Zeng Guofan led the Hunan army to completely and completely eradicate the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, so many people still think that Zeng Guofan is a villain, and I have thought so for nearly forty years!
However, the great man's evaluation of him was: Zeng Guofan was an excellent representative of the landlord class...
This sentence does not affirm that he is a negative figure, how to evaluate it? The key depends on whether the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement should be suppressed or not.
In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, there was really no need to exist in history: King Hong Xiu alone had 25,000 beauties in the harem... Based on this alone, Zeng Guofan should destroy Hong Xiuquan.
The great man said that Zeng Guofan was excellent, but in fact, I think he was excellent and rotten, but he was also excellent.
For example, when he was preparing for the Hunan army, he had no money, what should he do if there was no army, and the imperial court did not pull out special military spending, he thought of a bad move, took a few large stacks of blank paper, and asked the emperor to seal them one by one, so when he returned to the south, he resold the "prison student" diploma at a clear price, and the official hat of the false position, these money were enough to feed the Hunan army, which shows that Zeng Guofan was enough to prepare for the Hunan army.
For example, after the Hunan army destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he seized countless gold and silver treasures, which he did not put into his own pocket, and did not hand over the money to the imperial court, but disbanded the Hunan army and distributed the wealth to these villagers who had fought in the war. Some people speculate that many outstanding people in the Hunan army used this money to run education schools after returning to their hometowns, so that Yang Changji was later born...
It is precisely because of the sacrifice of General Cai Ye in the Hunan Army, and the most proud protégé of General Cai Ye turned out to be Mr. Zhu.
There is always an excellent figure pushing forward in history, and in this sense, Zeng Guofan is a key figure in pushing history forward, and this figure is really amazing.
Throughout the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan compared with Li Hongzhang, and it is obvious that Li's traitorous nature of seeking glory is to have a belly of talent and a belly of bad water.
When a person is pushed to the cusp of history, when he thinks of the country and the nation, not for personal interests, then even if this person represents the interests of the landlord class, then everything he does is excellent.
I admired this excellent representative of the landlord class, because he was "stupid" when he was a child
It is said that when my grandfather's fourth uncle was a thief, he sneaked into the "Zeng Mansion" at night and waited for an opportunity to steal!
At that time, Zeng Guofan was only six or seven years old, and he was reciting a 100-word article under the lamp.
The thief thinks, you kid will steal it again after turning off the light and sleeping, so he squatted in the dark corner and waited, waiting,
The surname Zeng read it under the lamp once, but I couldn't memorize it, and I read it again, but I couldn't memorize it...
The thief couldn't wait to get angry, so he came out: "You kid is stupid, even I memorized it!"
So my grandfather's fourth uncle came again, left, if he didn't go, he couldn't go, and the boy surnamed Zeng was on the back of the lamp for four or five hours.
In fact, some talented celebrities were not born in the first place.
In a person's life, he must first make up his mind, for himself, or for his family and country.
For the sake of the family, huh?
Scholars for the country and the nation, life is excellent!