The merits and demerits have their own posterity to comment
He was one of the most important influencers on the Qing Empire.
No other minister in modern Chinese history has held such an important position as he did, and his influence on the history of the Qing Empire went far beyond the borders of the empire.
In his later years, he was the main pillar supporting this crumbling and huge empire, and his every move not only determined the fate of the empire, but also affected the direction of the entire modern history of the East. Without him, China's modern history would be a fragmented history and an unspeakable history.
At the same time, no minister in China's modern history has been the subject of such constant criticism as he was.
Since his death in 191, no matter what period of history – from shrewd politicians to agitated social changemakers, from literati who recorded the correct history to civilians who disseminated wild histories, people have held a striking unanimity that is almost unimaginable to other figures in China's modern history – the Chinese have always evaluated him as a complete ****.
The weight of his guilt is unbelievable: all the humiliations suffered in China's modern history were caused by him. In all the days of his life, his efforts and deeds had only one purpose: to sell the land, wealth, and subjects of the Qing Empire to foreigners.
Li Hongzhang, the most unique figure in modern Chinese history.
At least in the hearts of the Chinese, he is no longer a "person". The Chinese isolated him from all the internal and external troubles of the Qing Empire at the end of the nineteenth century and turned him into a symbol of national sentiment or a political image of the country.
The Chinese ignore that the second half of the life of this important minister of the empire coincided with the stormy decline of the Qing Dynasty, just when China's thousands of years of feudal imperial system was about to collapse, and at the same time ignored the most important position held by this old man for the Qing Empire: the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang.
The governor of the Qing Empire and the minister of Beiyang was dignified, full of economy, sharp wit, and clever rhetoric. He was both arrogant and loyal, deep and sharp, resolute and tolerant, cold and brutal and warm, and he concentrated all the characteristics of the Oriental character in himself.
Li Hongzhang, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, was born on the fifth day of the first month of the third year of Daoguang, that is, on February 5, 1823. The Li family is a "family of cultivation and study", which is not poor, but it is also busy for food and clothing.
In 1838, my father was selected as one of the 112 Jinshi in the Beijing Examination. When the annunciation was announced, he and his mother were hoeing grass in the field and were overjoyed to hear the news.
Father was first awarded to the Ministry of Households.,After a long time in the Criminal Department as an official.,It's said to be a package formula.,But there's no special extraordinary.。 Two years after his father became a jinshi, Li Hongzhang was selected for Xiucai, and at the age of eighteen, he was upset because he had achieved nothing:
The husband's career is at the right time, and he regrets it late after a mistake.
Ambition is not exhausted, and the genius wants to try ten thousand words of poetry.
Smelling the chicken, he danced first, and knew that his cheeks were mustache in the mirror.
In the past, children are now weak, and what is the floating life?
Although the poem is written without talent, it is full of the flavor of "sorrow for the new words".
Li Hongzhang went to Beijing to live with his father, who was an official, and continued his studies, where he met Zeng Guofan, a teacher who had a huge impact on his future life and which he admired for life.
Author: Wang Gongjian.