Children of noble families have a bumpy career.
Chen Zhaotang was born in Guiyang, Hunan Province, and his father Chen Shijie was an important aide to Zeng Guofan. Chen is one of the most prominent families in Guiyang, and Chen Zhaotang's father, a famous minister of ZTE in the late Qing Dynasty, has made great achievements in westernization, coastal defense, river engineering and education in the Qing Dynasty!
As a big family with a deep background, Chen Shijie attached great importance to the training and education of the younger generation, and entrusted his sons' studies to the scholars at that time very early. Under the teacher's careful training, Mr. Chen's children have achieved excellent results, adding luster to Mr. Chen! There is also the praise of "one brother and two Hanlin"!
However, these praises have nothing to do with Chen Zhaotang, he is just a Gong Sheng! If he doesn't have this talent, he may be resigned to his fate, but how can Chen Zhaotang, who finished his studies and served the country at a young age, give up willingly? However, even though he is good at composition, he is somewhat disheartened when he is faced with the fact of repeated failures.
Watching his brothers succeed one after another, he still lingered in front of the imperial examination and couldn't get in! In desperation, Chen Zhaotang had to obey his father's arrangement and donated five Tongzhi titles to enter the miscellaneous road. Although it is a disgraceful means, for Chen Zhaotang, "heroes don't ask the source", as long as they can be an official and give themselves a chance to display their full ambitions, nothing matters!
However, just as Chen Zhaotang was gearing up to show his talents, fate played a joke on him-his mother died and he was worried about his mother Ding, so Chen Zhaotang had to give up his post that he had not yet arrived, and only stayed for three years ... Three years later, Chen Zhaotang got a bad job again. In Sichuan Wells, when he was eager to try, he died every father and worried about Ding for three years ...
A good official for the country and the people
Repeated failures and three years of worry have not erased Chen Zhaotang's ambition. After the mourning period, apply for a ticket in Yunyang County, Sichuan Province, and fill in the titles of Dayi County and Weiyuan County the following year. Weiyuan County, the starting point of Chen Zhaotang's career, has made a lot of efforts here to show his ambition of not serving the people for many years. He not only rectified the bureaucracy, but also donated money to build Jingwei Academy, and hired the famous scholar Zhang Wei as the principal, and the style of writing began to flourish! It can be seen that Chen Zhaotang is a civil servant at the beginning of his official career, and he can also feel his ambition to serve the country and benefit the people! Due to his outstanding performance, Chen Zhaotang was transferred back to Dayi after his term expired.
When Chen Zhaotang left Weiyuan County, all the elders in the village came to see him off, and some even sent him five miles away, and finally they could only cry goodbye! This is enough to see the local people's love for Chen Zhaotang as an official, and it is enough to see that Chen Zhaotang is a good official who really does practical things for the people!
When he arrived in Dayi County, Chen Zhaotang wanted to continue to implement the rule of Weiyuan County, but the different situations in Dayi County and Weiyuan County made him change this idea-"robbery is common and theft is rampant". However, Dayi County, which is famous for its obstinacy, did not make Chen Zhaotang timid, nor did he choose to turn a blind eye to save his life. Chen Zhaotang chose to fight the bandits in Dayi County to the end!
He formulated corresponding laws and regulations, vigorously rectified public security issues, and set up group training to defend the local area. As the time is ripe, Chen Zhaotang and the officers and men he trained annihilated the bandits around Dayi County with lightning speed, and the territory also showed a thriving trend! At the same time, as a scholarly family, Chen Zhaotang never ignores the importance of education. "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish", so Chen Zhaotang built Yunping Academy. In order to broaden students' horizons, he donated 2,000 yuan to buy books such as a subset of classics and history, and took time out of his busy schedule to go to school to enjoy various students' poems. It was a story for a while!
Soon, Chen Zhaotang, who achieved remarkable results, attracted the attention of his superior, Liu Xinyuan, the magistrate of Chengdu Prefecture. In the imperial court, there are many civil servants, and there are not a few who are good at governing the land, but civil servants like Chen Zhaotang who can govern the land and fight bandits are rare! So he transferred Chen Zhaotang to Chongzhen House, where bandits were serious. Chen Zhaotang did not shoulder the heavy responsibility. First of all, he eliminated the vicious bandits by severe means, and then set an example to educate the people. Under his rule, Chongqing government is a bright scene. ...
Meet a noble person at the bottom and change your life.
While his official career was rising, Chen Zhaotang met his cousin Xia Shouyan and was promoted to Sichuan. According to common sense, he must be transferred to avoid it, so Chen Zhaotang can only be transferred to any idle post in Jiangxi. However, even if his career encounters another crisis, Chen Zhaotang still maintains an indifferent attitude, a gesture of "not being happy with things but not being sad for himself".
In this way, after two years, just when Chen Zhaotang thought his life would come to an abrupt end, he met his own noble person-CenShaoBao Cen Chunxuan. When he was a magistrate in Chongqing, his judgment on the religious plan in the late Qing Dynasty was surprisingly consistent with that of Cen Chunxuan! And this attracted the attention of Cen Chunxuan, vaguely Chen Zhaotang as a confidant.
When Cen Chunxuan became a red man in front of Empress Dowager Cixi and was promoted to the governor of Sichuan, he immediately called for Chen Zhaotang to be recalled to Sichuan ministries and agencies, Qiongzhou Zhou Zhili, and regarded Chen Zhaotang as a confidant! The following year, when Cen Chunxuan was transferred to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he took Chen Zhaotang with him, which shows Cen Chunxuan's trust in Chen Zhaotang! But Chen Zhaotang probably never thought that his life would change because he followed Cen Chunxuan to Guangdong and Guangxi!
A weak scholar becomes a "Tubo"
Bandits were rampant in Guangdong and Guangxi in the late Qing Dynasty. Therefore, when Chen Zhaotang followed Cen Chunxuan to Guangdong and Guangxi, his anti-bandits ability was fully demonstrated-he became a commander from a small magistrate! For bandits, Chen Zhaotang believes that the best way is to "kill" according to past experience! Only by scaring them can we achieve political clarity!
With the support of Cen Chunxuan, Chen Zhaotang quickly formed an army to lead the officers and men to destroy the bandits! At this point, Chen Zhaotang is no longer a humble civilian. He has become the most effective military commander under Cen Chunxuan! And this change has also quietly changed Chen Zhaotang's heart. He no longer abides by the rules of scholars, and the evil side of others is gradually exposed in the killing. Years of depression and unhappiness seem to be released in the killing! The reward after the success of the bandits also made Chen Zhaotang more and more intoxicated!
Finally, I tasted the bitter fruit and died under the gun.
The tyrannical factor is constantly beating in Chen Zhaotang's body. In order to cooperate with the Qing Xiang Movement and have confidence in his own experience, Chen Zhaotang insisted on "changing the law on the spot". In Guangdong, in order to complete the task of suppressing bandits as soon as possible, Chen Zhaotang forced the local gentry and rich households to participate in suppressing bandits! And how do those helpless rich people catch bandits?
In the face of Chen Zhaotang's tough tactics, they can only make up for it with some tramps, thieves and even ordinary people! And Chen Zhaotang ordered the execution on the spot without asking! As a result, the local people complained and accused Chen Zhaotang. However, Chen Zhaotang has long forgotten his initial intention to be an official! In order to shut the people up, he even ordered those who opposed him to be executed on the spot as bandits!
For a time, the local people dared not publicly accuse Chen Zhaotang, but the seeds of hatred were buried in everyone's heart. When the time was right, they would grow into towering trees and devour Chen Zhaotang!
19 1 1 year, this time has come! When the wave of Wuchang Uprising swept Chaozhou, Chen Zhaotang, who could not escape, was caught red-handed by the local people! When Chen Zhaotang was executed, the crowd shouted "thief" and their eyes were full of disgust and hatred for Chen Zhaotang! Finally, Chen Zhaotang died, under the gun! Also died in his own hands!
Hou Yu
Chen Zhaotang's life is actually full of drama. Similarly, he worships famous teachers, but his brothers only keep him up to date; He is also the son of a noble family, but he has to rely on his father's shadow lintel to step into his official career by improper means; He is also an official, but full of twists and turns. ...
Finally, before he died, Chen Zhaotang looked at the resentful people around him and kept repenting, "I didn't die from the monarch, not from the country, but from cause and effect"! Perhaps Chen Zhaotang also remembered the young man who devoted himself to studying only to serve his country. ...