In the twenty-ninth episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is written that Zhang Daoshi, who is pure and vain, proposed to Jia Baoyu to Jia Mu and said that "the foundation family is also worthy." Jia Mu's answer was, "No matter how rich he is, that is, the family is poor, but give him a few pieces of silver." "Many readers will be confused when they see this. Jia Mu chose a family affair for her most beloved grandson Jia Baoyu, why did she not care about the wealth of the other party, even if the other party was very poor, she would rather help to promote the family affair. Some people commented that Jia Mu was really generous, and actually abandoned the tradition of paying attention to the rank of the door and the door to the door in marriage. Is this really the case, of course it is not possible. Not only was it difficult for Jia Mu in that era to abandon the concept of the door, but also one or two hundred years later, the concept of paying attention to the door and the door in the marriage is still very serious.
The words of Jia Mu above precisely reflect that the marriage of the powerful family at that time must pay attention to the class family. The "foundation" of the other party mentioned in Wang Daoshi's mouth refers to "the class door of the other party", while the "rich and noble family" in Jia Mu's mouth refers to the economic situation of the other party. In this way, everyone can understand that Jia Mu's meaning is that the other party's class door must match the Jia family, but she cannot say it in public, because the words are said from the mouth of Wang Daoshi, and both sides or everyone understands it. Marriage must be paid attention to, and Jia Mu does not pay much attention to the economic situation of the other party. Jia Mu pays attention to the political door of the other party, that is, the class door is comparable to the Jia family, and the degree of wealth is not the most concerned. This kind of door-to-door marriage is also the so-called political marriage, but the political concepts in it are strong and weak.
One or two hundred years later, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, a large number of large families with thousands of family wealth emerged in old Beijing. Among them, there are officials who have amassed wealth to get rich, and of course, most of them are giants who have accumulated wealth in business. Naturally, the first consideration of the marriage of officials is political factors, but due to the close connection between officials and businessmen, economic marriages often occur. Especially after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, political marriages have ceased to be the same, and economic marriages have become very popular, that is, the concept of mendi, from political strength to wealth. Especially in old Beijing, the marriage between the so-called eight mansions and the eight richest people is even more chaotic. (In the future, we will make a systematic account of the marriage between the eight major mansions in Beijing, the marriage between the eight richest people, and the marriage between the eight mansions and the eight richest people)
Today we will talk only about the marriage of the Liu family in the pawnshop in Beijing and the families with the right door. The pawnshop Liu family's fortune initially relied on the qianzhuang business. The famous four Hengzhuang in old Beijing: Henghe Qianzhuang, Hengli Qianzhuang, Hengxing Qianzhuang, and Hengyuan Qianzhuang, were originally created by the Liu family. Several big money banks once controlled the economic lifeblood of the Beijing division. This sentence is no exaggeration, because during the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance and the Gengzi Rebellion, the four major hengs in the capital were seriously damaged, and it was difficult to turn silver around, so the capital city was once panicked, the people were panicked, and the finance was difficult to operate. In order to maintain commerce and mobilize financial operations, the imperial court urgently allocated 500,000 taels of silver to distribute the four hengs, so as to maintain the stability of the market economy. The four Great Heng eventually survived the difficulties, but it also worried the pawnshop Liu family. Although the profit of the bank is very large, it is not stable, and when it encounters a run, it may abandon its previous achievements. As a result, the Liu family eventually switched to pawnshops, and at one point opened as many as twenty pawnshops in Beijing and Tianjin. From qianzhuang to pawnshop, the pawnshop Liu family has long accumulated thousands of family wealth, and it is already the leading rich family in old Beijing.
As the saying goes, what circle of people to find someone, can marry the pawnshop Liu family, is not an ordinary person, it can be said that they are all people with heads and faces in the capital. Of course, the brightest face of the head is the marriage with the famous Qingwang Mansion in the capital. At that time, although the Qing Dynasty was no longer there, Yu Wei, the magnate of the Qingwangfu, was still there, and it was still very face-saving for those rich families to marry the Qingwangfu. The granddaughters of the pawnshop Liu family have married into the Qingwang Mansion. The daughter of the Liu family of the pawnshop, the eldest daughter was unfortunate, and died before leaving the cabinet, the second daughter married the Wang family of Kaiyinzhuang and pawnshops in the same industry as herself, the third daughter married the Li family who opened the gold shop, and the fifth daughter married the golden king, one of the famous three kings (the golden king, the silver king, and the old king) in the capital.
This golden king is not the gold shop business where the third sister married above, but the royal family who watched the royal treasury in the former Qing Dynasty. The Wang family served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the director of the gold factory they looked at was as large as thirty-six acres of land. As the name suggests, the Silver King is for the royal treasury, the old King is running a business, shanxi people, also opened more than a dozen silver villages in Beijing, financial management means are quite high, Shanxi people do everything in business. Because, at that time, the business of a Shanxi person and a Shandong person could be said to occupy the entire city of Beijing. It can be seen how rich the old king was at that time, and the gold and silver kings who were equally famous as the old king, not to mention, were also the home of the rich. Otherwise, he would not have married the pawnshop Liu family.
The eldest daughter died, the second daughter married the Silver King's family, the third daughter married to the Jindian Li family, and the fifth daughter married the JinWang family, so what about the fourth daughter? The in-laws of the fourth daughter must be very familiar to everyone, that is, the famous Tongrentang Lejia in old Beijing. Tongrentang Lejia in old Beijing can be said to be known to everyone. First, the business run by Lejia is closely related to the people. Although the drug store is not a place that people yearn for, they have to go when they are sick. Second, Lejia's magnanimity ranks among the best in old Beijing. The so-called eight major houses in old Beijing have Lejia, and one of the four princes of old Beijing is also from Lejia. The marriage between the pawnshop Liu family and the Tongren Tangle family can be described as a door-to-door pair, a strong marriage between the two major families. The two families are also quite close, TongrenTang Lejia lives in the assorted garden, while the pawnshop Liu family lives in the Ma Daren Hutong, the two hutongs are one after the other, and the middle is worn by the Bian Dan Hutong. The pawnshop Liu family in Ma Daren Hutong is a large mansion gate four into five courtyards, which also cost 50,000 oceans to build a large stage, and the Lejia's assorted garden is no less than the Ma Daren Hutong Liu family's mansion gate. Lejia's assorted garden can be described as a combination of East and West, some houses are as imposing as the main hall in the imperial palace, and Western-style decoration shows the style of Western aristocrats.
The fourth daughter of the pawnshop Liu family married the four grandchildren of the Le family, the fifth in the big row, and the third in the small row. Le Du Zhou ranked third among the four grandchildren of the Lejia Grand House and fifth among the twenty-seven grandchildren of the Four Great Houses. Therefore, at that time, everyone called it the Five Lords, and the titles at that time were all according to the big ranking, because the four big rooms were together. Among the twenty-seven brothers of the four major rooms, The mind and ability of Le Du Zhou can be said to be the strongest. This person has a brain, ability, vision, courage, and is very social. Later, Lok Duc Chow opened Tongren Hall in Shanghai and Nanjing. Due to its own advantages and the name of Tongrentang, the business of Tongrentang in Nanjing and Shanghai is actually better than that of the old Tongrentang in Beijing, and of course it is stronger than the drug stores opened by other brothers. However, Le Du Zhou was also once hated by his Beijing brothers for breaking the rules of his ancestors. Because, the old ancestors stipulated that only one Tongrentang was in Beijing, and other people who opened medicine shops could use the name of Lejia Pharmacy, but they could never use the tongrentang brand name.
Le Du Zhou knew that he had violated the rules of his ancestors and made his brothers not welcome him, but he felt that as long as he could develop Tongrentang, he didn't care. Le Du Zhou often personally went to the medicine capital Qizhou Pharmaceutical Market to purchase medicinal materials. Not only that, But Duc Zhou also went to Europe and america to study and visit, which opened his eyes. He purchased all the TongrenTang in Nanjing into a foreign school, replaced all the electrical appliances with German Siemens, and had to carry out the Western system of traditional Chinese medicine. As the business is getting bigger and bigger, the capital is accumulating more and more, and the arrogance of Le Du Zhou is also quite eye-catching. The residence was palatial and extravagant, and even the brothers who were accustomed to living in the old Beijing mansion were surprised. In front of the building, there are many cars parked in front of the building, mainly to visit Le Du Zhou, because Le Du Zhou is very good at communication.
However, no one would have thought that such an enviable and successful person with unlimited scenery would actually clamor to become a monk. Because, his new wife, the fourth daughter of the pawnshop Liu family, died suddenly within a hundred days. What made Le Du Zhou even more sad was that he didn't even see the last side of his wife, because he was shopping for medicinal herbs in Qizhou at that time. When Le Du Zhou returned home, he only saw the cold body of his wife. He didn't understand why his wife had a good relationship with him, so why did her leave him inexplicably. He could not bear this merciless blow, and he cried out to become a monk, of course, in the end his purpose was not achieved. Otherwise, there would be no later success. How the wife died, soon the family spoke the same language, that is, the bride committed suicide by poisoning. And why he committed suicide is not explicitly stated, because many people do not know the reason for the incident. The bride was obviously fine during the day, but there was no abnormality at all, why did she choose to commit suicide after a night's work. Of course, there is also a discussion in the outside world that the bride died of a strange illness, in short, no matter how much rumors there are in the outside world, the Lejia is sad, and the days will continue to go on. The cause of the bride's death has become a mystery. The mystery was not revealed until seventy years later by the bride's younger brother.
The younger brother recalled that the in-laws who the fourth sister wanted to marry were not the Tongren TangLe family, but the fifth sister's in-laws, the JinWang family. Originally, it was my fourth sister who was going to marry the Jinwang family. But when I was on a blind date, the old man of the Jin Wang family took a fancy to my fifth sister for his son. The old man said that my fourth sister had a tooth that had grown to the top, so her lips were a little bulging, which was not good. Old Man Jin said to the matchmaker, I think it is still a sister, I don't want this sister. Of course, the matchmaker is very difficult, after all, marriage is no small matter, can not be said to change. However, Old Man Jin just didn't forgive. Because people had capital, although the Qing Dynasty was over at that time, Puyi's small imperial court was still there, and the Jin king was still fighting the power of the small imperial court. It can be said that at that time, Old Man Jin was powerful and powerful.
The matchmaker also had to come to my house and talk to my father for the sake of difficulty. My father naturally disagreed at first. First, how can marriage be said to be changed, that is not a child's play, and the second is that the sister does not get married, how can the sister get married. In the end, however, my father did not bother with the matchmaker. First, this matchmaker's mouth is really powerful, not ordinary people can surrender, and second, this matchmaker is not an ordinary matchmaker, and at that time in the capital was also a figure with a head and a face, otherwise it would not be a matchmaker between such people. The matchmaker assured her father that she would definitely find a better in-laws for the four girls in your family in the future. My father reluctantly agreed. In this way, my fifth sister married into the in-laws of my fourth sister, the Jin Wang family.
Because he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Jin family was the flag bearer among the flag people. In the past, it was said that the inner three flags and the outer eight flags, and the inner three flags were the three flags of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Jin Wang family is a flag man style, because my family often deals with the flag people. Therefore, at home, it is also the style of the flag family. Several of my sisters are also imitating the girls of the Flag family in terms of food, clothing, housing, and daily routines. My fifth sister married the Jin Wang family, which is not much different from ordinary life. Because, since childhood, at home, I have also learned the style of the flag bearer every move. For the marriage of the fourth sister, later, the matchmaker did not renege on her word, and indeed found the right family for my fourth sister, that is, the Tongren Tangle family. In terms of economic conditions and affluence, my family and the TongrenTang Lejia are really the right people, but the difference in life style is too big.
The four big rooms of Tongrentang, especially many children of the big room, have studied abroad, so the western style is very strong, especially the le du zhou that the fourth sister wants to marry is also back from studying abroad, not to mention the foreign style. When my father told my fourth sister about it. My fourth sister was not happy, and she cried at home from that day until she got married. People are also losing weight day by day. Of course, in the end, I got married. Although she already had a heart disease in her heart, she was still very reserved after marrying, after all, she had longed for a girl like the flag family since she was a child. Combing her head twice a day, serving her husband carefully, serving her in-laws cautiously, and performing Da'an gracefully from time to time (like a concubine in the palace), the girls of the Qi family are so reserved. Therefore, after just getting married, the fourth sister obeyed her husband Le Du Zhou, which made Le Du Zhou feel that the feelings between husband and wife were very good, and as everyone knew, the fourth sister always had a heart disease in her heart. Later, this piece of heart disease became more and more serious.
Le Du Zhou stayed in the ocean, and more importantly, it was France that remained. After returning, I often kissed my mouth from time to time when I met with some western-style friends. This made the already very conservative wife even more unsightly, however, the wife could not say, because she had received the traditional concept of marrying and obeying her husband since she was a child. Seeing her husband's behavior, I can't accept it, and I can't stop it, and I can imagine how uncomfortable it is in my heart. If his wife does not say, Le Du Zhou naturally will not understand, and still maintains his own foreign style. Because the family is quite generous, often invite friends to come to the house for dance parties and dances. Le Du Zhou likes to socialize, not only dancing with friends, but naturally pulling up his new wife. This makes the wife even more unbearable, it can be said that it is intolerable, but it must be endured. The husband is open and happy to call friends, the wife reluctantly follows, but in the heart of the blood, everything is buried deep in the heart. The results are predictable.
Less than a hundred days after the marriage, Le Du Zhou personally went to Qizhou Pharmaceutical Market as usual to purchase medicinal materials. Before he could return home, someone from his family rushed to report to him that his wife had committed suicide by taking poison. After hearing this news, what kind of reaction was unknown. After returning home, Le Du Zhou saw his wife's body, and it was difficult to hide the grief in his heart, and he hysterically wanted to go out of the house to go to Mount Wutai to become a monk. However, life did not fulfill his wishes, but achieved another him later. I have to say that the path of life seems to be thousands of ways, look at it, want to come and go, walk around, in fact, there is only one way to go.