The symbolic event that Chinese and foreign reactionary forces began to collude is

The Qing government colluded with foreign invaders to brutally suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a political power of combining politics and religion established in the early years of Daoguang, Xianfeng and Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty. Its founders are Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan.

Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan, a private school classmate when he was a teenager, after years of spreading worship to God, organized with Yang, Xiao Chaogui, Zeng Tianyang and Shi Dakai in Guiping County (now Jintian Village, Jintian Town, Guiping City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) at the end of the 30th year of Daoguang (185 1 year).

In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), Jiangning Fucheng (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) was captured, which was called Tianjing and its capital was here.

In the third year of Tongzhi (1864), Tianjing was captured by the Xiang army, killed the city, raped and plundered it, and Tianguifu Hong, the son and heir of Hong Xiuquan, was captured. In the 11th year of Tongzhi (1May 872 12), on April 6th, Li Wencai, the remnant of Wing King Shi Dakai, was defeated in Guizhou, and was the last Taiping Army fighting under the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was the largest war in China's history, and the total number of casualties was inconclusive. According to various statistics, from100,000 to 70 million people are missing, emigrated, dead or injured. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a solid administrative territory in the prosperous areas of the south of the Yangtze River, mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui, with a population of nearly 30 million.

Taiping Army has been to Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Shanxi, Zhili, Shandong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces, and conquered more than 600 cities, covering 18 provinces.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom lasted 14 years and reached the peak of the old peasant war. It is not only the first peasant war in China's history that rose in the south and spread throughout China, but also an unprecedented peasant war in world history.

But also produced new features of the new era and created many precedents of the peasant war in China. For example, the peasant uprising in China was suppressed by Chinese and foreign forces for the first time. Western religions were used to launch an uprising against the aggression of capitalist imperialism, and a set of programs, systems and policies were put forward.

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Important influence

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was a great anti-feudal and anti-aggression peasant movement in China's modern history, and it was also the peak of China's peasant war for thousands of years. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom persisted for 14 years, and its influence expanded to 18 province, severely punishing Chinese and foreign reactionary forces. After occupying the rich areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for many years, the war spread to half of China, which greatly hurt the national strength of the Qing court. The deeds of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and some propositions have certain influence on the anti-Qing revolution in the future.

Because it happened in the era of the alternation of the old and the new after the Opium War, the times gave it new content and significance, that is, while opposing feudalism, it also shouldered the task of opposing foreign aggression; At the same time, some leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom advocated learning from the West and developing capitalism in China, which was advanced at that time.

Because the Qing court could only defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by relying on the Xiang and Huai armies formed by the Han nationality, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and other Han ministers made great contributions to pacify the chaos, which made the Qing court pay more attention to the Han nationality, and the influence of the Han nationality in the Qing court increased greatly. At the same time, the Manchu people's control over the army weakened, and the military power and financial power were scattered. The imperial court established a national army for the pro-soldiers recruited by local officials. The authority of the imperial court was devolved to military officials, which greatly changed the power pattern.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Taiping Heavenly Kingdom