Henan has a family that has flourished for 400 years, and 12 generations of grandchildren are rich

In life, each of us is busy for life, in order to get ourselves ahead and let our families live a better life. Although everyone's origin is different, if you want to realize the value of your own life and control your own destiny, everything stems from your own choices. People who eat and are lazy all day and do not spend their minds on normal things cannot realize the value of life, and for those who are successful, they have gone through countless hardships and put themselves on the road to success with their many years of experience. No matter what, we must be down-to-earth and work hard to get out of our own way.

Since ancient times, there is a saying that the rich are not more than three generations, the poor are not more than three generations, which has also become a joke about whether the rich family can pass on the family business, but since the Ming Dynasty, there has been such a family, which has been prosperous for up to four hundred years, and the descendants are all rich people, and until today they are all famous and prestigious families in the local area. This big family is the Kang family in Gongyi City, Henan Province, which has kept the industry laid down by their ancestors for hundreds of years, and has not disappeared in the long river of history like other big families. What is impressive is not only the long history of this family, but the 12 generations of their family have become rich, which is not only achieved by the accumulation of wealth by their ancestors, but they all master the code of wealth.

This family in Henan has flourished for 400 years

For example, the Li family compound of a wealthy merchant in Shanxi, this family also has its own manor. But today I am talking about Kang Million Manor, I don't know if you have ever understood. This family's manor can be described as the boss of the three major manors, the area is 15 times that of the Shanxi Qiao family compound, and now open to the outside world, the whole compound is magnificent and the layout is exquisite, which makes people have to marvel at the strength of this family. The Kang family, in the eyes of the locals, they are used to calling the name "Kang Million", Kang Million does not specifically refer to a certain person in the family, but they are the general name of this family, this name is also related to Empress Dowager Cixi, originally a joke of Empress Dowager Cixi, and later this name became the general name of the locals for this family.

On May 8, 1900, 50,000 men of the Eight-Power Alliance marched all the way to the city of Beijing, and these invading Chinese troops burned and looted in the capital. Cixi, as the empress dowager of the Qing Empire, could only flee for her life quickly, and the contingent of thousands of people in this line did not go to the land because the dry food they brought was not much because the weak people of the Qing government had no surplus grain. After learning of this news, the ancestors of the Kang family offered to Cixi when the Cixi Mountains were exhausted, and they gave food and money, reaching a total of 2 million taels of silver. Cixi quipped that there were such millionaire merchants in such a poor place, which gave rise to the name "Kang Million".

There are many reasons for the prosperity and success of the Kang family, at first the Ancestors of the Kang family were also farmers who cultivated the land, and later they began to run the shop, because the unique business philosophy allowed the Kang family to make the business bigger and bigger, and passed on the industry from generation to generation. In the sixth generation, when the family Kang Shaojing relied on his own wisdom, he not only ranked in the official field, but also did this profitable business in other industries. Kang Shaojing was in charge of the ming dynasty's local transportation and official salt taxation positions, which was a fat difference, naturally he also wanted to transfer his business to the salt industry to make more money.

The 12 generations of grandchildren are all rich

So when the Kang family really began to make a lot of money, it started from selling salt, and so on until the Qing Dynasty, a folk organization called the White Lotus Sect conspired to rebel. The Kang family took advantage of this opportunity to successfully obtain the right to supply cotton and cloth skins in the country, and the Kang family began to truly become a highly prestigious family. Of course, if you have money, you have to think about how to spend it, Chinese like how grand and grand the place where you live is, so you built a rather large manor. This manor extends from the mountainside to the top of the mountain, covering a total area of 240 acres, with 33 large and small courtyards and more than 1300 rooms, which is quite large and complex.

The three most successful families of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Kang family, the Shen family of Shen Wansan, and the Ruan Zilan family, these three families have become the existence of other families. The reason why the Kang family has been strong for twelve generations since Kang Shaojing's family made its home in Kang Shaojing to the present is not unrelated to the family education of the Kang family. The Kang family has its own family education concept, which can be expressed in couplets, and the meaning of the two sentences of Lianhong is that if you want to live up to your ancestors, the prosperity of the family must let your children read and be reasonable, if you want future generations to enjoy happiness, you can't waste extravagance and learn the truth of thrift and thrift.

It still exists today

Whether they are educating their descendants or doing business, they all pay attention to leaving room for doing things, although the businessmen are making money-based, but they do not kill them all, they eat meat and others also have to think, soup and drink, this is the Kang family's business experience can not be too greedy. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, the Kang family's business fell sharply due to the country's perennial war, and the glory of hundreds of years finally returned to the past. The eighteenth generation of descendants Kang Zizhao committed suicide, although the Kang family is not brilliant, but their family story has always been the talk of the folk. With the decline of the Kang family, the descendants of the Kang family did not want to forge ahead, and with the increase of the population afterwards, they spent huge financial resources in all aspects, and the ending was regrettable.

For various reasons, the Kang family manor has only more than 240 acres, and the Kang family donated this ancestral house to the state and became a cultural relics protection unit and a 4A-level tourist attraction in China. Although a large family like them, which is involved in both political and business circles, has disappeared into history, their educational management philosophy is very worthy of our learning, and it can also make us realize the principle of doing things from them, which is also more conducive to our future development.

In fact, no matter what you do, you must follow the pace of the times, and only continuous innovation can develop more long-term. In life, each of us is constantly working hard for life, but for those who grow up in a good environment, although they do not worry about food and clothing, and their living conditions are very good, the most important thing is to have their own ability.