When Zeng Guoquan was the governor of Liangjiang, he had something to ask for him and made a special trip to Nanjing to meet him.
Zeng Guoquan's preferences are being praised, and Zuo Zongtang pretended to exaggerately asked him the secret to success.
can be praised by a arrogant figure like Zuo Zongtang, and Zeng Guoquan is indeed very proud, so he said eight words to summarize, that is - Spend money like soil, killing people like mahjong .
After hearing this, Zuo Zongtang felt a little more sincere when he sighed, and said, " Now your actions are no less than your brother. "
Although Zeng Guoquan's words were vulgar, they pointed out the key points. Can he do this? The outstanding achievements depend entirely on him dare to think and do .
1. Killing is like mah
Zeng Guoquan leads troops to fight tenaciously and fiercely. His style directly affects his soldiers.
Every time Zeng Guoquan captured a city, he would let his soldiers burn, kill and loot, and then transport the treasures back to his hometown in Hunan to buy land and build a house.
conquered Anqing and Nanjing's massacre was the most cruel. Although these two battles were Zeng Guoquan's great achievements, they were also criticized.
How cruel is Zeng Guoquan?
After conquering Nanjing, the headquarters of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guofan allowed the Hunan Army to lead the way and wanted to kill, rob, rape and set fire in the city.
This evil thief-like behavior lasted for a whole seven days and seven nights, turning the entire city into a hell on earth.
At this time, Hong Xiuquan is dead, but Zeng Guoquan did not intend to let Hong Xiuquan go.
He ordered people to dig out Hong Xiuquan's body from the underground palace, drag it to the riverside, pour sesame oil and burn it into ashes, then stuff the ashes into the cannon barrel, ignite the fuse , and launch it to the middle of the Yangtze River .
rolling river water directly washed away the last trace of Hong Xiuquan's existence in the world.
directly used Chen Duxiu to crush his bones and raise ashes , so that he will never be able to reincarnate. For the Chinese who firmly believe in the six realms of reincarnation, this is not unscathing!
Zeng Guoquan also committed the serious crime of massacre in Anqing and Nanjing. He can certainly be regarded as "killing like a slaughter" in leading troops to fight. Although this brave momentum of
is cruel, it does give Zeng Guoquan a momentum of indomitable progress when the two armies are fighting.
How important is this momentum during combat? I believe everyone understands it, and the Qing court also understands it: eliminates the Taiping Army, and there is also Nian Army !
2. "Spend money like soil"
1867, Zeng Guoquan, also known as illness, retired and lived leisurely in his hometown of Xiangxiang for eight years.
1875, the second year after the death of Emperor Tong, that is, the first year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guoquan was summoned by the Qing court and served as the governor of Shaanxi.
In 1877, Zeng Guoquan was transferred to the position of governor of Shanxi. How great can a person achieve? He became famous because of a protracted premature disaster and locust plague.
This famine is Dingchou Qihuang.
A "strange" is enough to show how severe the disaster is and how wide the impact is.
Dingchou's strange deserts spread to nine northern provinces. First, due to drought and little rain, the crops were affected, and then a overwhelming locust plague broke out.
Wherever the locusts pass, the plants are eaten up.
Then, people starved to death generally occurred in various places, among which Shanxi was the most severely affected.
Why do you say that? A set of numbers tells you:
At that time, there were a total of 16 million people in Shanxi, and more than 5 million people starved to death, accounting for almost one-third of the province's population.
In this disaster in Chengdu, human ethics and morality disappeared, and there were tragic phenomena of eating each other and eating with children.
In addition, "trees are moved to die, people are moved to live", a large number of people leave their hometowns on a large scale and flee from the province to get a meal.
In this way, Shanxi has only a few million people left.
It is in such a tragic background that almost no one in the court dares to take on this hot potato.
Zeng Guoquan was ordered to be transferred to the governor of Shanxi by the Qing court.
Why Zeng Guoquan chose this martial arts man? I think there are three reasons:
1 to save these millions of creatures and revitalize Shanxi's agricultural economy;
201 If a peasant uprising broke out again in the north due to disaster, Zeng Guoquan's Iron-blooded means will definitely eliminate it in the bud.
3 is because Zeng Guoquan is Zeng Guofan's younger brother, and naturally inherited the connections left by Zeng Guofan in the officialdom.
Zeng Guoquan's reputation as an official in the country was very poor, and everyone was waiting to see him, waiting to see his jokes.
After Zeng Guoquan arrived in Shanxi, he did not sit high in the governor's lobby, but instead walked all over the affected areas, visited the victims in various places, and then reported the details to the Qing court.
In order to support Zeng Guoquan's disaster relief, the Qing court still allocated hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to him despite the tight central government's finances.
These silver can be used to purchase food to alleviate the disaster, but it is still a drop in the bucket for the entire Shanxi Province.
At this time, Zeng Guoquan's connections came in handy. He took several measures to help Shanxi survive this strange disaster.
1, seconded a large amount of money and food to the elder brother's students Li Hongzhang and other governors from other provinces.
2, applied for more than 2,000 blank licenses from the court, and distributed them to wealthy gentry and wealthy families in Shanxi in exchange for disaster relief supplies.
This is a very familiar "selling official positions and titles" in the Qing Dynasty, but it is of course a righteous act with great merits to relieve disasters.
3, write the text in person and sell it to local rich people, use their fame and calligraphy to make money to make up for the lack of funds for disaster relief.
Therefore, Zeng Guoquan raised a large amount of food and supplies.
He distributes it to the state prefectures according to the disaster situation, and sends people to strictly supervise it to the hands of every household of disaster victims. No one is allowed to fill his pockets.
Under Zeng Guoquan's vigorous financing and resettlement, the hungry people basically solved the problem of food and clothing, and the farmers also obtained the crops and resized them.
Zeng Guoquan also led all officials in Shanxi and gentry to Yuhuang Pavilion, kneeling on the ground for three consecutive days to pray for rain to God.
Zeng Guoquan was particularly lucky. On the third day of praying for rain, it was indeed a heavy rain in Shanxi, greatly alleviating the disaster.
The local disaster victims took it for granted that Zeng Guoquan's sincerity moved God.
. His efforts to provide disaster relief not only saved the people in the province, but also made the victims regard him as a savior.
Zeng Guoquan quickly established a flesh-and-blood relationship with the people of this province. What is even more commendable is that in this several joint disaster relief campaign, Zeng Guoquan, who once made a fortune in the war, did not embezzle one or two disaster relief silver as the central hub figure.
This is very valuable in the feudal bureaucratic system.
This not only improved Zeng Guoquan's reputation as an official, but also made everyone in the court and the country look at him with admiration.
Zeng Guoquan only took office in Shanxi for two years, but he has created great achievements and good political achievements.
When he left office, all the gentry and people with the provincial capital Taiyuan as the center sent him to tears and spontaneously united to erect monuments for him and erect a temple for him.
It can be said that Zeng Guoquan was very successful in being an official, and he was enough to have a place in history.
This also proves that Zeng Guoquan is not just a warrior who can only fight; as long as the opportunity is right, he can also be an honest and promising official. After
, Zeng Guoquan almost reached the top in the officialdom with the help of gods.
1881, that is, in the seventh year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court promoted Zeng Guoquan to the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu in order to commend Zeng Guoquan's political achievements and contributions in Shanxi.
Zeng Guoquan didn't stay as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu for a long time. Due to physical reasons, he soon begged the Qing court to resign again.
However, Zeng Guoquan's ability and hard work have become famous in the government and the people. In just one year, the Qing court restored him to the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, allowing him to take charge of the prosperous land of the southern country.
Two years later, the Qing court transferred Zeng Guoquan to the Minister of Rites, transformed himself into a senior official in the capital.
In August 1884, the Qing court granted Zeng Guoquan the position of Governor-General of Liangjiang and Minister of Commerce of Nanyang.
In this way, he mastered the rich and fertile land in the southeast, and his actual position had already caught up with his brother Zeng Guofan.
Zeng Guoquan fully utilized his ability to govern the government and made every effort to start the Westernization business, and achieved remarkable results.
And this is exactly the will and unfinished cause of his brother Zeng Guofan.
After the outbreak of the Sino-French War, Zeng Guoquan was ordered to go to the front line of Fujian to supervise the troops to assist in the war.
At the beginning, Zeng Guoquan did not understand the enemy situation on the battlefield and was not supervised effectively, so he was punished by the Qing court.
Zeng Guoquan learned from his mistakes, actively studied the war situation, as well as our military situation and local people's conditions, and then took a series of military measures.
For example, the effect of presiding over the rectification of coastal defense, adding military ships and torpedo is also obvious. Zeng Guoquan has made the military and civilians along the coast safe for several years, supporting half of the southeast.
Zeng Guoquan's contribution was finally fully recognized by the Qing court. In 1889, the 15th year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi awarded him the honorary title of Prince Taibao in recognition of his contribution and contribution to the Qing Dynasty.
"killing people like a scattered person" in troubled times means that the army has a tough style, a brave battle, and a rainbow momentum, making it easier to win battles and achieve military merits.
Zeng Guoquan's "spending money like soil" is not only reflected in his disaster relief in Shanxi, but also very generous to his subordinates.
Among Zeng Guoquan's guards, many people have gone from being a big soldier who is nothing, and have relied on military merits to , , and even the deputy general.
However, even if they succeeded and became famous, they were still willing to be a guard for Zeng Guoquan, probably because of his personality traits.
1890, that is, in the 16th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guoquan, who was 66 years old, died of illness at the Governor General of Liangjiang, Nanjing, and followed his brother Zeng Guofan.
Zeng Guoquan's death, like his brother, caused the Qing court to lose its pillars.
Empress Dowager Cixi awarded him the posthumous title of "Zhongxiang", and since then he was called Duke Zeng Zhongxiang by the world.
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