Zeng Guofan (18 1 1 year165438+1October 26th-1March 872 12), whose first name was Zicheng, whose real name was Bohan. China was a politician, strategist, philosopher and writer in modern times, the founder and commander-in-chief of Xiang Army.
The rise of Zeng Guofan had a far-reaching impact on the politics, military affairs, culture and economy of the Qing Dynasty. At Zeng Guofan's initiative, he built the first ship in China, founded the first ordnance school, printed and translated the first batch of western language books, and arranged the first batch of students studying in the United States. It can be said that Zeng Guofan was the 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".
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Throughout Zeng Guofan's life, his official style is very unique. On the one hand, he is indeed an honest official. His "purity" is genuine, with a clear conscience. In the existing data, we can't find any record of Zeng Guofan putting any public funds into his pocket.
He lived frugally all his life. "Dinner at night is not meat." In his later years, he was famous for his high position, and his wife and daughter-in-law made shoes and socks. In the late Qing Dynasty, it was really clean.
But on the other hand, Zeng Guofan's anecdote lacks the extreme plot of "being too poor to bury" and growing vegetables in yamen. In the eyes of China people, a truly honest and clean official must be "crystal clear" and spotless until he becomes a "masochist" or "masochist" like Harry, which is admirable. Zeng Guofan is far from sober to this extent.
If we classify honest officials, Zeng Guofan should belong to "atypical honest officials". In other words, bones are clean and hardworking, and on the surface, they are the same. This is because Zeng Guofan's ambition is not to be an "honest official", but to do great things.
The traditional honest official, represented by Hai Rui, is characterized by unyielding attitude, only admitting literal rules and regulations, and never compromising the hidden rules that actually exist. So, Harry refused any gray income, and his salary was not enough. He had to open up his own vegetable garden in the government office to make a living, and even occasionally buying a few pounds of meat could become a "sensational event."
However, such an honest official can only become a public enemy of officialdom and can't get the cooperation of others. Harry is as clear as water, which inevitably reflects the impurity of others. Therefore, Harry has been excluded from the officialdom all his life, and he can't mobilize all possible forces to do something really beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood.
Zeng Guofan doesn't want to be an honest official of Harry style. He worked hard and tried his best to achieve the goal of being a foreign king. So he pays more attention to the effect than the name.
Zeng Guofan summed up from his own experience that a maverick is bound to be rejected by the public. Therefore, in officialdom, people who act too square look strong on the surface, but they are actually very weak.
The real strong people in this land are those who appear weak and submissive on the surface. Therefore, Zeng Guofan deliberately took the fact that Harry was spotless, but tried to avoid the name of clear water. His choice is far more complicated and heavy than being an "honest official".
People's Network-Zeng Guofan's ambition: to do great things instead of being an "honest official".