There is an old Saying in China that "the rich are not more than three generations", of course, this is not absolute, and now more and more rich people pay special attention to the education of future generations, which is more important than making money and making children talented. Even after many rich people die, they would rather donate money to others than leave it to future generations, because they are afraid that they will not work hard in the future.
Everyone understands the truth, but how easy is it to do? Whether to leave money for future generations is a difficult question. Today, the author takes you to see the life of Li Hongzhang's descendants, and I think everyone will have their own answers in their hearts.
Let's first briefly understand how rich Li Hongzhang really is, in the late Qing Dynasty, there is a widely circulated couplet - "The prime minister Hefei is thin in the world, and the Si Nong Changshu is desolate in the world", which is to say that Li Hongzhang (a hefei person) and Weng Tonggong (a Changshu person) are rich, let's take a look at Li Hongzhang's "Separation Contract".
Li Hongzhang's family is actually not very large, with 4 wives and concubines, and 3 sons of the legal heir. The "Family Separation Contract" reads: 12 pieces of Zhuangtian, 1 piece of graveyard, 1 weir embankment, 4 industries in Tongcheng County, Anhui, plus 14 real estate in the provincial city of Anqing, are reserved for the expenses of Li Hongzhang's wife Zhou's ancestral hall. Managed by Li Jingfang. This is only for the wife.
Let's think about it, how much more sons and concubines can get? Moreover, the "Separation Contract" is only real estate, gold and silver treasures and other movable property can not be counted, people speculate that he has about millions of taels of silver, about 1 billion yuan, and it is a conservative estimate.
His eldest son is called Li Jingfang, Li Jingfang had 2 sons after his death, one named Li Houfu and the other named Li Guoyao (also known as Li Zijia), they inherited their father's inheritance, and the protagonist in today's story is Li Hongzhang's grandson Li Zijia.
Li Zijia was born in 1910, is a mixed-race child, the mother is British, Li Zijia looks very good-looking, so since childhood has been deeply loved by the family, after the death of his father, he and his brother shared their father's inheritance, he got a lot: 13,000 acres of rented land, a mountain field, a Hengfeng warehouse on the south bank of the Wuhu River, a three-story building at No. 42 Dingyi Village, Dingpan Road in Shanghai... You can also go to the bank every month to receive 500 yuan of pocket money.
It can be said that Li Zijia did not work all his life, he could eat and drink well and have fun every day, but excessive doting would definitely ruin a child, Li Zijia was a local "little bully" since he was a child, eating, drinking and gambling like a master, and later infected with opium, he sold a lot of real estate, but also because of playing women got sick, the body has long collapsed, but it does not affect Young Master Li to play, anyway, Grandpa has money.
In order to go out to have face, Li Zijia raised 6 dogs, when he went out, he let the left and right follow the class to lead 6 dogs to follow behind, surrounded by beautiful aunts, walking and swinging, this battle, if Grandpa Li Hongzhang saw it, the beard would be angry to fly.
In the casino, Li Zijia has always been generous, inviting guests and scattering money when winning money, taking real estate mortgages when he loses money, it is conceivable that no amount of money is enough for him to spend, so that in the end he is poor enough to let his brother give him a little more inheritance, his brother gave, and then he spent it again.
Later, Li Zijia owed a bunch of debts, got various diseases, followed him for more than 10 years of Shen's family, his own mother also returned to Britain, a poor and sick Li Zijia looked at the empty home, he thought of a "good way", from then on the east family and the west family rubbed food, rubbed until 1953.
But rubbing rice is not a way, he Li Zijia young master can't stand the white eyes of others, so he ran to find his old friend Gongzi Brother, the result of which the old friend also squandered the family property, poor jingling, two people drink porridge can only put a few grains of rice ...
Li Zijia finally couldn't stand it, he was wearing a tattered cotton jacket, rushed out, at this time he was only 43 years old, as long as he wanted, he could find a job to support himself, but he did not, Li Zijia walked to a pond and shouted: "Can't you live happily, can't you die painfully and happily?" After saying that, he jumped into the pond.
What disappointed Li Zijia was that passers-by rescued him! Because the cold water of the pond invaded his body, Li Zijia's body was completely collapsed, crying in bed, it was better to let him die Yunyun, and he had a fever for several days in a row, and Li Zijia cried out for his life.
His poor friend had no money to bury him, so he found his brother Li Houfu, but Li Houfu had already squandered his family property and could not afford a good coffin, so he buried his brother casually.
All of this can't help but make people sigh: It is better to stay rich than to stay in Germany, not only Li Zijia, but also his brother Li Houfu and his friend Zuo Jusheng are not all "lessons of blood"? What do you think about that?