湘军的兴起并非曾国藩个人的功劳,湖南的很多儒生都发挥了重要作用。湘军建立之初,江忠源、郭嵩焘就多次建议筹办水师。江忠源提出对抗太平军的根本办法是以水师先控制长江,再夺沿江太平军重镇九江、安庆、南京。于是曾 The rise of the Hunan army was not the personal credit of Zeng Guofan. Many scholars in Hunan played an important role. At the beginning of the establishment of the Hunan Army, Jiang Zhongyuan and Guo Songtao proposed to organize navigators many times. Chiang Kai-shek put forward the fundamental solution to the Taipings by controlling the Yangtze River with a navy and winning the Jiujiang, Anqing and Nanjing Riverside Taiping towns. So ever