曾国藩组织的湘军,始终是在清廷要君主集权,与湘军将领要扩张地方势力的矛盾中发展起来的。就曾国藩个人来说,由吏部侍郎组织湘军,到1860年总督两江、1861年节制苏、浙、皖、赣四省军事,其道路是曲折的。清廷长期猜忌曾国藩,害怕他兵权太大,易成尾大不掉之势;然而又不得不用他,所以,想出了种种办法来压制他、打击他,遂使曾国藩几起几落。但曾国藩在忠君思想的指导 The Hunan army organized by Zeng Guofan always developed in the contradiction that the Qing government wanted the monarchy to be centralized and the Hunan generals to expand the local forces. In the case of Kuomintang alone, the government was organized by the assistant minister to the Hunan army. By 1860, the governors of the two rivers and 1861 controlled the military in the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi. The road was tortuous. The Qing court has long suspected that Tseng Kuo-fan was afraid that his military power would be too large and could easily become an overstatement. However, he had no other choice but to come up with various ways to suppress him and attack him, thereby bringing Zeng to his death. However, Tseng Kuo-fan in the guidance of loyalty to the ideology