Speaking of Hu Xueyan, everyone is familiar with Hu Xueyan, Hu Xueyan was born in Jixi, Huizhou, Anhui Province, and moved to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province with his parents at the age of 13. Hu Xueyan founded Huqing Yutang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall in Hangzhou, and the production of several flavors such as Xingjun San, Babaodan, and Plague Avoidance Pill are famous all over the world, and Heng has a very high reputation, and the medicine hall and medicines have been inherited to this day.
Hu Xueyan set up a private money bank in Shanghai, and later set up Fukang money village branches all over the country, and there were more than 20 Fukang money village branches, covering the north and south of the river. With a capital of more than 20 million taels and 10,000 acres of land, he is known as the "living god of wealth", and is a famous red-topped merchant in the Qing Dynasty and a representative figure of Hui merchants.
Wang Chi was born in Maitreya Hongxi, Yunnan, and the prototype of the movie "King of Money" is Wang Chi. Wang Chi has been in a small business since he was a child, and after saving a little, he bought a few horses and started a business of horse gang trafficking. Later, he partnered to set up the "Tongqingfeng" firm in Kunming. Wang Chi earned money and got acquainted with some powerful figures in Kunming, and with the help of these figures, Wang Chi opened a money bank, which was generally known as "Shuntianxiang" and "Tongqingfeng".
With the development and growth of the business, branches were set up in Chengdu, Hankou, Jiujiang, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guiyang, Guangzhou, Chengde, Beijing and other places, and offices were also set up in Hong Kong and Haiphong in the heyday.
Wang Chi also cooperated with Tang Jiong, the minister of Yunnan Mining Supervision, to develop the Dongchuan copper mine and the old tin mine, and to develop the local industrial and mining industry and reap great benefits.
The British "Times" once counted the richest people in the world in the past century, and Wang Chi ranked fourth. Moreover, he is the only Chinese on the list, and the people call Wang Ji "King Qian".
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, in the War of Resistance against France in Vietnam, Wang Chi took out 600,000 taels as military salaries. In the severe drought in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the Yellow River was cut off, and Wang Chi donated millions of taels of silver to the Ministry of Industry to build water conservancy. Wang Chihua spent a huge amount of money to help Qing ** buy back the right of way of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway from the French.
Wang Chi also spent more than 2 million taels to help the Qing Dynasty set up the mining industry in Yunnan. Li Hongzhang praised Wang Chi as "like the treasury of the Qing court." ”
Wang Chi did all kinds of righteous deeds, and the Qing court first gave him two products to wear, and finally zirconium "three generations and one product", and allowed Wang Chi to ride a horse in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Wang Chi became the only poinsettia top merchant in Chinese history.