In Mr. Jin Yong's novel Lu DingJi, Wei Xiaobao is Kangxi's right and left arm. Coincidentally, at the side of Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty, there was also a humerus minister similar to Wei Xiaobao's style.
Cixi handwritten plaque
Without further ado, let's take a picture above, "Shu Heng Jie Zhi", which means "the most blessed national pillar".
This word is written crookedly, there is no "winning pen", the level of calligraphy is not as good as a primary school student, but look at the fall, "Hey"! Empress Dowager Cixi, she was able to write like this, which was also quite unexpected.
Regarding Empress Dowager Cixi, it is well known to passers-by, and even what kind of toilet she uses to go to the toilet has been seriously studied. However, if you ask who Empress Dowager Cixi's most favored minister is, I am afraid that not many people will know.
The evaluation of "Shu Heng Jie Zhi" is not low, in the end who made Empress Dowager Cixi so green-eyed, and listen to the small editor slowly.
In the 27th year of Daoguang (1847), the triennial spring college entrance examination of the imperial court was carried out as scheduled, and Zhang Zhiwan from Nanpi was awarded the honorary title of Champion. You read that right, it's Zhang Zhiwan, not Zhang Zhidong, Zhang Zhidong is his cousin.
Zhang Zhiwan
This new branch Yuanlang is not a teenager, and he was 36 years old when the gold list was titled.
To be able to be admitted to the Yuan, it is natural to read well, the imperial court knows people well, Zhang Zhuangyuan was assigned to the education department, and did several years of study and politics in Hubei, Henan and other places.
Just when Zhang Zhiwan was planning to dedicate his life to the educational cause of the Great Qing, but just in time for Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to carry out the Northern Expedition, they defeated the Manchu Qing general Nar Jing'e at Linhuan Pass, attacked Zhili, and successively conquered Jiaohe, Xianxian County, Cangzhou, Qingxian and other places, and the Taiping Army attacked Nanpibuk, killing more than 2,000 local people to vent their anger, and then turned north and pointed directly at Tianjin.
Clear-eyed people can see that these places attacked by the Taiping Army are in Cangzhou.
After Zhang Zhiwan heard the news, he was furious, and the teacher stopped working, and returned to his hometown to recruit troops to fight the Taiping Army.
The people in Cangzhou were fierce, And Zhang Zhiwan commanded it properly, and it did not take long to thwart the offensive of the Northern Expeditionary Army, encircling the Taiping Army in Lianzhen for a year, and finally the Northern Expeditionary Army was completely destroyed, and Lin Fengxiang was also escorted to Beijing and Executed by Ling Chi.
The Scope of Activities of the Northern Expedition Taiping Army in Cangzhou
For this insignificant victory, Zhang Zhiwan's original intention was to seek justice for the people of his hometown and kill people to pay for their lives. However, the imperial court was like a treasure, this Zhang Zhiwan not only read well, but also commanded the war twice, and was a rare all-rounder of literature and martial arts.
In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1956), the imperial court transferred Zhang Zhiwan back to Beijing and entered the study room to teach the sons of Prince Gong and Prince Shuo.
During the Second Opium War, Zhang Zhiwan was ordered to return to his hometown to supervise the regiment's training and prepare for a decisive battle with the British and French forces. But did not wait for the opportunity.
A year later, the 31-year-old Xianfeng Emperor died in Chengde, and the Tongzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne. Prince Yi, Hubu Shangshu Sushun and other eight ministers were regents.
Prince Gong, Prince Shuo, and Cixi plotted to get rid of Sushun and others, Zhang Zhiwan was the core think tank of this incident, and after Sushun and the others were arrested, Zhang Zhiwan wrote a letter citing the case of The Jiaqing Emperor's killing of He yan and advocating the use of heavy codes against the eight ministers.
As a result, Prince Yi and Prince Zheng were given death, Sushun was beheaded, and the other five ministers were dismissed from their posts and punished.
Gu Ordered the Eight Ministers and others
Cixi took this opportunity to bow down to the government, and she placed more trust in Zhang Zhiwan and entrusted him with the post of Inspector of Henan. The purpose was to suppress the Twister Rebellion in the north.
Compared with the Taiping Army in the south, the Twist army was a greater threat to the Qing government and lasted longer.
There were two teams dealing with the Twist Army, one was the Eight Banner Soldiers commanded by Senggelinqin, and the other was Zhang Zhiwan's troops. Later, the monk Gelinqin was killed in battle, and Zhang Zhiwan became the commander-in-chief of the anti-twist army.
Zhang Zhiwan believed that the Eight Banner Soldiers did not obey the command, so he promoted a large number of Han generals, such as Yuan Baoqing (Yuan Shikai's heir father), Zuo Zongtang, Song Qing (Viceroy of Hunan), Zhang Yao (Inspector of Shandong), Wu Yuanbing (Inspector of Anhui) and other famous generals, all of whom were under Zhang Zhiwan.'
It took Zhang Zhiwan six years to completely wipe out the Twist Army.
Twister's sphere of influence
Just when he wanted to discuss the reward for merit, Zhang Zhiwan returned to Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden to retire on the grounds that he was over sixty years old and his old mother was in the church.
Some people also believe that Zhang Zhiwan's move was Taoguang's obscurity, when the Tongzhi Emperor was newly dead, the people were quite critical of each other's Cixi, and Zhang Zhiwan was suspected of avoiding suspicion.
However, Empress Dowager Cixi did not forget this all-rounder who could write and fight, and in the first month of the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), Zhang Zhiwan, who was already 71 years old, reappeared in the mountains.
Humble Administrator's Garden
Empress Dowager Cixi entrusted Zhang Zhiwan with a heavy responsibility and was promoted by rocket.
In the first month of the eighth year of Guangxu, he was awarded the Shangshu of the Military Department and given the Forbidden City to ride a horse. In the following year, he concurrently served as the Shangshu of the Punishment Department, and in March of the following year, he joined the Military Aircraft Department, and at the same time belonged to the Shangshu of the Bureaucracy, and became the chief master of the study. In the eleventh year of Guangxu, he was also a Tobe Shangshu, plus the Prince Taibao, and a supplementary university scholar. In the second year, he was awarded the title of Renge University Fellow, Guangxu was awarded the Title of Dongge University Fellow in the 18th year, Guangxu was awarded the Twenty Years, and he enjoyed the three-eyed flower plume and walked on horseback in the Purple Reins of the Forbidden City.
In the 22nd year of Guangxu, the 85-year-old Zhang Zhiwan was rewarded with food due to his old age.
Before the tribute, the plaque of Cixi's handwritten "Shu Heng Jie Zhi" was given to Zhang Zhiwan.
Zhang Zhiwan's calligraphy and painting works
Zhang Zhiwan was 24 years older than Cixi, the first think tank of Empress Dowager Cixi, and cixi obeyed Zhang Zhiwan's words, and after Zhang Zhiwan left, no one continued to advise her, and Cixi did those ridiculous things.
Among the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, except for Zeng Guofan who died early, the remaining three were inextricably linked to Zhang Zhiwan.
Zhang Zhidong is Zhang Zhiwan's cousin, Zhang Zhiwan served as the chief examiner of the imperial examination twice, in order to avoid suspicion, Zhang Zhidong was 16 years old in the middle of xieyuan, until the age of 26 to enter Beijing to catch the exam, won the tanhua.
Zhang Zhidong
There are people in the dprum who are good officials, and without Zhang Zhiwan's strong support, Zhang Zhidong would not have been able to achieve such outstanding achievements.
Zhang Zhidong Guangxu reactivated Feng Zicai in the eleventh year. Li Hongzhang obstructed it on the grounds that "Feng was old and had insufficient energy," and Zhang Zhidong found Zhang Zhiwan, and not only did the problem solve the problem, but the military department also allocated 100,000 taels of silver for the military.
Feng Zicai made an extraordinary move, defeating the French army at Zhennanguan and achieving the famous "Zhennanguan Victory".
Zhang Zhiwan and Li Hongzhang are the same list of jinshi, and they are also the sons and daughters of the family, and Zhang's granddaughter is married to Li Hongzhang's grandson.
While excusing Li Hongzhang in front of Cixi, Zhang Zhiwan found Li Hongzhang and complained that he was selfish, that he was nepotistic in employing people, and that the Beiyang Water Division was strong and strong in the outside world, and that he was vain. "And there must be no rush to war with the Japanese. At least 10 years of lying down, the Japanese can't figure out the details of the Beiyang Marine Division, and they don't dare to make too many mistakes."
Unfortunately, Li Hongzhang was flying high and weak, and he could no longer listen to the persuasion of others.
Li
After zeng guofan's death, Zuo Zongtang once led the Xiang army to suppress the Twist army, and obeyed the orders under Zhang Zhiwan, Zuo Zongtang was defeated and dismissed from his post, and through Zhang Zhiwan's efforts, Zuo Zongtang was reinstated.
Before Zhang Zhiwan's first letter to Shi, he had been the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang for a while, and Zuo Zongtang chose the Mawei Shipyard in Fujian, which also had a lot to do with Zhang Zhiwan.
In the first month of the eighth year of Guangxu, it was also because Zuo Zongtang was in a hurry to urge military expenses in Xinjiang, and there was a lot of controversy in the imperial court. Empress Dowager Cixi was unable to make up her mind, so she reactivated Zhang Zhiwan as a soldier shangshu.
Zhang Zhiwan took office, the first thing he did was to embezzle the funds for the construction of the Summer Palace, make up for the arrears of military expenses owed to the soldiers of the Xinjiang conquest, and three months later, 70-year-old Zuo Zongtang carried a coffin out on the expedition and vowed to recover Yili to the death.
There is another person who has to be mentioned, that is, Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai was the son of Yuan Baozhong and was passed on to his childless uncle Yuan Baoqing when he was a child. Yuan Baoqing is Zhang Zhiwan's confidant, and Yuan Shikai is precisely with the help of this platform that he has a future soaring yellow Tengda.
Yuan Shikai's heir apparent, Yuan Baoqing
In Mr. Jin Yong's novel Lu DingJi, Wei Xiaobao is Kangxi's right and left arm. For Empress Dowager Cixi, Zhang Zhiwan played the role of Wei Xiaobao. The only difference between them is that one is a rogue in the city who does not learn any skills, and the other is a yuanlang who learns to be rich in five cars.
Zhang Zhiwan was a pivotal figure in the late Qing Dynasty, but he and his brother Zhang Zhidong both had a big shortcoming, one for Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the other for Huguang, but in the original industry is poor.
Cixi rewarded Zhang Zhuangyuan with the plaque of "Shu Heng Jie Zhi" and there was nowhere to hang it.
Ci'en Academy built by Jang Zhi-dong (now Nampi No.1 Middle School)
The little silver given by Empress Dowager Cixi for the elderly was also inflated by Zhang Zhiwan's swollen face and given to his cousin Zhang Zhidong to build a school. From the point of view of accumulating wealth, Zhang Zhiwan and Wei Xiaobao are also quite inferior.