Yuan Jiati, A 84 Year Old Business Legend.

To Tianjin, located in the central city of the southern "five Avenue", known as the "World Architecture Museum" reputation, there are still more than 300 different styles of small western buildings.

On the "Chengdu road", there is an inconspicuous four story British villa, which is the only property of the yuan family in mainland China at present.

The name of the "suis West Restaurant" is hung on the villa. The operator is Yuan Shikai's granddaughter, Ms. Yuan Jia Tai, who is 84 years old.

Yuan Jia Ti Yuan Jia Tai is the oldest among Yuan Shikai's current grandchildren.

She was energetic and began to go to sea at the age of 69.

The old man's skin is delicate and looks very young. He still has the flavor of his old family.

The feudal remnants of Yuan Jia did not inherit. The only thing that I could retain was the exquisite life.

Yuan Jia Tai's dress is characteristic. The nail polish is painted in Hongkong. The cosmetics are Clinique and other famous brands. The jewelry technology is exquisite, even shampoo and shower gel are very particular.

She said she had no talent for playing chess, painting and calligraphy, and her only hobby was shopping.

Yuan Jia Tai has a very strong foundation: "I am very independent now, no matter economically or politically, this is not a woman in the old yuan family.

My life makes me happy.

Yuan Jia Tai, a member of the CPPCC National Committee in Tianjin for 24 years, has always made a lot of contributions to the economic development of Tianjin, whether in attracting foreign investment or helping the poor and disaster relief.

When he talked about the past, Yuan Jia Tai congratulated himself on his unusual ups and downs.

"This is a great pformation and experience for me.

The great changes in half a century saved me, stimulated my desire for survival, and taught me to be self reliant.

Otherwise, I would have been like most of the yuan family's descendants. They would be very well respected, rely on their heritage to parasitism, then smoke smoke, find pleasure, and go to bed and die. "The grandmother is Korean, Yuan Shikai is the daughter of four sons of Yuan Keduan.

Yuan Shikai married nine concubines with 17 sons, 15 daughters, 22 grandchildren and 25 granddaughters.

Yuan Keduan, the father of Yuan Jia Tai, is the four aunt of Yuan Shikai.

Wu is one of Yuan Shikai's three North Korean concubines.

In those days, she was a servant girl, accompanied by her sister, Kim, who was married to Yuan Jia.

Which once thought, originally thought to do "the main room" Jinshi, but with her two girls, Yuan Shikai was taken as concubine.

The three of them are Korean, married to an unfamiliar feudal family, unable to understand the language, and do not understand China's feudal etiquette.

Yuan Shikai loves the foot binding women, and the wives and wives he marries, except those three, are "Heaven sufficient" and the rest are wrapped up.

When the three women arrived, they were all grown up, unable to wrap up, but had to imitate the way of Hua Dan and Wu Dan "stepping on the inch" in the Peking Opera before to make the appearance of foot binding to please Yuan Shikai.

Wu was lucky enough to die in Yuan Shikai's governor general.

The other two did not leave "inch son" until Yuan Shikai died, and eventually they would not leave.

Moreover, a jealous wife often takes advantage of Yuan Shikai's absence and criticize or even abuse them.

After Yuan Shikai's death, his cash was divided into 17 shares and gave to each of his sons.

Each person shares 120 thousand silver dollars.

15 daughters, each person assigned to dowry costs 8000 silver dollars.

The aunt lives with her children, regardless of cash.

But Yuan Shikai's gold and silver soft, agate jade, silk and satin fur were evenly distributed.

There is a large courtyard and six buildings in the main gate of Shengli Road, Tianjin.

Before liberation, most of Yuan Shikai's concubines and their descendants lived here.

Yuan Jia Tai was born in 1924.

At that time, Grandpa Yuan Shikai had been dead for 8 years.

Yuan Jia Tai did not see her grandfather, but she heard a lot about it. "Father is very afraid of my grandfather. They used to give their grandfather every day, every day they were almost the same as formulary questions and answers, sometimes annoying their grandparents, and even beating them with whips and sticks."

Yuan Shikai occasionally invited his son to invite him to accompany him to dinner.

It is said that once the two son Yuan Kewen was very full, Yuan Shikai handed him a hot steamed bread. He dared not say no, secretly stuffed the steamed bread into the sleeve, and scalded a layer of leather.

Yuan Jiati said that although Yuan Shikai was very strict with his sons, he was more "charming" to his daughters.

"Grandfather has the idea of" daughter is important ". The boys in his family have nicknames, but his daughter is not allowed to play.

He thinks that his daughter is someone else's person and is also a tool for him to climb his family.

Yuan's children were all arranged marriages, almost all of them were married to the then emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the descendants of warlords.

For example, Cao Kun's son is my fourteen uncle, and Li Yuanhong's daughter is my nine aunt, all of whom were promoted by my grandfather, including my parents.

The mother who lives in isolation from the world, the mother of Yuan Jia Tai, is the daughter of He Zhongjin, the most famous salt merchant in Tianjin. "There are thousands of wafangs in the mother's home in Tianjin. Many marriages have been envied.

Yuan Jiati, however, was not able to recall his parents and sisters.

Her father graduated from the Tianjin Xinhua college, which was written in a fairly high level, with a hard and simple style.

However, as the son of the president, Yuan Keduan has developed a habit of eating and drinking.

He had been a member of Zhang Zuolin's office, but he didn't even go to class. After that, he worked as a nominal director in Kailuan Mining Bureau, which was 300 yuan a month.

When Yuan Shikai carried out the constitutional monarchy, he carved the seal of the emperor four sons, which was better than Yong Zheng.

It was a pity that when Yuan Shikai died in 1916, this son became a common people from "emperor four" overnight. He was hard to accept, and was greatly stimulated.

The latter half of Yuan Keduan's life mainly depends on the pawnpawn heritage and stock.

Two of their husbands and wives are heavy smokers.

Due to extravagance, the family was embarrassed.

Yuan Keduan died in 1951.

Yuan Jia Tai's two sisters are also miserable.

"Many books are written by Yuan Keduan, who has two sons and one daughter. Actually, I have two older sisters. They are also victims of feudal ethics and arranged marriages.

So I have no memory of the old society.

Yuan Jia Tai Yuan had had 13 years of superior life in his childhood.

At the age of 4, she was taken to the south of the Yangtze River by the two aunt without children. He came to Wuxi.

"ERU Mama" is a new family. Two of her uncle studied in the United States. It is a national industrialist who accepted the trend of industrial salvation.

He owns a silk factory in Wuxi and is the richest man in the region.

Under the education of his two aunt, Yuan Jia Tai began to learn English, to understand business and to take the Shanghai West and West Women's high school.

"The house we lived in is now a museum in Wuxi.

The house has 3 floors, 8 for each floor, only 3 for uncle, aunt, and me, and 37 for servants.

Drivers, housekeepers, nannies, cleaners, and tennis courts and swimming pools outside the house.

Yuan Jia Tai is a missionary school. She said that she was most afraid of going to history class at that time.

"Whenever I mention Yuan Shikai, I feel so ashamed."

When I entered school, the curtain of cars was pulled.

At 8, I go to school at 7:50, and the car goes all the way to the school.

They were afraid that I was kidnapped and brought me a nanny, a male bodyguard, a driver, and 3 people to send me to school.

When I am in class, the bodyguard will be guarding outside, and the driver will go back to pick us up.

Yuan Jia Ti later recalled, "what do you call this kind of life?

Call happiness?

I don't think so.

It's like there is no free walking corpse, you have no connection with the society. "

Yuan Jia Ti did not buy anything until he was in junior high school.

"At that time, I bought everything from my aunt. I took the nanny, the bodyguard, looked at the department store, and the car came back. They would go to the accounting office to get the money.

I don't know what the price is.

We never carry money on our way out. "

But you can't deny that the days in Wuxi are the happiest time for Yuan Jia ti. She can go to the streets and play with her neighbors' boys.

However, when Yuan Jia Tai was 17 years old, she was sent back to Tianjin's home because of her two aunt's going abroad.

Returning to the stagnant yuan family, Yuan Jiati began to be disciplined by "courtesy in the morning and evening, not to cross the river" and so on. "The family did not allow me to go to school, because the University was co educational, and they invited Mr. Han Wen to me at home.

I have read ancient prose for 4 years, and now there are still some poems and songs.

Although the yuan family had been on the decline, she said, "to tell the truth, even at that time, it was very difficult to sell anything at home, and life was better than ordinary people.

Yuan Jia Tai's parents do not work, so do her uncle and uncle. They live a muddled life together. "One is thin and thin, and no one can eat well."

Yuan Jiati, who had received western education at his aunt's house, was choking with anger. "Yuan Jia's feudal remnants went to the later stage, and the young people had a sense of justice. They could not accept it."

Soon, Yuan Jiati became a married man, married to the famous businessman of the Tianjin national business circle, Mr. Ding, who was the owner of Yuanfeng hardware company.

"My wife is also a capitalist. He founded 3 businesses at that time, and we have a trade bank. At the end of the year, I collected money myself." but soon, with the change of policy situation, her fate was reversed.

In 1956, the privilege of yuan and Jia was abolished. They could no longer afford to buy anything without money.

These subtle changes are also a process of adaptation and pformation for Yuan Jia ti.

"I still remember the first time when money was very difficult. I felt so dirty that I never wanted to count.

I changed from four wheels to three wheeled rickshaw, and from a tricycle to a crowded bus.

At first, I lost two back bracelets, two rings, all of which were gold, and the bag was lost, so that people had to walk away. "The" Cultural Revolution "that followed them made her feel" the real end ".

Yuan Jia Ti received the ultimatum, and the whole family went to the countryside to accept the pformation.

She had three children and a daughter, and her eldest daughter had already joined the queue at Qilian Mountains in Gansu.

She and her husband, with three sons and a bedspread, bid farewell to the little western house which had lived for decades, and came to Wang Zhuangzi, a big temple in the western suburbs of Tianjin.

When she left, she did not return. She thought she might never come back again.

The countryside is far away and unfamiliar to Yuan Jia Tai and her family.

The desolate land, the bumpy dirt road, the low earth house and the north wind calling, left the family at a loss.

"In order to repel mosquitoes and poison ants, I learned to smoke, and I could not eat anything but to eat the wild broth and the wild vegetables that I could not gather; after exercising, I would go back after 40 pounds of potatoes," Yuan Jiati suddenly discovered that her willpower was so strong.

In the long time in the countryside, Yuan Jiati began to stir up his mind: "life there is very poor, and only one work day is done in a day, and a work hour is only 1 cents 5 cents.

I think my husband has served as the chairman of the Tianjin Federation of industry and Commerce hardware trade union, and is a business businessman. He boldly proposed to the village to set up a small hardware factory.

With the support of the farmers, Yuan Jiati set up the first galvanizing factory in the local area. She worked as a factory accountant and her husband worked as a factory director.

With their efforts, the small factories are becoming more and more prosperous and bring many benefits to farmers.

In the first year of the factory opening, the work in the village increased to 8 cents and 5 cents.

"This is probably the third years since we came to the countryside, and our worst days have passed since then."

The family of Yuan Jia Tai has worked in the countryside for 8 years.

In 1973, cousin Yuan Jialiu returned home from Premier Zhou Enlai's invitation.

According to Premier Zhou's instructions, Yuan Shikai's third generation later generations gradually regained their freedom.

In 1978, Yuan Jiati returned to Tianjin and entered the small building of 40 Chengdu Road, Tianjin.

She has mixed feelings. "What did I realize after 8 years of pformation?

It's not the importance of money. It's the ability of a person to survive. What kind of life you want to live is an ability.

In the third generation of Yuan Shikai, one of them changed the face of the whole family and made yuan's family feel proud and elated.

He is the son of the world famous high-energy physicist, Chinese American Yuan Jialiu, Yuan Shikai's two son Yuan Kewen.

Yuan Jialiu was awarded the outstanding achievement award of the American Chinese Association. His wife, Dr. Wu Jianxiong, was the only woman in the world's first atomic bomb developer, and was called "Mrs. Curie of China".

This cousin has great influence on Yuan Jia Tai's life.

Yuan Kewen, the father of his cousin, is one of the four greatest sons in the Republic of China.

It's a pity that in old age, the family property was lost.

The toll and iron of my cousin's going abroad