However, in these media, the promotion of other trades is not limited to the reader class, but is widely spread in all social classes, and other trades have been interpreted in various ways. He has become a symbol, and others have added a note to him. He didn’t want to bear or can’t afford all kinds of good wishes. For example, it is said that Zeng Guofan is turning into a monarch country in a big way. This is obviously a beautiful interpretation of other trades by the outside world, but this interpretation is excessive.

This interpretation has made him enjoy too high praise and too high a height, so he will not have a good result.
If you climb high, you will fall heavy.
Knowing that it is bad for him, Zeng Guofan still wants to go. This is the difference between him and people like Li Hongzhang. This is also the difference between a real scholar-bureaucrat and a politician. It is not that he doesn’t know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but that he has to go because of the spirit of knowing from the Meng era.
However, he knew that the trip would not have a good result, and he even gave an account of his coffin transportation route in case of misfortune.
Section five hundred and fortieth spiritual idol collapsed
After Zeng Guofan arrived in Tianjin, the Manchu court actively cooperated with him. In the name of Empress Dowager Cixi, Zeng Guofan was given an imperial edict, ordering him to send an imperial envoy to deal with Tianjin religious plans.
Zeng Guofan’s prestige in the Qing Dynasty was extremely high, and local officials dared not disrespect him. In addition, no one wanted to be contaminated with such troubles. Therefore, once in Tianjin, everyone was happy to listen to Zeng Guofan’s decision.
After Zeng Guofan arrived in Tianjin, he heard all kinds of people say that thousands of ordinary people suddenly besieged the church. The reason was that several cases of children’s disappearance occurred in Tianjin in April and May, and an epidemic broke out in Tianjin in June. Many baby churches in Tianjin adopted orphans and foreigners’ churches also died, and they went to the suburbs to bury people every day.
The common people saw that foreigners kept burying baby bodies, and soon a long-standing saying came to say that foreigners’ nuns killed children as medicine. At this time, the government just caught a child trafficker and the trafficker confessed that he sold the children to the church.
When Tianjin people get angry, they don’t have a good impression on the church, especially Catholic priests who are eager to teach, so they don’t distinguish between good and bad believers and want everyone.
At the same time, Catholicism is a tight organization from the Pope to the priest. Historically, they have attacked all kinds of other religions, not to mention Protestantism. They have always suppressed it. In addition, foreigners are stronger in this era. There is an arrogance in front of other languages, so church priests often use extraterritorial laws to protect their believers.
However, most of these people who easily abandon the traditional culture and take refuge in the church are a group of gangsters who used to bully others into joining the church. As a result, everyone transferred these hooligans to the church
The people had a bad impression on them, but now they believe that they are selling and maiming children, which leads to the siege of the church.
Up to now, there is still room to solve the problem that there is no violent conflict in the group. If the Qing court actively investigates at this time, it can be explained. However, the officials of the Qing court have long been accustomed to shirking their responsibilities, and the scholar-officials have long since left them.
Foreigners are used to the French minister Feng Daye demanding that the local government expel the people, and the local government repeatedly shirked it, especially after an argument with the county magistrate, Feng Daye actually shot the county magistrate and hid it, but his servant was killed.
Foreigners’ insolence angered the Qing government, and then the people stormed into the church and killed priests and nuns, and killed diplomats. It is obviously impossible to say that there is no official acquiescence and promotion.
At this time, the lesson plan really got out of control.
After Zeng Guofan learned the whole story, he thought that the important question was to find out whether foreigners really took children as medicine. In fact, Zeng Guofan could not taste the truth, and the officials of the Qing court and Cong also understood this truth. No one came to see Zeng Guofan involved in the torrent step by step.
Zeng Guofan invited the local gentry to search the church together. On the contrary, they saw that the abandoned children got the best care here, and they got food and medical treatment. The only thing that made them dissatisfied was that the church had been educating these children to believe in the emperor.
However, none of those things full of absurd stories were done by people’s eyes. Of course, Zeng Guofan knew that there could be no such things before he came, but he still wanted to explore. On the one hand, he and these famous squires witnessed the truth for the people through their mouths. He believed that the people, especially those who read books, could distinguish right from wrong. On the other hand, Zeng Guofan mainly wanted to explore the fact of abducting children. He did not believe that foreigners were doing medicine, but he suspected that foreigners had really abducted children here for education.
In fact, there are no foreigners, not even abductions, but foreigners do sell money to people. They told Zeng Guofan truthfully and showed them their record books. They told Zeng Guofan that they encouraged everyone to send abandoned children to the church to raise them. It is this reward that encourages some illegal activities. Instead of picking up abandoned babies, they directly sell children.
Zeng Guofan is an honest man. This is his heart belief and his spiritual support. He will not go against his own spiritual position. He accepted the foreigner’s statement.
Then he sent a letter to Tianjin people, praising "Tianjin people are all righteous and resolute", and then criticizing them for "thinking a dozen times to vent their anger just because of rumors" and educating Tianjin people that "it’s enough to be confused if they ignore righteousness or have courage and foresight"
In fact, it is to advise Tianjin people not to make trouble and cause trouble to the country.
Then Zeng Guofan refused to ask for the execution of Chen Guorui, the governor of Tianjin, and Zhang Wenzao and Liu Jie, officials of Tianjin Prefectural County, who refused to die, and asked Zhang and Liu to be put back to their original places to escape the limelight, and Chen Guorui was sent directly to Beijing.
Arguably, Zeng Guofan’ s choice of letting things go smoothly is actually very much in line with the golden mean, and all the 30 boards should be held high and put gently. If both sides give each other a step to open their eyes and close their eyes, it will be fine, especially if the official Zeng Guofan thinks that if he arbitrarily executes the officials in dealing with foreigners, it will undermine the prestige of the imperial court and at the same time cause officials to be timid and afraid to argue with each other in contact with foreigners. This situation is actually very common at ports such as the sea, so Zeng Guofan refuses to kill officials.
However, the Qing court was too scared, and the French soldiers, especially the soldiers, fought too hard. Although Zeng Guofan was famous, the heavier his reputation, the greater the attack on officials, because attacking such people was the most convenient and famous channel for those impeachers to become famous.
In particular, a group of die-hards have always been rational enough to destroy foreigners. They said that Tianjin people killed foreigners only to protect officials. They said that Tianjin people were afraid of officials and not afraid of foreigners, which just benefited the people and wiped out foreigners in Beijing. So they ignored Zeng Guofan’s investigation and insisted that Tianjin people found foreigners digging children’s eyes in the church. Zeng Guofan was trying to cover up.
Seeing the attitude of the die-hards, Cixi also sent a letter to Zeng Guofan asking Zeng Guofan to report that there was no such thing, so Cixi was in a hurry to close the case for fear that the incident would expand due to the die-hards.
But at this time, the French won’t promise not to punish anyone who caused the accident, and neither can Russia nor the United States.
Seeing the foreigners’ resolute attitude, Cixi and other high-level officials were afraid of another British-French joint forces entering Beijing and were eager to solve the crisis. Instead, they accused Zeng Guofan of harboring criminals and thought that the heads of those officials calmed the foreigners’ anger.
Zeng Guofan was able to send someone to retrieve Zhang and Liu and escort them to the punishments. Finally, the punishments decided to send Zhang and Liu to Heilongjiang for atonement, and the punishments did not dare foreigners to kill officials.
But for Wang Zeng Guofan, you’re welcome. In a hurry, 20 murderers were arrested and sentenced to death. 20 people died because of foreigners. 20 people Zeng Guofan finished playing fortune-telling to solve this problem. Obviously, Zeng Guofan was familiar with classics, but he didn’t understand the jurisprudence. Moreover, he played a wrist to catch these 20 people, most of whom were on death row in prison.
Zeng Guofan’s practice not only failed to satisfy foreigners, but the court officials continued to scold him. This time, he was replaced by those who wanted to clean up their nationalist sentiments and scolded Zeng Guofan, who not only punished Chinese officials to flatter foreigners, but also killed Chinese people. He was simply a traitor and traitor.
Not to mention that this kind of abuse with nationalist sentiment has a great market in China, which caused a huge impact for a while. The Chinese people, mainly scholars, squires and other social elites, suddenly had great dissatisfaction with Zeng Guofan. How much they expected of Zeng Guofan before, how much they hated Zeng Guofan now, how much they admired Zeng Guofan in the past, and how much they despised Zeng Guofan now.
Zeng Guofan was the pride of Hunan, so there are many people in Hunan who are doing business in other places, and Zeng Guofan’s hometown is proud. All Hunan Chamber of Commerce halls have invited Zeng Guofan to inscribe Zeng Guofan, and the army is also happy to inscribe for businessmen. Those words are made into plaques and hung high in various halls.
Now Hunan guildhall all over the country have smashed Zeng Guofan’s plaque.
Readers are even more angry. When Tianjin people smashed the foreigner’s church with the support of officials, the vast majority of readers applauded and praised them. They always regarded the entry of foreign religion into China as a disaster. Confucius and Mencius recognized that Tianjin’s elders’ resistance to foreign religion was as noble as Zeng Guofan’s leading Huxiang’s brother to fight against long hair. According to their minds, this kind of thing still needs to be commemorated by a monument.
As a result, Zeng Guofan actually said that foreigners did not dig children’s eyes or abduct children.
It doesn’t matter what the facts are. What matters is how you Zeng Guofan can say that. In fact, it’s not Zeng Guofan’s so-called facts that students lose their minds. They want a correct answer. They want their idol Zeng Guofan to be with them.
However, Zeng Guofan’s statement clearly made them dissatisfied and it was hard to accept that heaven and man could say so. Why do you want Zeng Guofan to say so?
So the readers also came out to scold Zeng Guofan from other places, but they also scolded traitors and thieves. Hunan readers were particularly angry. At this time, their former Zeng Guofan Rong announced that they would not recognize Zeng Guofan as a fellow villager, and announced that they would no longer recognize Zeng Guofan as a Hunan native except Zeng Guofan’s provincial origin.
Zeng Guofan didn’t expect that he was sincere in showing that everyone really slandered the die-hards, suspected that he accommodated foreigners’ desires, insinuated him, flattered foreigners’ businessmen, and even denied that he was from Hunan.
At that time, Zeng Guofan felt that there was no place for him in heaven and earth, and he was depressed and fell ill.
In fact, he doesn’t know whether it was just before that he enjoyed a great reputation, or not. He made a slight mistake and was scolded by so many people because a flag and a spiritual idol suddenly collapsed in their hearts.
This impact is so great that it touches the readers’ hearts more than the defeat of the two Opium Wars. Some people have become more stubborn and hate foreigners, while others have changed their mentality and reconsidered the world. These people who changed their minds before the great changes in the world are actually the true national elites. In the next few decades, these people will struggle in great undertakings such as the foreign movement and saving the country through industry. Unfortunately, they also failed in the end because there are too few allies and too many people who refuse to change their minds.
Zeng Guofan felt that he could not be a director for the time being. After that, he seconded Zeng Guofan from Li Hongzhang to the Qing court. He worked as Governor Ding of Jiangsu Province to assist Zeng Guofan every day.
At this time, the collapse effect of Zeng Guofan, the spiritual idol of Neo-Confucianism and Confucianism, has spread to Zhu Jinglun. He doesn’t care how painful it is for those who worship Zeng Guofan’s conservative reading. He can’t help but care that those schools that Zeng Guofan has just established may be smashed.
Section five hundred and forty-nine Unified education
Ding’s daily visit to Tianjin was not well received because his work was more exciting than Zeng Guofan’s.
Ding’s daily practice has one purpose, that is to appease foreigners at all costs.
As soon as he arrived in Tianjin, Ma allocated funds to help foreigners rebuild the church and repair the nursery, and tortured the people involved to comfort the foreigners. As a result, everyone in Tianjin called him Ding Gui and Ding Xiaoren posted notices everywhere to expose his corruption and bribery in Sufu.
Ding doesn’t value reputation as much as Zeng Guofan’s daily life. He doesn’t care about saying, "Who won’t be scolded for being an official?" The bigger the officer, the more swearing he is. The prime minister can punt in his stomach. He scolds him and goes his own way. "
The court official impeached him, and he dared to fight Taiwan with those clean officials in a big way.
He said that the national affairs were forced by the clean stream, which led to the country’s poverty and tiredness, and blamed the two opium wars on the clean stream’s ignorance and blindly fighting.
Ding’s daily attitude has won some favor from foreigners, and there are fewer threats for the time being.
Ding Daily came from Zeng Guofan’s shogunate and worked with Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang is now a big hand, and Ding Daily also praised Ding Daily in front of Zeng Guofan. However, Ding Daily was not very honest as an official, which Zeng Guofan did not quite agree with before.
However, Zeng Guofan Bai, a person who likes to go along with others, also has talents, such as Li Hongzhang. Now it seems that Ding Tian is also a person.
Seeing Ding’s daily criticism of himself by outsiders attracted Zeng Guofan to breathe a sigh of relief. He slowly accepted the current situation, that is, he could scold the outside world and take care of the overall situation and choose one. He chose to offend Qing Yi rather than bring disaster to your father.
At this time, there is a strong public opinion in China, and there is no market for foreign religions. Otherwise, they don’t need to run nursery schools to train Christians from childhood. Lai Ke said that there is no good impression on foreign religions among the elite of China literati.