Evaluating Yang Xiuqing, "I don't know how Providence will become this person" is a sentence that cannot be avoided.
So, who said this?
Li Xiucheng said.
So, when and where did Li Xiucheng say this, and under what circumstances?
On June 16 of the third year of Tongzhi, Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, fell. Li Xiucheng was captured on the 19th at Fangshan, southeast of Nanjing, because he gave the horse to the Young Heavenly King. On the twentieth day, Li Xiucheng was taken to the Xiang army camp, and the main commander of the attack city, Zeng Guoquan, personally interrogated him, and stabbed Li Xiucheng's arms and thighs with a knife cone. On the twenty-third day, Zeng Guoquan ordered people to make a wooden cage and locked Li Xiucheng inside. On June 25, Zeng Guofan, the commander of the Xiang Army, came to Nanjing as a steamship from Anqing. Two days later, he ordered Lee to be interrogated and asked lee to write a confession.
On June 27, Li Xiucheng began to write, and it took nine days to write on July 6. The extant Confession of Li Xiucheng has a total of 148 pages, and "I don't know how Providence became this person" is impressively in the fourth column of the third page.
Apparently, on June 27 of the third year of Tongzhi, Li Xiucheng wrote this comment about Yang Xiuqing with his injured arm in a wooden cage.
That's not right!
Zhao Liewen was an aide to Zeng Guofan's brothers, and before and after the fall of Tianjing, he followed Zeng Guoquan and recorded many of the situations after Li Xiucheng was captured in his diary.
On the night of the twentieth, that is, the night that Li Xiucheng had just been sent to Zeng Guoquan's camp and his arm and thigh were cut, Zhao Liewen and another good staff member went to Li Xiucheng's prison place, and the three of them nagged for a long time. At the same time, Zhao Liewen asked Li Xiucheng, how do you evaluate the talents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom tycoons? Li Xiucheng "is in the clouds, and the sole servant of the Stone King, saying that his strategy is very deep." ”
Li Xiucheng's comments, benevolent people see benevolence and wisdom see wisdom. For example, Xiaobian believes that if the kings can only pk, Shi Dakai can not be in the middle, and Chen Yucheng is very strategic. None of this is relevant to this article, though. We can do a simple reading comprehension to know that in the clouds, it is natural to put Yang Xiuqing into it.
Li Xiucheng just said that Yang Xiuqing was in the middle of the talent, and seven days later, he evaluated the same person with "I don't know how Providence transformed into this person". If the gap between the two statements is not seven days, but seven months and seven years, Li Xiucheng's thought can be used to transform the past. But in just one week, the evaluation of one was carried from the human world to the heavens...
This, of course, is also too weird, right?
Indeed, for various purposes, Li Xiucheng told many lies in "Self-Description". But in June of the fourth year of Tongzhi, Yang Xiuqing had been dead for nearly 8 years, and Li Xiucheng really did not need to be insincere because of his talents.
So, what's going on?
We still need to do some reading comprehension.
The context of "I don't know how Providence became this person" is:
In order to inquire about the origin of the former kings, it is special to clarify the former kings before and after. To the eastern king Yang Xiuqing, living in Guiping County, to the mountain name is called Ping Pass Mountain, at home to plant mountains and burn charcoal for the industry, and did not know the opportunity. Since worshipping God, every piece can be known,
I wonder how Providence became this person?
I don't know. The king of heaven is trustworthy, and the affairs of a country are entrusted to him, and the military orders are strict and orderly, and the rewards and punishments are clear.
Therefore, Li Xiucheng's evaluation of Yang Xiuqing, the key word is not "I don't know how Providence incarnated into this person", but in the "actually do not know" after that. In other words, Li Xiucheng believes that Yang Xiuqing is actually "unaware". This "knowing" may mean the previous "zhiji", or simply a typo, which originally means "wisdom".
During the Yang Xiuqing era, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom achieved unprecedented success. But even so, Li Xiucheng still believed that among the kings, Yang Xiuqing's talent was only medium. The so-called success of the Eastern King was nothing more than providence, that is, good luck, not his own ability.
So, why would Li Xiucheng not have a high opinion of Yang Xiuqing?
In fact, if you look at the ten mistakes of the last Heavenly Dynasty of Li Xiucheng's "Self-Description", you can know:
I. At the head of the erroneous country, the Eastern King ordered Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang to sweep the north and defeat them
Big mistake
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Second, after the defeat of Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang in sweeping the north, zeng lichang, Chen Shibao, and Xu Eighteen were sent to rescue them, and they were defeated in Linqing (Qing) Prefecture.
Third, because Zeng Lichang and others were defeated by Linqing (Qing), they failed to save Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang, and Qin Richang, the king of Fengyan, led his troops to rescue them, and the soldiers went to Yangjiadian in Shucheng and were defeated. (General Yang Jiadian, who has been doing so long today, can't remember his name.) ）
Fourth, Lin Shaozhang should not be mistakenly sent to Xiangtan [Xiangtan], at this time Lin Shaozhang was defeated in Xiangtan (湘潭) and the whole army was defeated.
Fifth, mistakenly because the East King and the North King killed each other, this is
6. The mistaken wing king and the lord are not in harmony, the monarch and the subject are "suspicious", and the wing is "guessing" the heart, and the good wen and martial generals of the He Dynasty are brought away,
This error is the greatest
6. The wrong lord does not believe in foreign ministers, and uses his eldest brother and second brother as a supplement, who is not talented and cannot protect the country.
Seventh, the wrong lord does not ask about political affairs.
Eighth, there are too many false kings, and this is it
9. Misleading the country does not require talents.
10. Wrongful establishment of government is disorganized. Those who have mistaken the country and mistaken their lives have no end because of the ten wrong causes.
In fact, there are two of the six of the ten mistakes of the Heavenly Dynasty, so it should be eleven mistakes.
Of the eleven mistakes, the first four were the mistakes of the Eastern King's decision-making. The fifth is that the East King and the North King kill each other, and Yang Xiuqing needs to pay half of the responsibility. Eleven mistakes, Yang Xiuqing accounted for four and a half mistakes. There are three "big mistakes", and Yang Xiuqing accounts for one and a half, that is, half.
The "this mistake is great" is to run away for the Wing King. However, why did the Wing King flee, and wasn't Genzi still a change in Tianjing in which the Eastern King and the Northern King killed each other?
The so-called predecessor planted a tree after the person cooled down, and the predecessor dug a pit, but he Li Xiucheng was buried. Therefore, being able to be "middle-aged" is Li Xiucheng's correct evaluation of Yang Xiuqing. However, then again, Zeng Guofan once wrote his own epitaph: "I don't believe in books, I believe in luck." When Yang Xiuqing, whose luck is in love with the talent of "middle and middle", it is "not knowing how Providence transforms into this person".