Why did Li Hongzhang kill Hu Xueyan, the richest man in the Qing Dynasty?

Hu Xueyan is on Zuo Zongtang's side, as we all know, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang are hostile relations, plus Hu Xueyan's business is in full swing, the court is relatively short of money, and wants to take his money, so Li Hongzhang wants to kill Hu Xueyan, the richest man in the Qing Dynasty.

Because Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang have contradictions, and Hu Xueyan and Zuo Zongtang complement each other, getting rid of him is equivalent to breaking Zuo Zongtang's arms.

Because Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang's person, Li Hongzhang has to kill Hu Xueyan if he wants to deal with Zuo Zongtang.

Because Hu Xueyan has a very close relationship with Zuo Zongtang. And Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang are political enemies, so Li Hongzhang will definitely kill Hu Xueyan to cut off Zuo Zongtang's right-hand man, politically speaking, Hu Xueyan is a political victim.

This is because Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang are in opposite positions above the court, and Hu Xueyan is Zuo Zongtang's person, so he has become a victim of the political struggle between the two.

Because Hu Xueyan supported and supported Li Hongzhang's political enemies, Li Hongzhang killed him in order to eradicate the power of his political enemies.

Because Hu Xueyan is a profiteer, he took a lot of kickbacks. So Li Hongzhang wanted to kill him.

I think the main reason is that this rich businessman did not donate money to the state, and there is also the result of his damage to Li Hongzhang's interests.

Because Hu Xueyan is also his mortal enemy, the reason is that Hu Xueyan is the one who wears the same pants as Zuo Zongtang.

Mainly because Hu Xueyan's follower is Zuo Zongtang, and his opponent Sheng Xuanhuai's follower is Li Hongzhang, and these two people are also opponents, so Li Hongzhang had to get rid of Hu Xueyan.

Hu Xueyan was originally born in poverty, and went out alone when he was a teenager, and later because he was very smart, he was recognized as a son by the boss of the bank, and then Hu Xueyan began to study under this boss.

After the death of the boss, Hu Xueyan inherited this money bank, which was worth thousands of taels at that time, and Hu Xueyan did business on this basis, getting bigger and bigger, faintly surpassing Sheng Xuanhuai, which made Li Hongzhang very angry.

Later, when Zuo Zongtang was on the Northern Expedition, the silver taels were not enough, but Hu Xueyan lent him eighty taels of silver.

After that, Hu Xueyan went to the bank to borrow more than 6 million silver, and Hu Xueyan used the silver to buy a large amount of silk, wanting to sell the silk to foreigners and make the difference in price, and Hu Xueyan also contacted customers at that time.

But in order to bring down Hu Xueyan, Sheng Xuanhuai secretly went to these customers and asked them not to buy Hu Xueyan's silk, and said that he was willing to bear their losses, so Hu Xueyan's silk was piled up in his hands and could not be sold.

And the eighty taels of silver he lent to Zuo Zongtang were not returned to him in time because of Sheng Xuanhuai's reasons, Sheng Xuanhuai also asked the bank to find Hu Xueyan to collect debts, so Hu Xueyan had to buy silk at a low price and mortgage his house.

After Hu Xueyan took back the silver lent, Li Hongzhang said in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi that Hu Xueyan had eaten the kickback of military salary, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was very angry and ordered Hu Xueyan's home to be raided.

If you want to talk about the reason why Li Hongzhang killed Hu Xueyan, the richest man in the Qing Dynasty, it was mainly due to the evidence at the time, and it can only be said that Hu Xueyan was a victim in the power struggle of the late Qing Dynasty at that time.

In the political situation at that time, there were two major forces, Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, Hu Xueyan supported Zuo Zongtang to recover Xinjiang and provided a large amount of funds, it was originally a struggle between the two major political parties, Li Hongzhang understood that if he wanted to overthrow Zuo Zongtang, he must first get rid of Hu Xueyan, to put it bluntly, Hu Xueyan did not suppress the team, and the failure was already doomed.

Hu Xueyan suffered a lot when he was a child, and finally because he helped his friend, he lent the money of the shopkeeper's family to his friend, and later his friend became an official, and Hu Xueyan really began a brilliant life. It is Hu Xueyan who has such a personality charm that will contribute everything to Zuo Zongtang without hesitation when he is in trouble and needs help.

Every dynasty had intrigues and rivalries, and the late Qing dynasty was no exception, mainly between Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang. At that time, Hu Xueyan supported Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang supported him behind Sheng Xuanhuai, Li Hongzhang in the process of long-term competition with Zuo Zongtang, gradually understood that if you want to overthrow Zuo Zongtang, you must first get rid of Hu Xueyan, Zuo Zongtang's treasury, so during Zuo Zongtang's war in a foreign country, he attacked Hu Xueyan.

Hu Xueyan borrowed 6.5 million taels of silver from foreign banks in order to make a career, and at the same time, Zuo Zongtang borrowed 800,000 taels of silver in the name of Hu Xueyan because of his own military pairs and military salaries, but he didn't know that the disaster had just begun, and in the same year, Hu Xueyan ** bought a large amount of raw silk and wanted to monopolize the industry.

In the end, Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai, with a plan, let people not buy Hu Xueyan's life and death, in the end Hu Xueyan did not sell the raw silk, Hu Xueyan had no choice, put his own silver money, demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, and finally because of the purchase of raw silk business was Sheng Xuanhuai's calculation, the angry Hu Xueyan fell ill, in 1885, Zuo Zongtang died of illness, Li Hongzhang in front of the most powerful ruler at that time, Cixi sued Hu Xueyan for taking kickbacks in the matter of borrowing foreign debts, Cixi was furious, and finally Hu Xueyan was raided, and finally died of serious illness and hatred.

Li Hongzhang was one of the most famous imperial courts of the Qing Dynasty, helping the Qing Dynasty to deal with foreign countries countless times. And the other person, Hu Xueyan, is also a famous figure in the Qing Dynasty, as a businessman, Hu Xueyan is first-class and steady, but why did Li Hongzhang and Hu Xueyan not cooperate together, but have a hostile relationship, and were even killed by Li Hongzhang in the end?

If you want to discuss this issue, you have to mention another ** in the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang. Zuo Zongtang was also one of the officials of the Qing Dynasty, but Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang are opposites, and Hu Xueyan is also working with Zuo Zongtang

When Zuo Zongtang recovered Yili in Xinjiang, Hu Xueyan was a big arm of Zuo Zongtang, as a businessman, Hu Xueyan when Zuo Zongtang went all the way west to recover the lost territory, due to the lack of treasury, military expenses could only be raised. At this time, the huge military expenditure was collected by Hu Xueyan and other major figures.

After Zuo Zongtang recovered the lost land and returned to the dynasty, his status rose greatly, and Hu Xueyan because he had a huge amount of money, under the alliance of business and government, the status of Zuo Zongtang and Hu Xueyan was raised in the imperial court, but at this time Li Hongzhang could not bear it, and the contradictions with Zuo Zongtang became more and more, and the two bureaucrats also continued to have contradictions and frictionsIn the end, Zuo Zongtang died of illness. After Zuo Zongtang, Hu Xueyan lost the political asylum of Zuo ZongtangAs a businessman, Hu Xueyan also touched Li Hongzhang's interests, so when Hu Xueyan was down, not only did he not help this outstanding businessman, but even took the opportunity to suppress it in order to obtain his own interests. In the end, Hu Xueyan died of illness, although it was not Li Hongzhang who killed Hu Xueyan, but it was the catalyst for Hu Xueyan's death.