On this day, 131 years ago, on July 21, 1894 (June 19, 1894, the bourgeois reformist thinker Xue Fucheng died of illness. On July 21, 1894, Xue Fucheng died of illness. Xue Fucheng was born in 1838. A bourgeois reformist thinker in the late Qing Dynasty. People from Wuxi, Jiangsu. He first joined Zeng Guofang's shogunate and later followed Li Hongzhang to do diplomacy. In 1879, he advocated reforming politics and developing capitalism. Xue Fucheng praised the Western constitutional monarchy and believed that capitalist countries "build a country based on industry and commerce" and "industry comes first in business." Therefore, he advocated imitating Western countries and developing China's industry and commerce. He also advocated allowing private companies to collect shares to form companies, and did not approve of Westernization Party's monopoly policy of new industries. He put forward views that are in line with the requirements of the bourgeoisie, such as "sages do not hesitate to speak of benefits" and "everyone wants to help their own interests". During the Sino-French War, he served as Ningshaodao in Zhejiang and participated in the battle to repel French ships in Zhenhai. In 1889, he served as an envoy to Britain, France, Belgium and Italy as deputy governor of the capital. In November 1893, the Qing government replaced Xue Fucheng with Gong Zhaoai, the governor of Sichuan.