In the mid-1920s, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang was often worried about not getting military expenses, but he inadvertently found that his division commander Wang Lingji suddenly swelled up, and when he inquired, it turned out that Wang Bu had a new economic expert named Liu Hangchen. Liu Xiang felt fresh, so he arranged a meeting, and he did not expect to harvest a god of wealth.
In 1897, Liu Hangchen was born in a winemaking family, and his father Liu Zixiu was a famous wine merchant in Sichuan, who combined the family tradition "Hundred Flowers Wine" with the French winemaking process, launched the well-known Luzhou Daqu at home and abroad, and saved a good family business. In the good family situation, Liu Hangchen went all the way to Peking University and studied in the Department of Economics.
At that time, Peking University was the birthplace of the May Fourth Movement, but Liu Hangchen had no intention of politics, got married early, and took his wife in and out of various sound and color places, living off the appearance of a male brother, and was regarded as an outlier by his classmates.
After graduation, under the repeated requests of his father, Liu Hangchen still returned to Luzhou, Sichuan, but he was not willing to inherit the family business, even if Liu Zixiu died of illness, he also handed over the liquor store to his sister to manage, and he continued to be at ease.
This continued until 1926, when Liu Hangchen, the director of the Chongqing Tobacco Tax Bureau, had to turn to Wang Lingji, commander of the Third Division of the Sichuan Army, to avoid the family business being confiscated. Indebted to such a large amount of human affection, Liu Hangchen could only agree to Wang Lingji's conditions, go out of the mountains to help him take care of the economy, and earn a pot in a few months.
This kind of talent, to Wang Lingji as a consultant is really condescending, Liu Xiang simply dug him up, but Liu Hangchen and the big boss about the law three chapters: "1. If I cheat for personal gain, you can execute me 2. If the two have differences, you can depose me 3. In addition, I am solely responsible for the money matter, you must not interfere", thanks to Liu Xiang's good temper, such conditions can be tolerated.
At the beginning of his term of office, Liu Hangchen used his economic knowledge to make a major innovation in the counties of Chongqing under Liu Xiang's jurisdiction, specifically, merging institutions, reminting coins, collecting salt taxes, uniting rich merchants, issuing public bonds, and a set of combinations, and the original chaotic tax administration in Chongqing had undergone a fundamental change, and a huge amount of wealth was accumulated in a short period of time.
Liu Hangchen not only understands the economy, but also understands the sophistication of people, he knows that no matter how strong his ability is, after all, he is a student, and the proud soldiers and fierce generals cannot really convince him, so no matter what institution is set up, we must let Liu Xiang name the supreme leader, use Liu Xiang's prestige, and block the mouths of the people below.
Only three months later, Liu Hangchen turned Liu Xiang's business into a profit, the first year was a balance of more than 400,000, and since then he has maintained an annual income of one or two million, with this money, Liu Xiang can expand the scale of the Chongqing Arsenal, introduce the latest gun production line, and have spare money to befriend Chiang Kai-shek's people around him, and make his power bigger and bigger.
With the help of the god of wealth, only six years later, Liu Xiang defeated Yang Sen, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao and others, nominally unifying Sichuan, and Liu Hangchen's ability to gather money was even favored by the Nanjing government, and then rose step by step, and finally became the minister of economy. A cynical brother-in-law, transformed into Liu Xiang's god of wealth, can also be regarded as a miracle of the Republic of China.