Introduction to the Beiyang Fleet, the historical background of the Beiyang Fleet IV

The Beiyang Naval Division, or Beiyang Jiandui, was a new type of naval team founded by the Qing Dynasty during the Westernization Movement.

The Beiyang Naval Division, also known as the Beiyang Fleet and the Beiyang Navy, was formally established in 1888 and is a modern naval force established by China, and it is also the strongest and largest of the four modern navies established by the Qing Dynasty. There are 25 main ships, 50 auxiliary ships, 30 transport ships, and more than 4,000 officers and soldiers.

The Beiyang Naval Division was formally established on December 17, 1888 (the 14th year of Guangxu) on Liugong Island in Weihaiwei, Shandong, and the Qing Dynasty allocated 4 million taels per year for naval construction.

The strength of the fleet used to be the first in Asia and the ninth in the world (using the ranking model of the "U.S. Navy Yearbook" of that year, the top eight were: Britain, the old country, Russia, Germany, Spain, Ottoman Turkey, Italy, and the United States). Later, due to various reasons, Japan gradually fell behind.

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 marked the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement. On April 17, 1895, the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki.

Relying on its naval superiority, Britain carried out several provocations along the coast of Guangdong and launched the First Opium War. In order to strengthen coastal defense and resist aggression, the Qing Dynasty people of insight began to realize the advantages of British ships and artillery, and in order to strengthen coastal defense and resist aggression, they began to purchase foreign ships and guns and planned to build a modern navy.

Following Lin Zexu, Wei Yuan further exerted his idea of learning from the West to prepare for coastal defense. In the 50s of the 19th century, after the Taiping army arrived in Nanjing, the local government in Jiangsu repeatedly hired foreign steamers to assist the Qing army in fighting against the Taiping army.

Qing ** purchased the "Aspen Fleet" from the British, and later due to the British many coercions, Qing ** returned the fleet and sold it. After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, set up the Fuzhou Ship Administration Bureau to make **. Zeng Guofan, the governor of Liangjiang, and Li Hongzhang, the governor of Jiangsu, also changed the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, which was engaged in arms production, into a concurrent manufacturing bureau.

The Beiyang Fleet is the first modern navy established in the late Qing Dynasty of China, and it is also the largest of the three modern navies established by the Qing Dynasty. The Beiyang Naval Division was formally established on December 17, 1888 on Liugong Island in Weihaiwei, Shandong. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 marked the defeat of the Westernization Movement.

As a result, the Qing Dynasty signed the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki.

The Beiyang Naval Division, also known as the Beiyang Fleet and the Beiyang Navy, is the first modern naval force established in the late Qing Dynasty of China, and it is also the largest of the three modern navies established by the Qing Dynasty. The Beiyang Naval Division was formally established on December 17, 1888 on Liugong Island in Weihaiwei, Shandong Province, and was completely annihilated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. His downfall marked the failure of the Westernization Movement, and also directly prompted the Qing ** to sign the Sino-Japanese "Treaty of Shimonoseki" that humiliated the country.