Fame in the world may not be a hometown wish, and slander in the world may not be a great man
The above is the preface to Liang Qichao's writing of "The Biography of Li Hongzhang"!
What does this word mean? You have to understand what a hometown wish is!
(Fame is not necessarily a good thing)
Xiang Wish, here refers to vanity and reputation, rich and noble and not returning to the hometown, Jinyi nocturnal travel, Mu Monkey and Crown, are all described as The King of Chu, Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu is a hero who regards the township wish as the first priority, and finally the unrealistic soldiers are defeated and killed, but where Sima Qian comes to gain a great reputation!
And the slander is relatively easy to understand, that is, full of controversy and slander.
Generally speaking, such a character has a characteristic, that is, it is very important to the country, so important that people all over the world are talking about it, praising and depreciating!
This Liang Qichao is really a talent, and the two meanings of one sentence show his evaluation of Li Hongzhang.
A traitor on the outside, a capable official, a man who acts very unpleasantly, but who makes a significant contribution to the country.
This is Li Hongzhang, a capable official who contributed to the promotion of the "Tongguang Zhongxing" movement in foreign affairs, and the conclusion of his life!
(The coffin is really fair)
Behind this coffin.
There was a victory after the Sino-French War.
There was a trembling signature after the Eight-Power Alliance.
There was a humiliation contract after the Sino-Japanese War.
There are long sighs from the sky when visiting Germany.
After her death, Empress Dowager Cixi wept bitterly as a cat with tears.
Behind these countless signings of the sky sigh and a drop of cat tears, is a person who bears the name of loyalty, carries the essence of the pot, and bears the responsibility of the world, and has a prudent and humble pot supplementary career in his life.
As far as the imperial power and the Qing government were concerned, he was a loyal and powerful official.
The way of loyalty and filial piety is the human duty of the Chinese Confucian scholar-doctor class, and this Li Hongzhang has practiced the essence of this way with his own life, and has used this life to continue this decadent and decadent dynasty, which has no hope at all, and the life span of a candle.
(This is a complement to cp one by one)
Did he count as successful?
The Qing Dynasty at least withstood the unprecedented changes in three thousand years, experienced the Second Opium War, the Qing Empire actually did not collapse in internal and external troubles, this luck undoubtedly has Li Hongzhang and countless colleagues like him, such as Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan, Zhang Zhidong credit!
The so-called four ministers of ZTE are all practicing the Confucian way, using the Confucian way of loyalty as the code of conduct, adding new thinking to open the eyes to the world to devote themselves to transforming the country!
They've actually tried their best.
Under the rule of the inherent traditional concept of small nations, the Qing Dynasty was closed and conservative, and the weak people and foolish people were also inevitable, otherwise how could they use the base of millions of small nationalities to complete the control of hundreds of millions of beings?
If it were not for their dedication, there would have been the old demon empress dowager Cixi's blind eye and the foreign affairs campaign carried out in accordance with the trend.
China does not know how many times it will be beaten, and even if it is destroyed, it will not wake up.
Reforming a country, changing a system, changing the inherent thinking is the most difficult thing, the resistance encountered. Not in it is not understood!
This resistance has the customization of the ancestors, the opposition of conservatives, the incomprehension of those in power, the attacks of the ignorant trolls, and the continuation of partisanship.
For example, Empress Dowager Cixi, who brought calamity to the country and the people in the Sino-Japanese War, and Weng Tonggong, who fought for the struggle with empty mouth and white teeth.
(A noon is like a hammer, waking up Chinese)
All this is an obstacle, not only the hope of national rejuvenation, but also the hope of national rise.
The reason why hope is beautiful is because it takes time to precipitate, and finally find a breakthrough in the change of time in history and the change of political pattern!
Li Hongzhang's brilliant forty years of career is actually the most turbulent forty years of the Qing Dynasty, when the Qing Dynasty was decayed, although it was vulnerable, but he still had a solid foundation for rule, under the long-term enslavement education, the formed inherent way of thinking, and the foolish loyalty of countless courtiers, so that the Qing Dynasty rule was still stable!
How do you do something about solid decay?
This is the question that Li Hongzhang and countless people in the foreign affairs movement need to think about?
How is this problem solved? Confrontation is not the way, going with the flow is the way, and following the situation of this stupid woman of Empress Dowager Cixi to do her own things to strengthen the country has become the unanimous choice of the han officials and officials at that time.
So are they really willing?
If you are really willing, will there be a southeastern mutual protection after the formation of political strength and when the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China?
You an old demon woman has the courage, a person declares war on the whole world, you go alone, we watch the drama, this is the real attitude of the Han feudal officials after the strength to the Qing Dynasty, and it is also their final appeal.
No one wants to live a daily life of kneeling, even if it has become a habit and it is not accustomed to standing up, but they still fantasize about the day when they stand up.
(Enemy Rating)
The majority of the ruled people come at a cost to standing up.
For han chinese, the step-by-step process of ascending to the throne was followed by the contract of defeat again and again and the humiliating signature.
The pot maker is Li Hongzhang's self-evaluation, but also the evaluation of the Chinese people, the meaning of the supplement is where there is a leaky wind you go, where to fire you go, where there is a problem you go.
In short, the scapegoat is just that.
In the end, all the evils have become the pot maker's, and the weak country has no diplomacy to speak of, and the representative of the weak country is of course the object of bullying.
He had no intention of defending Li Hongzhang, but just telling the truth.
The First Sino-Japanese War, according to the strength of the defense is said to be avoiding the battle, what is the result of the final battle?
The whole army is destroyed, so whose fault is it? Suppress naval construction for the sake of party struggle, suppress military expenses for the sake of party struggle, and withhold military expenses for the sake of party struggle and even for birthdays.
Whose house is this country? Whose army is this army?
Those in power believe that this Beiyang Navy is the Huai Army and Li Hongzhang's private army. And all this is the root of the defeat.
Does the defeat have a lot to do with Li Hongzhang? It is only the cause of the system that has caused the result of failure.
Whether it is the subsequent "Maguan Treaty," the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, or the "Xinugu Treaty," whose decision is in the hands of whom?
How sad is it that a person who only bears the consequences ends up with all the insults!
(Who can he go if he doesn't go?) ）
At that time, if there was really another choice, why did Li Hongzhang, who was dying of old age, do this thing that had been infamous for eternity.
At that moment, the people who can stand up are the responsible people, and the people hiding behind the scenes are the former beam-jumping clowns.
The traitor's hat, Li Hongzhang wore a little unjustly.
Although I have always been grumpy about his lack of concern for the survival of Xinjiang, his responsibility is actually not much less than that of Zuo Zongtang, who carried the coffin out on the expedition.
During the negotiations on the "Maguan Treaty" after the Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang was assassinated by a japanese angry youth, and a bullet passed next to his cheek, and at the same time as the blood flowed like a flood, it was Li Hongzhang's secret sigh, and there was a chip to negotiate terms with the Japanese!
At that moment, did he consider his own safety? It is not credible to say that a bullet is less than 100 million taels of silver, but it should be credible to negotiate less compensation as a bargaining chip.
When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, The ruling Empress Dowager Cixi and the emperor all took refuge, and who was finally pulled out?
Not the sad Li Hongzhang!
But was the declaration of war meant by him? No, the sad back-and-out man once again became the signatory and finally the focus of all the attacks.
At the time of the Reform of the Law, Li Hongzhang once boasted that he was a reformist and clearly supported the Reform Movement, the purpose of which may be that I can no longer see hope, and if you have ideas, then I will bring up the younger generations.
Even Yuan Shikai, who later ended the Qing Dynasty and ended the imperial system, had the opportunity to preside over the small station training because of Li Hongzhang's recommendation, and then entered the political stage of the late Qing Dynasty.
Among them, the deep meaning or the intention, when people do not understand, posterity should also understand ah.
Li Hongzhang was sincere and sincere to the Qing Dynasty, but this empress dowager Cixi, in addition to letting Li Hongzhang carry the pot and let Li Hongzhang make up the pot, it seems that Li Hongzhang was left with tears after his death!
Of course, Cixi will burst into tears, losing the best back pot man, and in the future, she will face the muzzle of the gun, and no one will shoot in front of her.
Will this day last?
Sure enough, the Qing Dynasty, without the back pot man, hung up in a few years.
Li Hongzhang's loyal subjects and abilities were all limited to the limits of the old system, loyal to the rulers, and finally exchanged loyalty for the right to do something, and then used this right to do something, and then used this right to do something, and tried their best to transform the country, but they could only do their best to transform it.
Because of institutional corruption and national defects, it is decided that this country is irredeemable, this is not a task that can be completed by manpower, but a dead end that cannot be broken, and no one can solve such a dead end!
(There is no Li Hongzhang in the world)
There is no solution to the reform of the Westerners, there is no solution to the reform of the reformists, only revolution, only its fate is the answer!
This is the sadness of the late Qing Dynasty, the personal sorrow of Li Hongzhang, and even more the sorrow of our nation.
Finally, let's talk about corruption, when the water is clear, there is no fish, and when people are aware, there is no vain!
People who are too clean, mixed with the ancient officialdom, are seeking their own death, which is a tradition and cannot be avoided.