Yang Changjun

Yang Changjun

Yang Changjun

(1825-1897), Chinese characters

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Hutian old man

In the late Qing Dynasty, he was a military general of fengle 38du, Shentong Township, Xiangxiang county (now Xiyang Town, Louxing District, Loudi City, Hunan Province). He has been intelligent since childhood. He has a big body and excellent strength. At the age of 20, he studied with Taoist priest Luo Zenan. At the age of 25, he was a student member of Buxian county.

After the rise of the Taiping army, he followed Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan and others to establish the Hunan army regiment training background, and granted the positions of discipline, professor and so on. Later, because his father was seriously ill, he asked to go home. In 1860, when Zuo Zongtang was in charge of Liangjiang military affairs, he recruited Yang Changjun to come back. He served as county magistrate Jia Tongzhi, Quzhou magistrate, Zhejiang storage and transportation road, Zhejiang governor, and so on. He served as governor of Zhejiang Province for seven years, and was dismissed for wrongly criticizing the case of "Gabriel's murder of his husband". In 1878, Zuo Zongtang supervised the military affairs in Xinjiang, while Yang Changjun rose again. He has successively served as Governor General of Gansu, acting governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, governor of water transport, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and governor of Fujian, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu and Secretary of the Ministry of war. From the crown prince to the Taibao.

In 1897, Yang Changjun died of illness in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province. Yang Changjun works in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and is erudite and versatile.

Life of the characters

Early years

Yang Changjun was born on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month in the fifth year of Daoguang (1825) in fengle 38du, Shentong Township, Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province. His father Yang Zhongming was an ordinary craftsman in the local village. In 1935, his mother died of illness when he was nine years old. In the 29th year of Daoguang (1849), Yang Changjun went to the Bajiao mountain Museum of Zuo's family to worship Luo Zenan, a famous general of Hunan army, as his teacher, to learn Cheng Zhu's Neo Confucianism and martial arts. In the first year of Xianfeng (1851), he was admitted as a student. In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), the Taiping Army entered Hunan. He followed Luo Zenan to organize regiment training. In the summer of the fourth year of Xianfeng (1852), he followed Luo Zenan to fight in Hubei. In October, Luo Zenan led the Hunan army to attack the Taiping Army in Banbi mountain on the other side of Tianjia town. Yang Changjun bravely ascended the mountain first, and Luobu successively attacked Guangji and Huangmei. Yang Changjun was promoted to the deputy of county school instructor because of his great contributions in several battles. Later, he followed the Xiang army to the Taiping Army in Jiangxi and Anhui. He fought with the Taiping Army in Fengshuling, successively conquering Dexing and other places. He also conquered Wuyuan in the high sand war. He made many contributions and was moved to the county magistrate. In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), he and Liu Rong took charge of the League defense in their hometown, and were promoted to be professors (instructors of government schools); in this year, his father died, and he went home to keep filial piety for three years.

Enter the left curtain

In May and June of 1860, Zuo Zongtang trained the Chu army in jinpenling, Changsha. Yang Changjun was invited to join the army for three months. In August, he followed the Chu army through Liling and entered Jiangxi. In October, Yang Changjun and Wang Kaihua, the premier's battalion, led four battalions to defeat the Taiping Army in Fengshuling, Northeast Jiangxi. In November, Yang Changjun led his own battalions to capture Dexing and Wuyuan County magistrate, with the title. In the first month of the first year of tongzhi (1862), in order to contain the Taiping army, narrow its control area, and cooperate with the Xiang army's battle against Tianjing, the Qing government ordered Zuo Zongtang to be the governor of Zhejiang Province, and then led all 8000 "Chu army" to enter Zhejiang Province to fight against the 200000 troops of Li Shixian, the prince of Taiping army. In March, they attacked Shimen Huayuan harbor. They crossed the river and entered Huayuan harbor. Suddenly, the north wind was blowing and the rain was pouring. The Qing army's rockets were useless and the guns could not be ignited, so they had to retreat. Later, the rest of Zuo Zongtang's troops attacked Jiangshan. Yang Changjun, Liu Dian and Liu Ao attacked Shimen three ways and broke seven bases. Finally, because the Taiping army fought hard, they failed. In May, Zuo Zongtang, because of Yang Changjun's good temperament, repeatedly offered his recommendation. He was honest and honest, and Xiaochang Rongji recommended him as a member of Zhejiang provincial highway. In July, Zuo Zongtang attacked Longyou (now incorporated into Quxian and Jinhua counties of Zhejiang Province), and Yang Changjun led his army to defeat Taiping Army in Liantang, mengtang and other places. Because Longyou was in a hurry, Li Shixian sent three troops to help. The middle route captured the camp of Liu Peiyuan, the Qing army. Yang Changjun relied on the high mountain terrain to attack down and defeat the Taiping Army in the middle route. In September, Zuo Zongtang finally occupied Quzhou Prefecture on the border of Anhui and Zhejiang after repeated struggle with Li Shixian, and ordered Yang Changjun to be the magistrate of Quzhou Prefecture. In October of the same year, Tianjing (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province) was in emergency. Li Shixian sent Li Shangyang, Li Yumao and Liu Zhenghong to guard Tangxi (now merged into Jinhua County, Zhejiang Province), Longyou and Lanxi, and led an army to Tianjing.

Suppress the rebellion

In the first month of the second year of tongzhi (1863), the Qing army captured Tangxi. The Taiping army of Longyou abandoned the city and ran eastward. In September, the Qing government gave Yang Changjun the title of grain storehouse in Zhejiang Province; in November, he joined forces with Jiang Yili and Huang Shaochun to attack the northwest of Yuhang; on the third day of December, Yang Changjun attacked the north gate of Hangzhou, and the two armies fought fiercely. At this time, it was raining and snowing, and the Taiping Army stood still. On the 25th, the weather cleared up, and Yang Changjun and others broke five cards in Yuhang. The next day, he attacked Lin Qingyan, ten miles north of Yuhang (the residence of King Kangwang and Wang Haiyang), and retreated. On February 25th of the third year of tongzhi (1864), Yang Changjun led his troops to break through Hangzhou and Yuhang, and added the rank of inspector; in March, Zuo Zongtang settled in Hangzhou, and Yang Changjun was ordered to direct the Qing army to move northward to capture Wukang County of Huzhou prefecture (now in Wuxing County of Zhejiang Province), which is now merged into Deqing County of Zhejiang Province; then he stationed his troops in sanqiaobu to connect with the Qing army of Huzhou South Road; in May, Huzhou was peaceful The troops fled to Si'an and Meixi, and Yang Changjun intercepted them from Paitou to Tongling. In June, he was defeated in attacking Anji in the north. In July, Anji Taiping Army abandoned the city and went west. Yang Changjun led his battalions from Ji'an and Xiaofeng (now incorporated into Anji County, Zhejiang Province) to Ningguo County, Anhui Province. He joined Liu Ao's troops to attack Taiping army, and captured more than 7000 Taiping troops. In December, he granted Zhejiang salt transport envoy and promoted Zhejiang provincial inspector general . In August of the fourth year of tongzhi (1865), Zuo Zongtang went to the imperial court and said that Yang Changjun had made great contributions to the imperial court in the process of suppressing the Taiping army. Whether the imperial court can reward Yang Changjun, a brigadier general of the imperial court, for his promotion from the rank of inspector general of Zhejiang Province to the rank of chief minister, and for the second rank of the following three generations, to show his excellence. In February 1866, Zuo Zongtang went to Fujian, and the Qing court ordered Yang Changjun to be the chief envoy of Zhejiang Province to deal with the aftermath of Zhejiang. In December of the eighth year of Tongzhi, the Qing government appointed Yang Changjun as the acting governor of Zhejiang,

Zhejiang as an official

In August 1870, Yang Changjun was appointed governor of Zhejiang Province. After many years of war devastation, Zhejiang had a lot of waste to do. Yang Changjun led Zhejiang people to dig lakes and rivers, build water conservancy, and develop agriculture and mulberry. Yang Changjun once wrote a poem: "thirty thousand hand planted Chuiyang trees make the West Lake green in spring; if he passed ShuangDi road in his old age, he would follow Baisu in Tangyin.". After the "Tianjin religious case", Britain, the United States, France and other seven countries "protested" to the Qing government, and assembled warships in Tianjin and Yantai to demonstrate. In March of the 10th year of tongzhi (1871), Yang Changjun personally visited Ningbo and Zhenhai to inspect Haikou and prepare for defense. He went to the Qing court and said, "if we want to improve ourselves, we'd better learn from the Western military skills and their strengths. On the fourth day of November in 1874, he made a further analysis on the issue of coastal defense. He thought that although the Japanese invasion of Taiwan was over, it was difficult to guarantee that Japan would not use any excuse to provoke China in the future. Therefore, in order to resist foreign humiliation, he had to rely on war preparation to stick to it. Even if we want to maintain the current peace situation, we should be prepared, saying: "although the foreign military is powerful, if our people work together, they dare not openly provoke in public anger. Therefore, we must rectify the administration of officials in order to consolidate the people's will.". At this time, farmers in Xiangshan and Ninghai counties of Zhejiang often smuggled to Nantian Island, which was "closed" by the sea for cultivation. Yang Changjun thought that there should be no interference, so he decided to lift the ban. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), Yang Changjun was dismissed for the case of Yuhang Gebi.

Working in Northwest China

In April 1878, Yang Changjun was reinstated again. Zuo Zongtang, because of the complicated affairs of the western expedition, helped Liu Dian to go away because of illness, so he went to the Qing court and transferred Yang Changjun to preside over the military and political affairs on behalf of Liu Dian. Yang Changjun arrived in Lanzhou in December to help deal with the aftermath of Gansu and Xinjiang. He was awarded four titles. In 1879, he was allowed to play in a special way, and in September, he was awarded the second prize and acted as the governor of Gansu Province. In the first month of the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1880), Yang Changjun won the first prize for his efforts to raise the military salaries in the northwest; in July, Zuo Zongtang returned to Beijing in Hami by imperial edict; in November, Yang Changjun nursed the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and held a meeting with Liu Jintang to deal with the aftermath of Xinjiang, making an important contribution to the establishment of Xinjiang province. In August of the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1881), the imperial court granted Yang Changjun the post of governor of Gansu Province. In February 1883, he was also the governor of water transport.

Governor Fujian

On the third day of July in 1884, the French fleet attacked Fujian Navy and Fuzhou Shipping Bureau, causing great losses to China's coastal defense in Southeast China. On July 9, the Qing government appointed Zuo Zongtang as the imperial envoy to supervise Fujian military affairs, with Fuzhou General Mu Tushan and water transport Governor Yang Changjun as his deputy. On July 2 and 18 of the same year, the Qing government appointed Yang Changjun as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang At the end of December, French troops gathered in mazu'ao

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