Zeng Guofan is a native of Hunan, and as the head of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, he has naturally become the object of much talk of many history lovers. Many people saw his great prestige and the courage of the Commander Xiang Army, but they did not know that this warlord's family was as timid as a rat
Zeng Guopan has been serving in the dynasty in his early years as a weak scholar, and the boldest moment in his life was in the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, in the face of no one available in the face of the government and the opposition, the Manchu Qing ruling class still believed in its own Eight Banner Soldiers and not more suitable for the Han people who were more suitable for fighting in the plains, so at a meeting, our Zeng Guo was directly angry at the current Saint Shang, when the emperor Long Yan was furious, and threw the folds of Lord Zeng directly to the ground, thinking that this person was really excessive, so clearly said that our royal family did not believe in han people. This is still the first person who dared to say it at the meeting in the 200 years since the reign of the Qing Dynasty, but fortunately, the Xianfeng Emperor is still relatively enlightened, mainly there is still a shortage of people to use, after all, the Manchus are just a little, and the Han population still occupies the vast majority of China's population at that time, so the birth rate of the Han population is far higher than that of other ethnic groups, so our Xianfeng Emperor had to pretend to understand the righteousness, and began to promote the Han people with the spirit of Hai Nai Baichuan, and Lord Zeng also did not dare to touch the tiger's ass again. I had to accept the emperor's commendation with gratitude
The Xianfeng Emperor was also the lord of doing what he said, and at his behest, a group of Han ministers were soon entrusted with heavy responsibilities and began to enter various places to lead troops to fight, but although the initial Taiping Army had no organizational discipline, it was arrogant, holding the priest's amulet, it was like a wolf like a tiger, so in the face of the Han people who had just taken office and did not dare to let go of their hands and feet, they were also beaten without a little temper, and then there was a point that the main force resisting the Taiping Army at that time was the green camp and a small number of Eight Banner Soldiers everywhere. More than two hundred years of pampering and habitation have long caused these Mongol cavalry to lose the bloodiness of their ancestors, and the well-groomed lifestyle has also made them frightened before they can fight in the face of the overwhelming Taiping Army, so the early days of reusing the Han people have not achieved too good results
At this time, it was the darkest moment in Zeng Guofan's life, and his mother died after the sages had been reading sages and spoke at a meeting, and Zeng Guofan tried to go home to guard the funeral, which also made the four sides of the government and the opposition suspect that Zeng Guofan's proposal had a problem. After all, in the past hundred years, the Qing government has never let the Han people take charge of the army, Zeng Guofan of course is not only at home to guard the funeral, during this period he let his brothers recruit brothers everywhere in his hometown, through the commendation given by the imperial court to train local troops, that is, the regimental training at that time, this amateur unit did not expect to become the main force of the later Chinese troops, and the decadent rule of the Qing government continued for decades, of course, this is the last word.
Zeng Guofan began to take his regiment to practice fighting everywhere after the end of the funeral, as a clerk just began to lead the troops to fight naturally unskilled, especially zeng Guofan has been reading Confucianism, after leading the soldiers believe that "the chaotic world should be used to use heavy codes" academics, treat soldiers and local officials more harshly, so everywhere lost, especially in the Jinggang water battle failed, Zeng Guofan actually threw himself into the river, fortunately Zuo Zongtang's exhortation and his own confidants saved him, because of this matter, the emperor was very disappointed in him, Our great-great From here, we can also see the kind of personality in Zeng Guofan's bones that avoids the heavy and light, so for a long time after that, Zeng Guofan did not dare to ask the emperor to reinstate the official to pray for meritorious work, but cultivated himself at home, but it was also this period of time that made Zeng Guofan understand the survival rules of the chaotic world, which we will talk about later
As far as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement is concerned, it is the peak period of Zeng Guofan's life, Zeng Guofan can be included in the head of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty also by this, not his sincerity and achievements, but his heart that does not dare to resist the imperial power, when he attacked Jiangning, Zeng Guofan's personal power was undoubtedly the strongest, as the most powerful local force south of the Yangtze River, Zeng Guofan, who had just won the battle, was obviously the best candidate to replace the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, becoming a Hong Xiuquan south of the Yangtze River, and many staff members at that time had tested his intentions. What's more, he was directly persuaded to set up another portal, change the dynasty, and change the world into the world of the Han people, which had that strength at that time, and the prestige of the Han people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also showed the weakness of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion. Zeng Guofan was not moved, has always bowed to the subject, and even took the initiative to let his brother take the initiative to resign and go home to farm, in the face of Cixi's step by step, he also retreated again and again, in short, Zeng Guofan recalled in his later years, nothing more than regretting that he did not seize this opportunity, only to let one of his younger brothers die in a foreign land, a younger brother was discredited, and he destroyed the name of the first generation in the final Pinghuai chaos battle.