Gong Ju, Gong Zizhen's son linked Gong Ju with the burning of Yuanmingyuan, and there was an evolutionary process. It was the first time that Wang Kaiyun recorded a traitor leading a foreign soldier into Yuanmingyuan. He wrote: "Foreigners entered Beijing and entered the palace. The nobles and the poor occasionally led traitors and pretended to be foreigners, so they set fire first." However, he didn't say who were "noble poor people" and "traitors". Later, Liu Chengyu said in Miscellanies of the World Hall; "Gong Xiaohong, the word orange, is named Cleisthenes, Renhe and Gong Zizhen. The British attack Tianjin, Guangzhou and Wade as teachers, and there are many strategies for using troops." As a result, Gong Ju was named a traitor because Wade used his skills, but it had nothing to do with burning Yuanmingyuan. When Liu Shu asked to write an afterword for Historical Materials of Rebuilding Yuanmingyuan in Tongzhi, he said: "At the beginning, Gong Xiao, a traitor, took advantage of the chaos of foreign invasion to lead him into the park and set fire to plunder." Since then, Gong Ju has become the chief culprit in attracting British troops into Yuanmingyuan. However, this important historical fact is completely unfounded in the original records. First of all, it was not mentioned in the memoirs of the invaders. For example, Sven Hou, the British Secretary of the Army, recalled: "When the sun went down, some allies tried to enter the garden, but many guards stopped them. They killed the guard and rushed in. " Second, the ministers who stayed in the capital of the Qing Dynasty, such as Prince Gong Yixin, Senggelinqin and Ruichang, did not mention Gong Ju's introduction of foreign soldiers into the park in their memorials to Emperor Xianfeng after the Yuanmingyuan was burned. Third, at that time, the works of Qing people did not say that "traitors lead foreign soldiers", such as Chen Kangqi's "Recitation Classics": "Xianfeng Gengshen, Westernization of Kong Ji, Kinmen defeated, I still wish." Fourthly, the bureaucratic diaries left in Beijing at that time recorded in detail the rumors that the Yuanmingyuan was burned in Beijing, and did not mention Gong Ju's introduction to foreign military affairs, such as Weng Tonghe's "Weng Wengong's Diary" and Li Ciming's "Yue Maotang's Diary". I read the diary myself, so everything I heard should be recorded, but I didn't record Gong Ju, which shows that it is doubtful that Gong Ju later led foreign soldiers into the park. In fact, in the thirties and forties, someone had already taken revenge. Some people say that foreign soldiers entered by map, without the guidance of "traitors". Some people say there are traitors, but they are nobody, not Gong Ju. Others say that the splendor of Yuanmingyuan and the richness of gold, silver and jewels are well known all over the world, and there is no need for Gong Ju to instigate it. Moreover, some people cited the fact that the British army got lost after entering the country and was preempted by the French army. They asked, "Since the British army has been leading the way, why did it get lost?" In a word, it is lack of first-hand conclusive materials to say that Gong Ju led the troops into Yuanmingyuan. As for why people bring this up, I think there are two reasons: one is that he has worked for the British, and the other is that he is careless and has a clear record.

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