Li Hongzhang once said that "there has been no great change in three thousand years". Indeed, in modern history, all aspects of the Qing Dynasty were stagnant. They have been intoxicated with the "prosperous times" at that time, and they are still complacent, but they don't know that the west at that time has begun to surpass them greatly.

In Britain, people have begun to develop capitalism and built steam engines, which gradually changed from primitive manpower to steam and then to electricity, while the Qing government was still there; We don't need this. We're still closed to the world. That is to say, this steam engine can be used in many fields, so that later ships and trains can generate electricity even at the end. It's really practical.

This is a very large span, from manpower to machinery, which liberated human labor and was called a good beginning of the first industrial revolution by later generations.

As for the United States in the same period, because it was colonized by Britain at that time, they kept getting rid of this title and finally got rid of it. North America became independent. They had their own country and were no longer slaves of others, but Britain did not agree. Originally, this country was its own colony, and it could be used when there were no minerals, because it needed a lot of minerals to develop steam at that time, and the fat cow ran away. How could Britain give up, so it launched a war until 6544.

At that time, the Qing dynasty really couldn't see its own bad places. They can only see many places they want to see. For example, the book Sikuquanshu, which consumed a lot of time and energy, was originally a good thing for the benefit of the people and the country, but it was not good. Talking too much about the bad situation in the Qing Dynasty led to a nationwide order to burn these books. According to statistics, in 1782, Zhejiang burned 538 kinds of books 13862, which was a waste of time, because he burned more than 700,000 books during his reign, and it is strange that the country can develop rapidly. Even so, he damaged the archives left over by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, I can't stand it in the afterlife. Lu Xun once said that this was a devastating destruction of ancient books, and Wu Han also said that many ancient books were destroyed because of a single book. So for our descendants, why did modern history become like this? Mainly because the rulers at that time felt that no one could match the Qing Dynasty for the satisfaction of the country, so when people were developing, we were watching, and at the same time felt that no matter how they developed, they could not reach our point.