Lin Zexu's father, Lin Binri, is a local teacher. Besides Lin Zexu, there are ten children at home. Eldest brother died in his early years, leaving nine.
Although my father is a private school teacher, he can also receive public grain after winning a scholar, but it is still difficult to make a living because of the large population in his family.
In order to subsidize the family, mothers often work as female workers to make a living without telling their fathers. She also passed on her skills to her daughter to support her family life.
Later, Lin Zexu also recalled this past in the article "A Brief Account of the Past":
"Over the years, Jia Jun entered the school, and he was eating and eating. Since then, although the pavilion valley is slightly full, the index finger has gradually become poor.
First, he cut the needle and cut the ribbon into flowers of vegetation. Eight unfilial sisters, all of whom are the first to be taught, are ready to make great contributions. "
Although there is no need to do it for the family, Lin Zexu takes the handicrafts of his mother and sisters to the store for consignment before going to the bookstore every day. Go to the store to collect money after school and go home to my mother.
Although life is hard, Lin's family education is very strict, and Lin Zexu's father is also very open-minded, so Lin Zexu received a good education from an early age.
Poor family background and strict family education also enabled Lin Zexu to maintain a clean habit and a style of observing people's feelings when he was promoted to a senior official in the future.
Although the family is poor, the whole family is very warm. The family environment of loving father and mother, brother and sister dating, in a sense, gave Lin Zexu great comfort.
Neighbors who live near their home often hear Lin's laughter while eating. Looking around, it was just a dozen people eating tofu with relish.
There is joy in sweetness, joy in bitterness, peace in joy, and determination in kindness.
It can be seen that Lin Zexu is actually lucky, and his childhood experience is enough to warm the bitterness of the rest of his life.
Lin Zexu is gifted.
At the age of four, he had entered the bookstore with his father and could read and write. At the age of seven, he was proficient in style, which was very rare at that time.
When he was eight or nine years old, Lin Zexu wrote poems that shocked four people, such as "The sea is vast, the sky is shore, and I am the peak at the top of the mountain".
When studying, Lin Zexu often used the bonus of excellent works to subsidize his family.
At the age of nineteen, Lin Zexu took part in the provincial examination and the senior high school entrance examination. On the day when the result was announced, he officially married the daughter of the Zheng family.
Of the four happy events in life, Lin Zexu accomplished two things overnight: being the number one scholar and holding a wedding.
Get married and start a career, and he did it at the same time.
At the end of the year, newly married Lin Zexu left his family and went to Beijing to take the exam. This time, I didn't get what I wanted. I was named Sun Shan.
After returning to his hometown, Lin Zexu opened a "Bumei Bookstore" in Beiku Lane, Fuzhou, and began to teach as a disciple.
In the second year after marriage, Lin Zexu worked as a tongzhi secretary of Haiphong in Xiamen, responsible for handling the documents and records of merchants' foreign ships and rice, grain and soldiers' salaries.
At that time, the problem of opium smuggling in Xiamen was serious, and all previous Xiamen coastal defense tongzhi were corrupt officials. Bribery by foreign businessmen has become the norm, and no one has cracked down on smuggling.
Therefore, Lin Zexu realized the opium problem and the tricks of businessmen, thus broadening his horizons.
During this period, Lin Zexu was appreciated by Fujian Governor Zhang Shicheng and was recruited as Zhang Shicheng's staff.
Zhang Shicheng is a very important person who knows a lot about laws and regulations and other political knowledge. He passed on his business and political knowledge to Lin Zexu.
At the end of the same year, Zhang Shicheng recommended Lin Zexu's father, Lin Binri, as the director of the Academy, and the economy of the Lins was improved.
This year, Lin Zexu took the exam again, but he was still not on the list. He still stays in Zhang Shicheng's house as an adjutant.
Until 18 1 1, 26-year-old Lin Zexu went to Beijing to catch the exam and took the second place and the fourth place in the palace exam. He was immediately awarded the post of editor of Hanlin and embarked on the road of being an official.
Whenever there are difficulties, there is always a noble person to help. After many twists and turns, I finally became famous and became an official.
Although the process is tortuous, relative to the result, Lin Zexu is undoubtedly lucky. The right time, the right place and the right person, fate still cares for him.
18 16, Lin zexu left imperial academy and went to Nanchang, Jiangxi as an examiner.
After hearing about this, the father wrote to his son specially because of his past experience, telling him to choose talents carefully.
Since then, Lin Zexu has served as an examiner for many times. He followed his father's instruction and took his work seriously, so he gained a good reputation among scholars.
182 1 year, his father was critically ill, and Lin Zexu resigned on the grounds of taking care of his father. During her return to China by boat, her wife Zheng Shuqing gave birth to a daughter on the boat. When I got home, my father had recovered.
Father Ming, Lin Zexu returned to officialdom.
1823, Lin zexu was appointed as a judge in Jiangsu province. During his tenure, he reorganized the official administration, reformed the trial procedure, and decided the case personally, and was praised as "Lin Qingtian" by Jiangsu people.
Lin Zexu thought that opium was the cause of the bad atmosphere in Jiangsu, so he ordered Jiangsu to ban smoking.
Time is up 1837. At this time, opium in Guangdong is very toxic, and everyone is smoking everywhere.
Lin Zexu was ordered to send an imperial envoy to Guangzhou to investigate and punish the smoking ban. He found out the situation of Guangzhou being poisoned by opium in advance, and then searched various cigarette houses and got a lot of first-hand information.
1March, 839, Lin zexu arrived in Guangzhou. More than three months later, Lin Zexu collected nearly 20,000 boxes of opium, about 2.37 million kilograms.
1On June 3rd, 839, at Humen Beach, Lin Zexu destroyed these opium in public.
After returning to North Korea, Lin Zexu was not rewarded by Daoguang, but suddenly turned to the emperor.
At that time, Britain launched the first Opium War. Daoguang Emperor claimed that only Lin Zexu was dissatisfied with Britain. As long as the court punishes Lin Zexu, all problems can be solved.
Lin Zexu invited twice to state the rationality and justice of banning smoking and resisting Britain, but both were rejected by Daoguang Emperor. Moreover, Daoguang turned against Lin Zexu and accused him of talking nonsense.
So he removed Lin Zexu from his post and sent Lin Zexu to Yili, Xinjiang to atone.
Lin Zexu was meritorious in resisting Britain, but he was framed by the capitulators. After being dismissed by Daoguang, he felt humiliated and worried about his country and people. Don't feel sorry for personal setbacks, but try your best for the safety of the motherland.
When Xi 'an said goodbye to his wife in the ancient city, angry Lin Zexu wrote a poem:
"Selfishness is the life and death of the country, and it is avoided because of disasters."
This is an expression of his patriotic feelings and a portrayal of his temperament and personality.
1845, Lin zexu was reused by the imperial court.
Lin Zexu has served as governor of Shaanxi, governor of Shaanxi and governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.
From 65438 to 0847, Lin Zexu served as governor in Yunnan to maintain the stability of Yunnan's frontier. In his second year in office, Lin Zexu invited him back to his hometown for treatment due to illness.
Lin Zexu's political career ended when he resigned due to illness.
1850, in order to suppress the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty once again appointed Lin Zexu as an imperial minister to supervise the military affairs in Guangxi.
However, Lin Zexu was very helpless at this time. His illness has not completely recovered, and hernia still occurs from time to time. By the time he arrived in Puning, he was terminally ill and had to stay in Puning Pavilion.
Finally, accompanied by his son and staff, Lin Zexu died on1October 19 (1850165438+1October 22) at the age of 66.
Lin Zexu was born for the country and the people all his life and worked hard. In the end, I died on my way home. It was a fair death.
Can shine for the ideals and ambitions in my heart, even if the ending is a moth to the fire, it is not worth going to the world.
As the writer in today's biography of Wukong said:
"I have been to this world, I have fought, I have loved deeply, and I don't care about the ending."
A flash of light is enough to light up one life after another.