The development of a person's life has a great relationship with his fame. Pay attention to details in officialdom, and don't give facts to the population. If you are informal and often do things that cause discussion, little things make a mickle, and one day a storm of public opinion may suddenly blow up and blow a person down. As Zeng Guofan said, the influence will come silently. Many times, retribution is not because of something, but the result of a combination of many factors.
Ceng Guoquan treated people badly for a long time and accumulated a bad reputation over the years. At this time, it has been enlarged into "rumors flying all over the sky."
In order to do things, China's entry into WTO is getting deeper and deeper, and its status is getting higher and higher. I can't sleep at night and reflect on myself. I feel more and more secular and less naive. If you don't plan to retire early, you will fall into a power struggle and become a vulgar politician in the future. Therefore, if Jinling is conquered, "it is determined to retire."
Zeng Guofan summed up the history and came to a conclusion: "Since ancient times, anyone who holds the handle of a soldier and steals power has harmed the country and harmed the family." Therefore, I firmly decided to abolish it. Zeng Guofan's mass slaughter of Xiang Army not only alleviated the court's suspicion of him, but also eliminated many disadvantages brought by Xiang Army in the later period. At this time, the Xiang army had low morale, corrupt military discipline and often harassed the local area. With the demobilization of the army, these problems will be solved.
Zhu Dongan said: "Zeng Guofan mainly relied on this strategy to complete his political retreat, eased the contradiction with the Qing government, consolidated his position, turned the corner and weathered the storm. It is not easy to do this. In the feudal society of China, there are many cases like Zeng Guofan who successfully completed this transformation, but those who are ruined and cooked by a dead dog will never leave books. This also shows his rich historical experience, sensitive political sense, careful examination and decisive handling.
Zeng Guofan was a scholar, ordered the Hanlin, and soon became an assistant minister. Zuo is brilliant, but he has nowhere to go, so he has to act as an assistant. So, left looking at Zeng Guofan, subconsciously wearing colored glasses, doing everything possible to enlarge Zeng Guofan's shortcomings and faults, in order to verify his own "unfair heaven" and "useless imperial examination" and find a psychological balance for himself.
Every time he mentions the Tseng family, there is always an unspeakable resentment in his heart. There is only one reason, that is, Zeng Guofan occupied his "leading role" position in the center of the stage. Zeng Guofan was the chief culprit that directly prevented him from becoming the "Ming of today". As commander-in-chief, he pacified the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is also where Zeng Guofan was sorry for the Left.
Zeng Guofan is a generous man. Of course, the left's bad comments will be introduced to Zeng Guofan more or less. Zeng Guofan never refutes or defends himself, but still pushes left Tang Zong as always.
Zeng Guofan will not attack others easily, but once he moves, it is difficult for ordinary people. It is beyond common sense for Zuo to treat Zeng Guofan like this.
In fact, Zuo has been a friend all his life, disdaining to pay attention to his heart, and Zeng Guofan is not the only friend who broke up successively. He also fell out with Guo, Li Hongzhang and Shen Baozhen. Zeng Guofan made great achievements in his life, half with the help of his friends. The success of his career, to some extent, is the success of being good at employing people. On the other hand, he is better at putting himself in the other's shoes, helping and repaying his friends and sparing no effort.
After the disagreement, Zeng Guofan never spoke ill of Zuo Jia in public, nor talked about the pros and cons of his relationship with Zuo Jia in private, which really made him forget the Jianghu.
Every time Zuo meets everyone, he always talks about the ins and outs of his relationship with Zeng Guofan. Every time I talk about it, I will "curse" Zeng Guofan. I have long heard that Zuo Gong kept scolding me in the morning and evening. However, if I scold him like this, I will be stupid and clumsy, and I will definitely scold him. It is better to deal with it in a way that does not scold, listen or care, and the result is also "invincible", but it saves worry and effort. I'm getting more and more tired when I get older, but I'm too busy with my business to listen to those praises. So I didn't tell anyone what they called me. I just listened briefly and didn't let them finish.
Zeng Guofan likes to listen to good things and can also listen to bad things. Things can be decisive and domineering, but they are all based on reason. How to deal with people, from the big picture to the small details, is worth learning. On the surface, it looks generous, but in fact it is extremely meticulous. Speaking sounds irrelevant on the surface, but in fact it is extremely detailed. He once said that Li Rong only knows my depth, but I don't know my shallowness. He also said that the reason why the ancients did things was because it was easy to lift weights. Why can you change the world trend quietly? This is just a piece of cake.
Wang Chuanshan said that sages must have heroes, and heroes are not necessarily sages. In Guo Songtao's view, Zeng Guofan was a saint, but left ended in a hero. This is the fundamental difference between the two.