Speaking of Li Hongzhang, it is estimated that many people's first impression is that he signed those unequal treaties on behalf of the late Qing government.
Some people say that Li Hongzhang is a complete traitor to the country, but some people say that Li Hongzhang also has the heart to serve the country and the people, and signing an unequal treaty is to carry the black pot for the late Qing government. In short, historians and the people have mixed praise and criticism of Li Hongzhang.
With such a rich family property, Li Hongzhang naturally wanted to pass it on to his descendants, but Li Hongzhang's descendants were not like him.
As the saying goes, "rich is not more than three generations", after the Li family property was passed down to the grandson Li Zijia's generation, it was destroyed little by little, and Li Zijia is also an absolute tragic figure.
I. Profile of the descendants of the Li family
Li Hongzhang had four sons and two daughters in this lifetime, the eldest Li Jingfang was inherited, as well as the second oldest Li Jingshu, the oldest Li Jingmai, the eldest daughter Li Jingpu and the second daughter Li Jingfang.
In the end, how many family properties Li Hongzhang left behind to the people after him, the specific number is no longer available. But if you look at the family property divided by the two sons of the eldest Li Jingfang, the volume is still quite strong.
The previously mentioned Li Zijia is the son of Li Jingfang, who was born in 1910 by Li Jingfang and a foreign woman.
Li Zijia is actually what we often call mixed blood, his appearance is also similar to the European white skin, high nose bridge, he also has a foreign name "George".
Second, pampering and habitually raising losers
Li Zijia was deeply loved by his parents from an early age, and after Li Jingfang's death, he and his brother Li Houfu divided the family property held by his father equally. After Li Zijia got a part of the family property, she often squandered it, so Li Zijia took some of the family property held by Li Zijia, but this did not fundamentally change Li Zijia's share of the family property.
Li Zijia's family property includes fields, mountain farms, and houses, which are real estate, and Li Zijia's mother took movable property in the past.
Li Zijia can withdraw five hundred yuan from the bank on the first day of every month, and Li Zijia can only do so.
Li Zijia received a good education as a child, but unlike other peers, Li Zijia received a bilingual enlightenment education in Chinese and English just after he could speak.
However, such good conditions and environment did not cultivate Li Zijia into a talent, but let him develop a small bully-like personality from an early age.
This is not nothing, when Li Zijia was only a teenager, he ate, drank, gambled and smoked five poisons.
Mother Li wanted to take care of him, but he lived separately from his mother and ran to Wuhu to live by himself, living a small life of Sai Shenxian. He has a mansion in Wuhu, every day in addition to smoking a lot of cigarettes is to play with women, the family property is handed over to the big housekeeper to take care of, but he himself does not care.
At that time, there was a sarcastic saying circulating in the local area: "On the third street and The Jiyi area on the day of going to Wuhu, I would be able to find Grand Duke Li" it was Li Zijia. The Third Street and Jiyi are the boundaries where local brothels are concentrated.
Li Zijia, who was addicted to kilns, even married a prostitute to be his aunt at home, playing music every day to pass the time for Li Zijia, and Li Zijia also hired a large group of people to serve his aunt.
Li Zijia also has six dogs, every time he goes out, Li Zijia lets the dog follow the class, Li Zijia can say that he feels that he is extremely powerful about this "battle".
Although he married prostitutes into the family, Li Zijia often went to the kiln.
This one came and went, and the syphilis was introduced.
This is good, seeing that the kiln can not be visited in the future, Li Zijia changed the place - the gambling house, and spent the time before going to the kiln to go to the gambling house.
Li Zijia went to the gambling house, in the popular saying now, "people are still addicted to money",
He gambled and lost, but he didn't feel sorry for the money at all, and felt that the family had left so much anyway.
But Li Zijia did not gamble on the silver of the white flowers, because all his silver was taken away by Li Mu.
He gambled on the real estate in his family, and every time he lost, he lost the land title and the house deed to others.
After gambling for some years, the real estate in Li Zijia's hands was lost by him little by little.
Li Zijia's gambling addiction is well-known in the local area
In addition, others entering the gambling house are walking in and out, he is in and out of the rack, and staying in the gambling house is an all-nighter.
Why? This is still due to his previous visit to the kiln, and it is not normal to walk after being infected with syphilis.
3. Do not live by your own sins
The kiln could not be visited, and there was no gambling to be gambled, and Li Zijia was planning to get an official pawn.
When the imperial examination was gone, he simply bought an official at a large expense. After this matter reached his brother Li Houfu, he knew that the officials he had bought would have no use except for the famous people. So he hurried to block it, and after a round of maneuvering, Li Zijia finally failed to buy it.
Later, Li Zijia went to Shanghai for treatment, but the treatment could not stop him from continuing.
He first bought an apartment in Shanghai, and then brought the prostitute surnamed Shen whom he had married earlier to Shanghai, along with the waiters.
Here, I can't help but ask: Is this still a sick number?
After such a toss, the family property held by Li Zijia has reached the bottom, but he did not stop there, but tried his best to pull money. He went to Li Houfu's house to make trouble, saying that the family property was unevenly distributed, and he also made some trouble from his brother, which was actually no different from robbing.
After a few more years, after the victory of the War of Resistance, all the family property in Li Zijia's hands was finally destroyed by him.
The family's fortunes plummeted, and in order to let Li Zijia support herself, Li Mu found someone to help him find a job as a translator.
As a result, not long after doing it, Li Zijia stopped picking and choosing, saying that he could not serve people.
Later, Li's mother returned to her hometown in Europe, and the prostitute surnamed Shen who Li Zijia had married from the brothel also ran away from home.
Almost overnight, Li Zijia, a clumsy boy, became a lonely man with no one to accompany and no one to serve.
In 1953, Li Zijia, who was desperate to go every day, turned to Zuo Zongtang's grandson Zuo Jusheng. Originally, Li Zijia had borrowed ten stones of rice for Zuo Jusheng, and he actually came to ask for rice, but Zuo Jusheng said that he couldn't afford it now, and the two of them might as well make it up.
Living in a broken house and drinking only a few grains of rice "porridge", how can Li Zijia, a brother who is accustomed to being served, endure such a miserable life?
One day, after drinking a bowl of "porridge", he ran out of Zuo Jusheng's house, and Zuo Jusheng did not stop him, and he did not have enough to eat enough to stop him?
At this time, Li Zijia was already forty-three years old, and he couldn't do anything on the street, and he didn't know what to do.
Accustomed to the days when he was accustomed to eating and opening his mouth to reach out, he did not even have the ability to take care of himself. At that time, it was already winter, and the torn clothes worn by Li Zijia were completely unable to withstand the cold. Frustrated, he jumped into the pond to look for death, and it was not long before he was fished out and sent back to Zuo Jusheng's house.
Li Zijia suffered from wind chills, but Zuo Jusheng was also rudderless, he did not have money to ask the doctor to see Li Zijia, he could only touch Li Zijia's hot hair and forehead.
Soon after, Li Zijia passed away. Zuo Jusheng, who had no money to bury, only learned that Li Houfu would come to collect the body, but at this time, Li Houfu was also poor, so he could only get a grass mat and hastily buried Li Zijia
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4. Summary
Li Zijia's old friend Li Yongzhang learned of Li Zijia's death, and he said this with emotion:
"Man, don't leave money to future generations, but leave germany to future generations!"
Li Zijia's encounter completely confirmed this sentence. As a heavy minister of the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang can be said to be a combination of family, power, status, and wealth. But he did not completely leave his own merits to future generations.
We leave aside Li Hongzhang's military and political actions in the late Qing Dynasty.
In terms of governing the family, Li Hongzhang failed, and what he did to the family was more than a star and a half worse than Zeng Guofan, who was famous for governing the family.
This also reflects the appearance of the official eunuch family in that era, which looked magnificent and clean and quiet, and in essence, there was no lack of ugliness in the world.