Americans have never been keen on using force to solve problems. During the two Opium Wars in China, they exercised restraint. Their foreign policy has always been a stakeholder. They hope to maintain friendship with other countries to safeguard their interests. Before diplomacy, they like to follow powerful countries like Britain and France.
After coming forward this time and assuring them to safeguard their interests, the Americans expressed their support for the eastern country to play an active role in the religious plan
For the French, their government is about to strike in Prussia. After the collapse, it was the Paris Commune movement. It took them several years to figure out their own affairs. Now France looks tough. It’s just that it’s not yet that it’s old, its teeth have fallen off, and wild dogs finally bark.
However, Da still contacted the French and told them that the consistent policy of Da Da is to safeguard trade freedom and regional peace, and he is willing to guarantee France’s interests. He regretted the killing of French diplomats and religious personnel, but hoped that everyone could handle this incident before peace.
The French showed impatience, but they also had to worry about their big attitude. Zhu Jinglun said that the armored ships went to France without any gains. For example, they gave up their previous demands for the same extraterritoriality as Britain, and also made the French understand that it was a big country in the East and had less powerful military industry. Although this was an illusion, it would not be punctured on the surface for a long time, just like before the Sino-Japanese War, when beiyang fleet was the first maritime power in the East.
The French responded that France is willing to keep peace, but the Qing court must give a satisfactory explanation to the French empire, and the Qing court must pay the price for hurting the citizens and clergy of the French empire.
They went out to execute the responsible officials and punish them. The officials sent envoys to France to apologize and pay economic compensation, and promised that such incidents would never happen again, demanding that Catholicism be free in Manchu land.
The French put on a high-flying posture and were self-sufficient, but they never considered whether the French themselves were also responsible for this incident. This has something to do with the usual way of thinking in the West at this time. They naturally think that they are the only literati. If there is a conflict with people from other countries, it must be caused by the barbarism of the other side. They directly came up with a solution, saying that they respect and are willing to let the big mediation rather than let the general inform the Manchu of their ruling results.
But they don’t seem to have considered "should we investigate the cause of one thing first?"
The ambassador gave the French the most basic suggestion. The French minister was impatient and agreed that he felt that it was all a formality. The reason must be that the savage China deliberately hurt the French.
Moreover, after they strongly disagreed with the independent investigation by the French, they asked to form an international investigation team led by the French, but they still disagreed.
Great advice is that the general will send a neutral investigation team and a gentleman with a sense of morality and justice to investigate the matter.
As a result, the French still didn’t agree, much less agreed to send out the investigation candidate, but insisted on sending this person, so the person was chosen by the great emperor
In the end, I didn’t talk to the French and announced that I would investigate this matter alone. Before the investigation is completed, all countries hope that all countries will exercise restraint, otherwise they will no longer cooperate with all countries to safeguard their own interests in East Asia, depending on their actions.
The attitude of great power has made countries feel that this emerging country is trying to dominate the regional situation in this region, just like what Americans do in America. Although they are uncomfortable, they are not surprised, because from their point of view, this is what all countries will do, and it is a reasonable act to safeguard national interests.
It is all countries that have expressed their incomprehension about sending investigators.
Because this controversial figure is Zeng Guofan, who has been promoting the revival of Confucianism and Taoism in recent years.
No one thinks that this great scholar who tried his best to maintain the religion of China can remain objective in the process of investigating Catholic religious plans
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Not to mention westerners, it is China people, including college students and Manchu readers, who don’t think so about Teana WW.
But they don’t think that Zeng Guofan can’t remain objective, but that Zeng Guofan can prove the evil of foreign religion
China people rarely have a good impression of foreign religions unless they really understand western religions, which is a common phenomenon at present, which can explain a cultural group’s invasion of foreign cultures and a stressful psychological reaction.
History: When the Tianjin religious case broke out, the Qing court also asked Zeng Guofan to come forward to solve it. Zeng Guofan was a sincere believer. This was his training center. When he went to investigate, he pursued objective facts. The results of the investigation did not satisfy the readers’ wishes. After investigation, he determined that there was no rumor in the church that foreigners were digging people’s hearts and minds. It was just foreigners soaking garlic in the clay pot.
Zeng Guofan’s investigation result is a fact, but it does not conform to the cognitive result of China people. Zeng Guofan died in the second year of cursing between heaven and man.
It is impossible to study diplomatic history without bypassing the western religions’ broadcasting history in China, and without citing historical events because of religious plans.
Zhu Jinglun was too aware that Zeng Guofan was discredited because of the investigation of religious plans, and he was cursed by readers at that time.
Knowing that Zeng Guofan’s investigation into this matter has no good result, Zhu Jinglun still wants to do it for the simple reason that Zeng Guofan is a sin and a man.
The main reason why Zeng Guofan was chosen by the historical Qing court was that Zeng Guofan was the greatest Confucian in the world at that time, and the great aura of defending Chinese etiquette and ethics in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was put on Zeng Guofan’s head, making Zeng Guofan the closest person to a saint.
It’s not a bad thing that a saint appears in the country, but the problem is that if this saint is alive, it will be embarrassing, especially for the emperor. If you face this living saint, you can control him or not, but you can’t explain it. It will always cause great practical trouble to the emperor if such a person appears in the times
The Qing Dynasty asked Zeng Guofan to do it because this kind of thing is very troublesome and involves group irrationality. Everyone knows that it is impossible to get away with this kind of thing. Even Zeng Guofan has to get a red stain. Zeng Guofan dare not and can’t. Not only if Zeng Guofan has a stain, it can be relieved. Because of this, Zeng Guofan is no longer a saint, but a talented person with great ability.
Zhu Jinglun actually encountered the same problems as Cixi and Yixin. Zeng Guofan’s prestige was so high that Zhu Jinglun could not ignore it. He was not a jealous person. He was not worried about the country’s spiritual appeal surpassing others, although it would bring trouble.
He felt that Zeng Guofan was a problem, not because Zeng Guofan’s appeal was too strong, but because Zeng Guofan’s appeal was inconsistent with his ideas. Zeng Guofan’s appeal blocked Zhu Jinglun’s road
Zeng Guofan’s prestige in this history is better than that in the original history. Zeng Guofan’s main achievement is to defend Confucianism and suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which is half of the credit. However, Zeng Guofan has made his position in the eyes of the literati almost the same as it should have been by widely promoting Confucianism in various places. In the past three years, Zeng Guofan has assumed that there are 50,000 Confucius temples in the great environment, and each Confucius temple has a school of different sizes and an old professor. Now there are countless Zeng Guofan believers who have openly shouted to let people "know etiquette, know honesty and shame".
Zeng Guofan has completely aroused the power of Confucianism hidden in the grass roots of Datong society, which has formed a raging flame that is difficult to put out. If it is just running a school, even if Zeng Guofan’s prestige rises to the sky, even if the reader regards him as a contemporary Confucius, Zhu Jinglun doesn’t care. The problem is that Zeng Guofan has completely broken away from Zhu Jinglun’s idea of establishing a school. The most difficult thing for him to accept is that these schools don’t teach mathematics. They run their own private schools. They don’t accept math teachers sent by the government.
At this time, the key to the highest enthusiasm for running schools in rural areas is that the most conservative scholar-officials have become a group under the banner of Zeng Guofan, and the government’s attempt to forcibly promote mathematics education will probably cause turmoil.
Therefore, Zhu Jinglun chose the same way as Man Qinggui. He felt that it was necessary to attack Zeng Guofan’s personal prestige at this time. It was necessary to do it. This is politics. Since Zeng Guofan broke into Zhu Jinglun’s political hunting ground, he should be ready to be hunted at any time or pick up a gun and choose to be a hunter.
Zeng Guofan didn’t choose to be a hunter in history. He chose to dissolve the Xiang army. He didn’t rebel. He wanted to be a sage. He didn’t want to be a king. As a result, he could be a prey and would take his knife at any time when hunters thought it necessary
Zhu Jinglun picked Zeng Guofan for more than that, of course. If it’s just a blow to Zeng Guofan’s prestige, there are many ways. He wants to benefit Zeng Guofan’s prestige. Since Zeng Guofan’s prestige has blocked his way, it will be a blow sooner or later, so let Zeng Guofan’s prestige work at the most favorable moment
If you were a person to investigate this matter, the final result may not be credible, but Zeng Guofan has achieved the limit that Confucianism can achieve. He is a model for all readers and everyone. His investigation results are actually convincing. Later, everyone hated Zeng Guofan so much because they believed in Zeng Guofan, but it was precisely because of this letter that they hated it all the more. Because Zeng Guofan revealed the truth that it was difficult for them to accept the truth, they would not hate it so much if they were a person who did not believe in the situation.
Zhu Jinglun wants Zeng Guofan’s prestige to be attacked for a day. Conservative scholars, including scholar-officials, will be attacked. Their ignorance will make them stop looking at problems. They hate foreign religions or like foreign religions. However, it is absolutely unacceptable for Zhu Jinglun to give foreign coaches so many superstitious things to fool illiterate people in those things.
Zhu Jinglun is also worried about the invasion of western religious culture in this era, which is also a big reason for China’s social problems in this era. However, he absolutely doesn’t want to see China cultural groups protect themselves in this foolish way, because they can’t treat western religious days correctly today, and they can’t treat western science and technology correctly. Today, they told fools that it would be raining all the time because the church covered them up, and every day they would tell them to pull the railway, push the rod and turn over the ship in the East China Sea.
Zhu Jinglun knows very well that those who think that foreign priests dig children’s hearts and minds and those who think that factory chimneys hit his roof and bring bad luck to their homes are all a group of people, and the idea of this group of people is that the intellectuals in their hearts are instilled in them by a group of local husbands.
Therefore, the root cause is that the conservative literati class is the gentry class, and the ideological problems can touch these people’s thoughts. It is not the strict logic of newspapers, the rational guidance of the government, but the sun in their own minds. They choose their own spiritual idols, such as Zeng Guofan, to do something contrary to their thoughts.
History Zeng Guofan’s reputation in Tianjin’s religious lesson plan was discredited. Heaven cursed Zeng Guofan, but the post-foreign movement spread to Gao Chao. I have to say that Zeng Guofan’s benchmark had a great impact on the spirit of the scholar-bureaucrat
Zeng Guofan himself could not understand this ending, but when Zhu Jinglun sent someone to find him and told him that the emperor asked him to investigate the Tianjin religious plan, he knew that he could not shirk it.
Because the big official told him that he couldn’t handle it, if he couldn’t handle it well, foreigners from Britain, France, Russia and the United States would surely join forces to attack the north.
At the same time, the big government also told the heavenly readers through the newspaper that the government invited the great scholar Zeng Guofan to Tianjin to investigate the teaching plan, and instantly won a number of readers to respond to them and recognize their idols, which would definitely deter foreign religions.
Loyalty or disloyalty, Zeng Guofan is undoubtedly a man who cherishes his feathers. He is a god who admires Confucianism and foreign religions. Everyone is eager to wait for him to come forward. If he does not come forward, his generation will build a reputation and collapse because he flinches in the face of right and wrong.
In addition, Zeng Guofan was a truly recuperated Confucian scholar, who was called the last glory of Confucianism in later generations. He was not a secular politician, but a real scholar-bureaucrat. On the spiritual and moral level, he was on a par with Fan Chongyan, Wang Anshi and other elite scholar-bureaucrats at the peak of their culture. The moral pillar of China’s scholar-bureaucrats was self-cultivation, rule the country, rule the country and make the world peaceful. To put it simply, a real scholar-bureaucrat has a feeling of being a guy and a strong sense of responsibility to the country and the nation.
This sense of responsibility also makes Zeng Guofan’s method to shirk.
But in his heart, I’m afraid his going will be a blow to him personally. He knows that his position is too high for him to imagine at first. He didn’t expect to gain such high prestige. His initial wish was only to educate his grandson to understand etiquette, honor, shame and righteousness, but he didn’t want to see a generation bewitched by foreigners’ heresy
However, he didn’t expect that he promoted the Confucianism of education, and the scope and degree of modern newspaper broadcasting reached the limit that the whole society could reach. Without these modern broadcasting methods, Zeng Guofan’s trip might not have an effect until his death.
