Li Hongzhang saw the skyscraper for the first time in the United States and said a paragraph, and the foreigners were silent after listening to it
"Today's peaceful and contented work is bought by the martyrs with their blood and lives."
If you want to choose a historical dynasty that is least likely to be mentioned, then in the late Qing Dynasty, the probability of winning the vote is the highest. As long as you open the history textbook and take a casual look, you can understand that the ordinary people in the late Qing Dynasty were all suffering great hardships, coupled with the incompetence of the Qing court, various powers invaded China, and the Qing court also signed a series of unequal treaties, which made the people live in the depths of the water.
At the time of signing these unequal treaties, the representative sent by the Qing court was the famous minister Li Hongzhang, and Li Hongzhang's evaluation has always been more complicated, and in the entire history of China, it can be called the most mixed figure.
However, there is one thing that li hongzhang signed, which is not his personal will at all, but the will of the entire Qing court, but Li Hongzhang has become the person who blocked the target.
However, in the foreign affairs movement, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong and others have played a crucial role, although the foreign affairs movement did not make the Qing Dynasty really rich and strong, but the impact on future generations is huge, that is, if you want to be strong, you must study well, just as the so-called "master Yi long skills to control Yi." ”
However, in that year, when Li Hongzhang first came to the United States and saw the skyscrapers that ran through the skyscrapers, he said a sentence that still makes people feel very sad.
Li Hongzhang said: "What impressed me the most was your skyscrapers, I see that they are more than 20 stories high, I have never seen such a tall building in Europe, we can't build such a high building, if we build this height, it will be very unstable." ”
This is not Li Hongzhang's arrogance, but at that time, China in the Qing Dynasty was really in a state of lackluster national strength, when Li Hongzhang traveled to several European and American countries, which were undergoing an industrial revolution at that time.
Speaking of Li Hongzhang, if it were not for the series of events in the late Qing Dynasty, he would most likely have been a loyal minister who could leave a position in Chinese history, of course, if you look at the right things That Li Hongzhang has done, the loyal minister is absolutely qualified.
Li Hongzhang was 17 years old and talented, and at the age of 20, li hongzhang's achievements were definitely the dragon and phoenix among people in that era when not everyone could read.
In the later foreign affairs movement, to a certain extent, the results of saving the country were achieved, but a Sino-Japanese war between China and Japan completely failed the foreign affairs movement that lasted for more than 30 years, and at this time Li Hongzhang's heart path was self-evident, and no one wanted to see his decades of hard work, so it was destroyed.
Since 1896, there has been a phenomenon of Li Hongzhang visiting the country everywhere, ironically, the Qing Dynasty at that time was in danger, although many countries welcomed Li Hongzhang on the surface, but their attitude towards Li Hongzhang was as if they were looking at a bereaved dog, after all, the Qing Dynasty at that time was like a joke in the eyes of the great powers.
In the "Biography of Li Hongzhang", it is mentioned that on November 7, 1901, Li Hongzhang suffered a serious mental blow again under the signing of the "Xinugu Treaty" and eventually died at the age of 79. Eleven years later, the Qing Dynasty also officially collapsed, ending More than 2,000 years of feudal dynasties in China.
There is a question that is worth wondering, why has Li Hongzhang always been a controversial person? Among them, it is indispensable that many historical events embody Li Hongzhang's moral problems, but when people evaluate a person, they will instinctively use the standards of saints to look at a person, after all, from the perspective of moral standards, Li Hongzhang is definitely an imperfect person, or that no one is an imperfect person.
Some people also feel that Li Hongzhang is more of a person who served the Qing Dynasty than a person who served the country, in short, these so-called evaluations can be based, it is not wrong, but from Li Hongzhang's position, he is also a person who has no choice.
Perhaps as long as you put yourself in the shoes of Li Hongzhang and bring yourself into the perspective of Li Hongzhang, he is probably just an ordinary person with moral flaws.