"Zengguang Xianwen" says: I want to seek wealth too much, and it hurts my son!
is different from the educational concept of "independence and self-reliance" in Western countries. Most Chinese parents love their children and make far-reaching plans; since ancient times, wealthy families have not only made plans for their children to seek future generations, but also tried their best to leave wealth for future generations in order to ensure that their children and grandchildren have no worries about food and clothing.
What is helpless is: more wealth hurts the son! The descendants who should have been pragmatic and motivated gradually lost themselves in the pile of wealth, and squandered the long and empty time in a degenerate and free manner.
Among them, as an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang left the amount of wealth for his descendants was even more amazing. Only land, real estate and pawn shops were all over Hefei, Wuhu , Shanghai, Nanjing, Yangzhou and other places. Until today, the outside world cannot determine the specific number, but some information shows that a separate property after Li Hongzhang's death alone is worth 40,000 taels of silver.
So, how are his descendants living after Li Hongzhang left these huge inheritances?
Today, let’s take a look at the real life of the children of rich families in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China with the life experience of Li Hongzhang’s grandson Li Guoxuan.
Li Guoying's father Li Jingfang is the eldest son adopted by Li Hongzhang; although he is not a biological child, Li Hongzhang has always loved this steady child and personally taught him knowledge. After becoming an adult, Li Jingfang, as a minister of the late Qing Dynasty, successively served as the Minister of Japan and the Minister of the United Kingdom, and served as the Left Minister of the Post and Communication Department of .
Li Guoying is Li Jingfang's third child. He was born with a foreign wife. Because he has been cute since childhood, he has been given special attention by Li Jingfang.
So when Li Guoying was young, his father Li Jing hired Chinese and English teachers to teach him Chinese and Western culture. Unfortunately, Li Guoying was used to being spoiled since childhood and disrespected the teachers in class, let alone studying hard.
He has no worries about food and clothing, and he is like those playboys, learning about food, drink, whore and gambling.
After Li Jingfang's death, Li Guoying, as his third son, also shared a large amount of property. Among them, "13,000 mu of rented land, a mountain field, a Hengfengcang building on the south bank of Wuhu River, and a three-story building on Dingyi Village, Dingpan Road, Shanghai...", which were extremely concerned by the outside world, are only part of Li Guoying's real estate. It is not difficult to see from this that the number of property that Li Guoying shared has long exceeded ordinary people's imagination.
But even if he holds huge wealth, he is enough to have enough food and clothing for a lifetime; Li Guoheng, who is squandered by nature, still slowly squandered all his wealth with his ability to eat, drink, bet and gambling.
At the beginning, in order to prevent Li Guoxuan from squandering, his mother deliberately left him only pocket money for daily expenses. The money was kept by the bank and Li Guoxuan was paid regularly every month.
What is the concept of 500 yuan at that time?
The famous literary tycoon Lu Xun and his brothers worked together to pay 500 yuan to buy a courtyard house; not to mention ordinary people.
But it is a huge sum that ordinary people can't imagine, but it is just Li Guoxuan's pocket money.
With such a wealthy family background, how could Li Guoying control his big squandering!
Since ancient times, the rich playboys have roughly the same way, just spending a lot of money while eating, drinking, gambling and eating.
In addition to using land deeds to bet on gambling, what Li Guoqing is most addicted to is looking for flowers and asking about willows.
It is said that there was a saying at that time: "If you look for Mr. Li, you can find it as long as you go to the Sanjie and Jiyili area of Wuhu that day."
And the "Mr. Li" here naturally refers to Li Guoxuan; the "Three Streets and Jiyi" in the previous paragraph is the famous eight major hutongs in the local area.
The most ridiculous thing is: Li Guoying, who was addicted to fireworks and willow alleys, finally married a fair woman home; after marrying this woman who can play the piano and sing music home, Li Guoying also hired a nanny who served her intimately, and hired two chefs and five male servants to serve her.
All kinds of ridiculous things, only a lot more! Not long after, Li Guoxuan squandered his legacy.
How could he bear the hardship of poverty when he was spoiled since childhood? In order to maintain a generous living conditions, Li Guoxuan went directly to ask his brother Li Houfu for money.
are both outstanding prodigal sons, so Li Houfu naturally has difficulty in protecting himself, but in order to ensure his younger brother's life, he still divided the small amount of property he had saved, which delayed Li Guoxuan's economic dilemma.
Not long after, Li Houfu had no money, and Li Guoxuan, who was squandering, completely lost all his source of income.
At this time, the mother who had returned to the UK had heard about her son's experience, she specially asked someone to find a job as an interpreter for Li Guoxuan; Li Guoxuan, who already has British descent, was naturally very familiar with English, and this job was very suitable.
But what people didn't expect was: within a few days, Li Guoying voluntarily resigned; the reason was "I don't want to serve others."
The son's depravity and squandering also completely disappointed the mother, and he never cared about anything about Li Guoxuan from then on.
When Li Guoyan's property was ruined, all the servants had already left one after another; with the rich life gone forever, the brothel lady who was holding Li Guoyan in her palm also left him and found another way to survive. At this time, Li Guoyan became a lonely man.
But it is very ironic: just when Li Guoqing was at a loss, he actually met Zuo Jusheng, the grandson of Zuo Zongtang, .
Also a playboy and ruined his family property, Zuo Jusheng once thought that Li Guoxuan had borrowed ten stones of rice when he was unable to eat. Now Li Guoxuan, who is penniless, naturally wants to get the debt back; but Zuo Jusheng is similar to Li Guoxuan, and he has long been penniless.
In order to survive and to have a companion, the two of them squeezed into Zuo Jusheng's broken house to make a living; they had no other food every day except a thin rice porridge.
I don’t know how long it took to such a life, but Li Guoqing was completely desperate.
In order to get rid of the difficulties of life and the torture of hunger, he thought of committing suicide.
But unexpectedly, the place where he committed suicide by jumping into the lake was too shallow and he did not fulfill his wish. He was rescued by passers-by and sent back to Zuo Jusheng's broken house again.
Because it was winter, Li Guoqing, who had been thrown into the lake, was soaked in the cold lake water for too long, and eventually became infected with the cold. Such a situation in
undoubtedly made the lives of the two worse; because Zuo Jusheng, who was penniless, had no ability to treat Li Guoqing at all.
It’s fine if you don’t have money to see a doctor. The worst thing is that Zuo Jusheng doesn’t care about anyone at all.
At the critical moment when Li Guoqing's high fever did not go away and he fell into a coma, Zuo Jusheng, who had spent half his life, touched his forehead and said:
"This is burning, it shouldn't be cold, it's good!"
In the end, Li Guoqing, who failed to jump into the lake, died in pain in the high fever that could not be dispelled.
What is even more sad is that he once had a prominent family background, but he had no money to be buried after his death; in the end, Li Houfu found a way to get a straw mat and bury his younger brother.
[Put it last]
As a descendant of Li Hongzhang, Li Guoqing's life is ridiculous, but it is also sad to appreciate it carefully.
If his grandfather was not Li Hongzhang, if he did not have that wealth, Li Guoqing's life might be like an ordinary person. Although he was not rich or noble, he could be stable and dull; but those huge wealth, like the curse of fate, trapped his hands and feet and ruined his life.
In the face of wealth, human nature is difficult to bear the test; while elements such as greed, selfishness, laziness, etc. are like crazy vines that cannot be stopped or avoided.
So it is said: It is better to keep virtue than keep wealth!
No matter how much wealth you keep, if your descendants do not have good virtues, they will eventually lose everything.
It is worth mentioning that when famous officials of the late Qing Dynasty such as Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang left a lot of wealth for their descendants, the national hero Lin Zexu said to the descendants of the Lin family: If the descendants are like me, what should I do to keep money? What are the children and grandchildren who are worse than me? ”
His meaning is clear: “If my descendants are as capable as me, it will not be of much use to keep money for them.” If my descendants are not as good as me, it will be useless for me to leave money to them. "
also adheres to the principle of "it is better to keep virtue than keeping wealth" as well as the famous thinker Liang Qichao .
As a famous figure in modern history, after Liang Qichao passed away, he only left "heredity and lessons" for the descendants of the Liang family; but even if he did not leave a penny, his nine children all became pillars of the country; among them, the legend of "nine children and three academicians" is a rare achievement in Chinese history.
Throughout history, we will also find that whether it is an official or a businessman, "wealth is not rich for three generations, but prosperity for three generations" is a curse that most officials and wealthy families are difficult to break.
is just because of the mountain of wealth that is so piled up, it is really too testing human nature and too easy to defeat human nature!
Since ancient times, heroes have been made, and there have always been no great men!
This has always been an irrefutable truth, but many parents in the world are always trapped in the obsession of "being a son for a far-reaching plan", and it is too difficult to see through this.
I have no choice but to have too many helpless times, the overflowing love has become a disaster for my children!
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