A person pregnant with talent is like pregnancy, for a long time, naturally can not be hidden, and the talent is more famous early, even if there is no dazzling education, the typical representative of the talent is one of the four ministers of the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang, Zuo Jigao. What made him famous for eternity was not the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, nor the establishment of foreign affairs, but the reconquest of Xinjiang with iron blood. Zuo Zongtang was elected at the age of twenty, but since then, he has not been admitted to the jinshi three times in a row with the strength to suckle. The other three famous ministers were all from jinshi, Zeng Guofan was a 27-year-old middle jinshi, and Hu Linyi and Li Hongzhang were both 24-year-old middle jinshi. Zuo Zongtang entered the Yue family of Xiangtan at the age of 21 because of his family's poverty, who ever thought that he would become the strongest son-in-law? It was not that Jin shi did not affect Zuo Zongtang's swimming in the ocean of knowledge, but on the contrary, he completely kicked off the shackles of the imperial examination and read all the books, laying a solid foundation for the play of his great talents. As early as 1852, Zuo Zongtang's great talent had already been seen by others.
In 1852, when Xiao Chaogui, the Western King of the Taiping Army, and Shi Dakai, the Wing King, led 5,000 elites to the south of Changsha, the newly appointed Inspector of Hunan Zhang Liangji was like an ant on a hot pot, eager to find a great talent to relieve the siege of Changsha. He first came to the garrison of Jiang Zhongyuan's army, the fierce general who had killed Feng Yunshan, the southern king of the Taiping Army. Jiang Zhongyuan told Zhang Liangji that there are three bright lights in Hunan today, and the old Liang Luo Zenan, the little liang Liu Rong, and the present Liang Zuo Zongtang can be protected. He also said that the first two Liang could not be matched by Zuo Zongtang.
Zuo Zongtang can really be described as a dragon among people, although his meritorious name is only one person, but he is full of experience and talent, which is rare in the world. Yu Keqi, this person has long been immersed in the earth, buried in the book of soldiers, the mountains and rivers of the world, knows the palm of his hand, ancient and modern wars, such as several family treasures. For people often Gengjie, the spirit is heroic. When there is a disturbance today, it is the time when this person has made a meritorious career.
As early as the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang, Lin Zexu had seen Zuo Zongtang, and Zuo Zongtang's talent made Lin Zexu greatly admire! Lin Wenzhonggong returned from Yunnan to Fujian, passed through Changsha, and specially sent people to Liuzhuang to recruit Zuo Zongtang. That night, wen Zhonggong and Zuo Zongtang talked about the past and the present, and stayed up all night until the chicken chirped at dawn. Wen Zhonggong was overwhelmed by it and was surprised by the unique wizard. Zhang Liangji admired and appreciated Lin Zexu the most in his life, and when he heard that Lin Zexu valued Zuo Zongtang so much, he couldn't help but respect Zuo Zongtang. Zhang Liangji asked Zuo Zongtang how he was compared to the general Jiang Zhongyuan? Jiang Zhongyuan was ashamed, saying that if he could compare with Zuo Zongtang, it was really better than a horse than a horse, a jackdaw with a phoenix, and it was not as good as one!
When Zuo Zongtang was 26 years old, in order to welcome the arrival of Tao Shu, the governor of Liangjiang, he wrote a pair of couplets with his hand, and the Spring Road Guangchun Temple was calm, and the Ganzaijia Mountain Seal Heart Stone was there; the great river flowed day and night, and the children of the Eight Prefectures returned home. Tao Shu was shocked to see it, and despite the age difference in his thirties, he had to make a forgotten friendship with Zuo Zongtang, and asserted that Zuo Zongtang's achievements would be far above him. Before his death, Tao Shu took the initiative to marry Zuo Zongtang and entrusted his only son to Zuo Zongtang and married his children!