Ask who the historical figures really are. Wang Tao believes: "When you are Mr. Silence, you will have diplomacy."

Wei Yuan was the first thinker who proposed to learn from the West. The Opium War gave him a direct shock, that is, the western ships were powerful. Therefore, his thought of "learning from foreigners" is mainly manifested in learning western military technology. His summary of "foreign art" includes warships, firearms and training methods. Although in the later period, with the further understanding of the West, he introduced the western political system and produced the original imitation thought, but his mainstream thought was to learn from the modern industry and science and technology in the West. However, Wei Yuan played a pioneering role in the process of learning from the West in modern times. Wang Tao, one of the westernization thinkers who inherited his thoughts and put them into practice, said: "When Mr. Silent was a teacher, he didn't have in-depth communication with foreigners and couldn't see his heart, but as soon as the teacher said it, he really advocated the first voice."