In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a novel called "Evil Sea Flower", in which the two characters of the official and the son-in-law were very three-dimensional and vivid, and for the background and relationship between these two people, many people believed that it was an allusion to the famous late Qing Dynasty minister Li Hongzhang and his elderly son-in-law Zhang Peilun, and gave relevant proof and understanding. So, what's going on here? What does Li Hongzhang's son-in-law have to do with this book?
When it comes to Li Hongzhang and his people, almost no one is unaware, he was a famous courtier in the late Qing Dynasty, when the Foreign Affairs Movement occurred, Li Hongzhang was still one of the initiators, he was an extremely important and famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty court, and he was also praised by the speakers of various countries in the world at that time.
After talking about a man's success, many people will naturally think that a man's success has a lot to do with women. As far as Li Hongzhang, the responder of this sentence, is actually not wrong at all. The woman behind Li Hongzhang was not his mother or someone else, but his wife, who was more than ten years younger than him. After the death of his first wife, Li Hongzhang originally did not want to marry again, but was discouraged by his family. Later, after being introduced, he decided to marry Zhao Xiaolian, and this year, Li Hongzhang was fifteen years older than the woman, and the two were a very standard old husband and young wife combination. Zhao Xiaolian's father and Li Hongzhang are the same year, and her grandfather was once a champion, and in terms of her life, Zhao Xiaolian is not much worse than Li Hongzhang.
Despite being a combination of old husband and young wife, Li Hongzhang was still very good to this little wife who was fifteen years younger than himself, and he loved Zhao Xiaolian very much. After marriage, the two were very close, because Zhao Xiaolian was young, Li Hongzhang treated her like a little girl, Zhao Xiaolian gave birth to a son and two daughters for Li Hongzhang, and the eldest daughter Li Juling is the eldest daughter of Li Hongzhang we want to talk about today. When Li Julian was born, his father Li Hongzhang and his mother Zhao Xiaolian were in love with each other and had a very good relationship, Li Hongzhang was already in a very high position in the official arena at that time, and Zhao Xiaolian was also a mother who knew dali. Therefore, Li Juling received a very good education since he was a child, he looked very similar to Zhao Xiaolian, the same smart and elegant, dignified and beautiful, not only knew the lyrics of poetry, but also understood the facts, was very sought after at the time, was a veritable miss.
At that time, many people were thinking, what kind of man would Li Hongzhang choose for his beloved daughter as a son-in-law? Many people think that it must be a young man with a matching talent, only in this way can he be worthy of the famous talented girl Li Ju lotus! However, as soon as the results of Li Hongzhang's election of a son-in-law came out, it surprised everyone. At that time, Li Jurong was already twenty-two years old, and everyone thought that the husband that Li Hongzhang had chosen for her must be an official, so that Li Hongzhang could take good care of his daughter, but in fact, it was not, Li Hongzhang chose Zhang Peilun.
Zhang Peilun, born in the 1850s, was handsome and well educated, so that he was admitted to the Jinshi at a young age, and he was actually a rare twenty-two-year-old imperial court jinshi. After passing the entrance examination, Zhang Peilun became an official of the imperial court. He was a man of great ideals and ambitions, who worked seriously, treated things meticulously, often impeached officials, and was a well-known official. But after a long time, Zhang Peilun had no backing in the official field, and with his own ability to offend people, he quickly became cannon fodder.
In 1883, when war broke out between China and France, there were two kinds of speech in the imperial court, one was to negotiate peace, and officials advocated surrender to France or agreed on reparations, trying to avoid war. However, Zhang Peilun is a staunch main war faction, he advocates war with France, blindly retreating will only allow the enemy to gain inches, only through war, can let the enemy know that China is not easy to provoke. Therefore, under the game of many forces, Zhang Peilun became the Three Pins Chincha of the imperial court, going to the Fujian region to supervise the Qing Dynasty army and fight against the French army. However, it was very regrettable that the strength of the Qing army was greatly inferior to the French army, and in the end it was defeated, and Zhang Peilun had to leave Fujian in a hurry. After this incident, Zhang Peilun's reputation was not as good as before, and the imperial court did not dare to reuse him again, because he failed in battle, and the Qing government decided to exile Zhang Peilun and not allow him to become an official again.
Although Zhang Peilun has become infamous, there are still people who appreciate Zhang Peilun, and Li Hongzhang is a very typical person. When Zhang Peilun first began to exile, Li Hongzhang had already begun to help him, helping Zhang Peilun to resettle his family and avoid too many accidents on the way to exile. During the exile, after Zhang Peilun's first wife died of illness, Li Hongzhang also wrote a letter to comfort Zhang Peilun, and after the exile time was full, seeing that Zhang Peilun had nowhere to go, Li Hongzhang left him by his side and made a document to take care of the affairs of Li Hongzhang's palace.
Li Hongzhang was very fond of Zhang Peilun, and the defeat of China and France did not have much impact on Li Hongzhang, as a heavy minister of the late Qing Dynasty, he of course knew that with the strength of the late Qing court, it was a fool's dream to want to defeat France, and Li Hongzhang thought that Zhang Peilun was a disaster without any sense. Out of admiration for Zhang Peilun's advocacy of fighting with France and his love for Zhang Peilun's talent, Li Hongzhang decided to ration his eldest daughter Li Jurong to Zhang Peilun and let them get married.
At that time, Zhang Peilun was forty years old, Li Juling was twenty-two years old, and the difference between the two was eighteen years. In the face of this situation of old husbands and young wives, no one was optimistic about this marriage at that time, and Zhang Peilun and Li Jurong themselves did not think that they could get along well. However, Li Hongzhang was also right in the end, and the final married life of the young couple was also very good. According to a diary by Zhang Peilun, he and Li Jurong often painted, read, played chess and enjoyed scenery together after marriage, and although the two had a great age difference, they were unexpectedly very compatible in personality, which also laid the tone for the happy life of the two.
After marriage, Li Juling gave birth to a son and a daughter for Zhang Peilun, the family's life is very happy, for Zhang Peilun, to get Li Hongzhang's appreciation, and have a loving wife and a pair of children, it is definitely a thing that makes people feel extremely happy, he is willing to live such a life until he dies.
But misfortune soon came. A few years later, Li Hongzhang died of illness. The sudden death of Li Hongzhang surprised him and was an extremely big blow to Zhang Peilun. For Zhang Peilun, Li Hongzhang occupies most of the position in his life, because with Li Hongzhang, he can live safely and did not die of illness on the way to exile; because of Li Hongzhang's help, he can always live well, and he has married a very good wife, and the children are also very cute.
With the nostalgia for Li Hongzhang, Zhang Peilun gradually became depressed, but within a year, Zhang Peilun died, leaving his wife and children behind to follow his benefactor Li Hongzhang. After Zhang Peilun's death, Li Jurong endured the double blow of her father and husband's departure, and eventually suffered from lung disease, lingering on the sickbed all day, and finally died when she was in her forties. At that time, his son Zhang Zhiyi was sixteen years old, and his daughter Zhang Maoyuan was eleven years old.
Later, after keeping filial piety, Zhang Zhiyi met Huang Suqiong, a new woman in the new era, who after experiencing the baptism of the May Fourth Movement, advocated independence and autonomy, which was completely different from Zhang Zhiyi's thoughts. In the fifth year of their marriage, in a small house in the Shanghai concession, their daughter Zhang Ailing was born.
Zhang Ailing's name was originally Zhang Ailing, but when Zhang Xuan wanted to go to school, Huang Suqiong felt that the name was not loud enough, so she renamed her daughter Zhang Ailing. The second year of Zhang Ailing's birth, her younger brother Zhang Zijing was also born, which is a very handsome little boy.
Zhang Ailing's mother, Huang Suqiong, is a new woman who has undergone the baptism of the May Fourth Movement and longs for new ideas from the bottom of her heart. Huang Suqiong's father was an important general in the late Qing Dynasty, and when Li Hongzhang was still alive, he had already set up a doll kiss for Zhang Zhiyi and Huang Suqiong. Huang Suqiong was very dissatisfied with this marriage, and her thoughts demanded that she rebel against feudal marriage, act for her own happiness, and rebel against arranged marriage. But at the same time, in the face of this heavy feudal shackles and persecuting her parents, Huang Suqiong is also difficult to completely refuse. This left her in a state of contradiction after marriage.
If her husband Zhang Zhiyi and Huang Suqiong's thoughts are the same, it is enough, but on the contrary, Zhang Zhiyi accepts a complete set of Confucian thought and culture, he is very good at learning the Eight Strands of Literature, but after experiencing the death of his grandfather and father, and even his mother, the former late Qing government no longer exists, which means that everything Zhang Zhiyi learns has no room to play, in this case, Zhang Zhiyi is more and more dull, staying in the study at home all day, and going nowhere. Later, because of her own decadence, Zhang Zhiyi also contracted the habit of smoking opium, which disappointed Huang Suqiong, she had no hope at all, and she did not want to live with such an opium-smoking and depraved man, so the two divorced. After the divorce, Zhang Ailing lived with Zhang Zhiyi.
For her father, Zhang Ailing's feelings are complicated. She remembers zhang Zhiyi's room full of newspapers and books when she was a child. Little Zhang Ailing's habit of reading was formed from that time. Because of the influence of her father, Zhang Ailing likes to read, like "Dream of the Red Chamber", and also like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and like the stories and worlds in the books that make people sink. But later, Zhang Zhiyi married another wife, Sun Yongfan, and the two had the same hobby, which was smoking opium. Zhang Ailing still remembers that every time she came home from school, she could see her father and stepmother smoking opium in the room. Zhang Ailing's relationship with Sun Yongfan was not good, and even because of this stepmother, Zhang Ailing was also locked up by Zhang Zhiyi and did not allow Zhang Ailing to step out of the door for half a year. Zhang Ailing really couldn't stand it, so she fled the house and returned to her mother, Huang Suqiong.
Huang Suqiong has always attached great importance to Zhang Ailing's learning, and whenever Zhang Ailing's grades are not good, she will find a special teacher to guide her study, and hope to send Zhang Ailing out to study. Therefore, although the mother and daughter do not get along very closely on a daily basis, Zhang Ailing is still very grateful to Huang Suqiong for her cultivation.
Later, Zhang Ailing went to Hong Kong to study. During this period, she wrote many popular novels, such as "Genius Dream", "The First Incense", "Love in the City", etc., zhang Ailing's books have been sought after by many people. In the book, Zhang Ailing often uses her own family as a prototype to write, and the authenticity of the text and plot can be seen between the lines.
It is hard to imagine that because of Li Hongzhang's act of matching Zhang Peilun and Li Juling, a genius novelist like Zhang Ailing was born in the descendants, so that future generations will be happy about this matter.