Let's talk about Zeng Guofan's debt to Li.
Zeng Guofan showed his debt to Li more than once in his letters. Especially this time, he stayed at home glumly. He recalled many past events and felt that he had treated Li badly before.
In his early years, Li followed Zeng Guofan, who had just been founded, and made great contributions to the development of Xiang Army from scratch. After the defeat of Jinggang, Li, who had never left Zeng Guofan, tried to jump into the river and commit suicide. After the capture of Wuchang, Zeng Jiajun suffered another big setback in Hukou. His painstaking navy division was beheaded by Shi Dakai, and even the boat was taken away by Taiping rebels together with the objects given by Emperor Xianfeng. At this most difficult juncture, I chose to stick to it with Zeng Guofan.
After the Yuan Dynasty, he repeatedly made meritorious military service, which won the appreciation of Zeng Guofan. Before he could repay the deep friendship between Li and Nianrui, Zeng Guofan was dismissed by Emperor Xianfeng because of everything, and he almost went home.
Therefore, he often feels that Li Li has made great contributions, but he did not support him well when he was in office. Therefore, he repeatedly confided his crimes to his ninth brother, Ceng Guoquan. In this letter, I once again stressed that it is good to prepare for the marriage of two families in Qin Jin and use the marriage of children to release their inner debts.
When Zeng Guofan wrote this letter, he would never have thought that after several years, he almost sent Li alive to the guillotine. What is even more unexpected is that when he reached old age, the two sides made up again. We'll talk about the future later It's not shown here.
Let's talk about persuading Laojiu and Ceng Guoquan to be patient.
The reason is that Ceng Guoquan, who worked hard on the battlefield in Jiangxi, wrote to his brother Zeng Guofan earlier, saying, "I scoffed at the generation of Puppet Manchus and didn't like it." This shows his aversion to the corruption and filth of Jiangxi officialdom, which caused Zeng Guofan's concern about his brother's break with Jiangxi officials and gentry.
Therefore, there is the following teaching: "In the past, the public said that patience is the first priority for officials, and so is courage. This is my brother's shortcoming, and so is my brother. " I earnestly asked my brother to keep in mind the instructions of the Ming Dynasty that "forbearance is the first priority for officials", so I must endure it again.
And so on, throughout Zeng Guofan's letters to his ninth brother over the years, this is the most emphasized one. Guy's straightforward personality and impulsiveness are Ceng Guoquan's greatest weakness in leading troops as an official. After all, Laojiu still suffered repeated setbacks, stirred up several big baskets and suffered big losses several times. Finally, Zeng Guofan, the teacher of the "paper maker" (Li Hongzhang claimed to be himself), was a child who didn't grow up.
I have to mention Geng's position here. Geng's directional character is in Lun, and his name is Chu Dong. Posthumous title Gong Jian, Hubei Huang An (now Hong 'an) people, known as Mr Tiantai. He was a famous scholar in Jiajing and Wanli period of Ming Dynasty.
Facing the declining social reality in Wan Jia's era and the academic malpractice of advocating nothingness and recognizing emotion as conscience, he inherited Yangming's theory of mind and Wang Gen's thought, and resolutely raised the banner of "defending morality" and tried to correct various problems exposed by psychology.
When Geng was in charge of Nanjing, he trained a large number of outstanding students, many of whom occupied a place in the history of thought in the late Ming Dynasty, and the debate between him and Li Zhi was a big case in academic history, which was widely known. In a word, Geng Dingxiang was a turning point in the history of Yangming's theory of mind, and also a great standard bearer of mind in Wanli period.
Geng wrote "On Patience", putting the patience of officials in front of honesty and understanding it carefully. It is indeed the truth that the grassroots administrative personnel who want to do things in a down-to-earth manner should follow. Honesty is important, but it is only the duty of being an official. However, the grass-roots work is complicated and impatient, the superiors are not affirmed, the colleagues are not coordinated, the masses are not understood, and they are not exposed to things. In the end, I can only become a mediocre person.
In fact, it takes patience to be an official, but you can't be impatient in doing anything. Zeng Guofan said, "Those who do great things in ancient and modern times focus on knowledge, supplemented by talent", which is also the truth.
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