Speaking of Peng Yulin, the commander of the Xiang Army's marine division and later a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty who was the governor of Liangjiang and the minister of trade and commerce in Nanyang, Li Hongzhang's mouth always came up with the following sentence indignantly: "This man has a lot of tricks." “
Li Hongzhang has been desperately an official all his life, and Peng Yulin has been desperately resigning from the official all his life, and the two have such different interests that it is inevitable that they will be tit-for-tat.
This confirms the saying that you are not a fellow traveler, and you will dust off at the beginning.
The first head-on confrontation between Peng Yulin and Li Hongzhang was in Zeng Guofan's camp. At that time, Li Hongzhang, who was defeated in the Anhui Lang War, had just thrown himself into the door of Zeng Guofan, and there was really some taste of a dog that had lost his family.
One day, Peng Yulin and Zuo Zongtang and others were gossiping in Zeng Guofan's camp about who was more capable of fighting in Hunan and Anhui. Talking about it, Peng Zuo's two strong men laughed at the embarrassing defeat of the Anhui regiment. When Li Hongzhang heard such harsh words, he was very unconvinced, so he argued.
As a result, Li Hongzhang quoted the grand theory of the scriptures, and was soon besieged and ridiculed by the Hunan generals. In a fit of rage, Li Hongzhang thought that Peng Yulin was also half an Anhui person, so he pointed at Peng Yulin and said angrily, Xueqin (Peng Yulin character), you were born in Anhui, your father has been an official in Anhui for nearly twenty years, you have also grown up in Anhui for more than ten years, and today you are so helpful and humiliated Anhui people, and humiliating your father is no different.
Although what Li Hongzhang said is true, it is really cruel and vicious to insult Peng Yulin's father in this way. Sure enough, Peng Yulin was completely enraged, only to see him walk up to Li Hongzhang without a word, swing his hard fist and throw it at Li Hongzhang.
Fortunately, Li Hongzhang dodged in time and escaped the hard fist beating, but because of this, the liangzi of the two was completely knotted.
When Zeng Guofan was alive, the two fought each other on the battlefield, and there was not much direct intersection, and the situation was still quite good. But since the death of Zeng Guofan and the fact that both of them have become high-ranking and powerful feudal officials, the situation has been very different.
In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), more than 3,000 Japanese troops, assisted by the American ship "New York", forcibly landed at Langqiao, Taiwan, in an armed attempt to plan Taiwan.
In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Japanese army, the Qing court on the one hand ordered Shen Baozhen, the minister of shipping administration of Fujian, to send troops to aid Taiwan and strengthen defense; on the other hand, through diplomatic channels, to seek a peaceful solution.
The Japanese seized on the Qing court's cowardice of blindly seeking peace and not daring to engage in battle. They threatened that if the Qing court did not meet the conditions they had set, the Japanese warships would be stationed at the port of Xiamen, and then attack the city of Jiangning along the Yangtze River.
As soon as the blackmail rumors spread, the people of the land of the two rivers were suddenly panicked.
At this time, the governor of Liangjiang was Li Zongxi.
This person, along with Li Hongzhang, Shen Baozhen, Guo Songtao, and others, was a scholar of Daoguang for twenty-seven years.
In the early years, Li Zongxi was a subordinate of Zeng Guofan, mainly responsible for military supplies, and in the process of suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he also made great achievements. In the twelfth year of Tongzhi, Li Hongzhang, who intended to continue to control the land of Liangjiang, seized the opportunity to vigorously recommend him to the imperial court in the same year, and the result was that Li Zongxi sat on the throne of Liangjiang.
However, because he was only good at government affairs and did not understand the military, Li Zongxi handed over the real power of JiangFang to Li Hongzhang's brother-in-law Zhao Jiyuan at the beginning of his term of office, first to evade heavy affairs, and second, to show favor to Li Hongzhang.
Although Li Hongzhang's eldest brother-in-law was also a scholar, he was a full-fledged scholar and politician, and his familiarity with the military was not as good as That of Li Zongxi. However, he had Li Hongzhang, a great patron of the sun in the sky, so this person in the two rivers has always been empty-eyed, lawless, and wantonly seizing power.
However, in addition to these two "incompetent" cronies of Li Hongzhang, there was another important figure in the Liangjiang Heavy Land at that time, that is, the Minister of Chincha and the Minister of The Inspector of the Yangtze River, Peng Yulin.
In the autumn of troubles, there was a straight and fierce man standing between the two incompetent people, and he was also Li Hongzhang's "nemesis", and what would happen next could be imagined.
Knowing that the Japanese thieves might drive straight in and attack Jiangning, Li Zongxi and Zhao Jiyuan were like a great enemy and confused themselves, especially Zhao Jiyuan, who, under the blind command of Yitong, actually made a very low-level military mistake.
This guy built a fort on the yangtze river, and he specially chose the wide part of the river to build it, and there was no fort on the narrow river surface and dangerous terrain to guard against the enemy.
Peng Yulin was furious when he learned of this, and he found Li Zongxi and asked in a loud voice, Li Yuting, you bastard! Regarding the defense of the Yangtze River, why don't you know that I will advocate without permission? The defense of the Yangtze River is intended to guard dangerous places and block the river surface, but now you are trying your best to repair the wide places that cannot be reached by the firing range, if the enemy ships pass through the heart of the river, what do you take to defend?
Li Zongxi had no choice but to say that this was all the proposition of Li Xiang's wife and brother.
There is a lot of bad accusations.
But Peng Yulin used the phrase "Incompetent to mislead the country, when the reference is not spared!" Li Zongxi was dumbfounded.
After being so frightened, Li Zongxi had no choice but to beg Peng Yulin to fully preside over the defense of the two rivers, and Peng Yulin, who was most important on territory, did not hesitate and immediately went to various places to rearrange the defense.
However, just as Peng Yulin was dispatching cannons day and night to supervise the construction of the fort and rebuild the Yangtze River defense line, Li Zongxi, who was afraid of the enemy like a rat, was good at making claims, and in one breath, he actually gathered all the Yangtze River water division warships from the four towns of Yuezhou, Hankou, Hukou, and Guazhou to a place in Guazhou.
Hearing this news, Peng Yulin was directly furious, and he rushed straight to the Liangjiang Governor's Palace to angrily rebuke Li Zongxi, you know that the elder brothers in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River will want to take advantage of the troubles in the Wokou, and you will also transfer the water division downstream? I have repeatedly warned you that consolidating the north bank of the Yangtze River, protecting the waterways of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and ensuring that the source of food is constantly the key to the success or failure of the war.
Li Zongxi wanted to defend.
Peng Yulin overbearingly stopped Dao, "If you command like this blindly, the overall situation in the southeast will be eroded." You can't command any longer, and Quan will lend me a letter from the Governor of Liangjiang, and I will command it in your place. If something goes wrong, ask the empress dowager and the emperor to cut off my Peng Yulin's head, and it has nothing to do with you.
Li Zongxi sat in a chair and had to obey.
After handing over the seal letter in this way, Peng Yulin led the generals to actively prepare for the battle, and the Japanese thieves saw that the Yangtze River was waiting for a strict line, and there was a great threat of death, so they soon retreated in spite of the difficulties and turned to Li Hongzhang, who wanted to blackmail Himself to seek peace.
Speaking of Li Hongzhang, when he learned that Peng Yulin had actually seized the seal of the Governor of Liangjiang, he immediately sent a letter to Li Zongxi, who must resist it, and the Two Rivers must not fall into the hands of others.
But Peng Yulin's strongman deterrent power was too overwhelming, and Li Zongxi thought that Peng Yulin was very likely to impeach himself forcefully, because he knew Peng Yulin's firepower and was afraid of being discredited, and in the end he took the initiative to resign and went away.
Li Zongxi was defeated, and his successor was Liu Kunyi, who had never dealt with Li Hongzhang, and seeing that the general trend in the two rivers had gone, Li Hongzhang's brother-in-law Zhao Jiyuan had no choice but to slip away in frustration.
This situation was tantamount to Peng Yulin using his hegemonic move to abolish the two chess pieces that Li Hongzhang had carefully arranged in Liangjiang, and since then, the Huai clan members have never been able to touch the territory of Liangjiang.
According to the usual routine of the officialdom, the next step should be Li Hongzhang to fight back against Peng Yulin.
However, in the face of Peng Yulin, who had no desire to be upright and was not afraid of losing his official position, Li Hongzhang not only did not have the opportunity to fight back, but on the contrary, he was repeatedly hit hard by Peng Yulin.
Among the famous courtiers of the late Qing Dynasty, Peng Yulin was the one who loved to hate him the most. Obsessed with love, he can paint a lifetime of ten thousand iron-blooded plum blossoms for his beloved who died early; hated, he can enter Zeng Guofan three times and ask Zeng Guofan to execute Zeng Guofan, who killed innocents indiscriminately.
Because of this kind of moral conduct, on both sides of the Yangtze River, Peng Yulin has always had the reputation of "Peng Qingtian". This reputation is not given in vain, patrolling all over the yangtze River, corrupt officials, powerful and bullying, as long as Peng Yulin bumps into it, these people's precious lives will even be the end of their lives.
There is no room for negotiation, and there is no possibility of hesitation, it is always a knife in hand.
To this end, Zeng Guofan repeatedly beheaded the imperial court for Peng Yulin, and endorsed it on the table.
In Peng Yulin's series of anecdotes about eliminating evil with an iron fist, one of them is related to Li Hongzhang.
Li Qiusheng is Li Hongzhang's cousin. Unlike several other ZTE celebrities, Li Hongzhang has the shadow of corrupt officials, but he is very good at being an official and very capable of doing things, and eventually dilutes and covers this negative thing.
In the area of Hefei, Anhui, the li family's power is very large, and the more Li Hongzhang brothers are not in the dynasty, the more the local "rich people" are. Although Li Qiusheng was only a cousin of Li Hongzhang, with the power and protection of the Li family, this house was actually mixed into a local hegemon, notoriously infamous.
On this day, Peng Yulin inspected the gap between the Yangtze River and went to the ground in Hefei to explore the people's feelings. Hefei is the place where Peng Yulin once stayed for many years, and his father Peng Mingjiu was working as an errand boy in the Inspection Department of Liangyuan Town, and he was not afraid of the powerful and killed many bullies.
This time it was Peng Yulin's turn.
At noon on this day, Peng Yulin sat in a small car and prepared to rush to the county seat of Hefei. Just as the palanquin turned around a mountain pass, the cry of injustice stopped the palanquin.
Peng Yulin got out of the car and asked, it turned out that it was the evil young people who occupied the women's people, and repeatedly told them that they could not be redressed.
Why can't justice be done? It turned out that the evil boy was Li Hongzhang's cousin, and no one in the local area could afford to provoke him.
Hearing These three words of Li Hongzhang, Peng Yulin snorted coldly, and immediately sent his own soldiers in the name of The Minister of Chincha to arrest Li Qiusheng.
After Li Qiusheng was brought in, before he met a plainly dressed "old farmer", he shouted on the spot, do you know who Uncle Ben is? Who is Uncle Ben?
Peng Yulin listened, sneered, Li Hongzhang old acquaintance, Li family out of you such a scum, he protects, Ben Qincha can not watch, Quan should help him clean up the portal.
After saying that, Peng Yulin gave a strict order, and Li Qiusheng followed by fa-rectification in the chaotic grass.
Qingtian famous ministers kill the powerful scum, the most interesting thing is not to take it on the spot, but to pinch the powerful backstage behind the scum afterwards.
This time is no exception.
The next day, Peng Yulin wrote a letter to Li Hongzhang. In the letter, Peng Yulin told Li Hongzhang in detail about Li Qiusheng's evil deeds, and after shaking off the ugly affairs of the Li family, Peng Yulin followed the conversation and began to use false compliments to "disgusting" Li Hongzhang.
You Li Hongzhang, the mainstay of fame, the integrity of famous ministers is leveraged. Now that the Li family has a scum, it must be because you are too busy to clean up the portal. Yesterday, it was a coincidence, let Peng someone bump into it, for the sake of our colleagues, I can't stand idly by and say anything, saying that I have to help you clean up the portal.
Your reputation as Li Hongzhang is more important than Peng's!
How could Li Hongzhang react when he received such a letter?
I can only grit my teeth and say to Peng Yulin, thank you!
After saying that the Li family is evil, let's go back to Li Hongzhang's uncle. Li Hongzhang was a veteran of official fighting, and after the Governor of Liangjiang was taken away by Liu Kunyi, Li Hongzhang was not satisfied, and soon installed Zhao Jiyuan into the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang, and when he was finished, he began to search for Liu Kun's handle inside and outside. But who would have thought that just when he and Liu Kunyi were fighting in the official arena, Peng Yulin once again took a shot.
Peng Yulin said in his heart, the last time you released the rats surnamed Zhao, you actually dared to come out and stir up, so you can blame Peng for someone.1
As a result, Peng Yulin handed over a bullet badge that exposed Zhao Jiyuan's past bad deeds, and Brother Li was instantly killed.
Killing his cousin and nephew, completely overthrowing his brother-in-law, and also frantically intimidating Li Hanzhang, the eldest brother of the Li family- in the face of Peng Yulin's repeated tit-for-tat calls, Li Hongzhang seemed to have no way but to say "this person has a lot of tricks" a few times.
That's probably the power of real rigidity!