Why was the artillery fire so fierce when Kangxi blocked Taiwan, but so fierce after the Opium War?

In fact, this is just an illusion! When Kangxi closed the stage, the artillery was not very powerful, but it was still able to crush the firepower of Zheng Jing's water army. Later in the Opium War, the backwardness of artillery was caused by a decision of the Qing Dynasty. First, the comparison of military power and weapons between the two sides of the strait when Kangxi sealed Taiwan.

After Kangxi got Shi Lang, through training, his military strength was comparable to that of Zheng Jing, while naval warfare required proper tactics and fierce artillery. In Shi Lang, we do our best to avenge our families. We need all kinds of guns, troops and other weapons, and they are the best. On the other hand, in Zheng Jing, the logistics supply is relatively weak.

Specification of artillery: In the early period of Kangxi period, wars were still frequent. In order to provide powerful assistance to the army, Kangxi ordered Ferdinand ferdinand verbiest to build 600 bronze cannons in red. These guns are not only much lighter than before, but also more powerful and have a longer range. This design was unique in the world at that time. Therefore, when Kangxi collected Taiwan Province Province, the artillery was mounted on the ship, and its power was naturally stronger than that of Zheng Jing's water army at that time. In addition, Shi Lang was in the right place at the right time, so it was easy to destroy the Zheng Jing water army.

It shows that artillery paid enough attention to development and innovation at that time.

Second, the comparison of military strength and weapons between the two sides in the Opium War.

More than a hundred years have passed from the Opium War to the Kangxi era. The decadent Qing dynasty was not enterprising, conservative and closed to the outside world. There is no innovation in the development of weapons, and the army is always treated with the same old attitude, which makes the Qing army more and more vulnerable. Even in the invention and creation of weapons, Kangxi did something that made China completely lose its crush on the West, that is, he killed Dai Zi, who created firearms at that time, and made the development of firearms in China stagnate.

On the other hand, in the west, after the first industrial revolution, various inventions emerged one after another, especially weapons, which were far ahead. In the face of western guns, they were only passively beaten. Later, the manufacturing technology of guns in the Opium War was so crude that it could not produce destructive power to western armored ships. How can Tan Shengli?

Generally speaking, it is because the western artillery did not enter the Qing Dynasty in the early years of Kangxi, and the artillery technology inside the Qing Dynasty was advanced at that time. How did Jing resist the tiny place? In the later Opium War, the situation suddenly reversed, weapons innovation in the West continued to develop, and the stagnation of the Qing Dynasty led to this illusion. When Kangxi blocked Taiwan, the artillery was quite fierce, but during the Opium War, the artillery of the Qing Dynasty was vulnerable.