Zeng Guoquan
Zeng Guoquan (simplified Chinese: 曾国荃; traditional Chinese: 曾國荃; pinyin: Zēng Guóquán; Styled Yuanfu 沅甫 ; Posthumous name: ; created Marquess Yiyong of the First Class 勇毅一等) (, 1824 – , 1890) 1856 follow his old brother Zeng Guofan, was an eminent Han Chinese official, military general, and devout Confucian scholar of the late Qing Dynasty in China. He raised the Xiang Army to fight effectively against the Taiping Rebellion and restored the stability of Qing Dynasty along with other prominent figures, including Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang, setting the scene for the era later known as the "Tongzhi Restoration"（同治中兴）,he was Zeng Guofan 9th youngest brother so nicknamed "General 9", and lead main forces 60,000 occupied the Nanjing in 1864, killed Nanjing 100,000 people, rob worth 200 million USD goods and another nicknamed butcher Zeng by Nanjing people till today .
Early life
Born a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan (湘乡) in 1824, Zeng Zicheng (曾子植) was the grandson of Zeng Yuping, a prosperous farmer with social and political ambitions.
See also
References
- Hummel, Arthur William, ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912). 2 vols. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1943.
- Porter, Jonathan. Tseng Kuo-Fan's Private Bureaucracy. Berkeley: University of California, 1972.
- Wright, Mary Clabaugh. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-Chih Restoration, 1862 -1874. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957.