When it comes to China's richest man in modern times, everyone should be deeply impressed by one of the representative figures of the foreign affairs movement, creating a number of "firsts" in China. But the timeline is still moving forward, during the Opium War in the late Qing Dynasty, China's richest man has another person, called Zhang Songxian.
The Opium War, which is the beginning of China's modern and contemporary history, not only opened up the history of blood and tears in china in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China for hundreds of years, but also provided a channel for China to develop its modern economy. In ancient Times, China was called "Silk Country" by many Western countries for producing exquisite silk, and Zhang Songxian took advantage of the policy of opening up treaty ports brought about by the Opium War to operate "Jiris" and export it overseas, becoming the richest man in China at that time.
Unfortunately, the Zhang family did not escape the curse of "three generations of wealth", and in 1928, Zhang Shiming, a direct descendant of the Zhang family, died, and the remaining descendants could not wait to start separating the family after 3 years of filial piety for him. However, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, even if the Zhang family falls apart, after all, the foundation is still there, especially Zhang Onionyu, who is the only son of the four rooms, has been allocated 2 million at one time.
What was the concept of 2 million at that time? It is almost 20 billion today, and even the people under Zhang Fu at that time ate chicken, duck and fish meat every day. Zhang Liangyu was originally just a brother who loved to collect, and when his grandfather Zhang Shiming was still alive, Zhang Onionyu followed his grandfather every day to appreciate calligraphy and painting and accept artistic influence. But after the death of his grandfather, Zhang Liangyu suddenly became rich, and there was no parental discipline on his head, and Zhang Liangyu, who was only 18 years old, became a famous flower and flower in Shanghai Beach, and was a drunken fan in the Ten Mile Ocean Farm all day long, living a life of flowers and wine.
In fact, just love to play is not nothing, basically rich brothers have this problem, but the problem is that Zhang Onionyu is also infected with a fatal activity, that is, gambling. Gambling this kind of thing, at the beginning everyone thought that I only play casually, certainly will not go deeper; but if people who are caught in gambling can really get out so well, will everyone still "gamble discolored" now? Zhang Onionyu fell into it like this.
Zhang Liangyu's acquisition of a huge amount of family property is well known in Shanghai Beach, and some people with hearts see Zhang Onionyu so generous in gambling, so they can't help but start other ideas. At that time, the casinos united to make a round for Zhang Onyu, not only cheating all his assets, but even the collections he treasured were not spared, and all of them were taken to pay off the debt. Shanghai Xiaokai, which originally had unlimited scenery, was instantly ruined.
Just when Zhang Liangyu's life fell into the lowest trough, in 1949, the news of the founding of New China spread throughout the Shenzhou mainland, and the following year, Zheng Zhenduo, the first director of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, issued an invitation to Zhang Liangyu because he knew zhang Liangyu's achievements in appraisal, and Zhang Liangyu became the deputy director of the Cultural Relics Department of the State Administration of Cultural Relics and the vice president of the Cultural Relics Publishing House.
After that, Zhang Liangyu never fell into the abyss of gambling, but made great contributions to the cause of cultural relics he loved, becoming the greatest art connoisseur of China in the 20th century. Just when Zhang Liangyu completed the road of counterattack in life and moved towards a better tomorrow, in 1963, he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Although the director of Peking Union Medical College Hospital at that time personally operated, he still failed to save Zhang Liangyu's life. He suddenly bled heavily after the operation and died at the age of 49 due to ineffective rescue.