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Micro-history | Wang Zhenyu: Zhang Zhidong in Nanjing in 1904

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In the spring of 1904, Zhang Zhidong had a rare leisure and revisited his hometown in Nanjing, where he spent a whole month. This month, he traveled to Xuanwu Lake, visited Qingxi, went to Huomeng Lou, and went to Zhan Garden. Speaking of which, Zhang Zhidong has a good relationship with Nanjing, and he has twice acted as the governor of Liangjiang, and Nanjing has left him with many imprints.

Micro-history | Wang Zhenyu: Zhang Zhidong in Nanjing in 1904

Visit the sights of Nanjing

As we all know, Zhang Zhidong twice served as the governor of Liangjiang.

In the Battle of Jiawu, Liu Kunyi went north to resist the Japanese. Zhang Zhidong acted as the governor of Liangjiang and worked hard. When all the dust settled, liu Kun returned, and Zhang Zhidong returned to the post of governor of Huguang.

During the Gengzi Rebellion, Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi, then the governor of Liangjiang, tacitly understood each other, and eventually became a situation of mutual protection in the southeast.

But Liu Kunyi died in 1902, and Zhang Zhidong once again acted as Liangjiang. However, after a short time, the center appointed Wei Guangtao to take over as the governor of Liangjiang. Zhang Zhidong wants to return to Huguang, but Duan Fang is acting and full of energy. Zhang Zhidong simply went north to Beijing, reported on his work, and returned to his hometown to visit the grave. He went south again, already in the spring of 1904.

On April 30 of that year, Zhang Zhidong took a boat to the east and first went to Wuhu to meet with Wei Guangtao. On May 2, he arrived in Nanjing, and on this day, his third son, Zhang Renkan, married the daughter of Wang Yitang, the prefect of Sichuan. Wang Yidi and Zhang Zhidong's wife are brothers and sisters, and this family affair is really close to each other.

Within this month, Zhang Zhidong was in Nanjing, and in addition to constantly exchanging letters and telegrams with Yuan Shikai, Zhao Erxun, Sheng Xuanhuai, Duan Fang, Liang Dingfen, etc., it was also a rare escape, and he wandered through the landscape in Nanjing, looked at many places, and wrote a group of "Jinling Tour Poems". Zhang Zhidong said:

The remaining two fake river festivals, do not have time to visit. Jia Chenchun was ordered to discuss with Governor Jiang. There is not much business, and I can't go quickly, so I travel every day to thank guests.

There is a silent garden, which is restored to the warehouse in the east of Nanjing City, and was created by Wu Xuelian, an Anhui man. Zhang Zhidong wrote the five-character poem "Wu's Silent Garden", which has "The First Gualu, by the Qingxi River." Three times in ten years, with the benefit of the famous garden. There is water to be mazen, and the situation is both far and far. The back of the hall is tall bamboo, as thick as a summer rafter. Zhong Shan xiang and dance, come to live in a few cases" sentence. Bell Mountain is hidden, and Qingxi is babbling.

The garden is full of water and bamboo leaves, which is naturally a good place to go. Nowadays, around the Fucheng Bridge in Nanjing, where is there any trace of the Silent Garden?

Zhang Zhidong also went to see Xue Lu in Wulongtan, west of the city. Zhang Zhidong specifically noted that Xue Lu was on the Oolong Pond, which used to be the residence of the dean of Quanjiao Xue Weinong, and is now the Xue Ancestral Hall. The pond is the Yanlu Gong Release Pond, and now there is the Lu Gong Ancestral Hall.

Zhang Zhidong took a dip in Xuanwu Lake, and had some feelings, but it was titled "Yuanwu Lake" to avoid the name of Kangxi "Xuan ye". Daming collected the World Yellow Book in Liangzhou in Xuanwu Lake, but in Zhang Zhidong's view, it was just a "pile of paper in the victorious country". Zhang Zhidong went to mochou lake in the west of the city, and did not mention Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da, but only mentioned Xiao Yan, the emperor of Liangwu: Xiao Yan's husband, a beautiful body to beautiful person. It is made into a moxuan song, and the singer's cheek is full of jin. So order shicheng water, man greasy delicate thousand spring. Zhang Zhidong is really in a good mood, when he arrives at Mochou Lake, he will simply go to Yuhuatai to see it. You see, Nanpi's "Yuhuatai Spring", the first sentence of the opening chapter: I don't see the Bao'en Pagoda, but I see the Yuhuatai. After more than ten years of Hong Yang's governance in Nanjing, where is the shadow of the Bao'en Pagoda? Zhang Zhidong also went to what is now called the Hu Family Garden in Nanjing. Zhang Zhidong could still see at that time that there were six dynastic stones in the Hu's Yu Garden, and sixteen characters such as "Liu Jigaofu wandered around" inscripted by the Song people. Zhang Zhidong stopped at the famous garden, lingering and wandering, sighing at the rise and fall of the vicissitudes.

At that time, Qingxi could be leisurely, accompanied by wine and tea, two or three confidants, and the sea and the sky. What will Zhang Zhidong, who is boating in Qingxi, say to his friends and subordinates?

According to the "Records of the Disciples of Baobingtang", Zhang Zhidong acted in Liangjiang in 1894, and was busy and highly nervous every day. Before and after the Battle of Jiawu, he worked hard to improve the situation and scrupulously fulfilled his duties. Worried that the Japanese army would go up the river, he transferred Feng Zicai, who had won the great victory of Zhennanguan, and stationed himself in Zhenjiang to prepare for dispatch. But in 1895, Jang's second son drowned in the Governor's Office, leaving him devastated. In order to distract him and ease his pain, Liang Dingfen and others invited Kang Youwei to come to Nanjing to meet with him.

After the defeat of A Noon, where is China's road? How can we escape the danger of partition? Kang Youwei has his own insights and plans. Zhang Kang talked deeply many times in Nanjing, and he had a sense of acquaintance. This is also the reason why Zhang Zhidong vigorously supported the Qiang Society and the "Times" later.

Later, Zhang Zhidong and Kang Liang parted ways due to many different ideas, which is an afterthought.

Zhang Zhidong acted as the manager of Liangjiang this time, and he also knew and promoted a person. This man participated in the Battle of Jiawu, the army was defeated and scattered, he came to Nanjing to apply for Zhang Zhidong's self-strengthening army, after being hired, he worked conscientiously, diligently, and other forts, such as the Four Elephant Mountain, the Lion Mountain, the Shogunate Mountain, and the Jiangyin Fortress, all of which he personally did to rectify and build, which made Zhang Zhidong quite satisfied. This person was Li Yuanhong, who later served as president of the Republic of China. In the spring of 1904, Li Yuanhong had become a general, about to command the most elite new army unit under Zhang Zhidong. Zhang Zhidong looked back at these smoke-like past events, and what kind of emotions would he have.

Micro-history | Wang Zhenyu: Zhang Zhidong in Nanjing in 1904

Zhang Zhidong

For whom the Building was built

Swimming through Qingxi, Zhang Zhidong went to Sheepskin Lane to participate in a dinner party. This meal, with a clear theme, is a taishou to undertake the relevant business of the Sichuan-Han Railway, and naturally wants to pass through Zhang Zhidong for convenience. This person entered Beijing from Shanghai, probably hearing that Zhang Zhidong was in Nanjing, and specially came to see him. Zhang Zhidong probably can't remember or is reluctant to mention the name of this Taishou Pavilion Garden, so he uses the title of "A Certain Clan Garden in Sheepskin Lane" to record this matter, in which "the annoying have the pleasure, and others cannot hear it." Idlers have the most suffering, write I am worried like a burning" sentence. Zhang Zhidong's troubles? Leisure? Worried? Zhang Zhidong, who is almost old and rare, is really worried and worried.

Nanjing Taicheng Jiming Temple has a Huomeng Building, mostly said to be Zhang Zhidong built in honor of student Yang Rui. And see what Zhang Zhidong said:

Yu took the monks of Jinshi Temple, and after opening the temple, the scripture hall was used as a building, and the miscellaneous trees outside the wall were cut down, so it became the crown of the Jinling temples.

Zhang Zhidong and his protégé Yang Rui (one of the "Six Gentlemen of Wushu", killed in 1898) traveled to Taicheng in 1894, when Zhang Zhidong, then the governor of Huguang, first acted as the governor of Liangjiang. One night, the two "traveled to Taicheng together, rested in the Jiming Temple, drank wine under the moon, talked about the history of hundreds of families, ancient and modern poetry, and forgot to return, the heavens wanted to dawn, and began to return to the governor." "On this evening, the Qing Talk, and du ji's 'Eight Lamentations', Rui was able to recite them exhaustively, and for the "Gift to the Secretary Of The Supervision Jiang Xia Li Gong Yong", the last four sentences 'Junchen Shang discussed the soldiers, the general took the Yan Ji, the Lang Yong Six Gong Chapters, the worries came and went blind', repeated chanting, the cave was greatly moved." In 1902, Zhang Zhidong once again acted in charge of Liangjiang and revisited the Jiming Temple, "wandering around the place where he and Yang Rui spent the night drinking and talking, greatly mourning, but donating funds to raise the building to commemorate Yang Rui, and even taking Yang Rui's recitation of the phrase 'worry to be blinded', known as 'Open-minded Building'." ”

However, some people say that this building has nothing to do with Yang Rui.

Whether the Huomeng Building is due to Yang Rui has yet to be confirmed, or maybe it is someone else's association that adds icing on the cake to Zhang Zhidong? But even if Zhang Zhidong remembered this student, he did not dare to show his heart publicly at that time, right?

CuiWei Pavilion, that is, the Southern Tang Dynasty Summer Wind Pavilion, is on Qingliang Mountain. When Zhang Zhidong came to this point, he naturally wanted to comment on the Southern Tang:

Although Bao Da is the king, this pavilion is crowned. Cool breeze sweeps away the summer, night and night golden public opinion play. The batu occasionally rises and falls, and the mountains and rivers are long and colorful. Poor frog eats well mud, ann has a supernatural view?

Baoda was the era name of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhang Zhidong said that the Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty was the "King of Xiao" (a cowardly king), which was derogatory and contemptuous.

Micro-history | Wang Zhenyu: Zhang Zhidong in Nanjing in 1904

Zhang Peilun and Li Ju coupled

Tribute to Zhang Peilun

Zhang Zhidong was in Nanjing in January, and Wei Guangtao, the governor of Liangjiang, naturally wanted to fulfill the friendship of the landlords.

Wei Guangtao feasted on Zhang Zhidong at the Jiangsu Grain And Road Bureau, and the person in charge at that time was named Hu Yansun. However, Zhang Zhidong did not drink alcohol on the grounds that he was unwell that night. Zhang Zhidong wrote a poem documenting this incident, in which "I see that the guests do not drink their lips, although they are not enough to be happy." Borrowing from the host what is appropriate, Xitang Guest Scatter still reads", a good "XiTang Guest Scatter still reads", it is really not to change the true color of the students.

But Zhang Zhidong was in Nanjing in January, and his most valuable works were his sixteen "Jinling Miscellaneous Poems" and his four "Passing Zhang Rope Nunnery". Look at his "Jinling Miscellaneous Poems (Part 1)":

The strength of the army is not as strong as Liu Songqiang, and the number of political affairs is Xiao Liang. He yin does not enjoy a hundred years of zuo, the mountain and river poison is Jiankang.

Zhang Zhidong's Jinling miscellaneous poems run through the distance, nostalgic for history, hanging on the past and hurting the present, not without illness and groaning, perfunctory. This poem still talks about the past of the Six Dynasties: on force, Liu Song is very strong; on the merits of governance, Xiao Liang can also be counted. But why can they only maintain a reign of fifty or sixty years? It is because they feast on the poison of the duck, the "Six Dynasties Golden Powder" of Jinling, the world of flowers and flowers, and pit them.

Zhang Zhidong's "Passing Zhang Rope Anzai" has four songs, most of which are mentioned. Zhang Zhidong is 11 years older than Zhang Peilun, both of them are directly subordinate to hebei compatriots, both are proud sons of the science field, and they are also important roles in the Qingliu Party under the leadership of Li Hongzao, the former township party, and they are also listed in the "Four Counsels of Hanlin", and the two have a very close relationship.

Zhang Peilun is very knowledgeable and can keep pace with Zhang Zhidong. Zhang and his wife Li Juru have written a recipe and a martial arts novel. In 1904, Zhang Peilun had been dead for a year, but had not yet been buried in Hebei. Zhang Peilun's son Zhang Zhiyi married Huang Yifan, huang Yisheng's granddaughter. Zhang Zhiyi and Huang Yifan's son is called Zhang Zijing, and his daughter is Zhang Ailing. Huang Yisheng's son was named Huang Zongyan.

Beiwangxiang Guanhai is dim, when will the big move enter the cultivation door?

The funeral palace spring is full of tang pear thanks, and Huawu Shan Qiu always has tear marks. (i)

In the middle of the hundred sparse spit rainbow neon, Pan House Yuan really outside the world.

After the disaster, He once sold water and fire, and the human world did not believe that there was peace. (ii)

By virtue of who Jiang Guo accompanies the submarine, the dancing dragon into the drawing.

After six generations of mercy, this heart should be withered for the master. (iii)

Twenty years of strange qi fu reed, tiger and leopard when the momentum of the momentum.

Knowing that Wei Gong is refreshing, it may show dreams to make the fox. (iv)

Zhang Zhidong specifically mentioned in the poem that Zhang Peilun has been dead for a year, and there are two chestnut trees in the courtyard of the deceased, which are actually cypress cypresses, which were there during the Six Dynasties, and it is really through the wind and rain, seeing the vicissitudes, and there are quite trees like how this person is ashamed.

Stranded in Nanjing for a month, Zhang Zhidong left a lot of poetry. Zhang Zhidong returned to Wuchang, crossed Wuhu again, and went to pay homage to Yuan Chang. Yuan Chang was a student of Zhang Zhidong, Xiao Zhangzhidong was 7 years old, a native of Tonglu, Zhejiang, and a second-year scholar of Guangxu, who had been an official to The Taichang Temple. In 1900, he was executed by the Qing court at the age of 54 for his direct advice against the blind exclusion of the Boxers. Zhang Zhidong chased after Yuan Chang, especially poignant and sad, he compared Yuan Chang to the Western Han Dynasty, please see one of his "Hanging Yuan Fengzhi Across Wuhu":

The Seven Kingdoms Company of Soldiers knocked on the pass, but zhijun made up for the enemy's qingtian.

The Thousand Autumns are bitter and chaotic, and they can provide the king with every strategy.

By the way, Wei Guangtao was the same age as Zhang Zhidong, died seven years later than Zhang Zhidong, and was also a famous courtier of the late Qing Dynasty, aged 79. In his early years, Wei Guangtao was subordinate to Zuo Zongtang's department, and in the Battle of Jiawu, he recruited troops to the north and assisted the Liao anti-Japanese forces with Wu Dacheng, the governor of Hunan. After the war, he served as the Governor of Shaanxi, the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the Governor of Yungui, the Governor of Liangjiang, and the Prime Minister of State Affairs. Zhang Zhidong founded the Sanjiang Normal School and left in a hurry, but the specific implementation was Wei Guangtao, and the new officials also took care of the old accounts, and there was no need to start a new stove, which was admirable.

After Zhang Zhidong returned to his original post as governor of Wuhan Huguang, Duan Fang was transferred away to Suzhou to serve as an inspector of Jiangsu.

Contributed by Wang Zhenyu

Proofread by Xu Heng

Source: Purple Cow News

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