Li Hongzhang doted on his daughter very much, but found her a 40-year-old husband and gave birth to a great-granddaughter who was famous for a while.

Li Hongzhang spoiled his daughter very much, but found her a 40-year-old husband. His great-granddaughter became famous in AD 1866. At the beginning of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Rebellion was suppressed, and the Nian Army, which was active in the north of the Yangtze River, became an important target. Under Zeng Guofan's command, Li Hongzhang personally went to war with the intention of destroying bandits in one fell swoop. He is proud of his career, and there is good news at home. His second wife, Zhao Xiaolian, gave birth to a child. Although he was the mainstay of the Qing Dynasty, he did not agree with the decadent patriarchal ideology. He loves his daughter very much and has always cherished her. He named her Li Jingying and nicknamed her Chrysanthemum Lotus. He not only paid enough attention to food and clothing, but also spent a lot of time on education. As a result, Li Ju is good at poetry, making the past serve the present, and is quite talented. He also made pertinent comments on many current affairs. Li Hongzhang has been reluctant to let her get married, but he can't delay his daughter's lifelong event because of self-interest. So until Li Jue was 22 years old, Li Hongzhang finally gave up his heart and let go, trying to find a lover for his daughter to be a husband. At this time, Li Hongzhang is already a very important minister, and he is in power in the ruling and opposition. I heard that Li was going to marry his daughter, and a group of people rushed to propose, hoping to climb his tree and get a little care in the future. But to everyone's surprise, Li Hongzhang was always dissatisfied with his choice between royalty and dignitaries, which coincided with the release of Zhang Peilun and his return to Beijing to enter Li Hongzhang. Zhang Peilun has been famous since he was a teenager. He is an enthusiastic advocate. He resolutely stopped the war with war to deal with the provocation of European powers. At that time, he was a rare minister in the Qing Dynasty who cared about the country and the people. 1884 Since July, the French army has constantly provoked our border areas. Zhang Peilun was ordered to go out to war, but he was defeated, so he was punished for guarding the border. And 1888 means that the garrison period has passed. Li Hongzhang admires this man very much. After careful consideration, he decided to abandon a group of flashy young people and choose Zhang Peilun as his son-in-law. When this incident came out, it caused an uproar. Because Zhang Peilun was in her 40 s and Li Julian was just 22 years old, the age gap was really big. What is even more incomprehensible is that Zhang Peilun is not married for the first time at this age. Li Julian had married three wives before, and Miss Li married in the past, nominally to fill the house. It's not a good marriage anyway. Some people even openly wrote a limerick to ridicule him: supporting the elderly and marrying young firewood, Li Hongzhang regardless of age; Quit the teacher and go to the East Bed. Zhang Peilun is nothing. "Just when everyone was waiting for embarrassment, the married life of Li Julian and Zhang Peilun was unexpected and unexpectedly happy. Both of them are talented people and often communicate with each other in literature. In the end, the couple wrote a cookbook and a martial arts novel together, and soon gave birth to a son and a daughter. The son's name is Zhang Zhiyi and the daughter's name is Zhang Maoyuan. Only gradually, Zhang Peilun and Li Hongzhang had many differences in political views, and their career development was not smooth. In his later years, he often used wine to drown his sorrows, and Li Ju's lotus root was also unhappy. This is another story. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Zhiyi has a very famous daughter, Zhang Ailing, a famous female writer in modern times, and Zhang Maoyuan is the "aunt" often mentioned by Zhang Ailing in her books. She waited all her life and finally married her lover at the age of 78, leaving a touching love story. Li Hongzhang died only 1 year, Zhang Peilun also died, and Li Jue was 37 years old.