The root cause of the Qing dynasty's closed door

The psychological concept that Qing rulers expected to maintain totalitarian rule was the fundamental reason for "closing the country to the outside world".

1. The fundamental purpose of the Qing government's closed-door policy was to maintain the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty, mainly to isolate the traffic between mainland people and Zheng anti-Qing forces in Taiwan Province Province and prevent people from gathering at sea.

2. In the later period, foreign trade was strictly restricted by legislation aimed at foreign businessmen, focusing on preventing and prohibiting "crossing between people and foreign countries". Beware of western colonists.

3. From the perspective of national defense security, prevent the combination of Chinese and foreign anti-Qing forces and the infiltration of western colonial forces, and prevent spies from stealing domestic intelligence.

4. The Qing government was too blind and arrogant about its economic and political strength. During the feudal rule of the Qing dynasty, the economy was self-sufficient, and it refused to rely on and resisted foreign goods. Building a car behind closed doors protects local economic development from external influences.

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The policy of neglecting and abandoning overseas Chinese in Qing Dynasty;

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, many people fled overseas to escape the war. The Qing Dynasty regarded these adherents of the Ming Dynasty as abandoned children of China, and was even more afraid that the adherents of the Ming Dynasty in China would contact Zheng Ming who was hiding in Taiwan Province at that time.

When overseas Chinese are persecuted abroad, they will not be protected by China. This official policy of mistreating overseas Chinese was finally abolished by the Qing government until 1893. Because the Qing Dynasty was ruled by Manchu, it did not pay attention to the life and death of Han people, and the sea ban was strict, which despised overseas Chinese, but it was still the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing government's policy of ignoring and abandoning overseas Chinese in Indonesia had many negative effects.

First, the Qing government banned trade and immigration to Southeast Asia (for a period of time), which made the people along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong lose a traditional and important way of making a living. As a result, since Qianlong, Fujian and Guangdong refugees have changed from going abroad to moving to inland provinces, which has caused many new social problems.

Secondly, the Qing government strictly prohibited the suspension of senior officials, which caused the vast number of overseas Chinese to be unable to return home and their families to be separated, sighing at the ocean and leaving great trauma in their hearts.

Third, the Qing government ignored and abandoned the overseas Chinese in Indonesia. The harsh treatment and hostility of Dutch colonists towards overseas Chinese became even more fearless, and even the innocent overseas Chinese were massacred on a large scale, which caused great pain and disaster to overseas Chinese in Indonesia.

The overseas Chinese in Indonesia couldn't bear the brutal rule of the colonialists, and they fought back many times, but they all failed because they were weak and could not get the solidarity and support of the motherland, and even suffered wanton retaliation from the colonialists.

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