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Meng Luochuan (185 1 ~ 1939), whose real name is Jisheng, whose name is Luochuan, the sixty-ninth grandson of Yasheng, is a native of the old army village in Diaozhen, a famous national commercial capitalist in modern times. Gao Lizhi, a teenager who lost his father and was born in a famous family, taught her son Jackie Chan and hired Mr. Li, a famous Confucian scholar in Zhangqiu, as a teacher. However, Meng Luochuan is very naughty and doesn't like reading. He often plays with bricks and tiles. On one occasion, Gao ordered him to kneel in nave for playing truant. It happened that the housekeeper found out and politely advised him, but he took the housekeeper's hand and asked, "You are a big housekeeper. Do you know how many bricks and tiles are used in this hall?" How many working days do you need? "Butler shook his head, but Meng Luochuan can understand with his mouth open. The housekeeper was very surprised and told it to Gao He's uncle Meng Chuan? . From then on, as long as the Meng family has things like building houses and closing accounts at the end of the year, they will be invited to participate. Usually, when the housekeeper, manager and bookkeeper are in trouble for a certain problem, Meng Luochuan will confidently put forward incisive opinions, which impresses everyone. 18 years old, Meng Chuan? Seeing that he is quite calculating, let him take charge of the family business. Since then, he has been stationed in Jinan as a small employer, and sometimes went to Beijing and Tianjin, and became the boss and manager of Ruifuxiang, Qing Xiang and Ruishengxiang successively. Because he was good at studying how to manage and make money, he soon became a business tycoon.

From the middle of19th century to the beginning of 20th century, "Old Army Monks" developed into a huge commercial family, which was the representative of its heyday and made great contributions to its development. By the time China was liberated in 1949, the family had successively run 96 firms and other enterprises, including 50 silk shops and 20 tea shops. These firms are all named after Xiang, commonly known as Xiang, and are located in Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Baoding and Suzhou. After 1924, Meng Luochuan directly took charge of various firms in Ruifuxiang, and successively added gold cabinets, making the business more prosperous. At that time, the press were all called "financial giants", and there was such a ballad: "Kang Million in Shanxi, Yuan in Shandong, two gods of wealth, could not be reached."

Meng Luochuan not only has a high position in business, but also has complicated social relations in politics. In his early years, he met Yuan Shikai, the governor of Shandong Province, and married President Xu Shichang and Cao Kun successively. After Yuan Shikai's mother died, he hired Meng Luochuan as the funeral master. When Yuan Shikai was transferred to the governor of Zhili, Tianjin, Meng Luochuan went to Tianjin and Yuan Shikai paid homage. Since then, Meng Luochuan has become famous in the north of China.

Meng Luochuan, who grew up in Zhangqiu, also did some good things for his hometown. During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, the Zhangqiu section of the Yellow River burst many times, and residents suffered greatly. Meng Luochuan and his second brother Meng Luoxin set up a cooperative warehouse in Zhangqiu to store food for famine relief. Meng Luochuan's hometown, the old army, is near the embroidered river in the west. The Xiujiang River burst due to the rising water level, and Meng Luochuan paid a huge sum of money to plug the mouth and repair the weir. The next year, the river rose again, but it didn't overflow, and the villagers appreciated it. In addition, he also held many charitable activities. Make 200 sets of cotton-padded clothes in the twelfth lunar month every year and cook porridge in a big pot for winter relief; Make 200 sets of light clothes in summer and prepare tea soup to relieve the heat. At the same time, it also gives medicine and takes medicine for the poor free of charge.

1939 On July 24th, Meng Luochuan passed away in Tianjin. Zhangqiu 10 District, each district selected a representative to go to Tianjin to express condolences and presented a large plaque of "Jinghui in the hometown". Bi Wei, a contemporary young writer, created the novel Romantic Oriental Boy based on the prototype, which was later adapted into 50 episodes of TV series Oriental Merchant.