Zhou Ying, the richest woman in Shaanxi in history, was a widow all her life. Where did her huge fortune go after her death?

Zhou Ying, the richest woman in Shaanxi in history, was a widow all her life. Where did her huge family fortune go after her death?

The TV series "The Flower and the Moon Are Full That Year" starring Sun Li, He Rundong and Chen Xiao has been popular since the beginning of the broadcast. The heroine Zhou Ying played by Sun Li walks away from the street. From acting to marrying into a wealthy family, from widowhood to counterattack as the richest man. However, in history, Zhou Ying is indeed different from TV dramas. The real Zhou Ying was born in a famous family, talented and clever, never forgetting numbers, and reading poetry His grandfather, Zhou Meicun, was a wealthy merchant in Sanyuan during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. He was a family friend with Wu's family. After Zhou Ying was born, his family was in decline. Zhou Ying's parents died young and were brought up by brothers and sisters. They belonged to a family pair and the couple had a daughter. Unfortunately, she died less than one year old. After Wu Pin died, Zhou Ying remained unmarried for her life. She supported the declining family business. Under her leadership, the Wu family's family business reached its peak.

More than a hundred years ago, Zhou Ying once relied on her wisdom, courage and originality to build a commercial building that was about to collapse into a commercial empire; she was sealed by Cixi because of her donation. "Mrs. Yipin Zheming"; because Guangji people spread it as a good story in the Guanzhong area, her righteous deeds and foresight are still widely circulated by the local people.

She made the Zhou family wealth reach an unprecedented height. Someone asked, who is more rich than Qiao Zhiyong? The answer is that Huizhou merchants are not as good as Qin merchants, and Qin merchants are not as good as Shanxi merchants, but now no merchants are as good as Zhejiang merchants-Jack Ma! Ma Yun has affected the United Nations, and Zhou Ying has affected today. Let's walk into the real Zhou Ying and solve the puzzle of the subject from her brilliant life.

In the rainy season when she was seventeen, her life was full of wind and rain. This year, Zhou Ying married the Wu family. Zhou and Wu are good friends from generation to generation, and they are not short of money, and they are proud of life. However, Zhou Ying was tricked into getting married! Because her husband Wu Pin is frail and sick, the Wu family hopes to get married so that Wu Pinyi can be happy to drive away the illness. When Zhou Ying learned the truth, she did not cry and ran away from home, but took care of her husband's body and assisted her father-in-law in business. Because of love, longing for miracles, but what appears is not a miracle, but misfortune never comes singly. Zuo Zongtang went west, and Wu Weiwen (President Zhou Ying) once funded Zanxiang. After Zuo Zongtang's death, the queen mother Naxi went to the foreign firm to raise funds and talked about it. Wu Weiwen was implicated, and eventually the queen mother's father-in-law and her husband passed away. The uncles of the four great clans looked closely at them. Because of Zhou Ying's superb business and handling capabilities, he divided the family business into five, and Zhou Ying was the main one.

After experiencing the shock, grief and helplessness of losing her life, she did not back down, but calmly dealt with the important affairs of the family. With extraordinary wisdom and courage, she won the support of the butler, accountant, and martial artist of the Wujiadong Courtyard, and successfully took over the Wu family’s business, shops, land, real estate and other commercial capital. At this time, Zhou Ying was only 18 year old.

In order to fulfill her husband’s last wish, Zhou Ying, who is innocent by nature and fearless of power, adheres to the word "integrity" adhered to by the Wu Family Business The ancestral precepts of the ancestors, know people and make good use, and gradually bring a dilapidated family back to life and rebuild its glory! The business is not only doing well in China, but also spreading all over the world! In the meantime, she passed the board due to unruly behavior, was sunk in a pond, was jailed, and escaped many times. She is the most rebellious woman in Jingyang City. Although she experienced hardships and was often framed by rapes, she was extremely shrewd and well-connected. She was protected by the love of each other and escaped from danger again and again, and finally stood out in the business world and became the leader of Qin Shang.

A little widow who is just getting married and is about to be a widow, with her weak shoulders and smart head. Continuously make the Wu family's business bigger and stronger, diversify business, and cover the whole country. In the feudal society that discriminates against women, she uses resourcefulness, sincerity, and mutual benefit to the greatest extentMobilize the initiative of employees. For employees, her salary is 20% or 30% higher than that of other firms, and she pays dividends at the end of the year. For customers, she cooperated with faith and win-win, realized that everyone earns money, and eventually became the richest man in Shaanxi (a chain store in the picture above). There is a folk saying "Wu's folks traveled across the state and counties, do not eat food from other families, and do not live in other stores." This shows the strength of his career!

If you are poor, you will be alone, while Da will help the world. Empress Dowager, Emperor Xishou (Eight-nation Allied Forces invaded China, Cixi fled west, but history books say it was Xishou) Xi'an, Widow of Anwu (or Wu Zhou, the official name of the people) Zhou Ying sponsored hundreds of thousands of empress dowager, Cixi Rewarded her a first-class madam, and personally wrote the "Mrs. Protector" plaque. Cixi commensurate with Zhou Ying as her parents, which is not in keeping with history. In history, they did not meet each other. After all, their father-in-law and husband died because of Cixi. The authoritative evidence is in the back-next paragraph. Some people persuaded her not to donate money on the basis of her official business, and others directly said that she was in the limelight. However, Zhou Ying and her descendants have indeed made contributions to the country. The evidence is in the next paragraph. Zhou Ying said calmly: "Where can there be a home without a country?" Was there any heroic Zhao She who went to Pingyuan Jun's house to collect taxes?

In addition, Zhou Ying also set up water conservancy projects, organized education, rescued victims, and built Confucian Temples. Whenever she was hit by a disaster, she visited five nearby counties (Jingyang, Chunhua, Sanyuan, Pucheng). (Fuping, Fuping) opened warehouses to release grain and built porridge tents to relieve victims. They were highly praised by the government and the public. Their deeds are still recorded in the county records of Jingyang and Sanyuan counties.

In the second year of Xuantong (1910), Anwu widow Zhou Ying died at the age of 42. With the curtain call of her life, her huge assets were inherited by his adopted son Wu Huaixian. She was seventeen years old when she left Zhou's house and spent a full 25 years in Wu's house. She used her strong and unyielding character to support the precarious Wu family. According to the locals, on the day of the funeral of An Wu’s widow Zhou Ying, there were about 80,000 neighbors and villagers who sent her to be buried. Guanzhong Road is not unique, it is also unprecedented.

Mr. Wu has always been adhering to the principle of "strengthening the world" and serving the country for the people. On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War in 1936, he donated all his property to the National Government to make contributions to the Anti-Japanese War.

Zhou Ying's greatest regret is not being widowed, but childless. According to the rules of the husband’s family, no children cannot be buried in the ancestral grave. This family rule is the biggest unfair to Zhou Ying, and this is also Zhou Ying's biggest regret. Can you blame her? Zhou Ying's life is both legendary and bitter. There is no perfect life, maybe as long as life is not wasted.