Zeng Guofan believes that everyone is very familiar with him, and his titles are too many "first ministers in the late Qing Dynasty", "first perfect person in the ancient times", "representative figure of Huxiang culture", and so on, and even Chairman Mao praised him. Although the evaluation of later generations is very high, Zeng Guofan thinks that he is just a middle-aged person, and the most important factor that can make a name for himself in the world later is self-discipline.
"All the mediocre people of the world, ancient and modern, have been defeated by a lazy word." Zeng Guofan's self-discipline is extremely terrible, if nothing else, just the female color of this point is rare, other people like to take concubines and change wives when they are promoted to riches, Zeng Guofan even if the power of the world is still not contaminated.
But then at the age of 51, he took a 21-year-old concubine, the timing was not right, the age was not right, so that people criticized it endlessly. So why did Zeng Guofan marry this concubine?
In October 1861, the headquarters of the Xiang Army, Anqing, was the front line of the confrontation with the Taiping Army, and the atmosphere was tense with a hint of joy, because Zeng Guofan, the founder of the Xiang Army, took a concubine Chen here.
Chen was a native of Jiangning, only 21 years old, like a flower like jade, but Zeng Guofan, who was the governor of Liangjiang at the time, was 51 years old, and it was not very pleasant to say that he was able to be a father.
We all know that Zeng Guofan has a hobby is to write a diary, and this matter is also recorded in detail in the diary, and at the beginning it was Zeng Guofan's third brother who introduced him to one: the former ji brother bought a concubine on behalf of Yu, next to the boat, because of a look, the body is quite thick, especially obsessive.
Here revealed two pieces of information: first, when people's lives were like grass, they could be bought and sold at will, and second, Zeng Guofan did not like fat.
"The body is quite thick, especially obsessive fat", so Zeng Guofan did not look at it.
The Chen clan was found by Han Zhengguo, a protégé of Zeng Guofan: Han Zhengguo visited a woman surnamed Chen, a native of Hubei, who was scheduled to be a concubine and was admitted to the mansion about this day. Shen carved access, the appearance is still solemn. Learn words on paper. After lunch, Concubine Chen entered the room to pay her respects.
It seems that it is also Yan Control, and it looks solemn to eat a meal and salute. Zeng Guofan's behavior of taking concubines was criticized by a piece of verbal criticism, first of all, the contrast was too great, and usually Zeng Guofan gave people the impression that he was too decent, and he was notoriously not close to women.
Although Zeng Guofan was like an ordinary man when he was young, he rejected these things after he was over 40 years old.
When he was older, Zeng Guofan completely became a "saint" who was not a good woman. "Saints" suddenly take concubines, how can others not scold.
Secondly, because the timing was wrong and the location was wrong, the Xianfeng Emperor died in July, less than 100 days apart, and it was still during the national mourning period.
For a period of time after the death of the ancient emperor, entertainment activities were not allowed, and even writing could not be red, which openly took concubines on the front line and disturbed the hearts of the army. Therefore, for a time, the impeachment of the ministers flew like snowflakes to the Forbidden City, and each one began to scold.
The strange thing is that the Qing court did not make any reaction, not even to say a word, no way, the situation is stronger than people, if Zeng Guofan dared to do so in the early Qing Dynasty, it would definitely be full of doors, but at this time it was already shaky, and it was still counting on Zeng Guofan to suppress the rebellion, naturally it was necessary to pretend to be deaf and dumb.
The biggest reaction was that Zeng Guofan's subordinates, Peng Yulin, commander of the Xiang Army's Marine Division, heard about it and directly drew his sword, angrily broke into Zeng Guofan's mansion, and bluntly said that he was going to cut down Han Zhengguo, who was the introduction.
Zeng Guofan saw this scene and quickly stopped Peng Yulin, and made a bitter explanation, saying that it was a central point: the concubine was to tickle the itch.
Finally Peng Yulin believed!
So is this really the case? Maybe it really is!
In Zeng Guofan's diary, there is a word that appears quite frequently - itch. Although he had a heavy army in his hands, the emperor did not dare to do anything with him, but skin diseases plagued him for most of his life.
His diary at the age of 35 was first recorded as "ringworm", and since then his symptoms have become more and more serious.
"Three more sleeps, itchy, even crawling and scratching, can not sleep."
"Sleep at two or three o'clock, itchy, not very sleepy."
Itching to sleep is a common thing, and later affected people, "the disease of ringworm scabies has not been cured, the head, face, neck and mottled land, I am afraid it is not convenient for His Majesty to see, so I would rather not take the test ..."
It is said that he fell ill while playing chess, tickled while playing, and finally the dander covered the pieces, and the picture...
This kind of thing can not always find a pro-soldier to do it, in case it is rumored that Lord Zeng has the good of Long Yang, the reputation is even more stinky than that of a concubine, so he finally chose the Chen family.
Zeng Guofan married Chen so that someone could help tickle at night, and would not make intimate moves, and after his death, let Chen be assured to remarry. However, what was unexpected was that Chen Shi died only a little more than a year later, which was really "white-haired people sending black-haired people", and Zeng Guofan did not marry concubines after that.
So everyone, take good care of your body, disease this thing will not be treated differently because of identity.