However, when it comes to landlords, especially those in the old society period, people generally do not have a good impression of them, because they are mostly cruel and unkind, and they are synonymous with misdeeds in fish and meat towns. Liu Wencai, as a famous large landowner in Sichuan during the Republic of China period, was indeed full of evil, and the amount of wealth he illegally obtained by relying on various kinds of squeezing and squeezing the people was even more huge and amazing.
Biography
Liu Wencai was born in 1887 in Anren Town, Sichuan. Liu Wencai's father, Liu Gongzan, was a small landlord in their local area, and the Liu family ran a shochu workshop, although it was not a rich party, but it was also some family property, so Liu Wencai's family economic conditions were still good since he was a child.
That is to say, because the family is doing business, Liu Wencai has heard about it since childhood and is very talented in business. Because he is not interested in learning, so Liu Wencai dropped out of school early and went home to run a business, although Liu Wencai's cultural level is not high, but he is a good hand at business, Liu Wencai took over the business at home not long, the business of the store is getting better and better.
But in the chaotic world, you can make money by relying on the flexibility of your brain, but you may not be able to keep it. Often, the richer the family, the more it needs power to escort it, in order to develop more stable and long-term.
The Liu family has been in the same house for several generations, the children and grandchildren are prosperous, and the men in the family have no other way to develop except for business. Therefore, the family is very hopeful to cultivate a descendant of an official, and this must be said to liu Wencai's nephew Liu Xiang and brother Liu Wenhui.
Unlike Liu Wencai, his nephew Liu Xiang studied in a private school since childhood, and was admitted to the Sichuan Wubei Academy at the age of seventeen, and later successfully admitted to the Sichuan Army Military Academy. After graduating from the military academy, Liu Xiang was catching up with the turbulent situation at that time, Liu Xiang was a rare military talent, and with his outstanding military merits, he gradually became the commander-in-chief of Sichuan and the governor of Sichuan Province, and became the highest leader in Sichuan.
Liu Wencai's younger brother Liu Wenhui, although he was the elder, was six years younger than his nephew Liu Xiang. Liu Wenhui traced Liu Xiang's footsteps to join the army, and also made a fortune from military merit, and later successfully became a warlord.
The Liu family also became famous because of Liu Wenhui and Liu Xiang, becoming the "warlords" in Sichuan and holding the absolute right to speak in Sichuan, which also provided the premise and guarantee for Liu Wencai to later plunder the people's fat and people's ointment and strengthen the Liu family.
For wrongdoing
First of all, Liu Wencai was able to hold some important military and political positions in Sichuan because of his nephew Liu Xiang, that is to say, Liu Wencai's financial power and political power were in hand at this time, and it was in this context that Liu Wencai began to make huge profits by relying on the prestige of his brother and nephew.
The most direct source of the previous landlord warlords to obtain wealth quickly was to squeeze the people, and the collection of various taxes was their usual name and means.
At that time, Liu Wencai was mainly responsible for the tax power of more than 80 counties and towns in Sichuan Province, and he set up more than 150 kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in order to make profits, and exploited and squeezed the common people layer by layer to enrich his own pockets.
Liu Wencai was also scolded by the people as an evil landlord class because of various evil deeds, nicknamed "Liu Tiger", which means to eat people without spitting bones. At that time, the famous story "Rent Collection" was based on real events, telling the story of Liu Wencai's evil deeds of suppressing the toiling masses.
It can be seen from this that Liu Wencai's behavior at that time was heinous. In addition, in order to make money, Liu Wencai also used his power to monopolize all walks of life to make huge profits... Because of the blessing of power, Liu Wencai once ran amok and did no evil.
As we all know, since the day of the Opium War, Chinese people have suffered from contraband, so the government and society at that time explicitly banned smoking. Liu Wencai, who was also the director of the "General Anti-Smoking Department in Southern Sichuan" in the Sichuan area, not only did he not take it as a warning, but instead took advantage of his position to openly start an illegal business.
Liu Wencai forced local people to plant contraband while selling things to tobacco houses at high prices. For the people who did not want to cultivate, Liu Wencai increased their taxes, and then forced them to participate in this crazy illegal activity.
And Liu Wencai made money by various dirty means, and then stuffed all the money he earned into his own pocket, his greedy face was abominable, and his money was stained with the blood and tears of innocent people.
Returning home as a "landlord"
In 1931, Liu Wencai had a political disagreement with his nephew Liu Xiang, and the weak Liu Wencai fled back to his hometown. But even if he fled, Liu Wencai was still not short of money, and even used his waist to be wrapped up in ten thousand, and it was not too much to describe the rich side.
Liu Wencai was extremely extravagant and lavish in life, and paid special attention to pomp and circumstance, and after returning to his hometown, he began to buy and buy land on a large scale, adding family property, including spending a huge amount of money to build a manor.
This manor covers an area of more than 100 acres, with a total construction area of more than 20,000 square meters, of which there are more than 180 houses in a variety of houses. This Liu manor is extremely luxurious, and the scale of the building is so large that it can be called the largest landlord manor building in modern China, and few other buildings can be compared with it.
In addition, Liu Wencai married five aunts and wives, drunk all day, and countless family properties made him inexhaustible, which was in stark contrast to the poor people who were poor and hungry.
Tragic death
The heavens are good reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one. How beautiful Liu Wencai was in the past years, how bleak and bumpy the ending was. With the liberation of Sichuan, Liu Wencai, the representative figures of feudal landlords, suffered retribution, and Liu Wencai was expelled from his hometown and wandered abroad.
In 1949, Liu Wencai, who had been seriously ill for a long time, hoped to return to his roots and return to his hometown to settle down, but he died on the way back to his hometown. As for the descendants of Liu Wencai's family members, they also ended up miserable, and they were no longer the same as the glory of the Liu clan at that time.
This can also be regarded as a causal cycle, and the various evil deeds that Liu Wencai personally did in that year can also be regarded as retribution. And Liu Wencai, as a figure who dominates the party of the Republic of China, has fallen into vain along with the era of decline and decay, and the once-prominent Liu family has also followed the decline, which is the inevitable result of the development of the times.
Liu Wencai's life was controversial, and all of this dissipated with his passing, becoming a historical symbol of an era, while his Liu Manor, which cost thousands of dollars to build, has been preserved and become an architectural attraction of the country.
The overall architecture of Liu's Manor adheres to the traditional Chinese architectural form at the same time, but also integrates Western architectural elements, exquisite carving, simple architecture, garden has a high artistic appreciation value, has profound practical significance for future generations to study Chinese ancient architecture, but also an important historical site in China's modern history and society.
Therefore, if you have to ask Liu Wencai, a person who has done many evil deeds, what contributions he has made to future generations, then this Liu Clan Manor is one of the few.