Xu Tong, a die-hard minister in the late Qing Dynasty, how did he make himself a joke?

During the late Qing Dynasty in China, various thoughts surged in China, but at this time, a group of people were unmoved by this situation and unwilling to accept the baptism of new thoughts. These people are what we call die-hards He lives like a joke because he is blind and full of poetry, but his words and deeds are always unreliable.

Xu Tong is a person who hates western literature very much, but because he lives in the embassy there, he has to be a neighbor with foreigners, so he laments that he is undoubtedly a haunted neighbor. He also believes that there are only three countries in the world, Britain, France and Italy, and those Spain and Portugal do not exist. He also thinks that those who call themselves Portuguese and Spanish are made up by the British and French, because they are always embarrassed to come to China to rob things.

He made a mistake because of carelessness when he was preparing for the imperial examination. As a result, many candidates want to break their heads because of this exam, which undoubtedly makes these people who are seriously preparing for the exam cheated. Xu Tong's unreliability may have been passed on to his son. Eight-Nation Alliance period, Xu Tong did not escape, but left the capital to be martyred. His son also knows that such behavior is undoubtedly pulling himself to die together, but he is still young. How can he be four years old? So he tricked Xu Tong into putting his head into the deep sleeve first, and then he picked up the stool and walked away.

I think many people will laugh at Xu Tong's behavior, but I think he is also very sad. Because of his stubborn ideas, he not only said something that was inconsistent with the facts, but also paid his life for his stubbornness. This is really sad.