After suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guofan asked the court to demobilize the Hunan army in his book, but made no mention of his personal fate
Because he knew that if he asked to stay in the court in the memoir, he would be suspected of being greedy for power; if he asked for dismissal and return to his hometown in the memoir, it would give the court the impression that he was unwilling to continue to be loyal to the court
In dealing with a fraud case in the imperial court of the Yongzheng Dynasty, if Zhang Tingyu advocated killing Zhang Tinglu, it would make his family think that he was unjust; if Zhang Tingyu advocated protecting Zhang Tinglu, it would make Yongzheng think that he was unfaithful. Therefore, Zhang Tingyu was ill at home and did not play a book for a long time