In our junior high school history textbook Li Hongzhang's name can be said to be very familiar, the Qing dynasty minister for China's modern overthrow of feudalism dictatorship to establish the bourgeoisie regime made an important contribution. Today let us together into the late Qing dynasty minister Li Hongzhang's world, to learn about Li Hongzhang's life story and the evaluation of his descendants.

Li Hongzhang Profile

Li Hongzhang was born in a family with a good family, since childhood, read poetry and books Li Hongzhang Profile, grew up after the imperial examinations and from then on began a career as an official. Mr. Li Hongzhang's teacher was the famous modern Chinese politician and writer Mr. Zeng Guofan, Mr. Zeng Guofan on Li Hongzhang's life played an indelible important influence. Li Hongzhang was always striving for the overthrow of feudalism and the establishment of a bourgeois regime, and made remarkable contributions to the growth of the bourgeoisie. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Li Hongzhang set up the Beiyang navy Li Hongzhang introduction, dedicated to the foreign affairs movement. Unfortunately, due to the class conflict in the Beiyang Navy and the lack of material and armed resources, the foreign affairs movement did not succeed, and the Beiyang Navy was completely destroyed. Thus, Mr. Li Hongzhang half a lifetime of struggle for bourgeois reform or not to her expectations of the same smooth development, it is really regrettable. And Mr. Li Hongzhang's life is also after he signed the treaty of Xinchou forever fixed on November 7, 190 years.

Historical evaluation of Li Hongzhang

Because Li Hongzhang was in the period of feudalism and bourgeois revolution in the period of mutual struggles, so at that time people for Mr. Li Hongzhang's evaluation in fact is the emergence of two extremes. Some people thought that Mr. Li was a great politician, pragmatist and thinker, who could see that the Qing Dynasty was bound to decline and so actively pursued ideological and theoretical revolutions, laying a solid foundation for a series of bourgeois revolutions in the later period. But on the contrary, another part of the people believed that Li Hongzhang was an uncompromising traitor, who founded the Beiyang Naval Forces because of his own interests. They believed that Li Hung-chang to carry out the bourgeois revolution is actually under the guise of fighting for the people's interests of the revolution in their own class to seek property, the foreign affairs movement is completely blind. But later generations can learn that Li Hongzhang is closed to the Qing dynasty in the first to the outside, he and the exchange of Western culture is very important to the development of China behind.

The descendants of Li Hongzhang

Li Hongzhang had four sons and three daughters, of which the eldest son and the warlords close and become the mainstay of the ship Merchants Bureau, but was later assassinated by Chiang Kai-shek. The younger son is China's foreign relations with other countries envoys, is also very good.

Mr. Li Hongzhang's great contribution is still the subject of much discussion, and the revolution of ideas has been the mainstay of progress.