I don't care what the final result is, just be yourself.

The author is Zeng Guofan, from the Diary of Zeng Guofan.

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Zeng Guofan (181165438+1October 26th-1872 March 12), Zi Zicheng, whose real name was Bo Han, was Sheng Di, the grandson of the seventieth Ceng Zi.

In the 18th year of Daoguang (1838), Zeng Guofan entered imperial academy as a scholar. He is a protege of military affairs ministers, a bachelor of cabinet, an assistant minister of the Ministry of rites, and an assistant minister of military affairs and criminal officials, and has become close friends with Japanese scholars and scholars in Huining Road. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Xiang Army was formed. After years of fierce fighting, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was defeated.

Zeng Guofan advocated diligence and thrift in everything, and should not be proud of being an official. He cultivated self-discipline, sought officials by virtue, put courtesy first, and sought politics by loyalty, and achieved great success in officialdom. At his initiative, he built the first ship in China, established the first military academy, printed and translated the first batch of western language books, and arranged the first batch of students studying in the United States.

The rise of Zeng Guofan had a far-reaching impact on the politics, military affairs, culture and economy of the Qing Dynasty. He is a pioneer of China's modernization.

Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi were called "Zeng Hu", while Li Hongzhang, Zuo and Zhang Zhidong were called "four famous ministers of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty". Official to the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Zhili, the university student of Wuyingdian, the first-class Yi, posthumous title "Zheng Wen", later called "Ceng Wenzheng".