Ding came to Tianjin every day, but he was not well received, because what he did was more exciting than Zeng Guofan. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Ding's daily practice has only one purpose, that is, to appease foreigners and appease foreigners at all costs.

As soon as he arrived in Tianjin, he immediately allocated funds to help the foreigners rebuild the church, repair the nursery church, interrogate the people involved in the case severely, and comfort the foreigners with kind words. As a result, everyone in Tianjin scolded him for being a devil and a villain. Headless notices were posted everywhere to expose his corruption and bribery during his tenure in Su Fu.

Ding didn't value reputation as much as Zeng Guofan, so he didn't care about it at all, saying: "Who is an official who is not scolded? The bigger the official, the more people will scold. The prime minister can hold the boat in his belly, and he scolds him, I will do mine. ”

The spokesman of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China impeached him, and he dared to fight against those gossip officials with great fanfare.

He wrote that the major affairs of the country were forced by the Qingliu, which caused the country to suffer infinitely, and blamed the two opium wars on the irrational main war of the Qinglius.

Ding's daily attitude has won some favor from foreigners, and there are fewer threatening words for the time being.

Ding daily came from Zeng Guofan's shogunate, and worked with Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang is now prosperous, holds great power, often protects Ding Daily, and praises Ding Daily in front of Zeng Guofan, but Ding Daily is not very honest as an official, which Zeng Guofan did not agree with before.

But Zeng Guofan understands that among this kind of people who are willing to go along with the same stream, there are also talents, such as Li Hongzhang, and now it seems that Ding Daily is also one.

Seeing that Ding Tian attracted outsiders' harsh criticism of him all of a sudden, Zeng Guofan slowly took a breath, and he slowly accepted the current status quo, that is, he could only choose between the scolding of the outside world and taking into account the overall situation, he chose to rather offend the Qing Dynasty than to blame the monarch's father.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, public opinion was also raging, and there was no market for foreign religion in the whole of China, otherwise they would not need to rely on running a nursery to cultivate disciples from an early age, and they did not need to gather a large group of ruffians.

Even the new-school people who were more supportive of new industries such as setting up factories and opening ports in the past also held a resistant mentality in the face of the issue of foreign religion, and this time they collectively lost their voices, and no one shouted for foreign religion, and as a result, the newspapers published everyone's disappointing comments about Zeng Guofan every day, obviously from those conservative scholars and doctors, and they were Zeng Guofan's staunchest supporters before.

They used to support Zeng Guofan, also because Zeng Guofan told them that if they opened one more school, they would have one less church in the future, and if they accepted one more student, they would have one less Westerner in the future. It can be said that their previous support for Zeng Guofan was completely out of a culturally xenophobic mentality deep in their hearts, out of hatred and hatred for foreign religious programs. Therefore, Zeng Guofan's agitation, on the contrary, is that those who are more conservative support it.

But now they see Zeng Guofan's weakness and accommodation in the face of foreigners, and they suddenly feel that it is a complete shame to follow Zeng Guofan before, everything is a lie, Zeng Guofan does not dare to fight against foreign religions, so it is impossible for Zeng Guofan to run a school against foreign religions.

These people do not think in a rational way at all, in their education, there is never a rational basic logic content, and people who do not even learn mathematics and geometry can often only look at problems from a perceptual perspective.

Zhu Jinglun found it difficult to accept this kind of thing, he did not approve of the schools built by Zeng Guofan, because out of compromise with the conservatives, in order to get the support of these people, Zeng Guofan and these people built the school, but refused to teach mathematics. In order to cope with the imperial examination, their method is to concentrate on selecting available talents and inviting famous teachers to teach, which is completely an elite education, which is still a cultural monopoly, just like they previously excluded ordinary students from entering the academy, and I believe that ordinary students will not enjoy this kind of make-up treatment.

But Zhu Jinglun has always been a person who looks at problems positively, and although Zeng Guofan's school has made him dissatisfied in a thousand ways, at least it has greatly increased the enrollment rate. Zeng Guofan in the Ming Dynasty three years, ran all over the three provinces of Guangzhou, Fujian, although failed to complete the great cause of a village and a Confucian temple, but also built nearly 100,000 primary schools, although they are all private primary schools, but the enrollment of students, but let the Ming school-age children nearly eighty percent into the school, can not learn mathematics, at least they can be literate.

But if you blindly smash it now, it's really a pity, not to mention, and it's also a huge loss for the Ming Kingdom.

As a result, Zhu Jinglun immediately took action, and directly sent an imperial order to all prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty, asking the local prefects and county orders to stop this trend, and also told the local officials that the next big plan (assessment) will be within the scope of the enrollment of schoolchildren in various places, and only local education will be examined, and if education cannot be guaranteed, no matter how good the political performance is, it will not be praised or promoted.

Chen Zhiting, as the prime minister, the Ministry of Rites, which is in charge of education, and the two departments of education and imperial examinations under the Ministry of Rites also issued orders to the local governments, and the imperial power and the regime expressed their positions at the same time, expressing the greatest importance to education, and also mobilizing the motivation of all local officials.

The police from various counties went to the countryside one after another to guard the schools, but the police force was not enough for a while, and Zhu Jinglun even mobilized 50,000 troops.

Fortunately, although there are cases of smashing schools in various places, most of them are still individual cases and have not formed a sweeping movement. The main reason is that the schools are all located in the Confucian Temple, although the local scholars are dissatisfied with Zeng Guofan, but most people do not dare to disrespect Confucius, so even in the case of smashing the school, there is no smashing of the statue of Confucius, no smashing of the Confucian Temple, their main behavior is to throw out the desks and benches in the Confucian Temple, drive the students out, and dismiss the teachers.

The Ming Dynasty actively worked hard, it took a year of events to calm down the tide, and take this opportunity, the local government for the first time directly involved in the education of the countryside, in the case of the unity of the old masters in the countryside before, the county government really could not challenge the practice of the imperial power not going to the countryside for hundreds of years, and now in the case of the collapse of their spiritual beliefs, most of the squires have completely lost their enthusiasm for education, unwilling to care, but gave the government the opportunity to intervene.

Another important reason is that the Ming Dynasty's finances have improved in the past two years, and the central government has a certain ability to cope with the primary education of the whole people. At present, there is no need for the private sector to raise its own funds to run education, and naturally there is no need for the private sector to enjoy the right to run education, so it is simply taken over and completed the unified planning of the education system.

That's all for later.

Just when the Tianjin incident was in full swing, in Shanghai, Li Xiucheng finally launched a general offensive.

After twelve 1,000-pound cannons began to fire at the British and American concessions, the British finally couldn't resist it, and the bombs in the 600 kilograms continued to explode, which was completely unseen for the army of this era, so the mental blow was great, but the substantial damage was not as great as imagined.

In the Franco-Prussian War, the French emperor surrendered with hundreds of thousands of French troops, and the biggest reason was that the mental will collapsed under the intensive bombardment of Krupp artillery, and there were not many people who were actually killed. Now, under tremendous mental pressure, the Anglo-American coalition finally decided not to hold out, and they chose to attack, rather than being bombed in vain, it was better to counterattack.

The purpose of their counterattack was not to defeat Li Xiucheng, but to break through the siege, to keep the viable forces to break through from Shanghai, and to wait for the arrival of domestic reinforcements before carrying out a counteroffensive.

But when they used machine guns to defend a strong position, the Taiping army had no way to take them, but they walked out of the fortifications, and immediately were attacked by the Taiping army with superior strength, the Taiping army's military quality was not as good as theirs, but they couldn't stand the crowd, they didn't know how to line up in a military formation while loading and fighting, but they knew how to hit a direct charge, and finally the breakthrough of the British and American coalition forces became a big melee between the two sides attacking each other, after a white-knuckle battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the Taiping army even suffered more casualties, but the Taiping army suffered casualties. The Anglo-American forces could not afford to suffer casualties, and the situation of surrender began to appear.

The first to surrender were the Chinese soldiers hired by foreigners from the concession, and then the ragtag army composed of vagabonds and adventurers from various countries, and the British and American regular troops saw the failure of the breakthrough and returned to the concession, but their strength at this time was less than 10,000.

These 10,000 lone soldiers, after contacting the country, confirmed that there were no reinforcements, and won the consent of the country, they chose to negotiate with Li Xiucheng, and they were willing to surrender with dignity.

Li Xiucheng agreed to all the demands of the foreigners, only asking them to hand over their weapons, stay honestly in the prisoner of war camp, and promised to provide them with food and supplies, and promised not to torture or kill them.

So the remnants of the 6,000 regular army of the Anglo-American coalition also surrendered.

After the surrender of the army, Li Xiucheng's artillery began to aim at the British gunboats cruising the Wusong River, and the gunboats chose to evacuate after discovering that the Taiping army had artillery that threatened them.

At this point, the whole of Shanghai fell into the hands of Li Xiucheng, and the British, French, and American armies all surrendered or were annihilated, and their only military force in Shanghai was the British fleet that controlled the mouth of the Yangtze River, and even the Wusongkou Fort was quickly captured by the Taiping army.

At this time, the foreigners were completely passive, and they were unwilling to abandon Shanghai anyway, but France had already started a war with Prussia on July 19, and it was impossible for the French to draw forces to the East before the end of the war.

Britain and France did not have the strength to immediately intervene in the war in the Yangtze River valley, but they did not want to lose a single day of trade interests in Shanghai. At this time, they thought of negotiating with the Taiping Army, but they had always been a tough threat that the Taiping Army could not get close to Shanghai, and Shanghai was not a negotiable issue in their eyes before, but now they felt that negotiation seemed to be the best choice, so they found the Ming Dynasty, who had always been a quasi-alliance with the Taiping Army, hoping that the Ming would convey their sincerity to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Da Ming happily agreed, willing to help mediate.