Zhang

The first one, as we all know, is Zhang recorded in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. This one-man reformer who continued the national movement for 50 years in the Ming Dynasty is also known as the ten-year standing emperor. It can be seen that its rights are prosperous.

During Zhang's ten years as Huiji, he carried out a series of reform measures in finance, military affairs and official administration, which made the politics of Ming Dynasty clean and harmonious. At the critical moment of his reform, his biological father passed away. In order not to let his political measures fall short, he chose to seize love. This move was criticized by many people when the concept of loyalty to the monarch and filial piety was deeply rooted at that time.

In the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang died at the age of 58 and was given Zhu Guo. Later, they were all deprived, and even ordered the confiscation of property, cutting the official rank of the palace to the extreme, forcing them to seize the imperial edicts given to them before their death and live under the same roof for four generations, in order to show the world their sin. Family members starved to death or were exiled. He was an important minister before his death, but he fell out of favor after his death and was even implicated by nine families. At this point, the ending of Zhang Julu in the book is no different from that of Zhang.

Li Hongzhang

The second historical prototype, I think, is one of the four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang, a lifelong paperhanger. After all, the Liyang dynasty in the snow and Zhang's era are still somewhat different. From Yang, the nine countries were swallowed by whales and the whole country was unified. There are 300,000 northern cool warriors with face and heart, and further north, there are millions of northern headstrong warriors, including Gu Jiantang, Zhao Bing, Cao Changqing and others. The peaceful and prosperous time of Liyang dynasty was Zhang Julu, who was a paperhanger. Zhang Julu, who was killed by soldiers, sat in the north cool. Therefore, we can have peace, prosperity and the world.

However, after dying of old age and losing his deer, he went north to the south, the western Chu returned to China, the villain tu entered Shu, and the southern Xinjiang of Yan La Wang was also ready to move. The world is in chaos. Even if Zhao Dun had arranged before his death, and he moved out of Jiyang Dragon, he didn't keep his pulse. After Zhang Julu's death, even the most basic face was gone, and disputes continued, and the building was about to fall down.

This is similar to Li Hongzhang's. Zhang Julu calls himself a paperhanger in the book, and Li Hongzhang once laughed at himself as a paperhanger. There are some similarities between the two men.