【Historical Live Broadcast】Watching videos and being seen by our ancestors

[Perhaps for Li Hongzhang, this is a real-life time travel]

[In 1896, Li Hongzhang returned from his visit to the United States without saying a word]

[Just like the kid in Metamorphosis who entered the big city, at that time, ordinary people in the Qing Dynasty walked when they went out, and only the rich took horse-drawn carriages.]

[He wore a yellow jacket and had a yin-yang hairstyle. He took a long boat ride to the United States. The sight of the busy streets and tall buildings in the United States hit him hard, and inferiority complex surged in his heart.]

[After entering the hotel, he asked the foreigner why the room was so small and there was no chair. The waiter suppressed a smile and explained to him that this was the elevator]

[During the negotiation, he was shot once, and used this as an excuse to ask for a 100 million yuan reduction in compensation. He asked if he could shoot again to reduce it a little more?]

[It turns out that it only takes one glance, one moment, for something that I have always been proud of to be suddenly shattered]

[How I wish people in the past could see China today]

“For a Chinese person, he must have been really desperate at that time [crying R][crying R][crying R][crying R][crying R]”

"During the more than 300 years of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang was the first person to intuitively feel the huge gap between the Celestial Empire and the Western world."

"The Qing Dynasty did not want the country to be strong in the first place, fearing that the people would overthrow their Aixinjueluo regime. They also wanted to be in power in a luxurious and corrupt manner [laughing and crying R]"

"The Qin Dynasty ruled the world, the Qing Dynasty ruled the world "On the importance of rulers""

"The Qing government feared the Han people more than the Japanese. Even if they enslaved the Han people, the base was too large."

"The failure of the Qing Dynasty in the war could not be solved by launching the Westernization Movement or learning Western technology. The fundamental reason was that the backward feudal system was completely defeated by the advanced capitalist system that could better promote the development of productivity. Ironically, if the Qing Dynasty wanted to completely defeat the foreigners, the only way was to perish and eliminate the backward feudal system."

"The Qing dynasty is gone now. This is China. Now we can be truly proud of it [Party R]"

Qing Dynasty.

Emperor of the Qing Dynasty: Are we the last dynasty in the Central Plains? But can we be blamed for everything? The Han people have been cunning since ancient times, so we must be on guard!

Emperor Yongzheng Yinzhen: I could imagine that the Qing Dynasty would decline because of a prodigal son, but I never imagined that my Qing Dynasty would end up being humiliated and forced to pay compensation by foreigners!

Isn't it the same for the people of every dynasty? As long as they can eat and survive, they are fine. Why is the outside world changing so quickly?

Compared with my Qing Dynasty, it’s like two completely different worlds!

Should technology be open to the public? Is it advisable to close the country to the outside world? This is a question that I, as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, should think about carefully!

The masses who are against the Qing Dynasty and want to restore the Ming Dynasty: Well, well, I knew that the Qing Dynasty was not a good thing! They can't even govern a country well, and they have fallen into such a situation of being bullied by foreign barbarians. This is really a great shame!

This is even worse than our previous Ming Dynasty. You know, our previous Ming Dynasty never ceded land or paid compensation!

Damn the Qing Dynasty, you disgusting pig tail! We will destroy you sooner or later, so that you won't bully the Chinese people everywhere!

The monarchs of dynasties throughout the ages were also extremely shocked when they saw the sharp contrast on the sky.

On one side are the people of the Central Plains who are dressed in tattered clothes, have dull eyes and ugly braids; on the other side are the prosperous cities with blooming flowers, busy traffic and tall buildings.

Is this really the same period? Why is there such a big difference? What happened in between?

Why is China so far behind other countries?