Sheng Xuanhuai was a big political businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, and he could be called the originator of commercial services in China. Although Sheng Xuanhuai and Hu Xueyan are all political businessmen, Hu Xueyan's rank of "from the second grade" is a hollow post, unlike Sheng Xuanhuai's. He is a political businessman with power in his own hands, and Sheng Xuanhuai's rank guarantees the history of the postal department (from the first grade).
The Postal Department is not an ordinary unit, but a large unit formed by the State Railway Administration, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Telecommunication Network and the Ministry of Post Office. Sheng Xuanhuai is the largest leading cadre of the Postal Department, and Sheng Xuanhuai made his fortune by relying on Li Hongzhang, and later became a big political and business official in the late Qing Dynasty. So how are the descendants of Sheng Xuanhuai?
Sheng Xuanhuai was a well-known political businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, who made outstanding contributions to commercial services in China.
Sheng Xuanhuai was born in Changzhou. When he was six years old, the Taiping Army attacked Changzhou, followed his father Sheng Kang and fled everywhere, and then went to live in Hubei. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was unsuccessful, Sheng Kang took his child Sheng Xuanhuai and returned to Changzhou to live. Sheng Xuanhuai served as a think tank (chief of staff) in Li Hongzhang's shogunate, and gained Li Hongzhang's esteem. Later, he became Li Hongzhang's most powerful assistant in starting the Westernization School. In addition, Sheng Xuanhuai also helped Li Hongzhang to do many great things, such as opening the Commercial Bank of China, the Jinghan Railway, Nanyang College (the predecessor of Shanghai Jiaotong University), Beiyang University Hall (now Nankai University), etc., and founded the eleven firsts in China, which means that Sheng Xuanhuai was the first to set up all of them.
It is not difficult to see that Sheng Xuanhuai has made great achievements in commercial banks, training industry and mining industry, and called China, the outstanding technology imported from western countries, "the originator of business services in China" by later generations. However, the good times didn't last long. Later, he changed the railway line of private schools into state-owned system, which caused contradictions with regional rights and interests, which led to the movement to protect the railway and accelerated the national subjugation of the Qing Empire.
Sheng Xuanhuai became the scapegoat of the Qing court, and the whole country called for the killing of Sheng Xuanhuai. The Qing court reported on the work and concluded that Sheng Xuanhuai was not dead and could not calm the public's anger. Sheng Xuanhuai fled to Japan after learning about it. After the abdication of the Qing Emperor, Sheng Xuanhuai returned to Shanghai at the invitation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who once supported his great career.
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Sheng Xuanhuai has eight children
Sheng Xuanhuai has married three wives in turn, and has eight children. The three sons born by the first wife did not live long. The second and third children died young, and the eldest brother only lived to be 46 years old. The second wife has only one daughter. Three wives gave birth to two sons, Taiyuan Yi died young, and Sheng Enyi was a well-known playboy. Sheng Junyi, the eighth son, was born in the side room and died young.
Sheng Changyi was born in Hubei Province. When Sheng Changyi was four years old, he followed his father Sheng Xuanhuai back to his hometown Changzhou for daily life. When Sheng Changyi was fifteen, his mother died tragically. In the later years of the Qing court, the political situation was rather turbulent. Sheng Changyi took the lead and went to the North Korean Arena to serve his country at the first time. Sheng Changyi participated in the imperial examination as a scholar, and successively served as the alternate road of Hubei Province and the county magistrate of De 'anfu (from the fourth grade). After Sheng Xuanhuai opened the Commercial Bank of China, Sheng Changyi was harmed by his father and founded the Yushang financial institution. However, Sheng Changyi died only one year after the establishment of Yushang financial institution, and he died at the age of 46.
Sheng Enyi Sheng Enyi is Sheng Xuanhuai's favorite child, whose name was taken by Cixi. After Sheng Xuanhuai, she gave her fourth son Sheng Enyi the house in Suzhou. Sheng Enyi went to the United States and Britain to study abroad earlier. She was a well-known playboy, and later married the daughter of Premier Sun Baoqi in the Republic of China. Sheng Enyi was spoiled since childhood, and cultivated the bad habit of extravagance and waste. He saved money for enjoyment. As is known to all in Shanghai, because he ranks fourth, his license plate number is four "4" and he is nicknamed Sheng Laosi.
Sheng Laosi returned each of his little wives with a villa and an imported luxury car, and sent a large number of nannies to serve them. Sheng Xuanhuai's three sons died early, so he had high expectations for the fourth, and planted them carefully, but the children were abrasive and played all day. After the completion of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Sheng Enyi was so poor that he didn't even have the money to buy tickets for the ecological park. Sheng Enyi stayed in Suzhou and died at the age of 66. Sheng Chongyi, the fifth son, is the most stable child in Sheng Xuanhuai. He sticks to his ancestral business and has little contact with political circles. Later, he inherited a villa in Shanghai from his father.
After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression finished, Sheng Zhongyi went to Hong Kong to do business, and closed down in less than two years. In his later years, he was poor and died in Hong Kong, China. Sheng Shengyi was born to Mrs. Liu, a side room of Sheng Xuanhuai, and later married the daughter of a well-known strategist. Sheng Shengyi was closely related to Kong Xiangxi, Minister of Finance of the Kuomintang. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Sheng Shengyi became the director of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui Taxation Bureau of the Kuomintang, and was in charge of the tax power in the south of the Yangtze River. He was a key figure in Kong Xiangxi school.
Sheng Xuanhuai's third-generation grandson
Among Sheng Xuanhuai's grandchildren, Sheng Yudu is well known. He is the child of Sheng Enyi, the fourth son of Sheng Xuanhuai. Sheng Yudu went to China to study abroad at the age of 21, and graduated from Kyoto University. Later, he started his own business in Japan, founded restaurants and cuisines with characteristics, and was loved by local people, and successfully introduced Japanese cuisine to Japan.
Sheng Yudu is a patriot. He went to Japan to do business and did not change his current nationality. Although Sheng Yudu is an entrepreneur, he is not short of experts and scholars. He is usually dressed in a cloth and a towel, which is admired by everyone. Sheng Yudu paid close attention to the basic education in China. He set up an academic scholarship in Shanghai Jiaotong University to encourage students to be diligent, and supported the establishment of a lingering garden in the new teaching area of Shanghai Jiaotong University, thus contributing to the basic education in China. Although Sheng Yudu lived in Japan, he never forgot his mother country. This kind of Chinese national spirit is commendable. Sheng Yudu died in Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 81.
Sheng Xuanhuai's fourth-generation grandson
Sheng Chengmao is Sheng Xuanhuai's great-grandson. He graduated from Beijing Normal University. After graduating from university, he worked as a trainee in the middle education research room. At the age of 31, he became an assistant in Anhui Normal University. Five years later, he went to everyone's publishing house to do editing, and then he taught at Suzhou Science and Technology School. Previously, he served as the real estate research room of Suzhou Science and Technology School. After retiring, he worked in the scientific research of real estate industry and published more than a dozen books related to real estate industry. Sheng Guangzu is Sheng Xuanhuai's great-grandson. Sheng Guangzu is not a simple role. He participated in the work. At the age of forty-five, he became the chief economist of the State Railway Administration, and then he was promoted to the position of director and minister of the political department.
after working in the state railway administration for five years, sheng guangzu took up his post in the general administration of customs of China, and successively took the posts of deputy director, deputy director, director and China customs director. He served as Minister of Railways, then as manager of China Railway Corporation for 2 years. Sheng Guangzu was promoted step by step in his work and achieved great success. Not long after Sheng Guangzu retired, he was appointed as the vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Financial and Economic Committee. Sheng Xuanhuai should be proud to have such descendants. Above is a well-known role of Sheng Xuanhuai's descendants. After Sheng Xuanhuai's death, Shengfu gradually declined and fell into poverty. Although few of Sheng Xuanhuai's three sons have achieved anything, his descendants are full of talents, which did not make Sheng Xuanhuai feel cold.