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Sometimes the fate between people is really wonderful, you can naturally be together, do not call each other, wait for missed, and then look back and find that you are wrong, and it is already difficult to catch each other again. The love between Zhou Ying and Shen Xingqian in "That Year the Flower Bloomed and the Moon Was Full" is like this.
In "The Blooming Moon That Year", Zhou Ying, played by Sun Li, did not move with Shen Xing in the end, but has always been the young grandmother of the Wu family and the big boss of the Wu family's East Courtyard. She was not only exquisite, insightful and factual, but also keen and courageous, and made a splash in the shopping mall, and finally supported the Wu family's business with her own strength and carried it forward, becoming the richest woman in Shaanxi.
As we all know, Zhou Ying, played by Sun Li, has a prototype in history, and is also the goddaughter of Empress Dowager Cixi. So, what happened between these two? After the death of Zhou Ying in history, where did the huge wealth go?
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Character past
In 1869, Zhou Ying was born in Sanyuan, Shaanxi, and was adopted as an adopted daughter by Zhou Meicun, a wealthy businessman in Sanyuan, since childhood.
The Zhou family has been an official for five generations, and has been in business for generations, and it is a full-fledged official eunuch house. At the peak of its business development, the Zhou family had more than 30 businesses across the country. Zhou Jia, who had accumulated thousands of family wealth, often helped the poor and was known as the "God of Living Wealth", which deeply influenced Zhou Ying.
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When she was 17 years old, due to her brother's poor management, the business had been losing money, and in order to obtain financial support, she was married into the Wu family, a large household in Anwubao, Jingyang. The Wu family is a well-known local rich businessman who runs a salt business. He once bought military supplies for Zuo Zongtang and was a red-capped businessman like Hu Xueyan.
After marrying into the Wu family, Zhou Ying knew that Wu Ping, the young master of the Wu family, was a sick man. As the saying goes, "marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog", she not only did not dislike, but also carefully took care of Wu Ping's living, and the relationship between husband and wife was warmed up.
After getting along, Wu Ping gradually became affectionate with this wife, and often gave her gold and silver jewelry that her daughter's family liked, it can be said that during the wedding days, Zhou Ying has always been pampered.
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In the feudal society of China, the status of women is low, the only thing they can do in their lives is to teach their husbands and children, they have no living space of their own, they are only accessories of men.
The so-called "three principles and five constants, male superiority and female inferiority" is like an iron chain that locks the heart of every woman who wants to fly.
But Zhou Ying, who was destined to be extraordinary, took the lead in breaking the traditional concepts of the society at that time. Because of her talent, familiarity with poetry, and good at arithmetic, she made it clear that she wanted to learn to do business with the Wu family, and her husband Wu Ping had long seen that his wife was an unusual person through contact and agreed to her proposal.
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Zhou Ying and Wu Ping had a daughter after marriage, but the child died before the age of one. At that time, her husband's health was deteriorating, and in order to pass on the lineage, Zhou Ying succeeded Wu Yu, a two-year-old nephew of the Middle Court. Zhou Ying treated Wu Yu as her own and changed the name of the child to Huaixian.
After that, Wu Ping's health was up and down, and after three years of marriage, he finally couldn't stay up, left his wife alone and left the world.
Zhou Ying married into the Wu family at the age of 17 and became a widow at the age of 20, and her heart was bitter and unspeakable.
More unfortunately, after Wu Ping's death, his father Wu Weiwen could not afford to fall ill, and soon after went with his son. There is a theory that Wu Weiwen was assassinated by a business opponent.
After the death of Wu Ping's father and son, the Wu family's business plummeted, and there was no cure for the building. At this time, Zhou Ying stepped forward and asked herself to take on the big responsibility.
As a woman, Zhou Ying married into the Wu family not long ago, she was soft-spoken, and more importantly, she lost her husband who could support herself, and she was naturally bullied by her clansmen. But Zhou Ying did not give in, relying on wisdom and perseverance to win the support of some people in the Wu Family East Courtyard. With their support, Zhou Ying successfully took over the banner of the big family and shouldered the heavy task of reviving the Wu family.
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The "superpower" of a weak woman
Because there were no men sitting in the town, the Wu family's industry was hit hard. At this time, Zhou Ying, a young widowed weak woman, showed superhuman ability. She began to work hard to line up the public opinion, presided over the Wu family's business, and carried out drastic reforms. With amazing courage, she supported a piece of the Wu family.
Zhou Ying, who is brilliant, knows people well, controls well, and is extremely good at management. She knew that although the Wu family was not as good as before, it still had a lot of capital, and as long as it was managed properly, it could turn defeat into victory.
1. Performance incentives
In terms of the distribution system, the "yang and yin" system is implemented, and if the old employees cannot do anything, they can retire and apply for a pension, and their family members can continue to receive pensions after death. And the employee's family can also work in the Wu family.
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2. Co-production contracting responsibility system
Zhou Ying distributed the Wu family's land to the tenants in the form of rent reduction, allowing them to bear their own profits and losses, which greatly increased the tenants' enthusiasm for production.
3. Make up for apologies with abundance
The Wu family's business is more involved in the cotton business, and Zhou Ying tried Sanfeng and one apology in Shaanxi cotton production. In the case of not knowing the apology of the harvest, the cotton farmer books the cotton for the following year in advance at the price of the same year. This not only ensures the interests of cotton farmers, but also stabilizes their own supply. By the time of the harvest the next year, other cotton merchants had no cotton to harvest for a long time, so they could only buy back from Zhou Ying at a high price, and some unscrupulous merchants were completely squeezed out of the market by her. With this move, the Wu family monopolized the Shaanxi cotton market for many years.
4. Shareholding system
In terms of business ownership, she changed the family business to shareholding ownership. At that time, she boldly accepted the Western shareholding system, allowing employees to join shares in the form of shares, allowing her subordinates and associates to participate in shares, improving employees' enthusiasm for work and expanding sources of funds.
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5. Pay attention to credibility
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation was turbulent, and the people were not living. Some unscrupulous traders took the opportunity to raise prices and shorten the pound. Zhou Ying, however, disdained it, selling corn for thousands of miles without increasing the price, and was well received by the people.
After becoming rich, Zhou Ying did not forget to relieve the people and do good deeds: during the drought in Guanzhong Province, he opened warehouses and grain, opened porridge factories, and provided relief to the victims; building volunteer schools to sponsor poor children to study; spent a lot of money to drill dozens of deep wells in Jingyang City to solve the water problem of more than 20,000 people and thousands of livestock nearby; For landless peasants, she handed over more than 600 acres of land near Anwu Fort to former tenant farmers, and only collected a symbolic amount of grain as rent every year. Therefore, the local people called her "Living Bodhisattva".
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Under the management of Zhou Ying's honesty and benevolence, the Wu family forged a huge business empire. After her painstaking management, the Wu family's business reached its peak. All major commercial ports and wharves have Wu family business, and the south leads to the north, and it is connected into one breath. There are 108 branches across the country, involving Huaiyan, cloth, medicinal herbs, rice grains, oil mills and other industries.
Zhou Ying was surrounded by dozens of capable people to do things, especially Yangzhou Chief Luo Tianzeng, Yang Maoting, Wang Zixu, Wang Younong and others. These people are resourceful, well-run, and visionary.
Donate generously, go to the country together
In 1900, the Gengzi state changed, the eight-nation coalition army invaded Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi took the Guangxu Emperor into exile in Shaanxi.
At that time, Zhou Ying was the president of the Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce, and after hearing the news, she bought five strong cows in Jingyang and rushed to Cixi's location overnight. The next day, as soon as Cixi, who was in shock and had trouble sleeping, got up, Zhou Ying offered a bucket of hot fresh milk.
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Empress Dowager Cixi was a dictator, and the Qing court had long been decaying and declining, but Zhou Ying was a person of that era, she could not completely transcend the limitations of traditional thinking, in her heart, the imperial court was the country, and giving money to the Qing court was patriotic, so without saying a word, she donated 100,000 taels of silver to the imperial court (another said 200,000 taels).
Seeing this, Cixi who was fleeing for her life was full of emotion, and immediately recognized Zhou Ying as a righteous daughter.
When Cixi celebrated her 60th birthday in Shaanxi, Zhou Ying gave her a screen connected by twelve screens as a gift, which can be described as priceless, and Cixi liked it very much. However, because the screen was too large to carry, Cixi did not take it with him when he left Shaanxi. Today, this screen is collected in the Shaanxi Provincial Library as a "treasure of the town hall".
In 1901, the Qing court signed the "Xinxiu Treaty" that lost power and humiliated the country, and when Zhou Ying heard the news, she took 500,000 taels of silver to help the imperial court, and Cixi felt her righteous deeds, named her "Lady of Yipin", and personally inscribed a plaque with "Lady Protector of the Country" as a gift.
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Poor Zhou Ying has been widowed since she was 20 years old, she handed everything over to the Wu family, and she also loved Wu Huaixian very much, but she did not get the return she deserved. After Wu Huaixian grew up, he had no gratitude for Zhou Ying, but he wanted to take over the family business.
Zhou Ying knew that this son was not business material, so she did not agree to Wu Huaixian's request. Wu Huaixian held a grudge against Zhou Ying because of this, and then took the mother who raised him to court, and it was this incident that caused a gap between mother and son.
Years of hard work overwhelmed Zhou Ying, and the ingratitude of her adopted son made Zhou Ying exhausted.
In 1908, Zhou Ying, who was only 39 years old, fell tiredly.
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Although Zhou Ying had made great contributions to reviving the Wu family, the Wu clan did not agree to bury her in the ancestral grave on the grounds that the woman had no heirs. But she never remarried in her life and helped the Wu family regain its prestige?
Despite this, she was buried 200 meters northeast of the Wu family's ancestral tomb, where the grave is now missing.
Her adopted son Wu Huaixian inherited her family property and donated all the family property to the Nationalist government in 1936 to fight against Japan.
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She lost her conjugal love when she was young, and she struggled to support the overall situation when the Wu family was in crisis, but left this world in her prime of life.
A life of ups and downs, a lifetime of entanglement, her life is only to stick to and reminisce.
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