The Local Military Which Put Down The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebellion

The movement of Taiping Kingdom, which is a extremely great scale farmerrevalution in the modern history of China, brings tremendous shock on the Qingdynasty, and place it in a very passive and crackable predicament. At this kind ofsocial background, the Qing dynasty have to ask for help from social gentrystratum, hope to depending on gentry militia to resisted Taiping army and saved thedangerous state. Jiangxi gentry stratum rely on all kinds of advantage resource toestablished local social militia under the government call, and try their best to helpgovernment to put down the Taiping army. Even though the activity of establishinglocal social militia of the gentry stratum is a inevitable choice due to achieve theirown rank benefit, but we could not deny, their are also exist various of inducementfunctions among them. The process of local militarization which appeared in theactivity of establishing local military organization, must extended the local gentrystratum in power and influence at a large extent. And it also demonstrated thegradually under moving trend of the nation to the local social control power, from herealso by all means to give the social power structure organization and developing trackof social structure with important and profound influence.