Li died three years ago at the age of 64. At this time, the Qing dynasty, which lasted for more than 200 years, has been tottering, and its demise is only a matter of time.
Li, formerly known as Yingtai. Born in Dacheng County on October/October/July, 2008 (18481February 2), he is an ordinary farmer and small craftsman.
The ancestors of the Li family also received the education of being an official, such as Li Yingkui, the sixth ancestor of Li, whose real name was Boqing,No. Peng Suo, Wanli Wuzi, Wang Gong Jinshi, official to Qingzhou Ministry of War, and Shandong provincial judge. The doctor who saved Jia Yi, thanks to Li Xianqing, set up a tablet in the temple of famous officials in Shandong. Li Shu, the ninth ancestor of Kangxi, was a juren in Wuwu, and Lin Wen was a cabinet book.
In his childhood, Li's family has risen, and his childhood was basically spent in a well-off family. Some people say that he begged for a meal; Selling bitter vegetables, selling mirabilite, being a gangster, being in prison and so on. There is no historical basis. The Li family is superstitious about ghosts and gods. On the first or fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they always burn incense and repent, kneeling on the ground and praying for the help of the gods. On holidays, you should burn incense and kowtow continuously.
After more than 400 years of changes, the Li family has developed into 50 or 60 families in Xianfeng years since it moved to a big city. Due to famine, war and other reasons, contradictions and divisions began to appear in the family, and fierce competition appeared. At this time, the Li family has been divided into four schools, and the descendant of the fourth school is Li's family. After this division, some win in the competition, take the opportunity to make a fortune, buy a house and land; Some people lose in the competition, and then they become poor after selling their property. There is a big gap between the rich and the poor. Some families have to move to other places to find a new life because they can't make ends meet. Li Yu, Li's father, had some savings. With the continuous support of Beijing, he took advantage of the villagers' leaving home to take care of the wells and fled to other places to sell houses and land. Within a few years, he bought 60 or 70 mu of land, tied a cart and built more than a dozen tile houses.
Influenced by his grandmother, Li regarded legends as role models when he was young, and was deeply branded as an official. Shortly after he entered the palace, his grandmother died. In his later years, Li often mentioned her education and influence on him. In the eleventh year of Guangxu, when Li Huizu was at his grave, he also set up a monument specially for his grandmother, which described her love for him when she was a child.
Li spent only a little over eight years in his hometown, spent his infancy and childhood, and at the beginning of his childhood, he went to the palace in vain. His grandmother died in Tongzhi for two years and his grandfather died in Tongzhi for three years in December. His father moved to Beijing in January of the fourth year of Tongzhi, inherited his father's business and ran his business. In the spring of Tongzhi six years, his mother also moved to Beijing and lived in Saju Hutong. All the industries in my hometown are in the charge of Li Wansheng, the great-uncle of Li. Because his great-uncle had no children and no nephew to inherit, when Li's fourth brother Sheng Tai was fifteen or sixteen, he all returned to his hometown from Beijing to inherit the inheritance for his great-uncle Li Wansheng. After Li made his fortune, the manor was built, and Li Shengtai became the owner of the manor, following the palm number of "Yongdetang". Because Li's sixth brother Antai died young, he was succeeded by his third son Fu Kui. Li adopted four sons by herself. After that, they all got official positions and built more than a dozen houses in Beijing. There is also an antique shop in Langfang Headline outside the front door, and there is a "Xinyuan" bathhouse in Dai Yan Xiejie outside the Di 'anmen Gate. Li's father died in Guangxu four years, and his eldest brother, third brother and fifth brother jointly managed the commercial property in Beijing. Later it was called "Four Families in Beijing". Li Shengtai also sponsored fellow villagers in his hometown, and opened the grain store of the 41st Bureau and the Guangde General Store in Baiyangqiao Village. At that time, there was a folk song: "God of wealth, a cash cow, it is better to be a policeman." Shortly after Li's death, the Qing Dynasty perished, and his grandnephew and other official positions were lost. Since then, his family wealth has plummeted. In less than twenty or thirty years, most of his property was sold out.
Li has been in the palace for decades, and he has done his best to flatter, improvise and excel, and won the favor of Empress Dowager Cixi. She helped Empress Dowager Cixi wear Hualing, held a high position, held power for several years, snared colleagues, defrauded money, and was rich, all of which were described in monographs.