Li Hongzhang (1823.2.15 ~1901.1.7), whose real name is Zhang Tong and whose real name is Shao Quanlin, was Shi Wenzhong in his later years. Han nationality, Hefei, Anhui. Because of the second line, it is also called "Mr. Li Er" among the people. There are complete works of Li Wenzhong. China was an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, one of the main advocates of Westernization Movement, and the founder and commander-in-chief of Huai Army. In the twenty-third year of Daoguang, on the orders of his father, he chose Yougong and went to Beijing. He should have passed the provincial examination in Shuntian in the second year, and became a China native in one fell swoop. In the 27-year senior high school entrance examination, Ding Weike was the 13th Jinshi of Dimethyl, and changed to Jishi Shu in imperial academy. In the tenth year of Xianfeng, after the Taiping Army broke camp in the south of the Yangtze River, the Qing government had lost its last main force in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Li Hongzhang began to recruit and form the Huai Army. On November 18th of the first year of Tongzhi, Luo, the garrison commander of Changshu Taiping Army, surrendered. Since then, the Huai army has won successively. Tongzhi for three years, Changzhou was conquered, and lord protector Chen Kunshu of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was killed. The Taiping Army in southern Jiangsu was basically wiped out. Later generations commented that Li Hongzhang was born in the darkest and most turbulent era of the Qing Dynasty. Every time he "appeared", when the country was in danger, the Qing Dynasty asked him to undertake all the "most embarrassing" things. Li Hongzhang should be responsible for the failure of the Sino-Japanese War, but the fundamental reason for the failure of the Sino-Japanese War was not his own. Because industrialized Japan fought agricultural China, the outcome was decided before the war. Li Hongzhang was the most outstanding diplomat in the late Qing Dynasty. He devoted himself to China's diplomatic career in the second half of his life, and he did his duty as a diplomat in the international environment at that time.
The difference between Ceng Wenzheng and Li Wenzhong lies in their different experiences and thoughts. Li Hongzhang's "Young Ke Di, an army horse in the prime of life, frontier defense in the prime of life, westernization in his later years, all the way up, it's not unfortunate." It's also true that the young man went out to help group training at the age of 3 1. Since then, the officialdom has been ups and downs, and there is no effort to learn. Compared with Li's success, Zeng Guofan's experience is much more tortuous. But because of this, I was able to immerse myself in the sage kung fu when I was young and middle-aged, and my personality cultivation was more complete. It was later that he participated in suppressing Hongyang rebellion. Zeng and Li's thoughts on Ci were different, but they both made efforts in the study of Ci in Song Dynasty. Li Wenzhong claimed that "any fool is actually groundless". So what has been presented is the unity of merit and righteousness, without bias. Li, on the other hand, is an eccentric person. He "always lacks a sense of consciousness and vigilance about the perfection of personality". However, as a highly sensitive scholar and an important political figure in the late Qing Dynasty, the differences presented by Ceng Li obviously cannot be concealed by their internal differences. This difference is more critical to the times. Zeng Litong is a famous minister of ZTE, but his seniority is different. Generally speaking, Tianjin religious plan and Zeng Guofan's death can be taken as the main line, and they have become the center of ZTE's famous ministers. If Hu Linyi's vomiting blood only foresaw that the strength of foreigners would be a disaster in the future, then by the time of Li Hongzhang, this foresight had already fallen to the practical level. More than ten years after his death, lawyers from Vietnam and southeast China knocked on Guan Sheng, and more than ten years later, China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War. Li Hongzhang is the author of Sino-French New Testament and treaty of shimonoseki. Li Hongzhang faced a more dangerous situation than Zeng Hu. In other words, Zeng's worries are more sensitive and forward-looking. In Li Hongzhang's place, this kind of worry is an elbow and an armpit, and burning eyebrows is inevitable. Under the "three thousand years unchanged", Zeng Guofan's "perfect" personality is out of reach, and he can only play the role of "paperhanger" helplessly. Li Xiang's own shortcomings in Zeng are highlighted and amplified by this situation.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, the great powers invaded China and Japan, and the reality forced people, especially the authorities, to respond. Of course, there are also different responses, the most important of which is Li Hongzhang, who manages westernization, and Qingliu Group, which rose between the imperial courts at the same time. Wu Rulun said, "In recent years, some people have advocated that westernization is a clean stream and doing westernization is a turbid stream." . The confrontation between the two people transcends political differences and is more intriguing. What Westernization upholds and values is generally what Zeng Guofan said, and the starting point and refuge of cleanliness lies in the "heaven" upheld by Confucianism, that is, righteousness. They are "more aware of history and culture", which is the urgency of reality and creates and intensifies the excitement of speech. Li Hongzhang said, "Confucius can't shoot foreign guns, he was born today, which is not expensive." This extreme realistic vision can be seen as a response to the excitement of speech. Although they present different faces, they are contradictory mirror images. Li Yin was accused of being "unlearned" for his pragmatism, and his high-profile innocence was also ridiculed as pedantic, pedantic or despicable. Zeng Guofan is in charge of the work of a righteous director, and it is biased to split into two halves at this point. The confrontation between practicality and high-profile can also be said that the situation has intensified the tension and division between righteousness and merit.
Li was once the first person to emancipate the mind and see the world.
* * * The same point is that they are all Xiang generals. The year when they started to serve as the governor was 1860, Li was 1862, and Jiangsu was 1865.