Famous Ministers of the Late Qing and Zhongxing Dynasties (set of Six Volumes)
by Zhang Hongfu
About This Novel
"Li Hongzhang" (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. "Zongtang Zuo" (two volumes in total): This book is a long historical novel. Zuo Zongtang was an important minister of the late Qing Dynasty, a strategist, a politician, a famous general of the Hunan Army, and the leader of the Westernization Movement. He failed in many trials when he was young, so he turned his attention to farming, read many books, studied geography and military art, and later became a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty. Throughout his life, he experienced important historical events such as the pacification of the Taiping Rebellion, the Westernization Movement, the pacification of the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolution, and the recovery of Xinjiang, leaving a mark in modern Chinese history. "The Biography of Zeng Guofan": "The Biography of Zeng Guofan" is the original version of the biography of Zeng Guofan written by Western scholars. The author uses nearly 200 kinds of witness materials, focusing on the overall military and civil decadence of the late Qing Dynasty, and vividly tells how Zeng Guofan founded the Hunan Army, pacified the Taiping Rebellion, advocated the Westernization Movement, and saved the Qing court from collapse. This book also combines Zeng Guofan's letters to provide an in-depth analysis of his rare personality as a saint within and a king outside, and explores why he rose from a commoner to a famous official in the late Qing Dynasty, and became the "Washington of China" in the eyes of Westerners.
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