Why is it difficult to preserve the China Han Dynasty 18 province when the Qing army did not enter the customs?

Many people are always ready: the Qing dynasty destroyed everything as soon as it entered the customs, and entering the customs was a heinous crime. It seems that without the entry of the Qing dynasty, the Ming dynasty could open a tree of science and technology, open up a territory, conquer Siberia, surpass the west, hang the world and finally become a superpower. The Qing dynasty's entry into the customs destroyed all this, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as shameless intrusion. It's shameless, very shameless.

Besides hehe, I still want to say a few words about all this quiet night history: if the Ming Dynasty could break out, it should have broken out long ago, instead of waiting for its demise; If the Han dynasty can really hang around the world, there will be no chance for the rise of the Qing dynasty.

Sometimes, it is more difficult to admit the gap than to accept it!

On the issue of Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs, Silent Night Thinking has been analyzed many times in previous articles, which is definitely not an accident of history, but an inevitable event of historical development. Moreover, from the perspective of territorial preservation, the Qing Dynasty's entry into China was a great blessing in the ancient history. Without the entry of the Qing Dynasty, there would be no territory of 9.6 million square kilometers today.

Why do you say that? History believes that there are the following reasons:

1, the unified situation cannot be reproduced.

The failure to reproduce the great unification means that the later dynasties could not complete the unification of the Central Plains and solve the problems of ethnic minorities in the border areas.

The rapid failure of Li Zicheng Group illustrates such a problem to some extent, that is:

Zhu Yuanzhang's radical cultural reform had an extremely adverse impact on the development of Ming Dynasty and later China's society.

Zhu Yuanzhang absorbed intellectuals in an unprecedented way with eight-part essay, and shaped a large number of intellectuals into useless nerds. Coupled with the influence of Confucianism, the intellectual class in China declined as a whole, which is also an important reason why China has fallen behind the world trend since the Ming Dynasty.

It's hard to find a crouching tiger, hidden dragon like Liu Bowen when you go to Li Zicheng to raise the flag to rebel. Li Zicheng Group's highest education is Prime Minister Niu Jinxing, but he is only a juren. Influenced by Confucianism, intellectuals blindly supported the so-called feudal orthodoxy and turned their noses up at the peasant uprising that changed the historical trend, which made it difficult for Li Zicheng Group to get the support of intellectuals.

Coupled with Li Zicheng's incompetence as a leader, he offended the whole landlord class by "chasing troops", so the rapid downfall of Li Zicheng Group was also expected.

Li Zicheng Group was the most powerful group in the Central Plains at that time. At this time, the Central Plains, with Wu Sangui in the northeast, Zhang in the southwest and Nanming in the southeast, are struggling to support, and the Central Plains is actually in a state of disintegration.

Although the landlords and gentry in the Central Plains supported Nanming, Nanming was corrupt and infighting, unable to deter Li Zicheng Group and other groups.

At this time, although Wu Sangui is stronger than Ma Zhuang, the number is too small and it is difficult to become a climate; Zhang has his own intention of self-protection in the southwest, and he is unable to unify the whole country.

Therefore, without the participation of foreign forces, the central plains will be in a state of separatism for a long time.

We know that whenever the Central Plains is torn apart, it is also the best time for the surrounding ethnic minorities, especially the northern nomads, to take advantage of it.

At this time, to the north of the Great Wall, all ethnic minorities had already completed the integration of resources, among which the Qing Dynasty had established a political system similar to that of the Ming Dynasty and included Monan Mongolia in the bag.

This means that the Qing Dynasty has made all the preparations for marching into the Central Plains. If the Central Plains can't be reunified quickly in a short time, and it will cause a devastating blow to the Qing Dynasty outside the customs, then the Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs will be an inevitable event in history. This time may be a few years late, but it will definitely happen.

2. The invaders around are all eyeing.

The existence of the great division has caused civil strife in the Central Plains, giving the surrounding ethnic minorities an opportunity.

However, we must believe that the influx of foreign invaders will also be a great threat to the Chinese nation, in addition to the eyeing ethnic minorities.

Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Japanese pirates have gradually become a major scourge on the southeast coast of China. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, after the arrival of the Great Navigation Era, with Spain and Portugal as pioneers, the great powers began to set foot on the land of the East, and China began to suffer western aggression.

1522 The naval battle of Xicaowan was the first confrontation between China and western colonists. When the western colonists continue to expand to the world, the naval battle of Xicaowan will happen for the first time, and it is likely to happen for the second time and the third time, and each time it is more intense.

At this time, in sharp contrast to the more intense Vietnam War by western colonialists, the average fighting capacity of the Ming Dynasty became weaker and weaker due to the abandonment of armaments and rampant corruption.

By 1633, when the Ming Dynasty fought the Luowan naval battle, the Ming Dynasty had been reduced to the embarrassing situation that Zheng Zhilong, the great pirate, was needed as the main force.

If the Qing army does not enter the customs, there may be two situations in the Central Plains. First, the Ming dynasty lingered on. Under such circumstances, the Ming Dynasty could not be unbeaten for a long time, and the Opium War would certainly happen ahead of schedule. Second, the Ming Dynasty perished, and the subsequent dynasty was the Han Dynasty. Then, due to the historical inertia of the small-scale peasant economy, the degree of opening to the outside world in the Han Dynasty was still very low, and the maritime strength was not strong. Facing the western colonists from the sea, the defeat of the Han Dynasty is a historical necessity.

What is more dangerous than the colonists at sea is the Russian invaders who came from afar on land. From 1582, when Cossacks crossed the Urals, Russia began the historical process of annexing Siberia. Around 1600, Russia arrived near Lake Baikal, posing a serious threat to Mongolia. 1643 even invaded Heilongjiang, seriously threatening Northeast China.

On the one hand, Russia is looking for precious fur, on the other hand, it is also trying to find a warm sea for the czar, so Russia's covet for northeast China and Mongolia has never diminished.

Therefore, the historical task before the Central Plains Dynasty is extremely arduous. It is necessary to quickly unify the Central Plains, quickly eliminate the Qing Dynasty and other minority regimes in the north, and finally compete with Russia for the sovereignty of Northeast China and Mongolia.

As we know, the Central Plains dynasty has always been a small-scale peasant economy, which means that it will certainly go further than the Qing Dynasty in expanding its territory, at least in time. In the early days of the Han Dynasty, the territory was much larger than two Beijing and thirteen provinces, but most of the frontiers were captured, and Russia would not give you a chance.

Therefore, it is impossible to take the initiative in the process of competing with Russia, and the Central Plains Dynasty can only be passive everywhere. When Russia invaded the whole of Mongolia, it extended its influence to the north of the Great Wall. Coupled with the invasion of western colonists, it is unknown whether Chinese civilization can survive.

For the Central Plains Dynasty, the thirteen provinces of Gyeonggi were the core ruling areas and the bottom line for the existence of ancient civilization in China. If it was difficult to keep this 3.5 million square kilometers at that time, with the decline of national strength, the territory of China today is more likely to fall apart.