In the last period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were also some people who became rich because of this, but there were also some people who also went from glory to loneliness, and among these people, the most famous should be Hu Xueyan. I believe that a person who has studied the way of doing business must know more about him. As a business tycoon, he has the talent and mechanical mind that many people say are envious, and his wealth accumulation is relatively large, but his life is not as beautiful as we seem on the surface. As a rich and enemy of the country, in just three days to become a poor egg, the three sentences left before the indignation are thought-provoking. So what kind of three sentences?
Hu Xueyan was one of the earliest business-minded peddlers in the market, but in his life, the ups and downs, ups and downs, the money earned was full of money, becoming the richest man in the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time. As a poor family, he did a lot of chores, and even worked as a running hall and an apprentice, but in his most critical period, because of the trust and cultivation of the money house owner, he entrusted 5,000 taels of silver and money to him, so that he could have the original accumulation of funds to earn more money. When people are smooth, opportunities will follow, and the second person he meets is Wang Youling, who has no money to enter the Beijing examiner.
The biggest help of this person to him was that he gave him 500 taels of silver when he was most difficult, so that he could obtain a higher official position, and then in order to express his gratitude to him, the two people had relatively close contacts, so in the process of rising official positions, Hu Xueyan's business also grew. In this mutual complementarity, Hu Xueyan has become such a business tycoon with more money. However, no matter how powerful Wang Youling was, he could not rival Zuo Zongtang and others, the most popular in the dynasty, so in order to climb this level of relationship, he thought of a perfect way.
At that time, he learned through gossip that Zuo Zongtang was worried about military salaries, so he naturally had the capital to negotiate with Zuo Zongtang through gossip, and his move not only solved Zuo Zongtang's urgent military needs, but also established the relationship between the two of them. This generous move also allowed Zuo Zongtang to pave a lot of way for his later development. However, the relationship between Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang is very antagonistic, so when Hu Xueyan wants to maximize his life, he also has a certain shortcoming.
At that time, in order to be able to control the domestic silk reeling factory, he chose to buy a large number of raw silk, and these raw silk, under two opportunities, he did not sell it, because the purpose he wanted to achieve was to challenge the British and American monetary systems. Therefore, in such a situation, he must continue to accumulate more raw silk so that he can grasp more initiative. But the operation and purchase of raw silk must require the support of banks, and between his travels in major banks, everyone began to resist the person who bought raw silk, and released the pigeons that promised him money. This matter made him limited, so in order to make Shengsi have more room for return, he found Fukang Bank, but after the bank gave him money, it made his operation more tight, and there were many people who had festivals with him, and the news that his business was lost, and the news that the bank was also facing bankruptcy made him worse.
As a businessman, it is relatively normal to encounter suppression in the industry, and his commercial urgency can only turn to zuo Zongtang, who he reported before. However, at this time, there were many contradictions between Zuo Zongtang and his strongest enemy, Li Hongzhang, so there was no absolute right to speak above the court. But at this critical moment, Li Hongzhang, in order to overthrow Zuo Zongtang, overthrew the person who gave him financial support. Because most of the reasons for this are because Li Hongzhang used his position to exert pressure on Hu Xueyan, making it impossible for him to operate his economy, and it was impossible to do this business. This wave of squeezing him was basically manipulated by Li Hongzhang, and he went bankrupt within three days.
However, the biggest blow was that Hu Xueyan was stabbed in front of Cixi for the matter of borrowing money for the official to engage in business, and in order to thoroughly investigate this big business household, Cixi ordered the raid on his home and dismissed him, so such a business giant fell, and in his grief and depression, he also passed away. But before he died, he left three sentences, "Posterity should not engage in business, posterity should not engage in politics, and Hu and Li should not intermarry." The meaning behind this sentence is that the road to business is too hard, and the road to politics is too difficult, and the entanglement between himself and Li Hongzhang is the biggest failure in this life, so he can regret him for life, and he does not allow his descendants to intermarry with the people of the Li family. In fact, from his life, we can see not only his glory and loneliness, but also let ourselves have more thinking about business.