For our country, the late Qing Dynasty was a particularly difficult period, when the people in the country were miserable, basically living very bleak, some people even had a very difficult survival, in order to restore a relatively normal life as soon as possible, the common people will launch an uprising every three to five years, wanting to overthrow the feudal rule of the Ai Xin Jue Luo family. In addition to the domestic uprisings, western countries are also like jackals, tigers and leopards, eyeing China's territory and resources, from time to time to find some unwarranted reasons to launch attacks on our country, and after the end of the battle, they will forcibly force the Qing government to sign unequal treaties. After the outbreak of the Opium War, our country has lost a lot of land.
At that time, most qing officials, like dogs with broken backbones, did not dare to fight foreigners at all. However, there are also some people who bravely stand up in this moment of crisis and risk their lives to preserve the country's land, such as Zuo Zongtang, who is one of the most grateful people in China.
Some people have commented that without him, our territory would now be only 8 million square kilometers. Zuo Zongtang has always been eager to make meritorious contributions to serve the motherland, but unfortunately, he did not achieve meritorious fame in the three meetings, and was forced to become a staff member, during which he learned a lot of cultural knowledge, and had a deeper understanding of military water conservancy and geography.
Because of his outstanding talent, Zuo Zongtang was appreciated by Lin Zexu, and when the two met, it can be said that they hated each other and talked freely for a long time. Later, Zuo Zongtang successfully entered the imperial court and became a high-ranking official. He twice turned the Hunan region into a safe place, suppressed the Taiping Army many times, and won the trust and value of the imperial court.
In 1867, Agubai took the opportunity to invade and occupy China's Xinjiang, followed by Tsarist Russia began to invade and occupy the Ili region of our country. At that time, many court officials believed that the Xinjiang region was a dime, not only could not contribute taxes to the imperial court, but also needed a large number of subsidies from the imperial court, so there was no need to rush to recover, while Zuo Zongtang believed that the Xinjiang region was China's territory and must be recovered as soon as possible. In the end, Zuo Zongtang was recognized by those in power and became the minister of Chincha, and then he led his troops to Xinjiang, defeated the enemy, and successfully recovered the land.