But all those who are rich in wealth mostly enjoy comfort and enjoy their lives by relying on the wealth of their families, and there are too many big warlords and big capitalists in the Republic of China period, and most of them are not good at educating their children, and it is also expected that there will be so many tricks. Today I want to talk about this one, although he was born rich, but he never got carried away, the rich origin for him is more like a springboard, relying on the wealth of the family, he collected countless cultural relics and paintings, the purpose of his collection of famous paintings, one for his own appreciation, the other is to collect the treasures of these nationalities, to avoid exile abroad. His name was Zhang Boju, and he devoted his life to the country.
People who collect antiques know that a cultural relic with a long history is definitely worth hundreds of millions of dollars, such cultural relics, Zhang Boju donated to countless countries, and today's entire Forbidden City exhibits are generally donated by Zhang Boju.
Born rich, but never with the mud.
Zhang Boju's father was a late Qing jinshi who held important official positions in the Qing court, and later the Qing court collapsed, and his father also became a warlord and joined Yuan Shikai's camp.
Zhang Boju was a typical birth with a golden spoon, in his early years he also joined the army, into the army, at that time, the army, full of darkness, he relied on the tough backstage, it did not take long to sit in the high-ranking official position, after which he was tired of the dark decay within the army, determined to abandon the military and engage in business. His father had opened a bank, and his father couldn't bear to watch him idle all day, so he let him go to the bank to take care of the finances.
After entering the bank, Zhang Boju also did a good job for a while, and suddenly one day, on his way to the bank, he turned into a cultural relics store. Because he took a fancy to an exhibit in the store, he embarked on the road of no return to collecting cultural relics.
Relying on the rich assets in the family, Zhang Boju buys cultural relics with a fixed price, never returns the mouth, as long as he is interested, he will buy it at will. His grand gesture quickly attracted the major celebrities in the cultural relics market, and many people went thousands of miles to find him to sell cultural relics.
Noble sentiments, and finally a confidant with a red face.
Just like most of the clumsy children, Zhang Boju is also an amorous person, and his family inevitably has three wives and four concubines, but all this has changed after he met Pan Su. Pan Su was originally a singer, known as the first beauty of Jiangnan, he was amorous in his own right, seeing Pan Su was like seeing a confidant who had been seeking for many years, without the slightest hesitation, he began to pursue her. There were also many twists and turns between the two of them, but fortunately they finally came together. Since, every Lantern Festival, the two have painted and painted together and kept them as a souvenir.
Fighting righteousness and neglecting wealth, only for the national treasure not to flow out.
Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Western powers have long been eager to move on the wealth of China, they want the wealth of China, naturally there are people willing to exchange these things with them, it can be said that in the entire modern history, the Chinese nation has wandered abroad a large number of precious cultural relics. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese invaders were bound to raid everywhere they went, and they occupied most of China, and most of China's wealth was also plundered by them.
There was once a simple statistic that the number of cultural relics exiled to foreign countries in modern China reached 10 million, which is definitely more than this. Faced with such a situation, naturally someone has to come forward, Zhang Boju is the one who stepped forward, and the many cultural relics he donated to the Forbidden City are almost his life's property, these cultural relics are all bought from all over the place at his expense, some are specially purchased from abroad, and some are in order to prevent the cultural logistics from falling abroad and buying them with heavy money. Zhang Boju's contribution to national cultural relics is definitely not simple and incalculable.
He poured out his family wealth, but in his later years he was in a difficult situation.
Before the founding of New China, relying on the family's wealth, he could buy the collection he wanted at will, although the warlord period had passed, and the wealth of the family was greatly compressed, but only by relying on a salt bank, his life could still enjoy the glory.
Later, he was expelled from the company because he had no shares in the salt industry bank and sat in the position of chairman, and since then, he has only been left with his family's ancestral home and inheritance. Without his family wealth, he often watched all kinds of precious cultural relics being sold abroad and was powerless.
In his later years, he donated all his collections to the Forbidden City, and most of the things he donated were calligraphy and paintings with extremely high collection value, it can be said that without his donation, the cultural relics collected by the Forbidden City today will be reduced by more than half in value.
After the founding of New China, his whole family squeezed into a small bungalow of more than ten square meters, relying on the help of former friends to survive.
Before his death, Zhang Boju fell seriously ill and was admitted to the hospital. He lives in an eight-person room, the children in order to let him have better conditions for convalescence to the hospital has made a request, but the hospital is not enough to refuse, and finally had to go through the transfer procedures, who wants, the procedures have not been done, Zhang Boju is gone.
After his death, some students ran to the door of the hospital and scolded the hospital: Do you know who he is? He has contributed more than all of you in the senior ward combined!