There is a cloud in the "Augmented Sage": "There is not much hatred for wealth, and more wealth hurts the son of man." The ancients demanded that they should not leave too much money for future generations, otherwise they would easily harm them. However, Li Hongzhang was extremely fond of his descendants, he was a heavy minister of the late Qing Dynasty, and he was naturally rich enough to rival the country.
He had a mixed-race grandson who lived a life of spending money on the family property left by his grandfather, but in the end the family property was scattered and he could not even afford to eat, which was really pitiful. Let's take a look at how this stupid boy named Li Zijia is going to a situation of no return step by step.
Li Zijia was born to Li Jingfang and a foreign woman, this mixed-race child, with white skin and a high nose, very much like the British. This young master born with a golden key has received special attention from his parents since he was a child, and when he just began to speak, his parents invited Chinese and English teachers to teach him, which can be described as well-intentioned. However, Li Zijia was not the material for reading, as soon as he saw the teacher' head, he grew up, and the little bully who liked to ride a horse and shoot arrows since he was a child was completely outside the book.
When he was a teenager, Li Zijia was already proficient in eating, drinking, gambling, and gambling, and people ridiculed that if they wanted to find Li Gongzi, they could only go to a brothel. He was also infected with opium, swallowing clouds and spitting fog all day long, and drunkenly dreaming of death. When his mother saw that her son did not eat a vessel, she was inevitably distressed and wanted to educate him, but before she could finish speaking, the others had already slipped away. Later, his father Li Jingfang died, Li Zijia and his brother divided the family wealth equally, and there were resources in their hands, and Li Zijia became even more debauched. In order to avoid his mother's discipline, he simply lived separately from his mother.
No one disciplined him, and he lived his life to the extreme. A girl was married from the brothel and hired an aunt, two cooks, and five male maids to serve her. He was bored, and also had a group of dogs, these dogs are very expensive, there are special people to take care of, Li Zijia went out, followed by "dog guards", very funny.
Later, he contracted syphilis in the brothel, and when he couldn't get a prostitute, he turned around and gambled. He gambled a lot, the syphilis was not healed, he couldn't walk, so he let people carry him, and a bet was all night. Such a fanatical gamble, but the gambling luck is extremely poor, almost every bet must be lost. But Li Zijia didn't care, what he was pursuing was excitement, and it mattered to spend some money. Besides, he believes that he has a strong family foundation, and he is used to spending money in a big way, and he has no concept of money at all. In this way, under Li Zijia's dark tossing, the golden mountains and silver mountains were hollowed out by him.
In his forties, he couldn't come up with a penny anymore, and even eating was a problem. He went to find Zuo Jusheng to collect debts, he once lent Zuo Jusheng ten stone rice, but Zuo Jusheng was a loser like him, and he couldn't give him ten stone meters at all, and when he saw that Li Zijia was alone and had no fixed place to live, he invited him to come and live with him. Li Zijia had nowhere to go, so he had to agree. Neither of them went to look for work, and they could only drink porridge every day, so thin that they only had a few grains of rice, and they couldn't fill their stomachs at all.
Li Zijia, who was accustomed to eating and drinking, could not bear this kind of suffering at all, and he committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, but he was rescued by others. He did not die, but he suffered from wind and cold, high fever did not go away, there was no money for medical treatment, and he died of illness.
The world always wants to leave enough money for their children and grandchildren, so that their children and grandchildren can enjoy more blessings and reduce the hardships of life. But often the opposite happens, the children and grandchildren occupy a huge inheritance, do not worry about food and clothing, lose the ability to live, the end is lamentable, should they leave money for their children and grandchildren? Li Hongzhang's mixed-race grandson proved with a lifetime tragedy that it is better to stay rich than to stay in Germany.
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Biography of Li Hongzhang