There is a saying called "rich but not three generations", people who grew up in a superior family situation, for the temptation of money, it is difficult to resist, so that they can not extricate themselves from the life of paper and gold drunk, and in modern times, there is also such a person, he can be said to be the first loser of the Republic of China, here is Sheng Xuanhuai's fourth son Sheng Enyi.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the development of the western affairs movement, a group of entrepreneurs and commercial street giants were born, and Sheng Xuanhuai was also one of them, he was known as the father of Chinese industry, and created the first civilian joint-stock enterprise steamship China Merchants Bureau, the first telegraph bureau China Telegraph Bureau, the first bank China Commerce and Commerce Bank and so on.
In terms of family, Sheng Xuanhuai's life was not too satisfactory, he successively married the three rooms and gave birth to three sons and three daughters, but the eldest Changyi and the third elder Tongyi both died early, and the second and the second and the same were inherited to Sheng Xuanhuai's second brother Junhuai, and finally died. In this way, later, his wife Lady Zhuang gave birth to Sheng Enyi, for which Sheng Xuanhuai regarded his young son as particularly important and loved him very much.
Sheng Enyi, who was born with a golden key, also had a very high starting point, under the mediation of the two families, his wife and father-in-law was Sun Baoqi, the prime minister of the Republic of China, after the death of his father in 1916, his mother Mrs. Zhuang became the head of the Sheng family's industry, in fact, the power has been transferred to the hands of Sheng Enyi, but it is very regrettable that Sheng Enyi does not have the ability of his father.
Sheng Enyi, who returned from studying in Europe, has become accustomed to the life of spending days and drinks, he is in Shanghai, but also began to spend a lot of money, he imported a Mercedes-Benz car in Shanghai, in order to show his magnanimity, the license plate was also replaced by silver, engraved with his name. Because Sheng Xuanhuai is the fourth oldest, his car concession card is four 4s, and Shanghai Beach is unique.
At that time, there were few cars, as long as the casinos and restaurants saw the cars with 4 license plates driving in, they knew that the sheng family was coming, and Sheng Enyi was also generous to his confidants with red faces, he bought a garden house for each aunt and wife, and also hired a large number of maids, in addition, Sheng Xuanhuai also raised 75 horses at the racecourse.
However, compared with Sheng Xuanhuai's deeds in gambling, I am afraid that he is a little witch, who has set a record, and overnight, will lose the street with more than a hundred houses along The Yellow River Road on Beijing Road to Lu Xiaojia, the son of Lu Yongxiang, the governor of Zhejiang, and one of the four sons of the Republic of China.
As for the enterprise handed over by his father, Sheng Xuanhuai did not pay any attention to it, and his son described Sheng Enyi's style in the position of general manager of Han Yeping: "Daddy is hiding on the smoke collapse, smoking a big cigarette while approving documents. ”
According to sheng enyi's gamblers' recollections, Sheng Enyi slept a lot during the day, got up at four o'clock, and then rushed to the casino, but there was no cash in his hand, the bank was closed again, that had to take the old antiques in the family to the pawnshop, and then send someone to the pawnshop to redeem it the next day, so that with Sheng Enyi squandering every day, before the War of Resistance, his family property was basically all squandered, and after liberation, Sheng Enyi only had a few ancestral house ancestral halls left, becoming his last shelter, and sheng Xuanhuai in his later years, life was very desolate Finally, in 1958, he died in the concierge of his house, which was also a lament.