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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: of Works, and as the Emperor and he had been studying on the same
lines, Kang, through the influence of the brother of the chief
concubine, was introduced to His Majesty. He had a three hours'
conference with the Foreign Office, in which he urged that China
should imitate Japan, and that the old conservative ministers and
viceroys should be replaced by young men imbued with Western
ideas, who might confer with the Emperor daily in regard to all
kinds of reform measures.
This interview was reported to Kuang Hsu by Prince Kung and Jung
Lu, who both being old, and one of them the greatest of the
conservatives, could hardly be expected to approve of his
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