"Zhao Si is crazy, and the butterflies are just going to do it." Gentle Township is the hero's tomb, which pipes the East Division into Shenyang" - "Lamenting Shenyang"
In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a famous industrialist Sheng Xuanhuai, if everyone is very unfamiliar with this industrialist, then the two servants in his house should be very familiar to everyone, one is the stable and beautiful Lu Baozhen, the other is Ni Guizhen, who knows the book, one of these two servants gave birth to Zhao Yidi, and one gave birth to the first lady!
In the late Qing Dynasty, due to the influence of "closed country", the last history of the Chinese Qing government was very humiliating, not only deeply disturbed by foreign humiliation, signed a number of well-known traitorous treaties, so that China was in an embarrassing period of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, at the same time, China's economy and technology had a big gap with Western countries, and in addition to the Opium War, China was eroded by opium, resulting in extremely low national quality, which made China even if it wanted to resist without any way.
Against such a background, a number of patriotic people have emerged in our country, and they have tried every means to save China's fate and let China return to the road of prosperity and strength, and one of the most important changes is the "foreign affairs movement".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >. Sheng Xuanhuai under the Western affairs movement</h1>
In the western affairs movement, the most famous is the late Qing Dynasty's richest man Sheng Xuanhuai. Born in Jiangsu, Sheng Xuanhuai was admitted to Xiucai in the late Qing Dynasty, and he knew that the government of the late Qing Dynasty needed a revolutionary change to save the fate of extinction. So he followed in the footsteps of Li Hongzhang and unconditionally supported Li Hongzhang in the foreign affairs movement, and in the face of such practical talents, Li Hongzhang also appreciated him.
At that time, a ship with a cannon can rule China, Sheng Xuanhuai knew the importance of the shipyard, but forced by the helplessness of funds, China could not carry out a very large shipbuilding and manufacturing site, so Sheng Xuanhuai suggested using merchant ships to provide the cost of building warships, Li Hongzhang was very happy, and then ordered Sheng Xuanhuai to handle China's first steamship investment bureau. This incident can be said to have promoted the development of China's modern history.
With the smooth opening of the Steamship Merchants Bureau, Sheng Xuanhuai has become more outstanding in the subsequent operational performance, and has continuously developed into the telegraph industry, textile and other national industries, and has made great achievements. However, the change of law is to update people's thinking, and in the broken ship of the late Qing government, it is simply impossible to achieve.
With the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, Sheng Xuanhuai suddenly understood that the original country's strength and prosperity must rely on the export of talents, and if there were no talents and no new ideological changes were integrated, China would still go to extinction. Therefore, Sheng Xuanhuai supervised the famous Beiyang University and founded new universities such as Nanyang Public School, leaving valuable wealth for China's future science and technology and education.
In order to let these students read better books, he donated many books from his collection to these universities free of charge, and if we are lucky enough to enter these universities, we can even see the figure of these books, and his gratuitous dedication has made china's modern education reach a new height at that time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > second, drunk on public welfare, industry to save the country</h1>
If education is only a part of his life, then I think this proportion is not large, in the world of Sheng Xuanhuai, in addition to education, there is also this public welfare undertaking, perhaps because of the influence of the family from childhood, Sheng Xuanhuai's enthusiasm for public welfare is very related to his father.
When he was 25 years old, after the flood of Kisuke, his father took the initiative to donate clothes and grain, which was sent to the disaster area by Sheng Xuanhuai, which was also his first charity activity. Since then, we can see that in many disaster relief scenes, Sheng Xuanhuai has always been on the front line, working with these suffering people to fight the disaster together.
Many people may say that at that time, together with Li Hongzhang, he was a courtier of the late Qing government, and all the disaster relief funds were paid by the Qing government. In fact, in the initial disaster relief, it is true that the government funded a large proportion, but in the late Qing Dynasty, on the one hand, Empress Dowager Cixi insisted on building the Yuanmingyuan, wasting a lot of money and grain. On the one hand, so many traitorous treaties were signed that they almost hollowed out the treasury of the late Qing government. In the subsequent disaster relief, there were many fewer figures of the late Qing government, and most of them were funded by Sheng Xuanhuai.
Even Guangrentang in Tianjin and the Red Cross Society of the Nations in Shanghai and other charities were run by him. As a philanthropist, he did well enough.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > third, the home style is clean, harmonious and natural</h1>
As the richest man in the late Qing Dynasty, Sheng Xuanhuai's family style is quite natural and harmonious, among his many servants, there has never been a situation in which Sheng Xuanhuai deceives and bullies anyone, and his servants are not the kind of uncultured and ugly appearance that we imagine, but the good-looking and well-read poets. In dealing with these servants, Sheng Xuanhuai was never selfish, but thought of them everywhere, and even tried his best to pave the way for their future.
Two of the servants, one named Lü Baozhen, the other named Ni Guizhen, are the most outstanding, and these two have cultivated children who have left a strong mark on history.
Among them, Lü Baozhen was very popular with Sheng Xuanhuai because of her good appearance and stable personality, and later, she also found a Ruyi Langjun - Zhao Qinghua for Lü Baozhen. Lü Baozhen was also deeply loved after marrying into Zhao Qinghua's family, the two were like glue, and Lü Baozhen also gave birth to four sons and three daughters for Zhao Qinghua, the fourth of which was the famous Zhao Yidi (Miss Zhao Si).
Speaking of Zhao Yidi, definitely one of the most well-known Chinese women in modern history, the smart and lovely Zhao Yidi met the most powerful warlord at that time - Zhang Xueliang, the son of Zhang Zuolin in the northeast, by chance, and the two quickly fell in love, although his father Zhao Qinghua was very dissatisfied with this, and even severed relations with him, but still did not stop Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi from being together, even though Zhang Xueliang was later imprisoned, she still did not leave, and the two eventually spent the rest of their lives.
The other Ni Guizhen was born much better than Lü Baozhen, and as a tutor of the Sheng family, her thinking was very forefront. Ni Guizhen once said to herself: "If it is not Ruyi Langjun, she is willing to wait all the time", but fortunately, Heaven arranged a good man for her, Song Jiashu, and gave birth to three children, which are the three sisters of the Song family who later became well-known, and among these three sisters, Song Meiling married Chiang Kai-shek and became the first lady.
It can be said that these two servants were well-known big figures in the Republic of China period.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > Conclusion:</h1>
Although history does not only praise any person, Sheng Xuanhuai is the same, even if he has made many indelible contributions to the public welfare and the process of history, he still cannot resist the eyes of the world. But Jin has no feet, no one is perfect, everyone has their own unknown other side, just like he treated Lü Baozhen's marriage, maybe he for his own selfish desires, maybe for Lu Baozhen's happiness, but these are no longer known now.
However, whether it is merit or failure, Sheng Xuanhuai has made indelible contributions to China's modern education, industry and public welfare, and he has accommodated the mind of Baichuan and helped many people tide over the difficulties, just as he said to himself: "People live in the world, I want to be ashamed"!
References: "Lamenting Shenyang", "The Legend of Zhang Xueliang century: Zhao Yidi"