You can surrender to foreigners, but you can resolutely suppress rebels. Empress Dowager Cixi told the truth.

For the Qing Dynasty, the great powers only wanted money, ceded territory, opened ports, and privileges, but did not really want lives, so they could negotiate the price. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is different. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is here to kill you, and it can only be life and death.

Both Emperor Daoguang and Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty were very clear about this. Therefore, the attitude of the Qing Dynasty was completely different. It could make concessions to foreigners, ask for money, give land, and sign alliances under the city walls, but it must deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and resolutely destroy it, eradicate it, and leave no dead ends.

In the eyes of the Qing Dynasty monarchs, they were actually just outsiders who temporarily ruled China, so they always distrusted and feared the Central Plains Communists. The Qing Dynasty always believed that it could not live forever, and that one day it would be unable to survive and would have to return to the outside world. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty always insisted on prohibiting Japanese immigrants from migrating to the Northeast and Inner Mongolia to reclaim wasteland and develop it.

Moreover, this kind of resistance of the Communist Party has been continuous since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and it often looks calm on the surface, but there is an undercurrent surging underneath. From the Third Prince Zhu during the Kangxi period, to the White Lotus Sect during the Qianlong period, and then to the Taiping Rebellion, in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, they were all Japanese resistance to Manchu rule. {!-- PGC_COLUMN --}

Empress Dowager Cixi once said a famous saying, she would rather be an outsider than a domestic slave. What does it mean? That is, if the Qing Dynasty had to subjugate the country, it would rather hand China over to foreigners than to domestic slaves. The domestic slaves here are talking about ***. Fundamentally, the Qing Dynasty always regarded the Central Plains people as slaves that it conquered through war, rather than truly regarding itself as the parents of the people. This is completely different from the previous dynasties that always regarded themselves as the parents of the people.

Therefore, the Qing Dynasty began to settle accounts since the Opium War. It found that it was not as cost-effective to sign a contract as to fight, so it signed a contract. Anyway, the wool comes from the sheep. If foreigners want wool, they just need to plunder more from the common people. After all, the sheep are still their own. But the Taiping Rebellion was different. It was sheep trying to rebel, and it couldn't be tolerated.

Who did the Qing Dynasty regard as one of its own? In fact, they are Mongols and Manchus. Nowadays, many people often say that the Ming Dynasty fell because the financial burden caused by the clan of the Ming Dynasty was too heavy and brought down the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was actually the same, and the Qing Dynasty not only used finance to support the clan, but also used finance to support the entire Manchu people, men, women, and children, as well as the Mongolian princes and nobles.

The Ming Dynasty sent clan members to various places for guarding, and the Qing Dynasty did the same. The Qing Dynasty did not gather all the Manchus together, but dispersed them at military and strategic points across the country, and generally built Manchu cities in various places to live and live separately from the Han people. For example, Kuanzhai Alley in Chengdu was where the Manchus lived in the Qing Dynasty and was isolated from other urban areas in Chengdu.

Even after the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty's finances became increasingly tight and the Manchu population was already large. The Qing Dynasty never thought of touching the privileges of the Manchus and Mongols, and still insisted on continuing to support them. Even in all the wars, the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers were completely corrupted and degraded beyond use, but they still insisted on supporting them.

So what was the purpose of supporting these people in the Qing Dynasty? During the Revolution of 1911, the first reaction of the Qing Dynasty was to mobilize the strong Manchu and Mongolian men stationed in various places to form an army to suppress local armed uprisings. Because in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, this is one of its own, the most trustworthy and reliable. However, when the imperial court ordered the deployment, it was discovered that the Eight Banners soldiers had long lost the bravery of their ancestors and could only carry caged birds to watch plays and fight crickets.

Therefore, after the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, what Puyi hated most was Yuan Shikai, and for the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, he would do anything, even being a puppet for the Japanese. Behind this mentality, the Manchu royal family represented by Puyi never really regarded themselves as part of the Chinese nation, but as outsiders.

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