In the sixth year of Guangxu, the Russian Crown Prince gave Li Hongzhang a golden pistol, which he fondled and often took with him. When I went out hunting, I couldn't help thinking about it.
Suddenly I saw a quiet village around me, stopped there and stopped using a pistol. The staff was curious and asked why. Li Hongzhang replied: This is what I want to remind myself. I have a sharp weapon, so I can't kill my heart carelessly and seriously.
Li Hongzhang taught his staff that if a person has weapons, he will have the heart to hurt others. Just as a person has power, he will not stop until he uses it where he can't reach it.
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Li Hongzhang is a heavyweight and complicated figure in the modern history of China. He is not ordinary etiquette, but super etiquette. He started by strangling Taiping Army and Nian Army, and was the executioner to suppress the peasant revolution.
He founded a large number of new enterprises that were beneficial to the development of modern society in China, and he was a first-class Westernization talent. On behalf of the Qing government, he signed many unequal treaties humiliating his power and the country, and he should bear great responsibility. He was a mistake.
Li Hongzhang (1823— 190 1) is an extremely important figure in the modern history of China. For more than 20 years, as a bachelor of Wenhua Hall, he has successively served as Beiyang Minister and Zhili Governor, integrating military affairs and diplomacy, and almost dominated the political situation.
Liang Qichao, the founder of bourgeois historiography in China, lamented as early as 100 years ago, that is, two months after Li Hongzhang's death: "In the past 40 years, all major events in China have been related to Li Hongzhang."
There is a similar position in the Draft of Qing History: Li Hongzhang "has been an independent country for decades, and domestic and foreign affairs are often the first to bear the brunt ... unprecedented in modern times." Judging from Li Hongzhang's position and influence at that time, it is not difficult for future generations to know and remember him.
The problem is that what people know and remember should be a real Li Hongzhang, a Li Hongzhang with multiple personalities and performances in history, rather than a deliberately decorated or even arbitrarily elevated Li Hongzhang.
Li Hongzhang, who started out by strangling Taiping Army and Nian Army, is famous for killing Taiping Army. 1863 12.6 after he captured Suzhou by luring and surrendering, he ordered the killing of more than 30,000 Taiping rebels in Shuangta Temple at one time.
When some foreigners arrive there 20 days later, they can "see the courtyard ground soaked with human blood!" "and found that" the river full of bodies is still red. "
They "shuddered at the terrible evidence of human slaughter." After Wuxi was captured in 65438+February 65438+February, the Huai army led by Li Hongzhang still slaughtered more than 6000 innocent residents. The "only crime" of the people who were killed was because they lived in the city of Taiping Army.
According to incomplete statistics, from May 1862, when the Huai army intervened with the British and French allied forces and often captured the South Bridge, to May 1864, when the Huai army and Chang captured Changzhou, a total of 65,438+people were killed in southern Jiangsu.
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