In ancient China, there were many people who were rich in commerce. For example, Shen Wansan and Wan Sanqian are representatives of successful businessmen in history. They have become a business culture with regional characteristics in China. Today we are going to talk about Yushang. How brilliant is the Kang family in Gongyi, Henan? The private estate built by the Kang family is called Kang Million Manor. It is not only one of the three major official residences in China, but also one of the three major estates in China, which can be said to have strong financial resources.
A family can not decay for 400 years, and generations are rich. The descendants of the twelve generations of this family were either wealthy merchants or high-ranking nobles. They also have a family landmark, The CornMillion Estate. It was built in the late Ming Dynasty. Kang Million Manor is a representative northern building of the Chinese feudal period. The Kang million family began to start a business in the Ming Dynasty and gradually entered a period of prosperity. During the Qianlong period, Kang's million family business reached its peak.
In fact, "Kang Million" does not refer to one person, but to the entire Kang family represented by Kang Yingkui, the fourteenth generation of Kang Million family since the Ming and Qing dynasties. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Kang Million, Shen Wansan and Ruan Zilan were also known as the three gods of wealth. During the seven years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Kang Shaojing and his mother moved from Hongdong in Shanxi to Gong County. Since then, the Kang family has become more and more powerful. When Kang Shaojing came to power in the sixth generation, he also served as a local official in water and land transportation, salt industry, taxation and so on. He also used regional property to come up with various good ways to make money.
Organize a group of Kang family disciples to transport grain, cotton, oil and other materials from Henan to Shandong for sale, and then transport salt and seafood from them. Shandong to Henan for sale. The timeline shifts to the Jiaying period of the Qing Dynasty. In suppressing the White Lotus religion, the Kang family caught up with the trend of the times and held at all costs for 10 years of cloth and cotton military material orders. At that time, the Kang family had become a famous family, especially in the Fujian area of Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi provinces.
The Kang family owns many fields and numerous shops. Every day, the family income can reach tens of thousands of taels per day. In the local area, children often say in the streets and alleys: Although the horse is thousands of miles away, it is all the kang family's field. The prosperity of the Kang family lies in their family motto, keep some money for backup, and other money that cannot be spent to do something for the people. All previous generations of patriarchs were able to keep a clear head, work hard and be frugal to support their families and encourage their descendants to strive for progress rather than idleness. The Kang family attaches great importance to education, and the cost of hiring famous teachers to teach is high, while imparting knowledge and paying attention to moral education.
The Kang family once used such couplets to describe the way of managing the family, and the only thing to do before zhiguang was to read and teach children, and it was better to be diligent and frugal after having a good heart. In terms of human beings, they also publicly burned the people's arrears.