In the 18th year of Daoguang (1838), he entered imperial academy and studied under the military minister Zhang Mu. Reluctantly moved to a bachelor's degree in cabinet, assistant minister of does, assistant minister of military, industrial, criminal and official departments. We are close friends with university students such as Woren, Huining Road and Guizhen, and strive for "practical learning".
During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Zeng Guofan formed the Xiang Army. After years of fighting, he turned the tide and wiped out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Throughout his life, he pursued patience as the first priority, and advocated that everything should be frugal and not proud of being an official.
He cultivated self-discipline, sought officials by virtue, put courtesy first, and sought politics by loyalty, and achieved great success in officialdom.
On the fourth day of February in the same year (1872, March 12), Zeng Guofan was walking in Nanjing West Garden in the afternoon, and suddenly his feet were numb. Ceng Jize helped him back to the study, sat for three minutes and died.
The court heard the news and stopped for three days. A posthumous gift was given to Tai Fu and posthumous title "Zheng Wen", and Zhao Zhong Memorial Hall and Xianliang Hall were set up, and special temples were set up in all provinces. On June 25th, the coffin arrived in Changsha. /kloc-buried in jinpenling outside the south gate of Changsha in July, 0/9.
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Zeng Guofan's Life Events:
1, suppress the Taiping rebellion
1844 (twenty-four years of Qing Daoguang), Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan preached in Guangxi and secretly carried out anti-Qing activities. /kloc-in the summer of 0/850, Hong Xiuquan issued a general mobilization order, calling on all local believers to "organize a camp" in Jintian Village, Guiping.
185 1 year 1 month 1 1 day, Hong Xiuquan gathered more than 20,000 people in Jintian Village, Guangxi Province to formally declare the uprising and establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with Yang, Feng Yunshan, Xiao Chaogui, Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai as the leading core. The Qing court heard the news and mobilized troops to carry out "encirclement and suppression".
Zeng Guofan took advantage of the Qing government's eagerness to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Relying on complicated interpersonal relationships such as mentoring, relatives and friends, he established a Xiang Yong Yingyong in his hometown of Hunan.
1864, 19 In July, Zeng Guofan led the Xiang army to destroy the city wall near the Taiping Gate in Tianjing 10, and swarmed into the city. Xiang troops from other directions also entered the ladder, and the Taiping rebels in the city either died or set themselves on fire, and none of them surrendered. ?
The fall of Tianjing marked the failure of the peasant war in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In the same month, the court added Zeng Guofan's Prince Taibao and the first-class Marquis, changed them from hereditary, and rewarded them with double-eyed flowers. In August, it was decided to abolish 25,000 Xiang troops.
2. Tianjin teaching plan
1870 (nine years of Tongzhi), Tianjin people attacked Catholic church institutions against Catholic missionary activities under the protection of patriarchal countries (France), resulting in dozens of murders; Later, the church used force, foreign warships came to Tianjin, and the ministers of the seven countries went to the Prime Minister's yamen to protest.
Zeng Guofan was ordered to go to Tianjin to handle the religious plan in Tianjin. Considering the situation at that time, he didn't go to war with France. "But the quick success and instant benefit of Hebei Heping is one of the crimes of not courting."
At the request of France, it was decided to finally execute 8 people who killed first and exile 25 people, and sent Zhang Guangzao, the magistrate of Tianjin, and Liu Jie, the magistrate of a county, to Heilongjiang to compensate foreigners for the loss of 462,000 silver, and sent a mission to France to apologize.
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