In any historical period, there are historical figures who were in the limelight of that period. In the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, and Zhang Zhidong were known as the four famous ministers. Compared with these four people, Zhang Zhidong is still relatively "low-key". He is not as famous as Zeng Guofan, nor as arrogant as Zuo Zongtang, nor as famous as Li Hongzhang. However, he was repeatedly promoted in more than forty years of official career, with great power, great achievements, and finally left his name in history.
Historical opportunities are different, people are in different environments, and everyone's experience is different.
Zhang Zhidong was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, and his ancestors had a reputation for being a clean and honest official, and his father served as a prefect of Guizhou. He received a Confucian education from an early age, and his father once encouraged him with "poverty, my family style, Ru and so on as mechanics". Zhang Zhidong was 26 years old and ranked first in the temple examination and was assigned to the Hanlin Temple. Here, the years have suddenly stumbled for nearly twenty years, Zhang Zhidong wandered in the Hanlin Academy, examiners, xuezheng, and Guozijian several Qingshui Yamen, the good youth passed in a hurry, and Zhang Zhidong seemed to have no day to emerge.
After the Qing Dynasty suffered two dull blows from the Opium War, it was full of holes, the water was in hot water, and the country was in crisis. Zhang Zhidong, who is not willing to be lonely, has expressed his opinions on national defense and foreign policy, and these insights are like a spring breeze that is refreshing and attracts the attention of the government and the public. But Zhang Zhidong, who had passed the age of Angry Qing, was much more stable, and he knew that only by virtue of his own talent, without the help of "Brother Kong Fang", he still could not get out, and he must rely on "Brother Kong Fang" to knock on the door of his future.
If the family can't rely on it, then take a loan. After being introduced, Zhang Zhidong came to rishengchang ticket number and borrowed 100,000 taels of silver from the boss. This Rishengchang is the earliest ticket number in Shanxi and the country, and its strength is quite strong, and the semicolon is all over the country. This ticket number has a list of "potential stocks", that is, the reserve cadres in the imperial court who have connections, strength and hope to serve as feudal officials, but Zhang Zhidong is just an ordinary sipping and is not on this list. 100,000 taels is not a small amount, Sunrise Chang is not willing to burn this cold stove, investing in a person with no background is risky. The boss smiled slightly and found a reason to politely reject Zhang Zhidong.
Zhang Zhidong was like a frosted eggplant, looking up at the sky and sighing, feeling that he had no way out.
But there is no invincible road, and the boss of a family called the Synergy Qing Ticket Number took the initiative to find Zhang Zhidong in the midst of the malaise.
The strength of Synergy Qing is far inferior to that of Ri Shengchang, whose target is those stars with backgrounds and futures who are emerging. Synergy Qing could not compare, so he turned to the second, picked up leaks, and dug gold from the "waste" that people did not want.
According to the situation grasped by Qiqing, although Zhang Zhidong does not have any backstage, his recent articles have added a lot to him, especially the affirmation of Lafayette Cixi, who is definitely a potential stock worth investing in.
Boss Qiqing made up his mind to make this bet on Zhang Zhidong, he did not have the strength of Rishengchang, he could not take out so much silver at once, and the clever boss took this money apart and provided it to Zhang Zhidong in batches.
As a result, not to mention that everyone knows, Zhang Zhidong really smoked his ancestral grave, and his good fortune was in the head, ushering in a major transfer in life. In the seventh year of Guangxu (1881), Cixi personally issued a decree: Zhang Zhidong was promoted from a bachelor of hanlin academy to a cabinet scholar and a ceremonial attendant of Erpin, and was promoted to four consecutive grades. At the end of that year, he served as the governor of Shanxi, and after another two years, he was promoted to the governor of Liangguang and reached the peak of his life.
Needless to say, Zhang Zhidong has developed, and the most beneficial is undoubtedly the synergy ticket number. With the support of Zhang Zhidong, the synergy qing ticket number monopolized the financial industry of Liangguang; acting on behalf of liangguang in all the affairs of paying the central treasury and grain taxes, all the way to the top, the limelight directly approached RiShengchang. I believe that the boss of Rishengchang has the heart to jump the Yellow River.