Originally, Ma Xinyi returned to the office after reviewing Wu Shengyue, met a man on the arrow path and stabbed him to death with a short knife. The assassin was caught red-handed, and his name was Zhang Wenxiang, a native of Henan.
The assassination of the governor was the first time since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.
Before leaving for Jiangning, Zeng Guofan was ordered to meet him in Beijing. However, Empress Dowager Cixi's attitude towards the Ma case was subtle and not enthusiastic. It seems to be saying to Zeng Guofan that there is no need to get to the bottom of it.
Zeng Guofan came to Jiangning City and sent people to inquire around, but the horse case in Jiangning citizens' mouth was bizarre, which added a lot of mystery to this case. After some efforts, Zeng Guofan finally made Zhang Wenxiang confess, but Zeng Guofan became overwhelmed, even a little overwhelmed. There are powerful people behind us who control everything. If we dig deeper, we will be implicated in ourselves and Xiang. Zeng Guofan, as the commander-in-chief of the Xiang army, will be ruined because he used to be the small leader of the Xiang army and the small leader of the Xiang army assassinated the governor.
Finally, under the joint discussion of Zeng Guofan and the minister of punishments, the case was hastily closed, and an unprecedented case of regicide in the Qing Dynasty came to an end.
After that, Zeng Guofan stopped asking more about the customs of the two rivers, not only because he was too weak, but also because the Tianjin religious plan stimulated him too deeply. He knew in his heart that the Tianjin case ended in compensation for killing his compatriots, which was nominally his compromise, but his reputation was ruined. Taking the overall situation into consideration is actually the court and the injustice of China as a whole. Is to seek temporary peace, at the expense of losing the dignity of the country and the famous Korean. The reason why we have come this far is because the country is weak.
In the process of dealing with foreigners, China can get along on an equal footing without being wronged, not only because of sufficient reason, but also because of its strong national strength. Xu Tu should strive for self-improvement! Zeng Guofan vowed to devote the rest of his life to the cause of "learning from foreigners", which was launched as early as ten years ago.
Zeng Guofan decided to go to Shanghai to inspect Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau first, to cheer them up and help them solve some practical difficulties.
In the past year, the General Administration of Jiangnan has successively built four new ships, equipped with some domestic heavy artillery. Among them, "Weijing" is the largest, equipped with 26 64-pound guns. The other three are smaller and have fewer guns. Guns and machines were also made.
In Zeng Guofan's and Nie He's talk about the management of Jiangnan General Political Department, they put forward epoch-making suggestions. Zeng Guofan decided to take advantage of the favorable conditions of the Machine Bureau to run a school and make a country with abundant talents prosperous!
Not only that, Hong Rong also proposed that we should not only train talents at home, but also send people abroad to learn from foreigners.
In this way, it is a groundbreaking decision to send young children to study abroad and come back to serve the country after they finish their studies.