"For the daughter of a famous minister, for the wife of a famous minister, Jiang Youzuo Yuanrong, and Mrs. Brocade share great achievements; Born in the Mid-Autumn Festival, passed away in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the horizon is bold, and the predecessor of the Yunshang Fairy Certificate is .........This is a eulogy written by later generations to commemorate Lin Puqing, the daughter of Lin Zexu, which is extremely beautiful, and can leave such a pen and ink under the feudal patriarchal social system, and her life is also legendary!
Lin Zexu was born in poverty, and when he was a child, he relied on his mother's needles and chisels and colorful flowers and trees to make a living.
Mother Lin is a very insightful and hard-working woman, who adheres to the principle of education that no matter how hard she is, no matter how hard she is, no matter how poor she is, she can't be poor, and sent Lin Zexu to a private school early.
told him that his boy's filial piety is not in trivial matters, and that he must study and gain fame in order to live up to his parents' nurturing grace.
Therefore, Lin Zexu has set great ambitions since he was a child, and he is bound to be an official, and he must be a big official and a good official, and a famous minister who is beneficial to all the people.
In the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804), on the day of the scientific examination, the magistrate of Yongcheng County married his daughter Zheng Xu to Lin Zexu.
As the ancients often said"Catch a son-in-law under the list"., Zheng Zhixian has long been in love with this potential son-in-law, and he just waited for Lin Zexu to hold a wedding.
Lin Zexu initially only served as the secretary of Tongzhi in Xiamen, when the entire Xiamen officials were chaotic, and the first corrupt officials colluded, allowing opium smuggling and bribery to become a common ......
He witnessed the harm of opium to the Chinese people, and witnessed the disregard for human life of ** and foreign businessmen in order to accumulate wealth, and his heart was sad and indignant, and he hated opium.
That's why he was so firm and decisive in his assertion"Non-smoking".Cause.
Although Lin Zexu was a small official, he dared to fight with the officials of Xiamen and Haiphong"Struggle"., conscientiously perform their duties, serve the public wholeheartedly, and never join forces.
It may seem to other ** that he is very pedantic and does not know how to be flexible, but in the eyes of Zhang Shicheng, the governor of Fujian, such a talent is really a pillar of the country!
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It is said that Zhang Shicheng flipped through the New Year's greetings submitted by officials from all over the country, and found that Lin Zexu's He Qi was the best written, and he had a heart of love for talents, and then called him to come to ** overnight to pay respects.
On the eve of the New Year, firecrackers rang out, and everyone else was busy joining in the fun, only Lin Zexu had no distractions and still concentrated on writing the ......
Only then did Zhang Shicheng look up to Lin Zexu again and accepted him as a staff member.
Zhang Shicheng's position and ministers, whether it is political academia or the way of being an official, can be called"Big guy"., Lin Zexu made him a staff member, so to speak"The building near the water gets the moon first".Benefit.
In the fourteenth year of Jiaqing (1809), Zhang Shicheng recommended Lin Zexu to participate in the suppression of piracy.
After the success, Zhang Shicheng praised Lin Zexu to the court and officialdom friends overnight, to the effect that it is.
"This son is a talent, and he can be an official! ”This move can be regarded as gaining a lot of attention and fame for Lin Zexu, and laying the foundation for becoming an official in the future.
Soon after, Lin Zexu was admitted to the Jinshi and officially embarked on the road of becoming an official, and worked until the 30th year of Daoguang.
In the past few decades of official career, he proposed to let the countrymen go"Open your eyes to the world".
Military and coastal defense, history and politics, humanities and law, modern science and technology, ......He spared no effort to promote it at home and was hailed as a pioneer in the history of China's diplomacy.
He also stabilized Shaanxi, defended the frontier, and banned smoking in Guangzhou......
The thirteen provinces of the successive officials, although they represented the bureaucratic system of the feudal dynasty, did it"Aside from the blessings and honors, nothing is not serious, and nothing is bad"., is a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, but also a national hero!
With a father like Lin Zexu as an example, Lin Puqing has been exposed to it since he was a child, and has developed a resolute and resolute temperament that distinguishes between right and wrong.
Therefore, the husband she wants to marry will naturally not be inferior, and he is also a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, and he is also the son-in-law chosen by Lin Zexu himself.
Lin Zexu's sister Lin is deeply inherited by her mother, and she is very popular, and she is even better at educating her children.
She has only one son after marriage, Shen Baozhen, because her husband is a talented woman, who makes a living by teaching and writing, and is busy making a living every day, so Shen Baozhen's enlightenment education throughout his childhood was taught by the Lin family.
Later, Lin Zexu became an official, and his sister-in-law and brother-in-law brought their only son to Beijing, and he took care of him.
Lin Puqing and Shen Baozhen, two cousins, are childhood sweethearts who grew up together, engaged since childhood, and have a good relationship.
But if it is just a relative, it is not enough for Lin Zexu to agree to marry a daughter, what he values is Shen Baozhen's ability and potential.
Shen Baozhen is young and talented, and talented people are somewhat arrogant, and his eyes are empty, so Lin Zexu wants to educate his nephew.
The two drank on a moonlit night, and Shen Baozhen was very prosperous in poetry and made a poem casually.
The general idea is to refer to oneself with the moon, saying that the light of a hook of the crescent moon is enough to illuminate the world, so why do you have to be very clear when the moon is full?
The poems are full of pride and self-satisfaction of young people, Lin Zexu was silent after reading it, and he changed it to why bother"What's more".
The poetry suddenly changed from pride and complacency to Top Gun, and the future is promising.
Shen Baozhen understood what his uncle meant after reciting, and then he reined in his edge, being modest and low-key, and this anecdote became true"One word to teach people".allusions.
In the twentieth year of Daoguang, Shen Baozhen and Lin Puqing got married.
Seven years later, Shen Baozhen was admitted to the Jinshi examination and began to make a name for himself in the officialdom, and later sat in the position of governor of Jiangxi step by step.
At that time, the Westernization Movement was on the rise, and Zuo Zongtang originally planned to host the Fuzhou Ship Administration Bureau, but was temporarily transferred to serve as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.
Before leaving, he was worried that there would be no one to take over the shipmaster, so he personally wrote to the imperial court to recommend Shen Baozhen, and said:
"He can't hold office! ”
Shen Baozhen was ordered to be in danger, and after taking office, he supervised the construction of ships and machinery factories, and the opening of factories and Haikou.
In order to cultivate specialized maritime talents, he also founded a five-year art garden, recruited students for further study, and cultivated a large number of supervisors.
Even the "Qing History Manuscript" vigorously affirmed his achievements and said yes.
"The task is arduous, the officials are outstanding, and their hands create a shipbuilding, and the essence is not ...... for a while”
In 1874, there was a major crisis in the southeast seas, and the Japanese army invaded Taiwan for no reason.
The Qing court was helpless and dared to do so"Walkthrough".It was only after the name sent ** to check and confirm that Japan had occupied Taiwan before realizing the seriousness of the situation.
Emperor Tongzhi immediately appointed Shen Baozhen as the minister of the Imperial Mission, and gave him full authority to take charge of Taiwan's coastal defense and foreign-related affairs.
Shen Baozhen conscientiously analyzed the situation between China and Japan, and held that "we should not blindly retreat and stay out of the matter, still less should we blindly talk about it and be indignant," and the key is to formulate a strong defense deployment plan.
Therefore, Shen Baozhen set up a triple defense of sea, land and artillery, and built his own naval ships;
Mobilize foreign gun teams to fortify Taiwan, and give full play to the strength of the people to fight against common enemies;
The construction of Western-style forts can not only protect the security of the city, but also resist the invading enemy army, like the most natural barrier.
In the face of such tight control, the Japanese army knew that it was difficult to win a hard encounter;
In addition, the Japanese army was not accustomed to water and soil, and died of epidemic gas every day.
Fourth, fifth, there were countless sick people, so they had to give up the use of force to occupy Taiwan and instead negotiate peace with the Qing Dynasty.
But"Weak".The Qing ** still didn't dare to be tough, and promised to compensate the Japanese army for 500,000 **, and the Japanese army withdrew and left ......
Shen Baozhen could only obey the arrangement of the imperial court, swallowed this mouthful, and waited until the Japanese army left him to order a strict defense of Taiwan and further development and governance of Taiwan.
So to this day, the people of Taiwan still remember Shen Baozhen's contributions.
In 2014, people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait also held a special event"Commemorating the 140th anniversary of Shen Baozhen's protection of Taiwan."activities.
As a result, he has become a well-deserved pioneer and creator of Taiwan's modernization!
Lin Puqing is Lin Zexu's daughter and Shen Baozhen's wife, and when she puts aside the subordinate status given to her by men, she is still herself.
A great woman who grew up in the boudoir, but was knowledgeable, had a good mind, and had a vast world in her heart.
When Lin Puqing married Shen Baozhen, Shen Baozhen had not yet been admitted to the Jinshi.
During the years of hard study, Lin Puqing played the role of a good wife and mother, taking care of housework and making ends meet for him, so that Shen Baozhen had no worries and peace of mind for scientific research.
Later, Shen Baozhen entered the court as an official, and at first he was a civil official of imperial history.
Because Lin Zexu once served as a staff member, and relied on military merits to get the blue eyes of the famous minister Zhang Shicheng to become officialdom, Lin Puqing and Shen Baozhen have been influenced by him a lot since childhood, and they are also very familiar with military affairs.
coincided with the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing ** was eager to suppress the domestic uprising, and there was a lack of available military talents, so Shen Baozhen recommended himself and wrote many times to talk about military affairs.
This attracted the attention of Emperor Xianfeng, and he was entrusted with an important task and arranged for him to go to Jiangxi Guangxin Prefect and be promoted.
But at that time, just in time for the Taiping army to besiege the city, Shen Baozhen went out of the city to various states and counties to collect military salaries.
He is not in the city, the dragons are leaderless, the ** people are in a mess, and they are all in a hurry to pack up the soft furniture and abandon the city.
Lin Puqing, who was sitting in Shangrao, as the prefect's wife, stood up as soon as possible and persuaded the ** people not to escape from the battle and abandon the people of a city.
In order to calm the hearts of the people, she said that she would never go out of the city to take refuge, and would guard the city for her husband.
* We have the backbone of the heart, but I am still panicked and asks
"Madame is a woman, how to command the troops? How to resist the thieves? ”Lin Puqing knew that his identity as a woman was difficult to convince the public, so he didn't say much, just pointed to the well in the courtyard
"If the city is broken, this is my place of refuge. ”In just one sentence, he proved his determination to live and die with Shangrao City, and also made all the ** people who were waiting and watching silently.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Puqing discussed countermeasures with the soldiers defending the city, and also took out all the food reserves at home to relieve the soldiers of the army and the people in the city.
With her encouragement and drive, the army and the people are united as one.
The soldiers were fighting on the front line, and Lin Puqing took the women in the city to cook and deliver meals together, doing everything herself, and everyone in the city looked forward to her.
Unfortunately, the enemy was outnumbered, and after several days of hard work, the soldiers in the city still could not withstand the menacing enemy army.
Seeing that there is a crisis of breaking the city, you can only ask for troops to support, and the nearest Yushan Town has stockpiled troops, which is the best choice.
But who to send for reinforcements? The enemy troops are stationed outside the city, and it is easy to attract the attention of the other party when they go out of the city, and if they are not careful, they will be in danger of being captured.
Moreover, there are also Taiping troops near Yushan Town, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, is the other party really willing to borrow troops for reinforcements?
Lin Puqing knew that this matter was difficult, but the lives of all the people in the city were at stake.
She found out that the general soldier of Yushan was once her father's former subordinate, and she also had some friendship, so she immediately wrote a bloody letter, and the words in the letter were sincere and moving.
It not only explains the isolation and urgency of Shangrao City, but also shows the feelings of family and country and personal friendship, which is true"The autumn of survival is also at stake".
Later facts proved that the general army of Yushan was able to send troops in time, and he was indeed moved by Lin Puqing's blood letter.
The soldiers did not dare to delay after taking the letter, and sneaked out of the city under the cover of the soldiers in the city, and went straight to Yushan for help.
Although the Yushan garrison is the closest, it will take at least two days to go back and forth, and all they have to do is to hold out until the reinforcements arrive.
Lin Puqing personally walked up to the city tower to appease all the soldiers and civilians, assuring them that reinforcements would definitely come, and as long as they persevered to the end, they would achieve victory!
After pacifying the soldiers, Lin Puqing tried to delay the war as much as possible.
There is no chance of winning in a head-to-head confrontation, so find another way, focus on defense, and keep your troops mainly at the entrance of the city wall.
In order to prevent the enemy from digging tunnels to infiltrate the city, Lin Puqing ordered his soldiers to dig a trench five feet wide and eight feet deep along the inner side of the city wall.
In this way, once the enemy army dug a tunnel and infiltrated the city, it was bound to be unable to escape the detection of the defenders of the city, and the crisis was eliminated.
In this way, Lin Puqing led the soldiers and civilians to hold out until the reinforcements arrived, and Shen Baozhen rushed back in time after hearing the news that the city was trapped.
With the support of both sides, the enemy army was defeated, and Shangrao City avoided the disaster of breaking the city.
When the war subsided, the imperial court only knew that Shen Baozhen had turned back in time and saved the crisis with his soldiers, so he was promoted to the rank of knight and promoted to the governor of Jiangxi.
Lin Puqing took the credit invisibly and came with it"The Governor's Wife"., but all the ** people in Shangrao City are well aware of Lin Puqing's exploits and are widely praised.
They remembered the famous minister Lin Zexu, the famous minister Shen Baozhen, and even remembered that there was a heroine named Lin Puqing who was both wise and brave.
When it comes to Lin Puqing, the history books are no longer a simple "Shen Lin", but a heroine who beats the drum and retreats from the army and wisely guards Shangrao.
She can break free from thousands of "face-painted" women, and the pressure and hardship behind her will only be more than that of contemporaneous men.
When mentioning Lin Zexu and Shen Baozhen, the two famous ministers and sons-in-law, the world can also remember that in their family, there is a woman who is not inferior to anyone else.
She deserves all the praises, the incense offerings of future generations, and the history books to remember her name.
Lin Zexu's Diary" Lin Zexu.
Qing Historical Manuscript Qing.