在清政府官员中,反侵略、反洋教者人数众多。反侵略本来是正义的、正确的,但真理再跨前一步,就变成了谬误。反侵略进而变成反洋教、打教民、杀洋人、攻使馆,就成了盲目排外。刘坤一以天下为己任,冒着逆旨杀头的危险,不赞成杀教民、攻使馆、与列强开战,与外国实行“东南互保”。结果,不但得到了清廷的认可,而且受到了嘉奖。史实证明,他比毓贤、李秉衡等高明得多。 Among the Qing government officials, there are many anti-aggression and anti-foreign religious teachers. Anti-aggression would have been just and correct, but the truth took a step forward and became a fallacy. Anti-aggression then turned anti-China religions, teaching the people, killing foreigners, attacking the embassy, ​​became blind exclusion. Liu Kunyi takes the world as his own duty and runs the risk of beheading the enemy. He is not in favor of killing Christians, attacking the embassy, ​​fighting wars with the powers, and implementing “southeast mutual insurance” with foreign countries. The result was not only recognized by the Qing court, but also received a commendation. Historical evidence shows that he is much clever than Yu Yin, Li Bingheng and so on.