What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Many post-00s and post-10s do not seem to know much about the "landlords" of the old society. Mainly living in a happy era, it is difficult to empathize with the sufferings of the old society, and even if you occasionally hear about it, you will only listen to it as a story. In a certain period in China, however, there were some people who owned land and did not need to participate in labor like others, who used low-cost labor for their own benefit, and who were considered dictators in feudal society.
Large landlord Liu Wencai
Liu Wencai was born in 1887 in Anren Town, Dayi County, Sichuan, Liu Wencai originally had no power, and his father was only a small landlord with dozens of acres of land and a dozen rooms, so what kind of opportunity made his field property eventually reach 12,000 mu, and became a large landlord in Sichuan and Chongqing who owned a number of mansions and banks, shops and gambling houses.
Liu Wencai, together with Zhou Pippi, Huang Shiren, and Nan Tianba, is known as the four large landlords of the Republic of China, but this title is not because their power is the strongest among the landlords in the Republic of China, but only because their landlord bully image is widely known.
Liu Wencai's history of his family
At this time, it is necessary to mention one person, that is, Liu Wencai's brother Liu Wenhui, who was the brigade commander of the Sichuan Army under Liu Xiang at that time, and was a great warlord who was known as the "King of Xikang" at that time. At this time, Liu Wencai found Liu Wenhui and wanted to rely on his relationship to go through the back door to mix up an official position to make money, so Liu Wenhui arranged for him to be the director of the Yibin Branch of the Sichuan Tobacco and Alcohol Company, the director of the Ship Donation Bureau of Southern Sichuan, the director of the Department of Escort merchants in southern Sichuan, the director of the General Investigation and Seizure of The Prohibition of Smoking in Southern Sichuan, the General Office of the General Administration of Taxation in Southern Sichuan, and the commander of Lieutenant General qingxiang in southern Sichuan.
These positions are closely related to money, and it is clear that Liu Wenhui wants to use Liu Wencai as a tool to collect money, so Liu Wencai began his wanton conquest and tyranny after he had military power, harshly rebuking the common people. He formulated a variety of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, such as flower donations, hoe donations, toilet donations, which can be described as confusing, he forced farmers to plant poppies, and during Liu Wencai's tenure, the lives of ordinary people can be described as miserable.
Later, because Liu Xiang was not accustomed to the practices of the Liu brothers, which led to conflicts with the Liu brothers, Liu Wencai sent people to assassinate Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang was furious when he learned of this, and sent troops to bomb Yibin, Liu Wencai fled in a hurry, but still did not forget to make a big profit, and then returned to the ancestral land to become a large landlord, and has since withdrawn from politics.
Liu Wencai's five aunts
Liu Wencai's family is rich and his wives and concubines are numerous, he loves money and also loves women, just five wives and concubines that Ming Media is marrying, and there are not a few women in the good family who have been wasted, these women have given birth to him a total of 10 children, so what about his heirs now? Will he inherit Liu Wencai's rich family business and then become a rich man? I'll tell you what to say.
In the early years, Liu Wencai's compatriots originally matched the Lü clan to give birth to a son and a daughter for Liu Wencai, but both died prematurely at an early age. So Lü Shi washed his face with tears all day, and finally ended up depressed. After this, Liu Wencai married his second wife, named Yang Zhonghua, who gave birth to four sons and three daughters for Liu Wencai, except for the two children who died in his early years, which were all the heirs of the landlord Liu Wencai.
Liu Wencai and the third aunt met in the land of "looking for flowers and asking for willows", the third aunt Lingjun is the head card of the land of fireworks, can sing and dance, charming and moving, only once let Liu Wencai fall for it, so Liu Wencai redeemed herself, and spent thousands of dollars to buy a set of luxury mansions to keep this canary.
Liu Wencai also married Ling Junru's cousin Liang Huiling and became his fourth aunt. There is a lot to say about this fifth aunt, the fifth aunt is too named Wang Yuqing, according to legend, he was chopping wood on the mountain and was looked at by Liu Wencai who passed by, so he snatched it back and became the fifth aunt, and it is rumored that this fifth aunt is very delicate, and does not eat meat when eating duck. But Wang Yuqing firmly said that he was the Liu family that Ming Media was marrying, and said that he ate duck palms only because he was poor and accustomed, seeing that no one wanted to eat duck palms, he was reluctant to throw them away, how could he not eat meat, and said that he was very happy with the days he used to spend with Liu Wencai, and enjoyed the life of clothes to stretch out his hands and open his mouth.
The end of Liu Wencai's descendants
After talking about Liu Wencai's five aunts, let's take a look at the current situation of his descendants. Liu Wencai's four sons, Liu Yuanlong, Liu Yuanhua, Liu Yuanfu, and Liu Yuangui, these four names 3 make up "Longhua Fugui", and three daughters, Liu Yiyun, Liu Wanlan, and Liu Wanhui, who married early, all lived a stable life, and there is not much record of their events.
Liu Wencai's eldest son, Liu Yuanlong, was sent to the army, indulged in opium and gambling all day, was a standard clumsy boy, and organized an armed riot in 1950, was arrested, and finally Liu Wenhui used his energy to bail him out, but died of tuberculosis soon after.
The second son, Liu Yuanhua, entered the Whampoa Military Academy, and after graduating from the Whampoa Military Academy, he joined Liu Wenhui's troops to take up a position, he should have gone the farthest, but after liberation, he has always been the lowest level of laborers, until after the Cultural Revolution, he began a new life, and lived his life plainly, which was both unfortunate and still relatively stable.
The third son, Liu Yuanfu, suffered from meningitis when he was nine years old, because of improper medication deafness, and then fell in love with an actress in a Sichuan opera class, but after learning that this actress was the mistress of his father Liu Wencai, he became angry and looked for Liu Wencai's theory, the father and son quarreled fiercely, it is said that they almost fired a gun, and later Liu Yuanfu and Liu Wencai broke away from the father-son relationship, and did not marry in their lives, and finally died at home. The fate of the youngest son, Liu Yuangui, was the most honest of all Liu Wencai's sons, becoming a railway worker after liberation, and later died with more than a dozen workers in an accident in which two trains collided because of scheduling problems when a train entered the station.
There are many scholars and few businessmen
Liu Wencai's sons have a very tortuous life and a bad ending, while his grandchildren are different, many of Liu Wencai's grandchildren are excellent, and they have their own achievements in different fields. Many of them have become academics, even a professor at Peking University, engineers, and even athletes.
Curiously, very few people do business and don't choose to become a big businessman like their grandfather. However, there was a grandson named Liu Shiwei who ended up very miserable, because his grandfather finally died tragically, so the power of the Liu family was no longer what it used to be, and the peasants who had been oppressed by Liu Wencai for a long time began to denounce the Liu family.
The second grandson fled to the Xinjiang region to escape reprisals from the locals. However, his grandfather Liu Wencai was notorious, and his notoriety had spread far and wide to the Xinjiang region, when the people of Xinjiang were fierce, and the whole country was in a state of agitation to fight the landlords, so the local peasants hated Liu Wencai, a landlord who exploited the people, so they decided to punish his descendants. In this way, Liu Shiwei was strangled alive by the villagers.
To this day, the manor of the large landlord Liu Wencai is still well preserved, and even listed in the key cultural relics protection unit, and the related large-scale clay sculpture "Rent Collection Courtyard" has been highly praised. Although Liu Wencai is a big landlord and a big bully, there are also some people who do not have a bad impression of him, it is said that Liu Wencai built Wancheng Weir, benefited the people of several counties, funded the construction of highways, and founded Wencai Middle School.
Therefore, the question of whether Liu Wencai is a good person or a bad person has also caused controversy, but human nature is always complicated, and judging a person's good or bad does not come from just a few things. History is always confusing, but it often provokes people to seek the truth.