The taste of being bullied to the door of the house but not being able to fight back is not easy for anyone to bear, if someone jumps out and tells you "don't fight", it will make you angry. However, it is also quite terrible to be brave for a moment and completely disregard the consequences of "fighting back", just as the so-called small intolerance is chaotic and big, so is the individual, and the country is the same.
In the case of the enemy being strong and the enemy being weak, not molesting and developing and still doing things everywhere is simply a fancy death. Sadly, such fancy death has really played out in China's modern history, that is, the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China.
In several large-scale wars between the Qing government and the great powers, the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China was the most special one. You must know that from the Opium War to the Sino-Japanese War, every time there was a war, foreigners started first, and then we fought back. However, this eight-power alliance invasion of China was initiated by the Great Qing Dynasty on its own initiative, which was simply jaw-dropping.
And the initiator of this absurd war is Empress Dowager Cixi, the "Eight-Power Alliance" literally looks like eight countries, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Austria, and after counting the colonies of these eight countries, you will find that there are basically no other countries on the earth except China. Although in the so-called "Edict of Declaration of War", Cixi did not directly declare war on the above-mentioned countries, but replaced it with "distant people, they", this still did not prevent Cixi from becoming the first strong woman in ancient and modern times who declared war on the whole world.
Did Cixi really not know anything about the common sense of the world? Obviously impossible, she was in power for decades in the late Qing Dynasty, what storms had never been seen, and she knew the consequences of provoking the great powers. So what made her have to fight with foreigners to break the net? The reason is very simple, that is, the Boxer Rebellion is completely out of control, and the Qing Dynasty down to the people and the civil and military officials have been aroused by strong xenophobia, and they have demanded a war with the foreigners, and if Cixi does not fight, her position is estimated to be not long.
Looking at the international environment at that time, the great powers were quite dissatisfied with the current situation of the Qing government indulging or being unable to control the Boxers, because the Boxers killed foreigners when they saw foreigners at that time, and smashed those who saw foreign goods sold, completely indiscriminately. Generally speaking, it is dissatisfaction with the Qing government, in fact, it is dissatisfaction with Cixi, and the great powers' call for Cixi to return to the government of Guangxu is very high, which is Cixi's life.
At this time, whether Cixi chooses to declare war or not, it is possible to lose the power in her hands, so it is better to put all the treasure on these "invincible" Boxers, and it is best to fight with the foreigners to lose both, so that Cixi can still sit firmly on the Diaoyutai. Cixi pressed the Qing Dynasty to launch this war in order to maintain the power in her hands.
Bystanders are clear, the authorities are fans, and now pi sauce to talk to everyone about history is equivalent to opening up God's perspective, naturally it is easy to say. Some of the ministers at that time understood the consequences of declaring war on the foreigners, so they vigorously opposed Cixi's fall with the great powers, and these people were really thinking about the people of the Qing Dynasty. But where did they know that their allegiance to the Empress of the Qing Dynasty only cared about the gain or loss of power in their hands, and regardless of whether the people were alive or dead, several ministers who opposed the war with the foreigners were beheaded by Order Cixi.
These people were Xu Jingcheng, the left attendant of the official department, Yuan Chang, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, and Xu Yongyi, the shangshu of the Bingbu, because they were all from Zhejiang, so they were also known as "Zhejiang Sanzhong". Sadly, the names of these three people's "loyal subjects" were actually forced by the Qing government to rehabilitate Zhaoxue after the war, and I don't know whether these three people should be happy or sad when they know?