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>What is today's red-top businessman?

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>What is today's red-top businessman? Zhou Jingwei and Li Hongzhang once had two very accurate words to comment on Sheng Xuanhuai's "desire to do big things and be a high-ranking official"...

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Why are today's red-top businessmen? Zhou Jingwei and Li Hongzhang once commented on Sheng Xuanhuai in two very precise words: "If you want to do big things, you must also be a high official." This really touches the core of Sheng's soul. Living in such an era and in such a family, it was impossible for Sheng Xuanhuai to break away from the Confucian life framework of governing a country and bringing peace to the world. The so-called "governing the country and bringing peace to the world" is just a grandiose way of saying being a high-ranking official. However, he knew very well that he did not have an imperial examination title and was not from a legitimate background, so it was difficult to get ahead by following the conventional official promotion process. Therefore, he chose to do big things first and seek high-ranking officials with big things. This was the root cause of Sheng Xuanhuai's ups and downs in his life. Hu Xueyan and Sheng Xuanhuai are both known as red-top businessmen by the world. Unlike Sheng Xuanhuai, Hu Xueyan entered the officialdom after Hu met Zuo Zongtang. The rise and fall of Hu and Sheng also mirrored the promotion of Zuo and Li in the officialdom. Hu Xueyan took a national stand and resisted the advanced textile industry at first, so he naturally lost the opportunity to compete with Sheng. Sheng Xuanhuai's Hanyeping Coal and Iron Company became the founding enterprise of China's heavy industry. After Sheng Xuanhuai's death, a young man with a doctorate degree from Columbia University in the United States came to Hankou and served as the English secretary of Han Yeping Company. His name was Song Ziwen. Song Ziwen was in his prime, and naturally had contacts with the Sheng family. Soon he met Sheng Xuanhuai's seventh daughter-in-law. The two of them were talented and beautiful, and soon they became romantic. It was another love story between a talented man and a beautiful woman. At that time, everything in the Sheng family was presided over by Sheng Xuanhuai's wife Zhuang, but Mrs. Zhuang opposed the marriage. The reason was very simple. Among other things, it was a joke for the daughter of a Taibao to marry the son of a drummer? The so-called drummer refers to the fact that Song Ziwen's father, Song Yaoru, was a missionary. The missionaries in Sheng Xuanhuai's hometown of Changzhou always carried the accordion while walking and playing it to attract the audience. In fact, it was not an injustice for Mrs. Zhuang's daughter to marry Song Ziwen at that time. At that time, the eldest daughter of the Song family had already married Dr. Kong Xiangxi, and the second daughter was the famous Mrs. Sun Yat-sen. But the old lady ignored these. In her eyes, she only had a spiritual tablet of a former Qing Taibao. But the young man who fell in love did not give up. At that time, Song Ziwen had received an invitation from Sun Yat-sen from Guangzhou, so he planned an elopement plan with the Seventh Group. In the evening, Song Ziwen drove a boat and parked near the back door of Sheng's house. When he saw a red lantern appearing by the back door, he docked the boat and picked up the young lady. Song Ziwen waited on the boat for three whole nights, but the happy red lantern never appeared. With the pain of broken love, Song Ziwen went to Guangzhou alone. The Sheng family has lost its last opportunity to make a name for itself in Chinese history, and the story of Sheng Xuanhuai can also come to an end. Yin Yanliang, known as "Today's Red Top Businessman", has confirmed that he has won the management rights of Nanshan Life Insurance. Thanks to the signing of the "Cross-Strait ECFA", he will enter the Chinese financial market. Yin Yanliang, today's red top businessman, is very likely to become the richest man in Taiwan tomorrow.

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