For many years from the high school era to the college era, like-minded book friends and die-hard party A Jun and I have recommended the "Zeng Guofan Family Book" many times, saying that this is a must-read masterpiece, but I have always liked to read history books, but I have not been interested, without him, I am very sad about the perception of the history of the late Qing Dynasty.
Because of the late Qing Dynasty from the Taiping Rebellion, the Foreign Affairs Movement, the Sino-Japanese War, the Xinhai Revolution, and the Subsequent War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the people on the land of China seemed to live between black and white in the past hundred years, and there was a sense of déjà vu. Many feudal dynasties could not get out of this tragic color in the last years, but the late Qing Dynasty was very unique, social upheavals, changes in production methods, changes in ideological concepts, and all kinds of impacts were only more than a hundred years away from now, until I read the "Zeng Guofan Family Book", and I read several books about Zeng Guofan with interest, and my interest in the late Qing Era suddenly arose.
Zeng Guofan, the brilliant 'Wenchen General Star' of the late Qing Dynasty, went from a student to a late Qing Dynasty heavy subject, founded the Xiang Army, pacified the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, pursued the Twist Army, launched the Foreign Affairs Movement, was knighted as a first-class Yi Yong Marquis, and posthumously awarded the title of Taifu after his death, with the title of Wenzheng, which was almost the highest glory of a human subject in the feudal dynasty.
Many people think that his achievements in this life have a lot to do with his principle of being diligent and able to make up for his clumsiness and steady work, but we have to seriously reflect: in the real society, we will never be around those who are diligent and steady, but the achievements are very limited. I still remember that in high school, some of my classmates studied hard, others studied for two hours late, they read for three hours, others did the questions once, they had to do it twice, but when the test results were announced, they often hovered in the middle and lower part of the class. We have to admit that they worked hard, but their approach was clearly wrong!
In any era, personal efforts, especially in the reading of learning to use the number of to cause qualitative changes can actually be said to be a paradox, reading into learning and doing things the same, to talk about the method of strategy, such as doing mathematical problems, others remember the way to solve the problem, the wrong problem collection, can be used to learn from each other, and those who do not talk about strategy students seem to work hard, but use to remember the topic, want to rely on more problems to make themselves familiar with the stupid way.
Zeng Guofan has been steady and steady all his life, and it seems that the advantage of diligence and clumsiness has been played to the extreme by him, but what I see is that he has another talent: the wisdom of knowing people. On the surface, he seems stupid, doing things stupidly and slowly, but in fact, he is hidden, in fact, he is a "human spirit", and every step he takes has his meticulous calculations, so clever that people can't understand it!
This is a talented person, a person with a great personality and charm, who has had the miracle of seven moves in the official field for ten years, and who has been able to influence the source and the desperate situation in his life, and has a lot to do with his knowledgeable people who know people and can gather friends with real talent and practical learning around him. He is not blindly climbing up the official field, he has been doing one thing while doing practical things and seeking official positions, that is, promoting people of insight.
He has experienced the world's affairs like looking at the fire, observing the power of speech and color, and judging the character and ability and potential of a person from the aspects of other people's appearance, behavior, speech and tone, to treating people and things. Guo Songtao, Hu Linyi, Jiang Zhongyuan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, and his brother Zeng Guoquan all relied on the strength or assistance of Zeng Guofan to be able to rise to the top and remain famous for thousands of years.
The wisdom of reading history lies in the way of borrowing, and Zeng Guofan is undoubtedly a treasure for us in this era. In the fierce competition, enterprises want to seize the commanding heights of the market, and to seek rapid and sustainable development, they must recruit talents, not only to optimize the structure of the talent team, but also to introduce talents suitable for the development of enterprises. He knows people, employs people, and cultivates people, just like Zeng Guofan formed the Xiang Army, has a 'military division' like Guo Songtao who is good at strategic planning, and also has a 'military general' with strong execution and superb professional skills like Zeng Guoquan.
And for individuals who want to develop to constantly improve their ability, gold will always shine the premise that you must first become gold, just like the old saying ten minutes offstage ten years of work, we must not only learn to work hard in the days of moving forward, but also learn to find the right direction and the right way to do the right thing, turn yourself into a gold.
You have to pay a thousand percent of the effort, you know that there may be a lot of difficulties along the way, there will be times when you can't stick to it and want to give up, just like Zeng Guofan once experienced three desperate suicides, because sometimes you don't necessarily get the results you want after working hard, but you must believe that every good person has a silent time. That time was a time when a lot of effort was made but did not bear fruit, like the darkest before dawn, we call it rooting, only by rooting deepest and absorbing the most abundant nutrients and water can we grow into a towering tree after breaking through the ground.
Finally, with a sentence from Li Shanglong, I encouraged myself and encouraged everyone: either stand out or get out. In the human struggle, we can also be Zeng Guofan.