Chapter 5 Chapter 4 The Famous Minister Zhang Zhidong

A few days later, Gang Yi copied two of Zhang Hanlin's papers and went to the morning court.Seeing the Empress Dowager Cixi, the more determined they came out: Qi Zou the Empress Dowager, the minister has a book to play. The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at him in surprise: Fortitude, who doesn't know that you are notoriously short-hearted, and you will also have a book?Don't be short-sighted, right?Let me tell you, if you dare to do this in the court, I will not spare you! Resolute and impatient: Empress Dowager, my ministers are all thinking about national affairs, how can there be a reason why parents are short-sighted?If you don't believe me, look at the queen mother... After all, submit your memorial.

The Empress Dowager Cixi opened the memorial, looked at it twice, suddenly her face changed color, and she yelled: Fortitude, you are so courageous! Gang Yi was stunned, and fell to his knees with a plop: The Queen Mother, spare your life, spare your life... Seeing Cixi raised her eyebrows and raised her eyes: Fortitude, tell me the truth, who wrote this memorial? This... It's not my business... The fortitude cried like tears: I didn't notice it for a while and was deceived by others. I told the Queen Mother that this statement was written by Zhang Hanlin of the Imperial Academy.

Cixi's voice was even colder: Fortitude, are you guilty? I know... I don't know... I don't know... The fortitude has been frightened and confused, and I don't know how to answer it. But I heard Cixi sigh and say: "Fortitude, don't blame me for scolding you. Our Qing Dynasty has a large population, but we are bullied by Western barbarians. Why?"It is because there are many people who eat in my Qing Dynasty, but few capable people.That's why I often tell you to pay more attention to find talents. Now that you have found such talents as Zhang Hanlin, you don't want to introduce them to the court quickly and reuse them. Instead, you suppress him and steal his records.Fortitude, fortitude, are you worthy of the ancestors of the Aixinjueluo family by doing this?

It turned out that this was the case, Gang Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and reported: The queen mother is auspicious, although I did something wrong, but Zhang Hanlin? Good strategy, copy a few more. Cixi said: Come on, it's not enough for you to copy once?What's the name of Zhang Hanlin? Gang Yi tilted his head and thought for a while: It seems to be called Zhang Zhidong. Passing the decree, Cixi said: "Let the Ministry of Officials see where there are vacancies for local officials, and let this hole go to practice and practice. In the future, our Qing Dynasty will probably have to rely on him to work for everyone."

Cixi was really right. The famous official Zhang Zhidong was born so far and was sent to Shanxi by the officials to be the governor. He was a famous Confucian official in the late Qing Dynasty. The most important person in the late Qing Dynasty. But there are pros and cons, and words have two sides. Zhang Zhidong was born out of nowhere, and he only came to strengthen the country, but he couldn't help it that the interests of the Aixinjueluo Emperor were in conflict with the interests of the country.It turned out that Zhang Zhidong's painstaking efforts were nothing more than four large copper nails nailed down on the coffin of the Manchu Dynasty.

In this sense, the Confucian minister Zhang Zhidong himself is no less than the last gravedigger of the Qing Empire.