There are many surnames in this world, and there are many large families in the world, but when it comes to the Qiao family, it is estimated that many people's first reaction is: "Is it the Qiao family in the Qiao family compound?" "Yes, it's this Joe's house.
In 2006, the hit of "Qiao Family Courtyard" made most of the Chinese know that in Qi County, Shanxi, there was such an exquisite architectural group known as "a pearl of northern residential architecture in the Qing Dynasty", and also knew that Qiao Zhiyong, a famous businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, carried forward the Qiao Family Compound.
Nowadays, the Qiao Family Compound has become a famous classic in Shanxi, and tourists from all over the country and even all over the world come here every day to punch in and feel the beauty of ancient Chinese folk architecture. On the gate of the Qiao family compound, there is a plaque with 4 big characters written "Fu Zhong Lang Huan", which is estimated to be only considered to be used to praise the qiao family compound's ingenious craftsmanship, but they do not know that this plaque actually has a lot to do with Cixi.
In 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China and the capital Beijing fell. In order to save herself, Cixi took the Guangxu Emperor and a large group of palace people and ministers to flee west in a hurry in advance, and was embarrassed along the way. Naturally, the days of escape will not be very wonderful, and the wind and food and sleeping along the way make Cixi's face more and more ugly, until she comes to Shanxi.
The reputation of the Qiao family, even if Cixi had heard about it in the palace, at this time Cixi was exhausted, so he paid attention to the Qiao family and let this famous rich family receive him. For ordinary families, if they receive such a large-scale line of people in plain and white, they will definitely be sad to die, but is the Qiao family short of money? There is no shortage, but what they lack is opportunity.
Being able to exchange a small amount of money for the favor of Cixi, the ruler of the Qing Dynasty, is really a good deal for the Qiao family, probably this is called a wish to fight a wish to be beaten. Cixi received the highest standard of hospitality in the Qiao family, she finally showed a long-lost smile, and the Qiao family was also particularly interesting, knowing that this way of escaping life must be difficult, specially "lent" 100,000 taels of silver.
Although it is said that it is borrowed, everyone understands whether Cixi will pay it back. Later, after Cixi returned to Beijing, she remembered the hospitality of the Qiao family and asked the Qiao family what reward they wanted. Since the Qiao family made their fortune through business, naturally they would not really want some precious treasures, and wasted their relationship with Cixi in vain, but begged for the 4 words of "Blessing Seed Lang Huan", hoping that Cixi could write it herself, so that she could hang on the gate, so that the clan could feel the majesty of the empress dowager at all times.
Cixi originally had a very good impression of the Qiao family, and it was even more physically and mentally pleasing to be touted like this, so she wrote these 4 words on the spot, and after that, she gave special preferential treatment to the merchants in Shanxi. And the Qiao family also relied on Cixi's name and the interests won for Shanxi merchants, and their local prestige was even higher, and the 100,000 taels of silver they paid had already earned back more than a hundred times through Cixi's preferential Shanxi ticket number.