They returned to Europe in high spirits, the two bandits, one called France, one called England.

They *** shared the Oriental treasure trove of the Yuanmingyuan, and thought they had achieved a great victory!

At that time, the British and French forces to "trade injustice" as the reason to start the Second Opium War, the guns hit the capital, Emperor Xianfeng fled.

The British and French forces entered Beijing.

After the British and French forces entered the capital, the first to be robbed is the Yuanmingyuan.

The Yuanmingyuan was built from the Kangxi period, after several generations of monarchs finally built the Garden of Gardens, it is a royal garden, representing the dignity of the entire royal family, the dignity of the entire Chinese nation.

There are antique paintings and calligraphy collected by successive monarchs, making it a veritable museum.

As the saying goes: money moves the heart, and this group of robbers had heard about the Yuanmingyuan.

They finally had a chance to get their hands on it, and they weren't going to miss it.

So, they brought troops into the Yuanmingyuan, the face of a wide range of antiques, which makes them can not resist the excitement of the heart, will be displayed in the Yuanmingyuan exhibits ransacked.

But they were still not satisfied, and in a few days they entered the Yuanmingyuan again, raided it once more, and then burned it to the ground with a fire.

After Britain and France burned down the Yuanmingyuan, Zuo Zongtang and Zeng Guofan reacted differently, who in the end is truly patriotic!

Zuo Zongtang's reaction:

When the Yuanmingyuan incident occurred, Zuo Zongtang is still a subordinate of Zeng Guofan, led by a "four-person Beijing Hall Alternate" of the virtual position, the foreigners have a young man's unique hostility and hatred, at first glance as if the lack of officialdom on the wrinkles and smoothness, but more to let us **** love.

Then Zuo Zongtang was not in the capital after hearing the news of the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan "grief and indignation, can not sleep peacefully", and even wrote to the court to request a military position, want to lead the troops to kill back to the British and French allied forces heavily guarded the capital, however, this blood in the time but did not get scared out of all the ministers responded to the Zeng Guofan's attitude also The first time I saw this, it was a very clear message to me.

This gas has not disappeared with the passage of time, Zuo Zongtang's path to government is different from Zeng Guofan's, if the former ophthalmic chicken like staring at the domestic point of things, then Zuo Zongtang will be their own spearhead against the European powers.

Twenty years after the Yuanmingyuan incident, Zuo Zongtang also sat on the "Governor of the two rivers" position, and when Zeng Guofan is different, his attitude toward the foreigners and twenty years ago, generally hostile and tough.

He held the military power, not only a large donation of mines, and even arranged the torpedoes on the southeast coast of the main mouth of the defense.

In his eyes, the European powers are the heart of the Qing Dynasty, the ambition and arrogance of these people, as well as the country's increasingly lost dignity and self-confidence have made the Qing Dynasty become more and more humble.

But the ruler still dreamed of a great power, trying to "tolerance" and political and diplomatic means to sensitize the invaders, which made him more fearful of the foreigners.

Zeng Guofan's reaction:

The year went very well for Zeng Guofan.

First, he defeated Chen Yucheng, a famous general of the Taiping army, in the Battle of Taihu Lake.

The second was to replace He Guiqing, the governor of Liangjiang, who had abandoned the city and fled, and formally assumed the post of governor of Liangjiang and supervised the military affairs in Jiangnan as an imperial minister.

This means that Zeng Guofan finally has a serious position, which is still high in rank and thick in power.

The third was commanding Zeng's troops to capture Anqing, a major town in Anhui province, blowing the horn of the siege of Tianjing.

Zeng Guofan did not take a clear stance on the British and French forces setting fire to the Yuanmingyuan.

However, nearly two years later on May 7, 1862, Zeng Guofan in advocating the foreign affairs movement, wrote a paragraph notes, briefly referred to the burning of the Yuanmingyuan:

"I thought that to control the barbarians, it is not appropriate to tariffs of the amount, etiquette and the respect of the saw on the focus, that is, the mainland people everywhere in the charm of the barbarians, the color of the barbarians and contempt of the Chinese, through the barbarians and the Chinese pressure, although the most hateful and abominable, but the far-sighted person is not appropriate in this case. And far-sighted people are not yet appropriate to focus on these places.

We are focusing on the place, before this.

The foreigners entered the capital in August of this decade, and did not harm the destruction of my temple and the countryside, and now they are in Shanghai and Ningbo to help me attack and eliminate the bandits, both of which are virtuous to me.

I China should not forget the big and complain about the small.

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In Zeng Guofan's view, the British and French forces passed through Beijing, although set fire to the Yuanmingyuan, but can only be considered a minor evil.

And, since the British and French allied forces did not capture the Forbidden City or the Imperial Temple, they could not be considered an insult to the Qing emperor's ancestors, so they were as virtuous to China as they were to help the Qing army advance against the Taiping army in Shanghai and Ningbo.

Only from the view on the burning of the Yuanmingyuan incident can be seen, small favors compared with the national righteousness, the humerus Zeng Guofan but accidentally chose the Anglo-French allied forces of small favors, abandoned the national righteousness.

When it comes to the way of government, Zeng Guofan's wrist is so smart that Zuo Zongtang can barely do his job as a follower.

But in terms of patriotism, Zeng Guofan is a far cry from Zuo Zongtang! Of course, we do not deny that Zeng Guofan is a great loyalist, but his loyalty is to the Qing dynasty, while Zuo Zongtang is loyal to the Chinese nation!

Finally, when it comes to the late Qing Dynasty, the international situation is changing rapidly, and the rule of the Qing Dynasty is even more precarious.

In the face of internal and external dilemmas, the Qing government had to vigorously reuse Han Chinese ministers.

In the chaos of the world and was entrusted with the background, really emerged a large number of Chinese ministers, celebrities, which is best known as Zeng (Zeng Guofan), Zuo (Zuo Zongtang), HU (Hulinji), Li (Li Hongzhang).

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While the old four with the "Zhongxing ministers", for the Qing dynasty and even for today's China, the achievements and each have a thousand and one, but they are a few in the later generations of the word of mouth evaluation is not the same.

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