What is the relationship between Zeng Guofan, Zhang Zhidong, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Tang Zong?

Zeng Guofan and Zuo were contemporaries, Li Hongzhang was Zeng Guofan's student, and Zhang Zhidong was later than the first three, but these four were all top ministers and famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty.

Zuo and Zeng Guofan are peers and ministers of the same dynasty, and they admire each other. And Li Hongzhang is a student who formally worships Zeng. Zhang Zhidong is the predecessor of Zeng, Zuo and Li. In the heyday of Zeng and Li, Reng Zhang was on the rise from a scholar to an official.

When Li Hongzhang took part in the imperial examination, Zeng Guofan was his chair and later became Zeng Guofan's protege. Zeng Guofan is two years older than Zuo and ten years older than Li Hongzhang. Zuo and Zeng Guofan are peers and ministers of the same dynasty, learning from each other and admiring each other. Zuo was Zeng Guofan's aide, so all three were important ministers who worked for the Qing Dynasty. The ability of the three of them was affirmed by Cixi, who gave them high rights and trust.

Zhang Zhidong, Minister of Nanyang, belongs to the local forces of Westernization. But I have never fought with the three of them. There is basically no friendship, just colleagues.

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1, Zeng Guofan

Zeng Guofan (18 1 1 year165438+1October 26th-1March 872 12), whose first name was Zicheng, whose real name was Bohan. China was a politician, strategist, philosopher and writer in modern times, the founder and commander-in-chief of Xiang Army.

2. Left Tang Zong

Zuo (1812165438+1October1September 5, 885), Han nationality, Hunan Xiangyin, Hunan farmers, important officials in the late Qing Dynasty, military affairs. In his life, he experienced major historical events such as the Hunan Army's pacification of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Westernization Movement, the pacification of Shaanxi and Gansu, and the recovery of Xinjiang.

3. Li Hongzhang

Li Hongzhang (1823 February15-19011October 7th), whose real name is "Fu" and the number is "Shao Quanlin". A famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, one of the main leaders of the Westernization Movement, was internationally known as "Li".

4. Zhang Zhidong

Zhang Zhidong (1837- 1909), who is filial, Xiang Tao and the governor, is called "handsome", so everyone calls him "Zhang Xiangshuai". [1, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, a representative of the Westernization School in the Qing Dynasty, a native of Xingyi Prefecture, Guizhou Province, with a ancestral home in Nanpi, Zhili.

During the 70 years from the Opium War to the Revolution of 1911 in the late Qing Dynasty, the elites headed by these great men supported the situation in North Korea. No matter how to be a man or do things, they were all awesome people at that time. And they have one thing in common, that is, they are soberly aware of the gap between China and western countries, and they all support the Westernization Movement, do a lot of practical things and carry out many reforms and innovations.

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