Since ancient times, China's rural population has always been at the forefront of the world, so it has also laid the foundation for China to become a big agricultural country. Although the development of urbanization in recent years has buried the contribution of rural areas to economic construction, many achievements are undeniable.
There are many legendary people and things in the countryside, and rural life has now become a hot spot on the Internet.
Under socialism, the development of rural areas is getting better and better, and many people want to return to their hometowns to start a business.
But in the war years, it was difficult to survive as a farmer. They have to endure the exploitation of the landlord class without stopping.
In the western Sichuan region there is a famous large landlord Liu Wencai,
Under his exploitation and oppression, the life of the peasants was unspeakable, and the mention of this name is frightening.
Loot people's livelihood
Liu Wencai was born in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, a native of Anren Town, Dayi County, Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
He was once a well-known large landowner in western Sichuan, known as "Liu Laohu".
Liu Wencai lived a life of fine clothes and food as soon as he was born, and his ancestors held important official positions in the imperial court for many generations, accumulating many family businesses.
Although the family fell in the middle of the road later, but the family business is still very strong, Liu Wencai relied on these family properties to start his legendary "landlord" life.
Liu Family ancestors have many generations of protégés, passed down to Liu Wencai's generation but have no interest in obtaining meritorious names, he likes to do business, but simply relying on himself may not be able to reach the situation of the hegemonic side,
Liu Wencai's ability to become a "big landlord" who dominated western Sichuan depended on his younger brother Liu Wenhui.
Liu Wenhui was then the brigade commander of the Kuomintang Chuanxi Military Department, stationed in the Yibin area for many years, so his power also slowly penetrated into the western Sichuan region.
Become the leader of the warlords on the side that is steady and steady.
With the help of his younger brother, Liu Wencai successively held many important positions in the National Government, grasping the lifeblood of local tobacco and alcohol, ship donations, and taxes. These positions provided Great convenience to Liu Wencai, and he was gradually swallowed up by power and money.
Liu Wencai exploited peasants and imposed taxes in the local area, which made the people miserable.
When he was working for tobacco and alcohol companies, he forced farmers to grow poppies, a raw material for tobacco.
Not only that, he also levied a large amount of taxes on farmers, including tobacco seedling taxes, tobacco soil taxes, lantern taxes, etc., some of which were unheard of.
For those farmers who do not want to grow poppies, he also imposes a "lazy tax",
Do everything possible to loot people's property.
In addition to these miscellaneous taxes, there are also some harsh names, which are about forty-four in detail. Including flower donations, toilet donations, hoe donations, etc., the name is also strange, which is eye-opening.
Under these harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the people's lives can be imagined, everyone dares to be angry with Liu Wencai, and Liu Wencai has also accumulated a million family wealth through these forms.
Flocks of wives and concubines
After Liu Wencai became a "bully landlord", he gradually extended his hand from the farmer's fertile land to the good family women. In addition to what ming media is marrying, there is also what he snatched, which can be described as a group of wives and concubines.
Nominally Liu Wencai had five wives, and the original wife Lü Shi married him from the time he had not yet begun to make his career, and gave him children, but later because of the death of the child, Lü Shi was depressed, and finally died red and thin, and he was only 32 years old when he died.
During this period, Liu Wencai married a second wife, Yang Zhonghua,
After she passed the door, she gave birth to seven children for Liu Wencai in a row, three men and four girls.
It can be said that most of Liu Wencai's heirs were born to this second aunt. After the death of the original wife, the second aunt began to take charge of the family's affairs.
At this time, Liu Wencai had already started the road to prosperity through his younger brother, and successively accepted three concubines, Ling Junru, Liang Huiling and Wang Yuqing. After taking concubines, Liu Wencai spent all day drinking with them, and began to snub the second aunt and let her raise the child alone.
It is said that the concubine that Liu Wencai is looking for is not a good family woman,
Ling Junru was originally a Qinglou woman, because she would win people's hearts and charm Liu Wencai.
Later, Liu Wencai paid a large price to help her redeem herself and marry her home.
At home, Ling Junru and Yang Zhonghua had many discords, always secretly squeezing each other. But Yang Zhonghua is "a mother with a son", and Ling Junru naturally does not know what she is. Later, she found her cousin Liang Huiling to support her.
Liu Wencai saw that Liang Huiling looked beautiful, and also included her in the palace,
So Ling Junru and Liang Huiling stood in the united front to deal with Yang Zhonghua together. Soon after, Liu Wencai brought back a concubine, Wang Yuqing, and gradually snubbed Ling Junru and the two.
Wang Yuqing is the woman who accompanies Liu Wencai for the longest time, she was originally just an ordinary peasant woman, but because of her beautiful appearance, she was occupied by Liu Wencai as a concubine, and this identity also stained her ordinary life with many tragic colors.
Although she was "robbed", Liu Wencai was very kind to Wang Yuqing, and the degree of eating and wearing did not treat her badly.
Over time, Wang Yuqing fell in love with Liu Wencai and has been guarding him.
In his later years, Liu Wencai was bedridden due to illness, only Wang Yuqing was around to take care of him, and the second aunt had no time to take care of so many children, and the other two had already fled to other places. Only Wang Yuqing did not abandon her, and she was also the last remaining fifth aunt of the Chinese mainland.
The current situation of future generations
Liu Wencai married so many wives in his lifetime, and also left many heirs, but due to the reasons of the war years, there were also factors that carried out the landlord class struggle in the country after liberation.
Let his heirs be "unaccounted for".
From the records of the Liu family, it is known that Liu Wencai had a total of four sons, and the eldest son, Liu Yuanlong, was born to his second aunt, who died of desolation in his later years because he was addicted to gambling in his early years. The second son, Liu Yuanhua, was a smart student since childhood, and was later admitted to a military academy, but he was not reused because his father was a landlord.
There are also two sons who are also desolate in their lives, and the third son, Liu Yuanfu, is disassociated from the Liu family because he fell in love with his father's mistress, and eventually died depressed. The fourth son, Liu Yuangui, became a railway worker and was later killed by a train in an accident.
Liu Wencai named his sons "Longhua Fugui", hoping that they could inherit their family business.
But I didn't expect that their lives were contrary to the meaning of the name.
Subsequently, with the help of Liu Wencai's grandson Liu Xiaofei, he also found many of his descendants. Liu Xiaofei is currently working in the oil system.
Others are mostly scholars, including professors, university teachers and doctoral supervisors at Peking University.
Unlike his father's generation, Liu Wencai's descendants are rarely in business.
Compared with these accomplished descendants, Liu Wencai and another grandson, Liu Shiwei, are not so lucky. It is said that after the founding of New China, Liu Shiwei fled to Xinjiang with his wife and children in order to get rid of his status as a "landlord class".
However, because Liu Wencai's fame was too great, Liu Shiwei did not have a stable life during that time in Xinjiang.
Once, some local people directly rushed into his home and strangled Liu Shiwei to death with a rope.
Liu Wencai's life is very contradictory, that is, exploiting the people at the bottom and building schools, and everyone mentions him as a mixture of praise and depreciation. But compared to his "evil deeds", that bit of sporadic goodwill is simply insignificant.
There were also many people affected by him, including wives and concubines and descendants, all of whom paid a heavy price for his former evil after Liu Wencai's death.