Zeng Guofan and His Staff (Essential Revised Edition)

Author: Shi Lin
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Publish Date: 1997-11-01
Features: Li Hongzhang was deeply impressed by Zeng Guofan in his daily life, always referring to him as "my teacher" and admiring him as if he were a sage or deity. He once told me, "Zeng Guofan is your maternal grandfather, and my teacher. You are unfortunate to have never met him; I was born later than he was! My teacher Zeng Guofan is truly a great and honorable man. Now these so-called great and honorable men are nothing but incompetent fools. I have no respect for them at all." He also said, "My teacher is truly formidable. In the past, when I worked in his camp and learned from him, he would always eat breakfast at six o'clock in the morning. I was often too sleepy to catch up, but he insisted on waiting for me to join him at the table."