Hu Xueyan is a famous red top businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, he struggled from a young man in Qianzhuang to become the richest man in the Qing Dynasty, in addition to having a talent for business, the most important thing is that he has a very high emotional intelligence, proficient in human feelings, good at making contacts, but the flower is not a hundred days red, and finally Hu Xueyan was not only raided, but also almost reduced to a prisoner, before his death he repeatedly warned all his descendants: Do not approach the White Tiger!
If you want to understand the white tiger in Hu Xueyan's mouth, everyone must understand the historical background at that time, in the ancient feudal society has always been heavy agriculture and suppress business, the status of merchants is very low, not only that the country's commercial resources are firmly controlled in the hands of the imperial court, Hu Xueyan understood very early, if you want to make a lot of money, you can only do business with the imperial court, so he has been painstakingly trying to make contacts, and finally he successfully got to know Zuo Zongtang, who has not yet developed.
Hu Xueyan and Zuo Zongtang can be said to have achieved each other, as Zuo Zongtang's career went up to the top of the clouds, Hu Xueyan's business also became bigger and bigger, and directly monopolized a lot of the business of the imperial court, but the tree was a big move, the more successful his business, the more stable Zuo Zongtang's position in the imperial court, which also made Li Hongzhang more and more dissatisfied, so he decided to turn hu first, designed to frame Hu Xueyan Qianzhuang bankruptcy, and almost became a prisoner on his back.
Although Hu Xueyan finally saved his life, he had nothing, and in his later years he could not even take out the money for medical treatment, and Hu Xueyan, who was deeply affected by the power struggle, advised his descendants not to approach the White Tiger, in fact, they did not want to combine politics and business, because the political struggle to kill people without blood was really sinister, and Hu Xueyan's descendants also obeyed the teachings, so far The descendants of the Hu clan have not engaged in politics and have rarely engaged in business.