During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court would have feudal officials to take charge of local military affairs, and the famous governor of Liangjiang was one of the most senior official positions.
Successive governors of Liangjiang were well-known figures in the hearts of the family countrymen, such as Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi, all of whom were powerful ministers of the Qing Dynasty, but have you heard of Ma Xinyi?
Compared with the previous ones, presumably everyone knows very little about this Ma Minister, probably because he has not done any earth-shattering feats, but during his two years in office, one thing has been made known to the world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > the assassination of Ma Xinyi into the Great QingQi Case</h1>
In fact, Ma Xinyi was not dismissed from his post and transferred, but was assassinated and killed. At that time, this matter caused a sensation in the entire Qing Dynasty and became the first unsolved case worthy of the name, why is it said to be a suspense case? Because at that time, it was possible to basically lock in the real murderer, but suffering from the fact that ironclad evidence could not be found to convict him, no one dared to say anything about it.
As early as 1851, when Hong Xiuquan led the peasant army to launch an uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guofan took the initiative to take the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility of eradicating the rebels.
In this way, you can not only hide under the eyes of the imperial court, but also secretly develop your own private power. But this battle was fought for fourteen years, when the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty was suddenly changed from the Xianfeng Emperor to the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Cixi was not stupid, Zeng Guofan was also a man of understanding, he knew that Cixi, as a politician, would definitely suppress the development of his own power, and Empress Dowager Cixi thought left and right, thinking that Li Hongzhang was the best candidate to deal with Zeng Guofan.
But Li Hongzhang was originally a subordinate of Zeng Guofan, and he also had his own plans in mind, in the first confrontation between the two armies Zeng Guofan almost won a big victory, in 1864, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was finally destroyed, this time Cixi was not very comfortable, thinking that Zeng Guofan had made such a great merit and it would be difficult to kill him again in the future.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > Zeng Guofan took the initiative to request the withdrawal of the disarmament team</h1>
In order to avoid Empress Dowager Cixi's suspicions, Zeng Guofan, who had returned from a great victory, immediately went to Cixi and demanded the dismissal of the Xiang army of 25,000 people, and Cixi was happy to see that this was actually a strategy to slow down the army?
Zeng Guopan did not move again after the request. This can make Cixi anxious, so he began to constantly find trouble for Zeng Guofan, but he has always been cautious and rarely has any handles, so Cixi pointed the spearhead at his ninth brother, and the army in his brother's hands are all kinds of people, and when he goes to the battlefield, he is crazy slaughter, and he has also done innocent things, so he also has a nickname "Zeng Butcher".
His ninth brother's army had collected all the gold and silver treasures in the palace at that time, and had not yet reported the news of Hong Xiuquan's death to Zeng Guofan, but fortunately it was properly disposed of later, otherwise Cixi knew that he did not know what chaos was going to be born, and he would have to use this to make a big fuss, and I was afraid that the imperial court would set off a new "bloody storm" at that time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > Ma Xinyi's path to promotion</h1>
Ma Xinyi was Cixi's confidant, a Native of Shandong, who had been a jinshi, had served as a County of Hefei, and had also participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Encirclement and Suppression Movement, and after the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Ma Xinyi became the greatest hero and rose all the way to the position of governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.
And Zeng Guofan was also crowned as the governor of direct subordination, which was not a good thing, Cixi wanted to use this official position to monitor Zeng Guofan's every move, and Ma Xinyi was ostensibly the newly appointed governor, but in fact he was secretly collecting evidence of Zeng Guofan's crimes, and also asked the imperial court for an army of 2500 people in the name of suppressing bandits.
But sadly, this governor is just a plaything in the hands of the empress dowager and the heavy ministers, and soon Ma Xinyi was killed by the assassin Zhang Wenxiang on the way back to the palace, and afterwards he also took the initiative to arrest the case, because Zhang Wenxiang changed from a soldier to a pirate, Ma Xinyi did not kill his brother after he took the throne, so in a fit of anger, he ran to stab Ma Xinyi.
Later, the case was transferred to Zeng Guofan for trial, and Zhang Wenxiang lingchi was sentenced to death, and the assassination case that made the imperial court angry ended.
At that time, Cixi also decided that there must be cattiness in it, and it was indispensable that Zeng Guofan was obstructing, so he personally found someone to interrogate him, but instead of getting any valuable information, even the interrogator chose to return to his hometown soon after, and Cixi saw that the general situation had gone and had to give up, and in this contest between the empress dowager and the powerful ministers, Zeng Guofan once again won the victory.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > conclusion</h1>
Zeng Guofan, as a generation of famous courtiers in the late Qing Dynasty, was able to quietly defeat Cixi under his horse, and his great wisdom was truly admirable!
However, Zeng Guofan's contribution to the Qing Dynasty did not stop there, he also built the first ship for China, opened China's first military engineering school, was the first person to introduce Western culture to the country, and was the originator of advocating studying abroad for further study.