He was Sheng Enyi, born in 1892, who was wanton for his family and was called"
Sheng Lao Si
"。 His father was the richest man, his father-in-law was the prime minister, and Cixi named him, but he died of poverty at the age of 66 and was called by later generations
The most famous loser in history.
His father
Sheng Xuanhuai
He was a famous red-top merchant in the late Qing Dynasty, who was deeply appreciated by Empress Dowager Cixi.
Sheng Enyi's name comes from Cixi
Even the three small islands of Huangwei Island and Chiyu Island, including the Diaoyu Islands, were given to the Sheng family, which shows the importance that Cixi attaches to Sheng Xuanhuai.
Sheng Xuanhuai, as a representative of the Western affairs faction, followed Li Hongzhang on the route of making money from industry, and later defeated another famous red-top businessman, Hu Xueyan.
Sheng Xuanhuai successively married Lady Sanfang, although he had three sons before Sheng Enyi, but all of them died prematurely.
Sheng Eun Yi became the only son in the family
。 From an early age, they all learned from everyone, and at the same time came into contact with Western culture and learned foreign languages.
Nothing has been done in language learning,
Sheng Xuanhuai valued the right lady in the selection of her daughter-in-law, Sun Yonghui, the daughter of National Premier Sun Baoqi.
In addition to her family background, Sun Yonghui is proficient in English, Spanish and many other Chinese, and Sheng Xuanhuai considers that such a woman can help her son succeed in overseas studies.
In this way, under the arrangement of his father, Sheng Enyi took his wife and two children to London to study business. However, the Sheng family did not begin to calm down, but on the contrary, it began to decline.
In 1915, Sheng Eun-yi was born in England as a daughter
Raymond
After his death, his grandfather Sheng Xuanhuai, who was far away in China, was particularly sad.
However, at the beginning of this year, some women came to recognize their relatives with young children, saying that they were Sheng Enyi's illegitimate children.
Until the 1930s, people often brought their children to meet their relatives.
Although Sheng Enyi was far away, his debts were endless
。 At the beginning of this year, the Sheng family began to collapse. A generation of rich and invincible figures
Sheng Xuanhuai, the "father of Chinese industry" and "the father of Chinese businessmen", also died of illness the following year.
Sheng Enyi returned to China to mourn, how could such a well-respected young master bear this great family business. The Sheng family also lived up to the prosperity of that year and began to take a sharp turn.
Although Sheng Xuanhuai handed over the first steel joint venture, Hanyeping Company, to Sheng Enyi,
Sheng Enyi seems to have left early and returned late, but in fact, he has long been infected with the vice of gambling and smoking
。
He often got up in the afternoon, mortgaged his family's ancestral property to exchange for his daily play silver, and redeemed it the next day. The pawn shop has also become one of the places where Sheng Enyi often visits.
Even in the company, he was lying on the bed smoking a big cigarette, reading documents, completely indifferent to the future of business, and was called by employees"
Double gun boss
"。
Smokes a lot at the company during the day and goes to gamble at night, and he had one
Because of gambling, he lost the alley with more than 100 houses in the Yellow River Road area of Beijing Road to Lu Xiaojia, the son of the governor of Zhejiang
At present, the market value is at least 1 billion. This matter was famous for a while, and it was the biggest gamble at that time. Later, foreigners' horse betting swept Shanghai, and he raised 75 horses at once.
Sheng Enyi especially likes to swing wide, likes to be called the fourth master by others, bought Shanghai's first imported Mercedes-Benz sedan as a car, the license plate is four 4. When I saw the license plate of 4444 on the street, I knew that the fourth elder of the Sheng family had come.
Sheng Enyi and the original wife have 6 children successively, but he has several aunts and wives.
He was also very generous to women
He bought them a lot of real estate and servants, and it is said that he had no less than dozens of children with the women in the outer room.
Sheng Xuanhuai had been worried that his family was "not rich for three generations" before his death, and he had long begun to plan ahead. First of all, he single-handedly sent Sheng Enyi to study abroad, and then stabilized the future of the Sheng family with the help of the interest community of marriage.
Sheng Enyi did not have the consciousness of becoming a family member at all,
Enjoy the exclusive favor of the elders, only to indulge in the extravagant life.
Sheng Xuanhuai and Lady Zhuang (Sheng Xuanhuai's third aunt and Sheng Enyi's biological mother) were worried about the fall of the Sheng family, and even set up the Sheng family's Righteous Village, after the death of the two, there were millions of taels of silver, and the generations of the Sheng family's grandchildren could not be spent.
However, they still underestimated their own son Sheng Enyi,
After Sheng Enyi spent a lot of time drinking for a while, his ancestral property was almost destroyed by him.
He began to fight the idea of Sheng Jia Yizhuang. He successively contacted several descendants of the Sheng family, organized a lawsuit, and the court applied to divide the property.
On November 26, 1927, it triggered the first daughter succession lawsuit in Chinese history
Celebrities such as Ms. Song Meiling participated in it and supported equality between men and women, so the heirs of the Sheng family divided up this huge wealth. As a result, it can be imagined that Sheng Enyi, who was addicted to drugs and gambling, quickly squandered the money.
No business talent,
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Sheng Enyi, a plaything, began to help the Japanese sell tobacco
After becoming famous, he actually did such a disgraceful business, and was eventually reported by the masses.
So the government took away the few properties he had left, and Sheng Enyi's already desperate life was even more difficult.
At this point, Sheng Enyi, who had lost all his family property, still did not change his clumsy nature,
Began a variety of "rubbing rice" life
。 The once glorious Sheng family, even if it is miserable, has accumulated some valuable contacts.
So Sheng Enyi began to visit the rich and powerful friends who were good with his father, and at first these business celebrities would also help the son of this friend, but gradually saw that Sheng Enyi was really difficult to carve and difficult to improve.
Although his father had many friends, who could help him free of charge for a long time?
Just fishing.
But he did not hesitate to survive at any cost, even if they turned a blind eye, but Sheng Enyi still used his ability to die to get some living expenses.
That's it
Before the founding of New China, Sheng Enyi had squandered his ancestral property early
He ended up asking his father for living expenses and his son.
At the founding of New China,
The Sheng family only had the property of the old houses of the Sheng Family Ancestral Hall at the entrance of the Suzhou Lingering Garden
This allowed Sheng Enyi in his later years to have a place to live.
In his later years, he often went to the streets with Li Hongzhang's grandson Li Houfu as a pastime, but the two people after the rich side could not come up with a dollar for the park's entrance fee after half a lifetime of poverty and luxury.
At the same time, Sheng Enyi suffered a stroke and had to live in the ancestral hall of the Ancestral Suzhou Lingering Garden, leaving only a serious aunt and wife to take care of him.
In 1958, he died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the gate of the ancestral hall in Suzhou.
At that time, the young master Sheng, who had spent thousands of dollars, only wanted to enjoy himself, and his extravagant and lascivious life, which had a very high starting point, turned such a desolate situation in his later years
His 66-year life came to a dramatic end.