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Zeng Guofan (18 1 1 year-1872) was born in Xiangxiang, Hunan. An important politician, strategist and famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty.
Zeng Guofan was born in a peasant family, and his youth was successful. Daoguang fourteen years (1834), 18 years high school scholar, only 28 years old. Twenty years after Daoguang (1843), imperial academy was awarded a review. Twenty-seven years, I was promoted to a bachelor's degree in cabinet and assistant minister of rites, and eight years, I was promoted to six grades and twelve grades. When Zeng Guofan was an official in Beijing, he knew a lot about the people in Beijing and studied justice, textual research and rhetoric. In the first year of Xianfeng after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (185 1), Zeng Guofan risked his life many times to offer suggestions to the Qing court. Two years ago, Zeng Guofan's mother died on her way to Jiangxi and went back to her hometown to mourn. Soon, he was ordered to hold a Yong ying in the countryside, that is, "Xiang Yong". In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), Tianjin (now Nanjing) was the capital of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zeng Guofan's Xiang army began to take shape and moved to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River with the Taiping Army. The Xiang army grew stronger and stronger and gradually became the main force against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After the "Xinyou coup", Empress Dowager Cixi listened to politics, and Zeng Guofan rewarded Prince Shaobao, becoming the most powerful person among the Han people at that time. Zeng Guofan served as Governor of Liangjiang and Governor of Zhili for destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Nian Army. ...