Li Hongzhang's reputation can be described as mixed, and the most criticized by posterity is that he once set up a banquet to kill a number of generals, and thus left a trouble. The Taiping Army was also a big hidden danger for the Qing Dynasty at that time, although there were already many generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but in order to completely eliminate the problem, Li Hongzhang still set up a Feast at the Hongmen Gate and killed many generals.
In order to calm the matter, Li Hongzhang found Magri to mediate, and it was precisely because of this series of events that Magri had a lot of influence in the Qing Dynasty. The follow-up was even more married to a woman in the Qing Dynasty, and this woman's life is even more shocking, it is the daughter of a general who was killed by Li Hongzhang, and this woman gave birth to three sons and a daughter in the follow-up, one of which became a disaster for the country and the people in the follow-up, which had a great impact on the Qing Dynasty.
Li Hongzhang killed the general
The Taiping Army did not win the battle against the Qing Dynasty, which made many generals in the Taiping Army begin to have different intentions, and then Gao Yongkuan and others chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in order to find a good ending, which Li Hongzhang accepted on the surface but secretly doubted. It was in this situation that in order to show loyalty, Gao Yongkuan and others joined forces to kill Tan Shaoguang's design, and since then the Qing Dynasty's pacification of the Taiping military has finally come to an end, and Gao Yongkuan and others have thus joined the qing dynasty's ranks, but this is only the beginning of the event and not the end.
After Li Hongzhang successfully took over the city of Suzhou, he was extremely jealous of the influence of Gao Yongkuan and others, coupled with the refusal of the Taiping Army that surrendered at that time to shave his hair, making it difficult for Li Hongzhang's work to be carried out, and it is conceivable that Li Hongzhang was so concerned about this, knowing that up to 100,000 troops in these troops belonged to Gao Yongkuan's men. If these people cannot be controlled, it is not ruled out that there will be a bigger problem, the so-called capture of the thief first, Li Hongzhang, after facing the hard-line attitude of the surrendered army, decisively set up a Feast of the Hongmen Gate and killed many Taiping army generals, and although the problem was temporarily solved, there were bigger problems in the follow-up.
Li Hongzhang's act of killing the general caused gordon, the leader of the Changsheng Army, to be extremely dissatisfied, and the killing of the general was an extremely inappropriate move in any era, not to mention that Li Hongzhang's move also affected Gordon's head. In order to calm this matter, Li Hongzhang had to run around, hoping to put the matter to rest as soon as possible, and even sent Gordon a reward fee, but it did not play too much role. In the end, he had no choice but to invite a foreigner, Margerry, and under the mediation of a third party, Gordon decided to put the matter to rest and no longer target Li Hongzhang, and Margery also had more influence in the Qing Dynasty.
Magri married a descendant daughter
As a foreigner, Mager was valued by Li Hongzhang mainly because this person was a descendant of the Magalni family, and this person also participated in the foreign gun team and cooperated with Li Hongzhang against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Over time, he had a good relationship with Li Hongzhang, plus this person himself was more disgusted with war, so he actively maintained international relations in China, and then helped Li Hongzhang quell the Gordon incident, so he was more appreciated by Li Hongzhang, and with the help of Li Hongzhang, he became the person in charge of China's first modern arsenal.
In the follow-up, Magri's work in China became more and more serious and responsible, and even participated in the work of safeguarding China's interests, and it is conceivable that this person's influence in China is what kind of influence. It is precisely because of this that Li Hongzhang and others are also more concerned about his lifelong events, 31-year-old Margery after handling the Gordon incident, deeply recognized by Gordon and Li Hongzhang, and then under the mediation of these two people, Magri married a Chinese woman as a wife. And the origin of this woman is also quite surprising, she is the daughter of the Taiping general Zhonggao Yongkuan.
The two subsequently married according to Chinese customs and raised three sons and a man, and Margery also fought for China's interests all his life, but what he did not expect was that one of his sons would later become a hidden danger of the Qing Dynasty. And the goal of his life's dedication to China is also stained by this son, this son is Ma Jiye of the three sons, he not only murdered China's interests, but also united with the British to split Chinese territory, becoming a spurned existence by posterity.
Ma Jiye, who has brought calamity to the country and the people
Although many foreigners arrived during the Qing Dynasty, it was extremely rare for Qing women to marry foreigners, and it was more difficult for their children to be recognized. One of Magri's three sons, named Ma Jiye, was ridiculed by his classmates as a foreign devil since he was a child, and when he returned to Britain, he also had to face the problem of racial discrimination, which made Ma Jiye regard his Chinese ancestry as a disgrace. Over time, he began to develop more hostility toward China from the inside, and later began to help Britain continue to absorb Chinese interests.
Although many people in the United Kingdom had opinions about Ma Jiye, Ma Jiye, who was good enough, was successfully recognized by his own ability, and later became a translator for British officers. Later, he took advantage of his Chinese ancestry to help the British sign a series of unequal treaties in China, because Ma Jiye knew the unique culture of Chinese officialdom very well, so he could find loopholes that could be exploited, thus helping the British achieve many ulterior motives. It also successfully transferred a large area of Chinese territory to British India, which also buried the subsequent Sino-Indian border problem.
He not only participated in the incident of splitting China's territory, but also began to participate in the theft of Chinese cultural relics, and a large number of cultural relics in Dunhuang, China, were designed by Ma Jiye to be shipped overseas, causing great damage to China's interests. He devoted his whole life to the murder of China's interests, and as opposed to his father,000, Magri could not know how his son would feel when he learned that his son had behaved in this way. He has worked for China's interests all his life, but the son he gave birth to has become the culprit of China's calamity to the country and the people.
summary:
Li Hongzhang's act of killing the general also made him criticized by posterity, and the biggest hidden danger left by this matter was the appearance of Ma Jiye, whose life can be said to have done everything that harmed China's interests. Although the Qing Dynasty at that time was already in a period of decline, without the participation of people like Ma Jiye who knew the situation in China, it would not be as easy as it was imagined for britain and other countries to divide the land in China. The most unacceptable thing is that this person also participated in the resale of cultural relics, causing great damage to China's interests. I believe that Gao Yongkuan did not expect that his daughter would give birth to such a grandson after marrying a foreigner, and the reason for all this formation was mainly related to Ma Jiye's foreign blood.