"Open 10% in nine days, and thousands of households will enter the painting." The scenery in Chengdu is like a poem written by Li Bai, like a vivid genre painting. When it comes to scenic spots in Chengdu, people often recommend Anren Ancient Town, which is 4 1 km away from Chengdu. Everyone is full of praise for the tourism in this place.
The most important scenic spots in the ancient town are antique streets with blue bricks and green tiles, while Renhe Street and Liu's manor will arouse people's deep thoughts. Everyone says that Liu, the landlord, is a bully in Fish Village. Even the manor has an opium warehouse as dark as a "water dungeon", and the book also records the story of renting houses. But now many local people have made a fortune in the Anren Commercial Street he built.
So what is Anren ancient town like now? Is the landlord Liu a bad person? How does Liu's evaluation constantly change and balance between bullies and businessmen?
Anren ancient town
As the first town of China Museum, Anren Ancient Town is a quiet ferry that "uncovers the wine flag on the shore and dances the fishing boat across the bay" in the poems of Song Dynasty poet Wen Tong. Fishing boats come and go, people stand on the shore drinking and watching people busy.
It's just that times have changed, and the scenery of that year has been transformed into a forest of cultural relics. Most of the existing old buildings built before liberation in Anren Ancient Town were built in the early Republic of China. There are three ancient streets in Anren Ancient Town, namely Hongxing Street, Shu Ren Street and Yumin Street, and there is also a unique Xiaoyanglou. The combination of Chinese and western styles is solemn and elegant.
Among the numerous luxury buildings in Anren, the most striking is Liu Manor. Liu Manor is the largest modern landlord manor complex in China at present. Every step on the street is a unique scenery, and every scene turns back the clock.
Anren ancient town, whose history is preserved by architecture, allows people to re-examine the vicissitudes of time with an objective eye. In Anren ancient town, cultural relics can live because of architecture, making impetuous life easier to meditate.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Anren Town was just an ordinary township, with no grandeur and no granaries full of valleys. Agriculture, industry and commerce were underdeveloped here. Anren Town later became an important town in the southeast of Dayi, which was closely related to the rise of the Liu family. After the Revolution of 1911, Liu and Liu Xiang of the Liu family stepped onto the historical stage. During the warlord's melee, Sichuan and Kang provinces were once controlled.
He also told Liu a message from his mother: the headquarters of the underground party organization is in his home, and it was their betrayal that made Liu take the blame. Liu's fifth aunt also spoke highly of her husband Liu. In fact, Wang Yuqing's recognition of her husband is also traceable. Because Liu spent a lot of money, he made seven coffins with the famous wooden ceiling in Jianchang, Ya 'an and painted them dozens of times. Among them, Wang Yuqing's coffin is the most luxurious of all coffins, with the name of five aunts engraved on it. So, what kind of person is the real Liu in history?
▲ Liu and his wife Yang (old photo)
In fact, the real Liu himself is not as talented as his name. He has never even been to a private school. But he has a shrewd business mind and is very good at finding business opportunities and seizing them when doing business. Liu has been in business for decades, and it is almost smooth sailing. 1922, his brother Liu served as the commander of the First Huncheng Brigade of the Sichuan Army and became an outstanding figure who monopolized the power of Xufu (now Yibin). Since then, Liu's influence has become even greater.
▲ Accounts of Liu's Manor
At the invitation of his younger brother, not far from Wan Li, Liu came to Xufu to raise money for his younger brother. At the same time, with the help of his brother, Liu himself served as the director of Xufu Ship Donation Bureau, Xufu Department Store Unified Donation Bureau and Sichuan No.42 Tobacco Monopoly Bureau. Liu used his position to make a lot of money. However, this situation did not last long. After Liu was frustrated in politics, Liu Zai's official power also failed. However, Liu Mingzhi changed his management method according to local conditions, turning it into a speculative "underground economy", such as reselling goods in short supply. At the same time, he also engaged in usury, market credit and other businesses.
▲ Old photos of Liu's Manor during the Republic of China
Soon, Liu came back with his younger brother and became the general manager of the anti-smoking and anti-smuggling office in southern Sichuan. Soon after taking office, he began to use armed warlords to seize huge taxes in this area. At that time, there were more than 65,438,000 cigarette shops in Xufucheng, Liu, which sold about 10000 tons of opium every year. The high opium tax brings Liu at least 8 million yuan a year. Liu used the huge wealth accumulated in Xufu in the past ten years to buy land and real estate in different places, totaling 1.2 million mu of land, 13 sets of luxury houses and more than 380 sets of houses facing the street, and then he used these properties to make a fortune. With Liu's help, the Liu family changed from an ordinary peasant family to a famous family.