This allusion of "With sharp weapons in hand, murderous intention arises" comes from Li Hongzhang.

In the sixth year of Guangxu's reign, the Russian crown prince gave Li Hongzhang a gold pistol. Hongzhang loved it so much that he often carried it with him. When I went out hunting, I couldn't help but want to try my skills.

Suddenly seeing the silent villages around him, he stopped and stopped using his pistol. The staff was curious and asked why. Li Hongzhang replied: This is what I want to remind myself, armed with sharp weapons and murderous intentions, be cautious and cautious.

Li Hongzhang taught his staff that if a person has weapons, he will have the intention to harm others, just like a person has power, and he will never stop unless he uses his power to places that cannot be reached.

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Li Hongzhang is a heavyweight and complex figure in modern Chinese history. He is not an ordinary important minister, but a super important minister. He started his career by strangling the Taiping Army and the Nian Army, and was an executioner who suppressed the peasant revolution.

He has founded a large number of new enterprises that are beneficial to the development of modern Chinese society and is a first-class Westernization talent. On behalf of the Qing government, he signed many unequal treaties that were humiliating and humiliating the country. He should bear heavy responsibility and was a person who harmed the country.

Li Hongzhang (1823-1901) is an extremely important figure in the modern history of China. For more than 20 years, he served as the Minister of Beiyang and the Governor-General of Zhili as a bachelor of Wenhua Palace. He combined military and diplomacy and almost controlled the political situation.

Liang Qichao, the founder of my country’s bourgeois history, lamented this more than 100 years ago, two months after Li Hongzhang died of illness: “In the past forty years, there have been almost no major events in China. It has nothing to do with Li Hongzhang."

There is a similar positioning in the "Manuscript of the History of the Qing Dynasty": Li Hongzhang "has been independent for decades. In domestic and foreign affairs, one person often bears the brunt... This is unprecedented in modern times." From the situation where Li Hongzhang was at that time Judging from his status and influence, it is not difficult to understand that future generations will know him and be able to remember him.

The problem is that what people know and remember should be the real Li Hongzhang, the Li Hongzhang with multiple personalities and multiple expressions in history, not the Li Hongzhang who was deliberately modified, dressed up or even arbitrarily elevated.

Li Hongzhang, who started his career by strangling the Taiping Army and Nian Army, is famous for massacring the Taiping Army. On December 6, 1863, after he launched a conspiracy to induce surrender and seize Suzhou, he once ordered the killing of more than 30,000 Taiping soldiers in the Twin Pagoda Temple alone.

Some foreigners arrived there 20 days later and "saw the courtyard floor soaked with human blood!" and found that "the river filled with corpses was still red."

They "shuddered because they witnessed the horrific evidence of human massacre." After capturing Wuxi on December 12, the Huai army led by Li Hongzhang still killed more than 6,000 innocent residents indiscriminately. Those who were brutally murdered were “only guilty of living in a Taiping city.”

According to incomplete statistics, from May 1862, when the Huai Army, the British and French intervention forces, and the Changsheng Army joined forces to attack Nanqiao, to May 1864, when the Huai Army and the Changsheng Army captured Changzhou, they only In several major battles in southern Jiangsu, more than 100,000 Taiping soldiers and civilians were killed.

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