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"Sure enough, it's a good article!" Prince Gong exclaimed, "The Western states can neither be regarded as barbarians, nor can Western practical learning be regarded as the last technology, so that the handling of foreign affairs can be justified." ”

"Exactly!" Wen Xiang nodded and said, "The so-called 'sage takes all things as his teacher', and in the future, anyone who is beneficial to China in the West can use it, and there is no need to have scruples!" And Shilin wants to criticize it, and he can't use 'Yixia's defense' to make a fuss anymore! ”

"How many things are bad on the topic of 'Yixia Defense', and now, it's finally broken!" Prince Gong was overjoyed for a while, and the wrinkles on his face opened.

"Without further ado, this text should be transcribed immediately and submitted to the two palaces." Wen Xiang said.

"Immediately someone will copy it, I will go into the palace and present the two palaces in person!"

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"Lin Wenzheng Public Collection: Calling the Right":

"The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces summoned her in the Palace of Heart Cultivation. Inquire about the details of the envoy to the western country, and play the role of the establishment of foreign affairs. Gong Di was also present.

The Empress Dowager asked, 'When did you come back?' The Empress Dowager also asked.

Right: 'It has been five days since the minister returned to Beijing. After the negotiation was completed, it did not dare to delay, and the new ship received all the matters and set off for China immediately. ’

Asked: 'What kind of warship did the British heroine give?'

Right: 'The British ship is a patrol boat, with an iron rib and wooden hull, which is a new ship that has just been launched, and has been tested many times, and is of good quality and speed, and is indeed a new and strong ship. ’

Purpose: "You went abroad this time, and you did an excellent job." ”

Right: 'This is the protection of the emperor, thanks to the queen mother, the emperor Hongfu, the road is safe, and the affairs of the ministers must always be done properly. ’

The Empress Dowager asked: 'Are you doing at home?' ’

Right: 'All right. In order to avoid the worries of the ministers, the family sent a telegram to the news that everything was safe in the family. ’

Ask: 'Who will take care of you in your home for the rest of your life?' ’

Right: 'The minister is away from home, and everything in the family is taken care of by the minister's wife Chen Wan, and there is also a concubine and an assistant. ’

Ask: 'How many children do you have?' ’

Right: 'The minister has a son and a daughter, both of whom are from the main room. ’

Purpose: 'When you have finished your errand, go home and have a look, so that you don't have to worry about it.' ’

Right: 'Minister's decree. ’

Question: 'Do you have someone to take care of in your home in England?' ’

Right: 'Yes. ’

Ask: 'You can't always come by and come back from time to time, always make.' ’

Right: 'Yes.' ’

The Empress Dowager Xi asked, 'Do you still have difficult things to do?' We can speak with us. ’

Right: 'The minister is still afraid of others gossiping, I heard that the minister and the deputy envoy Hong Jun were impeached, and the minister's father-in-law Chen Xiang was also criticized in his hometown in Hunan, and the house was almost destroyed. ’

Purpose: 'You don't care about these things, we are always in your way.' You can rest assured. ’

The Empress Dowager of the West asked Gong Di: 'What is the current position of Chen Xiang? ’

Gong Di said: 'Chen Xiangqian was unfavorable to suppress the twist, and he was impeached and dismissed for Zuo Zongtang, and the original proposal was sent to Xinjiang. ’

Asked: 'Does he have a livelihood now?' ’

Right: 'The minister has given the secret recipe of the incense group to his father-in-law, and now Xiangxiang has opened a incense group shop, and the monthly income can still maintain the family. ’

Purpose: 'Xiangxiang is far away, how many people can buy it?' It is better to open it in Beijing. ’

The Empress Dowager Dong's decree: 'Your heart is so filial, we naturally have to help you, and when the semicolon is opened in Beijing, such a incense group, the Internal Affairs Office needs to be **** often.'" ’

Right: 'Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother. ’

The Empress Dowager asked, 'Are there any treasures in the garden that you want to come back?' ’

Right: 'The official stores and museum collections of Britain and France are all coming back, these are large numbers, and there are still some small ones, and they will be recourse after the visit is cleared. ’

Purpose: 'The big numbers are coming back, and the small numbers are not in a hurry, just go back and visit slowly.' It's always your credit for coming back. ’

Right: 'Dare not do your best in the affairs of the ministers.' ’

Gong Di said: 'He has always done things very well. ’

Purpose: 'Your "Brief Treatise on Filial Piety Songs in the Western Kingdom" and "The Examination of the Holy Dao of the Western Kingdom" are very well written, and Hong Jun's "Diary of the Western Kingdom" is also well written. ’

Right: 'The ministers are afraid that people with ulterior motives will deliberately deceive the Holy Hearing, and do not want the Empress Dowager and the Emperor to know about the outside world, so they try their best to elaborate on what they have seen outside. ’

Purpose: 'Can they hide these things if they want to?' What you have written, so that more people can see and know about it. ’

Gong Di said: "I have ordered the General Administration to burn it, send it to all ministries and institutes, and study it carefully. ’

Empress Dowager Dong's decree: 'The Hanlin Academy is the most deserving of reading. ’

Gong Di said, 'Yes. ’

Long.

Purpose: 'Kneel down and be in peace.' ’

He retreated to his place and knelt down and said, 'Chancellor Hayashi Yoshizhe kneels down to ask for St. Ann.' 'Lift the curtain and exit, not just a moment. ”

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"Weng Tongxiao's Diary": "...... Today, looking at Lin Yizhe's "Examination of the Holy Dao of the Western Kingdom", I am very surprised, and the worship of the Holy Religion in the Western Kingdom has been heard of today. …… Yu has never heard of Voltaire, and his text describes the respect of Fu's Confucius Sheng, so Yu suspects that it is a work of flattery and confuses the public. Yin envoy to the West, according to what he said in the text, asked all the things, and replied that it was true, Fu Shi is a great sage of France, respected by Western countries, and the rest of the quotations in the text are not false. …… After repeated detailed study, I finally felt that the text was inappropriate, and I studied until the night, but I could not find a word to refute it. This son's talent is even appalling! ”

Tianjin, Dagukou.

Li Hongzhang stood on the dock, standing with his hands in his hands, looking at the "Weiyuan" ship at anchor. At this time, it was winter, and it was very cold on the dock, but Li Hongzhang stood in the wind, but there was not much chill.

Tianjin's winter is warmer than Beijing's, but it's colder than Shanghai's, but it's not as dry as Beijing's, and it's less moist than Shanghai's. In fact, in addition to the difference in senses, the warmth and coldness of the weather are more likely to trigger some catharsis in the mind. This is the case with the current Li Hongzhang.

Zhou Fu, who was standing beside Li Hongzhang at this time, couldn't help but be secretly amused when he saw Li Hongzhang looking at the "Weiyuan" ship, as if he wanted to see this ship in his eyes.

From the moment the "Weiyuan" arrived in Tianjin, Li Hongzhang did not hide his envy for the "Weiyuan" in the slightest. He visited the ship more than once, and after knowing that the "Weiyuan" was about to leave Tianjin and return to Fuzhou, he called himself from the river construction site to see for himself the largest and most advanced warship in China.

In the tenth year of Tongzhi, Li Hongzhang was transferred from the governor of Huguang to the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang trade, so he used the construction project of Tianjin Xigu to send Zhou Fu to Tianjin for planning. At that time, the flood in Zhili became a disaster, the Yongding River was executed, the Beijing and Tianjin areas were almost Zeguo, and the security of Gyeonggi was threatened. Zhou Fukan prepared materials, "running in the muddy water all day long", "supervising the work day and night, even though the wind and rain did not rest", and soon completed the blocking and repair of the execution ports such as the Lugou Bridge and the big stone dam. Li Hongzhang was very satisfied with the progress of the project, so he tried his best to ensure that Zhou Fu was left as a Taoist to make up for it first.

Today, Zhou Fu was inspecting in Xitang, and Li Hongzhang hurriedly sent someone to call him over, but he thought something big had happened, but after he came, he learned that Li Hongzhang was going to take the opportunity to see Lin Yizhe off, and asked him to accompany him to meet Lin Yizhe and take a look at the "Weiyuan" ship by the way.

"I can't imagine that Harbour Master can build such a good ship." When Zhou Fu saw the "Weiyuan" ship for the first time, he was also like Li Hongzhang, and his heart was full of shock.

"The Shanghai factory is going down this time." Li Hongzhang laughed, "It's just that Lin Kunyu is also a person who does practical things, so he doesn't care about this mere name." It doesn't seem like someone who regards this as his life. ”

Zhou Fu heard the sarcasm of Zuo Zongtang in Li Hongzhang's words, and also smiled slightly: "I heard that Lin Kunyu bluntly said that his 'military and business' ship is a ship that is not a donkey or a horse, so he offended him. ”

"With his retributive temperament, I don't think he will let go of such a good opportunity." Li Hongzhang remembered Zuo Zongtang's black hand under the shipmaster, and sighed, "If it weren't for his secret constraints, the shipmaster might have been able to build an ironclad soldier ship today." ”

"However, the two palaces are very kind to Lin Kunyu, and no matter how much he tosses this time, it will be in vain." Zhou Fu said.

"By the way, Yushan, have you read the 'Western Kingdom Holy Dao Test' written by Lin Kunyu?" Li Hongzhang asked.

"I've seen it." Zhou Fu said with a smile, "This article is extremely high-based, breaks stereotypes, and is well-founded. Shilin wanted to reprimand him, but he was afraid that he would lose his brain. ”

"Oh?" Li Hongzhang listened to Zhou Fu's answer, raised his eyebrows, and asked with a smile, "What do you think is the high meaning of this article?" ”

"The biggest thing about his article is that he used his spear to attack his shield and break the fallacy of 'Yixia Great Defense'." Zhou Fu said, "After that, if you handle foreign affairs, you will have fewer obstacles." ”

"What you're saying is that there was no one who wrote this back then." Li Hongzhang sighed, "If this article had been published a few years earlier, we would have had China's first railway, but I am afraid that it would already exist." ”

Hearing Li Hongzhang talk about the past of the railway, Zhou Fu couldn't help but sigh.

In 1863, when more than 20 British and American foreign companies in Shanghai borrowed foreign guns to help the Qing court defeat the Taiping army and recover the state, they jointly asked for permission to build a Jiangsu-Shanghai railway from Shanghai to Suzhou. Although Li Hongzhang, who was the governor of Jiangsu at the time, was intimidated by the collective resistance of the scholars and doctors of the whole country to Western technology, he did not dare to make his own decisions, so he had to push the matter to the imperial court. In the end, the imperial court asked Li Hongzhang to tell Western merchants that only the Chinese themselves built and managed the railways would be beneficial to the Chinese; At the same time, the Chinese government cannot tolerate the hiring of large numbers of foreigners in the mainland. In fact, the answer that China must build the railways itself is just a pretext. More than ten years later, the imperial court was still intimidated by the strong pressure of the conservative diehards, and still had no intention of building its own railway.