In 1886, Prince Yizhen of Alcohol inspected the Beiyang Coastal Defense, during which he ordered people to take group photos of "Wenwu in The Matter", leaving valuable video materials. One of the group photos of officials is more eye-catching.
Group photo of 9 subordinates of Li Hongzhang.
The 9 people in the photo are all subordinates of Li Hongzhang, who is directly subordinate to the governor and minister of Beiyang, and was not a well-known member at that time, but all of them had an important impact on the current situation. Years later, many of them made pioneering contributions. Let's briefly introduce these characters.
Character 1: Directly subordinate to alternate Dao Sheng Xuanhuai. Sheng Xuanhuai's early years were not smooth, and in 1870 he defected to Li Hongzhang to assist in handling foreign affairs. Under the cultivation of Lao Li, he gradually grew into a cadre of foreign affairs. After the Sino-Japanese War, he rose to prominence as an official and minister of the Ministry of Posts and Communications.
Sheng Xuanhuai made extraordinary achievements and founded many pioneering undertakings, including at least 10 "China's firsts": the first civilian joint-stock enterprise - steamship Merchants Bureau; the first telegraph office - China Telegraph General Bureau; the first inland small steamship company; the first bank - China Commerce and Commerce Bank; the first railway trunk line - Beijing-Han railway; the first steel joint venture - Hanyeping Company; the first higher normal school - Nanyang Public School (now Jiaotong University); the first mining company; the first modern university - Beiyang University Hall (today Tianjin University); founded the Red Cross Society of China.
Sheng Xuanhuai.
Character 2: Directly subordinate to alternate Dao Pan Junde. Pan Junde did not become a high-ranking minister on his own, and has always handled foreign affairs as Li Hongzhang's staff.
Figure 3: Wang Shouzheng, the prefect of Tianjin. Wang Shou's achievements in the political circles are not worth writing about. He is famous because of his medical skills. In 1880, on the recommendation of Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Shanxi, he was conscripted into the palace during his appointment in Yangquzhi County, and participated in the whole process of diagnosis and treatment of empress dowager Cixi's illness. Afterwards, because of the remarkable curative effect and the merit of curing the disease, he was promoted to the prefect of Tianjin Province, and was rewarded with two products to wear, which was famous all over the world for a while.
Figure 4: Jiangsu alternate Dao Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi was originally a servant of Prince Yizhen of Alcohol, and it was really a good shade under a big tree, and he later served as a waiter in the Ministry of Works and a minister of roads and mines. This person was more confused, the Qing court's important industrial and mining enterprise Kaiping Mining Bureau was deceived by the British in his hands, and later he ran to London to fight a lawsuit, trying to get back the property rights, and finally returned to no avail.
Figure 5: Supplemental Daoluo Fenglu by province. Luo Fenglu studied in Britain, and after returning to China, he worked in the Beiyang Marine Division Camp Office and served as Li Hongzhang's diplomatic adviser and translator. In 1896, the Qing court decreed that the name of the customs road should be named Erpin Ding, and the fourth pin Jingqing should be rewarded, and he would be appointed as the minister of qincha in Britain and Italy and the three kingdoms, and grew into a generation of diplomatic ministers.
Luo Fenglu.
Figure 6: Provincial supplementary Dao Huang Jianxiao. Huang Jianchi was a cadre of the Western affairs movement and a famous calligrapher and painter. In his later years, he was an envoy to Jiangningbu and a political envoy to Shandong.
Huang Jianchi Codex.
Figure 7: Directly subordinate to the alternate Dao Yuan Baoling, who was supervising Lushun Haiphong at that time. In 1886, Prince Yizhen inspected Lushunkou and believed that "the coastal defense arrangement is appropriate, the bowling is particularly effective, and the lower part is excellent", fully affirming his achievements. In 1889, Yuan Baoling died of illness in Lushun Defense Land due to overwork. He was Yuan Shikai's uncle and had strictly supervised Yuan Shikai's studies.
Figure 8: Zhou Fu, directly under the Jin customs road. Zhou Fu followed Li Hongzhang in running foreign affairs for more than thirty years, and played an important role in the founding of the Beiyang Navy, the Wubei Academy, the Tianjin Telegraph Bureau, and the Kaiping Coal Mine, and was the actual operator of the later foreign affairs movement. Since 1902, he has successively served as the Governor of Shandong, the Governor of Liangjiang, and the Governor of Liangguang.
Zhou Fu.
Figure 9: Directly subordinate to alternate Dao Liu Hanfang. Liu Hanfang did not become a feudal official, but he was always Li Hongzhang's right-hand man in building military ports and rectifying customs.
As a famous courtier in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang made a lot of explorations in order to seek prosperity and strength. In the process, he recruited a large number of Junjie to help him achieve his career. At the same time, these junjie were tempered and gradually became pillars relied on by the imperial court.