To change the impression of a person is very difficult. When I was young, whether in history class or watching movies about Li Hongzhang such as "Sino-Japanese War" and "Opium War", Li Hongzhang is the iron iron antagonist. At that time, is a black and white era, good people are good people, bad people are bad people, Li Hongzhang is a traitor, the image of the big bad guy, firmly printed in my young heart.

After growing up, with the richness of experience, learned to use multiple perspectives to evaluate a thing or a person, and slowly found that some of the inherent knowledge of the young, is quietly changing, and some of the understanding has been subversive changes, such as their own evaluation of Li Hongzhang, I would like to say: a clever woman is difficult to cook, in fact, he is also very difficult.

I, Li Hongzhang its people

Daoguang three years on the fifth day of the first month (February 15, 1823), Li Hongzhang was born in Hefei County, Dongxiang mill. There is a folk legend: Li Hongzhang's mother was pregnant with him, one day working in the field, suddenly a sharp pain in the leg, she looked down, a tortoise bit her.

Turtle this bite does not matter, the child how to give birth to not come out, until the local meet the God of Fortune this day, Li Hongzhang only drilled out of the mother's stomach, this day than the due date of nearly a month late. Congratulate the neighbors are exclaimed: Li mother gave birth to a noble (turtle) son. You really do not not believe, Li Hongzhang since childhood intelligent, is the representative of other people's good children.

Learning to learn that is also the level of the bully. He was from the age of six, followed by his father in the home museum enlightenment reading. At the age of eleven, his father was successful in the examination. Li Hongzhang worship hall uncle imitation Xian as a teacher, but also from the teacher Hefei famous scholar Xu Ziling study. Li Hongzhang from a young age has shown much higher ambition than his peers. It has been recorded that Li Hongzhang when he was a young ambition is: I would like to get a glass hall. The matter of seven rooms, bright windows four open, ruling the matter therein.

Meaning is to do things in a big house with glass seven. At that time, glass was still an expensive imported luxury, how can the average person afford to use, only the residence of the princes and generals have this treatment.

After clarifying his ambition, Li Hongzhang began his own personal struggle. Daoguang twenty-three years, 20-year-old Li Hongzhang in Luzhou Prefecture School was selected as a superior tribute, when Li's father summoned his son to go to the capital, to study history and economics. Li Hongzhang in the Beijing, had written this poem: husband only hand Wu hooks, the spirit of the wind high 100 feet building. Ten thousand years who writes history, three thousand miles away to find the feudal lords. It can be imagined that the young Li Hongzhang is how ambitious, ambitious. Opportunity is left to the prepared person. Li Hongzhang was 24 years old in the bachelor's degree. With the glory of the new section of the Hanlin, abandoned the military, on stage to worship the prime minister, the extermination of the Taiping, in addition to the twist, advocating foreign affairs, the opening of the twenty years of the same light in the rise.