"A son of a family, dung is like a treasure; a loser, money is like grass." If it is easy to see, it is only said that it is not tight, and it is the root of poverty that is wasted arbitrarily. ——" Shi Tianji,"Heirloom"
Speaking of the derogatory word of the loser, I think everyone knows what this means. In a literal sense, a loser is an unsuccessful child who squanders and destroys his family business. Of course, the prerequisite for becoming a loser who has left a big name in history is that there is enough amazing family business to fail.
Of course, when it comes to some of the losers who have lost their family business, the family property of many rulers in Chinese history has indeed been ruined by some unformed descendants. For example, King Zhou You, Hu Hai, Xiao Yan, Zhang Xueliang, and so on, these people all directly defeated the world laid down by their fathers. However, most of the rulers' family business was corrupted by power, and it was difficult for ordinary people to have a specific concept of it.
Therefore, if we talk about the degree of failure of some "famous" losers, we need to explore it from the perspective of specific wealth. For example, during the Republic of China period, Sheng Enyi, the first rich family in Shanghai, lost to a new height.
So, how did Sheng Enyi lose?
From the beginning of his life from the day of birth, Sheng Enyi was much higher than ordinary people. However, because of being spoiled since childhood, the family business was ruined, so that the Sheng family, who could talk directly with Tianzi, fell to the last eight people to sleep in a kitchen.
First, the loser
Sheng Xuanhuai, an industrialist of the Republic of China who once had "sixteen night pearls in one hand", may not have thought of it in any way, because he was too fond of the fourth son, Sheng Enyi, so that the family business of Nuoda could not escape the strange circle of "rich but not more than three generations". However, in just a few decades, the family business of "Shanghai's first giant" has been completely destroyed.
Sheng Xuanhuai married three wives successively, and the earliest Dong clan bore him three sons and three daughters, but unfortunately, three of them died early. The second wife gave birth to only one daughter and died. The third wife, Zhuang Shi, gave birth to two sons and a daughter, one of whom died prematurely, leaving only one son, sheng Xuanhuai's only son, Sheng Enyi.
Sheng Enyi's birth starting point is very high, just as people now jokingly call it, he was born directly on the "finish line" of life. His father, Sheng Xuanhuai, was a powerful member of foreign affairs, his mother, Lady Zhuang, was the head of shengfu, and the old man was Sun Baoqi, the premier of the Republic of China. It is said that with a life with such a starting point, Sheng Enyi can lie down and win life even if he lies down.
However, fate is always uncertain, because Sheng Enyi is the only son (de facto only son) of Shengfu, so that he has been pampered since childhood. Sheng Enyi, who grew up in this environment, gradually became a splurgeful and extravagant loser.
Because of his great family's great cause, his level of failure is incomparable to that of others. For example, the first imported Mercedes-Benz sedan in Shanghai was purchased by Sheng Enyi. To show his difference, he also replaced the handlebars with silver ones and engraved his name.
In addition, in order to show a little more identity, he also made the license plate number very meaningful. Because he was the fourth oldest in the family, he made the car concession license plate "4444". In this way, as soon as others see such a special license plate, they know that the person on the car is the famous Sheng Laosi.
In addition, Sheng Enyi has a more exaggerated method of losing, that is, to equip each of his aunts with a garden house and an imported car. And each person is equipped with a large number of male servants and maids, which is really a luxury to the extreme.
Some people may wonder, just such a loser, as if many losers of the rich second generation can also do it, then what is special about Sheng Enyi?
In fact, in addition to the above daily hundred family behaviors, Sheng Enyi's biggest loser behavior is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The way it is lost, I believe no one will forget.
Second, the impressive way of losing
Due to the early death of his three elder brothers, Sheng Enyi became a figure like the lifeblood of Shengfu. Therefore, under sheng xuan's intentional cultivation, the position of general manager of Hanyeping company was handed over to him. As a result, Sheng Enyi turned black and white upside down, day and night, and was even more profligate and wanton.
Of course, compared with the daily use of the cost, Sheng Enyi's expenses on the gambling table are not worth mentioning. Sheng Enyi's friends at the gambling table understand his life rules very well: "Sheng Laosi sleeps during the day every day, gets up in the evening to eat, drink and have fun, and the cash at home is not enough, so he takes the antique calligraphy and paintings to pawn, and the next day at dawn he takes the money to redeem the antique calligraphy and paintings." ”
Because of Sheng En's good gambling, he once set an unprecedented record. When he gambled with Lu Xiaojia, the son of Lu Yongxiang, the former governor of Zhejiang, in the casino, due to insufficient cash, he directly used the alley with more than 100 houses along Beijing Road And Huanghe Road as gambling capital, and the whole street lost to the other side. And what's even more jaw-dropping is that the time to lose to each other is only one night.
To be honest, in addition to the land-cutting indemnities of the rulers in history, such gambling funds are probably unprecedented and unprecedented. I believe that anyone who sees such a style will feel that the other party will lose the family business sooner or later.
In fact, as people expected, before the victory of the War of Resistance, all the family properties that Sheng Enyi had been assigned to had basically been lost. Sometimes when he didn't have money to live, he would even ask for money from his son Sheng Yuyou, who had already passed on to the third house.
It is said that after the failure of Sheng En's family business, there are still many real estate in all parts of the country, and life should be able to go on. But after liberation, the state began to implement a policy of land nationalization, and privately occupied land must pay sufficient land taxes. As a result, Sheng Enyi lost his family business early, resulting in the inability to pay the high land tax and being taken away. Only a few old houses in the Sheng Family Ancestral Hall at the entrance of the Suzhou Lingering Garden have not been taken away.
As a result, in his later years, Sheng Enyi wandered the streets and when he walked to the door of Xiangyang Park, he wanted to go in and sit for a while, but he could not get the money to buy tickets.
Speaking of which, some people may wonder, since Sheng Enyi is a profligate loser, didn't Sheng Xuanhuai, as a father, make arrangements in advance?
In fact, before Sheng Xuanhuai died, he really made "arrangements" for the family for his son. However, Sheng Eun Yi was really not a "thing", and he broke the rules set by his father before his death, so that he eventually became poor.
3. Arrangement
After the Xinhai Revolution, Sheng Xuanhuai fled to Japan because he was dismissed from his post by the Qing court, and his family's real estate and land throughout the country were confiscated by the Republic of China government. Later, Sheng Xuanhuai went up and down, and finally let Yuan Shikai order that the confiscated family property be recovered. But the process of returning to the family business was very tortuous, and Sheng Xuanhuai spent half a million taels of silver and worked hard for three full years to get the family business back.
At this time, Sheng Xuanhuai was well aware of the profligate nature of future generations, especially his son Sheng Enyi, so after making arrangements in advance, he died suddenly after a year and a half. Subsequently, Sheng Enyi's mother, Lady Zhuang, began to preside over the housekeeping and separated the family.
According to the earlier arrangement, Sheng Xuanhuai's name included stocks, real estate, real estate, etc., and a total of more than 13,490,000 silver coins were converted. The money will be divided into two halves, half of which will be distributed to each house, and the other half will be deposited in the charity Yuzai Yoshinobu.
According to the statutes laid down by Sheng Xuanhuai before his death, the more than 5.85 million taels attributed to Yuzhai Yizhuang could only be moved. That is to say, even if Sheng Enyi loses his family business, then he can still live a lifetime by eating interest from Yuzhai Yizhuang.
As a result, after the death of Sheng Enyi's mother, Lady Zhuang, he took the initiative to break the rules and directly proposed to the court that the money classified in Yuzhai Yizhuang be taken out and distributed to each room. Such an act directly bankrupted Sheng Xuanhuai's arrangement. In the end, except for Sheng Xuanhuai and his daughter Sheng Aiyi, who received half a million taels from it, the rest of the money fell into the hands of the Kuomintang.
Sheng Enyi, on the other hand, was able to live in poverty after squandering the family property he had been given.
epilogue:
Compared with his father Sheng Kang, Sheng Xuanhuai's own education was undoubtedly a failure. As the eldest son, Sheng Kang did not put Sheng Xuanhuai by his side to educate, did not let him live a stable and peaceful life, but heeded Yang Zonglian's advice and sent him to the front line to fight. As a result, the grand Xuanhuai of Shanghai's famous name was achieved.
Because Sheng Kang once said to Sheng Xuanhuai that it would be very rare for them to leave real estate to future generations, if they could keep the real estate and eat some interest. As a result, Sheng Enyi took the initiative to destroy the charter left by Sheng Xuanhuai, corrupting the little "real estate" that remained, so that the Sheng family was completely destroyed. If Sheng Xuanhuai could see all this, I don't know how he would feel.
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