"Fei Zhong" Zeng Guofan was a courtier of North Korea. Why does he never lift the sedan chair?
Zeng Guofan's promotion was extremely rapid, and he rose to ten levels in ten years. After being promoted to a genuine official position, according to the regulations, the sedan chair should be changed from blue to green, and two escort sedan chairs should be added. In addition, in a sedan chair, you must be accompanied by a guide and escort. But to Guan Bai's surprise, Zeng Guofan not only didn't have an officer in front of his sedan chair, but also saved people. Before the sedan chair was changed to green, he still sat in a blue sedan chair.
Soon, Zeng Guofan was promoted to a second-class official, and his servant recommended four bearers for him. He wants to replace Zeng Guofan's sedan chair with an eight-person sedan chair. According to the official system of the Qing Dynasty, officials below grade four can sit in blue sedan chairs carried by four people, and officials above grade three can sit in green sedan chairs carried by eight people, commonly known as eight-person sedan chairs. However, this is not a strict rule. If officials have reached this level, but their income is low, they can do what they can; If the quality is not up to standard, it is illegal to take a senior sedan chair. Once you are reported, you will not only be punished, but also be dismissed and expelled if the circumstances are serious.
Zeng Guofan has made up his mind. He knew that when the water was full, it would overflow, and when people were full, they would avoid officialdom. For a big sedan chair that can be put or not, it is always not put or sit. Although Zeng Guofan was bullied by lower-level officials for sitting in a blue sedan chair, all officials above the third grade in Beijing knew to explain to the officials who protected the coke: "Open your eyes, Zeng Guofan, a bachelor of cabinet, sat in a blue sedan chair."
Zeng Guofan has been in officialdom for decades, perhaps relying on this low-key and introverted power.
Unveiling the mystery of Zeng Guofan's promotion to ten grades in nine years: Zeng Guofan, as the first minister of the Qing Dynasty for 300 years, has no conclusion on his merits and demerits before and after his death. However, Zeng Guofan's way of being an official and knowing people and employing people has always been pursued by people. Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek and Liang Qichao also made an in-depth study of Zeng Guofan. It is understood that "Zeng Guofan's Family History" tells the whole process of Zeng Guofan from an ordinary "civil servant" with no power or influence to a provincial and ministerial official in nine years.
Why did you get Grade 10 in nine years?
Twelve years in officialdom is the most important period in Zeng Guofan's life. In the past 20 years, books about Zeng Guofan have emerged one after another, and many of them have reached the bestseller list, but the monographs rarely mention Zeng Guofan 12' s political experience before his official career. "Mainly, some historical materials related to Zeng Guofan's experience were destroyed by the war, and some were deliberately concealed by historical books." Wang said: "In order to understand Zeng Guofan's political experience before 12 years ago, I searched historical materials through various channels and wrote the History of Zeng Guofan's Rise in 2 1 year."
At the age of 42, he was in charge of five kinds of power.
There is a detail in the history of Zeng Guofan's rise: in the 28th year of Daoguang, 38-year-old Zeng Guofan stripped off his clothes in public to show his innocence, stopped the slander of his political opponents, went into the treasury to count the cash, and found out the truth of the treasury deficit/124240. At this time, Zeng Guofan has become one of the four products. Before he can gain the trust of Daoguang, his career has reached a new level. Shortly after Emperor Xianfeng ascended the throne, he handed over the five powers of the Qing Dynasty to 42-year-old Zeng Guofan, which was equivalent to Zeng Guofan in charge of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Justice, the Organization Department and the Ministry of Construction.
My father risked his life to hide the treasures of the late Qing Dynasty.
As soon as Zeng Guofan's history was published, I knew there would be repercussions and even controversy. After all, it took more than 20 years to restore a concealed historical truth, but it was more than I expected. Wang said in an interview: "My father himself is a book lover. In the 1950s, someone forcibly took the book away, saying that it was used to light a fire. My father was a local official at that time. When he risked his life to hide historical materials, someone sued the county. My father was in a hurry, so he and his mother loaded the books into the car overnight, then pushed two cars of books, and the family moved to the northeast. Many of these books are precious historical materials about famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, and they are good things that can't be found in the market now. I am somewhat withdrawn, so I often read these old newspapers and enjoy myself. "
Want to continue to write Li Hongzhang and Zuo
Wang said that among the famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Zuo were most interested. "These three people are both famous and controversial. Some people praise them to the sky, others laugh at them. I want to know these three people thoroughly. What is going on, so I collect information through various channels. " With the collection of more and more precious materials, Wang gradually discovered the unknown political experiences and promotion details of the "three ministers in the late Qing Dynasty". He decided to write his findings into historical novels on the premise of respecting historical facts. Wang revealed that he would face up to any response except the rise of Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and the left.