Zeng Guofan is the late Qing Dynasty's four famous ministers (Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Zuo Zongtang), but also a super patriotic minister, so after demotion and repeated failures, the hope of life is slim, ready to jump into the river, was rescued by soldiers. Later, Zuo Zongtang knew some of Zeng Guofan's columns, he came to enlighten Zeng Guofan, but saw that Zeng Guofan had already prepared a coffin for himself, which made him angry and cursed:

What a disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unrighteous Zeng Polyester Sheng, you do not do a great man, but want to follow the example of the stupid husband and stupid woman. If you really die, I want to whip the body and raise the ashes to persuade Uncle Lord not to allow you to enter Zeng's ancestral graves.

In fact, Zuo Zongtang did not really yell at Zeng Guofan, but he felt that Zeng Guofan had made so many achievements, and he could not give himself up because of a little thing, which is why the above scene happened.

I. Zeng Guofan established the Hunan Bureau of Commerce, offended the Hunan officialdom.

Zeng Guofan in the late Qing Dynasty, because of the outstanding achievements, so get the late Qing regime's will, serving as Hunan regimentation help minister. During this period, Zeng Guofan first set up the Changsha Hunan Commerce Bureau, but at that time, Hunan was in a place where the emperor was far away from the mountain, and the officialdom was already very corrupt. Although Zeng Guofan did a few cases, but also offended the power of the time, so Zeng Guofan's rights in Hunan is constrained, so Zeng Guofan forced to find another way.

Second, Zeng Guofan established the navy, Jiang Zhongyuan but let the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom forced to die.

While Zeng Guofan did not get the support of the Hunan officialdom, but not dead Zeng Guofan and established a naval force in South China, is also a small scale. But as the water army play unfolds, the west of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom forces are also more and more powerful, is in a period of rapid development, so, Zeng Guofan's most trusted friend Jiang Zhongyuan has just assumed the post of governor of Anhui, was forced to death by the Taiping Army.

Three, Zeng Guofan defeated in battle, ready to prepare the coffin for the road.

The successive many blows Zeng Guofan, anxious to show his position and ability. At this time, Shi Xiangzhen and designed to trap Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan careless, in Jinggang then a place was ambushed, heavy casualties. Although Zeng Guofan killed a way to learn, but for the victory has been as dead as ash, so it will be prepared for the coffin.