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Speaking of Zuo Zongtang, everyone knows that he was a heavy minister of the late Qing Dynasty. Moreover, he is very familiar with foreign ideas, and he is also actively setting up a foreign affairs movement to strive to improve the current situation in our country. And he also recovered Xinjiang for our country. You know, at that time, whether the Qing Dynasty actively fought or passively fought, it was basically the result of losing. But Zuo Zongtang won, and it was precisely because he won that he also gave our country great confidence.
At that time, when Xinjiang was occupied, China could be described as internal and external troubles. Everywhere was under attack, and at that time, because under Cixi's rule, our national treasury was also unsavened. At this time, it is completely impossible to take out money to fight, and even if it can be used, it will not be invested in Xinjiang. After all, many of the places that were attacked at that time were more important than Xinjiang, and Xinjiang was the most remote and had the least materials.
However, after Zuo Zongtang insisted on recovering Xinjiang and finally made sense of everyone, he found an important problem, that is, there was no money. How can you fight without money? At this time, Zuo Zongtang immediately made a decision, using the customs duties of the four regions to borrow money from the bank that should have the highest interest rate to recover Xinjiang. Presumably, many people do not understand that there is no money anymore, so why does Zuo Zongtang borrow money from the bank with the highest interest rate?
This was mainly because it was Agubai who occupied Xinjiang at that time, and Agubai was able to occupy Xinjiang with the help of Britain. And Zuo Zongtang asked the British to borrow money to attack Agubai, if Zuo Zongtang lost, then there would be no money to pay back the British, so the British would stop helping Agubai, so as not to empty the bamboo basket. I have to say that Zuo Zongtang is still very smart. What do you think?
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