Travel back in time to the last years of the Qing Dynasty. When Empress Dowager Cixi came to power, there were two powerful eunuchs, one was Li Lianying, the grand chancellor, and the other was Xiao Dezhang. Zhang Xiangduan character Yunting, palace number Xiao De Zhang, ranking Lan character, the palace name Zhang Rand, Empress Dowager Cixi gave the name Hengtai. He was born in the second year of Qing Guangxu (1876), entered the palace in the seventeenth year of Qing Guangxu (1891), and in the first year of Qing Xuan reunification (1909), Xiao Dezhang returned to his hometown as the grand administrator of the Empress Dowager Palace, which caused a sensation in Tianjin Wei and Jinghai Counties.
Xiao De Zhang was born in a poor family, his father was fishing and farming, and his mother Tang was a housewife. XiaoDe Zhang brothers three, older brother Zhang Yuefeng, apprenticed in the jewelry silversmith shop since childhood, Xiao De Zhang Xing ii, there is a younger brother at the bottom.
Shizumi old photo
When Xiao Dezhang was 12 years old, it was a great drought in the world, and there was no overnight food at home, so his father asked him to go to his aunt's grandmother's home with his brother to visit the New Year with his brother. Grandma's family has a big set of cars is very exquisite, Xiao Dezhang is very envious, after returning home to ask people how to get rich, but also to buy a big set of cars.
At that time, Jinghai and Dacheng counties were known for being eunuchs, and Li Lianying was a native of Dacheng County, and the locals called "Dry Emperor Cha, be a husband". With a moment of blood, Xiao Dezhang took a sickle and a rope into the livestock shed and cleaned himself. When his mother found out, she was devastated and rushed to use incense ash to give first aid, and survived.
The eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty, all the yang that was castrated after the purification, the family called it a treasure, to be fried thoroughly, wrapped in oil paper, placed in the "liter", hanging on the secluded beam of the high place. When this eunuch died, he put his treasure in a coffin, which means, "In this life, the six roots are incomplete, and in the next life, they can become a whole body", and the most humble little eunuch cannot forget this matter.
Little Dezhang
When Xiao Dezhang was a little eunuch, he returned to his hometown once, that is, his father died, he took leave to go home to do the funeral, and the brothers in the palace gave him a hundred and ten taels of silver. In the first year of the Qing Dynasty (1909), Xiao Dezhang had been honored as the grand administrator of the Empress Palace, and the official residence erpin, at this time he returned home for the second time to go to the grave, saying that he was returning to his hometown.
At that time, there were dozens of apprentices in the entourage, and a dozen cooks from the imperial dining room. When passing through Tianjin by train from Beijing, Yang Yide of Tianjin Patrol Police Road, a well-known figure in Tianjin Weihe, nicknamed Yang Zizi, personally greeted him at the station. Xiao Dezhang lived in the Furong Hall of the Japanese Concession, and his apprentice Zhang Kui showed him the door. Yang Yide came to visit, Zhang Kui did not allow him to enter, Yang Yide came seven times, only to see Xiao Dezhang.
Arriving at Yang Liuqing, Lord Song of Jinghai County came to greet Xiao Dezhang and changed into a wooden boat, and the county grandfather personally pulled the fiber on the bank of the Royal River and sent him to Lüguantun. Xiao Dezhang asked the cook who came with the imperial dining room to make a few dishes and invited the county grandfather to the banquet. At the table, Xiao Dezhang let the county grandmaster a dish, he ate all the dishes on a plate, let one, ate it again, let him drink the soup, the county grandmaster drank all the bowl of soup, let him drink, he drank all the wine.
After the banquet, the county grandmaster ate too much wine and food, could not move the ground, and slipped under the table. Xiao Dezhang let people help him out, so he ended up with a joke of "the county grandfather slipped away from the table". The county grand master waited in Lüguantun until Xiao Dezhang returned to Beijing before returning to the county.
Xiao Dezhang took money to repair the Lüguantun Temple. The temple opened up, sang a big drama for three consecutive days, and invited Tianjin famous characters Yuan Yuanhong, Cheng Yonglong and others to LuGuantun to sing opera and he temple for the whole village to see. He also invited the whole village to eat beef stuffed buns, opened up to eat, and there was a native who almost died.
Xiao Dezhang released three thousand taels of silver for disaster relief, and then took the money to drill three sweet wells. He bought a house and land for the poor family Member Zhang Shutian, built a large four-fold set for the eldest brother Zhang Yuefeng, and set up a hall name - Deben Hall. With the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, in 1913, Xiao Dezhang left the Forbidden City and came to tianjin to live, and many stories happened.
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