Therefore, when people pointed the way to the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, Li Hongzhang scolded him for being a traitor for thousands of years, but his father was exiled for thousands of years
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the development of our country was still relatively good, and at that time it also created a prosperous era, but in the late Qing Dynasty, it was corrupt, and many people with lofty ideals stood up to try to save their country, his name was Gong Zizhen, and in order to save the country, all the enthusiasm was written in the "Self-Hai Miscellaneous Poems", which contained a total of three hundred and fifty stories, and played a role in awakening the people at that time.
As the saying goes: Lao Tzu's hero is a good man, but Gong Zizhen's child is not like this, Gong Orange, also known as Gong Banlun, is Gong Zizhen's son, because his reason accelerated the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, Li Hongzhang scolded him as a traitor throughout the ages. Gong Zizhen was a great literary hero of the Qing Dynasty, but this person was a very popular figure, and his son Gong Banlun was even more such a person, because his father loved him since he was a child, and when he grew up, he did not put anyone in his eyes, and he did not like to talk, and his only hobby was to collect ancient books.
Gong Zizhen was a polymath, so the life of the Gong family was very rich, but after Gong Zizhen's death, it changed, Gong Orange squandered his own money at will, and became very poor in his later years, when Li Hongzhang in Shanghai knew him, he felt that this person was talented and felt that he helped him, and sent someone to send him some silver, but he took the money to drink flower wine, and later Li Hongzhang was unwilling to help him.
Historical records record above, in his later years Gong Banlun forced to make a living, he thought about how to make money, when he was in order not to work and surrendered to the British Pasha Li, in order to be able to let the British army pay attention to his existence, but also the location of the Yuanmingyuan high-speed British army, when he exaggerated to the British officers, the Yuanmingyuan hidden countless treasures, and the British army at that time better confronted the Qing army, coveted the treasures of the Yuanmingyuan, and began to prepare to attack the Yuanmingyuan, which was also the beginning of the road to the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan.
Later, the British and French coalition forces ransacked the Yuanmingyuan, in order not to let their atrocities let the world know, but also burned the Yuanmingyuan, at that time Li Hongzhang was very angry after knowing it, and later Li Hongzhang saw Gong Banlun and scolded him: The country is not thin for you, but you stand with the enemy, it is really a big traitor. At that time, Gong Banlun had his own set of theories, saying that he was a good citizen, but when he was an official, because he was bullied by corrupt officials, he ended up in such a situation, and even more scolded Li Hongzhang as a traitor.
Do you think Gong Banlun's approach is right? His father, Gong Zizhen, was a great literary hero, and we grew up reading his ancient poems, but the son who was educated was scolded as a traitor by posterity, is it because Gong Zizhen is not educated or is he such a character? Although without Gong Banlun's guidance, the Yuanmingyuan would also be harmed by the British and French forces, but Gong Banlun, as a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, turned to the British, which was really sorry for his father, and later people called Gong Banlun a traitor throughout the ages, what do you think?