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The sea is inclusive, and there is tolerance
The wall is thousands of feet, and there is no desire to be rigid
This is the inscription of Lin Zexu, an outstanding politician and thinker in modern China, when he was the governor of Liangguang, in the governor's palace.
In the Liangguang Governor's Palace, "the sea is inclusive of all rivers, and there is tolerance;
Speaking of Lin Zexu, in most people's impressions, he is the national hero who destroyed opium in Humen, Guangdong, and opened the prelude to China's resistance to the aggression of Western powers. But the aura of "hero" is also easy to be overlooked, and he is also "the first to open his eyes to see the world" in the late Qing Dynasty. "Master Yi's long skills to control Yi", Wei Yuan's "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" was inspired by him and wrote. The Fujian Shipbuilding founded by Zuo Zongtang is the fulfillment of Lin Gong's last wish.
The scene of selling cigarettes in Humen in the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City
Approaching Lin Zexu, we found that this anti-smoking hero who has been an official in 14 provinces, commanded 400,000 troops, and has been an official to a class in 30 years, and has no illustrious background.
The main entrance of the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City
According to the records, Lin Zexu's father taught in a private school and had a meager salary, while his mother subsidized the family through the female red, and often worked until dawn without rest. Although living in poverty, his mother always encouraged the young Lin Zexu, "Men should think that they are big and far away", "Reading is prominent, and they never live up to my hard work." "Teach him to be a person with lofty aspirations and study hard to make progress.
Lin Zexu's birthplace and childhood reading place
The embarrassed life of being overstretched sharpened Lin Zexu's iron backbone of "sleeping in the snow and sleeping in the frost, and rewarding diligence with heaven". His ambitions began to shine at a young age. It is rumored that one day 8-year-old Lin Zexu climbed to the top of Drum Mountain with teachers and students, and in the face of the wind and waves, the teacher came out with the upper link: "The sea is to the boundless sky as the shore", and the students were asked to make the next link. Lin Zexu thought for a while, and chanted the following couplet: "I am the peak when the mountain climbs to the top." The sea is endless, the sky can be the shore of the sea, the mountains are meandering to the highest, and I strive to be the peak, which can be described as a myriad of weather. The young Lin Zexu had a hidden direction of struggle in his heart.
In the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City, the sand table of "traveling thousands of miles and half the world".
Portrait of Lin Zexu
At the age of fourteen, he was admitted to Xiucai, at the age of twenty, he became a lifter, and at the age of twenty-seven, Lin Zexu was a high school jinshi. As an official, he always took the national economy and the people's livelihood as the top priority, and used his knowledge, talent and character to explore the way to save the country and survive, and achieve the great cause of Kuang Shi and the people. Lin Zexu's most glorious career in his life is Humen's cigarette sales. However, it was also because of the ban on smoking and resistance to the British that he was dismissed and exiled by the cowardly Qing government on charges of "mishandling" and "misleading the country and sick people". On the way to Xinjiang, he was also ordered to rush to Kaifeng to control the water with "crime", and after half a year, he completed the project of blocking the breach and kept the city of Kaifeng, which had been besieged by the flood for eight months.
The statue of Lin Zexu in the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City
The water control was meritorious, but Lin Zexu still "sent to Ili to serve and atone for his sins". On the occasion of bidding farewell to his family, Lin Zexu chanted the famous sentence "If the country lives and dies, how can it be avoided because of misfortune and fortune", and expressed his ambition happily. Even at the lowest point of his political career, he remained unfazed, open-minded and optimistic, and did everything he could to do practical things for the people.
The imperial stone tablet in the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City
During his three years in Xinjiang, Lin Zexu, who was frail and sickly, led the people to build canals, promote qanats, and solve the problem of water shortage for local planting. "Lin Gong Canal" and "Lin Gong Well" still benefit the local people.
Lin Zexu went to Rong Xinjiang map
Lin Zexu's heroic integrity, pattern vision and people's livelihood feelings have passed through the smoke and clouds of history, inspiring generations and future generations, and also infiltrating this great era.
Contribution丨Fuzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, Gulou District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision
Picture丨Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City
Editor丨Zhou Dan