introduction
As it is said in "He Guo Completed into a New House": "Shoucheng is not difficult to start a business, and it is difficult to build a long life by shoucheng." "It is very difficult to create a career of your own, but what is more difficult than starting a business is how to keep your career so that it can always stand in a changing society and continue for a hundred years." The famous Qiao family compound is under the vigorous development of the business legend Qiao Zhiyong that there is a thriving situation. The Qiao family can have the Qiao family compound, which now covers an area of 8724.8 square meters, which is the Qing Dynasty Shanxi People's Home Hospitalization.
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Qiao Zhiyong was a well-known business magnate in society at that time, and he was also a famous Jin merchant in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. When the Qiao family business passed to Qiao Zhiyong, it had already gone through two generations. Qiao Zhiyong also has an eldest brother Qiao Zhiguang, due to the early death of his parents, Qiao Zhiyong and his brother have been dependent on each other since childhood, and the brothers are also in accordance with the ancestral training, and the eldest brother Qiao Zhiguang inherits the family business. At this time, the Qiao family was already a little famous at that time. The older brother's business was booming, and the younger brother wanted to enter politics, so that the two could complement each other and complement each other. However, just when Qiao Zhiyong was bent on developing his career, bad luck suddenly came, and his brother, who had always been physically strong, died suddenly, and he did not have a son and a half daughter under his knees, and the qiao family's great family business was not inherited.
▲A recent photo of the Qiao family compound
At this time, Qiao Zhiyong, who was the second son of the Qiao family, had to abandon Wen to engage in business and picked up the burden of running the Qiao family business. On the road to business, Qiao Zhiyong's wisdom has been fully developed, in the business field he not only pays attention to integrity, but also never randomly asks or shoddy, has always abided by the ancestral precepts of integrity and trustworthiness, so it has a good reputation in the local area, and is also known as the "bright rich man". In addition, he also integrated the resources around him well, constantly used his network of relations, and established good relations with all the officials in the northwest and the feudal officials. Qiao Zhiyong was very active in supporting the work of officials in the local area, and also responded to the government's call to generously donate money to fund the establishment of the Beiyang Marine Division at the most dangerous moment in the country, which won a lot of praise.
▲ Qiao Zhiyong stills
In terms of employing people, Qiao Zhiyong also has his own principles and rules. Unlike other bosses, he never nepotism, employs only talents, and only real talents can work in his business. In addition, he also has great respect for talents, not only gives a very generous remuneration, but also gives his subordinates considerable autonomy.
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The reason why Qiao Zhiyong was able to have such an excellent performance was inseparable from the strict family training handed down by the Qiao family. One of the family disciplines is that children and grandchildren are not allowed to be corrupt and lazy, which is not allowed to take drugs, concubines, abuse of servants, gambling, travel, and alcoholism. And Qiao Zhiyong has always adhered to the family precepts and has never violated the ancestral precepts. He married six wives in his lifetime, and these six wives gave birth to a total of six males for the Qiao family. Unfortunately, Qiao Zhiyong was not very satisfied with these six children, which is why he did not choose the next generation of the Qiao family among his six sons.
▲ Aerial photography of the Qiao family compound
The eldest son is inherently difficult to tame, completely without the smoothness and mastery of the businessman, and naturally cannot inherit the Qiao family's family business. Qiao Zhiyong's evaluation of his second son is "violent personality", without the vision and ability of a businessman, it is difficult to be at ease and strategize in the mall. The third son is kind and kind, and also likes to give kindness, has a high reputation in the folk, and seems to be the most favored by Qiao Zhiyong in his later years, and in his later years, Qiao Zhiyong also handed over the Business Of the Qiao family to his hands. Qiao Zhiyong was once very fond of him, but unfortunately, He was jealous of talent, and the third son died young before he could take up the Qiao family business.
▲This person visits the Qiao family compound
The fourth son is clumsy, unsociable, and cannot be mixed in the business field of the Wind and Cloud Association, so he cannot bear the heavy responsibility of running a business name; while the fifth son is most like Qiao Zhiyong when he was young, he only wants to study wholeheartedly and has no interest in the management of the family. Qiao Zhiyong's youngest son was also the most favored by him, but unfortunately, this child was born weak and sickly, and later died before Qiao Zhiyong.
▲The bronze statue of the Qiao family compound Yongdao
In this way, Qiao Zhiyong, who was ready to taste the pain of the white-haired people sending the black-haired people, was deeply shocked and sick, and he also resigned after two years, at the age of eighty-nine. Although Qiao Zhiyong did not find a suitable heir among his children, fortunately, the Qiao family was full of talents, and there was no shortage of grandchildren. In the end, he chose Qiao Yingxia, the eldest son of the second house, among his ten descendants, as the head of the family, because he felt that this child had the shadow of his former self and was a person who could take on great responsibilities.
▲ Joe's family compound
"Shang Martingale": "Since ancient times, the people have been driven in sincerity, and one word is heavy and a hundred gold is light." Qiao Yingxia also always abided by the ancestral precepts, insisted on honest management, even in the crisis of currency depreciation, he also insisted on bearing all the depreciation. And that blow also plunged the Qiao family business, which was originally rich in silver, into an operational crisis. Coupled with the turmoil in Chinese society later, the situation of the merchants was also very embarrassing, and the forces of all sides tried their best to get some oil and water from the Qiao family business, and Qiao Yingxia, who was tired of dealing with various crises, was overwhelmed and soon passed away, and the Qiao family also faded out of the business world.
epilogue
Looking back at the ups and downs of the Qiao family along the way, although in the end the Qiao family did not engage in business again, they all made good achievements in their respective fields, and all of this benefited from the ancestral training handed down from generation to generation by the Qiao family, and also benefited from the qiao family's descendants always abiding by the ancestral precepts, which made the Qiao family famous in the hearts of the world.
Resources:
"He Guo completed a new house", "Shang Martingale"