庚子事变中的鹿传霖--兼论若干大吏间的人事纠葛

Lu Chuanlin in the Gengzi Incident:The Personnel Entanglement between some High-ranking Officials

庚子事变中,时为江苏巡抚的鹿传霖率军北上入卫,并因缘际会地成为军机大臣。当时舆论多认为他同情义和团,主张排外,然而揆诸史实,这样的说法难以成立。他的入卫之举,在军事上全属无用,但在若干大吏之间引发了一系列复杂的人事纠葛。北上之前,鹿传霖与两江总督刘坤一已颇有嫌隙;而在他进入军机处之后,两人矛盾进一步加深,甚至影响了刘坤一在东三省交收谈判中的态度。另一方面,当时某些上海报纸对鹿传霖加以攻击。鹿传霖的妻弟张之洞认为这出自李鸿章、盛宣怀的指使,因此对两人大为憎恶,并在东三省交收谈判中对盛宣怀有所防范。由此可见,即使在当下政治史研究中被目为一个整体的"东南督抚"中,亦存在隐秘的政争,并影响着清朝的政治生活。

In the Gengzi Incident,Lu Chuanlin led the army to Beijing as the grand coordinators of Jiangsu and became Grand Minister of State because of fortune and circumstances.At that time,it was widely believed that he sympathized with the Boxers Movement and advocated exclusionism,but the historical facts disconfirmed such a statement.His act was totally useless in military affairs,but it caused a series of complicated personnel entanglements among some top officials.Before Lu Chuanlin’s proceeding northward,there was quite a bad blood between him and Liu Kunyi,Governor-General of Jiangnan(Jiangsu,Anhui)and Jiangxi Provinces.After he entered the Office of the Grand Council of State,the conflict between them further deepened,which even influenced Liu Kunyi’s attitude in the negotiation on the settlement of the three northeastern provinces.Furthermore,Lu chuanlin was attacked in certain Shanghai newspapers.For Lu Chuanlin’s brotherin-law Zhang Zhidong considered that it was under the instigation of Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai,Zhang abominated them greatly and took precautions against Sheng Xuanhuai in the negotiation on the settlement of the three northeastern provinces.Although the"southeast Civil and Military Governors"are regarded as a whole in the current political history study,there were still hidden political infightings among them,which had an influence on the political situation of the Qing dynasty.