Discussion Of Ronglu's Military Activities

As an important minister of the late Qing Dynasty,RongLu,also a confidant of CiXi Empress, has a high military talen in the Man chu nobility during the opted military.Born in a military family, he went to officialdom with the help of his parents. Through Industry Department,Senji Barracks,Hu Departant and NeiWu Mansion and he became Xian General.After JiaWu War he finally entered the BeiJing Hub,training WuWei army, reforming the military and putting down the Boxer Movent.There for he becomes one of the major generals of supporting the late Qing military.This article deal with RongLu's military family backgrourd and their military activities in the late Qing Dynasty. It is divided into five part.Partâ… introduces RongLu's life and early military career,revealing the way to official promotion;Partâ…¡disscuses the relationship of RongLu and WuWei Armyrmy,including the military background,composition and training of WuWeiArmy,the methods of paying its soldiers and the charaeteristie of WuWeiArmy;Partâ…¢explores RongLu's reform of military industry and military clridling and reveals its military contribution to the development in the late Qing Dynasty;PartIV mainly discusses the Boxer Rebellion's breaking out and RongLu's loss of its military power.;Part V assesses the military activitary of his life in an objective way.I think during his supervision of military affairs,he take charge of the overall situation, rectifying the old army and setting up and training the new army.Thus he accelerates the provision of training new army of chines moelernization process.He also implements the reform of military industry to reduce production cost,promoting the development of the clomestie military industry. WuWeiArmy established by RongLu assumed the important task of national defense in fighting against the invasion of Eighe-Power Allies Forles.However, Influenced by China's fealual political system and the traditional idea.RongLu has his limitations in carrying out the policies, the internal system of WuWeiArmy and military industrial reform.