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Text Chapter 435: The one I am worried about is Zuo Jigao

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    Xue Fucheng finished writing the memorial, read it twice carefully, and felt that there was nothing he could change, so he gave it to Li Hongzhang to read.  "Shu Yun's wonderful pen can really do what I want in my heart." Li Hongzhang finished reading the article titled "Coastal Defense Plans" and clapped his hands in admiration.  In this article with tens of thousands of words, Xue Fucheng followed Li Hongzhang's vision and drew a grand blueprint.  It not only formulated a strategy for building an army and strengthening itself, but also laid the foundation for realizing one's own political ideas in the future.  "Come! Come! Uncle, let's have a drink to celebrate!" Li Hongzhang said happily and called the servants to prepare wine and food.  Li Hongzhang knew that no matter who the princes, nobles or military ministers in the capital were, they could not come up with such a comprehensive solution!  Xue Fucheng followed his own wishes and wrote this article in a clear and easy-to-understand way. Anyone who is proficient in writing can understand it after reading it.  The reason for this is that Li Hongzhang¡¯s purpose is to make the two women living in the deep palace fully understand what he is talking about!  For this reason, how can he, who is not good at drinking, be so proud of himself?  "Haha, I wonder if Lin Kunyu can write in such words." Xue Fucheng said with a smile.  At this time, Xue Fucheng wanted to know if Lin Yizhe had written such an article, would he have used such an easy-to-understand method.  "Lin Kunyu will definitely write like this, but his writing style is not as good as Shu Yun, and not as skillful and clumsy as Shu Yun." Li Hongzhang said with a smile.  Not long after, the servant brought a pot of warm wine, several plates of tea, and a plate of snacks, and Li Hongzhang invited Xue Fucheng to drink together.  After a few bottles of wine went down his throat, Li Hongzhang fell into deep thought again.  He knew very well that of course there would be objections to this within the court.  To this end, he also wrote a sincere private letter to Wen Xiang, another powerful figure in the Prime Minister's Office besides Prince Gong.  He said that he was "responsible for his duties and could not hide himself" to show his loyalty to the emperor and his country.  He is also guessing that someone in the DPRK will definitely jump out to oppose him.  Whose mouth could this "voice of retort" come from?  "Your Excellency, you are worried that there will be a crowd of people in the court to oppose you?" Xue Fucheng put down his wine glass and asked with a smile.  "I don't care about the ridicule in the court. What worries me is in the frontier and not in the center." Li Hongzhang sighed, "If my guess is right, he will definitely oppose it."  The one who worries is Zuo Jigao." After hearing Li Hongzhang's words, Xue Fucheng immediately understood who the "he" Li Hongzhang was talking about was.  The "him" mentioned by Li Hongzhang.  It was none other than Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu who was ordered by the emperor to lead the army in the northwest border!  In Xue Fucheng¡¯s impression, after the deaths of Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi, only Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang were left among the capable ministers of the Qing Dynasty.  Compared with Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang seems to be even better than Li Hongzhang in terms of talent, prestige, and achievements.  Zeng, Zuo and Li.  They were both known in the world.  Zeng Guofan was a senior figure in terms of age and achievements, and the rise of Zuo and Li all depended on Zeng Guofan's support.  However, Zuo Zongtang was an upright person with a fiery nature. He was also arrogant and arrogant, and even Zeng Guofan didn't look down on him.  He was so ruthless that his children, relatives, and savior Guo Songtao were all impeached by him, let alone Li Hongzhang.  !  Zuo Zongtang is arrogant, arrogant, and domineering. He likes to call himself "Jin Liang" or "Old Liang" after Zhuge Liang, and all of this is based on his actual achievements.  Xue Fucheng also admitted it in his heart.  Don't talk about his achievements in "suppressing the enemy", but in terms of cleaning up the coastal defense, Zuo Zongtang can also be said to be one of the earliest people to realize the coastal defense issue and the most courageous to practice it during the Xianfeng and Tongzhi years.  "Shippers are powerful weapons in naval warfare, and the islanders are always proud of them. They must be imitated to prevent foreign pirates. The wisdom of China is not inferior to that of the West. If you pay attention to imitation, you will naturally become more and more sophisticated I mean ten years  After that, I also responded to what others relied on Since the war on the sea, steamships and warships from various countries in the West and the West have reached Tianjin, and the barriers have become empty, and the stars are soaring that there is no way to deal with them. I think this is foolish.  If you want to prevent the harm of the sea and reap its benefits, you must rectify the navy; if you want to rectify the navy, you must set up a bureau to supervise the construction of ships. The West is clever, but China does not have to settle for being clumsy. The West has it, but China cannot be proud of it.  "The words Zuo Zongtang said back then sound quite loud now.  When Zuo Zongtang was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he vigorously initiated the establishment of the Fujian Shipping Bureau to manufacture ships and cultivate modern military and diplomatic talents.  Fujian Shipbuilding, the birthplace of China's modern military industry, gradually developed under the planning of Zuo Zongtang who "divided day and night and was exhausted mentally and physically".  However, just when Fujian's shipping industry was booming, the military situation in the northwest interrupted Zuo Zongtang's plans.Career.  In the fifth year of Tongzhi (1866), Zuo Zongtang was ordered to leave the southeast coast and enter Shaanxi to take charge of the military.  After receiving the order, he looked at the Mawei Shipyard under construction, and said anxiously to his subordinates: "This time I traveled thousands of miles to the west, and I have no other connections. But I have not yet accomplished it, and I am afraid that it will not end at this time, so I am extremely anxious."  !" When he found out that Lin Zexu's son-in-law Shen Baozhen and Ding You were not involved in political affairs at home, Zuo Zongtang immediately recommended Shen Baozhen to the court. Zuo Zongtang said in the letter recommending Shen Baozhen: Shen Baozhen "has always been serious in doing things and is fair and honest."  , requesting the imperial court to appoint Shen Baozhen as Minister of Shipping to take over his unfinished business.  This "contemporary Zhuge" even imitated Uncle Liu Huang of the Later Han Dynasty and did not hesitate to "visit the thatched cottage three times" to persuade the frustrated and disinterested Shen Baozhen to come out and take charge of the overall situation of shipping administration.  But who could have imagined that just a few years later, Zuo Zongtang's attitude towards the shipping administration and Shen Baozhen would take a turn for the worse?  In fact, not only the Shipping Bureau, but also China's coastal defense industry were also regarded as enemies by Zuo Zongtang!  Li Hongzhang had already predicted that in this "coastal defense discussion", Zuo Zongtang would firmly advocate "block defense" and block "coastal defense"!  Zuo Zongtang lasted seven years from the time he entered Shaanxi to the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873).  People at that time evaluated his achievements as "suppressing the Ping Hui, establishing military strength, planning for the aftermath, clearing up the administration, and caring for the people's livelihood."  And he himself also said that he "wears an old fur coat, lives in a felt tent, sleeps on a beech bed, drinks ice and sleeps in the snow, and is exhausted from physical exertion."  After Guanlong Xinping, Zuo Zongtang began to prepare for entering Xinjiang again.  In early 1865, Agub, the leader of the Kokand rebellion in Central Asia, took advantage of the anti-Qing armed rebellion in Xinjiang and relied on British support to invade Xinjiang and established the so-called "Zhedeshar Khanate" in an attempt to remove Xinjiang from the territory of China.  Completely split off.  Russia also took the opportunity to occupy Ili and other places under the pretext of "recovering on China's behalf".  Ten years later, in 1875, after the pacification of Shaanxi and Gansu, Zuo Zongtang suddenly advocated tit-for-tat and led troops into Xinjiang to completely put down the rebellion and regain Xinjiang.  Zuo Zongtang reported to the court with passionate words: "Those who reestablish Xinjiang protect Mongolia, and those who protect Mongolia defend the capital. The northwest arms are connected, the situation is complete, and there is no gap to take advantage of. If Xinjiang is not consolidated, there will be Yu invasions from all sides of Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi."  , There is no way to guard against it, even if you go straight to Guanshan, there will be no day for Yan Mian. "The reason why Zuo Zongtang was so active in demanding the recovery of Xinjiang was because he wanted to achieve a lifetime of achievements and reputation, and completely surpass Zeng Guofan!  Xue Fucheng believes that Zuo Zongtang's biggest weakness is his obsession with "striving for merit."  For Zuo Zongtang, merit is more important than anything else.  Proving that he is the most capable person in the world, or in other words, proving that others are not as capable as him, is the first driving force in his heart.  He regards himself as "Jin Liang", and his understanding of Zhuge Liang seems to be limited to his achievements in dividing the world into three parts, rather than his ingenuity.  In February of the third year of Xianfeng, Zuo Zongtang's tribe occupied Hangzhou and gave him the title of Prince Shaobao.  Before and after this, Zeng Guofan declared in a memorial that his army had "cleared Shenan".  Shenan belongs to Zhejiang. When Zuo Zongtang read it, his first reaction was that Zeng Guofan was competing with him for credit, so he moved to the Zeng family to launch a crusade.  In fact, as long as you read it carefully, you will know that the Shenan mentioned by Zeng Guofan refers to Nanxiang of She County, which is within the territory of Anhui, and is not competing with Zuo for credit.  Zeng Guofan then "made fun of him again".  This incident became a joke for a while.  The battle between the Young Heavenly Kings that led to the final break between Zeng and Zuo was actually a battle for credit with Zeng Guofan.  And this method of competing for credit was repeated again after the subsequent "Ping Nian" battle.  The battle of "Pingni" was led by Li Hongzhang, with Zuo Zongtang cooperating with the Chu army.  After the war, the Huai Army was naturally ranked first in terms of merit.  But Zuo Zongtang was dissatisfied. He "didn't take it for granted that the Huai army had wiped out the thieves, and searched in many ways" and wanted to find something to do with Li Hongzhang.  The sign of the Nian Army's pacification was that its commander Zhang Zongyu committed suicide by throwing himself into the Tuhai River. However, the problem was that although Zhang Zongyu was seen jumping into the river, his body was never recovered.  Zuo Zongtang therefore suspected that Zhang Zongyu might have escaped, so he repeated his old trick and ordered his subordinates to quietly search for Zhang Zongyu in order to quickly find out Zhang Zongyu's whereabouts.  Zuo Zongtang's actions angered Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang sent a letter to Zeng Guofan, calling Zuo Zongtang Cao Cao, saying: "The destruction of Zhang Ni this time was due to the favorable circumstances and the right people and the right circumstances. Only Zuo Gong went to the end. A'hao's true character  , This was revealed, and I don¡¯t know why Hu Wenzhong (Hu Linyi) praised him so highly. "But this time, just when Zuo Zongtang was determined to send his troops to fight in Xinjiang, and was preparing to star in the last drama of his life, the southeastern seaside.  However, war broke out and Japan invaded Taiwan.  What Zuo Zongtang found intolerable was that Lin Yizhe, with the support and help of Shen Baozhen and Li Hongzhang, stood out in this land and sea war. Not only did he become a rare "competent man" with "all-round civil and military talents" in the Qing Dynasty, but the Battle of Taiwan also added  The halo around Lin Yizhe actually tends to overshadow his own!  Although Zuo Zongtang has always paid attention to coastal defense, but now he wants to enter Xinjiang and achieve new "great achievements", of course he cannot?Sit back and watch the imperial court make the strategic choice of "supporting the east and bringing down the west"!  ps: "How did you catch up with your wife?" Actually, there is no special skill. At that time, I was browsing Moments and saw that she wanted to eat a sundae but there was no McDonald's nearby. I immediately bought it for her.  She sent it." "So, the point is to do what you want?  "No, it's all because of the speed of my Porsche. You took the bus to get sundae early."  "Oh" Please collect it!  Please recommend!  Please subscribe!  Please click!  Asking for a monthly ticket!
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