Why did Li Hongzhang, the founder of the Beiyang Navy, also join the queue of embezzlement of naval

Because Li Hongzhang was victimized by traitors at that time, his family was seriously damaged, so he chose to embezzle the navy's military funds.

Because the navy had a lot of military spending at that time, although Li Hongzhang was the founder of the navy, he also needed money, so he also embezzled military funds.

Because he needed to obey Cixi's command, embezzling naval funds was Cixi's intention, and Li Hongzhang had no choice but to do so.

Because it takes a lot of money to create an army, equipment, manpower, etc., Qing ** didn't pay so much attention to it, and gave Cixi a birthday.

I think he's really a pretty smart guy as well, and the main reason why he's vulnerable in battle is that it's all made of wooden planks.

You must know that the creation of the Beiyang Navy at that time was indeed from the hands of the great powers to spend a lot of money to buy a large number of advanced ships, but you must know that the ships at sea naval training need to cost money every moment, and due to Cixi and foreign war reparations, the Qing Dynasty did not have money or did not want to give money to Beiyang, and finally led to negligence in training and insufficient combat preparation led to failure.

Because of corruption, the money for buying shells was misappropriated, and when the war started, many shells were fake, and how could a fleet win a battle without shells.

Although the Beiyang Fleet is very powerful, it has not been valued by the imperial court, for example, at that time, Cixi embezzled military expenses to build a banquet in Huaguo, etc., so that the army's military expenditure was insufficient, and there was not enough money to buy good ammunition.

In fact, the main reason is to blame the incompetence of the Qing **, and the Qing ** is not very supportive of this fleet.

The Beiyang Army was mainly established by Yuan Shikai.

The Beiyang Army mainly refers to Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army, which was an army trained by the Qing court after the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895 to imitate Western countries, with more than 4,000 people at the beginning, and later increased to more than 7,000 people, which was the main military force in the late Qing Dynasty. However, its remarkable achievements are not well known, but are known to the world because of the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution and its role as a tombdigger machine of the Qing Dynasty.

As for the army founded by Li Hongzhang, it was the Huai Army, not the Beiyang Army. Li Hongzhang's Beiyang Army mostly refers to the Beiyang Naval Division. Founded in 1888, the Beiyang Navy Division was a modern navy of the Qing Dynasty.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Navy was heavily damaged in the Battle of Toshima and the Battle of the Yellow Sea. However, the total annihilation of Weihaiwei in the First World War led to the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War.

To sum up, the founder of the Beiyang Army is Yuan Shikai (in fact, Yuan Shikai is not the first person to establish the Beiyang Army, just because Yuan became the ** later, and the henchmen and generals around him were all stained, so that his mastery of military power led to the later Beiyang warlord secession, and later generations believed that the core of the Beiyang Army was Yuan Shikai), the army founded by Li Hongzhang was to suppress the Huai Army founded by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the second was the Beiyang Naval Division.