Throughout the ages, businessmen from real estate developers have always been able to occupy a place on the rich list, without exception. And our protagonist today, the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty, Sheng Xuanhuai, also started in real estate, achieved rapid wealth growth in a short period of time, and finally became the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty. So how rich is he? It is rumored that the money he left behind can buy more than 20,000 sets of courtyards in Beijing, from which you should be able to glimpse one or two, so let's see how rich Sheng Xuanhuai really is? Why did the servants who went out of his house achieve the two most prominent families in the Republic of China period?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > why Sheng Xuanhuai has so much wealth</h1>
In 1916, Sheng Xuanhuai died, shocking the whole country. But not only because of the death of the rich man, but because of his legacy. According to the data, Sheng Xuanhuai left a will before his death. He said he would leave six-tenths of his money to his family, while the remaining four would be donated to Yizhuang to continue to support charity. However, only six-tenths of the world has already amazed the world, and at that time, the industries under Sheng Xuanhuai's name were almost all over all walks of life, and he had shares in ships, telegraphs, railways, education, etc. There are also real estate, money houses and other real estate, some people have a total of about 30 million taels of silver, what is the concept of this amount? It is difficult to convert now, but if it is calculated according to the purchasing power of the era, Sheng Xuanhuai is at least the billionaire who is now called! After all, more than a year ago, the monthly income of ordinary people was two or three silver.
So why does Sheng Xuanhuai have such a huge wealth? This is inseparable from a person - Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang is still Sheng Xuanhuai's father, with his support, Sheng Xuanhuai has no scruples to set up an industry, he created 11 "China's first". He opened the first civilian joint-stock enterprise, the first bank, the first telegraph office, etc., which had a huge impact, but at the same time, Sheng Xuanhuai also made a lot of money. However, Sheng Xuanhuai himself is also a person who is full of poetry and books, unfortunately Xiu Cai fell behind, but fortunately, he discovered his talent in business. Perhaps this is the case, Sheng Xuanhuai has never been stingy in education and charity, he is also the first university president in Chinese history, has a unique view of new education, and has always insisted on philanthropy. Zeng Guofan once said that he was "on the one hand the official seal, on the one hand, the abacus, on the other hand, the official business, the source of the left and the right", there are praises and depreciations, just like most people's views on Sheng Xuanhuai.
However, the Sheng family is indeed rich, it is said that the Sheng family has a young master who is obsessed with gambling, once lost more than 100 suites, and the result is also harmless and elegantly revealed, which shows its heritage. Moreover, at the peak of the Sheng family, there were as many as two or three hundred servants in the house alone. Moreover, each little master of the Sheng family has 6 servants to serve, which is still only the servant who serves the little master, and does not count the servants who clean, wash, and cook. The Sheng family has a big business and is generous and generous, and many people want to go to the Sheng family as servants. However, the requirements of the Sheng family are not low, not simply the hands and feet are sharp, but also the people who are outstanding in appearance and moral and knowledgeable, especially women, must be good-looking, and they must have a fight with picking a daughter-in-law. However, despite this, there are still many people who want to work in the Sheng family, because the remuneration is high, there are few private affairs, and the Sheng family is kind and kind, and even marries maids of the right age.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" the two servants from the Sheng family > achieved the two prominent families of the Republic of China</h1>
Two of the servants from the Sheng family are the most famous, because they are married well and the children they give birth to are even more outstanding. The first one was a servant named Lu Baozhen. Lü Baozhen was originally a maid who took care of Sheng Xuanhuai, and fortunately, Sheng Xuanhuai, unlike some big masters, did not have other thoughts, and when Lü Baozhen reached her age, she began to look at her husband. Sheng Xuanhuai is powerful and powerful, and there is no shortage of suitable candidates, and Sheng Xuanhuai's portrait of Lü Baozhen is his vice minister of communications, Zhao Qinghua, although not the main room, but already a good candidate. One is because Lü Baozhen is a person who came out of Sheng Xuanhuai Mansion and has more security, and the other is because Lü Baozhen himself has a gentle personality, so he is very favored by Zhao Qinghua, and has given birth to four sons and three daughters for Zhao Qinghua.
Among Lü Baozhen's children, one is quite famous, that is, Zhao Yidi - Miss Zhao Si, that is, the wife of Zhang Xueliang of the Xi'an Incident. However, at the beginning of miss Zhao Si and Zhang Xueliang's love, Zhang Xueliang was already a person with a family, and his father Zhao Qinghua was very fond of this beloved daughter with both moral integrity and ability, and originally did not want his daughter to be a concubine. However, Lu Baozhen, who was distressed about her daughter, chose to side with her daughter, and as a result, Miss Zhao Si and Zhang Xueliang eloped later. Fortunately, Miss Zhao Si's desperate results are good, and she has accompanied Zhang Xueliang through 72 years, which is considered to be a white head to old age. It was only because of Miss Zhao Si's affair that Lu Baozhen was implicated. After Miss Zhao Si eloped, she was gradually alienated by Zhao Qinghua until she finally died of illness. Miss Zhao Si also took Zhang Xueliang home to see her mother-in-law, and what Lü Baozhen said at that time was to let Zhang Xueliang help if he met the Sheng family in the future, and in Lü Baozhen's eyes, Sheng Xuanhuai was a benefactor, a benefactor of her and her children. In fact, not only Lu Baozhen, but even Miss Zhao Si had said the same thing to Zhang Xueliang earlier.
The second famous servant was named Ni Guizhen. However, to be precise, Ni Guizhen is not a maid in the traditional sense, but an adoptive mother, who not only works as a nanny, but also is responsible for teaching the children of the Sheng family to read. And because Ni Guizhen's origin is also much better than Lü Baozhen, she was a teacher before going to the Sheng family, and Ni Guizhen is also better married than Lü Baozhen, and married to the priest Song Jiashu, this person may not be familiar to many people. But the children of Ni Guizhen and Song Jiashu should not be known, Ni Guizhen has three sons and three daughters under her knees, namely Song Qiling, Song Qingling, Song Ziwen, Song Meiling, Song Ziliang, Song Zi'an, yes, the famous Song family in the Republic of China. Song Xialing is married to Kong Xiangxi, the chief executive and minister of finance of the Republic of China, song Meiling is married to Chiang Kai-shek, this person should not need to say more, and Soong Qingling is the wife of Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of modern revolution, in addition to the three sisters of the Song family who are married well, the three sons of the Song family are not at all inferior, Song Ziwen also served as the finance minister of the Republic of China, Song Ziliang is also a banker, and although Song Zi'an is less involved in politics, he has made small achievements in business. It was these six brothers and sisters who led the Song family to become one of the four most famous families in the Republic of China.
I have to say that the achievements of the six children of the Song family are inseparable from Ni Guizhen's education. Educated herself, she clearly knows the power of knowledge, so she insists that her 6 children have read books, not only at home, but also to study abroad, of which Song Ziwen graduated from Harvard University. It seems normal now, but how many years ago, Ni Guizhen achieved equal treatment of children. Ni Guizhen is more strict with her daughter, reading wisely is only basic, and she also strictly controls the manners and etiquette of her daughters, so the reputation of the three sisters of the Song family is also traceable.
However, at this point, some people may think that the achievements of the servants from the Sheng family have nothing to do with Sheng Xuanhuai. In fact, this is also the cleverness of Sheng Xuanhuai, his good deeds have formed a good relationship for future generations, and later the descendants of the Sheng family have indeed received the care of the Jiang family and the Song family. Among them, Sheng Xuanhuai's daughter, Sheng Aiyi and Song Ziwen, the seventh miss of the Sheng family, are more emotionally entangled, and the bitter love affair between the two is also widely circulated. Relying on a wealthy family, 16-year-old Sheng Aiyi has been knowledgeable and can embroider poetry since childhood, and is a rare talented woman. At that time, although the Song family had not yet made a trace, but because of the previous generation's sake, Song Ziwen was in the Sheng family, at a glance, he fell in love with Sheng Aiyi, and launched a crazy pursuit, when Song Ziwen had just returned from studying abroad, he had seen a lot, and soon won the heart of Sheng Aiyi.
However, this relationship was not recognized by Sheng Aiyi's mother, who had died at that time, and the head of the family was his third wife, Lady Zhuang, who looked down on Song Ziwen's family lineage and only thought that Song Ziwen's father was a priest and had no future, so she resolutely opposed it. Song Ziwen could not bear the humiliation and wanted Sheng Aiyi to elope with him, but Sheng Aiyi was not Miss Zhao Si, she had been dressed since she was a child, and she could not make up her mind to leave with Song Ziwen, so the two were separated. After three years, when the two met again, Song Ziwen already had a new wife, and the arrogant Sheng Aiyi remembered and hated Song Ziwen. However, later, the Sheng family fell, and Sheng Yudu, the son of Sheng Laosi, was imprisoned, which was also a help from Song Ziwen, and he wanted to know that it was in the face of the Sheng family. However, some people say that it is because Song Ziwen has never forgotten Sheng Aiyi, how it is unknown in the end, but no matter how someone helps, it cannot match the speed at which Sheng Xuanhuai's descendants scatter their wealth.
In fact, the Sheng family without Sheng Xuanhuai was not even as good as Lu Baozhen and Ni Guizhen, who went out of the palace. Three years after Sheng Xuanhuai's death, the Sheng family began to quarrel over their property, even going to court. Originally, according to Sheng Xuanhuai's will, the family property was divided into six points, five sons and wives each accounted for a share, and the daughters were married with a dowry. However, because the fourth elder of the Sheng family was a completely stupid boy, doing nothing all day, squandering and gambling, in a short period of time, he squandered the inheritance in his hand, and even his son's share was tossed away. So after the death of Mrs. Zhuang, the fourth elder of the Sheng family started another piece of money, as mentioned above, Sheng Xuanhuai planned to divide four-tenths of it into charity in Yizhuang, but the fourth elder of the Sheng family went to court to share the inheritance, and the other children of the Sheng family were not willing to show weakness, and they wanted a share of the soup, and the result was a vigorous national feminist first case. Unfortunately, no matter how much money was later squandered by the fourth elder of the Sheng family, and the Sheng family, which was very prosperous, ended from then on, Sheng Xuanhuai's name was only a rich man in the late Qing Dynasty, and the rich family was long gone.