In the 19th year of Guangxu (1893), Jiangnan General Manufacturing Bureau edited and published 6 volumes of his poems, 5 volumes of anthologies, 4 volumes of his poems and 2 volumes of his diplomatic diaries, and the latter series was a collection of Zeng Huimin's posthumous works.

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During his mission to Britain and France, Ceng Jize visited the British and French libraries many times and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese and Western libraries with the curator. I deeply feel that "a strong country needs books." After returning home, he strongly advocated western learning and urged the government to set up a national library. In the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), before he left Britain for home, he published China's theory of sleeping first and then waking up in Asia Quarterly in London, expounding his views on China's internal affairs and diplomacy and the foreign powers' China policies. After returning to China, due to political corruption in North Korea, he finally failed to display his talents. There is a library in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, which is based on the phrase "An old friend knows one, and goes back to the garden" in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals. Its name is "Gui Pu Zhai". There are a large number of western books and diaries sent to Britain and France, as well as many scientific and technological books such as western political, economic, military, educational, medical and agricultural books, which reflect the modernization of the library. Most of them were carefully purchased before and after his mission to Britain, France and Russia. When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was recorded in Memoirs of Zeng Baosun, several American military advisers visited Zeng Guofan's "Fu Hou Tang" library for many times, especially the "Gui Pu Zhai" foreign language library in Ceng Jize, which made him linger. In the summer of the eighth year of Tongzhi (1869), Baoding Library caught fire, and some manuscripts and accompanying books were destroyed.