How did Hu Xueyan clean up the mess? Why did his family cut off a corner of the shroud after his death?

Hu Xueyan is a legend. He was born in a poor family. He worked as a cowherd and studied for only two years. Such people became famous red-top businessmen and politicians. Unfortunately, he was in poor health in his later years. Not only did he go bankrupt, but in the end he only had a nine aunt to accompany him. How did Hu Xueyan clean up the mess under such circumstances, and why did he specifically order his nine aunts to cut off a corner of his shroud when he was dying?

How did Hu Xueyan become a wealthy businessman? 13 years old, Hu Xueyan found a bag full of gold and silver. He didn't take it for himself, but returned it to its owner. In order to thank Hu Xueyan, the shopkeeper introduced him as an apprentice in a miscellaneous grains shop. Hu Xueyan worked very hard, was eager to learn, and seized every opportunity, step by step from miscellaneous grains shop to Jinhua ham shop, and from Jinhua ham shop to the bank.

There is a rule in the bank that the apprentice is not allowed to go out for the first month without the order of the shopkeeper. Because this month, the shopkeeper will teach you how to use abacus, how to settle accounts and so on. If you can't play basic skills well, you won't be a qualified shopkeeper. This month, many apprentices can't stand it and can't get out. Some people sneaked out while the shopkeeper was sleeping. And Hu Xueyan didn't do it once. He thinks it's good. The shopkeeper not only gave himself food and drink, but also taught himself skills. He just won't let himself go out for a month. Being a shopkeeper naturally has his advantages, so the shopkeeper naturally knows those tricks. The shopkeeper admired Hu Xueyan's diligence and cleverness, and since he had no children, he decided to give it a try.

He settled accounts with Hu Xueyan, deliberately surplus some money in the books to see if he would tell him, just like modern people ask a nanny, deliberately put hundreds of dollars on the table to see if the nanny would accept it. Fortunately, Hu Xueyan has a good personality and told the shopkeeper. So later, the shopkeeper gave the whole bank to Hu Xueyan before he died. After that, Hu Xueyan became a famous living god of wealth in Hangzhou with his own skills, and later became the richest red-topped businessman in the Qing Dynasty.

How did Hu Xueyan fail? The root cause of Hu Xueyan's failure is collusion with the government.

In the ninth year of Guangxu, Hu Xueyan invested more than 20 million taels of silver to open a silk factory in Shanghai, trying to monopolize this market, but foreigners wanted to crush our national enterprises, so Chinese and foreign businessmen joined hands to suppress Hu Xueyan's silk factory and competed with him everywhere. Last time, the price of silk was driven up by them, but when the European silk harvest was good, the price of silk naturally plummeted, making Hu Xueyan lose everything.

And Hu Xueyan is a leftist, and Li Hongzhang has long been dissatisfied with leftism and wants to get rid of it. If we want to get rid of the Left completely, we must first get rid of Hu Xueyan. So Li Hongzhang took advantage of this opportunity to let court officials and military generals go to his bank to withdraw money. Not to mention that your money may be wasted, leading to the complete bankruptcy of Hu Xueyan.

How does Hu Xueyan clean up the mess?

In such a situation, many people would choose to die or run away, but Hu Xueyan didn't. He chose to face it frankly.

He first made a detailed list of all his assets, paid off all the debts he owed, and arranged his mother, wife and a dozen concubines properly, but Jiuyi chose to stay with him to face all this.

Unfortunately, this blow is fatal. Hu Xueyan fell ill after taking care of everything. Knowing that he was dying, he began to arrange his own affairs. He took Jiu Yi's hand and said, Thank you for accompanying me to the end. After I die, you can sell the shroud and coffin I prepared before. I'll use a thin coffin and a coarse shroud. You are still young. You can find a good family to marry after I leave. But there's one more thing you need to finish. After I die, there will definitely be a man in an iron hat coming to my door. Will you cut off a corner of my shroud for him?

Who is wearing an iron hat? Hu Xueyan, why? Make him a shroud It turns out that the man in the iron hat was sent by grave robbers as an eyeliner. When a rich family holds a funeral, these eyeliner will first check whether there are many valuable funerary objects and arrange where to be buried. Hu Xueyan was a famous local rich man before his bankruptcy. Although bankrupt, the thin camel is bigger than the horse, so the grave robbers naturally want to try. And the fact is just as Hu Xueyan expected. On the day of the funeral, a man wearing an iron hat appeared at the door. Nine aunts also gave him a corner of Hu Xueyan's shroud according to Hu Xueyan's orders. The man looked a little surprised, glanced at the coffin, shook his head and left.

Hu Xueyan did this to protect his tomb from being stolen. Because he is not only penniless, penniless, and the funeral is simple, even the shroud is the cheapest, so the grave robber saw the corner of his shroud and naturally understood that there would be nothing valuable in his tomb, and naturally gave up the idea of grave robbery.

Hu Xueyan is a business genius. If he is not left, but an ordinary businessman, Li Hongzhang will not deal with him. I believe Hu Xueyan can still stand up again with his bank!