Chapter 41 Chapter Five Westernization Movement

When the Qing government was still obsessed with its dream of going to heaven, Western countries had already passed the baptism of the industrial revolution and entered the industrial age. Machine production replaced the backward mode of manual workshops.The speed of development has already surpassed the Qing government, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty still don't know anything about it.People of insight in China discovered the gap between China and the West, and there was an upsurge of learning from the West.In the court, the person who has a strong interest in learning from the West is Li Hongzhang. In order to let the Qing Dynasty learn the advanced ideas and technologies of the West, he organized a vigorous Westernization Movement