Xianfeng 10 years)

My grandfather's name is Zhang Youhua, the ancestor is a very famous foreign family, once in the glorious period, the family property occupies the entire Wuyang City, what pawnshops, granaries, textiles, involved in extremely extensive, in short, is an authentic businessman.

As the saying goes: "No more than three generations of rich, no more than three generations of poor, how do you say this, it means that no matter how rich you are, you should be clean when you reach the third generation."

This is only three generations poor, the first two generations are poor, and the third generation is no longer poor, everyone is dead, how can they be poor. Of course, it's a joke.

My ancestors are rich six generations, or this business head is good, the ancestor has a saying: the descendants of the old Zhang family can only do business, not participate in politics, not gambling, not open a red hall, which means that you can make money no matter how you want, that is, you are not allowed to be an official, you are not allowed to open gambling stalls, and you are not allowed to open brothels.

At the beginning, the descendants of the old Zhang family all followed the ancestral teachings, and most of them were involved in pawnshops and money villages, but when it came to my grandfather's generation, the ancestral training could only be told to children as a story.

At that time, the Opium War had just ended for the first time, although the order was banned, but the market was still in short supply, Zhang Youhua was still young, and when he saw that this was a good business opportunity, he put the ancestral training in the back of his mind.

Despite the persuasion of his family, he opened two tobacco houses in the east and west of the city through connections, and the business was very good at first.

Wuyang City, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, as long as he has money, he can't do anything, but at that time, not only the old Zhang family was rich,

Many people saw that this smoke house was a good thing, and they also followed suit, resulting in more and more smoke houses in Wuyang Town.

Zhang Youwei is a smart person, and if he goes on like this, sooner or later he will attract the attention of the imperial court, and you will do it with great fanfare about what is expressly forbidden. This is not against the court, if you are caught, it is a matter of losing your head, and it is not a way to do it after a long time, so I came up with another plan.

Open the Red Pavilion, this city has the Qing Pavilion Red Pavilion, the Qing Pavilion is equivalent to a teahouse, there are diners, performing girls, juggling and so on.

Most of the Red Pavilion are sold out, and the Red Pavilion is much more complicated than the Qing Pavilion, and the girls in it are either bought from other places, or abducted by specialized human traffickers, or they are famous ladies who fall into the middle of the road and have no way out to join the Red Pavilion, which is what we now call a lost girl.

Combine brothels and tobacco shops, you smoke and have a special girl to help you get it, you just lie down and smoke, and when you are tired of smoking, there is a girl to take care of you, that is a race to live a fairy-like life, the key is to have silver.

This Zhang Youhua knew that this was only temporary, and others would have to learn from him sooner or later, so he used his family's big fortune and began to run around to buy officials.

The family saw that this ancestral training was no longer useful to him, so he proposed to divide the family, although it was the same blood of the old Zhang family, but people were afraid of things.

Zhang Youwei got some family property, and despite the opposition of his family, he directly invested all of them and bought the official children.

Money can make ghosts grind, and after doing various toss and channels, he successfully became the county lord of Wuyang City, and began to suppress other cigarette pipes on the surface to respond to the call, and secretly worked hard to make his own cigarette pipes bigger.

Relying on the money he obtained, Zhang Youwei ran around to dredge up relationships, and his fame became bigger and bigger, and his official position became higher and higher.

A series of events took place in China later, but they did not affect my grandfather's business in the slightest, and he has always had money and power.

It wasn't until my father's generation that my father's name was Zhang Shoucheng, and he learned a lot about business from the influence of his grandfather since he was a child.

But Zhang Harvest became more and more lazy as he had more and more silver taels at home, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking, but he was afraid of Zhang Youwei's coercion, and became a lot more honest after being beaten a few times.

Although he looks like a good baby on the surface, he secretly plays with it, and when Zhang Youwei passed away, Zhang Shoucheng became even worse.

Eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, all proficient in pit and abduction, can do everything, it is said that he is rich for only three generations, Zhang Youwei is a strange person who has survived on the cusp of the storm.

In the hands of his son, it happened to be the seventh generation, perhaps the old Zhang family's rich and noble days came to an end, and the family fortune began to completely decay from his father's generation.

It only took ten years, and Zhang Youwei's foundation in Wuyang City was a mess by his son Zhang Shoucheng.

When I was 10 years old, my mother was disheartened and committed suicide by throwing herself into the river in a fit of anger because my father refused to change his ways.

Even the death of his mother did not awaken his father's obsession with Fushou ointment, and he was only grief-stricken for a few days, and then fell into an erosive life.

On August 19, 1911, the Wuhan New Army launched an uprising and won, known as the "Xinhai Revolution" in history, and then Hunan and other provinces responded, and soon held a temporary meeting in Nanjing, elected Sun Yat-sen as the provisional president, changed the year to the Common Era, abolished the name of the Xuantong era, on January 1, 1912, Sun Yat-sen was inaugurated as the provisional president of the Republic of China, and then negotiated with the Qing Dynasty government to abdicate the throne and issued an edict, to the effect that: "The psychology of the people of the whole country today, More inclined to the republic, to also bear because of the honor of a surname, the likes and dislikes of the people, the emperor will be the right to rule the whole country, set as a constitutional republic, still Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan five ethnic groups complete territory into a popular Republic of China, to the emperor to retire leisure, good travel years, long by the people's gifts, see the completion of Zhizhi, is not Yiyi! At this point, the Qing Dynasty officially ended.

The fall of the Qing Dynasty Yuan Shikai took advantage of the chaos to become the emperor, but there are also people who are not convinced! The forces that are pulling one side are ready to move, which indicates the advent of the era of competing for the deer.

At that time, there were wars every day, warlords were everywhere, and people everywhere were panicking, and in the context of this great era, everyone learned how to protect themselves.

When a warlord in a certain place broke through the gate of Wuyang City, he came to burn and loot the relatively wealthy town.

The hooligan soldier held down someone else's daughter-in-law and went up, and when he saw anyone who had money and things in the house, the first thing was to patronize it.

I don't know who framed and whistleblower, saying that our old Zhang family is the richest, but in fact, all of them know that the old Zhang family at this time is already in vain.

The big warlord rode a big horse and led an army of ruffians to break through the house and burn and loot.

My father has been sucking Fushou paste for more than ten years, and his body is so thin that he can already see the bones, and he can't bear the fat beating after being hit by the Fushou ointment, and begging for mercy from the warlord like a dog, people don't appreciate it.

The warlord wanted gold, he wanted money, and the old Zhang family had no money, but he was fanned by someone to think that his father was hiding the gold and refused to take it out.

At the sound of an order, my father was arrested and hung on the tower of Wuyang City as a benchmark for five days, and when he put it down, he was already dead.

During this period, the old housekeeper Zhongbo packed up his savings for many years and escaped from Wuyang City with me, who was only more than ten years old at the time, and I was lucky to leave my life.

Since then, China has entered an era of all-out war, and in the midst of turmoil, no matter where it is, it cannot escape the judgment of fate.

Every day, you can see people dying, or starving to death, or being injured by war, watching a touch of bright red render the land of China, watching wisps of dead souls leaving the body, watching a piece of fresh life being ended, and isolated and helpless people can do nothing but watch, this is life in war.