Taking the construction of Luhan Railway as an opportunity, Zhang Zhidong tried to "strive for self-improvement and resist foreign aggression; During his 18 years in power, he promoted industry, education, training new troops, coping with commercial wars, persuading farmers to mulberry new cities, and vigorously promoted the "Hubei New Deal".
With Wuhan as the center, a number of modern industrialized enterprises, such as Hanyang Iron Works, Hubei Guns Works, Daye Iron Mine, Hanyang Iron Works Machine Works, Rail Works, Hubei Weaving Layout, Reeling Bureau, Spinning Bureau, Hemp Making Bureau, Tannery Factory, etc., have been established successively, ranking first in the country in scale, with a total capital of about11.3000 silver.
2. Education: Zhang Zhidong founded a craft school in Hubei Railway Bureau. Zhang Zhidong reformed the academy, promoted learning and advocated study tour, which made Wuhan three towns, including Hankou, form a relatively complete modern education system.
In terms of setting up new schools, mathematics school (189 1), mining school (1892), Hubei Military Equipment School (1897), Hubei Technical School (1898) and Hubei Normal School were established.
3. Military aspect: 1896, Zhang Zhidong took the military camp transferred from Liangjiang to Hubei as the base, recruited new soldiers, joined the German military system, and began to train new troops in Hubei. By 1907, the eighth town of the army (a division) will be incorporated into the Hubei new army? /kloc-more than 0/0000 people, tentative twentieth mixed club (a brigade)? 4600? Yumin is the first powerful military force after Yuan Shikai's six northern towns.
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Zhang Zhidong's life contribution is not limited to Wuhan.
As a representative of the Westernization School, Zhang Zhidong advocated learning from Western laws and put forward the idea of "taking middle school as the body and western learning as the use". He and Liu Kunyi closed the specific measures of "11 times of Western learning". However, learning and adopting western methods must have a premise, that is, "middle school is the body", and the fundamental principles of China and France cannot be moved; "Western learning is for our use", the basic principles of western law can't be learned.
As early as before the formal start of the revision of the law in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zhidong advocated that "choosing western scholars can make up for my shortcomings, and using western politicians can take advantage of my illness", which he thought was "beneficial without disadvantages".
In May of the 27th year of Guangxu, he and Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, jointly published three volumes of "Folding Chu Jiang's Political Reform", and put forward suggestions such as "compassionate prison", "winning the hearts of the people" and perfecting the legal system. Together with Yuan Shikai, he recommended Shen Jiaben and Tachileik as law ministers.
Zhang Zhidong is proficient in Confucianism and Confucian classics, and advocates "applying the world to practice". At the age of 24, Zhang Zhidong wrote in a poem about his generation: "Be kind to the family law, be loyal to the country, learn classics for the world, and Ming Dow keeps Confucianism as a treasure." ? This not only shows the formation of his thought of "being practical", but also indicates his future career.
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