Minister of Humility: Zuo Zongtang

About This Novel

This book is a biographical novel focusing on the second half of Zuo Zongtang's life. He retired to seclusion in his early years and emerged from the mountains in his later years. He controlled Hunan, pacified Fujian and Zhejiang, attacked Shaanxi and Gansu, settled the frontiers, and raised border defenses, but regretted his life. His military talent was always able to strategize and win decisively thousands of miles away. He was known as "Zhuge's reincarnation". However, his temperament is weird, changeable and surly. If he does not get along with him, he will not be worthy of being respected by outsiders. But the only unchanging fact is that when he was alive, he would not give up an inch of China's territory and would attack it with troops. People all over the world respected Zuo Zongtang as "Zuo Gong" because of his spirit of loyalty to the country. In his later years, he repeatedly stopped the humiliating policy of "ceding land and paying indemnity" set by the imperial court. However, as the deadline had come, he could no longer make a comeback and died of illness in Fuzhou when he was over seventy years old. His colleague once wrote a poem to express Zuo Gong's life aspirations. The poem said: The general has not yet returned the border, and the descendants of Hunan and Xiang are all over the Tianshan Mountains. Three thousand miles of newly planted willows attract the spring breeze to Yuguan. Therefore, looking at the late Qing Dynasty, if anyone can be called a minister of humiliation, Zuo Gong deserves it.

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