More than 2,000 years ago, Chu and Han fought, Xiang Yu invited Liu Bang to a banquet, although Liu Bang felt deceitful, but still went to the appointment, but finally cleverly escaped; more than 1,000 years ago, after Song Taizu sat on the throne, he invited Shi Shouxin and other senior generals of the forbidden army to drink, and when the wine was strong, Song Taizu cleverly seized the military power.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the chaotic world, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became an unprecedented peasant war in the history of our country and even the world, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others were not opponents of the taiping heavenly kingdom generals, but after the internal decay of the Taiping heavenly kingdom, it was only a matter of time before it was defeated by the Qing Dynasty.
Li Xiucheng was a famous general in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who established Sufu Province and Tianzhe Province, and killed the commander of the Changsheng Army, Waer, and the French naval admiral Brod, so he was crowned "Loyal King" by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, and in 1863, the fortresses outside Tianjing were lost, and Hong Xiuquan recalled Li Xiucheng from Suzhou to Tianjing.
Liu Xiucheng was ordered to leave, and handed over the matter of staying in Suzhou to his subordinate Tan Shaoguang, who was a capable man who could withstand the Qing army led by Li Hongzhang, but Li Hongzhang also understood the people's hearts and understood that it was better to attack from the outside than from the inside, so he offered particularly good conditions to persuade him to surrender.
The defenders in Suzhou City, including King Gao Yongkuan, King Kang Wang Anjun, King Ning Zhou Wenjia, King Wu Guiwen of Biwang, General Zhang Dazhou, Wang Youwei, Fan Qifa, and Wang Huaiwu, were impressed, and Li Xiucheng was not there, and they would certainly not completely obey Tan Shaoguang.
Tan Shaoguang had no intention of surrendering, and also organized a dinner party to win over these 8 people and jointly resist the enemy, but he did not think that these 8 people had already had different intentions, so Tan Shaoguang landed on the ground, and Li Hongzhang easily attacked the city of Suzhou.
However, how could Li Hongzhang recognize those 8 people, and with a plan in his heart, he invited eight people to a banquet, saying that it was a reward for meritorious service, and the eight people went to the banquet happily, but they did not know that it was a feast at the Hongmen Gate and a meal that killed their lives, Li Hongzhang easily solved these 8 Taiping Army generals, and then ordered the killing of all the Taiping Troops in Suzhou City.
In this incident, Li Hongzhang had two things that people criticized, one was that he did not believe in keeping his promises, the 8 generals of the Taiping Army naturally did not believe the lies of the Qing army, but because of the guarantee of Gordon of the Yankees Team, although Gordon was a British officer, he attached great importance to the spirit of the contract, so the 8 people were willing to submit.
But I didn't expect that Li Hongzhang would kill people despite Gordon's words, so Gordon also found Li Hongzhang to settle the account. In fact, the two have been conflicted, Li Hongzhang often defaulted on the salaries of the foreign gun brigade, so that they were forced to rob others out of helplessness, but Gordon always forbade soldiers to rob their homes, and later publicly accused Li Hongzhang of intercepting military expenses.
After the Taiping Army's 8 men were killed at the banquet, Li Hongzhang appeased Gordon with heavy money and asked Gordon to dismiss the foreign gun team, which was then incorporated into Li Hongzhang's Huai army.
The second thing was the "Suzhou killing", the whole country was in an uproar, and the foreign consulates also signed a resolution severely condemning Li Hongzhang, but the matter was noisy, and in the end it was not resolved, the Qing court did not think that Li Hongzhang had done anything wrong, and after the matter was settled, the Qing court said that "there is no disagreement in what is done, and it is very agreeable."
Taking history as a mirror, it is not difficult to see that eating is eating, rice is rice, rice is aimed at "bureau", not in "rice", and the word "rice bureau" still originated in the Song Dynasty, has a history of more than 1,000 years, but to talk about the sword and light sword shadow on the rice bureau, it can be said from more than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese meal bureau, is also the most exquisite, no country in the world can match.
Even today, when the two sides talk about business and cooperation, they don't want to form a bureau?