1871-1908, The most thrilling thirty years in the late Qing Dynasty.
The great powers are surrounding them and encroaching on them step by step;
The temple is dim and shaky.
This book takes Li Hongzhang as the main line and connects the four famous officials of ZTE.
Taking the four major changes of Westernization, Sino-French, Sino-Japanese War, and Gengzi as the context,
It describes the struggle and perseverance of a generation of famous ministers in crisis.
A piece of paper cuts off a land and mountains and rivers;
One signature brings a lifetime of infamy.
He was the last "pastor" of the Qing Dynasty.
Use your own body to bear the world's crisis;
With half a lifetime of honor and disgrace, I will support the dynasty that will fall.
From the resurgence of Tongzhi to the deaths of Guangxu and Cixi,
All famous ministers died, and the country's fortunes declined.
Over the past thirty years,
An elegy for the collapse of an empire,
It is the heaviest page in modern China.
See how a generation can hold on to a dynasty that will eventually collapse.
