believing that Japan's armaments and skills were stronger than China's, of course, it was inseparable from the Empress Dowager Cixi, but it could not be said that it was because of her.

According to historical facts, Cixi and Li Hongzhang are both scapegoats, and the real culprits should be Weng Tongyi and others; In addition, after the establishment of the Beiyang Navy, there has been a phenomenon of obvious sluggishness in the development of the navy, and it cannot but be said that it has a lot to do with the struggle and dumping between various factions within the Qing Dynasty.

Sort of, Cixi used a lot of military spending in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, which led to a serious decline in the power of Beiyang.

It can be regarded as a fact, because in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Empress Dowager Cixi used a lot of military spending, which led to the rapid decline in the strength of the Beiyang Fleet.

Cixi and the Manchu aristocracy she represented were the main culprits of China's backwardness in modern times, and it can be said that China's backwardness was due to the reactionary rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Sometimes there are many factors that determine the outcome of a war, and sometimes it is even pure luck and other accidental factors.

This is not the case, and the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle has something to do with the incompetence of Cixi, the supreme ruler.

The Empress Dowager Cixi and the reformers led by Kang Liang were on the same page, and there were many factors that determined the victory or defeat of the war, sometimes even by pure luck and other accidental factors.

The reason why China is so decaying is because the rulers are too selfish!

How can Cixi be the only loser in China?

I think the possibility is relatively small, because in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing ** was very weak and incompetent, which has little to do with Cixi's misappropriation of funds, although there is a certain connection, but I think that if the cost is in the corresponding ship artillery construction, it will also take a long time, but the contradiction of the First Sino-Japanese War has existed for a long time before the outbreak of the war. <>

Why did Cixi's misappropriation of funds have a very crucial impact on this war?

As we all know, the Empress Dowager Cixi's life is very exaggerated, according to the wild history, she needs 100 dishes for a meal, but she usually only eats one or two bites of these dishes, and throws away the rest, and her bath water needs a lot of fresh roses to soak. And the cotton towels she uses to wipe her feet are also made of gold and silver thread, which is very valuable, and those cotton towels are also disposable. It can be seen from this that the amount of funds embezzled by Cixi was very high, which also limited the development of the national army under certain conditions, and also caused China to lose in many wars at that time.

What impact did the First Sino-Japanese War have on China at that time?

I think the answer is very clear, because the Sino-Japanese War at that time brought great trauma to China's military strength, and China also signed many unequal treaties with Japan, ceded many colonies, and paid countless indemnities, and many of the reparations were owed first. It can be seen from this that under the condition that the treasury itself was empty, the First Sino-Japanese War continued to accelerate the demise of the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, many later wars were also very unsuccessful, I think the First Sino-Japanese War was the fuse, because it made China's treasury empty, and the Qing Dynasty at that time no longer had the economic strength to develop its own military strength, which also led to the Qing Dynasty in many subsequent wars one after another.

So how should we look at this historical event correctly?

In my opinion, in that very chaotic world at that time, backwardness would be beaten, and if we did not spend energy and time to promote the prosperity and prosperity of the motherland, then it would definitely be divided up by other imperialists. From this point of view, the policy of closing the country to the outside world will not work, and opening up to the outside world and peaceful exchanges are the real direction of development.

It can't be won, because the Qing Dynasty has become very weak at this moment.

Personally, I think it's quite possible. Because this large amount of money can be used to make ***, the chance of winning the enemy army with advanced ** accounts for at least fifty percent. And it can also be used to equip the fighters with good ** equipment.

The reason for the defeat was the absence of shells. Because the shells on their ships were replaced with sand, they lost, and they could have won. The culprit was the Empress Dowager Cixi, because she used the money from the cannonballs to celebrate her birthday.

On July 14, 1894, Qing received an ultimatum from Japan, refusing to withdraw its troops from Korea, declaring that "if the two countries change unexpectedly, Japan will not be responsible."

At this time, the Japanese army had more than 10,000 troops stationed in Korea, while the Qing army had only 2,500 troops. Ye Zhichao, the governor of Zhili stationed in Korea, sent an urgent telegram, saying that either the navy and the army should be launched to garrison Korea, or the troops should be withdrawn from Korea, and Japan would be put in a passive position in international morality. Such a non-advance and no retreat is really the next policy.

Up and down the court, there was a lot of discussion. Under the leadership of Emperor Guangxu's teacher Weng Tongyi, a group of scholars and imperial historians called for a war against Japan, and quickly launched a decisive battle to "strike first" to combat the arrogance of the small countries in the east and maintain the dignity of a large country. However, most of these people who are fighting in the main battle do not know military affairs or international politics, and only have a superficial sense of righteousness.