If Cixi had not closed the door to the outside world, would the Qing Dynasty have continued to this day?

The closed-door policy did not begin with Cixi, but was first put forward in the Ming Dynasty. In order to starve the enemy to death on the island, the Ming Dynasty implemented the policy of blocking the coastline. After the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong thought that China was rich in natural products and could be self-sufficient without trading with other countries, so he completely closed himself to the outside world.

In the twenty-second year of Qianlong, 1757, an imperial edict spread from Beijing to coastal provinces, ordering all coastal ports to stop foreign trade except Guangdong and Guangzhou. This is the so-called one-stop trade policy, which marks the Qing government's thorough implementation of the closed-door policy. For more than 200 years, this imperial edict of Qianlong has been regarded as the bane of China's backwardness to the western countries. In the early Qing Dynasty, the policy of closing the country to the outside world was adopted, and Taiwan Province Province was isolated, so as to isolate Zheng Anti-Qing clique in Taiwan Province Province and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty. According to the records of Qing history, the western forces directly participated in the war between the Zheng clique and the Qing dynasty, and the Zheng clique also requested assistance from the Tokugawa family in Japan, which became the main reason for the Qing government to close the sea of tranquility.

Later, Emperor Kangxi solved the Zheng Group in Taiwan Province Province, recovered Taiwan Province Province, opened the trade of four coastal provinces and set up four customs offices. When I arrived in Qianlong, my grandfather's policy was continued, and the customs of the four coastal provinces remained basically unchanged. However, in the middle of18th century, the rise of western colonial trade tried to open the China market and brought troubles to overseas China businessmen. After five years of Qianlong, 1740, Dutch colonists slaughtered overseas Chinese in Java, Philippines, creating a terrible Red Creek tragedy. This made the rulers of the Qing dynasty very disgusted. Moreover, when Qianlong visited Suzhou for the second time, Suzhou Port sailed more than 1000 ships every year, and more than half of the goods were sold to foreigners, including a large number of weapons. He couldn't help worrying that Jiangsu and Zhejiang would become the second Macao, so he issued an imperial edict after 1757 returned to Beijing.

Let's talk about it. If Cixi did not close the door to the outside world, but traded with foreign countries and exchanged needed goods, wouldn't the Qing Dynasty perish? The answer is no, at that time, China was teetering and lagged behind western countries in all aspects. Western powers not only traded in China, but also seized comprehensive interests and controlled the whole country. If foreigners are fully allowed to enter China, I'm afraid China will become the second Indian. Moreover, due to the influence of feudal ideas for thousands of years, even if China people trade with foreigners, they only do low-interest business at the bottom, and most of their wealth will still be acquired by foreign colonial capitalists. Therefore, it is not the removal of a closed-door policy that can save the Qing Dynasty, but the fundamental removal of this decadent feudal system that is the root of the problem.