During the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, China still had the strength to fight. Why did the Qing Dynasty surrender without a fight?

During the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Navy suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and the Qing Dynasty's vitality was severely damaged. The main war factions in the court, headed by Weng Tong? and others, transformed into the main peace faction. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty sent Li Hongzhang to Japan and signed the Shimonoseki Treaty, which was humiliating and humiliating to the country. This started the prelude to the division of China by the great powers.

Some analysts say that the reason for the failure of the Qing Dynasty in the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1895 was that the equipment of the two navies was too different. So we can't help but ask, if the Beiyang Navy is a new army and its equipment cannot keep up with the Japanese army, isn't the gap between the army and the army too big? In fact, the Yellow Sea War had consumed a large amount of Japan's armaments at that time. With Japan's financial resources, it could not afford to fight a war of consumption. If the Qing Dynasty could drag it into a land war, the Japanese government would soon be faced with a severe financial and economic crisis. But once on stage, the ultimate winner or lose is still uncertain. Then why did the Qing Dynasty quickly sign a treaty to pay reparations and cede territories as soon as they lost the naval battle, without thinking of fighting a protracted war on land?

This has to go back to the history of wealth in the Qing Dynasty. Before entering the customs, the Jurchen tribe was just a minority in the northeast, and by chance they took over the Ming Dynasty. After seizing power, the Qing Dynasty has been cautiously protecting the place where it prospered, thinking that if it was driven out by the Han one day, it would still have a place to live and work in peace and contentment. After the defeat of the Yellow Sea War, Japan seized control of the Yellow Sea, and the next step was to directly target Liaodong. The Qing Dynasty was afraid that the war would burn the "Longxing Land" where it made its fortune, and believed that the "Dragon Veins" would be cut off in the war. , the fate of the Qing Dynasty will come to an end.

From the perspective of all Chinese people, after the defeat in the Yellow Sea Battle, China still has the power to fight, and it should still fight to the end no matter what. However, the Qing government ignored the interests of the country and only focused on its own backyard. It surrendered early on the scientific theory of the so-called "dragon veins", thinking that it could prolong the Qing Dynasty. Unexpectedly, it actually triggered the invasion of China by the great powers and accelerated the invasion of China. The fall of the Qing Dynasty.

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