What is the grudge between Hu Xueyan and Li Hongzhang, and why does Li Hongzhang have to destroy him

Therefore, whether Li Hongzhang "kills" or "kills" Hu Xueyan has nothing to do with the overall situation, he will not fall because of Li Hongzhang, but will also be defeated with Zhang Hongzhang and Liu Hongzhang. Hu Xueyan has brought much inspiration to Chinese businessmen. Many people believe that Chinese entrepreneurs are still keen to watch the thick "Hu Xueyan" because he is the "business saint" in the minds of these people.

Because politics is involved, Hu Xueyan and Li Hongzhang themselves do not have much grudge, but Hu Xueyan's backer is Zuo Zongtang.

Since ancient times, politics and business have been peaceful, and if they can't get along, they will naturally check and balance each other, and Hu Xueyan touched Li Hongzhang's political interests at that time, so he naturally had to be rectified.

In the final analysis, it is the grievance between Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, Hu Xueyan is an important figure in Zuo Zongtang, and getting rid of Hu Xueyan is equivalent to cutting off a lifeline of Zuo Zongtang, and there is no direct damage to Li Hongzhang.

I think Li Hongzhang took a fancy to his wealth, and only by killing him can his wealth be confiscated and make up for the country's financial shortage.

In the final analysis, it was because of the factional dispute in the late Qing court, and Hu Xueyan was Zuo Zongtang's right-hand man, and it was a pain break for Zuo Zongtang.

The political struggle is either you die or I live, and Hu Xueyan, as an important adviser to Li Hongzhang's political opponent Zuo Zongtang, will naturally be defeated.

Li Hongzhang is to destroy Zuo Zongtang behind Hu Xueyan, there is no deep hatred between the two, but Hu Xueyan provides funds for Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang can't stand it.

The main purpose is to crack down on Zuo Zongtang and the Hunan group behind him. Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang's right-hand man. The two factions of Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang were seriously at odds and fought openly and secretly for a long time. In order to defeat Zuo Zhongtang, it is necessary to defeat his right-hand man first.

Hu Xueyan is a businessman in Zuo Zongtang's camp, has a good personal relationship with Zuo Zongtang, and provides financial support for Zuo Zongtang; And Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang are rivals, so Li Hongzhang also hates Hu Xueyan to the core.

Because Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang's person, and Li Hongzhang has long regarded Zuo Zongtang as a competitor, there is a competitive relationship between the two of them.

Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang's partner and raises money for Zuo Zongtang's military activities, precisely because of Hu Xueyan as an economic adviser, but Li Hongzhang obstructed Zuo Zongtang's recovery of Xinjiang, but Hu Xueyan supported Zuo Zongtang very much, so Li Hongzhang hated Hu Xueyan.

Because it was Li Hongzhang's promotion that caused Hu Xueyan to go bankrupt from the rich side. How could Hu Xueyan not hate Li Hongzhang, Hu Xueyan was also forced to death by Li Hongzhang in the end.

Hu Xueyan is a famous red-topped businessman in modern China, in the Qing Dynasty he can be said to be rich and rival the existence of the country, but Hu Xueyan is a victim of political struggle, he fully supports Zuo Zongtang to recover Xinjiang, for the country Hu Xueyan is a simple celebration, but the officialdom of the shopping mall, the waves are treacherous, Hu Xueyan will be his life and Zuo Zongtang together, one is prosperous, one is withered, and in the end there is no bet.

In fact, Hu Xueyan's life is still very representative, he went from a cattle herding baby to a man in Qianzhuang and then transformed into a red-top businessman in the Qing Dynasty, thanks to two nobles, one is Wang Youling, and the other is Zuo Zongtang. It was also because of the help of these two people that Hu Xueyan became a winner in life in a few years, and Hu Xueyan also tried his best to help Zuo Zongtang after success and get a win-win situation.

But the more beautiful Zuo Zongtang is, the more unhappy his political opponent Li Hongzhang is, and if he wants to bring down Zuo Zongtang, he must first get rid of Hu Xueyan. In 1882, Hu Xueyan was unwilling to let the Chinese silk farmers' raw silk ** has been controlled by foreigners, in order to recapture the raw silk **, Hu Xueyan opened a silk factory in Shanghai, and also bought back raw silk with a higher ** than the foreigners, at first Hu Xueyan's move did make the foreigners fall into a passive situation, but did not expect to catch up with the Sino-French War, and at that time Europe and Italy announced a bumper harvest of raw silk, and the ** of raw silk plummeted. Li Hongzhang took the opportunity to use his power to restrain Hu Xueyan and make his factory unable to operate normally, causing huge losses to Hu Xueyan, and Hu Xueyan had no choice but to sell the raw silk he collected.

Later, Li Hongzhang learned that a loan of 800,000 yuan from the Qing court with Hu Xueyan as the intermediary expired, and the Qing court should have sent the money to Hu Xueyan first, and then Hu Xueyan would return the money to HSBC, but Li Hongzhang greeted the ** who handled it, and asked him not to call the money to Hu Xueyan first, and then Li Hongzhang asked Sheng Xuanhuai, the general office of foreign affairs, to encourage HSBC to collect money from Hu Xueyan, Sheng Xuanhuai and Hu Xueyan are commercial opponents, of course he is willing to help with this, Hu Xueyan just fought with foreigners for the right to live before he was stopped, and all foreigners were offended, he couldn't borrow money, and HSBC kept urging money, and Hu Xueyan had no choice but to sell part of his private property and repay the 800,000 taels of silver.

After that, Li Hongzhang spread rumors everywhere that Hu Xueyan was making a money shortage, and reported to the imperial court, saying that Hu Xueyan had countless losses, and in order to avoid social turmoil, his property should be frozen and his debts should be paid off with goods. After hearing the news, bureaucrats and wealthy businessmen from all over the country came to withdraw money, but the amount of money withdrawn was too large, and the family property was frozen, so Hu Xueyan could only declare bankruptcy in the end. However, Li Hongzhang did not intend to let Hu Xueyan go, and Li Hongzhang gave Cixi a twist, saying that Hu Xueyan had eaten kickbacks from foreigners when he was trying to recover loans from Xinjiang.

Cixi was so angry that she ordered Hu Xueyan to be dismissed from his post and investigated.

Li Hongzhang's successive blows made Hu Xueyan from the richest man to later destitute. In the end, Hu Xueyan couldn't support it and died depressed.

Foreigners (4), Hu Xueyan (2), raw silk (1).

Li Hongzhang harmed Hu Xueyan because of his different political positions, and Hu Xueyan sided with Zuo Zongtang in the struggle between Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, which indirectly laid the tragic end of his own destitude.

Hu Xueyan (1823-1885), whose real name is Hu Guangyong, was born in Jixi, Huizhou, Anhui Province, and moved to Hangzhou at the age of 13. He is a famous red-roofed businessman, politician, and representative figure of Hui merchants in modern China.

Although Hu Xueyan was smart and had close contacts with officialdom, he became a victim of the political struggle between Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang because he was ignorant of official reason, rigid and self-serving, and did not know how to be flexible. led to the rupture of Hu Xueyan's capital chain, as well as Xi Zhengfu, known as the "Dongting Mountain Gang". This man was the founder of the financial comprador of the Qing Dynasty, and he worked for HSBC.

Hu Xueyan was caught in the internal and external attacks of foreign financial capital forces and domestic financial comprador forces, and his defeat was already irreversible in terms of strategy.

In the ninth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1883), its industry was forced to sell at a low price and its assets were halved by the competition of local bureaucrats to withdraw money and extortion, which caused the capital turnover to fail. In the end, Hu Xueyan was dismissed from his post and his family property was confiscated, and he died depressed.

The most prominent partisan struggle in the late Qing Dynasty. The Hunan and Huai parties, headed by Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang respectively, spared no effort in fighting in the nest regardless of the pressure of foreign enemies, and even derived incompetent people to "take the lead" from the former enemy, destroying people and misleading the country. Because of the factional disputes between Hunan and Huai and the differences of opinion on national defense policy, Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang have always been on the same page, and even on the same footing.

The Xianghuai party struggle not only consumed the limited talents of Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang, but also directly led to corruption in the selection of talents. It also indirectly contributed to the fiasco of the Sino-Japanese War.

First, the relationship with Zuo Zongtang, Mr. Gao Yang said in "The Complete Biography of Hu Xueyan" that Hu Xueyan felt that Li Hongzhang was too fond of power and was not upright enough, and he personally didn't like it very much. This is very likely, in terms of his interaction with Zuo Zongtang, it should not only be a power-for-money transaction, but also a spiritual reverence. If you change the court, you need to plan early, plus the fatal blow at the critical moment (the name of the vote) to win Li Hongzhang's trust.

But looking at his personality and tutoring, it may be more difficult.

Second, the ship is in a big trouble to turn around, and it must have been with Zuo Zongtang for so long, it is inevitable that there will be bumps with Li Hongzhang's people, and if you risk turning around, you may be cleaned up very miserably. Moreover, the whole country knows his relationship with Zuo Zongtang, and many people will be despised if he changes his court, and it is still very suspenseful whether he can continue to do his current business in the future.

Third, the family is too confident, he dares to fight against foreigners with his own strength, which shows that he is very confident, he may feel that after so many years, he has deep roots, and the resistance is over, at most it is not the God of Wealth, but he is still the eldest brother of Shanghai Tang, if he changes the court, and he has to start from the younger brother, the psychology is not very comfortable after all.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang fought politically, Hu Xueyan provided a lot of financial help for Zuo Zongtang, so that many of Zuo Zongtang's plans could be implemented smoothly, in order to bring down Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang must first bring down Hu Xueyan!

Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong are political enemies in the court, and Zhang Zhidong's power and Hu Xueyan's wealth help each other, so overthrowing Hu Xueyan hit Zhang Zhidong.

Because at that time, if you kept seriously injuring the peasants, it would make the national situation even worse, so you have to form hatred from public to private.

Li Hongzhang and Hu Xueyan have no enmity, but Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang do not deal with each other, and the two have different opinions on politics. And Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang's staff, so he naturally became the target of Li Hongzhang. In addition, Hu Xueyan is in business, and he also manages the money bank, and he has a lot of money.

When Zuo Zongtang needed money, he united with Hu Xueyan, which greatly increased Zuo Zongtang's strength.

Li Hongzhang naturally couldn't let Hu Xueyan continue to be arrogant, so he sent Sheng Xuanhuai, who was also a businessman, to suppress him. Sheng Xuanhuai is Li Hongzhang's person, and he deliberately stumbled Hu Xueyan and made Hu Xueyan fall. As a result, Hu Xueyan's business failed, and the capital turnover was not smooth, so he could only borrow money from the bank.

Sheng Xuanhuai made trouble in the middle again, so that the bank was unwilling to give money to Hu Xueyan. In order to maintain the business, Hu Xueyan had no choice but to sell all his family property. After selling his family property, Hu Xueyan's remaining business was only Qianzhuang.

At this time, Sheng Xuanhuai released the news that Hu Xueyan's capital turnover was not smooth, and ordinary people were afraid that their money would be wasted, so they all came to the door to ask for money. This is another heavy blow to Hu Xueyan.

Under the multiple blows, Hu Xueyan's body couldn't hold on, and it didn't take long for him to completely collapse. Li Hongzhang regarded Zuo Zongtang as a political enemy, so he would not let Zuo Zongtang go no matter what. And since Hu Xueyan is a member of Zuo Zongtang's faction, Li Hongzhang is bound to be killed together.

Hu Xueyan's death is equivalent to breaking Zuo Zongtang's right arm, and Zuo Zongtang's strength has been greatly reduced. It's a pity that Hu Xueyan was just a businessman, and he also took his life together. No wonder Hu Xueyan warned his children and grandchildren when he was dying at the end to stay away from ** and the imperial court.

Li Hongzhang and Hu Xueyan have no enmity, the reason why Li Hongzhang wanted to kill Hu Xueyan was because he wanted to attack his career opponent and political opponent Zuo Zongtang, so Li Hongzhang wanted to find a breakthrough from Hu Xueyan.

The real situation is that there is no enmity, but the Cixi Emperor at that time said that he needed to kill him to fill his treasury because the treasury was empty.

There is a grudge, but it was not Li Hongzhang who killed him. Li Hongzhang is indeed the culprit who caused Hu Xueyan to be depressed under the combination of grief. But Li Hongzhang was not the executioner who directly killed Hu Xueyan, and there were many factors that led to Hu Xueyan's death.

For example, Zuo Zongtang's sudden death"Economic crisis of 1883"and some of Hu Xueyan's own behavior (hoarding raw silk).

Hu Xueyan was a victim of the political struggle. In the Qing Dynasty at that time, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang were politically opposed, and if Li Hongzhang wanted to overthrow Zuo Zongtang, he must first overthrow Hu Xueyan behind his group. Hu Xueyan fell victim to this political struggle.

There is no grudge between Li Hongzhang and Hu Xueyan, and the reason why Li Hongzhang killed Hu Xueyan is that the person behind Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang. At that time, the struggle between Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang in the officialdom was very serious, so after Zuo Zongtang failed in the officialdom, Hu Xueyan, who was Zuo Zongtang's financial support, naturally had to be eliminated by Li Hongzhang. Hu Xueyan was originally just a cattle herding baby with four walls, but later with his own efforts, he became a red-top businessman at that time.

Although he failed in the end because of the struggle with Sheng Xuanhuai, Hu Xueyan's achievements cannot be ignored. Hu Xueyan's success in the mall is inseparable from the support of two people, one of whom is Wang Youling. Wang Youling was not good in officialdom at that time, and later met Hu Xueyan, because Hu Xueyan valued Wang Youling, so Hu Xueyan took out his own money to help Wang Youling deal with officialdom.

When Wang Youling rose step by step in the officialdom and finally rose to the governor of Zhejiang, in order to repay Hu Xueyan's kindness, Wang Youling helped Hu Xueyan give the green light in business through the power in his hands. As a result, Hu Xueyan's business became bigger and bigger. Later, Hu Xueyan met Zuo Zongtang through channels, and then he has always been Zuo Zongtang's money bag.

The reason why Hu Xueyan later became a red-top businessman was also because he relied on Zuo Zongtang's relationship to do the arms business, and his arms business became bigger and bigger, and he was later named the political envoy by the Qing Dynasty at that time. Although it is just a fictitious position, Hu Xueyan, as a red-top businessman in the Qing Dynasty, has a momentum that cannot be compared with ordinary businessmen.

And Hu Xueyan's most successful place is to help Zuo Zongtang recover Xinjiang, although the imperial court at that time agreed to Zuo Zongtang to recover Xinjiang, but because there was no financial support from the state, Zuo Zongtang had nothing at that time, and the shells and military expenses needed by Zuo Zongtang were all from Hu Xueyan. Therefore, after Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, Hu Xueyan's business road became broader.