Growth fortune teller Zeng Guofan _ Who is growth fortune teller Zeng Guofan?

During the seven-day National Day holiday, Mr. Tang read all three books of Zeng Guofan (Blood Sacrifice, Wild Fire and Black Rain).

65438+1At 0: 30am on October 5th, 65438 read the last paragraph, and sent four words in the circle of friends: finished reading, disappointed.

I read this set of books slowly. In addition to being really busy at work, it is more important to find a soul that can really be touched from the inexplicable worship of Zeng Guofan in the past.

During this period, I also read a lot of materials, such as Phoenix Vision in 2009, Ten episodes of Approaching Zeng Guofan hosted by Mr. Liang Wendao, The Front and Side of Zeng Guofan by Mr. Zhang Hongjie, The Hundred Years Fall by Mr. Wu Xiaobo, The Battle of Tianjing by Mr. Tan Boniu, and a lot of audio programs about Zeng Guofan that I listened to in the morning and evening.

It can be said that almost every day in the past two months has been full of philosophical speculation, human thinking, historical review and dream pursuit.

Most people in this world have never stepped into the torrent of fate and experienced ups and downs. All their lives, they just look at the other side from this side.

From 27-year-old Jinshi in the 18th year of Daoguang, to 465,438+0-year-old Yong ying in the 2nd year of Xianfeng, 14' s official career was smooth, because he met such a noble person as Zhang Mu, minister of military affairs, and became his protege. In addition, he is cautious, modest and knowledgeable.

Such a day seems to be managed with care, seemingly flashing the philosophy and light of being a man, but it is just life.

Without great responsibility, little suffering and little grandeur, it is not enough to call life.

In fact, everyone has such an opportunity to step into the river of destiny and choose a real life.

It depends on whether you hear the call from heaven. This call is particularly strong in this troubled times.

In fact, the most important node in studying Zeng Guofan is not that he finally climbed the position of governor of Liangjiang in Xianfeng ten years, nor that he made a breakthrough in Beijing for three years of Tongzhi.

Personally, the most important node is precisely the three years from four to seven years in Xianfeng.

From sending troops from Hengzhou to attending his father's funeral in Xiangxiang, what Zeng Guofan experienced in the past three years was more magnificent, tragic, passionate and desperate than what he had experienced in previous decades.

It was in these three years that Zeng Guofan, who was full of blood and loyalty, defended the dignity of Confucius and Mencius in order to recover the imperial country, but he ended up jealous of the emperor, exclusive to the local area, hit a wall on all sides and turned his face on all sides.

In just three years, he almost died twice.

So how did he come over these three years?

In May of the fourth year of Xianfeng, Jinggang was defeated, threw himself into the river and was rescued by his men. He felt ashamed. He didn't dare to enter Changsha City, but entered Changsha City. He wanted to kill himself. Zuo Tang Zong scolded him: This word is disloyal, unfilial and heartless. Just because you died today, it will always be like Zeng's name!

Xianfeng four years in July; Reorganize the land and water armies; Capture Yuezhou;

In October of the fourth year of Xianfeng, Wuchang was captured. Emperor Xianfeng was overjoyed and asked Zeng Guofan to act as the governor of Hubei. However, the great scholar Qi Juanzao said: "Zeng Guofan is an assistant minister, and he is like a husband, and his husband lives in the valley. It' s a blessing for more than 10,000 people to start from now on. " Emperor Xianfeng withdrew the imperial edict and only awarded Zeng Guofan the title of assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

December of Xianfeng four years: Zeng Guofan led an army to capture Tianjia Town.

The second half of Xianfeng four years should be said to be relatively smooth. But the next two years can be described in four words, that is: stuck in Jiangxi.

In February of the fifth year of Xianfeng, Shi Dakai attacked the Xiang Water Camp and burned more than 0/00 Xiang warships. Zeng Guofan's ship was taken away, "all the books were lost." Zeng Guofan was so angry that he planned to ride a horse to die, but both Liu and he advised him to stop.

In July of the fifth year of Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan broke his arm, and Taqibu, his most effective general, vomited blood in anger and died when he failed to attack Jiujiang for a long time.

Xianfeng six years: Luo Zenan, Zeng Guofan's good friend and one of the founders of Xiang Army, left him when he expected that Jiangxi was in trouble and there was no hope of breaking through. He died in Wuchang in the same year. Before he died, he wrote a letter to him: Zenan claimed that he could study hard all his life, but he failed in his studies and career, and was ashamed to meet his ancestors in Jiuquan. In recent years, I have accumulated some experience in fighting with long hair. Today, I want to leave you far away, and I want to give it to my brother: "It is useful to stand up in troubled times.

If it hadn't been for the Tianjing Incident in September of Xianfeng six years, the infighting between Hong Xiuquan and Yang, and Shi Dakai was ordered to return to Nanjing, history would have been completely rewritten.

Zeng Guofan took advantage of the gap between Shi Dakai's withdrawal from Jiangxi and Xianfeng six years ago to summon up courage in his hometown and set up an auspicious word camp to enter Jiangxi. It was this auspicious word camp that broke Nanjing in the future and made great contributions to the world. Known as the "nine handsome" is Zeng Guofan's nine brother Ceng Guoquan.

In February of the seventh year of Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan finally "solved" the difficulties in Jiangxi by taking advantage of his father's loss. When leaving, Guo Songtao, his good friend and aide, gave three profound pieces of advice: First, keep in touch with local civil and military officials, don't always stand on their side, and compromise when it is time to compromise. As the saying goes, dragons don't crush local strongmen. Second, you can't do what you can't do, and try your best to be thankless and blame others. Third, we should make use of green camp's strength and stop fighting alone. If we do these three things, many things will be done better.

This also laid the groundwork for his future transformation.

This has to talk about the "three changes" of Zeng Guofan's life.

Ouyang Zhaoxiong, a good friend of Zeng Guofan, once said that Zeng Guofan had "three changes" in his life: he relied on Zhu Cheng as an official and applied for North Korea when he changed his military affairs. Xianfeng returned in eight years and lived with Huang Lao.

Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and Zhu are masters of science. Shen Han, namely Shen Buhai and Han Feizi, is the representative of Legalism; Huang Lao, namely Huangdi and Laozi, is another name of Taoism. Ouyang's words well pointed out that Zeng Guofan's leadership's concept change from "Confucianism" to "law" and then to "Tao" is also a spiral growth track from ideal to reality and then to maturity.

Zeng Guofan came out to command the Xiang army, led troops to fight, "changed to Korea" and began to use the concept of legalism. Legalists are very different from Confucianism. If the core of understanding Confucianism is a word "virtue", then the core of understanding Legalism is actually a word "benefit". Legalists believe that human nature is profit-seeking, and society is essentially interest-centered.

Therefore, the looting of property by the Xiang army after the siege is famous in history. Ceng Guoquan believes that under these four questions, there must be an old saying of the brave. He admires Hu Linyi's three things most: loving talents like life, killing people like hemp, and spending money like water.

Legalists believe in strength in addition to interests. The so-called "strength makes strength, strength makes strength, and strength makes virtue". Legalists believe that power does have the power to make people submit and obey, and human behavior can only be changed by coercion. In the eyes of legalists, nothing can be really reliable except strength. In addition, legalists also emphasize competition. Legalists believe that the essence of this society is competition, which means the law of the jungle. For what? Strive for benefits. With what? By strength.

Obviously, compared with Confucianism, Legalism is very realistic. Showing the essence of society in front of people, on the one hand, gave Zeng Guofan Confucian ideals. But his ideal is no longer idealism, which makes Zeng Guofan see deep-seated interests through superficial tenderness and have a clearer understanding of the world, so as to achieve the so-called "everyone knows what he looks like", which is undoubtedly the key factor for him to remain sober and conscious in the process of being an official.

But legalists also have their own shortcomings. What is the biggest problem of legalists? Is too strong, too cold, too overbearing, too mean, too natural, too self. So brave, overbearing and spontaneous, it will certainly cause hostility and confrontation from others. Therefore, when Zeng Guofan led the troops in Hunan and Jiangxi, he fell into extremely tense interpersonal relationships. Wherever he went, he was constantly in conflict with the officialdom, so that he was "incompatible with the whole country." In the end, the emperor removed the military power and was forced to go home to guard the system. Zeng Guofan fell to the lowest valley of his life.

Even he himself lamented: alas! The rainbow penetrates Jing Qing's heart, and everyone who sees it thinks it is trivial and thin; Bi Hua Changhong's blood, the viewer thought it was a stone and abandoned it.

When a generation of saints fall into such a dilemma, how will we evaluate it? We praise his perseverance of "knocking out teeth and swallowing blood", and we will also praise another sentence: "Those who have achieved great things in ancient times are not only outstanding talents, but also have perseverance."

When we encounter such adversity, we are also used to using the experiences of these awesome people to motivate ourselves.

However, the opposite of adversity is often in the heart.

If the heart is uneven and the spirit is not smooth, it is easy to be enemies with the outside world.

The devil first succumbs to his own heart, and when his heart degenerates, the demons retreat; Those who control the balance should control this gas first, and the gas level will not invade the outside.

When Zeng Guofan came out of the mountain again in the eighth year of Xianfeng, his style of dealing with people began to blend with Huang Lao's Taoist thought of inaction, which can be seen in his diary: "After reading Liu Wenqing's Ai Qing Tang Tie, I was slightly interested in its nature, and I realized that there are two wonderful places in literati skills, one is magnificent, and the other is long. Writing is natural, writing poetry is natural, and writing words is also natural. If you can tolerate the majestic distance, it will be especially valuable. "

"As the saying goes, the word is like a person, and the style of writing is like a person. Writing a word is connected with being a man. Since a sentence can be majestic in the distance and a paragraph can be masculine in femininity, why can't a person do this? "

At the end of the diary, two sentences were quickly added: "Stronger than weaker, Shen Han is in the situation." It is a good place for people to be officials. "

It was this change that reversed Zeng Guofan's later life and changed the historical pattern and trend.

I have to say that Zeng Guofan, regarded as the "most persistent" by later generations, is actually a very flexible person.

Stick to your inner ideal, but your behavior will change with the external environment and situation. As a master of Neo-Confucianism, Zeng Guofan's behavior is getting closer and closer to Wang Yangming, a master of psychology.

This heart doesn't move, it just moves randomly.