He actually killed 60,000 people in half a year. How did Li Hongzhang deal with the underworld in Guangdong?

Li Hongzhang was very tough when dealing with gangsters. He usually dispatched troops to encircle and suppress wherever gangsters were found. If anyone was disobedient and resisted, he would be executed on the spot. If anyone was willing to surrender, he would be arrested. Going to jail will save you from death. Therefore, with such vigorous and resolute methods, 60,000 people were killed in just half a year. This number is quite astonishing, and it also laid the foundation for the subsequent suppression of the underworld.

In the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang was a popular figure around Cixi, and Cixi trusted Li Hongzhang even more than her own son. She would rather delegate power to Li Hongzhang than to her own son. Moreover, Li Hongzhang insisted on learning advanced foreign technology, and he also organized a proprietary army with modern weapons. Not only did he reorganize his army, but he also reformed many things. The most important thing is that these measures all appealed to Cixi, which led to Cixi's recognition of his abilities reaching the highest peak.

Later, because there were many underground forces in Guangdong, Cixi reluctantly sent Li Hongzhang there to quell the rebellion. These underground forces were originally the revolutionary party members left over at that time. They were decent people based on friendship, but later they were strangled in the cradle every time they resisted, and they gradually lost confidence in their own cause. Therefore, in this way Day after day, year after year of torture slowly turned them into mice that could not see the sun.

So they completely gave up on themselves and lived their lives without seeing the peaceful situation in society, so they robbed, looted and burned everywhere and did all kinds of bad things. In the end, Cixi had to send people to exterminate them.