Zuo (18 12 10 to 1885 September 5th) was born in Zuojiaduan, Xiangyin County, Changsha, Hunan Province. Military strategist, politician, famous general of Xiang army, one of the representatives of Westernization School, and one of the four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty. Participated in suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, suppressing the Nian Army, suppressing the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion, and recovering Xinjiang. He invited himself to Fujian to supervise the Sino-French war and died in Fuzhou at the age of 73.
Li Hongzhang (1823 February 15 to190117) is a native of Modian Township, Hefei County, Anhui Province. He is the founder of Huai Army and Beiyang Navy. Participate in the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Nian Army. He was one of the leaders of the Westernization Movement and founded many modern industries, such as Kaiping Coal Mine and Tang Xu Railway. He signed the treaty of shimonoseki after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. After Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing, it signed some treaties that humiliated the country, such as the "Xin Chou Treaty". However, his open mind is still good. Japanese Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito called him "the only person in the Qing Empire who has the ability to compete with the world powers".
Zhang Zhidong (1837 September 2nd to1909/kloc-0 October 4th) was born in Xingyi, Guizhou, and his ancestral home was Nanpi County. (now Anlong County) A representative of Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. Politically, it advocates that "middle school is the body and western learning is the use"; Industrial establishment of Hanyang Iron Works and Daye Iron Mine; In education, self-improvement school and Sanjiang Normal School (predecessor of Wuhan University) were established. Eight-Nation Alliance (predecessor of Nanjing University) entered Beijing to discuss "Southeast Mutual Insurance" with consuls of various countries. He also suppressed the reformist Tang and others and suppressed the self-defense uprising. 1908 was promoted to Taibao and died the following year.
Looking at the life trajectories of Zeng Guofan, Zuo, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, we can see that under different circumstances, they really supported the collapse of the mansion in the late Qing Dynasty and were worthy of being the four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, otherwise the Qing Dynasty would have died early.