② beiyang fleet; In the battle of Ahava, beiyang fleet was completely annihilated.
③ Empress Dowager Cixi. "The defeat of the three armies" refers to the failure of the Qing government in the Sino-Japanese War. In the Sino-Japanese treaty of shimonoseki, the Qing government ceded Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan Province Province and Penghu Islands to Japan.
(4)1,the decay of the government; 2. Compromise and concession of the decision-making group; 3. Weakness and backwardness of armaments
(5) It has greatly deepened the degree of semi-colonialism in China.