#中国最后一个王朝, after 30 years of foreign affairs movement, why did not escape the fate of the subjugation of the country#
Li Hongzhang's motivation for engaging in the foreign affairs movement is national defense, and military construction is the most. The establishment of two machinery manufacturing plants in Jiangnan and Tianjin is actually an arsenal. The construction of shipyards, telegraph offices, and railways was also for the transportation of the army.
However, national defense not only needs transportation, education, and economy, but also needs politics and the people, and it is useless to be half new and half old. In other words, in modern Times, China must be completely Westernized in order to survive, but they are not thorough and still cannot save the country and the nation.
Why not thoroughly? It is because the times make them incomplete, because Prince Gong, Li Hongzhang, and Zuo Zongtang are all in the old era, the old education, no one goes abroad to study, forcibly promotes Western culture, does not understand Western culture, and works very hard to accept Western culture.
They felt that the political system and founding spirit of the Qing Dynasty were perfect, and struggling between the new and the old would inevitably be hindered by the old system and the old spirit.
