During the Qing Dynasty, there were frequent exchanges at home and abroad, and a large number of foreign ambassadors visited China and paid their respects. Their gifts are medals or something. In contrast, the gifts given by the Qing dynasty to the outside world were a bit crude, all of which were silk and satin. Therefore, Guangxu hoped to use medals to realize diplomatic modernization like foreign countries, so most of the gifts later were medals.
At first, the medal of China was also a heavy color. Soon Guangxu asked the following people to change the style of the medal to be closer to foreign countries. During Guangxu period, William II's brother visited China and was awarded the Black Hawk Medal by Guangxu. However, the next day, Guangxu won the highest medal returned by Germany, which made Guangxu find that the medal of his country was still far behind others. So Guangxu planned to make Baoxing directly abroad, and was finally persuaded to make it in Shanghai.
Guangxu continued to improve Baoxing's shape after that, thinking that it could change people's feudal views on foreign countries at that time. Guangxu used diplomatic methods as close as possible to foreign countries to develop Baoxing, so that China won the support and favor of foreign countries. But in fact Guangxu misunderstood the purpose of foreign medals, because all the documents at that time translated western honors into gifts.
This incident is enough to show that Guangxu was relatively simple about diplomacy at that time. In fact, he just wanted to let China go to the society in this way, which can't be said to be ignorance.