Zhi Yongsheng has six sons and eleven grandchildren. When you are in charge of housework, you can be proud of the spring breeze and live under the same roof for four generations. In his hands, the cause of "in the main hall" has developed by leaps and bounds. For example, at first, "plural" dominated Baotou, and later, two major banks, Dadetong and Dadeheng, were active in major commercial ports and land and water terminals across the country. At that time, "in nave" was already in the forefront of the province's rich households, with tens of millions of family assets and businesses all over the country. In order to build a wealthy family, he began to build a building. In the early years of Tongzhi, he first bought a lot of housing foundations in the hutong on the west side of his hometown and built a building five miles away. Moreover, the two floors are opposite, and the main building is an exposed column structure hanging from the top of the mountain with a balcony corridor. Upper terrace, quite a big hospital. There are handrails on the front of the balcony, and the handrails are engraved with brick carvings, which are exquisite and lifelike. After the Ming building was completed, two quadrangles were built one after another across the street from the courtyard on the second floor. The four courtyards are located at the four corners of the intersection of streets and lanes, which laid the foundation for the later integration. The house built by him now accounts for two-thirds of the whole house.
Qiao Zhiyong really lives up to its reputation. He is easy-going and leads a moderate life. Because he is good at scheming, when he is in charge of the family business, his assets roll more and more, and he is the real founder of nave's rich family fortune.
Qiao Zhiyong has a good life and often helps the poor. Especially in the third year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, there was a drought, and nothing grew on the bare land. There is a saying in folk songs: "In the three years of Guangxu, half of the people died." At that time, Qiao Zhiyong had already opened a relief warehouse. In this regard, Guangxu eight-year edition of the "Seven Sages" recorded, and greatly appreciated.
In managing the family, he often warned his descendants that the most important thing in doing business is "trust" and to repay people with credibility. The second is "righteousness". Don't cheat, don't cheat, get points, don't make money. The third is profit, and profit cannot be put in the first place. The words "arrogance, greed and laziness" are forbidden. He managed the family well, taking Zhu Xi's motto of managing the family as a criterion, as a compulsory course for children and grandchildren to enlighten, and writing it on the screen door as a daily norm of action. If children and grandchildren have, they should be told to kneel on their backs and read it several times in a targeted manner. If you make the mistake of throwing rice on your face, you will repeat "one porridge and one meal, it is difficult to keep thinking about things when thinking is hard to come" until you admit your mistake. Then do some training, and finally the offender thanked him and quit slowly.
Qiao Zhiyong also wrote a couplet drafted by himself and hung it on the door of the inner room: "If you want to be famous, you must seek for yourself. Cherish agriculture and cherish food, not cherish wealth, but cherish happiness. " We should warn our children and grandchildren to be thrifty, not to covet comfort and enjoy our ancestors' business. He made a queue analysis of his son and thought that the eldest son could not be entrusted with a heavy responsibility because the eldest son was arrogant; The second son is grumpy; The third son is too honest and not an economic talent; No.4 is simple and plain, and is not good at talking; Wu Zixu is a bookworm; Liu Zi is too weak to undertake the great cause. None of them are inherited by his ideals.
Only the eldest grandson, Joe, is honest, kind and clever, so he has high hopes and a lot of teaching. It is often said to his education that only selflessness can attract lawsuits and only great men can achieve great things. "Avoid dryness of qi, floating words, dew, full study, great desire for courage, small desire for knowledge, and full action". "Do eccentric Hugh deep, hope people take it, treat people with abundance, since the offer. I am afraid of losing profits and then losing money. I am afraid that I will be tight first and then loose. " These teachings had a great influence on Joe's position and behavior. As the saying goes, people cherish their children when they are old. Qiao Zhiyong is old, and he is extremely fond of his six children and extremely eccentric. So after his youngest son died, he couldn't afford to cry, was ill in bed, and died two years later.
Li Hongzhang, Prime Minister and Minister of Beiyang in Qing Dynasty, engaged in Westernization Movement and formed beiyang fleet. Due to the empty state treasury and financial constraints, when he raised money from Shanxi, the Qiao family donated 100,000 taels of silver and bought a warship. With emotion, Li Hongzhang happily wrote a couplet: "Children and grandchildren have wisdom, and the family will be big; Brothers are fat at home. " Make copper coins for jstars. When Eight-Nation Alliance went to Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled hastily and passed through Taiyuan. At the time of crisis, the Qiao family gave generously, and Empress Dowager Cixi specially issued a plaque of "Blessing nirvana in fire". Joe's family hung high on the gate, showing off the family. On the one hand, we are frugal to support our families, on the other hand, we donate generously. Diligent housekeeping, so that children and grandchildren are not arrogant, extravagant and generous, means making friends with the government and seeking political asylum, even though the Qiao family has been doing business and studying for generations and has never been an official. It should be said that these two aspects are important reasons for the development of the Qiao family, and the specific mode of operation is not clear here in a few words. The direct cause of the later decline of "nave" was the outbreak of war. 1938, a large area of land fell under the iron hoof of the Japanese invaders, and it was inevitable that there was no egg under the nest. In In the Middle Temple, a family of ten people abandoned their homes and took refuge in Ping Jin and other places, and never came back.
The jstars have strict family rules and are "fully prepared and cautious; People abandon me and take it, small profits but quick turnover; Maintain credibility, not hypocrisy; Be patient, it is not too much to let go; Treat' phase' cautiously from beginning to end; Even today, the management principle of "employing people without doubt, suspecting people without need" is not lacking in glory. Among the masters of the jstars, besides Qiao Guifa and Qiao Zhiyong, who are tenacious, self-reliant, down-to-earth and always progressive, there are also many wise men who keep pace with the times and are exposed to the tide of the times to promote the progress of history.