The Qing Dynasty was a unified country. Why did it look like a piece of sand when it was invaded by foreign powers?

There is a simple reason. In the late Qing Dynasty, corruption was very serious. Many people are disloyal to their country. All they want is to seek personal gain for themselves, so when they are invaded by foreign powers, they are like a mess. The ruling class in the Qing dynasty had no intention of governing the country. What they want is how to continue their rule. After the Opium War, China became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the Qing government became the claws of western powers. China was unified from the Qin Dynasty for two thousand years, and the feudal dynasty came to an end here. Such a social system can no longer adapt to the current historical situation.

Feudal society has a certain law of development, and class contradictions will break out at a certain stage. Every feudal dynasty can't escape this law, and the contradiction between lords and peasants is the main contradiction in society. The world will be divided for a long time, which is also a historical law. After Empress Dowager Cixi came to power in the Qing Dynasty, western powers opened the door to China, and the outbreak of class contradictions could not make China form a United force.

By the Qing Dynasty, the national consciousness had not fully awakened. Most of the resistance came from farmers, but the peasant uprising had great limitations. Under the ignorant rule of Qing Dynasty, the new social stratum has not yet risen, and the national consciousness of China people needs to be awakened. In the eyes of many farmers, foreign forces are not their main goal, but their first task is to overthrow the Qing government.

Since the Industrial Revolution, China has lost its status as a great power. The unification of the Qing Dynasty was basically invincible in ancient times, but after the completion of the industrial revolution in western countries, the unification of China fell behind, and there was no advanced political system and advanced technical level. The Qing dynasty still used the improved version of the six-part system in the three provinces of Sui and Tang Dynasties.