与静谧的南方相比,1900年的盛夏,朝廷调任他回北方担任直隶总督。离开紫禁城的时日已久,李鸿章一时间也很难判断出这艘衰腐古老的帝国航船究竟发生了怎样的偏向。做了一辈子“消防队员”的李鸿章,这一次的反应却显得相当迟钝——帝国的航船无疑已经严重偏向,但他却还不能确定,这种偏向是否已经严重到了船毁人亡的地步。 Compared with the quiet south, the summer of 1900, the court transferred him back to the north as governor of Zhili. After leaving the Forbidden City for a long time, it was hard for Li Li-chang to judge exactly what happened to this decaying ancient imperial ship. Li Hung-chang, who had been a “firefighter” all his life, appeared rather dull this time. The imperial ship certainly undoubtedly has a serious bias. However, he is still not sure whether this bias has seriously hit the scale of the ship’s death .