History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
In May 1863, on the banks of the Dadu River, the wing king Shi Da opened his sword and locked his eyebrows.
Three days ago, Shi Dakai ordered more boat rafts to be prepared and crossed the river the next day, but that night there was heavy rain and the river swelled, and it was an early rise that had not been encountered in a hundred years, and it was impossible to sail.
At this time, several Qing armies had completed a multi-way encirclement, and the siege was heavy, like an iron barrel.
Is it really a dead end? Shi Dakai let out a long sigh and let out a lament like Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, along the Wu River.
At this time, Shi Dakai could not help but fall into memories.
Shi Dakai was born in a relatively wealthy peasant family in The North Mountain of Gui County (present-day Dakai Village, Qishi Township, Gangbei District, Guigang City). Shi Dakai's father, Shi Changhui, died around the age of five to nine in Dakai. Leaving behind a weak wife and young son (four minor children), the family situation is not as good as before.
As the saying goes, the family is poor and filial piety, and Shi Dakai also carries the burden of life early.
As a teenager, in addition to farming, he also did business. Buy and sell chickens and ducks, work as a cattle dealer. Transport charcoal to the Pingtianshan Mining Area for sale. At the age of fourteen, Shi Dakaimi was an awe-inspiring adult, and had long ago taken up the burden of maintaining the family.
He traveled to the rivers and lakes, made friends with haojie in all directions, and had contacts with Luo Gang, the leader of the Tian, the leader of the Earth Association, who was active in the Xunwu area at that time, and Zhang Zhao, the big head sheep, and also established close relations with the workers and peasants in the Pingtianshan mining area. Therefore, the reputation of Fang Haojie is outstanding.
During the Daoguang years, the officialdom was corrupt and the people's livelihood was difficult. In 1847, when Shi Dakai was sixteen years old, Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan, who were preparing for the anti-Qing uprising in Guangxi in the name of spreading Christianity, came to visit and invited them to plan a big plan, Shi Dakai promised to destroy his family three years later to relieve the difficulties, led more than 4,000 people to participate in the Jintian Uprising, and was named the main general of the Left Army. It means "Feather Wing Heavenly Dynasty".
After the death of Xiao Chaogui, the Western King, in Changsha, Hunan Province, the Taiping army fell into the counter-encirclement of the Qing army under the city of Changsha, and the situation was extremely critical, And Shi Dakai led his troops to cross the Xiang River in the west and open up the Hexi base, alleviating the danger of the Taiping army's shortage of food, and repeatedly defeating the invading enemy, achieving a "great victory on land and water", and seriously demoralizing the Morale of the Qing army.
Subsequently, in order to lead the whole army, the army withdrew safely through Hexi, jumped out of the anti-encirclement circle, captured Yueyang, occupied Wuhan, descended from Wuchang east to Jinling, and advanced 1,800 miles in twenty-eight days, invincible and invincible, which made the Qing army feel frightened and fearful, and was called "Shi Dangdang". Therefore, he was crowned as the Wing King.
Shi Dakai was one of the most courageous warriors of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the other two were Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng, who were later than Shi Dakai in terms of seniority.
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Let's talk about luo Bingzhang, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the chaotic world was boiling, but it was also a hero in the chaotic world, presenting such as Shi Dakai, Li Xiucheng, Zeng Guofan and other people of the moment, the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, and Zhang Zhidong, which have been told before, and today I talk about the story of Luo Bingzhang, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty.
In the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong (1793), Luo Bingzhang was born in Hua County, Guangdong. In the twelfth year of Daoguang (1832), after reading the scriptures for more than thirty years, Luo Bingzhang, who was already 39 years old, finally became a 60 jinshi of Enke and 27 of the second class of the temple examination, and was selected for the imperial examination, and was hand-picked as a Shujishi of the Hanlin Academy. Embark on a career as an official. He successively served as the inspector of The Imperial History of Quanxiu, Jiangnan Province, and Sichuan Province. Because of his honest work, he won the trust of the imperial court.
Luo Bingzhang was ordered to inspect the treasury of the ministry of officials, and after his arrival, he checked the bad rules and regulations and strictly inspected them. Officials could not bend the law for personal gain, so they wanted to find an opportunity to get him away, and just found his omission, but after the investigation of the superior official Mu Zhang'a, he found that Luo Bingzhang was indeed meticulous in his work and did not have any touch, so he was very touched and more important to him.
Mu Zhang'a summoned Luo Bingzhang and said, "The strictness of your inventory of treasury silver is really unprecedented, and I will definitely let you stay here for another three years, which will be of great benefit to the treasury." Luo Bingzhang replied, "If I stay here for a year, those officials will already be very difficult to do, and if I were to stay for another three years, I am afraid that none of those officials would be able to live!" "The conspiracy of those officials did not succeed. Later, Luo Bingzhang successively held the posts of Shi Zhong, Shaoqing of Hongxu Temple, and Fengtian Fu and Xuezheng.
However, after that, he was caught by negligence, and the debt of the silver treasury under his rule was exposed, with a total loss of more than nine million taels. Luo Bingzhang was deposed for the crime of negligence, and was still fined 18,200 yuan for the crime.
After the examination was completed, he did not expect to be blessed by misfortune and favored by the Daoguang Emperor, who knew that Luo Bingzhang was selfless and selfless, and when he summoned him, he said to him: "You have done a good job in this year's inspection, not only one person knows it, but everyone knows it." Now with this case, your name will become more famous, and if it were not for this case, you would not know your name. You study hard, you become an official conscientiously, and you will do a good job for the country in the future. "It is specially intended to be retained in the capacity of a shuzi.
Since then, the Daoguang Emperor has great trust in him, and he has been promoted to a bachelor's degree and served as an envoy to Hubei Province. Soon Luo Bingzhang returned to his hometown ding mother worried. After the end, he made up the right Son, and successively went to Shandong, Henan, and Jiangsu to serve as a minister.
In the thirtieth year of Daoguang (1850), the Xianfeng Emperor appointed him to hunan as the governor of Hunan. In the first year of Xianfeng (1851), an incident occurred that made the Xianfeng Emperor very upset, and in the first year of his ascension to the throne, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom revolted in Jintian, Guangxi, and all the way to the ground, the officers and soldiers of the Qing court were defeated again and again.
This is simply a slap in the face, but the Taiping army is powerful, the Qing army has been singing and dancing for a long time, and the Eight Banner Army, which was previously relied on to establish the country, was actually defeated at a touch because it had not experienced war for many years, and its combat effectiveness was weak, and then the Taiping Army came to Hunan, and Luo Bingzhang was dismissed from his post because of poor defense. Later, he was reinstated as a meritorious defender of Changsha and was highly relied upon by the Qing court.
Later, because the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banner Army was reduced, the Qing court issued a plan to support regimental training, that is, through the development of local armed forces. Later, the modern giant Yuan Shikai and the northeast king Zhang Zuolin all made their fortunes by founding the regiment.
Luo Bingzhang supported a minor official at that time, Zeng Guofan organized a group training, but he did not expect that later Zeng Guofan was a rising star and grew into a towering tree in the Qing court. He also hired Zuo Zongtang as an aide, and listened to him in every detail.
Because of the trust of the Qing court, the Xianfeng Emperor ordered him to supervise the military affairs of Sichuan, lead the army into Sichuan, and serve as the governor of Sichuan.
Luo Bingzhang was clean and honest all his life, and was known as the "first clean official of the late Qing Dynasty", he rectified the administration of officials, benefited the people, and was supported by the people.
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History is sometimes so playful. Throughout the life of the Xianfeng Emperor, from the ascension to the throne to the end of retirement, the Taiping Army actually accompanied him in his political career for more than ten years.
In the first year of Tongzhi (1862), the Taiping Army was greatly weakened due to civil strife, and Shi Dakai, in order to avoid the suspicion of the Heavenly King, fled tianjing and fought alone in Sichuan, rising for eleven years of the Taiping Army, because of the great loss of strength due to civil strife, and finally it was time to end.
Because the Taiping Army went deep alone, it was heavily surrounded along the Dadu River. Luo Bingzhang sent heavy troops to defend the Dadu River, cutting off the back road of the famous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom general Shi Dakai, Shi Dakai was surrounded by Anshun Field, and then Shi Dakai finally fell into a heavy siege, the wing king Shi Dakai finally lost his former style, and the cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came to the end of the road.
During the fierce battle with the Xiang army, Shi Dakai's main force was betrayed by the Yi Tusi who had allied with it, suffered heavy losses, and was trapped on the south bank of the Dadu River for more than 40 days, but still could not break through.
However, the army under the wing king Shi Dakai, although he had repeatedly penetrated alone and lost soldiers, as Shi Dakai's reliance on the world for more than ten years, it was still a strong force, and it was deeply feared by the opponent! Even if this unit is completely annihilated, the defending Qing army still needs to be seriously injured.
Therefore, Luo Bingzhang personally issued a proclamation saying that he ordered people to put up the banner of surrendering and avoiding death, surrender and not kill!
Shi Dakai's people were not moved, and they were willing to live and die with the Wing King!
Shi Dakai looked back on his life of swinging qi and intestines, looked at this subordinate who had followed him for more than ten years, and issued a lament like Xiang Yu on the side of the Wujiang River.
Knowing that the cause of heaven is difficult to save, he hopes that his subordinates will have a good home. Therefore, after consideration, it was believed that Luo Bingzhang had been clear for a long time, and his promise should be credible, so Shi Dakai wrote to Luo Bingzhang, requesting peace talks, saying that he would exchange his personal life and death for the safety of his subordinates.
May one man kill himself, and all three armies surrender to security, hoping that "I will spare my soldiers, please avoid being punished." Luo Bingzhang accepted Shi Dakai's request and agreed to "surrender and avoid death."
Luo Bingzhang pretended to agree, and after Shi Dakai's troops, at the request of the Wing King, they all removed their armor. Shi Dakai also disarmed, walked to the Xiang army camp without hesitation, willingly became a prisoner, and was released to Chengdu Lingchi to be executed.
But what happened next was unexpected.
When more than 6,000 Taiping Army generals collectively laid down their weapons, Luo Bingzhang changed his mind, and after his subordinates surrendered their weapons, he ordered that all 200 Taiping Army generals and more than 2,000 of Shi Dakai's cronies and soldiers be executed, the remaining 4,000 people were sent road tickets to be dismissed, and 2,000 people were still placed in the Dashubao Temple, and Luo Bingzhang destroyed them all in one night.
It is said that a gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase, the late Qing Dynasty famous minister Luo Bingzhang, throughout his life, can also be regarded as a good figure, why did he rebel and kill Shi Dakai's subordinates?
There may be several main reasons.
First, Luo Bingzhang read Confucian classics since childhood and believed that Shi Da Kaibu was a traitor.
Officials and thieves are not at odds, and they despise the Taiping Army from the bottom of their hearts, believing that they can be ignored for faith and righteousness. And because of the Confucian benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, and faith, there was still a certain amount of good knowledge and righteousness in his heart, so he finally released the remaining two thousand people. It is also said that the other two thousand people ran fast and finally escaped the disaster.
Second, proceeding from reality, it is believed that Shi Dakai's generals and cronies are brave and good at war, and they are in the spirit of not letting the tiger return to the mountain. It had to be destroyed on the spot.
The third is to protect oneself.
If Shi Da kai yubu is released in this way, if Shi Dakai yubu continues to have an accident, he will certainly be criticized in the court, and the discredit will be small, and the heavy will be a serious crime.
Even Luo Bingzhang, who was the governor of Sichuan, could not afford it, and for the sake of conservatism, he had to break his promise and kill Shi Dakai in large numbers.
Today, 157 years later, this middle game is still difficult to solve.
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