Character name: Li Hongzhang

Pinyin: LI HONGZHANG

Font size: Zi Shaoquan

Dynasty: Qing Dynasty

Years of birth and death: 1823-1901

Birthplace: Hefei, Anhui Province

Character profile: Minister of the Qing Dynasty, commander-in-chief of the Huai Army, and leader of the Westernization faction . Jinshi in the 27th year of Daoguang. He was taught as an editor. In the third year of Xianfeng's reign, he returned to his hometown to join the army and followed Zeng Guofan in Jiangxi. In the first year of Tongzhi, he was ordered to organize the Huai Army and served as governor of Jiangsu. For his meritorious service in resisting the Taiping Army, he was granted the title of First-Class Su Yi Bo and served as the Governor of Liangjiang. For five years, he was appointed as the Imperial Envoy. In the ninth year of Tongzhi's reign, Li Hongzhang became the governor of Zhili and the minister of commerce in Beiyang. He was awarded the bachelor's degree of Wenhuadian and Wuyingdian. In the south, he founded the Jinling Machinery Bureau and the Shanghai Steamship Investment Promotion Bureau, and together with Zeng Guofan, he established the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau; in the north, he established the Kaiping Mining Bureau and the Tianjin Telegraph General Bureau. Also created the Beiyang Navy. There is "The Complete Works of Li Wenzhonggong".