45 Portland Street, London, United Kingdom, Legation of the Qianguo State in the United Kingdom.

Guo Yunxian, the envoy of the Qianguo State to Britain, was sitting at the table, looking through the diary he had written before.

"On the ninth day of the first month, Yin Chu entered the Donghua Gate and sat in the room of Jiuqing. The surname of Su Layang was transferred to the court room of the Internal Affairs Office, to greet the military aircraft, and to respect the palace, Bao, Shen Liangzhongtang and Li Lansun Shangshu, and still returned to the Jiuqing court room. Suddenly, the decree summoned the military aircraft and Songtao, and the six-headed Jingshou brought them to see. Enter the moon garden, and sit in the inner room. The chamberlain passed the order of the palace and went to the military plane seat. Pei Heng Xiangguo gave up his seat, and he didn't dare to thank him. Jing Di said: 'The old man of the South Study, what is Qianwei? 'Because he inquired about his family history, and asked his brother Kuntao, where is he now? Push with the refinement of foreign affairs, as for the fourth. Adviser Liang Zhongtang: 'This person is pragmatic and thorough. 'Sit for a long time and return to Westinghouse. The six foreheads were brought to the Heart Nourishing Palace. The throne should be in the main hall, and it should be regarded as indistinguishable. The inner servant has lifted the east curtain. Please finish it, kneel down to the table, see the holy face, sit solemnly on the royal couch, protect it with a small case on both sides and before sitting, and cover it with green cloth. The curtain hangs behind the seat, and the six foreheads kneel next to the curtain.

The Queen Mother asked: 'How many years have you been away?' ’

He replied, 'Four years.' ’

The Queen Mother asked: 'How many years have you been in Guangdong?' ’

He replied, 'Three years.' ’

The Queen Mother asked: 'Have you ever encountered snow on the way?' ’

He replied: 'Snow in Taean. ’

The Queen Mother asked: 'Is the place quiet?' ’

He replied, 'Quiet.' ’

The Queen Mother asked: 'What kind of envoy did you serve in the capital?' ’

He replied: 'Walk in the south study. ’

The Queen Mother asked, 'But go home from illness?' ’

He replied: 'I will come to Beijing to wait for another commissioner, and I will ask for sick leave on the way. ’

The Queen Mother asked: 'How many years?' ’

He replied, 'Fifty-six.' ’

After summoning him, he retreated to the outer courtroom. Yingxiangyan in the middle hall rotated, and greeted a few words. Compound fertilizer Bo Xiang a letter. ”

"On the 11th, the middle hall of Wenbo Chuan was extended to the inner room, and the conversation lasted for two hours. The body has just recovered, described as haggard, loyal, and respectful. Shen Jingsheng Zhongtang and Li Lansun Shangshu met at the beginning, and Yunwen Zhongtang was extremely important. and see the text in the hall, if it is very concerned. This trip is undoubtedly recommended by the article in the hall. The language, and asked the reason for Yuedong's slander, and Zuo Jun got along so much, it was quite difficult to answer, and it was just a brief statement. The monk's mansion and Zuojun are famous, and they are also valued by the contemptible, but they cannot be tolerated, so that the contempt cannot be self-solved, isn't it the so-called Tianye? ”

"On the 15th, Lin Kunyu came and sent a secret letter, with the words 'Trouble is sent' on the box, I don't know what it means, I asked, when Kunyu said to England, something big happened, when it can be used, it is useless to say more now. Blame it. During the mission, Kun Yu said that the situation in England was very detailed, and he wrote a letter to the family, and when he went to London, he handed it over to Chen Tingxuan, the president of the British Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and the Chen family was his wife. Kun Yuyun Chen is quite famous overseas, and has donated money to serve the service, won the queen mother's gold medal, for the Qianguo people to live in the United Kingdom, although knighted by the British king, the heart of the homeland, the rest of the British can still take care of each other after the United Kingdom. Yu happily obeyed his fate, there is such a good business overseas, and everything should be very convenient. There was a long conversation. A letter to Zeng Yuanfu for Liu Xunan. ”

On the 20th, His Majesty resigned from Beijing and waited for the ship in Tianjin. The road is rainy and snowy, the journey is very bumpy, Kun Yuyan and the railway, want to go to the book to repair the first line of Beijing and Tianjin, Yu and Fang Xian are worried about the difficult topic to do, Kun Yuyan is the gardener transporting wood and stone, Yu Shifang knows the deep meaning of Kunyu advocating the garden, and admires inexplicably. ”

"On the 30th, to Dagu, the trip was bumpy and handsome, very tired, Hefei Boxiang came to meet, and talked with Fang Xian and Kunyu, Yunsheng was present. Kunyu language Hefei Boxiang within three months, there will be a major event, ask Boxiang to be cautious, and issue a letter, sent to Boxiang, there is also a box with the words "in case of trouble". Bo Xiang smiled and accepted it, not asking. Gai Kunyu often acts in a new way, and he is familiar with him, so it is not surprising. Talk about the three drums and start to disperse. ”

"On the first day of the new year, I went back to worship everywhere and talked for a long time. Uncle invited him to breakfast, and sat at Tang Jingxing, Wei Gengchen, and Zeng Jiegang. After drinking, the shipmaster and sailor 'Fujing' came to pick it up. 'Fujing' is the flagship of the shipmaster and navy division, and it is also the capital ship, and it has been in the second battle of Langqiao and the East China Sea, charging ahead, and its merits are quite special. Boarding the ship and looking around, but seeing that the guns are fine, the soldiers are majestic, and the style is different from that of the inland naval division and the land division, I know that the victory of this expulsion is not for no reason. After boarding the ship, the senders gathered, and the uncle set up a banquet and sailed in the afternoon. ”

"On the 12th, the wind at sea was too strong, and I left the ship and went ashore to Kunyudi for a rest, so as to wait for the transfer of British passenger ships to set off......"

Seeing this, Guo Yunxian thought of the deceased Lin Yizhe, and the corners of his eyes became moist.

He and Lin Yizhe, an old man and a young man, are both Western-style talents, they hit it off at first sight, and they became friends who forgot their years, and the two of them were in the court and outside, helping each other and doing a lot of great things for the country.

Not to mention, just because the two of them worked together to promote the peaceful settlement of the "Margaret Incident" and avoided paying the price of reparations and opening additional ports, it is enough to flaunt the annals of history!

Guo Yunxian has seen people, but the scholar's habits are too heavy, and he can speak in books, and he is a "high counselor" who comes up with ideas, but he is unbearable to the "complicated drama" of officialdom. He was "born in the last days" but he didn't want to go along with the dirt and couldn't bear to see the "building falling", so he wanted to rely on his own strength to rise and fall, but even though he was "only clear and ambitious", he would inevitably end up with "luck and disappearance".

In April of the tenth year of Xianfeng, Guo Yunxian, who was left out in the cold, returned to his hometown with a lonely and depressed mood on the grounds of returning home for medical treatment. After two years of leisure life in his hometown, Guo Yunxian was persuaded by everyone to be invited by Li Shaoquan, who had not long trained the Huai Army and was short of manpower, to go out of the mountain again in the spring of the first year of Tongzhi, and served as the Susong Grain Road, and soon was promoted to the two Huai salt transportation envoys. Thanks to the full support of Zeng Bohan and Li Shaoquan, Guo Yunxian's financial management in Lianghuai has been smooth and effective. In the autumn of the second year of Tongzhi, he was promoted to the governor of Guangdong, who was economically wealthy and had many foreign exchanges, so he had an important position, and rewarded him with three products. Rising to this high position in less than two years can be described as a prosperous official, and he is also determined to make a difference and live up to the grace of the imperial court. However, during his tenure as governor of Guangdong, he also had many contradictions with the two governors of Guangzhou, who were stationed in Guangzhou before and after, and he also had a disagreement with his old friend Zuo Jigao, who had always been high-spirited and self-motivated. In the midst of the intricate contradictions, Guo Yunxian was stumbling, and finally stepped down in June of the fifth year of Tongzhi, and began to return to his hometown to live idlely, and this time for several years.

Although he returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion, Guo Yunxian still always cared about the current situation and worried about the future of the country.

It was precisely in the past few years that although the Westernization Movement was breaking through the tremendous resistance of the old forces and gradually developing, at the same time, the international situation facing Qianguo has become more sinister and the national crisis has deepened, because even Japan, which has always looked down on Qianguo, dares to casually find an excuse to invade Qianguo's territory!

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