Chapter 14 The second article has been devoted to officialdom for forty years and shared weal and woe

Chapter Three Building the Army and Solid Defense During his days in Zeng Guofan's shogunate, Li Hongzhang received systematic training and experience. He became more rational and mature, and he became more experienced and stable in doing things. In the military, he saw the importance of building an army and solid defense, established his own lineage troops, and established the Beiyang Navy; in politics, Li Hongzhang, who came out of the rivers and lakes, was catching up with the times. He made great progress in his official career, became the prime minister in the court, and became the first official in the frontier