Hu Xueyan is rich enough to rival the country, why is no one in business for future generations?

Some people are in business, but their achievements are not obvious. Hu Xueyan's descendants are businessmen, but only compared to Hu Xueyan, they are not famous and not known.

Because Hu Xueyan made a will before his death, he was not allowed to let his descendants do business. So none of his descendants was in business.

It may be that his grandparents and grandchildren are not interested in doing business, so none of his descendants will respect him.

Hu Xueyan's life is a legendary life, he started from the official business, but also died in the official business, originally for Hu Xueyan, An An divided into an official and businessman can naturally be safe and sound, but a mistake was involved, involved in the whirlpool of political struggle in the Qing Dynasty, a wrong move, full of losses. The business was not going well, and Li Hongzhang's advice was not followed, so he ended up in such a situation.

There are two main nobles in Hu Xueyan's life, one is Wang Youling, and the other is Zuopi Selling Zongtang, for Wang Youling, he can be regarded as the biggest nobleman in the first half of Hu Xueyan's journey, and it is also because of his existence that Hu Xueyan embarked on this road of both officials and businessmen, and it is also Wang Youling's strong assistance, under trust, so that Hu Xueyan once controlled half of Zhejiang's wartime finances, and his power can be said to have reached a point beyond the reach of people. It's just a pity that in the end, because the Taiping army broke through the city of Hangzhou, it hanged himself and died.

However, Hu Xueyan was also lucky, because of his previous familiarity with these military finances, he soon won Zuo Zongtang's trust, which also made Zuo Zongtang the second nobleman in his life, and Hu Xueyan was at his most brilliant and prosperous time, which was also achieved with the support and assistance of Zuo Zongtang.

And what makes Hu Xueyan most proud is that because of his funding for Zuo Zongtang to recover Xinjiang, he has made great contributions, rewarded the yellow coat, and wore the second poinsettia, becoming a red-top businessman who is envied by everyone, which is also the peak of his life and career.

It's just that his behavior of funding Zuo Zongtang also fell into the political struggle of the Qing Dynasty, after all, Li Hongzhang, who was mainly based on coastal defense, and Zuo Zongtang, who was mainly based on Xinjiang defense, were on the same page, and Hu Xueyan, as a businessman, was able to make the originally impossible battle to recover Xinjiang possible, which had to make Li Hongzhang look sideways, and Hu Xueyan was holding his thigh to the end, with his own bottom line and ideas, so he ignored Li Hongzhang's wooing and warning. In the end, he buried the tragic disaster of bankruptcy.

With the failure of the business, the funds could not be turned over for a while, and at this time, they encountered various clever ** withdrawals, which became the last straw that crushed the camel, and finally the prominent red-topped businessman could only be depressed and finally in poverty.

Because this person is involved in political struggles and is in the wrong position, this person will die, his family will be ruined, and his property will be confiscated.

Because their system and policies were problematic, and the king of the country at that time was also very cowardly and incompetent, it led to loneliness.

Because there are certain problems in Hu Xueyan's development and a situation in his thinking, such a situation will be caused.

Because he stepped into the struggle of the Qing Dynasty, he will decline, this person did not press the treasure, and it is normal for him to go bankrupt.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Hu Xueyan was a household name, he was a famous red-top businessman, politician, and representative figure of Hui merchants in modern China. In fact, there are many reasons for his success, but why have none of Hu Xueyan's descendants made their mark in politics or business? Hu Xueyan was born in Jixi, Huizhou, Anhui Province in 1823, his real name is Hu Guangyong, and his name is Xueyan.

When he was a child, his family was poor and helped others herd cattle for a living, and after his father died of illness when he was 12 years old, Hu Xueyan began to go out alone and became an apprentice in major trading houses. From sweeping the floor, pouring urinals and other hard work, he can do everything, and after three years of hard work, he finally became an official partner of Qianzhuang because of his diligence. Hu Xueyan, who was only 19 years old at the time, was not only accepted as an apprentice by the shopkeeper of Hangzhou Fukang Qianzhuang, but also regarded Hu Xueyan as his own son because the shopkeeper had no descendants.

Therefore, the shopkeeper Yu is Hu Xueyan's nobleman in the business world, and when the shopkeeper was dying, he also entrusted Hu Xueyan with all the money worth 5,000 taels of silver at that time, which was also the first pot of gold in Hu Xueyan's life. Hu Xueyan did not stop working hard because of this, and the creed of his life is: If you are willing to pay for others, others are willing to pay for you", this sentence is also very applicable now.

Hu Xueyan once told such a story: When I was an apprentice, I used to run around to collect debts, and once when I rushed to a creditor's house, it rained on the way, and a stranger on the side of the road was wet by the rain. Later, every time it rained, I often helped strangers with umbrellas, and gradually more people knew me, even if I forgot to bring an umbrella, I was not afraid, someone would come to help me with the umbrella.

It can be seen that Hu Xueyan's willingness to make umbrellas for others is the greatest wealth of his life. Hu Xueyan is not only proud in the shopping mall, but also comfortable in officialdom. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attacked Hangzhou, Hu Xueyan transported arms from the sea, and received grain and rice to help the Qing army and was appreciated by Zuo Zongtang.

However, Hu Xueyan's ending was not very good. In the end, Hu Xueyan died of depression because of being raided at the age of 62. Although Hu Xueyan passed away, his business experience was widely spread in the business world, and businessmen took Hu Xueyan as an example, however, none of the real descendants of Hu Xueyan chose to engage in business, what is the reason?

It turned out that Hu Xueyan had left three last words to his descendants before his death, and it was precisely because of his descendants' respect for Hu Xueyan that none of them were in business or became officials. These three last words are: 1. Don't go into business; 2. Don't be an official; 3. Do not intermarry with the surname Li.

The first two points should be Hu Xueyan's hope that future generations will not be confused by money and fame, and the last point is a little intriguing. As we all know, Hu Xueyan was an out-and-out patriot at that time, and Li Hongzhang's various blows to the domestic vitality caused Hu Xueyan to finally decline, which can explain why Hu Xueyan's descendants did not intermarry with the surname Li. Although Hu Xueyan is famous, his descendants remember his teachings, and all of them are very low-key.

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Yes, Hu Xueyan has three sons and five daughters, the eldest son Hu Chusan died early at the age of 19, the second son Hu Mingsan has two sons, and the third son Hu Pinsan has four sons.

Hu Xuewei (1823-1885), known as Guangyong, was a native of Jixi, Anhui Province, and a red-topped merchant in the late Qing Dynasty.

Hu Xuewei started his business in Hangzhou, and after his career, he expanded into grain trading, real estate, pawnbroking and Chinese medicine stores. Among them, Fukang Qianzhuang, which has more than 20 branches in various provinces, and Huqing Yutang, which was founded in Dajing Lane, Qinghefang, Hangzhou, are the two main businesses.

In the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), the Taiping army besieged Hangzhou, and Hu Xuewei assisted Wang Youling, the governor of Zhejiang, to transport troops, grain, and rice by sea to help the Qing army in Hangzhou, but was repelled by the Taiping army. Hangzhou eventually fell due to lack of food, and Wang Youling was martyred by hanging.

The following year, the Qing army regained Hangzhou, and Hu Xuewei, under the recommendation of Jiang Yili, the political envoy of Zhejiang, assisted Zuo Zongtang, then the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to contact Chang Jiejun. In the fifth year of Tongzhi (1866), he assisted Zuo in establishing the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau. In the same year, Zuo was transferred to the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and he handled the procurement and transportation for Zuo in Shanghai, raised salaries and ordered arms, and borrowed money from foreign banks on his behalf, setting a precedent for Chinese merchants to borrow foreign debts.

Hu Xuewei is good at the way of management, rich for a while, and is known as a generation of giants; At the same time, he also has the status of the Qing Dynasty, and accumulated merit to be promoted to the rank of political envoy from the second rank, wearing the crown of the crown decorated with hollow coral, commonly known as the red top of the son, so also known as the red top businessman. Merchants wore red crowns, which was a very rare exception in the Qing Dynasty.

After Hu Xuewei's career was successful, he built a large number of buildings, built gardens, and had many wives and concubines. Li Hongzhang deliberately squeezed out Zuo Zongtang, and he must first get rid of Hu before he left the left, and he was determined to crack down on Hu Xuewei. When the Sino-French War broke out, Zuo Zongtang rushed to the capital, and Hu Xuewei actively prepared silver taels for Zuo Zongtang.

At this time, Hu Xuewei was engaged in the export silk industry, accumulating raw silk, monopolizing Juqi, Sheng Xuanhuai used a telegram to contact buyers from all over the country to refuse to buy Hu Xuewei's raw silk, and Li Hongzhang ordered Shao Youlian to deliberately delay Hu Xuewei's salary for 20 days. In desperation, Hu Xuewei transferred 800,000 taels of silver from his bank, and Sheng Xuanhuai took advantage of the emptiness of Fukang Bank to ask someone to go to the bank to withdraw money, and rumors arose for a while, saying that Hu Xuewei had accumulated raw silk and lost a lot of money, and embezzled Fukang Bank deposits, which led to a run on money everywhere [1]. In the tenth year of Guangxu (1884), he went bankrupt and was in debt.

Hu Xuewei dismissed the concubine and servant and died the following year.

Now in the Hangzhou Drum Tower, there is still a well-preserved former residence of Hu Xuewei.

Literary works about Hu Xuewei.

New Idea Culture Network - Hu Xuewei Special Issue.

Gao Yang's "Hu Xuewei", "The Red-roofed Merchant", "The Lamp Tower".

25 episodes of the TV series "Red Top Businessman Hu Xuewei", screenwriter: Februaryhe.

Hu Xuewei, by Februaryhe and Xue Jiazhu, Maitian Publishing, Taipei, December 07.