In the late Qing Dynasty, society was very turbulent, but there were also some people who could still grasp the scarce resources of power and money in the chaotic world, and grasp the right to speak in society. Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang are both such people with extremely high social status, but it is difficult to tolerate two tigers in one mountain, and although they are evenly matched, they are also intolerable.
At that time, Sheng Xuanhuai and Li Hongzhang were in the same camp, while Hu Xueyan and Zuo Zongtang were on the side. Li Hongzhang had no way to take Zuo Zongtang, so he opened his knife to Hu Xueyan, and Sheng Xuanhuai naturally became the first person to do it. After the collapse of Hu Xueyan, Sheng Xuanhuai became the "richest man in the late Qing Dynasty".
At that time, there was no family planning, and the rich people liked to spread their branches, after all, their family had a big business, and Sheng Xuanhuai was no exception, he had a total of sixteen children, which meant that many people were needed to take care of it, so the Sheng family hired a lot of maids. Because Sheng Xuanhuai is a person who pays attention, most of his maids are also the family's fallen bridesmaids.
1. Special maids
Sheng Xuanhuai not only has his own reputation, but also his maids are not ordinary, and even there are two later families, whose prestige and influence directly exceed Sheng Xuanhuai. These two former maids of the Sheng family, one named Lu Baozhen and the other named Ni Guizhen. The reason why these two women had the opportunity to stand out was also because of the help of Sheng Xuanhuai.
In film and television dramas, we can often see that if the palace daughter is not arranged for marriage, she must work until she is old to leave the palace, in fact, it is an old girl. In many large families, they do the same for maids, and most do not have the right to marry. But Sheng Xuanhuai was very clear on this point.
When the maids of the Sheng family reach an old age, they can not only get married, but Sheng Xuanhuai will also choose a husband's family for them, and when they marry out, they will also prepare a dowry for them. The marriage of Lü Baozhen and Ni Guizhen is the red line of Sheng Xuanhuai. Lü Baozhen married Sheng Xuanhuai's old subordinate Zhao Qinghua, and later Zhang Xueliang became her son-in-law; Ni Guizhen married Song Jiashu and gave birth to the famous Song family of the Republic of China.
Second, each has its own strengths
Lu Baozhen was a maid in the Sheng family very early because of her family's fall, and she had a clear eyebrow and was easy to be noticed. But in this way, she did not pamper and be proud, but did her duty in the Sheng family. Lu Baozhen's personality will be liked everywhere, and Sheng Xuanhuai also found this girl who is less capable.
At the age of marriage, Sheng Xuanhuai took the initiative to marry Lü Baozhen to his old subordinate Zhao Qinghua, who had a rich family and a decent position himself. The fly in the ointment is that Zhao Qinghua already has a wife, and Lu Baozhen can only be an aunt when she marries in the past.
Although Lü Baozhen was married only as a concubine in the past, because she continued her low-key character, coupled with the fact that she gave birth to four sons and three daughters for her husband, she was recognized by her husband's family. Lu Bao's only regret is that she herself made a concubine and wanted her daughter Miss Zhao Si to be a regular room, and as a result, Miss Zhao Si eloped for love and took the old path of her mother.
Lü Baozhen's identity as Zhang Xueliang's mother-in-law is already prominent enough, and Ni Guizhen's family is even higher than it. When Ni Guizhen was in the Sheng family, she was an adoptive mother, and to put it more appropriately, she was a tutor. Ni Guizhen's family is actually quite good, her father is still a priest, so in that era she could receive a good education, speak English and play the piano, very outstanding.
Because of fate, Ni Guizhen met Song Jiashu, and the two were smoothly combined, and they gave birth to a total of five children, which is what we often call "song family three thousand gold" and two boys. Among Ni Guizhen's five children, it is necessary to mention three Qianjin, who are not only outstanding themselves, but also find husbands who are celebrities in modern China.
The first is the eldest sister Song Xialing, although she looks relatively ordinary, but the inside is very solid. When studying in the United States, foreign classmates saw that she was usually very low-key, and they stereotyped that she was a mediocre Chinese woman, but through in-depth understanding, Song Xialing used her own insights and experience to convince foreign classmates.
In the Song family three thousand gold, Song Xialing is the "richest" one, when studying abroad, she and Kong Lingxi, the son of the Kong family, met and loved each other, and after returning to China, the two successfully combined and formed a strong and powerful family.
The second sister, Song Qingling, is better known to us because she was a staunch communist fighter. After returning from studying abroad, she formed a deep revolutionary relationship with Dr. Sun Yat-sen and fell in love with her work. Although the married life of the two was short, Soong Ching Ling has always continued the revolutionary ideals of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and made indelible contributions to the construction of new China.
Conclusion: The third sister, Song Meiling, has an excellent appearance and a lively personality, she returned from studying abroad and engaged in political work, and later won the favor of the Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek, and later married Chiang Kai-shek. Soong Mei Ling said that she liked the French plane tree, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered someone to plant Nanjing with sycamores, and this story is a beautiful talk today.
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