Gong Zizhen
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was an extremely corrupt era, and many able people and heroes threw their heads and spilled their blood in order to save the country. There was a great literary scholar, in order to satirize the society at that time, wrote a total of 350 "Self-Hai Miscellaneous Poems", he was Gong Zizhen. This book criticizes the decay of the Qing Dynasty at that time, and to a great extent awakens the people of the present, so that he has been passed on through the ages. However, as the saying goes, "The tiger father has no dog", but he gave birth to a "dog", named Gong Orange. Because Gong Banlun had defected to the British army at that time and gave him directions, which led to the rapid destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, Li Hongzhang called him a traitor throughout the ages.
Gong Orange, also spelled Xiaoqi, was the eldest son of the great thinker Gong Zizhen in the late Qing Dynasty. Because there is no way of a monarch, a father and a son, a husband and wife, a brother, or a friend, and only a concubine, Wulun went to four and a half, so Gong Orange was nicknamed Gong Banlun. We all know that his father Gong Zizhen, although he is a great literary hero, is not exempt from vulgarity. He has a lonely personality and is a person who is quite popular by nature. As a son, Gong Banlun is even worse, he not only has no one in sight and uninhibited behavior, but also has a lonely personality, is silent, and only likes to collect ancient books.
Li
When he was young, because his father was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, his living conditions were relatively rich. However, after his father's death, because he himself held the talent and indulged in money, Gong Banlun in his later years was poor and destitute. At that time, Li Hongzhang happened to be in Shanghai with him, had heard of his fame, cherished his talent, and decided to help him. He ordered his subordinates to provide him with a few hundred taels of silver every month, but he did not repent, and used these living expenses to eat, drink, gamble and smoke, and Li Hongzhang no longer helped him after he knew it.
The Anglo-French forces destroyed the Old Summer Palace
According to relevant literature, after this incident, forced by the pressure of life, Gong Banlun could only find another way to survive. Just as the British began to invade the Qing Dynasty, Gong Banlun, who had no bottom line, proposed himself and decided to serve as an aide to the British Pasha Li. In order to win the trust of the British army, he took the initiative to show the British troops the way, told them the specific location of the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" Yuanmingyuan, and said a lot of things to the British army about the treasures of the Yuanmingyuan. Not surprisingly, the British army, which was in direct confrontation with the Qing army at that time, pointed its sword at the Yuanmingyuan and began the brutal and evil act of destroying the Yuanmingyuan.
Li Hongzhang angrily scolded Gong Banlun
On October 6, 1860, after the British and French forces joined forces to loot, loot, and burn, the Yuanmingyuan of the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" was destroyed in half. This matter was later known to Li Hongzhang, and he was furious, and when the two of them met later, Li Hongzhang could not help but feel excited in his heart, pointing at his nose and scolding him: "You are waiting for the world to receive the favor of the country, but you are willing to do the work for the tiger, and you are really a traitor for eternity." Gong Banlun retorted: "We were originally good people, but our way to advance was blocked by Er and others, and we were also stripped of all our food and clothing by corrupt officials, so we had to beg for food from foreign countries. To be able to say this is really "worthy" of Li Hongzhang calling him a traitor for eternity.
Ruins of the Old Summer Palace
His father has been exiled for hundreds of years, but he has become a traitor who has been spurned by thousands of people, is Gong Zizhen educated without a way, or is his nature like this? Although the Yuanmingyuan could not escape the clutches of the Anglo-French coalition even without his guidance. However, leaving aside this matter, as the son of the "Tiger Father", he did not have any patriotic feelings of Gong Zizhen, and in order to seek glory, he surrendered to the British army alone, which was really the shame of the Qing Dynasty and the scum of China. Do you think that the name of the traitor throughout the ages is exaggerated enough for Gong Banlun?