Peng Yulin was a disciple of Zeng Guofan, and when Zeng Guofan was training the Xiang Army in Hengyang, he invited Peng Yulin to build the Xiang Army Marine Division, which was the key point for Peng Yulin to start his career.
Many people feel that since it was Zeng Guofan who brought Peng Yulin, should Peng Yulin sell Zeng Guofan a little face? I'm really sorry, it's not too much to describe Peng Yulin with an iron face.
Anyone dared to offend and start a fire, even his own nephew dared to slaughter. When Peng Yulin's nephew was serving as the prefect, he once missed a military plane, and as a result, Peng Yulin dragged him out and slaughtered him without saying a word.
In addition to his own nephew, even Li Hongzhang's nephew dared to move. At that time, Li Hongzhang's nephew Li Qiusheng was acting recklessly in the local areas, bullying men and bullying women. After Peng Yulin knew about it, he didn't say a word and directly slaughtered Li Hongzhang's nephew. After the killing, he also wrote a letter to Li Hongzhang: I killed this goods, no need to thank.
Peng Yulin is not afraid of offending anyone, and the officials who were impeached and removed by him are as many as 200 people, among which high-ranking officials Houlu are also everywhere, it can be said that in the late Qing Dynasty, no one was willing to fight with Peng Yulin.
In this way, do you think he will let Zeng Guofan go because Zeng Guofan is his leader? Of course not, he suggested at least three times that Zeng Guofan slaughter Zeng Guoquan.
The first time for the Anqing incident, Zeng Guofan was asked to kill Zeng Guoquan.
A key node in the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was when Anqing City was breached. At this time, Zeng Guoquan was responsible for attacking Anqing City, and Peng Yulin had grown up in Anqing and had feelings for this city.
In 1860, it had been occupied by the Taiping Army for 9 years, and it was a very important city in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zeng Guoquan led more than 8,000 people to surround Anqing City.
They did not allow anything to be transported into the city, and repeatedly repelled the Taiping Army, which was planning to break through. At this time, Anqing Shou's general Chen Yucheng was confused, and he went to Tongcheng with thousands of people to meet with other troops of the Taiping Army. But it put more than 10,000 people in a state of leaderlessness.
As a result, Zeng Guoquan seized this opportunity and attacked this army, causing a large number of Taiping troops to be captured alive. After more than 20 days, the battle was completely over. Chen Yucheng's elite troops were completely destroyed, and more than 8,000 Taiping troops were all killed.
The war was so cruel that Zeng Guoquan shook his head and said that after this battle, he would go home to farm. However, this brother had no intention of farming, because all the soldiers and horses on the outskirts of Anqing were wiped out, and Anqing became an isolated city.
On September 5, 1861, Zeng Guoquan blew open the walls of Anqing, and the Xiang army swarmed in. The 16,000 Taiping Army had long been hungry and could not walk, so they had to choose to surrender.
Zeng Guoquan pretended to let them go into the house in groups to lead the way fee, and as a result, they directly eliminated all 16,000 people in the house, which took a day and a night. His brother Zeng Guofan was known as Zeng Shaved Head, and Zeng Guoquan was known as a shaver.
In order to vent his anger, Zeng Guoquan actually wiped out all the old, young, and old women and children in Anqing City, leaving no one behind. The tragic situation in his hometown had to make Peng Yulin feel moved, so Peng Yulin immediately wrote to Zeng Guofan, describing zeng Guoquan's atrocities in detail and demanding that Zeng Guoquan be brought to justice.
The second time for the Tianjing Incident, Zeng Guofan was asked to slaughter Zeng Guoquan.
In 1862, Zeng Guofan finally began a general attack on Tianjing, which was the base camp of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zeng Guofan once again left the opportunity for this general attack to his younger brother Zeng Guoquan.
Zeng Guoquan built fortifications around Tianjing and defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's 200,000 troops with 20,000 people. After that, Zeng Guoquan invaded Tianjing and began to repeat his sins in Anqing.
He allowed his men to burn and loot in tianjing city, and did nothing wrong, plundering all the wealth in the city. Thousands of boats carrying treasures to Zeng Guoquan's hometown show how much money was taken.
In order to hide his eyes and ears, Zeng Guoquan simply burned down all the houses in Tianjing City to cover up his sins. At this time, Peng Yulin could not hold back again, and he immediately wrote to Zeng Guofan and asked him to slaughter Zeng Guoquan.
Zeng Guofan was of course perfunctory, after all, Zeng Guofan was not only his younger brother, but also his number one fierce general. In his note to Cixi, he said that the treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was empty, and everyone knew what was going on, but no one dared to check it.
The third time was the outbreak of the Liu Shoutian Incident, and Peng Yulin again mentioned the murder of Zeng Guoquan.
Liu Shoutian was originally Zeng Guoquan's personal soldier, because Peng Yulin always couldn't go with Zeng Guoquan, so Zeng Guoquan arranged for such a person to go to Peng Yulin's army and let him monitor Peng Yulin's every move.
But Liu Shoutian this guy is unreliable, his patron is Zeng Guoquan, and when he arrives at Peng Yulin's military camp, he acts recklessly, and even slanders Peng Yulin in various ways.
Peng Yulin couldn't bear it anymore and simply cut off Liu Shoutian's ears and imprisoned him. Immediately after that, Peng Yulin wrote to Zeng Guofan again, hoping that he would kill Zeng Guoquan.
Zeng Guofan is really angry this time, I am kind enough to promote you, but you want to harm my brother every day, what is your ulterior motive? So Zeng Guoquan began to question Peng Yulin in various ways.
And Jianglu Datong, Zeng Guo set up three provincial supervision and marketing bureaus, attracting merchants to collect tickets, and the size of the salt tickets of the water division was hundreds, and it was a military salary with a large amount of money. The remaining silver and the ticket book are huge, Yulin does not take it privately, takes interest with one-fifth, helps the water master at public expense, and prepares for the needs of external emergencies. The rest of the yun and gui help 200,000 yuan, gansu help 200,000 yuan, with 100,000 Guangben county school quotas, and salt tickets to reward the generals who have made great contributions.
From here on, Peng Yulin never mentioned the murder of Zeng Guoquan again. Because he knew that Zeng Guofan knew at a glance what Zeng Guoquan was doing, but Zeng Guofan just didn't do anything to Zeng Guoquan, what was the reason? It's not because I want to protect my brother!
If Peng Yulin continues to quarrel with Zeng Guoquan like this, sooner or later he will also have to turn his face with Zeng Guofan. At that time, everyone will not be able to hang on to their faces. However, it can also be seen from this that Peng Yulin is a lord that the six relatives do not recognize.
Summary: Peng Yulin is known as the Qing Dynasty Bao Qingtian.
Peng Yulin, a brother who was jealous and hateful, showed no mercy to corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and personally impeached more than 200 corrupt officials. In addition, he himself never loved money.
Whether it was a reward or a seizure, Peng Yulin did not take anything, either to his subordinates or to do good deeds, and his attention was never on money.
This personality of Peng Yulin also created his special reputation in the late Qing Dynasty. Unlike other Generals of the Xiang Army, he still had a bit of a conscience and dared to express his opinion.