How did Xu Tong, a diehard minister in the late Qing Dynasty, live a joke?

China in the late Qing period suffered Li Hongzhang once said three thousand years of unprecedented changes, although said that all kinds of ideological trends surging, but still deliberately people, so self-contained, in the face of this change of the general trend is still immovable, this kind of people are used to the old-fashioned, refuse to accept all new things, they adhere to their old ideas, xenophobic and conservative, so they are also called diehards, one of the characters is, Xu Tong lived himself into a paragraph.

First, Xu Tong himself is very talented. Xu Tong was a jinshi in the Daoguang period and a teacher of the Tongzhi Emperor, without certain skills, he would definitely not be the emperor's master. During his tenure as the master of the Tongzhi Emperor, Xu Tong also served as a cabinet scholar, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and a co-founder of a university.

But with so many positions, he was blinded by his full stomach of scriptures, and in the end he still lived himself into a joke, unable to apply what he had learned, and could only become a laughing stock in the end.

2. Xu Tong does not admit the existence of Spain and Portugal. When Xu Tong chatted with people, when he talked about other countries in the world, as a scholar, he did not start from the facts, but said that there are only Britain, Italy and France in the world, and countries like Spain and Portugal do not exist at all. Everyone was stunned by this strange statement, and Xu Tong also pretended to explain deeply:

Spain has teeth, grapes have teeth, teeth become a country, history has never heard of, books have not been recorded, absurd, nothing more than this. "But people are saying that both countries have come to grab things, how can it not exist? Xu Tong said that Britain and France had come to rob too many things, and he was embarrassed, so he made up two names randomly.

3. After the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, Xu Tong hanged himself. After the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, Cixi fled, but Xu Tong stayed in the capital. As a literati, it was impossible for Xu Tong to resist the crimes of the Eight-Nation Alliance, he wanted to die with his son, but before he died, his son kicked down his father's stool and walked away.

In the late Qing Dynasty in China, various trends of thought in China were surging, but at this time, there was a group of people who were unmoved in the face of this situation and did not want to be baptized by a new trend of thought, and these people were what we call diehards. The reason why he said that he lived a joke is because he is blind and full of poetry, but he is always very unreliable in speaking and doing things.

Xu Tong is a person who is very disgusted with Western literature, but because the place where he lives has become an embassy, he has no choice but to be neighbors with foreigners, and he laments that he is undoubtedly a neighbor of ghosts. He also believed that only Britain, France and Italy were the only countries in the world, and that Spain and Portugal did not exist, and that those who claimed to be Portugal and Spain were made up by the British and French because they were embarrassed to come to China to steal things.

When he was planning to take the re-examination question of the imperial examination, he made a mistake because of his carelessness. As a result, many candidates want to break their minds because of this exam, which undoubtedly makes these people who have carefully prepared for the exam be trapped. Xu Tong's unreliability may also have been inherited from his son, during the Eight-Nation Alliance, Xu Tong not only did not escape, but left the capital to want to die for the country, and his son also knew that his behavior like this was undoubtedly to drag himself to martyrdom with him, but he was still young, how could he be four.

So he coaxed Xu Tong to put his head into the deep sleeve first, and he pulled off the stool and walked away.

Presumably, many people will laugh when they see Xu Tong's deeds, but I think he is also pathetic. Because of his stubborn thoughts, he not only said something that did not match the facts, but also paid for his life because of his stubbornness, which is really sad.

Because his thinking is very stubborn, and he is also a loyal and patriotic **, he was very angry when he saw those foreign devils coming to China, and he could only use his own way to express his disgust with them, and he said a lot of things that made people feel very funny.

The so-called living a joke means trying to please the king by all means, without doing practical things. For the country, especially when the country is dying, there is no shortage of such people.

Don't you know the deeds of this person very well, and he has a lot of experience.