Why does Li Hongzhang have to kill Hu Xueyan, the richest man?

(1823) Hu Xueyan was born in a poor family in Huli Village, Huizhou City, Anhui Province in the third year of Daoguang. Father/Kloc-died at the age of 0/2, so Hu Xueyan decided to go out and work as an apprentice in Hangzhou Xinhe Bank. Because he worked hard, he became a regular employee three years later. 18. Treat him like a son. On his deathbed, the shopkeeper gave Hu Xueyan a bank worth 5,200 silver, which became the first capital of his business career.

Hu Xueyan's success in business cannot be separated from the help of two people.

One left, one Wang Youling.

Hu Xueyan is a man with a unique vision. He thought Wang Youling was worth his investment, so he took out 500 taels of silver to pave the way for his promotion. Sure enough, with this money, Wang Youling's official career reached its peak, and finally he took the position of governor of Zhejiang. In order to repay Hu Xueyan, Wang Youling used his power to give the green light to Hu Xueyan's business all the way, and soon Hu Xueyan became a famous businessman. Just when Hu Xueyan was complacent, the Taiping Army attacked Hangzhou, and Wang Youling committed suicide by breaking the city. At the moment, Hu Xueyan at a loss.

However, it didn't take long for this businessman with great business vision to see the opportunity. Zuo led the troops to conquer Hangzhou, so he began to fully support Zuo, and soon gained Zuo's goodwill and trust, and was appointed as the governor.

What do you think is the most profitable thing in doing business since ancient times? The arms business, of course. With the support of Zuo, Hu Xueyan got a huge price difference by buying guns from foreigners, and earned a lot of money.

Hu Xueyan's proudest thing in his life was to help Zuo recover Xinjiang.

At that time, the court supported Zuo to recover Xinjiang, but no one cared about weapons, equipment and food, mainly because the court had no money. At this time, Zuo got Hu Xueyan's help. Hu Xueyan raised a lot of money, food and weapons for Zuo, so that Zuo's logistics had no worries, and Xinjiang was successfully recovered.

After the recovery of Xinjiang, Zuo became famous and Hu Xueyan became a celebrity.

In ancient times, the status of "scholars, farmers and businessmen" was the lowest, perhaps to honor their ancestors. When he had money, he began to donate. After the donation, it became an alternate road in Jiangxi and was given a yellow jacket by the court. Therefore, he became the only yellow-shirt businessman in the Qing Dynasty for 300 years, that is, the red-top businessman.

"The wood in the forest is beautiful, and the wind will destroy it." All this was seen by Li Hongzhang.

Sun Yat-sen College has three important ministers, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang is bent on bringing down the Left, but the two sides are evenly matched politically, and they are not very rich in both political and economic fields. Finally, Li Hongzhang found that Zuo could turn the corner and be like a duck to water because of Hu Xueyan's full support. So Li Hongzhang knew that if he wanted to bring down Zuo, he had to kill Hu Xueyan first.

So he and his men plotted a plan to kill Hu Xueyan.

They cut off Hu Xueyan's raw silk business first, and then spread the rumor that Hu Xueyan Bank was facing bankruptcy, encouraging a large number of customers to exchange cash, but Hu Xueyan could not fill this hole even if there was no amount of cash, so he had to close the door and go bankrupt. Finally, Li Hongzhang copied Hu Xueyan's home in the name of illegally accumulating wealth.

After that, Hu Xueyan died of depression. Unfortunately, he lost a generation of Dandingxing businessmen and became a victim of the political struggle between Zuo and Li Hongzhang.