In the second year of the Apocalypse, Zhang Guowei, a scholar, was assigned to Panyu as a magistrate because he did not join any team. During his tenure, he saw the sufferings of the people at the bottom caused by various drawbacks of the Ming Dynasty, and played in the court many times, but all of them sank into the sea. Immediately after Chongzhen acceded to the throne, he reused the famous minister and sent him to punishments to fill the vacancy caused by Wei Zhongxian's handling. In his position, he wrote five things about Chen, each of which was the biggest drawback of the Ming Dynasty. However, due to the limited personal ability of Chongzhen, he did not fully accept the opinions. However, Zhang Guowei handed everything over to the Ceremony Department and soon moved to Shaoqing Taichang.
Starting from the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Guowei was appointed as the governor, responsible for suppressing the rebels in various places. At that time, Zhang Guowei was in the prime of life, but overwork made him lose all his hair overnight. In the 14th year of Chongzhen, a riot broke out in Shandong, and Zhang Guowei joined forces with officers and men from neighboring provinces to successfully suppress it. At this time, Chen Xinjia, the Minister of War, had just been imprisoned, and Chongzhen appointed Zhang Guowei as the Minister of War to deal with the rebels all over the country. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the capital was broken and the Qing army entered the customs. At that time, Zhang Guowei was recruiting in the south, and he cried after hearing the news. He didn't give up his ideal. He joined the Nanming court and continued to resist the Manchu Dynasty.
1646, the army of Nanming was completely defeated. Knowing that the tide was over, he was determined to die for his country. In the same year, he returned to his hometown of Dongyang, took a white silk and wrote three poems on it. One is? Negative countries? , a song for? Do you miss your mother? , a song for? Commandments? Then sign at the end of the silk:? Zhang Guowei, the legacy of Daming? . When the Qing soldiers entered Dongyang City and saw the dead Zhang Guowei, they all bowed down to him, and some of them cried bitterly. It turns out that there are many Shandong people here.
In the 14th year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Guowei suppressed the rebel army, it gave a lot of food to the local people, who were prized. Zhang Cunren, the governor of Zhejiang province of the Qing army, admired Zhang Guowei's integrity, and could not bear him to break the incense and let Zhang Guowei's son go. In the forty-first year of Qing Qianlong (1772), Qianlong respected Zhang Guowei's integrity and gave it to posthumous title. Tadashi? .