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The Kang Family in History
There's an old saying in China that "you can't be rich for three generations", but there are exceptions. In ancient China, there was such a family, which propagated from ancestors to descendants for more than 400 years. What is surprising is not only its long history, but also a big family now.

This rebellious family is the Kang Million Family. It is amazing not only that they have a long history, but also that their whole family 12 generations are rich officials. Kang Manor is the residence of the Kang family, which witnessed the glorious history of the Kang family. It was built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and has a long history. For 400 years, the manor witnessed the rise and fall of the family.

The ancestors of the Kang family were not rich. During the period of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the Kang family opened a small restaurant on the bank of the Luohe River in order to solve the problem of food and clothing when they settled in Kangdian Town. With their unremitting efforts, the family business is getting bigger and bigger. When they are very rich, there will be no dude in their family. They have good family precepts. For example, the "leftover" plaque hanging in their manor hall is also a family instruction plaque for the Kang family to educate future generations. The inscription on the plaque says, don't use your skills to return to nature, use your salary to repay the court, distribute your property to the people, and leave your wealth to future generations.

"Kang Million" does not refer to any individual, but a general term for the Kang family since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This family is famous all over the world because of the seal awarded by Empress Dowager Cixi. Its family business time is more than 400 years, which is the representative of the glorious history of Henan merchants.

Kang Million Manor is located in Kangdian Town, gongyi city City, Henan Province, also known as Heluokang Family, which was founded in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Kang Million is the collective name of Kang Yingkui's family, the living god of wealth in the Central Plains since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Originally built halfway up the mountain, the manor was gradually built to the top of the mountain, which is a typical feudal fortress building in 17 and 18 centuries.

When the timeline turned to the Jiaying period in the Qing Dynasty, the Bailian religion was suppressed, and the Kang family caught up with the trend of the times-at all costs, they held orders for military supplies such as cloth and cotton 10 years. At that time, the Kang family had become a world-famous family, especially in Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi provinces.

There are many reasons for the glory and success of the Kang family. At first, the Kang family made a living by farming and ran shops as a sideline. The Kang family will use management prescriptions to make the family business bigger and bigger; Has been running a family business and passed it down from generation to generation.

Through the efforts of generations of Kangjia, Kangjia has also established a huge manor covering an area of more than 240 mu, including 19. The manor has 33 courtyards, 53 buildings, 73 caves and 1300 houses, which is called a folk palace.

Kang Hongyou, another representative of Kang Million, got the news that Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, who fled from Eight-Nation Alliance to Beijing, had to go back to Beijing via Gong County. He donated two million taels of silver to the Qing government, which won the favor of Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi gave Kang Jia Kang Million, and Kang Million's reputation became famous all over the world.

The reason why the Kang family has flourished for hundreds of years is that they have always followed the family motto formulated by their ancestors, that is, the warning on the "Leave one more plaque" that tourists saw: "Leave one more, and don't return to nature too skillfully; Leave more than enough to repay the court; Leave more than enough and inexhaustible wealth to repay the people; Leave more than enough, endless blessings to repay future generations. "

The reason why the Kang family can last for 400 years is not only that the family heirs can seize the opportunity, but also that they can pass on the family heirloom. There is a "leftover tablet" in Kang Million Manor, which was selected as "China Famous Tablet" and inscribed by Niu Xuan, an academician of Qing Dynasty. The plaque reads: "There is no shortage of leftovers, so it can be returned to nature; Leave more than enough to repay the court; Leave more than enough and inexhaustible wealth to repay the people; Leave more than enough, endless blessings to repay future generations. " It means that to achieve a certain degree of balance of interests, we must leave room.

Prosperity peaked and then gradually declined. There are some reasons for this, but it is more due to the current situation: in order to curb the activities of the Nian Army and the Taiping Army, the Qing court blocked the Yellow River and the canal, and all the water ships were destroyed and sunk, which made Kang's most profitable water shipping capacity suffer a devastating blow; The wealth of generations has made family children develop extremely luxurious living habits, and the desire for expansion exceeds the input; The plunder of the great powers and the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty had an impact on the old traditional business model.

Later, the Kang family experienced a scuffle among warlords in the Republic of China and gradually declined. After the founding of New China, part of Kang Million Manor became the office space of the government, and part of it was distributed to the poor.

Unfortunately, this immortal myth was finally ruthlessly broken. In the 23 rd year of the Republic of China, under various impacts, the Kang family finally could not resist the internal depravity and went into decline. I wonder if the story of this big business family has given you some thoughts?