Zeng Guofan has 300,000 heavy soldiers, why didn t he oppose the Qing Dynasty and claim the emperor?

Although he has a heavy army in hand, he knows what he wants, and the emperor has too much trouble.

Because he himself is already more than half a hundred people, he retreats bravely, and has no intention of competing for power and profit with other bureaucrats.

Because he is loyal to the emperor, he will not oppose the Qing Dynasty and claim the emperor himself.

Because Zeng Guofan was very patriotic and very loyal, the ancient people's thinking was relatively rigid.

Zeng Guopan is a very patriotic person, and he will never do anything treasonous, so his reputation is very good.

In ancient times, reputation was still very important, and he was also a person who valued reputation very much.

He was a patriotic man, he was not the kind of person who was disloyal and unrighteous, and his life was above board.

Because he was also a patriotic man, the ancients cared a lot about reputation.

It shows that this person is not the kind of villain who will do anything for the yellow position, and his life is bright and fair.

1. Checks and balances of strength. Although after the encirclement and suppression of the Taiping army, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army was the strongest, but at the same time, there were local powerful factions such as Li Hongzhang's Huai army and Zuo Zongtang's Chu army, and Manchurian nobles such as the Qing court monk Greenqin also had considerable military strength, and the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in power, was ruthless and skillful in politics, all of which were difficult to deal with. Once Zeng Guofan rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, it was likely to become the target of public criticism, and it was difficult to suppress these forces by relying only on the strength of the Hunan army.

2. Influence of etiquette and religion. Zeng Guofan received an orthodox Confucian education since he was a child, and the traditional feudal etiquette and loyalty to the monarch are very important, he is not a careerist like Yuan Shikai, limited to his own era, it is difficult to form Kang Youwei's reform ideas and Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary thoughts, and it is naturally difficult to make anti-Qing and self-reliant moves.

3. The idea of loving the people. Zeng Guofan was originally a scholar, and the reason why he put pen to paper was related to the fact that he saw ordinary people falling into civil war. When Zeng Guofan established the Hunan Army, the slogan he put forward was to defend the hometown (defend the hometown).

Therefore, after the Taiping army was eliminated, Zeng Guofan was unwilling to start a civil war again and destroy the lives of the people. So there's a reason why Tsang is still widely respected to this day.

It's all speculation now, and no one knows what Wen Zhenggong thought at that time. Judging from the situation at that time, if Lao Zeng raised troops, it was indeed possible to achieve great things, but it was definitely a dangerous move: the tinkerer Li Zhongtang and the left mule were not fuel-efficient lamps.

Interestingly, the grumpy left mule once asked Hu Linyi to ask Lao Zeng ambiguously: "Do you always want to go further?" In other words, Lao Zuo has already seen that Lao Zeng has this opportunity, and Li Zhongtang, who is as deep as the sea, will not be able to see it? And then the emperor's gang will not be able to see it?

Everyone can see it, won't they stay behind? In fact, at that time, the imperial court had already made several intriguing military and political moves. Lao Zeng is not a fool, he is well fed and warm, and he still tosses around, and it is a big deal to go home and drink.

Because Zeng Guofan has a very serious idea of loyalty to the monarch in his bones, he has never had the idea of committing the following crimes, and once he becomes emperor, it will cause great social turmoil.

Because he would backfire when he became emperor and let him fall into injustice, he did not dare to be emperor.

Because Zeng Guofan's education did not allow Zeng Guofan to do this, he demanded himself by the standards of a saint all his life, so it was impossible for him to commit rebellion.