Hui-Shan Wan Shui in rooms (4), the rain howling Lee House
Author: post road idyll
Hefei out of two well-known historical figures, one is the Northern Song Dynasty Ming Chen Bao Zheng, an important official under the late Qing Li. Talking about Bao Zheng, Hefei Side were very familiar to you as to say the never-ending, but when it comes to Li, Hefei people do not want to say do not want to say any more. Yin Rui Lin Hotel or at home on such a small staff in talking about Bao Zheng to me when I asked Li, she was put away in an instant smile face, Shun Shou Yizhi out the window, telling me in front of Guo moat was not far inside that triangle-shaped building next to the ramp is Li's home, finished after Zaimo more speech, just politely told me that there is still time to see Lee House, it is now the city of Hefei 1 attractions.
Lee House is located in the middle of the Huaihe River Road, and now here, has become a commercial pedestrian street in Hefei. River Park come out from the pack, I have been liaising with colleagues came to this thriving market. Not see the sky is still floating strands of rain drift sunny Italy, along the way I'm looking forward to Lee House's shadow. Only in the long walk the streets of the bustling crowds, has been quickly reached the end of this street, only to see that modern building surrounded by buildings in the cramped, through the crowd shaking before they saw the Lee House Black the door, there are two hanging on the door that the red lanterns on the amount of shaking at the gate.
Lee's ancestors from the Ming Dynasty from the Jiangxi Zhanzhuan Feidong moved to Hefei, until Li fortune of this generation began to become the Hefei city mayor. Li childhood gifted 24-year-old on the comprehensive examination of the chin-shih, grant editing the Imperial Academy, originally he wanted an official at the Imperial Academy, the traditional road of a rose step by step, but because the Taiping westwards scored in Anhui, Li resolutely Toubicongrong, and later in the Tseng Kuo-fan's careful cultivation and organized under the enthusiastic support from which he later started the Huai, and so doing will soon pacified Taiping and Nian, has been appreciated by the Qing court. Can be said that Li's fortune a beginning filled with the blood of the peasant rebel army, he founded the Huai Army after a long war in the development and growth, so that the IDF has become the late Qing period, and gradually formed around him their is a group led by Huai, many of them key figures, including Li's older brother Viceroy Li Hanzhang, Yuan Shikai, Tang Shao-yi, Ding Ruchang, Yan Fu, Xie Bao-chang, and Deng Shichang and so on, affect the Qing became the diplomatic, military, economic and political groups.
Senggelinqin killed since the Qing Dynasty after the war had been sent marshals had not led troops. As Han Li Qing dynasty at this time been stretched into the historical stage. Li is the master on its own military power has become a pivotal figure in modern Chinese history, he created it appears in the late Qing Huai-class conflicts, ethnic conflicts, as well as Junchen Manchu were unusually sharp contradiction between the historical period, from the military, diplomatic, cultural, economic and sustains the fate of the Qing court. Then Li Relying on their own repression of the peasant uprising army illustrious military exploits, as well as the support of Huai River is a group at the time became the most powerful Zhili Governor and Minister of the Northern trade, and later was awarded the co-scholar, until they are put on top of three Dai Hua Ling, in the late Qing period Chinese to receive this award, and Li can be said to be the first man. Li brothers and six, he ranks second, of which 5 per capita in high positions, Lee was very prominent in Hefei, they were all gathered to form a clan, live in huge mansions, row upon row, has now covering the downtown Hefei, the middle section of the Huaihe River half way Street, was called "Lee House half the street."
Today, Lee House, has long lost its former prominent desolation in this land occupies a corner of downtown. Area is also remaining 2,000 square meters, if they are not listening to the Lee House instructors introduction and furnishings of the House owner's physical and photos, really difficult for people to believe that this was once a minister of state of the house that the late Qing. Hefei seem to them a sense of how much the villagers are not interested in bustling pedestrian street, not many people would look bet here, come here mostly foreign tourists.
This is a typical three-hospital late Qing Jiang-Huai area residential construction, the layout neat, structured, richly ornamented, elegant luxury. Into the door to face up to 9 meters is in fact the living room, the Office of the middle long narrow table placed on a clock on the left and right equipped with screens and full-length mirror, meaning the owner's life blending calm. Watch carefully, it would only clock does not move, nor the newspaper asked about the instructors say that this is a dead clock, the then owner of considerable ingenuity in this House furnishings, because "death clock" and "always" homophonic, there "is always calm ", which seemed then so too powerful figures can not avoid that the traditional tacky.
Lee Brothers 6, and only his brother's life does not go into five career to stay in Wuhu real estate business. He is said to Lee brothers of the richest, and its property more than half of Wuhu. This is a combination of officials and businessmen typical family, friends laugh at that, and now the community officials and business people a rich-quick thing, then this is the ancestor of the Lee. Joking aside, out of a late Qing Li, Hefei, in comparison with the Northern Song Dynasty Ming Chen Bao Zheng, and indeed people of whom filled with emotion.
Lee House is now on display there are a large number of precious and Li-related photos and in-kind, where visitors can experience the modern history in China, changing the life of a controversial figure, but also reflects the modern history of China's little-known period of suffering, tortuous and tragic history. Li in the end is what kind of person, and his predecessors, such as Tseng Kuo-fan, colleagues, such as Tso, Chang Chih-tung, epigenetic, such as Shenghuai Xuan and others are now being re-understanding and evaluation, but Li Hung-chang, people prefer to maintain silence. Li may be more telling of their own summary of the question: "Juvenile civil service exams, prime of life, his military, middle-aged Feng Jiang, old age, foreign affairs, all the way spread upward." Li "spread upward" in the late Qing this tumbledown buildings, and that he had boasted himself as late this tumbledown buildings of the Qing Dynasty wall paper maker, wall paper maker can this tumbledown buildings wall paper while the pure light net Korea, but save the crumbling of their precarious situation. Lee House there is a display of the year Maguan negotiations photos, you can clearly see that the negotiating table chairs Li obvious disadvantage than the Japanese, the Japanese side said this is by design intended to make the Chinese on behalf of the humiliation in the inferior position. I think, the Li sat in the chair this profound meaning and the Japanese signed a treaty that traitorous, their inner feelings certainly are extremely painful.
An objective assessment of the historical figure, and his commitment to Westernization Movement Li, He wants to reach China through this self-improvement purposes, but that does not have the corrupt late Qing conditions for self-improvement, which led to a lifelong pursuit of the ultimate attributed to Li has failed, this is also the root causes of his ruin, so that he inevitably became the object of criticisms from people, it became under the historical conditions typical of capitulators and traitors. I think the most typical part of it when the Sino-Japanese naval battle, and can say that there is no Li of painstaking efforts, the Northern Navy will simply not exist. However, due to reasons known to all the people of today, the victory of the war in fact already doomed before the war, and even more funny is that is this year created a scale for the first of the northern naval Asian people, eventually evening Qing pushed the enemy to the negotiating table with a series of traitorous treaty signed.
Roaming in Li within the halls of government, as we go into the late Qing Dynasty that tumultuous history. Lee Fuchu inadvertently I have seen the time when the Westernization Movement in Zaochu up to 2 meters of that is required to use that rod carrying two guns, which is described in the data, the kind of "two-person lift." In fact, this infantry weapons, is already very advanced at the time, but that is because of this, I felt Li was wrong, and then advanced weapons can not save the demise of the late Qing Dynasty. Although Li's Westernization Movement represents China's future development direction, but the ideological core of Li is still the corrupt Qing Dynasty and services, still want to retain the feudal rule and the traditional political structure, as Li Liang said: "only know foreign affairs, not understand the state. "This is his personal life, an important source of the tragic, leading to the denigration of honor behind him are out of this. Meanwhile, Li also because of the tragedy is that he died, he did not find out the real reason for the tragedy. Yan Qi, he is an hour before, the Russian minister was also forced him standing at his bedside in Northeast China in Russia accounted for a treaty signed at a time when life's inability to understand the causes of his tragic Li has been unable to speak, and the remaining only tears shed their tears, and he closed his eyes.
Hefei, this piece of ancient land, have produced a people to pay their last respects to ages of Bao Zheng, a few hundred years later, it appeared that a Li controversial historical figure. From the Lee government out of the sky, floating under the rain increasing, just busy at this bustling crowd at this time no disappeared, the ground water was thick with rain hysteric to beat the wind, and the early autumn sidelong ground blowing the rain, playing in that shade of the trees on roadside, little by little, it swept away the hot summer heat, people feel the coolness of the Cecil, as his mixed feelings, with the unexpected autumn comes autumn, and have intercourse in the Kongkuo the street. Umbrella line in the rain, and then look back on that floor, hidden in the modern inter-Ha Lee House, Lee House howling rain. . . . . .
Author: yilumuge
