Li Hongzhang, a controversial figure who was called a traitor, cixi thought he was a figure who "recreated Xuan Huang", and Li himself considered himself to be the Qing Dynasty, the framer who had torn down his house in the storm. In ancient times, the characters were basically selected from thousands of miles to enter the examination. Although Li Hongzhang did not leave his own works like his teacher Zeng Guofan, he was by no means a straw bag, and he was also a person who read poetry books, so let's take a look at his poetry couplets.
Li Hongzhang's basic information: (1823-1901), a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, one of the main leaders of the Foreign Affairs Movement, a native of Feidong, Hefei, Anhui Province, is mostly respected by the world as "Li Zhongtang", because of the second line, so the folk are also known as "Mr. Li Er". The original name is Zhang Copper, the character gradually Fu or Zi Di, the number Shao Tsuen (泉), in his later years he called himself Yi Shu (Yi Shu), and did not call himself a province of hearts.
Color portrait of Li Hongzhang
According to modern parlance, Li Hongzhang is a standard second-generation official. His father, Li Wen'an, was a scholar of the same year as Zeng Guofan, which constituted the political resources of his future brothers. Li Wen'an was not greedy for money, worked as an official in the capital, was upright and honest, and the Li brothers stayed in their hometown to study. The eldest Li Hanzhang was not a generalist, and later joined the Zengguo curtain, became his logistics minister, managed grain and salaries, and ensured that Gao Sheng also achieved all the way to the governor of Huguang. At that time, the mother, Mrs. Li, did not have to move her nest in the Governor's Palace, what an honor!
However, compared with the eldest brother, Li Hongzhang is talented, flexible in mind, and quick in thinking. At the age of 8, he studied at the family house opened by his father. In the hot summer, he and the children were playing by the pond, and it happened that the local Hongru Zhou Ju was also bathing by the pond. Mr. Zhou took off his clothes, hung them on the branches next to him, and murmured in his mouth: A thousand-year-old tree is a hanger. Mr. Li Hongzhang saw that Mr. Li was holding water to wash his body, touching the scenery and feelings, and casually responded: Ten thousand miles of the Yangtze River as a bath. Mr. Zhou saw that this child had an extraordinary exit, and he liked it in his heart and wanted to ask him to study. As soon as I inquired, it turned out to be the grandson of my friend, so I took the initiative to come to the door and wanted to accept this student. Li Wen'an hoped that his son Jackie Chan would also have the heart to ask the famous Confucian to teach his son to read. Mr. Zhou praised that this child is very smart and will become a great instrument in the future. Therefore, Li Wen'an brought the two brothers Li Hanzhang and Hongzhang into the examination, and he saw the ledger in the study and casually came out with a link: hundreds of gold per year, it is not easy to pay. Li Hongzhang casually replied: Tens of millions of flowers bloom, and the colors are endless. Li Hanzhang thought about it for a long time, but he never came out. Then, Li Wen'an made another uplink: the wind blew a thousand lines of horsetail. Li Hanzhang said: The rain sprinkles the sheepskin a piece of fish. Li Wen'an shook his head continuously, right, but the mood was really not beautiful. Li Hongzhang said: Rizhao Dragon Scale Ten Thousand Points Gold. Li Wen'an was overjoyed. Compared with the two, it is obvious that the artistic conception and pattern of the latter are higher than one cut. However, this story is more doubtful, because Zhu Yuanzhang and his father and son also have the same story.
Group photo with family
Li Hongzhang's real name is Zhang Tong. Later, his father renamed him Hongzhang, taking the meaning of "Hongtu Dazhan, Article Jingguo". When Li Hongzhang was twenty years old (imaginary age), he wrote a group of rhythmic poems "Twenty Self-Descriptions". Its three clouds:
The husband's career was the most timely, and it was too late to regret it.
Ambition does not eliminate the three-foot sword, and the wizard wants to try ten thousand words and poetry.
Smelling the chicken does not feel that the body dances first, and there is a beard on the mirror fang's cheek.
What is the child of the past now weak crown, floating and living?
In fact, although he is twenty years old, his actual age is nineteen years old, and now he is a sophomore. The desire to make a contribution in the poem can be described as a clear revelation, the wind of the middle two that gives new words to strongly say sorrow. At this time, Li Wen'an had already won the jinshi and was an official in the capital, so he wrote a letter to ask his son to participate in the township examination in Suncheon Province. On the way to Beijing, he wrote another group of famous "Entering the Capital". And this is ten songs to write. One of them is:
The husband only held the Wu hook with one hand, and his spirit was higher than that of the hundred-foot building.
Whoever has written history for ten thousand years wants to be crowned a prince three thousand miles away.
It will be quick to follow the way, and there will be idleness to chase the water gulls.
Laughing pointed to the Lugou Bridge, several people from here to Yingzhou.
Other such sentences include:
Out of the mountain is determined to climb the top of Ao, when did he enter the Phoenix Pond?
That is, the current pavilion needs only a day, which is my article to serve the year of the country;
If there is no horse high car day, vow not to return to the hometown car.
According to the "Collection of Qing Poems", these ten poems were praised by the world. A weak-crowned teenager dressed in cold clothes and full of vigor, with a strong desire to find teachers and visit friends and hunt for meritorious names, traveled thousands of miles, waded through mountains and rivers, and rushed to the Beijing Division, which is exactly the portrayal of haoshou's poor scriptures and dreams of sages in ancient times.
In the darkness, there seems to be Providence. The spirit of the poem "Entering the Capital" was fully fulfilled. After serving as the viceroy of Zhili for twenty-five years, he also served as the minister of Beiyang, founded the Beiyang Marine Division, and was given the title of Marquis of the First Rank, and indeed laughed at the Lugou Bridge. This poem is more appreciated alongside its dying poems.
The laborer's carriage and horse did not leave the saddle, and the oncoming party knew that he was dead.
For three hundred years, he has injured the national pace and hanged the people eight thousand miles away.
Autumn Wind Sword Lonely Lord's Tears, Sunset Banner Grand Admiral Altar.
The overseas dust atmosphere is still not ending, and the kings are waiting to watch.
Pose with the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck
At that time, the Qing court and Japan fought the Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed, and Li Hongzhang went to the field. Five years later, after going to war with the Eight-Nation Alliance, empress dowager Xi fled west with the emperor and dragged Li Hongzhang back from his post as governor of Liangguang to preside over the peace talks. At this time, a big man of Li, who was a handful of rice and eighty-three, was already in his old age, and after signing the "Xinugu Treaty" on behalf of the Qing court, he once again died with the insult of "traitor Qin Juniper and Li Hongzhang, the misguided country". It is also used eight thousand miles away, but the back is followed by a change from "wanting to be a marquis" to "hanging the people's remnants", and the style changes from laughter to tears.
After Li's death, Liang Qichao heard the news and wrote a pair of elegies:
TaiShisi people go, depression Xu Sikong, mangy long Huai, qilu dragon snake An Zai also?
Looking back at the mountains and rivers, only the sunset is good, the mourning is vast, and the crane of the Liao Dynasty is what it is.
Politicians are complex. The Federation jumped out of the evaluation of the coffin of the person who was pulled, leaving three sighs and leaving it to others to say.
Group photo taken during a visit to England in 1896
On the road of the imperial examination, Li Hongzhang can be regarded as relatively smooth. In the year of entering Beijing, I won the lifting. Later, as the son of the Nian family, he formally worshiped Zeng Guofan as a teacher and studied the study of the scriptures. In 1847 (the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang), Zhongjinshi, ranked thirteenth in the second rank, finally squeezed into the Qing court system, this year, but twenty-five years old.
Compared with his teacher Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang appears sleek and sophisticated, which always reminds Mr. Wotai of the president of the university's student union, who has long sleeves and good dancing skills. It is called a "refined egoist" (Qian Liqun). Li Hongzhang's article is not particularly praiseworthy. But writing official documents is great, which is his talent.
In Zeng Guofan' curtain, Li Hongzhang helped the teacher handle the writing, approve the official documents, and draft the books and chapters. Zeng Guofan's most famous reference fold, "Sam Weng Tong Shu Shu", was written by Li Hongzhang. Weng Tongshu, who served as the governor of Anhui, was the teacher of the Xianfeng Emperor and Prince Gong, and served as the eldest son of Shangshu Weng of the Ministry of Works and Hubu, and his younger brother was the famous Weng Tonggong. This controversy accused Weng Tongshu of improper measures, ineffective defense of the city, and abandonment of the city and fled, and should be severely punished. With the power of the Weng family, it is not easy to bring it down, so Zeng Guofan attaches great importance to it and asks the copywriting room to draft a few more drafts to choose. Among several drafts, he selected Li Hongzhang's draft. Such an important fold, but only less than six hundred words, can be described as a thousand words, every sentence is bloody. This chronicles weng's indistinguishable sins, misusing misuse of misdeeds, mishandling, greed for life and fear of death, and losing two cities in a row, and then points out Weng's self-contradictions, leaving him with no room for further justification. At the end of this fold, it is written: "Where the duties of the subjects are, they should be corrected, and they do not dare to be accommodated because of the peak of the door of Weng Tongshu." A sentence "Do not dare to because of the peak of the door of Weng Tongshu to see Gu Accommodation", that is, the imperial court because of Weng Tongshu's "Door of the Peak" originally wanted to "look at Gu Accommodation" from the light hair to fall from the "back road", entrusted to the old spicy. The imperial court reluctantly sentenced Weng Tongshu to "beheading and waiting for prison" according to the regulations, which was equivalent to a suspended death. Therefore, Zeng Guofan praised: "Shao Tsuen's talent is the closest to that of Gongmu, and the proposed consultation letters are all greater than those of others, and the future achievements are extraordinary, or even green out of blue, it is not known." ”
Governor's Office of Liangjiang
Li Hongzhang's couplet is quite impressive. Here are a few.
Bang Tsang Tsang United:
Nearly thirty years of teaching, salary and fire, building a room for the door to grow;
The prestige is 90,000 miles, the internal security is external, and it is difficult to meet the world's talents.
This uplink posture is a bit high. Zuo Zongtang, who has always been untamed and has an awkward relationship with Zeng Guofan, said in his union that "he is ashamed of himself is not as good as Yuanfu", and also used the words "Late Birth Zuo Zongtang", Li Dazi even unceremoniously said that "the salary is exhausted", and he is the protégé of the protégé, so what about your brother Li Hanzhang, can you not praise yourself so much?
Group photo with brother Li Hanzhang and his nephew
A frame of banners handwritten in his later years is thought-provoking:
Xiang Qingfu is not an official, as long as he has money in his pocket, rice in his warehouse, and poetry in his belly, he is the prime minister of the mountain;
Pray for the birthday without taking medicine, but may there be no illness in the body, no worries in the heart, no creditors at the door, and can be a god on the earth.
Former residence of Li Hongzhang
At his age and position, of course, it can be said. If you are poor in the countryside, you are suspected of sour grapes. This seems to be slightly contrary to the image left by Li Hongzhang to the world. Because of his traitorous infamy, there is such a couplet circulating in the world:
The prime minister Hefei is thin in the world, and the Si Nong is often familiar with the world's wilderness.
Shanglian writes Li Hongzhang, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, who was directly subordinate to the viceroy and minister of trade and commerce of Beiyang, and was awarded the title of Scholar of Wenhuadian University, equivalent to the prime minister; the lower link writes Weng Tonggong, Weng Nai, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu, who served as Hubu Shangshu, equivalent to the ancient Sinong or the current Minister of Agriculture. The ancients used the place of origin to refer to the name of the generation. This couplet cleverly uses puns to embed the positions, titles, and current situations of the two famous courtiers in the late Qing Dynasty, expressing a strong irony of current politics.
There is also such a pair, full of Zen machines, after all, a literati:
The water flows and blossoms, and it is free;
The wind is clear and the moon is clear, and it is superior Zen.
Judging from the calligraphy, it is calm and thick, and it is not urgent.