sbdcsierra Chapter 257 Flying General Liu Jintang
Chapter 257 Flying General Liu Jintang
What to do if you have no money?
Zuo Zongtang first sought help from Qiao Zhiyong.
Let me briefly introduce Qiao Zhiyong. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qiao family of Qi County, Shanxi Province, had banks, pawnshops and other stores all over my country, with assets reaching tens of millions of taels of silver, making them truly wealthy people at the time.
When Qiao Zhiyong learned that Zuo Zongtang was going to march west, he not only prepared food and fodder for the army and exchanged them for military pay, but also specially sent a bank to follow him along the way.
However, the strong support from Qiao Zhiyong and the Qiao family was not enough, so Zuo Zongtang thought of his good friend, the "red-topped businessman" Hu Xueyan.
Hu Xueyan's real name was Hu Guangyong, with the pen name Xueyan. He was from Huizhou, Anhui Province, and was a representative figure of Huizhou merchants.
Zuo Zongtang contacted foreign banks through Hu Xueyan and wanted to borrow money from them.
Zuo Zongtang borrowed money from several foreign banks in six installments, with the total principal and interest reaching 1870 million taels.
This figure far exceeds the 1 million taels initially reported to the Qing court.
In fact, although the loan was made to a foreign bank and the borrower was Zuo Zongtang, the "subject of the loan" was still the Qing court, and the "mortgage" was the Qing court's customs revenue...
Actually, it sounds a bit funny. We want to recover Xinjiang, but we still have to borrow money from foreign banks to get military pay…】
＜Shanxi Merchants, is this Qiao Zhiyong the one in the TV series “Qiao Family Courtyard”?＞
＜Yes, it is him. The Qiao family is very rich, and later they even entertained Empress Dowager Cixi [dog head]＞
＜Hu Xueyan was the real richest man, but his property was still confiscated by Li Hongzhang…＞
＜But Hu Xueyan is indeed a patriotic and democratic hero. At that time, in order to compete with foreign countries for the Chinese raw silk market, he put all his property on the line. As a result, Li Hongzhang said, "Get rid of Hu first to eliminate the left," and then ordered major banks not to lend to Hu Xueyan... Then he incited local bureaucrats to run on Hu's banks. In the end, Li Hongzhang impeached Hu for high-interest loans to Empress Dowager Cixi, and his property was confiscated＞
＜No matter how top-notch a businessman is, he can’t beat a politician. Li Hongzhang is really a nobody.＞
＜Guess why when negotiating with foreigners, they always mention Li [dog head] Of course it’s not because he is so powerful, but because they can get more from him [eat melon]＞
[Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che: Bank loans…?]
[Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang: The Shanxi and Huizhou merchants here are quite patriotic...]
[Wang Anshi in the third year of Song Xining: Hmm…I think I need to watch the video a few more times to evaluate the light curtain]
[Tang Taizong Li Shimin: Most businessmen are profit-oriented, but there are also businessmen who are admired by people]
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If you have no money, can you still get a bank loan? How do you do that? I don’t know if you can tell me more about this after the light curtain.
Liu Che said that he needed this thing very much, as he needed money to fight the Huns.
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Zhu Yuanzhang remembered that when he mentioned the end of the Ming Dynasty, he said that merchants in the Ming Dynasty sold grain to the Qing Dynasty.
"Humph, now you know how to be patriotic? You want to bully the Ming Dynasty, right?"
Zhu Yuanzhang felt extremely angry.
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Daoguang 19th year
Zuo Zongtang felt sorry for what happened to Hu Xueyan because it was because of his connections that he was suppressed and his property was confiscated.
Hu Xueyan, a money shop clerk in his teens, scratched his head. Could the person the screen was talking about be him?
This time, he was charged with the crime of "framing loyal officials". Li Hongzhang felt that his life was over.
I have to take the exam next year!!! Is it okay to change my name now?
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【5Reconquest
With sufficient money, food and well-equipped weapons, the battle to recover officially began.
Zuo Zongtang first proposed the eight-character policy of "conquer the north first, then the south, advance slowly and fight quickly". Because Yakub Beg's main forces were concentrated in the southern Xinjiang region, and Yakub Beg's forces in the northern Xinjiang region were relatively weak. Therefore, Zuo Zongtang adopted the method of "recovering the northern Xinjiang first, then the southern Xinjiang." This is the method of starting with the easy and then the difficult.
In order to advance slowly and fight quickly, after each piece of land was captured, military rations were stored to prepare for the attack on the next piece of land. In this battle, in order to save military rations and money, we cannot fight a war of attrition and should fight quickly and decisively.
Zuo Zongtang was in a hurry.
In 1876, the second year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Zuo Zongtang sent troops to go out of the pass separately. He also appointed Liu Jintang, a general of the Hunan Army, as the commander-in-chief of the campaign against Yakub Beg.
Liu Jintang was from Hunan and was a general that Zuo Zongtang valued. He was only 31 years old when he served as the commander-in-chief of the front line.
He followed the strategy formulated by Zuo Zongtang and was invincible once he entered Xinjiang. The Yakub Beg rebels were defeated and fled all the way. A few months later, Urumqi and other places were recovered.
With the recovery of northern Xinjiang, Zuo Zongtang did not immediately march into southern Xinjiang. Instead, he established military farms in northern Xinjiang to stabilize people's livelihood.
In 1877, the third year of Emperor Guangxu's reign, Liu Jintang was ordered to march southward, conquer Daban City, and together with Xu Zhanbiao and Zhang Yao, they recaptured Turpan. Since then, the southern route of the Tianshan Mountains has been opened.
The internal conflicts of Yakub Beg's rebels continued to intensify. Just when Liu Jintang was marching south, Yakub Beg died.
＜Liu Jintang can be called a flying general in the late Qing Dynasty! ＞
＜The battle in Xinjiang was actually fought quite quickly, and it was over in just over a year.＞
＜ Let me briefly introduce Liu Jintang to you. He is a second-generation Hunanese. His father was a general of the Hunan Army. The Hunan Army during Zuo Zongtang's time was really powerful. This group of Hunan Army participated in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion. ＞
＜I think he also participated in the Sino-Japanese War…＞
＜Uh, you remembered it wrongly. He died before the Sino-Japanese War. He was originally going to be summoned to Beijing to fight against Japan, but he suffered a stroke on the way... [sigh]＞
＜Stroke on the road…God’s will is so, the fate of the country is so…[Sigh]＞
＜The Qing army was still quite powerful at that time... Then why did they lose the Sino-Japanese War just over a decade after facing Japan? [Confused]＞
＜Because the people that Empress Dowager Cixi favored were different＞
[Tang Taizong Li Shimin: The general died before the battle even started. This is an ominous sign.]
[Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin: The war to recover Xinjiang should be the last glory of the late Qing Dynasty]
[Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng: Zuo Zongtang's strategy is good. He should advance when necessary and slow down when necessary.]
[Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty Aixinjueluo Minning: Was it at this time that Empress Dowager Cixi came to power?]
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Li Guang said to himself: "Liu Jintang is also called the Flying General?"
After seeing his battle record, Li Guang became sincerely impressed.
"It's a pity that he died on the road in his 40s."
Wouldn't this make the situation in the late Qing Dynasty even worse? After watching this video, Li Guang's thinking became very different from before.
"If he were still alive, would the outcome of the Sino-Japanese War have been different?"
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Emperor Daoguang Minning was initially worried about state affairs and what to do with money.
Seeing Empress Dowager Cixi appear on the screen, Min Ning stood up alertly.
He roughly calculated that the Taiping Rebellion would occur when he died, and that this would be a big problem for his son to solve.
His son was in power for a short time before he was succeeded by Tongzhi...Guangxu...
In other words, two emperors died in just over 20 years? ? ?
Empress Dowager Cixi!!! Guangmu, you'd better tell me this woman's full name next time!
I will strangle her in the cradle right now.