Brief introduction of beiyang fleet

Beiyang Navy, or beiyang fleet and Beiyang Navy, was formally established in 1888. It is the modern naval fleet established by China and the strongest and largest of the four modern navies established by Qing Dynasty. There are 25 main warships, 50 auxiliary warships, 30 transport ships and more than 4,000 officers and men.

Beiyang Navy was formally established in Liu Gongdao, Ahava, Shandong Province on 1888 (14th year of Guangxu reign) 17 February 17, and the Qing government allocated 4 million taels of silver for naval construction every year.

The strength of the fleet was once the first in Asia and the ninth in the world (according to the ranking of the US Navy Yearbook, the top eight were Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Spain, Ottoman Turkey, Italy and the United States). Later, it gradually fell behind Japan for various reasons.

1894-1895 The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was completely annihilated, marking the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement. 18 On April 7th, 1995, the Qing government was forced to sign the Sino-Japanese treaty of shimonoseki.

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During the Meiji Restoration, Japan embarked on the capitalist road, actively invaded and expanded abroad, and determined a "mainland policy" centered on China. At this time, the Qing Dynasty was an empire that regained light through the Westernization Movement, with political corruption and people living in poverty.

In the officialdom, the factions are intrigued and intrigued, and the national defense military is strong in the outside and weak in the inside, and the discipline is slack; The world's major capitalist countries are gradually transitioning to imperialism, and Japan's aggression has been supported by western powers to some extent.

1894, the East Learning Party uprising broke out in North Korea, and the North Korean government forces were successively defeated and forced to ask for help from the sovereign state of the Qing Dynasty. Japan also took the opportunity to send troops to North Korea and deliberately provoked war.

1894 (20th year of Guangxu) On July 25th, the naval battle of Toyoda broke out, and the Sino-Japanese War began. Because the Japanese had planned for a long time, the Qing Dynasty rushed to fight, and the war ended with the defeat of China and the annihilation of the Beiyang Navy. Under the military pressure of Japanese militarism, the Qing government in China signed the treaty of shimonoseki in April 1895.

The result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 brought unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation and greatly deepened the degree of semi-colonization of China society. On the other hand, it has made Japan's national strength stronger and laid an important foundation for it to become a big country.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Beiyang Navy (China Naval Fleet in Late Qing Dynasty)