Mr. nan huaijin, a famous contemporary scholar, said in The Analects of Confucius: "Zeng Guofan, a famous minister in the Qing Dynasty, has thirteen sets of knowledge, two of which have been handed down from generation to generation, one of which is a letter from Zeng Guofan." From Zeng Guofan's letters, we know Zeng Guofan's main thoughts in politics, home economics, scholarship and army management.

First, have ambition: if you have ambition, you won't want to be dirty. Dirty here is not what we represent in modern times, but tells us. To be a man, you should aim high and have your own life pursuit and ideal. What is ambition, what we think in our hearts.

Ambition can be big or small-1: novel. Maybe you want to read a book by yourself this month. Tell us what we want to be when we grow up. So no matter where you are, you should set your own ambitions. Whether it is a small ambition to get up early today or an ideal to become a big boss in the future, you must have it, because with a goal, you will have the motivation to work hard.

Second, we must have perseverance: Zeng Guofan wants to tell us that to do one thing, we need to concentrate on one thing, that is, we must not be distracted in the process of doing things. You can't sit on this mountain and look at that mountain. Just like many of us now, we obviously want to read books, but what? I can't resist the temptation to pick up my mobile phone and brush my circle of friends from time to time.

Zeng Guofan pursued self-denial and self-cultivation all his life, and pursued single-mindedness and practicality. Zeng Guofan can be tireless on his way to school, and he should review his lessons on time no matter how busy his official duties are. Even if he suffers from "tinea disease", he is still gratified by "not reading every day"

Third, we should be knowledgeable: when Zeng Guofan established the Xiang Army, it was the moment of survival of the Manchu National Movement crisis and the moment when the Chinese nation suffered great chaos and disaster. Although Zeng Guofan was a scholar, he taught himself in the war with patriotism. Although he had no experience in building the army, marching and fighting, he took history as a mirror and war as a teacher, and constantly explored from many failures, and gradually formed a set of effective general plans and operational methods for running the army and achieved great success. His army-building standards are: "Take care of each other's breathing, care about each other's pain, walk with fire, walk with soup, raise a glass to make contributions if you win, and try your best to save if you lose."