If Emperor Guangxu succeeded in realizing a "constitutional monarchy", what would happen next?

Everyone knows that there have been many reform movements in history, such as Shang Yang’s Reform and the 1898 Reform. They were all activities in which one regime changed to another. However, reforms may succeed or fail. If they succeed, there will be another prosperous era. If they fail, it will be another story.

So today we will talk about Emperor Guangxu’s Hundred Days Reform. Everyone knows that the Hundred Days Reform was a failed movement. Although there were some early gains, the final result was failure. Regarding this situation, some netizens asked what the world would be like if the Hundred Days Reform was successful. Will it be a constitutional monarchy? Will it thrive?

In fact, this question has no answer, because the Hundred Days Reform is unlikely to succeed. According to the situation at the end of the Qing Dynasty, wars were rife and the country was overwhelmed. The most important thing was that Emperor Guangxu did not have a firm stance on this reform. Therefore, the reforms at this time had no big effect, and the Qing Dynasty itself was a hereditary dynasty, and it was very difficult to realize a constitutional monarchy. After all, each country has its own governance method. Although the governance method in the late Qing Dynasty was not suitable, the constitutional monarchy may not be suitable for the situation in the late Qing Dynasty. This is also one of the important reasons for the failure of the Hundred Days Reform.

And there is another point. China has been an autocratic monarchy for a hundred years. Now it has become a constitutional monarchy and it will inevitably fail. After all, this thousand-year-old foundation is not so easy to be defeated.

So, the result of this problem is that it does not exist, the Hundred Days Reform will not succeed, and the constitutional monarchy will not appear in China. After all, our country is a socialist country. ?