When Changsha was trapped, how did Zuo Zongtang help Hunan Governor Zhang Liangji raise 120,000 military salaries? Step 1: Friends assist Step 2: Reasoned Step 3: Coercion by force

In the second year of Xianfeng, Changsha was besieged by the Taiping Army, which went all the way north, and at first the two sides fell into a fierce battle, but then due to insufficient supplies, the two sides could not stand each other, and Changsha fell into chaos for a while.

Zhang Liangji, the new governor of Hunan, found Zuo Zongtang, who was not met by Huai Cai at that time and lived in seclusion.

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Defending Changsha was regarded as his duty, so he did his best to help Zhang Liangji to make the wartime administration of Changsha in an orderly manner.

At that time, the first difficulty in fighting against the Taiping Army was that the military salaries were in a hurry, and the imperial court's salaries could not come for a while.

So Zuo Zongtang proposed to Zhang Liangji the idea of borrowing money from three hugely wealthy gentry in Changsha.

At that time, the first three riches in Changsha were the Yellow Crown who opened the gold trumpet, He Yu who opened the pharmacy, and Sun Guanchen who opened the silk shop, and these three rich people either served as officials or came from the family of officials and eunuchs.

Zuo Zongtang and Zhang Liangji threw a Hongmen banquet and invited their friend Ouyang Zhaoxiong to the banquet.

Although this Ouyang Zhaoxiong was a jianghu person, he was enthusiastic, righteous and wealthy, and had great prestige in the local area.

The fact that the government borrowed money from the squires was tantamount to taking advantage of the fire and robbing and bullying people. But these squires were not so easily subjugated.

These three people naturally cried poor and bitter, claiming to be shy in their pockets, having more than enough hearts and insufficient strength.

When the situation was deadlocked, Zuo Zongtang was resourceful and defused, and his intelligence was comparable to that of Lin Xiang in the Warring States period.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > first step: friend assist</h1>

When Huang, He, and Sun cried and refused to borrow money, Zuo Zongtang gave Ouyang Zhaoxiong a look.

Ouyang Zhaoxiong jumped out and said: Lord Zhang is very touched by his painstaking efforts to protect Changsha, although I am a vegetable gardener, I cannot compare with the financial resources of the three of you, but for the sake of the country, I have no choice, I am willing to do my best to take out ten thousand taels, a cup of water and a salary, and the real role depends on the rich people.

As soon as these words came out, they invisibly put pressure on Huang, He, and Sun.

But the three of them didn't buy it.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second step: to be reasonable</h1>

Zuo Zongtang praised Ouyang Zhaoxiong's righteous deeds.

Then he spoke to the three of them with great emotion: I Zuo Zongtang is just a person who makes a living by cultivating and reading.

Once the long hair broke the city, I still lived in my Xiangyin Dongshan White Water Cave, and I should not have spoken much here.

But for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of people in Changsha and all of you here, I can't help but say,

You are all people who have received the favor of the state, if there is no imperial court, where will you come from today's family business?

Now that your hometown is in trouble, are you worthy of your conscience by standing by and watching?

Moreover, once Changsha falls, your lives will be slaughtered by long hair.

Are you all smart people, are you willing to borrow money to defend your hometown or wait for the long hair to break through Changsha and the people to die and the money to die?

At this point, Huang, He, and Sun were already sweating and their hearts were shaken.

<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the third step: coercion</h1>

Just when the three of them were wavering, Zuo Zongtang simply did not do two and gave them some color to see.

He sent Ouyang Zhaoxiong back in a palanquin, leaving three people behind, and then at the door were filled with soldiers with large knives and murderous faces.

The meaning is already obvious, you can't get out of this door without borrowing money.

At this time, Zuo Zongtang bitterly said that his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law moved out of Changsha: The attitude of today's guests will be truthfully announced to the whole city of Changsha, and let my father and fellow villagers comment.

At this time, these three shrewd and experienced businessmen naturally understood that the end was already doomed. One after another said that they would serve the country and help each other.

The three borrowed a total of 110,000 taels of silver, plus Ouyang Zhaoxiong's 10,000 taels of silver for a total of 120,000 taels of silver, which finally solved the urgent need for Changsha's military salary shortage.

Zuo Zongtang loved to compare himself with Zhuge Liang, often calling himself "Jinliang" and calling himself "Jinliang or Shengguliang".

From this incident of raising military salaries, it can also be seen that he is resourceful and extraordinary.

Although the fortunes of the late Qing Dynasty declined, there was still no shortage of people who had experienced the state and the world, and who had both ability and political integrity to advise the country and rescue the crisis.