Internal Shocks And Responses:Study Of The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War And The War Mobilization Of The Qing Government At The Beginning Of The War

Jintian village group camped in the summer of 1850,and they fight with the Qing army at the end of the 1850.Up to May 19,1852,they leaved from Guangxi to Hunan,in the initial germination period of rebel group in Guangxi was almost two years,it was later early stage of the magnificent Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War,it was crucial to the response to rebel,it was also the best time to the Qing government to put an end to the disorders and test their emergency response and national mobilization ability.Initially Taiping army rebelled in Jintian,Guangxi local government responded to the rebel according to the routine.However,the local government's conventional response failed,and the Qing government began to send the imperial commissioners to set up a wartime system.During this period,the Qing government sent seven imperial commissioners successively,and the military mobilization was from Guangxi to the surrounding provinces of Guizhou and Hunan,then to Sichuan and Guangdong.The initial stage of military mobilization of the Qing dynasty was in a mess,but gradually they gathered force,cut off the Taiping rebels,and encircled the Taiping rebels in Yongan for half a year.They got the best time to against insurgency,but ultimately did not get rid of the Taiping rebels,so the Taiping armies broke out of the encirclement successfully and backed into the flow state of combat.With the expanding of the war and the insufficient further mobilization and response ability of the Qing dynasty,the Taiping rebels rushed out of Guangxi,then the situation was out of the hand.In addition to the wartime system and military mobilization,the Qing government also urgently mobilized finance to raise the wartime financial resources.On the one hand,the Qing dynasty raised military funds by " The Imperial Household Department ";on the other hand,by " The Board of Revenue ";on the other hand,by extensive donating money,and the Qing dynasty take a multi-pronged approach to ensure financial support for counter-insurgency.In terms of the war mobilization and response of the the Qing government in the early years of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom war,on the one hand,we need to admit that the Qing government still has certain wartime mobilization ability,mainly embodied in the imperial commissioners and donations and other temporary emergency response mechanisms,it can rapidly form the wartime system in the case of failing in response to the conventional system,and succeeded.But on the other hand,we should also see that in the case of serious corruption of the country's conventional system and power,it is difficult to work effectively by relying only on the emergency mechanism and piecing it together temporarily without coordination.This was a difficult problem that the Qing dynasty has been faced for a long time in the late Qing dynasty.