According to the reversal of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's revolutionary situation and the rapid development of world capitalism, Hong Rengan proposed to learn from the West, promote foreign trade, learn advanced science and technology from the West, advocate the protection of private property, develop capitalist industry and commerce, and replace feudalism with capitalism, which was endorsed by Hong Xiuquan.
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The New Chapter of Senior Minister embodies distinctive capitalist characteristics and advanced modern ideas, and its ideological source can be mainly divided into the following three parts.
One is the author Hong Rengan's own friend. Hong Rengan listed 23 westerners he made in "Senior Minister's New Chapter", most of whom were people with books to read. Hong Rengan himself was baptized by a priest in 1853 and became a full-fledged Christian. During this period, he came into contact with a lot of western ideas, knowledge and the unique "Christian civilization view" of missionaries.
All these have marked his New Senior Minister with a distinctive brand of "Christian modernization", which is the core source of its content and ideas.
Second, the author Hong Rengan's exile experience. 1853, Hong Rengan arrived in Hongkong, which was then a British colony. He personally contacted the political and judicial system of Hong Kong under British rule, the social and economic situation under western capitalism and the "westernized" cultural life.
In this case, Hong Rengan had a deeper understanding of the western social system and cultural knowledge, which provided a template for the political proposition put forward in Senior Minister's New Chapter. Many systems and management methods in Hong Kong are reflected in the new chapter of senior minister to varying degrees. For example, the various systems and even the establishment of official positions in Senior Minister's New Chapter all had the shadow of Hong Kong at that time.
Third, some relevant documents at that time. In Hongkong and Shanghai, Hong Rengan came into contact with Chinese books and newspapers published by missionaries after 18 1 1 year, and also widely contacted relevant books and periodicals published in China, which provided an ideological source for Hong Rengan to compile Shangshu. There are traces of reference and borrowing from the books and periodicals at that time in the new chapter of the supervision thought of senior officials and personnel and the patent thought.