From the 20th year of Daoguang (1840) to the 10th year of Xianfeng (1860), we experienced two failures in the Opium War. China's medieval feudal army and armaments, the medieval feudal government, the medieval feudal people, including the medieval feudal scholar-bureaucrats, proved to be failed in war after war.
Although we resisted desperately, failure was inevitable and irreversible.
China's failure does not lie in military failure, but in knowing that it is a failure but still not knowing the reason for the failure. Failure to think about reform and progress is the nation's fatal wound.
If the reforms from the Tong (zhi) and Guang (xu) years are transferred to the Daoguang period, then we will have twenty more years of modernization than originally.
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I read a few chapters and wanted to write about the feeling of realism, but some chapters were too fragmented. It is not ruled out that there is a foreshadowing. Let's look forward to it [thinking]
I read a few chapters and wanted to write about the feeling of realism, but some chapters were too fragmented. It is not ruled out that there is a foreshadowing. Let's look forward to it [thinking]