It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country. The son of the richest man of a generation went from being worth hundreds of millions of dollars to finally becoming poor, which made people sigh.
The pace of history is moving forward very fast. Among these are many examples of poor children who have the opportunity to become rich, some of whom are still in their heyday, and some of whom are short-lived and ruthlessly washed down in the rivers of history, and the unification problem they face is inheritance.
Some rich second-generation young people continue to develop after taking over the family business, not only to become rich for a lifetime, but also to educate future generations by example, making the family foundation deeply rooted. There is another kind of rich second generation, after inheriting the family business, all day long idle, and finally squander the generations of property left by the ancestors, such people abound, there is a representative person here during the Republic of China, he is the fourth son of sheng Xuanhuai, the richest man in the Republic of China, Sheng Enyi.
The rise of the Sheng family
Sheng Xuanhuai was discouraged in his early years, and he was only admitted to the meritorious name at the age of 22, but this person's mind was very flexible, and when he fled with his parents, he looked at the local policies and listened to the style of officials, fortunately, he studied some big people with high moral standing, and his parents were also people with great wisdom, but the opportunity had not yet arrived.
With the rise of Li Hongzhang's foreign affairs movement, Sheng Xuanhuai seized this opportunity and went to Li Hongzhang as an aide, during which he gave many constructive proposals, which were very important to Li Hongzhang, which was also Sheng Xuanhuai's first nobleman.
After that, Sheng Xuanhuai began to vigorously develop the mining and shipping industry, taking advantage of the wave of the foreign affairs movement, opened many Sino-foreign joint companies, and slowly made a fortune, in his lifetime, he created 11 Chinese firsts, constituting modern China's own military industry system, breaking the monopoly of foreigners, and was later known as the "father of Chinese industry".
The Sheng family slowly moved from decay to wealth, the house covers hundreds of acres, countless deposits, at that time, if there is a rich list, it will be called "China's richest man".
Sheng Xuanhuai married three wives in his lifetime, with a total of eight sons and eight daughters, and in the early days of the Republic of China, with the establishment of Han Yeping Company, Sheng Xuanhuai's family business reached its peak. However, when he was out, he neglected family education, which also led to the unruly personality of Sheng Xuanhuai's fourth son, Sheng Enyi, and eventually ruined the family property.
Shanghai Beach's number one "loser"
Although Sheng Xuanhuai's family was great, almost his hands and eyes were all over the sky, but he could not defeat tianming, his eldest sons and second sons died one after another, Sheng Enyi became the eldest son of the family, and his mother Lady Zhuang was very fond of him, and she would meet almost any request of her son. Even the child's name was given by Empress Dowager Cixi.
Because his father Sheng Xuanhuai was in contact with the foreign affairs movement and often dealt with foreigners, he was enlightened in his thinking, and he also knew the importance of staying in the west to contact the outside world culture to broaden his horizons, and he sent his children to study abroad during Sheng Enyi's study period, and successively studied at the University of London in the United Kingdom and Columbia University in the United States, which is something that ordinary people dare not think of in their lifetime, but it is easily realized in Sheng Enyi.
After returning from studying abroad, Sheng Enyi inherited the family business and served as the manager of HanYeping Company, but Sheng Enyi did not absorb advanced cultural knowledge abroad, but learned to eat, drink and gamble, and the song and dance on the beach after he returned to China also made Sheng Enyi gradually lose his heart and began to embark on the road of no return.
Although he was a playboy, after all, there was a great family business, and Sheng Enyi still married the daughter of Sun Baoqi, who was later the prime minister of the Republic of China government, at the age of marriage.
After marriage, his life is more luxurious and lavish, the first Mercedes-Benz car on the beach was purchased by Sheng Enyi, not only that, he also plated a layer of silver on the car, the license plate is "4444" symbolizes the identity of his sheng family's fourth elder, no matter where the car goes, there will be a group of wine and meat friends to come out to greet, and the people on the street only have envy.
The deeds of Sheng Enyi's losers are not only that, yellow gambling and poisoning do not have what he does not stick to, of which his favorite is gambling. He enjoyed the feeling of calling the wind and rain at the gambling table, throwing thousands of dollars, and also enjoying the envious eyes of others, and when throwing out a bunch of chips, he felt that he was the one who was the most high. There was once a gamble that became a joke after people's tea and dinner, and also became the origin of Sheng Enyi's "loser" on the beach.
One afternoon, Sheng Enyi woke up confused, washed up and felt bored, so he drove his Mercedes out for a spin, gambled twice by the way, and still lost a lot of money at the table, but this was nothing to him. At this moment, a voice came into his ear: "The children of the Sheng family are just like this." Sheng Enyi looked back angrily and found that the person who spoke was Lu Xiaojia, the son of Lu Yongxiang, the governor of Zhejiang.
Sheng Enyi was conceited about his status as a rich second generation, and everywhere he went, he had been ridiculed like a moon, and he was so angry that he was dizzy, and he even shot down the table to gamble with Lu Xiaojia, who gladly agreed, and in this way, the two children opened a meaningless gamble in order to argue about who was richer.
Sheng Enyi's first few small victories, can't help but have some fluttery bets, who expected this bet to lose all back, he was not willing, continued to raise the bet to win back, first spent the silver tickets on his body, and then sent the class to take out the antiques of the family as a drop, after all of them were taken in, he still felt that it was not enough, and finally bet on more than a hundred lanes left by his father.
The final result, of course, was to lose cleanly, but the blow to Sheng Enyi was only a day or two of depression. Because he usually always sleeps until he wakes up in the afternoon and goes out to do activities at night, but the bank is closed at night, he often steals the antiques from the family to go out to the pawnshop to exchange money, and the next day the bank opens the door to redeem it, and he has also revitalized a lot of pawnshops.
The downfall of the "loser" in his later years
In this way, with the squandering day after day, Sheng Enyi's property slowly began to tense up. At that time, when the Japanese army was invading China, Sheng Enyi, in order to curry more oil and water with the Japanese, actually used the route left by Sheng Xuanhuai to secretly help the Japanese army transport opium, but all the promises promised by the Japanese were nonsense, and Sheng Enyi himself lost a lot of money and did not get any benefits.
The family property left by Sheng Xuanhuai was finally defeated by Sheng Enyi, and in his later years, he was no longer brilliant, and the wine and meat friends around him also walked and scattered, and the entertainment life was only left with walking. One day, he and Li Hongzhang's grandson walked to Xiangyang Park, and when he saw that the scenery was pleasant and sunny, he wanted to go inside to see, who knew that the two could not even make up the ticket money in their pockets, which was really regrettable.
With the implementation of the land state-owned policy after liberation, Sheng Enyi's real estate was also taken away because he could not afford to pay taxes, and finally only the old mansion was left, Sheng Enyi walked into the doorway shakily after a walk one night, recalling his lifelong wandering experience, he could not help but sigh, sat on the threshold and slowly closed his eyes.
Transferred from the history of human beings and a brief history