Zeng Guofan, Zhang Zhidong, Li Hongzhang and Zuo are four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty. Li Hongzhang once worshipped Zeng Guofan as a teacher, and in the same year he was admitted as a scholar with the teacher. Li Hongzhang is also known as "Oriental Bismarck".
Dissatisfied with Zuo, he is a gifted scholar and other gifted scholars, ranging from an official to a university student in Dongge, a minister of military aircraft, and a second-class Qi Huangong. He experienced major historical events in China, such as the Xiang Army's Pacification of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Westernization Movement, the Army's Pacification of the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion and the Recovery of Xinjiang.
Zeng Guofan was a politician, strategist, philosopher and writer in modern China, and was the founder and commander-in-chief of Xiang Army. He and Hu Linyi were called Zeng Hu, and Li Hongzhang, Zuo and Zhang Zhidong were called "four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty". The official to the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Zhili, and the university student of Wuyingdian were awarded the first-class Yi, named.
Zhang Zhidong, who founded Qiangzi School, Sanjiang Normal School, Hubei Agricultural School, Hubei Wuchang Mengyang College, Hubei Craft School, Ci 'en School (Nanpi No.1 Middle School), Guangya Academy and so on, politically advocated that "middle school should be the body and western learning should be used". In industry, Hanyang Iron Works, Daye Iron Mine and Hubei Gun Works have been established. When Eight-Nation Alliance invaded and Dagubao fell, Zhang Zhidong negotiated with Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang River, and the consul in Shanghai about "mutual protection in the southeast" to suppress the independent army uprising of the reformists such as Tang, Gui Lin and Qin Lishan.