Some people say that the Qing government of 19 1 1 still raised millions of people. Why did the little emperors Puyi and Empress Yulong choose to abdicate and withdraw from the historical stage after Sun Yat-sen and his southern revolutionary army launched the Wuchang Uprising, instead of launching a decisive battle with Sun Yat-sen and his southern revolutionary army and destroying the southern revolutionary army in Jiangnan? Put down the domestic rebellion and recover the mountains and rivers. Continue to continue the national wealth and lifeline of the Qing dynasty?
In fact, after the Wuchang Uprising broke out, the Qing government launched an active rebellion and encirclement and suppression. However, after the Opium War in Qing Dynasty, the children of the Eight Banners and green camp, whom the Qing government once relied on most, have lost their fighting capacity. So we have seen the disastrous results of the war between Manchu and western powers again and again. Therefore, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out, the Eight Banners' children soldiers and the Green Camp soldiers of the Qing government were unable to quell the rebellion, so Zeng Guofan's brothers and Zuo formed the Xiang Army to encircle the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
The failure of the Sino-Japanese War in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 once again exhausted the nearly modern military forces established by the Westernization Movement. At this time, the Qing government clearly realized the gap between traditional military forces and modern military forces. So after the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. The military, economic and people's livelihood achievements accumulated in the Westernization Movement for more than half a century have been exhausted. The Qing government began to reform the army and ordered Yuan Shikai, who had just returned from North Korea, to train in tianjin railway station. Cultivate a new army with international advanced level, and relying on family background is a new westernization army that experienced the Sino-Japanese War in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
After Yuan Shikai's training and expansion, a new Beiyang army with modern war consciousness gradually formed. Of course, such training results can not be separated from the strong support of the Manchu government. The Manchu government also supported Yuan Shikai in training the Beiyang New Army. Spent a lot of national strength and military expenditure. As a result, the soldiers of Manchu Eight Banners and green camp, who were already unbearable for reuse, were even more unbearable.
Therefore, after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, Regent Zai Feng and Queen Yulong actively mobilized the Beiyang New Army to go to the front line to prepare for the elimination of the southern revolutionary army. But the Beiyang New Army was not the new army of the Manchu government, but the private army of Yuan Shikai. At this time, Yuan Shikai was fishing in his hometown of Henan. The Beiyang New Army agreed to participate in the war on the condition that the rulers of the Manchu government should reuse Yuan Shikai and entrust him with an important task. It can be seen that a new army that the Manchu government spent a lot of effort and carefully practiced was not a sharp blade of the Manchu government, but became a private arm of Yuan Shikai.
In desperation, Regent Zai Feng had to re-enable Yuan Shikai and entrusted him with an important task. In this way, Yuan Shikai ordered the Beiyang New Army to go to Hankou to fight against the Southern Revolutionary Army. However, Yuan Shikai, who has experienced great storms, has already seen the cowardice and incompetence of the Manchu government. Yuan Shikai, who gained power again, did not order the Beiyang New Army to wipe out the southern revolutionary army with all its strength, but kept the war in a state of confrontation. Then rely on the battlefield situation at the front to seek greater political interests and capital for themselves.
Thus, the outbreak of the Revolution of 1911, from an uprising to overthrow the Manchu government, gradually turned into an opportunity for Yuan Shikai to return to the power center and influence the historical process of China. The development of the whole historical process of China is also in the hands of Yuan Shikai. When the situation changed, Yuan Shikai became the most important person. Therefore, on the one hand, Yuan Shikai maintained a military confrontation with the Southern Revolutionary Army, on the other hand, he secretly sent people to the Southern Revolutionary Army for secret negotiations. At the same time, he constantly put pressure on the young emperor Puyi and Manchu nobles, forcing them to give up the throne and the country and withdraw from the historical stage of China.
Finally, under the constant operation of Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen, the supreme leader of the Southern Revolutionary Insurgents, compromised. The Manchu government and its nearly one million soldiers and green campers of the Eight Banners accepted the fact of peaceful abdication with a clear conscience. Became a new national of the Republic of China.