Zeng Guofan is an important figure in the history of the late Qing Dynasty, his life has ups and downs, and his way of dealing with the world is generally high and low, but if you take it comprehensively, I feel that this person is not an ordinary person, because in that era, if you want to save your life and reputation, it is actually very difficult to do, from this point of view, some of Zeng Guofan's thinking on the success of the world, for us today, also has a certain enlightening effect, today, The author will tell you an interesting story of Zeng Guofan encouraging his younger brother Zeng Guoquan, let's take a look at it together.
Zeng Guoquan once wrote a letter to his brother Zeng Guofan, which basically means that his interest is not to do what he is doing now, and he feels that he can't do it well, because he is very distressed, and complains to his brother in the letter.
After Zeng Guofan saw his brother's idea, he also quickly replied to him, in which Zeng Guofan explained to his brother the characteristics that must be possessed by a person who wants to do things, that is, to do anything to have a perseverance, can not do halfway or do some other things that are not focused, and in order to make his brother have a more intuitive feeling, Zeng Guofan also used himself as an example to explain to him.
Zeng Guofan said to his brother that he was relatively lacking in this regard, did not have any perseverance in doing things, and when he was still Hanlin, he should have read more poetry, writing and writing, but he did not do so, only liked to read some other books that had nothing to do with each other, thus distracting his mind.
When I read books on sexual theory, I liked poetry, which made my love always contradict what I had to do, so that I did not have much improvement in literature, and when I did not sit in the study and led the soldiers to fight outside, I could not professionally study the military, but always wanted to send love to landscape poetry, which directly made me have not achieved too high. Now that I am older, I feel that I have achieved nothing, which is all harmed by this habit of not paying attention and having no perseverance, and I hope that my brother can take this as a warning.
It should be said that in Zeng Guofan's reply, we can feel very clearly that Zeng Guofan regarded himself as a negative example to persuade and educate Zeng Guofan, in order to let his brother have a correct concept of career, know how to support his career step by step, but after reading Zeng Guofan's letter, I feel that Zeng Guofan is a bit too deliberate to "smear" himself, in fact, he Zeng Guofan did not have such a thing, in the history of the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan still has a great contribution, Among the two most famous contributions, one is the elimination of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the other is to raise Li Hongzhang.
Therefore, it is not appropriate for Zeng Guofan to regard himself as a negative example, but I personally think that Zeng Guofan at that time mainly wanted to set an example for Zeng Guofan and hoped that he could achieve a greater cause, so he said that he said that he, if in that year, such a figure as Zeng Guofan was a negative example of failure, then the Qing Dynasty at that time may not really be able to find a few real capable people.