Chapter 4 Chapter Three

Li Hongzhang's House, Ouli's Eastward Trend The Relationship between Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan on the Occurrence of China's Civil War Li Hongzhang, courtesy name Jianfu and nickname Shaoquan, was born in Hefei County, Luzhou Prefecture, Anhui Province.His father's name is Jinwen, his mother's family is Shen, and he has four sons, from the Hanzhang official to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Hezhang Zhaoqing, all of whom have made meritorious service in the army.Hong Zhang Qi Zhong also.Born on the fifth day of the first lunar month in Guiwei, the third year of Daoguang (1823 in the Western calendar), he was educated by an ordinary school teacher when he was young, and he was a scholar. , Ding Weiye.

Li Hongzhang was born when the tide of the French Revolution had subsided, and the peerless hero Napoleon fled to his death on an isolated island.The turmoil in the Western European continent has calmed down, and the countries are no longer invading and plundering each other. Instead, they only need to recharge their energy and store up their energy to set their ambitions on the East.As a result, China, which had been unified for thousands of years, became troubled day by day. The Ili border agreement violated its promise with the Russians in the north, the Opium War, and quarreled with the British in the south.When the world is troubled, it is the day when the whole country needs talents.Adding the theory of Watt's new invention of the steam engine, the steamship, the steamship, rushes through the waves, shrinks the land for thousands of miles, and is close to the end of the world. The Suez River has been successfully excavated, and the distance between the east and the west is suddenly approaching, and the force from the west is spreading eastward. Gnawing the shore and bang the cliff, darkening the sun and eclipsing the moon, it is irresistible to contain it; it is irresistible to resist it.Since Li Hongzhang was born, it was actually the era when China and the world began to have relations, and it was also the most difficult era for China to negotiate with the world.

Looking at the domestic situation, it can be seen that since Qianlong, the prosperity has declined, the power of the people has withered, the officials are arrogant, and there are more and more troubles in the country.In the 60th year of Qianlong, there was a change of red seedlings in Guizhou, Hunan. In the first year of Jiaqing, the Bailian sect started and spread to five provinces. In the nine years before and after (the ninth year of Jiaqing), the military expenditure was 20 million taels, which was only equal.At the same time, the pirate Cai Qian and others invaded Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, and ravaged them wantonly. In the fifteenth year of Jiaqing, they were only conquered.However, Li Wencheng, Lin Qing, etc. of the Tianli Sect reverberated and disturbed Zhili in Shandong, and there were also policemen of box thieves in Shaanxi.During the Daoguang period, there was the Zhangger Rebellion in Huibu, the border turmoil, and the army's large-scale conquest. It took seven years to decide.Between Gaidang Jiadao, the national strength is exhausted.The people's minds are already agitated, but the people who are drunk at the court, dreaming of life and death, like Wen Tian and Wu Xi, singing and dancing in Taiping, suffering in dire straits, have nothing to tell, and those with knowledge are definitely a little worried.

Suppressing China's thousands of years of history, the history of bloodshed, its talents, the talents of killing people.Looking at the history of the past, the past, and the past, there are heroes in troubled times, but there are no heroes in peaceful times.The situation is at the end of the Tao, and the so-called heroes are just beginning to sharpen their swords, waiting for the sun and the moon to come.Since the founding of China, there has been no case of people participating in state affairs. The people have been oppressed by officials, haggard and tyrannical, and there is no one to tell. There are only two methods of resistance. The situation is helpless.And Yi's surname is ordered, and it is regarded as a constant, and if he loses, he will be a bandit, and if he wins, he will be a king.Han Gao Mingtai, all started as scoundrels, today's thieves, tomorrow's saints, but the strong are evil, he talked about it, with this custom, with this people's heart, so the story of uncovering grasslands in the past dynasties is endless in the history books.During the period of peace for more than a hundred years, but after the previous disaster and massacre, people's hearts were disturbed, and their household registration was reduced.It is easier to make a living, or the king has the skills to control the people, and he can make up for it with small favors and small favors, and make up for it, just for a while.In fact, the seeds of disturbance in the whole country will never end in time, and they will be re-sustained at the slightest gap. Therefore, thousands of historical records are actually filled with pus and blood, and coated with liver and brain.Since this dynasty was able to prosper outside the customs and enter China, with the self-esteem and arrogance of our people and the contempt for other peoples, it cannot be free from grievances. Therefore, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, some of its survivors formed secret party associations in order to restore them. It has been going on for more than a hundred years, spreading in eighteen provinces, everywhere.Although there were repeated instigations in the past, the hero followed suit, but failed to succeed. After a long period of stagnation, there must be something to do.After Dao and Xian, the mediocrity and inferiority of officials are not enough to be feared, and it has already become obvious, but the government is overlapping, and the national humiliation is coming. The so-called potential will come, and the reason is of course.So Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, and Li Xiucheng, the heroes of the first generation, rose because of it; thus Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, etc., the heroes of the first generation, rose because of it.

At the beginning, Hongzhang was a guest of the capital as an excellent tribute, and he was known by Zeng Guofan for his literature.Because of his teacher's work, he has been following him day and night, and he has been cultivating the study of righteousness and management of the world, which is based on truth.And within three years of entering Hanlin, the Jintian riot broke out, and Hong Xiuquan used one man to overthrow Western Guangdong. In just over two years, he ravaged half of the country;Shi Hongzhang was originally from Anhui, and praised the governor Fuji and Lu Xianji.At that time, Luzhou had fallen, and the enemy soldiers were occupying the nearby land. Fuji wanted to restore Luzhou, but he could not succeed.Hongzhang proposed to take Hanshan and Chao counties first to provide absolute enemy aid, and then Fuji would grant soldiers and then overcome the two counties.So Hongzhang Zhibing's name began to be written, which was also in December of the fourth year of Xianfeng.

When Hong Xiuquan fell into Wuchang, Zeng Guofan took Ding You, the servant of the Ministry of rites, to help organize the training of the regiment, and he took it as his duty to train the powerful brigade Jingda Nan.So the Xiang army rose up.The Hunan Army is the mother of the Huai Army.At that time, the old soldiers of the Green Battalion of the Eight Banners were all lazy, lazy, cowardly and redundant, and had nothing to do;Guofan has a deep understanding of the overall situation, and he knows that it is not to be ruled out, so he changes it.Must not work.Therefore, recruiting talents, coordinating the overall situation, persevering, persevering, and the opportunity for recovery really start with the truth.

Since Xiuquan was based in Jinling, arrogance was gradually born, internal officials were killed, and corruption was rampant.So that the officers and soldiers at that time won people, and they used their strength to beat them, and the disaster was smoothed out.There is nothing like the arrogance and corruption of the officers and soldiers, even more than the enemy.In the sixth year of Xianfeng, Xiangrong's Jinling camp collapsed; in ten years, Hechun and Zhang Guoliang's Jinling camp collapsed again, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang fell one after another, and the enemy atmosphere was even worse than in the early years.In the seven years since Dingwei, when Zhang Guoliang and Hechun were killed in battle, it was the day when the British and French allied forces entered Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace.Time and personnel, cross-invasion and coercion, cover up to the end and the ancestors of the ten generations, the endless ones are like a thread.

Although Zeng Guofan has been in charge of the army for ten years, the person in charge is only a matter of upstream affairs. Guofan is deeply cautious, does not seek quick results, and adopts a steady and progressive strategy; I can do my best.Therefore, when the guest army moved to the provinces of Lianghu, Jianghui and other provinces, there were many people who were hindered by local officials and lost their opportunities.As well as the collapse of the Jinling camp, the imperial court knew that there was nothing to rely on except the Hunan Army.In April of the tenth year, the governor of the two rivers of the Guofan Department was given the title, and the imperial minister was appointed to supervise the military affairs in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, the right to pay the soldiers began to be unified, and they had to work together with Zuo Li Zhuxian to plan the overall situation of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There is a turning point.

Li Hongzhang was in Fuji Muye, and he was recommended by Taoists, but Zheng Kui was discouraged, so he was not allowed to give it.At that time, there were many rumors and slanderous rumors, and Hongzhang could hardly stand on his own in the village.Later, although Yanshaojian in Fujian Province was granted the missing Taoism, he had a false name and no official guard.In the eighth year of Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan moved to Jianchang, and Hongzhang came to visit him, so he stayed in the curtain.In May of the ninth year, Guofan sent the Hunan Army to Fuzhou. The old four battalions and the new five battalions were recruited, so that his younger brother Guoquan led them to Jingdezhen to assist in the suppression, and Hongzhang went to counselor.After Jiangxi was purged, it was strange to return to Zeng Guofan's camp for two years.For ten years, Guofan supervised the two rivers, proposed to revitalize the Huaiyang navy, and asked Hongzhang to make up for the north of the river.It was at that time that Hongzhang was thirty-eight years old, and those who were depressed in their talents and wasted in caressing their legs were already half their lives, and they thought they were odd, so they no longer talked about salary.Woohoo, why is Li Hongzhang bad in this day, and why is Li Hongzhang so generous?He has been working hard for more than ten years, so he has cultivated his energy and matured his talents, thinking that he will be able to take on great things in the future.And in the past few years of Zan Zeng's army, he has been the most powerful experimental school, and he has been used for life.