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Oct 18, 2026
Chris StewartHOST
In response, the emperor finally appointed Liu Zhao, a respected scholarly minister from Beijing, to sort out matters.
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Arriving at Kunming, Liu made the assessment that the use of the Taishan militias alone was not working out as planned, and that he needed to commit regular Green Standard Army troops, that is, regular Han Chinese Qing imperial troops, to suppress the rebellion and retake control of the area.
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This leads us to our first of four invasions, from 1765 to 1766.
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Early that year, a 20,000-strong Burmese army stationed at Kangtung, led by General Ne Myo Tai Ha Pei, left Kangtung for yet another Burmese invasion of Siam.
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The Chinese forces aimed to suppress the Burmese reassertion of the borderlands.
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However, Liu Zhao's campaign faced stiff resistance and logistical challenges virtually from the outset.
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3,500 Green Standard Army troops, along with the Taishan militias, laid siege to Kangtong, but could not match the battle-hardened Burmese troops within the garrison itself.
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In the face of such mounting difficulties, Governor Liu, in his embarrassment, first tried to conceal what had happened.
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A French Lazarist missionary traveling in the interior not many months later reported a striking sight.
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The Green Standard Army soldiers returning from the Yangtze Valley, carrying themselves with the bearing of men who'd met the enemy and defeated them utterly.
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Both sides could tell themselves that they had actually won.
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Both were wrong, though in asymmetric ways and on asymmetric timescales.
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Stipends that hadn't kept pace with their proliferating families, skills atrophied through two centuries of much pomp and little circumstance, equipment and training both old and neglected.
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Truth be told, they'd proven on the whole no more effective than the Green Standard Army that the British had already been swatting aside all year.
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But they were Manchus, and to surrender, to be taken prisoner by barbarians, to be led away alive from the ruins of their quarter, was for most of them beyond the pale of acceptability.
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Zhenjiang's garrison numbered perhaps 2,000 bannermen.
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From Wakeman, quote, End quote.
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In contrast, the Qing Green Standard Army was little more than a hollow shell.
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A massive force on paper, but in reality badly undermanned, undertrained, and underfunded to do much more than stop individual pirate fast crabs.
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And all under the command of fat cat banner generals from the North, who often knew even less about naval warfare than they remembered about the step conquests of their forefathers.
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It took the better part of eight years of grinding anti-guerrilla warfare in the mountain forests of central China to finally break them.
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The Qing Green Standard Army, again the Han Chinese branch of the imperial military as opposed to the largely Manchu and Mongol banner forces, did not distinguish itself, because soldiers who cannot tell a rebel from a farmer eventually stop even trying.
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The court knew what it was driving to.
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The postmortems are remarkably blunt that official extortion at the local level had pushed ordinary people into rebellion in the first place.
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This depressed land prices and purchases, pushing investors towards more speculative trade, silver hoarding, and usury.
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The 1688 Wuchang Mutiny, where over 10,000 demobilized Green Standard Army troops seized Hubei's capital for back pay and food, may have heightened his awareness of these issues.
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The emperor did treat it seriously, overseeing the military response and screening out misled locals from the core mutineers.
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His peacetime military approach shines through in memorial endorsements.
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It's possible that on this particular topic, the emperor had been sensitized by the major mutiny that broke out in Wutong in the summer of 1688.
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The mutineers, numbering more than ten thousand at their peak, were former troops of the Green Standard Army that had been demobilized following the suppression of the Three Feudatories Rebellion.
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They seized the capital city of Hubei in an attempt to recover arrears of pay and receive food for their families.
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The Kangxi Emperor took the mutiny with the utmost seriousness.