As the saying goes, "If you eat bitterly, you will be a superior person." As early as thousands of years ago, the scholar Mencius expounded this truth in "Born in Sorrow, Died in Happiness".
"Heaven will send down a great task to the Scythians, and they will first suffer their hearts and minds, and work their bones and bones." Many celebrities have endured hardships and setbacks that ordinary people cannot tolerate before they have made their debut. It is also these tribulations that exercise their abilities and lay a solid foundation for future success.
Zeng Guofan , a famous late Qing dynasty official. Since joining the company, he has been loyal to the country with the mentality of "bowing down and doing his best, dying and then doing his best". Over the past few decades, he has made great achievements and is admired by future generations. However, when he was young, he also suffered setbacks.
In that year, Zeng Guofan's "youth" first grew up, and his mentor Ouyang Ningzhi acted as a matchmaker for him, and he fell in love with a lady from a large family. Who knows, on the day of Zeng Guofan's wedding, the bride suddenly repented.
Mr. Ouyang, as a matchmaker, had a plan and said to him, "Marry my daughter!" Although it was a marriage that was temporarily promoted, Zeng Guofan used decades of efforts to prove that the mentor did not look away!
The stupid bird flies first
In the 16th year of Jiaqing, Zeng Guofan was born in Hunan to an ordinary farming family. Since my grandfather's generation, the Zeng family has had a tradition of reading. Therefore, as the eldest son and eldest grandson, Zeng Guofan has set a life goal since he was a child: to study hard and lay a good foundation for his future career.
At the age of 6, Zeng Guofan began to study at the private school "Rishimisai" founded by his father. Because of his dual identity as a "son" and a "student", he has always received special attention from his father.
In class, Zeng Guofan was the student who answered the most questions, and when he returned home from school, the other students all went to play, and he had to complete the extra school assigned by his father. In this regard, the little teenager Zeng Guofan was very distressed: although he loved to learn, he could not bear this "double love!"
After going to school for a few months, Zeng Guofan was slack, and after his father found out, he did not reprimand him, but patiently taught him that learning is not an easy task, just as the so-called "ten years of cold window hard reading", if you want to get a meritorious name and benefit the people, you must be able to eat this pain!
Listening to his father's words, Zeng Guofan stopped playing greedily and began to focus more on reading. But in fact, his talent is not high. When going to school, other students can recite the article backwards in a few hours, while Zeng Guofan needs to spend a long time to catch up with everyone's progress.
One night, he endorsed the book in the study, and after repeating it dozens of times, he still couldn't memorize it. At this time, a thief in a night-time suit suddenly broke through the window and shouted at him, "You are also too stupid, you can't memorize it after reading it so many times, I will listen to it a few times outside the wall!" ”
With that, the thief memorized the article in its entirety, and then jumped out of the window and left. Looking at the back of the thief leaving, Zeng Guofan did not feel afraid, but instead had respect for him: just listening to it a few times and carrying it so smoothly, it can be seen how clever this thief is! I should have tried harder.
Therefore, on the road of reading, Zeng Guofan did not walk smoothly, he was honest and honest, and only by paying a thousand times the effort could he be as good as others, or even surpass them. Such a "stupid bird flies first", is not a way to achieve the goal?
After being repented of marriage, she hugged a beautiful person and returned
Just as the so-called kung fu pays off, in more than ten years, through unremitting efforts, Zeng Guofan has passed the Changsha Provincial Boy Examination and the Hunan Township Examination, and has achieved good results. After becoming a lifter, Zeng Guofan became full of confidence and began to move towards the goal of the first test.
However, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people. In this national examination, Zeng Guofan unsurprisingly fell off the list. But he was not discouraged, and participated in the encore exam the following year, but once again failed the list. The two failures greatly frustrated Zeng Guofan's ambition. For a long time, he had no intention of learning.
Seeing that Zeng Guofan was so weak, his teacher Ouyang Ningzhi was in a hurry, and he couldn't watch his proud protégé degenerate!
Later, Mr. Ouyang thought of a method: in recent years, Zeng Guofan has delayed his life events because of his study, so it is better to take this opportunity to say family affairs for him to alleviate the pain of failure of the test.
Ouyang Ningzhi was a fiery character, and within a month he had found a good family affair for the students. This girl came from a famous family in the city, and it was most appropriate to match her students. Therefore, after three media and six hires, the marriage date of the two was put on the agenda.
However, I never expected that on the day of the wedding, the bride suddenly repented, saying that Zeng Guofan was just a lifter, and he would try the exam several times, and it was difficult to become a big instrument!
Although the woman is telling the truth, Zeng Guofan still has mustard in his heart, as a reader, he has never suffered such humiliation! Ouyang Ningzhi was also very angry, and he had a hard time being a matchmaker and handling life events for the students, but he didn't expect to make a joke.
When he was at a loss, he suddenly thought that his daughter was still in the middle of the word, and it was better to promise her to his students. Therefore, Ouyang Ningzhi said to Zeng Guofan, "Marry my daughter!" Zeng Guofan readily agreed.
Later, Zeng Guofan and the Ouyang clan were successfully married. Because they have read books, after marriage, the two respect each other like guests, Qinse and Ming, the days are extremely happy, looking at the sympathetic wife, Zeng Guofan secretly swore that he will be good to his wife in the future, get a meritorious name as soon as possible, and fight for her to come back.
Ten years and seven moves, the big instrument finally became
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared. In the third meeting test, Zeng Guofan lived up to expectations, finally ascended to the first place, ranked 42nd in the top three, and became the proud protégé of the military aircraft minister Mu Zhang'a, at this point, Zeng Guofan finally embarked on the road of career.
From 1838 to 1848, in these 10 years, Zeng Guofan staged an unprecedented miracle of "seven moves in ten years". In the beginning, he was a Shu Jishi of Hanlin Temple. After two years in office, Zeng Guofan took the scattered examination and achieved excellent results. The Daoguang Emperor was overjoyed and made him a reviewer of the Hanlin Academy.
Later, he successively held the positions of Imperial Attendant, Examination Examiner, and Cabinet Bachelor. In 1848, Zeng Guofan was again favored by the emperor and promoted to the position of Left Attendant of the Ministry of Works.
Zeng Guofan, the "Xiang Lingzi" from Hunan, only took 10 years to be promoted 7 times and jumped 10 levels in a row. His political experience can be called a "history of the struggle of rural youth"! It's admirable!
While Zeng Guofan was in the same way, he did not forget those benefactors who had helped him. Even if he was a high official, he always guarded against arrogance and impatience, as long as he was with Mu Zhang'a, or Ouyang Ning, he was always humble and orderly, and respected the master.
To his wife Ouyang Shi, he also fulfilled his promise when he became a parent, and indeed won her the honor of Lady of the Commandment. Seeing that her husband was so successful, Ouyang Clan was also very pleased, it seems that he did not marry the wrong person at the beginning!
Even if his talent is mediocre, Zeng Guofan has never had the idea of giving up reading, and he has always taken overcoming difficulties as his creed.
Faced with two failed attempts, he did not give up, but started all over again. When he learned that he had suddenly been repented, he did not become angry and ashamed, but made a strong response with excellent and reliable results. Zeng Guofan is such a person, the greater the pressure, the greater the achievement.
And all achievements are based on his good conduct, that is, never give up, never give in!