As the saying goes, the times make heroes, a person wants to make a big difference, but also necessarily needs the times to promote the waves, it is precisely because of the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty government began to pay attention to some capable people, and Li Hongzhang is one of the famous courtiers, he helped to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was later reused by the imperial court, but unfortunately in the end it was still unable to pull the ship that was bound to sink into the sea on the shore. Even I was implicated.
Li Hongzhang's real name is Zhang Tong, born in 1823 in Hefei, Anhui, a total of eight brothers and sisters, Li Hongzhang ranked second in line, after growing up Li Hongzhang obeyed his father's orders, resolutely went north, in 1845 into the Beijing Huihui examination, and then became a disciple under Zeng Guofan. The career can be described as smooth sailing.
After the Taiping Rebellion, Zeng Guofan was ordered to create a "Xiang Army", and the 36-year-old Li Hongzhang served as an aide at Zeng Guofan's side. In the middle of the Taiping Rebellion, Li Hongzhang began to break away from Zeng Guofan and formed the Huai Army into Jiangsu, making great achievements, and after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed, he naturally became a major vassal of the Qing Dynasty.
Later, Li Hongzhang, who was reused, also did a lot of things for the Qing Dynasty, such as opening the Anti-Foreign Affairs Movement. Attempts were made to revive the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately the Qing Dynasty had already gone to the road of no return under the leadership of Cixi, and when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Qing army was defeated, and the Qing government was forced to sign a series of unequal treaties, and the person who signed on behalf of the Qing court was Li Hongzhang, who was directly subordinate to the governor and minister of Beiyang.
In 1901, Li Hongzhang was entrusted by Empress Dowager Cixi to sign the Treaty of Xinugi, and it was not long before he died in grief and indignation. At that time, the Qing Dynasty government had ceded land and paid indemnities to the great powers of 200 million taels of silver, which can be said to have been the national treasury, but despite this, it still broadcast 5,000 taels of silver for Li Hongzhang to handle funerals.
After Li Hongzhang's death, he also returned to his roots and returned to his hometown in Hefei, and buried Li Hongzhang in a place called Daxingji in accordance with his will. However, because Li Hongzhang signed too many unequal treaties on behalf of the Qing Dynasty government, it was doomed to be difficult to obtain long-term peace.
In 1958, when Hefei Daxingji built a steelmaking plant, Li Hongzhang was widely regarded as a complete "traitor" and felt that he was not worthy of occupying the place. After a series of approval procedures, the grave was blown open with consent. After the team members opened Li Hongzhang's coffin, they found that it was empty. Reluctantly, everyone continued to dig down.
Two gold nuggets weighing 30 kilograms were unearthed. In order to study the purity of these two pieces of gold, someone sent them to the bank's professional testing department, but the experts' words were surprising. Experts say the two things that look golden on the surface are made of copper, not gold.
Everyone is stunned, how is this possible? Wasn't Li Hongzhang a late Qing dynasty official? How can it be buried with copper? Experts say that Li Hongzhang is not a simple person, Li Hongzhang after his death, about his property Liang Qichao conservatively estimated, should be no less than 10 million two silver. But he did not take him to the grave.
This incident li hongzhang had already issued an explicit order, and it was well known at the time, so that the tomb robbers knew earlier the idea of not hitting his grave. I didn't expect to be excavated in the end, but the back has been rebuilt, and no one should bother him this time.