A Study Of Zuo Zongtang’s Mufu

Zuo Zongtang is one of the late Qing Dynasty politics all-powerful governors.Since the beginning of the late Xianfeng, he has served as the Governor in Zhejiang, the Governor in Zhejiang and Fujian, the Governor in Shanxi and Gansu, the Governor in Jiangsu,Anhui and Jiangxi, to lead an army crushed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, the Nian Army uprising and the Hui Uprising, and to recapture the Xinjiang province. Zuo Zongtang works behind the brilliant can’t do without the support of the Mufu, through the systematic study of the Mufu, will also contribute to the deepening of the Zuo Zongtang and the history of late Qing Dynasty recognition.For eight years the Mufu experience Zuo Zongtang had before to create the Mufu, this experience has the impact should not be underestimated on the establishment of the Mufu, largely determines the staff selection criteria and the next Mufu activities. Zuo Zongtang selection is closely related to staff and talent, including the staff into the curtain way:Curtain host active hiring, played the tune, Zha Wei and others recommend. To staff appointment, according to its own characteristics, suit one’s measures to local conditions or the person appointed the responsible for a job. The Council of Zuo Zongtang can be divided into four stages:Fujian and Zhejiang, Shanxi and Gansu, Xinjiang, in the southeast. Overall, the relationship between host with guest in the Mufu was complex. Based on the origin and source of Zuo Zongtang’s native place, quantitative analysis, both the overall characteristics of a glimpse of late Qing Mu Fu, also can see Zuo Zongtang’s have a style of one’s own features:at first, the Mufu confirms in the late Qing Dynasty,"Shaoxing Hunan solider" this proverb; Secondly, the talent who was familiar with the froniter situation more; three, it was full of Confucianism.Zuo Zongtang’s Mufu work focus on planning strategies, preparing the army logisticsand and dealing with the aftermath.Planning strategies, such as Xia Xin, Wang Baixin, Bai Jingwei et have provided stratagem to Zuo Zongtang, he adopted it and served as the criterion of military layout. The army logistics is the most important work for the Mufu, the local fund raising in the Southeast period, and to strive to the assist fund from other provinces in the northwest period. After the war, Zuo Zongtang appointed the guest to set up the Aftermath Bureau which was responsible for handling aftermath, mainly in the economic recovery and revitalization of Confucianism. In short, Zuo Zongtang’s Mufu side to quell violence, a responsible for the chaos after reconstruction. It was by virtue of Zuo Zongtang’Mufu, the Qing Dynasty accelerated the counter insurgency war victory, the late Qing Dynasty from the world is saved, and achieve the Tongzhi Restoration in the end. The study on Zuo Zongtang’s Mufu, it is useful to think the Central and local power after the Xian Tong Jun Xing. Through the restoration of Zuo Zongtang’s in the history of the true face, the Mufu has not completely become governor dictatorship tool. Further, the scholars think that after the salty with Jun Xing formed the "the power of local goverment more than the central goverment" wasn’t absolutely right, the central goverment and local goverment contain each other to judge seems more appropriate.