During the Western Jin Dynasty, extravagance was rampant, and the upper bureaucratic and aristocratic classes generally lived a life of fine clothes and food, extravagance and waste. As we know it, Shi Chong and Wang Kaidoufu occurred during this period.
Wang Kai (王恺), from a large family lineage, was the elder sister Wang Yuanji (王元姬), the wife of Sima Zhao and the mother of Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jinwu, and Wang Kai was the uncle of the state.
Shi Chong, the younger son of Shi Bao, the founding father of the Western Jin Dynasty, Shi Bao was awarded the title of Duke of Leling County, Grand Sima and Situ for his merits, although he was in a high position, but Shi Bao was born in a cold door, and when he was young, he made a living selling iron tools, because of his talent, he was later reused by Sima Shi and gradually rose to a high position.
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At this time, Shi Chong had become a rich man in the Western Jin Dynasty, however, in the Western Jin Dynasty, which attached importance to the origin of the door valve, Shi Chong, who was born of the Han Men clan, was looked down upon, and Wang Kai and Shi Chongdoufu happened in this context.
First, Wang Kai arranged for the servants to wash the pot with caramel water, and after Shi Chong heard about it, he used the precious white ash as firewood to burn the fire to cook, and in the first round, Shi Chongsheng;
Wang Kai used purple silk cloth as a step barrier, stretching forty miles from the door of his home, Shi Chong then used a more expensive splendid embroidery to make a step barrier of up to fifty miles, and in the second round, it was Shi Chongqi who was high;
Wang Kai used red paraffin wax to paint the wall, and Shi Chong used pepper mud to paint the wall. After Emperor Wu heard about it, he wanted to fund his uncle to win, so he ordered someone to bring a coral tree from the palace to Give wang Kai, the coral is produced in Nanyang, which is rare in the Central Plains, but this coral tree is about two feet high, with lush branches and leaves, which is rare in the world.
After Wang Kai got the coral tree, he was smug and proud, thinking that this time Shi Chong would definitely bow to the wind, so the guests of the feast, Shi Chong, was also invited, and when the wine was familiar, Wang Kai ordered people to take out the coral tree and show the guests, secretly observing Shi Chong's reaction, ready to see Shi Chong's jokes. Shi Chong, seeing the coral tree, smiled and did not say a word, picked up a handful of iron ruyi in his hand, and gently knocked it, and the coral tree shattered in response.
Shi Chong's move was completely unexpected by Wang Kai, seeing that such a precious coral tree had actually been broken, Wang Kai couldn't help but fire up namelessly, and scolded Shi Chong in a loud voice.
Shi Chong casually said, "Isn't it just a coral tree, it's not worth moving like this, I still have you", and then arranged for his entourage to move his own coral tree, there were six or seven trees three or four feet high, the branches were extraordinary, shining in the sunlight, like Wang Kai' more.
Wang Kai was greatly frustrated, knowing that he was inferior to Shi Chong, and from then on he admired Shi Chong.
Wang Kaigui is a foreign relative, and he is from a door valve, several generations are high-ranking officials and nobles, his wealth can be imagined, Shi Chong's wealth is actually richer than Wang Kai, so where did Shi Chong's huge wealth come from?
Is Shi Chong, a rich second generation, inheriting family property? Shi Chong's father, Shi Bao, although he also had a family fortune, shi bao had six sons, and before his death, Shi Bao gave the inheritance to several other sons, but Shi Chong did not share anything. Shi Chong's mother pleaded with Shi Bao, but Shi Bao said, "Although this child is small, he can get it later."
According to the Book of Jin, "Chongying wu has talent, while Ren Xia has no inspection." In Jingzhou, robbing merchants and customers can not get rich. "Shi Chong's understanding is very high, very talented, talking about the righteousness of the rivers and lakes but behaving improperly, Shi Chong, once did the history of Jingzhou, Jingzhou is located in the north and south of the key chong, is the place where the merchants of the north and south must pass, when in Jingzhou Shi Chong repeatedly arranged for his subordinates to dress up as robbers, and robbed rich merchants in a dignified place, and slowly accumulated huge wealth.
However, according to historical records, when Shi Chongren was assassinated in Jingzhou, it was during the jin hui emperor, the jinwu emperor Sima Yan had died in 290, and Shi Chong's and Wang Kai doufu occurred during the period of Emperor Wu, that is to say, Shi Chongren's jingzhou assassination history was after "Doufu". During the time of Emperor Wu of Jin, Shi Chong was already rich in Kyoto, although during the jingzhou assassination history, Shi Chong may have also done the work of robbing his family and robbing wealth, but how did his wealth in the early period come about?
After the death of his father, Shi Chong, through his father's shadow, was able to serve as the commander of Xiuwu County, and later entered Luoyang as a scattered horse attendant, and then moved to Chengyang Taishou. In the first year of Taikang (280), Shi Chong, for his participation in wu yougong, was given the title of Marquis of Anyang.
In addition to Shi Chong's officialdom, his main business is business, and his father Shi Bao once did iron business, although Shi Chong did not get a share of the family property, but the family's connections and channels are still there.
In addition, Shi Chong also engaged in trade, and sold pearls, agate, amber, rhino horns, corals and other precious products shipped back from Nanyang at high prices in the Central Plains, making huge profits.
Shi Chong, as the Taishou of Chengyang, led his army to participate in the Battle of Wu and was given the title of Marquis for his military achievements. Another source of Shi Chong's wealth should be the Battle of Wu.
With Shi Chong's agility and thirst for wealth, in the process of destroying Wu, in the face of the rich Jiangnan land, he will definitely take the sheep by the hand and pocket the huge wealth of Eastern Wu, which should be an important source of Shi Chong's original accumulation of wealth.
Shi Chong also engaged in industry, that is, water pillars, according to legend, the famous military figure of the Western Jin Dynasty, Du Pre, invented the lianji, used to scoop rice, this invention greatly increased productivity at that time, but the water pillar was expensive at that time, only rich merchants and magnates can own, with a water pillar, is a symbol of financial strength, and Shi Chong, after being raided, there are more than thirty water pillars. Operating the water pillar industry and making money by relying on water pillars is also an important source of Shi Chong's wealth.
After becoming rich, Shi Chong, built a grand annex near the capital Luoyang", which is magnificent and extremely luxurious, covering an area of thousands of acres, with tens of thousands of trees, pavilions, flowers, birds, insects and fish, pearl agate, and everything. During the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin, the "Twenty-Four Friends" of the literary society headed by the powerful minister Jia Mi often met here.
There is an idiom called "water and land Bi Chen", which refers to Shi Chong's luxurious life in Jingu Garden, every time he feasts, whether it is running on land or swimming in the water, all kinds of mountain treasures and seafood are put on the table.
In the Golden Valley Garden, the toilets are decorated as luxuriously as the bedrooms, with precious spices such as pan fried powder and agarwood juice, and there are more than a dozen gorgeously dressed and flowery maids waiting in the toilets. All guests who have gone to the toilet must throw away all their clothes and replace them with new ones.
At that time, there was an official named Liu Yuan, who was born relatively poor, and his life was more frugal, and once when he visited Jingu Garden, when he wanted to go to the toilet, he saw the lavishly decorated room and the rows of maids, and he was frightened and quickly withdrew and said, "Accidentally mistakenly entered your inner room." Faced with such a luxurious toilet, Liu Suddenly felt uncomfortable and had to change to the toilet elsewhere.
Golden Valley Garden Map
In jingu Garden, Shi Chong lived a life of drunken gold fans all day long, and often set up banquets and drinks in the garden. Shi Chong often asked the slave maid to persuade the guests to drink, and if the guests could not drink to the bottom, Shi Chong asked the guards to kill the beautiful woman who persuaded the drink.
Once, Wang Dao and Wang Dun came to Shi Chong's Jingu Garden for a banquet, and Wang Dao usually did not drink alcohol, but he was afraid that Shi Chong would kill slaves because of this, so he had to reluctantly drink it when he was persuaded to drink. Wang Dun was not the case, he usually drank, when he met the maid to persuade him to drink, he resolutely refused to drink, and as a result, three slaves were killed by Shi Chong.
Wang Dao blamed Wang Dun for this, but Wang Dun said, what does it have to do with me that others killed his own maid?
Shi Chong also has a singer named "Green Pearl", beautiful and beautiful, good at playing the flute, Shi Chong likes her very much, and specially built a gorgeous pavilion for her, named "Green Pearl Building".
Green beads
At that time, Sima Lun, the King of Zhao, raised an army to kill Empress Jia Nanfeng and seized the power of the government, Shi Chong's backstage Jia Mi (Jia Nanfeng's nephew) had fallen, and Sima Lun had a subordinate named Sun Xiu, who coveted the beauty of the green pearl and wanted to get her very much, so he sent someone to ask Shi Chong, but Shi Chong refused.
Therefore, Sun Xiuluo fabricated the crime and sent people to arrest Shi Chong, who was drinking with Lu Zhu upstairs, saying to Lu Zhu, "I am now offended by Er", and Lu Zhu cried and said, "When the effect died in front of the official", he said and jumped directly downstairs.
"Rich as Shi Chong, noble as Yang Su, green pearls and red whisks will eventually become dreams", green beads and red whisks end tragically.
Green beads fell from the building
Shi Chongyuan thought that he was just a crime of exile, and when he learned that he was going to be taken to the execution ground, he said, "Slaves benefit my family wealth", these villains just want to get my family wealth, and the military academy who came to arrest said that since he knew that a huge amount of family wealth would lead to ruin, why didn't he scatter it to everyone sooner? Shi Chong was silent.
At the same time as Shi Chong, there was another celebrity, Pan An, who was also one of the twenty-four friends of Jingu. After the two unexpectedly met at the execution site, Shi Chong said, "An Ren, why did you come?" Pan An replied, "It can be said that the white head is the same." Pan An once wrote a poem to send Shi Chong, "Send it to Shi You, and bai Shou will return to the same place." Sure enough, the two of them returned to the same place, which can be described as a slur.
Pan Ann stills
As one of the "Twenty-Four Friends of Jingu", Shi Chong, who was also a literary hero at that time, was quick in his thinking, and the article "Si Gui Sigh" was a passage of clouds and flowing water, "The leaves are fluttering and the branches are dry, and the grass is scattered and covered." Time passes easily, and I feel that I am sorry for myself. ”
However, judging by what he did, he was always talented and immoral, and although he accumulated huge wealth, he ended up in a different place.