The news of the death of Sheng Xuanhuai, known as the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty, in 1916 bombed the entire Republic of China, because the richest man left him a lot of property for his children after his death. According to later incomplete statistical conversions, the money that Sheng Xuanhuai gave to his children when he died was enough for them to buy 20,000 sets of Beijing courtyards in the background of scarce land, and if the money was converted into today's yuan of about two trillion yuan, it would not be too much to describe it as rich and enemy.
However, what people at that time could not understand was that the property left behind by Sheng Xuanhuai at the time of his death and the amount of property left behind at the time of his wealth and glory were completely incomparable.
Today, more than a hundred years later, it is very difficult to explore this huge family at that time, but through the dust of history, we can still find some clues in the cracks, and we can clearly glimpse the wealth of this huge family at that time.
Among them, I have to say about sheng Xuanhuai's servants in the house. According to the various information left behind, it can be known that at the peak of the Sheng family at that time, there were two or three hundred servants alone, including men and women, ranging from more than ten to fifty years old, but there were still more girls. Compared with other wealthy families, it is a good configuration to hire three or four nannies for a child to take care of, but the Sheng family has equipped each child with six nannies. These do not include washing and cooking for children, teaching children to learn knowledge, and these nannies are much stricter than the average rich family's nannies in terms of requirements, and have high requirements in the appearance of nannies and moral knowledge.
In today's terms, the Sheng family's request to find a nanny at that time had some flavor of the current large company looking for employees. Even though the Sheng family's requirements are very much, there are still many people who desperately want to go to the Sheng family to be servants, because not only is the Sheng family's remuneration for the servants very considerable, but the Sheng family is also very kind to the servants.
Entering the Sheng family as a servant, the spine can be straightened a lot, because this is equivalent to half of the Sheng family, with the Relationship of the Sheng Family, it is not difficult at all for the family to do anything in the future. Moreover, the Sheng family will also manage the family members and marriage mating of the people.
There was a maid of the Sheng family named Lü Baozhen, who found a golden turtle concubine for her when she was married, and that person was Zhao Qinghua, the second son of Sheng Xuanhuai's old subordinate minister of transportation.
Although marrying Zhao Qinghua can only be a concubine, he is also a rich and noble family, so Lü Baozhen does not suffer a loss when she marries him. Later, Lü Baozhen also gave birth to a child for Zhao Qinghua, at this time Sheng Xuanhuai began to hint at Zhao Qinghua to let Lü Baozhen turn right. However, Lu Baozhen was a maid after all, and it was a little inappropriate to let such a illiterate woman as a big-character woman take charge of the housekeeping business, so this matter was not resolved.
Of the four boys and three girls born to Lü Baozhen, one girl later became a famous strange woman, the famous Miss Zhao Si. This Miss Zhao Si was the wife of Zhang Xueliang later, Zhao Yidi.
And another maid of the Sheng family, her legendary life is not inferior to Lu Baozhen, her name is Ni Guizhen. Compared with Lü Baozhen, who often did some rough work, Ni Guizhen's status was a little higher, and her position was called "adoptive mother" at that time. This position is equivalent to a tutor, Ni Guizhen graduated from Shanghai Beiwen Girls' High School, very good at mathematics, compared to Lu Baozhen, Ni Guizhen is a very talented woman.
The adoptive mother of the Sheng family later introduced her eldest daughter and son who had returned from studying in England to seek a position in the Sheng family. And her son Song Ziwen also had a romantic relationship with miss Seven of the Sheng family, but this love that had no door to door was snuffed out by zhuang shi, the head of the Sheng family.
With Song Ziwen's talent and ability, if Sheng Xuanhuai were alive, he would never give up such a good talent to become his son-in-law.
When Ni Guizhen was working in the Sheng family, she was very appreciated by Sheng Xuanhuai because she was smart and clever, and later Sheng Xuanhuai helped Ni Guizhen solve many problems, and she would also help after she left the Sheng family.
Later, Ni Guizhen married her poor husband Song Jiashu, and the two began to study and do business in order to live, and on the road of business, Sheng Xuanhuai often helped these two young couples. Even though Ni Guizhen had once worked as a servant in the Sheng family, Sheng Xuanhuai had never despised Ni Guizhen, but got along with Ni Guizhen with an equal attitude. Later, Ni Guizhen gave birth to six children, and they all later became big figures with heads and faces in the Republic of China.
The reason why Sheng Xuanhuai became the richest man on the rich side is because Sheng Xuanhuai understands that if he wants to develop, he needs to accumulate connections. Later, the Sheng family fell lonely, and many descendants of the Sheng family were poor and destitute. It was precisely because sheng Xuanhuai gave the Song family's help that led to the Later Song family's generous help.