在动荡的晚清岁月,敢于做事而疏于自保的人,下场往往很惨;精于自保而不做事者,只是滑头和饭桶。本书还原了一个既要做官,又要做事,既要维新,又要自保的李鸿章。晚清帝国风雨飘摇中的苦涩与悲凉,从这位第一重臣的官场心机、政治手段中一览无遗。 In the tumultuous years of the late Qing dynasty, those who dare to work and neglect to protect themselves often end up miserably. Those who are good at self-preservation but do nothing are just slips and barrels. The book also restores a Li Hongzhang that needs to be both an official and an official who needs both reform and self-protection. The bitterness and desolation in the precarious empire of the late Qing dynasty, from the official position of the first ministers, at a glance of political means.