论清廷与湘军集团的筹建长江水师之争

Contention between Qing Court and Hunan Army Corps over Building Changjiang Navy

在镇压太平天国运动中,清廷企图控制包括湘军水师在内的水师力量,决定建立长江水师。为争夺长江水师的控制权,清廷与湘军集团围绕水师统帅人员的调配任用、饷需和船炮军械的购置管理诸方面展开了激烈的争夺。清廷虽在争夺中占据上风,但长江水师采用经制的绿营体制,使其在晚清腐化的社会政治环境中迅速衰弱。

In suppressing the Taiping Uprising,the Qing Court decided to build the Changjiang Navy,in order to control all the navy troops,including those of the Hunan Army Corps,thus a furious contention broke out between the Qing Court and Human Army Corps on such issues of the appointment of the commanding officer,the pay and provision,the purchase of warships,guns and other armaments. The Court gained the upper hand,but the navy adopted the Green Camp system,which accelerated its process of decay in the decadent social-political environment in the late Qing Dynasty.