This book, also known as "The Diary of a Quiet Resident", has been loved for a long time, and finally bought it on the shelves.
Zhao Liewen, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province, was a fellow of Weng Tonggong, a jing resident of no. Neng, and a senior aide of Zeng Guofan.
Understanding and paying attention to Zhao Liewen began with liking or even "studying" Zeng Guofan. After graduating from college, I just went to work to buy "Zeng Guofan Family Book", and then successively bought Zeng's diary, Zeng's complete collection, Xiao Yishan's "Biography of Zeng Guofan" and Xiong Zhaozheng's novel "Zeng Guofan". From this extension and expansion, I like the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, buy the Zhonghua Bookstore 'Ming History'" and "Ming History Chronicle at the end of this book", and carefully study Meng Sen's "Lecture Notes on the History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties" and so on.
He also bought gaoyang historical novels and other series of books, especially like to repeatedly study his peak work "Cixi Lie biography". This book is good at searching for wild history notes and academic works, integrating historical allusions and personal history in the story line, is a novel, and is like a documentary literature that mixes the imagination.
In its evaluation of Cixi and Prince Gong, Gao Yang quoted the "Diary of Zhao Liewen", which elaborated in depth on the dialogue and analysis between Zhao Liewen and Zeng Guofan on the Manchu Qing qi number, and Quan wrote "Zeng Zhao Pair". In 1867, Zeng Guofan, then the governor of Liangjiang, chatted with Zhao Liewen, who predicted that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would perish within fifty years, disintegrate, and divide the warlords. The original text is as follows: "The unity of public order in the world has been unified for a long time, and it is bound to be divided into different parts." However, the Lord's virtue is heavy, the atmosphere is not open, and if there is no axis and a rotten, the situation of collapse will not be achieved. I reckon that the calamity of another day must first be turned upside down, while the rear states have no masters, and people govern themselves, and they will not be able to survive for fifty years! Zhao Shi traced back to the roots: "It is too easy to start a business in this dynasty, it is too heavy to kill, and it is too clever to seize the world." The way of heaven is difficult to know, good and evil are not hidden, and the virtue of the queen is not enough. ”。“ Zeng Zhao", just 45 years after the success of the Xinhai Revolution in 1912.
Having comprehensively read Books such as Tang Degang's "Yuan's Dangguo" and Ding Zhongjiang's "History of the Beiyang Warlords", from Zeng Guofan to Li Hongzhang to Yuan Shikai, he was a key figure in the military and political field at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Zeng Shi promoted the heroes of "Tongzhi Zhongxing" and "indiscriminately coveted" the warlords of the Republic of China. Zeng studied Wang Yangming's philosophy, the unity of knowledge and action, and the depth of his academic cultivation should be discussed.
Zhao Liewen studied books such as "Zizhi Tongjian" and "Zhou Yi", and was good at investigating the world's conditions and folk customs, had knowledge and insight, and was known as a "prophet" in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Prepare to read this book in contrast with Zeng Guofan's diary.
(2021•10•18 Morning)