Zeng Guofan (18 1 1 year165438+1October 26th-1March 872 12), formerly known as Zicheng, was originally named Bo Han.
Daoguang Jinshi, a former bachelor of cabinet, was an official to assistant minister in the last years of Daoguang. He was good at talking about "morality" and "benevolence and righteousness" and praised Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom marched into Hunan, it was appointed as the deputy minister of Yingyong, and held Yingyong in Hunan. Later, a landlord armed group with the size of a regular army was formed-Xiang Army. Xianfeng released Begging for Guangdong Bandits in four years. Leading the Xiang army to fight in the province to recover lost territory for the Qing government. In order to strengthen the suppression force, he advocated introducing advanced western technology, establishing Anqing Inner Ordnance Institute and manufacturing new guns. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), he served as the governor of the two rivers and was supervised by an imperial envoy. The following year, Anqing was captured and ordered to govern the military affairs of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. Three years of Tongzhi (1864) captured Tianjing. The following year, he was ordered to go north to suppress the Nianjun uprising. In the seventh year of Tongzhi (1868), he was transferred to the governor of Zhili. In the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), when dealing with the religious plan in Tianjin, he fawned on foreigners and the disabled, was condemned by public opinion, returned to China to be the governor of the two rivers, and died in Nanjing.
The rise of Zeng Guofan had a far-reaching impact on the politics, military affairs, culture and economy of the Qing Dynasty. The rise of Confucianism, the landlord school of Han nationality headed by Zeng Guofan, turned the powerful officials in Qing Dynasty into Confucian scholars, and promoted the change of the proportion of Manchu and Han among local officials in Qing Dynasty. The strengthening and centrifugal tendency of local rulers. He once advocated and promoted the Westernization Movement, arguing that "restraint is the most important". To cultivate political affairs internally, talents are urgently needed and western military and technology are introduced.
Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi were called "Zeng Hu", while Li Hongzhang, Zuo and Zhang Zhidong were called "four famous ministers of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty". Hou Yong, Feng Yi, Zheng Wen, posthumous title, later called Ceng Wenzheng.