The No. 1 Scholar of the Qing Dynasty: Starting from Rescuing Lin Zexu

In the year when Lin Zexu was sent to Yili, Sun Nianlin knelt on the loess official road and offered a pot of warm wine: "Mr. Lin, in three years, I will win the championship in the Golden Palace and bring you back!" Everyone thought he was crazy. Because the Sun family was implicated in the Lin Zexu case, they fell from being the governor of Liangjiang overnight. In the past, the guests were like birds and beasts, and classmates avoided him. No one believed that a seventeen-year-old boy could make a comeback amid shouting and beatings. Three years later, in the palace examination in the 24th year of Daoguang, Sun Nian and Lin Ce argued that "pay equal attention to sea defense and fortification, and learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians", and he was selected as the top candidate. Entered the Hanlin Academy, joined the military aircraft, and entered Shanghai Beach. On the surface, he is as gentle as jade, a leader of the Qing Dynasty and a disciple of the emperor; secretly he builds factories, makes weapons, trains new troops, and uses foreign rules to play tricks on foreigners. While others knelt down to do foreign affairs, he earned the money standing up. When others saw that the great powers were inferior, he used fluent English at the negotiation table to force the British minister to throw a cup on the spot. Before Lin Zexu died, he asked someone to send him a manuscript: "Tsarist Russia is the most serious problem." Sun Nianlin turned to the northwest and left a message at General Yili's mansion—— "I will continue to do what Mr. Lin has not finished. I have renewed my commitment to this country." Some people called him "the second devil", and some said he was "the last backbone of the Qing Dynasty." He didn't argue, just smiled and repeated Mr. Lin's old saying: "Be tough in your actions and soft in your words." On the day when the foreign warships could not enter the Yangtze River, he stood on the city wall of Jiangning and said to the group of young people behind him who were looking at the world with their eyes open - "When I open my eyes, I'm not afraid anymore." [Double-faced powerful official × Pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger × The first reformer in the late Qing Dynasty]