Under what circumstances did Guo Songtao return to China?

The most vicious attack came from his deputy Liu Xihong. In Liu Xihong's works, Guo Songtao's biggest "crimes" are three: wearing foreigners' clothes, standing up to pay tribute to other monarchs, and imitating foreigners to ask for programs when listening to concerts. This shows the ignorance of the people of China at that time. Liu also secretly impeached Guo Songtao's "Ten Crimes" and tried to frame them. Liu Xihong's accusation of Guo Songtao's "crime" actually conforms to international etiquette, which confirms the British's praise of Guo Songtao as "the most educated person in the East". Because the conservative forces in the Qing Dynasty were too strong, Guo Songtao was reviled and accused by doctors from the imperial court to the capital. When his term of office expired (only one year and seven months), he was invited to take part in the competition due to illness, and the Qing court immediately agreed and sent Ceng Jize to take over. Guo Songtao arrived in Changsha by boat on May 5, 1879. At that time, there was a trend of conservatism and xenophobia in Xiangyin, and the situation was quite tense. People in Changsha and Hua Shan counties blocked wooden boats pulled by western steamboats, and slogans of "communicate with foreigners" were posted everywhere in the streets.