左宗棠(1812～1885年),字季高,又字朴存,湖南湘阴人。他幼年从读于祖父和父亲。19岁,左宗棠进入长沙城南书院,向贺熙龄问学。贺熙龄的哥哥贺长龄的经世致用思想,对左宗棠产生了很大的思想影响。左宗棠西征收复新疆后,于1880年11月启行入关。从这以后,他把他的晚年精力大部份倾注在水利兴修事业中。 1881年初,当左还在入关途中,便奏请兴修直隶上源水道,建议从怀来县顺桑乾河疏浚至涿州,并调旧部将王德榜、王诗正率各营至永济桥兴办。把军队的力量调用在经济建设上,是左宗 Zuo Zongtang (1812 ~ 1885), the word high, but also simple memory, Hunan Xiang people. He read his grandfather and father from childhood. At the age of 19, Zuo Zongtang entered Changsha Chengnan College to learn from He Xiling. He Hee-ling’s brother He Chang-ling’s thought of using the past and being practical for the world has had a great intellectual impact on Zuo Zongtang. After Zuo Zongtang levied against Xinjiang in the west, he started his entry into the country in November 1880. Since then, he devoted much of his later years to water conservancy projects. At the beginning of 1881, when the left was still on the way to the border, it was proposed to revise Zhili’s access to watercourse. It is proposed to dredge the river from Shuilai County to Pizhou and reconstruct the old battalion, Wang Debang and Wang Shizheng, from camp to Yongji Bridge. The transfer of the power of the army in economic construction is the left case