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Tongzhi Emperor was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Qing 清 · Relation Ruled
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 405Volume 405 Biographies 192: Ceng Guofan · 4 passages
國籓自以德薄，請簡大臣馳赴軍，俾分己責，上優詔慰勉之，謂：「天災流行，豈卿一人之咎？
Zeng Guofan, judging his own virtue insufficient, asked that a senior minister be sent to the army to share his burden; the throne issued a gracious edict of consolation, saying, "When calamity spreads from Heaven, how can the fault be yours alone?
江寧平，天子褒功，加太子太傅，封一等毅勇侯，賞雙眼翎。
With Jiangning pacified, the emperor rewarded merit: Zeng Guofan was made Senior Preceptor of the Heir Apparent, enfeoffed as First-rank Marquis of Yiyong with brave merit, and granted the double-eyed peacock feather.
穆宗每簡督撫，輒密詢其人，未敢指缺疏薦，以謂疆臣既專征伐，不當更分黜陟之柄，外重內輕之漸，不可不防。
Whenever Emperor Tongzhi chose governors and governors-general, he secretly inquired about the man; Zeng Guofan dared not nominate by name in memorials, holding that frontier commanders already wielded punitive authority and should not also share appointment and dismissal power—the drift toward external strength and internal weakness must be guarded against.
未幾而王果戰歿曹州，上聞大驚，詔國籓速赴山東剿捻，節制直隸、山東、河南三省，而鴻章代為總督，廷旨日促出師。
Before long the prince indeed fell in battle at Caozhou; the emperor was greatly alarmed and ordered Zeng Guofan to hasten to Shandong to suppress the Nian, coordinate Zhili, Shandong, and Henan, while Li Hongzhang replaced him as governor-general; court orders daily pressed him to march.