盛宣怀一直把中国商人的短视和观望不前,把人们对西方工商业方面的陌生与排斥,归结为朝廷政府的制度安排,所有人都要报效朝廷,都在迎合官场,各级官吏都在勒索工商业,权力才是晚清社会的纽带,而不是企业,不是市场。这才是中国经济举步不前的最大障碍。中日海战之后,由于中国完败于日本,因此改良晚清财政制度的呼声兴起,盛宣怀是这种观点的主要人物。他一 Sheng Xuanhuai has always put the short-sighted and wait-and-see attitude of Chinese businessmen, attributed their unfamiliarity and exclusion to Western business and industry to the institutional arrangement of the imperial government, and all of them have to serve the court and are cater to the officialdom. Officials at all levels are extortion in commerce and industry , Power is the link of late Qing society, not business, not the market. This is the biggest obstacle to China’s economic growth. After the Sino-Japanese naval battle, because of the defeat of China in Japan, the call to improve the financial system in the late Qing dynasty rose. Sheng Xuanhuai was the main figure of this view. He one