Zhou Ying, the richest woman, is the adopted daughter of Cixi. What kind of person is she?

In 19, Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and Cixi, who heard the news in Beijing at that time, begged for mercy again and again, but Eight-Nation Alliance made it clear that he wanted to extort a sum of money and continued to move forward.

At this time, Empress Dowager Cixi had to flee from Beijing to Xi 'an. What the refugees lacked was money. Although she was poor, the queen mother's airs were still there. There are a lot of sycophants, and Cixi asked local local tyrants to donate money for her to squander. The Queen Mother asked for money and who dared to lose face, and local tyrants from all walks of life donated money to help each other. Unexpectedly, it was a woman who donated the most in the end, with a total of 12, taels of silver. This woman with deep pockets is Zhou Ying, and this Zhou Ying is rarely heard in history.

Portrait of Zhou Ying

In p>1868, the Zhou family in Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province had a daughter, Zhou Ying. At that time, Zhou Ying's great-grandfather Zhou Meicun was a rich landlord in nearby Shili Baxiang. He was nicknamed Zhou Baye, and he was also an official. At the highest time, he was a foreign minister of punishments.

In ancient society, it was more popular to refer to the belly for marriage, or it was the same in young marriage and Zhou Ying. So not long after he was born in Zhou Ying, he got engaged to the Wu family, the richest man in Jingyang County.

who is the Wu family in Jingyang county? Why can you climb up to relatives with Lord Zhou Ba? This Wu family moved from the Tang Dynasty and later split into five small families.

Zhou Ying, when she was 17 years old, was married to Wu Weiwen, the son of this large family in Anyang. Because this Wu has been suffering from tuberculosis for many years, he is terminally ill. Because of his increasingly serious illness, the Wu family deliberately concealed his illness and wanted to "celebrate" with the wedding.

Poor cheated Zhou Ying got married less than a year ago, and Wu Pin became seriously ill because of her father-in-law's unexpected death, and died soon. Zhou Ying became a little widow at the age of 18, and was called "the widow of An Wu".

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My father-in-law and her husband passed away one after another, leaving only two weak women, Zhou Ying and her mother-in-law, and a ruined family. Zhou Ying took on the heavy responsibility and took over the Wu family's industry. She was talented since childhood, and with her courage and original spirit, she showed extraordinary business talents.

Zhou Ying's staff gathered a few people who were good at making decisions and knowing how to operate, which revived the decadent Wu family business. She reorganized the Wu family's industry and grew into a large commercial empire with a wide range of fields and shops all over the country.

Zhou Ying was born to do business. She started as a salt merchant in the Wu family's traditional industry, and made great strides all the way, and gradually developed into silk, cotton, medicinal materials, tea and so on. Her business is getting bigger and bigger.

She has set up branches of Huaiyan General Company in Shanghai, Sichuan and Shaanxi successively, and also set up shops in Gansu which mainly deal in medicinal materials and in Hubei which mainly deal in cloth. In recent years, Wu's businesses have been found in all major commercial ports and docks, and their workshops are widely distributed and capital and financial resources have accumulated rapidly, which has made outstanding contributions to promoting local economic prosperity and increasing people's income.

Zhou Ying

Zhou Ying finally established Shaanxi Wu's Commercial Group after many setbacks, and she became the only businesswoman who made her business extremely rich at that time, becoming the richest woman at present.

In 19, it was the golden age of Zhou Ying's prosperous business. Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi 'an. Zhou Ying donated 12, silver and a priceless nanmu screen to Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi personally gave her a plaque inscribed "Mrs. Protecting the Country" and accepted Zhou Ying as her adopted daughter. For a woman of ordinary people's family, this honor is unique.

after the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty", Zhou Ying paid silver to Empress Dowager Cixi and went to the national disaster with her. Empress Dowager Cixi was impressed by her righteous act and named her "Mrs. Yipin".

Zhou Ying not only donated money to Cixi, but also gave charity to the people. She set up a porridge shed to give alms to the victims, and even opened a warehouse to release food, so she won the love of the people and gained an excellent reputation among them.

Zhou Ying

Although Zhou Ying is the richest woman and the adopted daughter of Cixi, she is still an unfortunate woman. She died before she was 42 years old because of overwork. It's really a pity that the business empire built by her hand quickly fell apart after her death.

Just because Zhou Ying was a widow and had no children and daughters, the Wu clan was very taboo. For fear that she would spoil the Wu family's geomantic omen, Zhou Ying was not allowed to be buried in the Wu family's grave, so Zhou Ying was hastily buried in a mass grave not far from the ancestral grave. Zhou Ying was not buried with Wu Pin until his death.

The only relic left in Shaanxi today is a tall and elegant screen preserved in shanxi library. Zhou Ying has experienced ups and downs in her life, pain and tears that ordinary people can't match. She deserves to be a great legendary woman.

After the death of forty-two, all efforts were reduced to ashes. Looking back at the course of life, I wonder how many people will remember her and marvel at her achievements!