Seeing that the foreign devils were so fierce, the old lady Buddha, who was good at keeping in good health, sent Zeng Guofan, governor of Zhili, to Tianjin to handle the case. After Zeng Guofan came to Tianjin, France offered conditions: compensation of10.2 million silver, funeral for the murdered consul, rebuilding the church, and even demanding the killing of three Tianjin local officials. Zeng Guofan not only fully agreed to the unreasonable demands of the French, but also put three Tianjin local officials on death row. And gave the French a life-threatening price: 10 China people are worth a foreigner's life. This is the source of the infamous "Zeng Guofan and foreigners will die"! Because of the shortage of manpower, Zeng Guofan made people pay off the dead prisoners in prison and make them think they were the murderers of foreigners to make up for it. When the scandal comes out, all parts of Beijing are in uproar, and it will really be full of Qing dynasty. "We are not from China, but we are the masters of China." We have implemented the national policies of "protecting the Qing Dynasty but not China" and "measuring China's material resources and winning the favor of the country". After the Revolution of 1911, some revolutionaries satirized him and said that he was "the first person to enforce the law on the spot". Unfortunately, this precedent falls on China people themselves! Zeng Guofan was once again put on the shame column of traitors!
After this incident, Cixi demoted Zeng Guofan as Governor of Liangjiang River by the power of public opinion. 1March 872 12, Zeng Guofan died in office at the age of 6 1 year. The so-called "condemned, no disease from death" also! At that time, I was besieged, even worse than Yuan Datou!