Bibliophile Li Shengduo's past one or two

Li Shengduo was a fifteen-year scholar of Guangxu, and he was a remarkable figure in modern Chinese history. First of all, he was a politician, who participated in politics for decades, and reached the rank of Sanpin Imperial Rank. He successively served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy of the Qing Dynasty, the assistant repair of the National History Museum, the inspector of Jiangnan Province, the envoy of Shanxi Tifa, the governor of Shuntianfu, and the inspector of Shaanxi. After the founding of the Republic of China, he also served as an adviser to the President, a member of the Senate, and a director of agriculture and commerce.

He was a diplomat who sent envoys to Japan, Belgium and other countries to investigate foreign governance strategies and cultural construction, and achieved remarkable results.

Li Shengduo was a very popular bureaucrat in the late Qing Dynasty officialdom, with a prosperous official fortune throughout his life, and there was no ups and downs in his life experience. This depends mainly on his performance of observing the color and seeing the wind and the rudder in the official arena, and his superb self-preservation and official skills.

He is the most prestigious edition bibliographer and bibliophile in modern China, with a rich collection of ancient books and documents, his own writings, and his knowledge is very good, but the moral problems of human character have always been plagued by the world. At that time, he went to great lengths to make a mistake, which can be described as painstaking. What Xu Tong likes, he prepares. Once, when Xu Tong summoned Zhu Hanlin to learn about their studies, he asked his senior Li Shengduo what books he had recently read. Li Shengduo replied unexpectedly: "I haven't tried to read in a few days." What is it about not reading? It turned out that he accidentally got dozens of pots of chrysanthemums, put them in the courtyard, and sat quietly all day long, in order to nourish his heart, cultivate his sentiments, and cultivate his heart under the chrysanthemums, so Xu Tong praised him and admired him very much. Then he turned his words around and said that if it was himself, he did not need to use any external objects to cultivate his mind, and this method was more clear than that of jun. After Li Shengduo listened, he immediately stood in awe, immediately complimented the teacher, slapped the horse's ass, and coaxed the teacher to be very satisfied.

Taking this opportunity, Li Shengduo entered Xu Tong's vision and began to come to the Xu family to be a teacher for Xu Tong's grandson, and with the conditions of the near water tower, he seized every opportunity to brag in front of the master of science and show himself. However, when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the city of Beijing, his master Xu Tong had already hanged himself, so he lost a patron. In order to allow himself to go farther and farther in his career, he began to change other ways. At this time, he climbed the big tree of Yi Li, the Prince of Qing, who was purple and red in front of Empress Dowager Cixi, but Yi Li was different from Xu Tong, he was good at talking about foreign affairs, and he was corrupt all his life, and he sold countless officials and lords. In order to curry favor with Prince Qing, he concealed the facts, deliberately told Yi Xi that he had been a Japanese minister, boasted that he was well versed in "foreign affairs", and threw in his favor, sending a large number of precious calligraphy and paintings to honor him according to the book. But Yi Li is a layman, does not understand the value of appreciation of calligraphy and painting, for him, only the silver of white flowers is the fundamental. Later, Li Shengduo had to spend some of his savings to flatter him, in exchange for this late Qing dynasty giant greedy person's promotion and protection in the official field, which provided convenience for him to speculate in the eunuch sea later.

In fact, for such a complete official fan, as long as he can make himself an official position and soar, all the divine horses are floating clouds. Politicians like Li Shengduo, who do not know what honesty and shame are, lack political ideals and ambitions, and only seek their own interests, there has been no shortage of people in successive dynasties, which is indeed a shame in the history of the country, and it is not possible to be humane.