咸同之际清廷与湘淮集团的江浙控制力之争

清咸丰末年到同治初年,是太平天国战争形势发生重大转折的关键时期,也是湘淮集团为了在战争中求生存发展而大力拓展权势资源的重要时期,更是清廷和湘淮集团权力争夺、力量消长的一个关键时期。江浙历来为清代财赋根本、饷源要地,要赢得战争的胜利,既要有高明的将帅、充足的兵力兵源,也要有充足的粮饷和得力的后勤支持。因此,这一时期围绕江浙财赋之区的控制与争夺异常激烈,清廷、湘淮集团、江浙地方势力各有攻守进退。

The Struggle over the Power to Control Jiangsu and Zhejiang between the Qing Central Government and the Xiang-Huai Clique in the Xianfeng and Tongzhi Reigns

This essay discusses the struggle to control Jiangsu and Zhejiang between the Qing Central Government and the Xiang-Huai Clique during and after the suppression of Taiping Rebellion and Nian Uprising in the Xianfeng and Tongzhi reigns.The author concludes that although the local power clique of Xiang and Huai gained a partial right to exercise control that the central government formerly held,it was not obvious that the authority of the central government was weakened profoundly,at least in the reigns of Xianfeng and Tongzhi.