Since the Opium War, China has been repeatedly invaded by foreign enemies, and the internal and external troubles of the Qing Dynasty at this time are like an autumn leaf that is about to fall, and there are not many days left in the world, and the rise and reuse of Hanchen headed by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, and Zuo Zongtang seems to have injected new blood into the Qing court that is about to fall, and the last vitality is rejuvenated.
The Famous Japanese Minister Ito Hirobumi once called him "the only person in the Qing Empire who has the ability to compete with the world's powers", and Empress Dowager Cixi also praised him as a person who "recreated Xuan huang", why Li Hongzhang has such extraordinary talents, that has a lot to do with his family style.
Although the Li family has been cultivating the land for generations, but it is to attach importance to the education of their children, Li Hongzhang's grandfather Li Dianhua is a man who has read poetry and books, he has participated in several imperial examinations when he was young, but unfortunately he was named Sun Shan, and since then, although he has not gone to the examination, he has placed his expectations for the future on several sons, hoping that they can be nominated by Jinke in the future, and among his four sons, the most likely adult dragon phoenix is the most intelligent young son Li Wen'an.
Li Dianhua read the whole book, was particularly interested in medical skills, and sometimes gave his neighbors a look at the disease, accumulated it for a long time, and was also quite familiar with the medical path, so that he not only earned extra income for the family, but also won a good reputation for practicing healing.
Once Li Dianhua returned from practicing medicine, he saw an abandoned baby girl on the side of the road, and the kind-hearted Li Dianhua took the child home, only to find that the child had smallpox, which was also considered to be the good luck of the baby girl, and she may be discarded again, and Li Dianhua, who practiced medicine, used his own medical skills to cure the child and raised her as his own child.
Under the teachings of Li Dianhua, the adopted woman is meek and diligent, but there is a shortcoming, that is, because she has suffered from smallpox, her face is full of hemp, so her family calls her "ugly sister". Fast forward more than ten years, Li Ugly Sister should also be the time to talk about marriage, but her face is somewhat ugly, coupled with the reason that there is no foot binding, no family has been willing to marry her.
Seeing that the adopted daughter who was getting older could not marry out, Li Dianhua was anxious in his heart, although Li Ugly Sister was not biological, but he was growing up with one hand, in his heart he was self-contained and had no one, and finally the helpless Li Dianhua thought of his four sons, although they were related to Li Ugly Sister as brothers and sisters, but they were not related by blood, so he summoned them to ask if anyone was willing to marry his sister Li Ugly Sister as a wife.
At that time, Li Wen'an saw that several brothers did not squeak, he stood up and expressed his willingness to marry his sister as a wife, with the support of his father, Li Wen'an and Li Ugly Sister married each other, everyone did not expect that after Li Ugly Sister passed the door, Li Wen'an's good luck followed, in 1838, he and Zeng Guofan ascended the Daoguang Pengfu Bao List 112 jinshi, the third rank of the temple test - Li Wen'an also became the only one of the first seven generations of the Li family with genealogical records, and after that, Li Wen'an's career was prosperous all the way, and the Li family also became a local official eunuch.
For the wife who brings good luck, Li Wen'an has always been very loving, and the family-oriented Li Ugly Sister and her husband have a total of six sons and two daughters, and many children have developed well in the future, one of which is Li Hongzhang, who was famous at the beginning.