Lao Chongguang

Lao Chongguang

Lao Chongguang (1802-1867), Minister of Qing Dynasty. Xinjie, a native of Shanhua (now Changsha City), Hunan Province. He was a Jinshi in the 12th year of Daoguang. He was appointed as the chief minister of Guangxi Province. In the eighth year of Xianfeng's reign, he suppressed the Taiping Army and other uprising forces, promoted the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was appointed governor of Yunnan and Guizhou at the beginning of Tongzhi. There are "Chang Xing Zhai poetry manuscript" and so on.

brief account of the author's life

Lao Chongguang (1802-1867), Minister of the Qing Dynasty, was born in Shanhua, Hunan Province. In the 12th year of Daoguang reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty, he was a Jinshi, who was selected to be a good scholar and was given editing. Daoguang 21 years (1841) as Shanxi Pingyang (now Linfen City) magistrate. Later, he was an official of Jining Dao and an envoy of Guangxi. In 1848, he served as the chief minister of Guangxi. Later, he and governor Xiang Rong successively suppressed the uprising of Li Yuanfa and xiuren (now in the southwest of Lipu County, Guangxi, now in xiuren town) and other "Heaven Earth Society" uprisings. In 1851, during the Taiping Rebellion, the governor of Guangxi was sent to assist saishang'a to run military affairs, set up bureaus to raise money, and ordered the States, governments, and counties to organize regiments to fight against the peasant uprising army. Later, he worked with the Guangdong army to suppress and induce the "Heaven Earth Society" uprising troops and masses in Guangdong and Guangxi. In 1859, he was the governor of Guangdong and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi (officially, October 7, 1859 - October 17, 1862). He signed the "special article on the boundary of Hong Kong" on behalf of the government. In 1861, he took charge of the capital of Guangdong Customs. In May 1863 (the second year of the Tongzhi reign of emperor Mu Zong), he was granted the title of governor of Yunnan and Guizhou to join the uprising of the Miao Hui nationality in western Guizhou with Feng Shixing, cen Yuying and Feng Rulong. The patient died after operation. I'm Wen Yi.

Lao Chongguang's former residence

The former residence of Lao Chongguang is located at Chuyi primary school in Changsha. In 1909, Chen runlin, an educator, founded Chuyi primary school. He borrowed the labor house as the school building and named it Chuying garden for the purpose of reserving talents. Chen was a Japanese student, but he studied western education and made Chuyi an excellent school. Most of its high school graduates enter Mingde, Yali and other well-known middle schools, and universities enter Peking University and Tsinghua University. Historian Wu Xiangxiang said in his works: I entered Chuyi in primary school, Mingde in middle school, and Peking University. Chuyi campus is very beautiful. It grows flowers and plants all the year round, especially chrysanthemums, which are in full bloom every autumn. The school attaches great importance to aesthetic education, and Changsha youth art competition is often held in the school.

Biographical materials

The content of Lao Chongguang's description in the 180 biographies of the Qing Dynasty is as follows

Lao Chongguang is a native of Shanhua, Hunan Province. In the 12th year of Daoguang reign, he was a Jinshi, selected a good scholar, and granted editing. Twenty one years ago, he became the magistrate of Pingyang, Shanxi Province. Transferred to Taiyuan, promoted to Jining Road, moved to Guangxi.

In the 28th year, he was sent to Vietnam to be canonized. After entering the pass, the bandits were on duty. They were stationed in si'en and Nanning to supervise the army's suppression. In the 29th year, Li Yuan, a thief from Hunan Province, moved to Hubei Province to set up Xinning and stayed in Guangxi for control. Yuan FA Ping, Xu Gong gives Hualing. In the past 30 years, he was granted the post of chief minister of Guangxi. Qingyuan thieves fled to Wuyuan and Pennsylvania, and Chongguang and his governor fought against Ronghui. Chen Sheng, the leader of the bandits, leveled the bandits in the forest and moved to the river. He set up a general plan to dissolve dozens of bandit parties. Fu Zhang Jia Xiang took over his subordinates and changed his name to Guoliang. Later, he made outstanding achievements in war. Looking for the governor, deputy general yiketanbu died in Guiping. He urged general Zhou Fengqi to help. At that time, he ordered Li Xingyuan to supervise the division and Zhou Tianjue to be the governor of the army. Chongguang still takes charge of the governor's affairs and will handle military affairs.

In the first year of Xianfeng, the great bachelor Sai Shang a Dai Xingyuan, and Zou Minghe became the governor. Chongguang society continued as before, pingxilin, Bobai and HUAIJI ran thieves. Yan Pinyao, a Guangdong thief, harassed Nanning and Taiping. Chongguang stationed in nanyong and fought with the Guangdong army. After many victories, he was annihilated, and Pinggui County thief was punished. Gu kaican, commander in chief of Zuojiang Town, held a group training in Nanfu, Taifu, Sifu and Zhenfu to annihilate the remaining Party of yanpin Yao in Lingshan and add headgear. Two years later, he was stationed in Wuzhou and met with Guangdong army to suppress boat bandits. Hong Xiuquan, a thief in search of Jintian, broke through the siege of Guilin and ordered Chongguang to come back to help him. When he arrived, the thief had already fled north, and even fell into Xing'an and Quanzhou. He pursued him with the commander in chief and Chun, and then he entered Hunan. Wu Wenrong, the governor of huiyungui, said that Chongguang had courage, courage and blood. Please pay attention to his power and promote him to governor. Shangshulue said: "although Guilin is out of the siege, the bandit atmosphere is not far away, and the feelings of the people are still suspicious. It's not possible to do it in a hurry. However, with regard to the current deployment of troops, those who have been transferred to various places by provincial standards will be withdrawn and stationed in the city of defense, and selected to train and divide the key passes outside the city. We should encourage the regiment to train for the people's morale, appease the exiles to restore the people's strength, train the soldiers to be brave to enforce military discipline, and search and arrest the bandits to pacify the traitors. The brigands and bandits of each group moved foolishly from time to time, and their troops were not enough to be allocated. They encouraged the regiment to practice in order to defend and prepare for the suppression. "

At that time, saishang'a was deposed and Chongguang was appointed to Guangxi military affairs. Although the bandits had left the old lair in Guangdong, they were responsible for searching for Party members. In three years, Hong Xiuquan and others occupied Jiangning and invaded the Central Plains. The military affairs are becoming more and more complicated, and the imperial court has no time to take care of the outlying areas. Since the time of Fu Mang in Guangxi, the army has been defeated, and the salary has been reduced. Only by relying on the regiment training, can the bandits not be destroyed. Chongguang and suppression and caress, support for several years. After the British settled in Guangzhou, the atmosphere of Guangdong became hot again. Boat bandits harassed Guangxi, and Xunzhou, Liuzhou, Qingyuan, Wuzhou, and Nanning fell one after another. The bandits in the nearby areas have been growing up, and they have repeatedly forced Guilin. Many generals are demoted in the army, but their hearts are full of evil. In the seventh year, Luo Bingzhang ordered Jiang Yili to lead the Xiang army to help. He broke down the thieves repeatedly, revived an and Lingchuan, and entered the provincial capital. He killed the enemy, Yi Shoujun and Guilin Shian. In the eighth year of the reign of zuoliu Yili, he suppressed bandits in Guangxi. In Pingle, he ordered Gongdu and Wutang to smash them and cut off more than 10000 people. From then on, the bandits began to decline. Qingyuan and Liuzhou recovered one after another.

In 1999, he was appointed governor of Guangdong and concurrently governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The British army was still in the provincial capital. Huang Zonghan, the former governor, and Qi Ling, the governor, were stationed in other counties. Chongguang arrived, entered the city calmly and lived with the enemy. The governor of Xunshi sent several generals to fight away the bandits in Hunan and Jiangxi. The local bandits rose from time to time and were soon put out. After meeting with Guangxi army to suppress boat bandits, Wuzhou and Xunzhou bandits gradually cleared up. In the 11th year, the British and French allied forces invaded the capital and reached a peace agreement. The enemy forces in Guangzhou began to retreat. In the first year of Tongzhi, Tao Changpei, the governor of the city, and Xu Qingrong, the county magistrate, took bribes for personal gain and were demoted to three levels. They were still ordered to go to Guizhou with the same product. Qi Ling, the former governor, and Hua Zhu, the imperial censor, impeached Chongguang and appointed him as a non-human. He dispatched a good party and ordered him to report himself. Then he signed the governor Yan duanshu and the governor Kun shoucha, and he was exempted from the discussion.

Find the governor of Yun Gui. Since the governor pan duo was killed, Governor Xu Zhiming returned to the Chieftain to protect himself. Zhang Kaisong succeeded the governor for a long time, so as to avoid dethroning him and order Chongguang to replace him. When Chongguang arrived in Guizhou, Shi Dakai, a bandit from Huiyue, was trapped in Suiyang, where he was defeated by the governor and stationed in Guiyang. In the spring of the third year, bandits and Miao bandits repeatedly attacked. Together with governor Zhang Liang, the soldiers of Jile stood firm, and the thieves were defeated. At that time, when Yunnan rebelled back, it was still in the provincial capital, and all the commentators said that they could not go there in a hurry. When Chongguang went on his way, the army and the people were glad to meet him in the suburbs. When he returned to the countryside, he began to gather a little. Ma Rong and Ma Lian, the two heads of the rebellion, were nestled in Qujing. In the spring of four years, he ordered Feng Shixing and his two men to join forces to conquer Qujing and capture Rong and Lian Sheng for favoritism. So he took Malong and XUNDIAN, swept the East, and sent governor Zhao Deguang to conquer the bandits' nest outside Pingjiang River, restored Guangshun, and conquered Guizhou and Dading in western Guizhou. Five years later, after the restoration of Pu'er and Simao, Yunnan became more and more militarized.

Six years later, he died, and he was given a compassionate reward. Jiaqi, who is "resolute and promising, has been an official in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, and has not evaded difficulties and dangers, so that the place can improve day by day", is presented to the crown prince, Taibao, and his posthumous title is Wenyi. Guangxi, please build special ancestral hall, cloud, noble worship famous official ancestral hall.

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