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The prince of the Qing Dynasty on the banknote was ruined by the "sexual bribery case", and the famous man in this case was actually Master Hongyi's first love?
Founded in the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), Shanghai Xincheng Bank is the first bank in China to engage in savings business, and is one of the few banks with the right to issue banknotes in the late Qing Dynasty.
The book of the Ministry of Commerce on the banknote, Zai Zhen, is a noble son from a famous family, with unparalleled power and wealth, but his career came to an abrupt end because of a "sexual bribery" case, Yang Cuixi, a famous prostitute with peerless elegance, her beauty and talent have made countless people fall for it. Her relationship with Uncle Li has become a love swan song in the hearts of future generations.
And Li Shutong, a talented artist, his relationship with Yang Cuixi is considered to be one of the reasons why he saw through the red dust. So in Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty, how was the fate of Master Hongyi intertwined with Yang Cuixi and the Manchu prince in the first half of his life?
Zai Zhen is the great-great-grandson of Emperor Qianlong, the eldest son of Prince Qing Yixuan, Yixuan is powerful in the court, and the official is the chief minister of military aircraft. Relying on the power of his father, Prince Qing Yixuan, Zai Zhen became a very active figure in the Qing court as soon as he entered the officialdom.
In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), as a special envoy of the imperial court, he went to England to attend the coronation ceremony of Edward VII, and visited France, Belgium, the United States, and Japan, which was his first high-profile appearance. In 1903, he led an expedition to Japan to inspect the Fifth Quanye Exposition.
When Jae-jin returned to China, he was deeply inspired by what he had seen and heard abroad, and he asked the imperial court to set up a Ministry of Commerce to take full charge of commerce and transportation affairs. The imperial court accepted his suggestion and appointed him as the first scholar of the Ministry of Commerce, when he was only 27 years old. In 1906, the Qing court carried out a major official reform, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry were merged to form the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry and Commerce.
When Jae Jin was the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, he set out to promote the reform of the monetary system.
After the Opium Wars, the Qing Dynasty signed a series of unequal treaties with the Western powers, each time paying huge indemnities, and since the British Liru Bank entered China in 1845, foreign banks have flooded in, manipulating China's financial markets and issuing large amounts of paper money. SubsequentlyFrance, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States, the Netherlands, Belgiumand other countries have also set up bank branches in China.
In order to enhance their financial resources, various provinces in China have set up official banking bureaus to gather wealth by issuing official money bills. Private money banks and ticket numbers are even more numerous, and many of them have meager reserves, but they have issued a large number of money tickets, forming a phenomenon of "false tickets" flooding. All kinds of banknotes, money bills, and banker bills are intertwined or circulated in their respective regions, resulting in financial chaos. Such a situation will undoubtedly have a financial impact and may even destabilize the regime.
In the face of such a crisis, the Qing Dynasty decided to rectify the financial system, establish a national bank, and issue banknotes by the first bank, which is a necessary measure to save the crisis.
In 1905, the Qing government established the first state-run national bank, the Hubu Bank. The reserve capital of the Hebu Bank is 4 million taels of Kupingyin, divided into 40,000 shares, of which 20,000 shares are subscribed by the Hubu and 20,000 shares are purchased by the government and private people.
The emergence of household banks has given birth to the vigorous development of commercial savings banks. On April 28, 1906, Xincheng Bank, located at the Dadongmen of Nanshi, Shanghai, was officially opened, like a new star rising in the financial world. Founded by Wuxi industrialist Zhou Shunqing and Shanghai businessman Shen Manyun, Xincheng Bank is not only the first private bank in China, but also the first commercial savings bank in China's financial history, ushering in a new era of China's banking industry.
Shinsei Bank hopes to be qualified to issue banknotes in the same way as Tobu Bank, provided that this is subject to the approval of the Ministry of Commerce. Of course, this is not difficult for the founder Zhou Shunqing, Zhou Shunqing and Yixuan, Zai Zhen father and son relationship is very good, in 1903, Zai Zhen led a team to Japan to investigate, Zhou Shunqing is a member of the inspection team, and is a third-class consultant of the Ministry of Commerce, the title of special award and second product to accompany the side.
In this way, the banknotes of the Chinese Commercial Xincheng Bank are printed with the head of the Ministry of Commerce, and the second year of the establishment of the Xincheng Bank issued a batch of banknotes with a face value of 1 yuan, 5 yuan, and 10 yuan, and the left side of the banknote is the building of the Chinese Commercial Xincheng Bank, and the right side is the Shangshu Zaizhen of the Ministry of Commerce of the Qing Dynasty.
As an aside, the original printing of the head of the Ministry of Commerce was also to increase the credibility of the Chinese Commercial Xincheng Bank, however, in the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), Zai Zhen was forced to resign due to the case of courtesan Yang Cuixi and stayed away from the political center. After the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the credit of the common people plummeted due to the fact that the banknote had a clear head, and the bank lost a lot of financial expenditures for the navy at that time, resulting in a shortage of money, and finally closed down in 1912.
About Yang Cuixi's life experience, the historical versions are not the same, and there are many folk sayings, at that time, Yang Cuixi sang a famous role in Tianjin, and her guests were either rich or expensive, and it is said that Li Shutong, who was once intoxicated with lust, was one of them.
Li Shutong, born in the family of a wealthy official eunuch in Tianjin, is talented, good at poetry, painting, and good at music and rhythm. He has a unique love for opera, and it is rumored that Uncle Li and Yang Cuixi became attached to opera. said that he would appear on time in the "Tianxian Garden" every night to cheer for Yang Cuixi's performance. After the play, he carried the lantern again and accompanied her home. Li Shutong not only explained the historical background of the opera for Yang Cuixi in detail, but also carefully guided her singing and figure on the stage, which greatly improved Yang Cuixi's performance skills, and the folk interpreted the love between the two as tactful and tortuous as a drama.
But Li Shutong went east to Japan to study after holding a funeral for his mother in the year of his mother's death, that is, in the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), and Yang Cuixi was hired by Duan Zhi Guiliangzhu in the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906) and sent to Beijing like a treasure, and honored the little prince.
It is difficult to sort out how many entanglements the fates of Li and Yang are, but Prince Zaizhen did cause a power reshuffle because of Yang Cuixi's case.
In October 1906, under the dispatch of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Zai Zhen embarked on a trip to the Northeast. When his journey made a stop in Tianjin, he was attracted by the banquet of Duan Zhigui, the commander of the Beiyang Army. At the banquet, the courtesan Yang Cuixi made it difficult to take Zaizhen's eyes off. Duan Zhigui comprehended, ransomed Yang Cuixi, and dedicated her to Zai Zhen with a huge sum of money. At the same time, Duan Zhigui proposed a desire for promotion to Zai Zhen.
In just a few months, Duan Zhigui was quickly promoted from a Taoist to a governor, and the news of offering prostitutes and buying officials set off huge waves in the late Qing Dynasty. People are full of words, or envy, or disdain, or fierce criticism.
Zhao Qilin, the imperial historian, is honest, upright, and has new ideas, often writes about reform, and advocates banning smoking, training soldiers, and running schools. When he heard that Duan Zhigui was a stepping stone for the position of governor and bought an official, his heart was like fire, so he wrote a note and presented it directly to the Empress Dowager Cixi.
After reading it, the Empress Dowager Cixi decidedly instructed: "Investigate thoroughly!" This sparked a political wave. Yixuan became the target of everyone, and his heart was terrified like a building was about to collapse. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the queen mother's intention has been clear, and Prince Qing has lost the favor of the queen mother, and his political life is in jeopardy.
As a result, Duan Zhigui was dismissed, and Jae Zhen also resigned and apologized for this incident, went home and thought about it behind closed doors, and stayed away from the core of power from then on.
The past is like smoke, and the late Qing Dynasty is like a crumbling edifice, with an unstable foundation and shaky wind and rain. Huashang Shanghai Xincheng Bank has been in business for less than 6 years, and most of the banknotes are **, and there are not many surviving in the world, if it were not for the quiet appearance of this banknote, the history of the political turmoil may only become a dusty memory, gradually buried by the years.