Influential Figures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (set of 4 Volumes in Total)

About This Novel

"Zhang Juzheng (four volumes)": Zhang Juzheng is a reformer with extraordinary personality and a legendary figure who shines in the annals of history. After he ascended to the position of chief minister, he managed the government for ten years: rectifying the official administration and refreshing the decadent style; rectifying education and recruiting talents to help the world; reforming taxes and sorting out finances. He saved the ruins of the Zhu Ming Dynasty and made the Wanli period the most prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty. "Li Zicheng (three volumes)": The author uses the principle of "going deep into history and jumping out of history" to describe the intricate historical process and the magnificent peasant uprising of more than 300 years ago. The novel takes the peasant uprising army led by Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty from weak to strong, turning defeat into victory, overthrowing the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and resisting the southward march of the Qing army as the main clue. It reproduces the changing historical landscape of the late Ming and early Qing dynasty and the tragic ending of the peasant uprising army from victory to defeat from multiple angles, multi-facets, and multi-levels, and reveals the law of the development of peasant wars and historical movements. "Hu Xueyan": Another masterpiece created in collaboration with the famous writer Xue Jiazhu after Er Erhe has been dormant for several years. Using the author's usual historical novel writing style, it is a new interpretation of the business methods of red-top businessman Hu Xueyan from scratch, from childhood to adulthood. It not only shows the ups and downs of the officialdom and the political changes in the late Qing Dynasty, but also shows Hu Xueyan's wisdom and strategies as he traveled across the political and business circles. This book restores Hu Xueyan from a "god" to a flesh-and-blood person, which has great reference significance for contemporary businessmen and businessmen! "Li Hongzhang (all three volumes)": Introduction to the first volume: This volume mainly describes how Li Hongzhang transported thousands of troops to Shanghai in order to defend Shanghai; he fought three battles in Shanghai and became governor of Jiangsu; he founded a modern military industrial enterprise, equipped the Huai army with foreign guns and cannons, regained the lost territory of Jiangsu, and granted the title of Su Yibo and Prince Shaobao. Introduction to Volume 2: This volume mainly records the 25 years that Li Hongzhang has been the governor of Zhili, the first governor in the world, and has long-term influence on the military, diplomacy and foreign affairs of the Qing Dynasty. He felt painfully that the Qing Dynasty was weak and sluggish, and came to the understanding that "wealth and strength are related to each other" and "we must first get rich before we can become strong", and turned the focus of the Westernization Movement to "seeking wealth." Introduction to the content of Volume 3: After thirty years of the Westernization Movement, the Qing Dynasty's national power and military power have greatly increased, and it has the Northern Fleet known as East Asia. However, the Sino-Japanese War broke out and the Beiyang Fleet was completely wiped out. The Qing Dynasty signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan and ceded the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan. Later, Li Hongzhang went to Russia as an envoy, signed a Sino-Russian secret treaty to check and balance Japan, and broadened his horizons with Europe and the United States. This book is the best novel about Li Hongzhang so far. It is also known as "the five masterpieces of contemporary historical novels" together with "Emperor Yongzheng" by Yue Erhe, "Zhang Juzheng" by Xiong Zhaozheng, "The Qin Empire" by Sun Haohui, and "Zeng Guofan" by Tang Haoming.

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