Li Hongzhang And "Ding Wu Qi Huang"

From 1876 to 1879, there was a big drought that the ancient and modern were rare. It took Shanxi, Henan as the center and effected number provinces, such as Zhili, Shandong. It was called"Ding Wu Qi Huang"("丁戊奇荒") in history. The famine relief measures were important basis that weight the government officials' achievements in the Chinese ancient times. The government officials of all previous dynasties thought highly of famine relief measures. Li Hongzhang was not exceptional, although his official position was very high. Li Hongzhang had implemented a series of famine relief measures as Zhili governor and a person in charge of transportation grain in the period of"Ding Wu Qi Huang"("丁戊奇荒"). Overall speaking: the measures including before disaster's prevention, the disaster relief, the disaster's restoration that Li Hongzhang adopted had received certain effect; the measures of reorganization administrative style and achievement of local officials and assign talented disaster relief officials also played certain safeguard role regarding famine relief measures carrying out, and he paid great attention to the unify of pity the people and the business, these all demonstrated his practical side. But as the feudal dynasty's government official and because of the result of the time, the famine relief measures which he carried out had certainly limited: had not realized the importance of the science and technology; not place importance on prevention before the disaster enough; had not enhanced fundamentally the productive forces of the disaster area to serve the purpose of resistance famine, but only discussed the disaster on the disaster, could not solve the rooted problem and could not achieve the anticipated purpose, therefore to the consequences could not give the high estimate. Moreover, Li Hongzhang was not true care for folk hardship in the process of relief matters, but by own political future primarily and he had big selfish self-interesting.This article is mainly divided three parts to carry on the elaboration: The first part: mainly introduce the status of"Ding Wu Qi Huang"("丁戊奇荒") and Li Hongzhang's main famine relief measures. Li Hongzhang's famine relief measures mainly from the preventive measures before the disaster, disaster relief measures and disaster restore measures after the disaster three aspects to carry on the elaboration. In addition, this article introduces reorganization administrative style and achievement of local officials and assigns talented disaster relief officials in order to guarantee these measures carry out implementation.The second part: mainly elaborates the effect of famine relief measures that Li Hongzhang implementation, separately from disaster's prevention, the disaster relief, the disaster's restoration to expound. Moreover, this article analyzes the effect of reorganization administrative style and achievement of local officials and assigns talented disaster relief officials.The third part: elaborates the characteristic and the limitation of famine relief measures. Mainly from the unify of pity the people and the businessmen, result-oriented and not take application of science and technology seriously, selfish aspects to elaborate.