In the long river of real history, there is indeed a person like Zhou Ying. She was widowed in the mood for love and was recognized as an adopted daughter by Cixi, but after her death, she was unable to enter the family cemetery or even broke. Why?
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Zhou Ying 1869 was born in Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province, but she was not fatherless as in TV series, but was born in a wealthy local family. Although business people are not well-educated, they attach great importance to their children's education. Zhou Ying is extremely smart since she was a child, so she has read a lot of poetry books since she was a child, especially math-related courses, which is one of the reasons why she can make great achievements in business. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, she was introduced by a matchmaker and married the only son of the Wu family in Jingyang county at that time.
Zhou Ying's husband, Wu Pin.
Wu Jiake was a powerful salt merchant at that time, and this identity was really suitable for Zhou Ying. Unfortunately, the Wu family concealed the news that their son had an incurable disease. So, a year after Zhou Ying's visit, Wu Weiwen, his father-in-law, died unexpectedly on a business trip, and Wu Pin, who couldn't stand the blow, died soon because of his father. At this time, without giving gifts to the Wu family, she became a widow, and there was no male at home. She had to support the whole Wu family.
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After taking over the Wu family's property, instead of being depressed, she revived the huge family business through a series of reforms. First of all, she personally made a patrol survey in the name of the firm, and even went to find out the details of some competitors; Secondly, she is good at employing people. She has selected some loyal and talented people in these firms, and she also attaches great importance to these Lao Wu people, giving them a raise and even mobilizing the enthusiasm of these employees by paying dividends. When dealing with major problems in the store, she will also solicit opinions from employees.
Wu Pin died of illness.
In this way, she not only established her prestige in the Wu family, but also expanded the Wu family's industry again, and even accumulated a very rich degree of property. 1900, due to Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, Cixi and others fled to xi 'an. At this time, Zhou Ying was full of national justice, and she donated 654.38+2 million taels of silver to relieve the national crisis.
Later, Cixi made an exception and accepted this Han woman as her adopted daughter? Madam protector? A plaque. Besides, she also has a good reputation in the rural neighborhood. Whenever there are natural and man-made disasters, she opens the warehouse of the Wu family to help the people and set up schools at the same time. She did a lot of good things in the village during her lifetime.
Zhou Ying Steels
Zhou Ying was only 42 years old when she died, but she didn't give birth to the Wu family, so she was not qualified to enter the Wu family's grave after her death. Finally, people found a wasteland to bury her. Before her death, she donated part of all her property to the Qing government to save the country, and the other part was distributed to the servants and villagers at that time, so she died penniless.
But when she was buried, people from all over the country came to pay their respects, which was enough to show her position in people's hearts. Her life is unfortunate, but with her own efforts and love, she has lived a lucky life that no one else has.