Built Linghu Town - Mr. Zhang Rongchu, Industrialist
Chang Rongchu (1901-1972), patriotic industrialist. Formerly known as Jichu, also known as Zenghua, Huzhou City, Linghu people. Always forget the people of his hometown, Linghu modernization and development. It can be said that without Mr. Zhang Rongchu's investment in his hometown, there is no present Linghu. Ancestral home in Digang, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, because his father, Zhang Qingru in Linghu, operating with the Fengxiang Silk Villa and moved to Linghu. Dedicated to industry throughout his life, to 1949, his assets amounted to more than 10 million yuan, became the liberation of the beginning of Zhejiang Province to stay in the country's largest assets of the national capitalist, he is committed to the hometown of economic and cultural construction, made great contributions. Zhejiang Province, Wuxing (now Huzhou) Digang people, Digang chapter of the three provinces of the Church of the fourteenth grandson; because of his father Qingru in Linghu operation with the Fengxiang Silk Villa and moved to Linghu; young children studied in elementary school, young people selling cotton cloth, round-trip between Anji, Xiaofeng, Changxing, Huzhou; in the Linghu diagonal bridge side of the bridge (now the People's Road) to open the capital of the people and the cloth store. Later, he went to Shanghai to open Huafeng Cotton Cloth, operating wholesale business of fancy cotton cloth; with the support of Yu Zhendong, a rich son of Ningbo, he raised 600,000 silver dollars to establish Shanghai Textile Printing and Dyeing Factory; at the beginning of production, it was besieged by British merchant Lunchang and Japanese merchant Mitsubishi, and took investment in joint stock as a bait in an attempt to strangle China's dyeing and printing industry in the cradle, and it was resolutely rejected. In 1928, the desire to produce domestic printed cloth was born, so he borrowed money to build Shanghai Printing and Dyeing Factory in Shanghai; at the end of 1930, the production was started, which was the first printing and dyeing factory operated by Chinese national capitalists at that time; in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China, Zhang Rongchu's national industry couldn't escape the bad luck; the British merchant Lunchang foreign bank monopolized and killed the price to combat the bureaucrats and the capitalists crowded out and extorted the Shanghai Printing and Dyeing Factory, which was on the verge of bankruptcy; however, with the support of patriotic financiers, he started to build the printing and dyeing factory in Shanghai. But he was supported by patriotic financiers, reuse talents, strengthen enterprise management, and finally in 1932 made the development, the first time the establishment of the Chinese sole proprietorship management from spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing to the cotton distribution of the combination of manufacturers of economic entities, and renamed Shanghai Textile Printing and Dyeing Factory, from then on, he became an industrialist.
After the August 13th Incident in 1937, Zhang Rongchu sold his house and furniture in Dunxin Road, Shanghai, and donated them to the war effort; during the fall of Shanghai, cotton yarn and cotton cloth were all under the control of the Japanese army, and Rongchu changed the cotton weaving into cotton and linen interweaving, avoiding the control and making the enterprise free to operate; during this period, he also founded Rongfeng Yarn Factory with 20,000 yarn spindles and 200 sets of cloth machines, and Suzhou-China Iron Factory, Shanghai Leather Factory, Taizhou Yarn Factory, Shanghai Textile Printing and Dyeing Factory, and changed the name to Shanghai Textile Printing and Dyeing Factory. During this period, Rongfeng Yarn Factory with 20,000 spindles and 200 cloth machines was established, as well as Suzhong Iron Factory, Shanghai Leather Factory, Taizhou Yarn Factory, and Fung Yip Building, which became one of the famous manufacturers in Shanghai.
After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Zhang Rongchu utilized the Continental Hotel and the Weida Hotel in Shanghai to receive more than 400 Allied expatriates from Britain and the United States who were released from the Japanese concentration camps, providing food, clothing, and housing for their living expenses. For this reason, the U.S. Seventh Fleet Commander Admiral Kim Kai Tak made a special effort to thank Zhang Rongchu in person.
In 1946, Zhang Rongchu became a national capitalist with the most assets left in Zhejiang Province at the beginning of the liberation; on the eve of liberation, under the persuasion of Li Jichen, Zhang Rongchu gave up his intention to leave Hong Kong (and in 1952, recalled his son, who had been studying in the U.S.), and participated in the construction of the motherland.
After the liberation, he actively participated in the socialist transformation of private industry and commerce, and was received by Chen Yun and other leaders of the Central Committee and Chairman Mao Zedong's "Ink Treasure", and at the same time served as a director of Shanghai Cotton Spinning Industry Branch, Shanghai, Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; died on December 13, 1972, after a long illness.
Small apprentice big ambition: Zhang Rongchu childhood family poverty, six brothers, the second in line. Father chapter Qingru scrimp and send him to the old poly and paper workshop private school. Teaching private school of Fei Jian old man is strict, meticulous teaching. Zhang Rongchu since childhood, quick thinking, eloquent, write a handful of beautiful brushwork, and good at mental arithmetic, often get the old man's praise.
Chapter Rongchu finished elementary school, because of life forced to drop out of school, they went to the Shanghai people and the Association of cotton cloth number as an apprentice. He was diligent and hard-working, carefully practiced, and soon mastered the business skills.
Chapters Rongchu in the small apprenticeship has the ambition. According to the Chinese medicine master Chen Cun two self-reported: when I was a child, I often go to the satin bureau to play and store a small apprentice of the name of the chapter most get along.
One day, I put a piece of silver round repeatedly play to him from time to time to show off, so that he looked dumbfounded, he did not have a salary, only the monthly regulation money 20 cents of small Yang (is a haircut, bath, shoes and socks of the spare), therefore, he saw a piece of silver round I also took in the hands of the hand to play with.
He was able to tell that the highest salary in the Silk Bureau, Mr. Manager is only eight yuan per month, the ordinary staff is only four to six yuan, as for the apprentice who just completed the division is only one yuan per month.
He said, "You worship a year, you get a dollar, really make me envy ah!" ...... His words can not help but make me vaguely exude a posture of pride, so that the small apprentice surnamed chapter some look at the eye, he sneered back and said: "Xiao Kai! You do not be complacent, I am full of master after hard work, will also be developed, then my money will be more than you, and to buy a black shiny car (that is, private two-wheeled rickshaw), I am sitting high on the car, you small open (Shanghai people to the small proprietor of the customary name) a little bit of no ability to do, may have done the beggars, can only be with the back of the ass of the bag car to help push the car, and then reach out to me to ask for a copper plate it! !"
When I heard this, I was furious. However, he these words but y imprinted in the heart, know that if a person does not have the skills, will be reduced to beggars in the future ...... that ridicule my little apprentice surnamed Zhang Rongchu, 20 years later he really opened two weaving factories, and Liu Hongsheng joint venture opened the Shanghai Zhang Hua tweed factory, is the first domestic tweed, resisted the British and Japanese monopoly on the Chinese market, revitalize the Chinese market, and the Chinese market, the British and Japanese monopoly on the Chinese market. The monopoly of the Chinese market, revitalized the national industry, and became a number of big industrialists in Shanghai ...... youth ambition and ambition, after hard work and finally achieved.
The above excerpts of the conversation, which took place at the beginning of the last century in 1924, shortly after the lunar new year. The place was in the store of a large-scale Chen Dasheng Silk Bureau in Dadongmen, the commercial and prosperous district of Shanghai at that time.
Struggle in Shanghai: Zhang Rongchu's success lies in his hard work, not afraid of failure, not afraid of risk. 1921, he returned to Linghu to set up Renhe cloth store, and then Linghu small store, hindering the development of the business, they went to Shanghai, the opening of the Huafengxiang cotton cloth number. In the operation, Zhang Rongchu adhered to the credit and business ethics, personally received customers, the style of practical and stable, and thus gained the trust of the financial sector. With credit collateral as economic backing, in 1929, and opened the Zhiheng cotton cloth number. Insisting on the operation of popular cotton fabrics, opposing counterfeit foreign goods, creating a new style of seeking truth from facts, which was praised by consumers. Zhang Rongchu in Shanghai thus consolidated a foothold.
Chang Rongchu in order to make his career, constantly to industrial giants, scholars and celebrities, as well as the parties concerned to ask for advice. He often read the newspaper late at night, studying the relationship between industry and commerce, the handling of conflicts between Chinese and foreigners, market information and price laws and so on. This makes him first realized: in the operation of business at the same time, it is best to run their own industry, reduce product costs, in order to compete with the foreign business, and can safeguard the interests of national products and consumers.
So, he founded the Shanghai Printing and Dyeing Factory. Soon, in the British Lunchang printing and dyeing factory and other foreigners under the pressure of joint dumping, his factory was crushed. Zhang Rongchu undiscouraged, one side to summarize the experience, the other side of the campaign. Initiative of the Chinese business community unity against foreign **** survival. Get a lot of sympathy from the industry, the Chinese financial sector set up "Huiye syndicate" to support him. So after a few struggles, Shanghai printing and dyeing factory again stood up! Soon developed into a self-weaving and self-dyeing factory, standing in the suburbs of Shanghai, and support the small and weak industry. The spirit of all of us was revitalized.
At the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Rongchu's Shanghai Printing and Dyeing Factory was destroyed by enemy invaders and closed down, so he fled to his hometown. After hearing that the Shanghai Concession was still open for business, he returned to Shanghai.
With the support of his friends, he founded the Central Printing and Dyeing Factory on Yuyuan Road. At that time, Shanghai manufacturers have stopped production or fleeing, the market demand for commodities exceeds supply, part of the community is difficult to put the capital, Zhang Rongchu saw the opportunity, not afraid of risk, mass production of mass production of cotton cloth, the market sells well, making huge profits. Soon in the big West Road and founded Rongfeng yarn factory.
Chapter Rongchu that in semi-feudal and semi-colonial China, the national industry and commerce to strive for strength, we must engage in joint ventures, so that the supply and demand ring tightly, do not allow foreign interference. So after the expansion of Rongfeng Yarn Factory, he successively founded Suzhong Iron Factory, Shanghai Leather Factory, Taizhou Yarn Factory, and Fengye Building, etc. He also converted the Central Printing and Dyeing Factory and Shanghai Printing and Dyeing Factory into Rongfeng No.2 Factory and Rongfeng No.3 Factory, which became one of the famous manufacturers in Shanghai.
Construction of the new Linghu Town: Linghu area, is the "Silk House" Huzhou, one of the main sericulture production areas, Zhang Rongchu love this land, to devote himself to his hometown construction; he said, I have to do something for the Mulberry, so that the ancestors and descendants.
In 1946, chapter Rongchu see the city false prosperity, the rural economy is seriously bankrupt, they invited Wang Boqiao, Shu Xincheng, Yu Qingtang, Xiao Weiguo and other ten financial, industrial and commercial circles, experts and scholars, to Linghu field study. And in the same year, sent Li Huayi, Tongji University Civil Engineering Department led 20 college students to Linghu mapping 31 maps, the preliminary formulation of the Linghu construction plan. 1946 October 12 in Shanghai, Guizhou Road Lake Society, the official establishment of the Linghu Construction Association. By Pan Gongzhan and himself as chairman and vice chairman, by Wang Wash (Xuefeng) as director of the Linghu Office and concurrently construction association director. Linghu Construction Association is divided into secretariat, design committee, various specialized committees and sericulture promotion, agriculture and water conservancy, culture and education, industrial management, engineering design, public **** health and other six departments. Discussed by the Council and formulated the first phase of the five-year plan, established a "mobilize the townspeople to build the township, with the construction of the country's grand plan," the general policy of building a new Linghu. With the outline of "industry and agriculture, education and upbringing together, people will win, self-reliance", according to the characteristics of Linghu, from agriculture to trigger industry, industry to promote agriculture; for the development of production and education, education to promote production. To make the best use of people, materials, land and goods. The goal is to "promote the progress and prosperity of the countryside and establish a new idyllic city".
Given the situation in the rural areas of Linghu District at that time: due to the destruction of the Japanese and the hypocrites during the war, agricultural waste, the old mulberry forest was seriously destroyed, the new mulberry and the inability to cultivate, the farmers want to raise silkworms, but the mulberry leaves are in short supply, and the lack of sericulture capital and excellent silkworm species. Chapter Rongchu according to the experts in-depth investigation and their own personal visits, formulated the following plans and actively: (a) the establishment of four townships "sericulture experiments," as a demonstration and promotion of the organization; (b) the selection of sericulture technicians with practical experience, in-depth technical guidance in the countryside, the implementation of scientific methods of sericulture improvement, planting more seedlings, and advocate Scientific sericulture; (c) in order to further improve the silkworm species, in Zhenjiang, received the Ming Ming silkworm farm, to ensure that the source of good silkworm species in Linghu District; (d) placed interest-free silkworm loans and loans, and strongly support farmers to cultivate mulberry, sericulture.
Based on the development of sericulture in rural areas, Zhang Rongchu in 1946-1947, in the town of Linghu created a large-scale, advanced equipment, Linghu Silk Factory, Linghu Chemical Factory. Silk factory has power generation equipment, in addition to the founding of the civilian Qingshu power plant. For the safety of the factory and the town of Linghu, and donated funds to buy a fireboat, set up a fire club.
Additionally, it opened the Hufeng Silk Factory and the Huada Cloth Shop in Huzhou, and took a major stake in the Dali New Silk Weaving Factory.
With the development of industry and agriculture, it brought vitality to the rural economy of Linghu, and also promoted the town's commerce. The factory absorbed a large number of workers, so that many of the original unemployed have gained access to employment opportunities, even Huzhou city women, there are one or two hundred people into the Linhu silk factory work, Linhu and Huzhou between the ship, but also opened up four classes, chapter Rongchu also plans to build a highway from the Linhu Lake, east of Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway or the Shengze Highway, west of Beijing-Hangzhou National Highway, Jingshan, but unfortunately, the then government did not support the unsuccessful.
Linghu's construction, finally formed a joint situation of agriculture and industry, chapter Rongchu and decided to learn from the advanced experience at home and abroad, committed to the local culture, education and medicine and health care.
In 1933, the Green Tree Foundation set aside a lot of money, chapter Rongchu personally presided over the construction of the Green Tree Middle School, attached to the complete elementary school, the address of the South Grid of Linghu Cangchang lane, covers an area of 20 acres. The second year of school, and later developed to the size of 12 classes. He hired Mr. Wu Huaiqing, presided over the school. Wu Department of Linghu people, advanced for the school, has long been full of peaches and plums. Chengzhang entrusted with the important task, day and night hard work, from the construction of the school building, selecting and employing teachers to set the school rules and regulations, the school style, are respectfully pro-planning, rigorous in every way. Chapter Rongchu every time he returned to his hometown to go to the school to listen to classes, and put forward to the school: "cultivate talents, to be pragmatic" policy. Green Tree Middle School graduates, both academic and academic excellence, Mr. Wu are recommended to chapter Rongchu's enterprises around the world. This in that "graduation is unemployment" in the old society, both encourage students to study hard, but also to chapter Rongchu's career has increased the backbone of the educated. In addition, Zhang Rongchu also in Shanghai factory workers night school, in order to improve the cultural and technical level of workers.
At the same time, Zhang Rongchu also founded the Linghu Hospital, to Hangzhou and other places to hire physicians, training nurses, enrichment of medical equipment, and opened the "chapter three provinces Hall of Chinese medicine number". Hospitals and pharmacies to the poor are reduced or waived medical fees, but more importantly, improve the health of workers, greatly facilitating production.
Chang Rongchu invested millions of dollars in the construction of Linghu. But at that time, when people asked him how much money he brought to the construction of Linghu, he said, "I only brought a little bit of courage."
On the construction site, there are often bricks, wood, steel pipes and other mess. Chapter Rongchu see often take off his long coat without saying a word, bent over the scattered bits and pieces of material, bit by bit to pack up, gathered in a pile, some onlookers, but also busy picking up, chapter Rongchu smiled at them and said: "Waste is not just someone's banknotes, but the labor and time from a distance to transport the construction materials. If less material is wasted, Linghu can be built better." However, some poor people come to pick up some wood, broken bricks, nails and other things, by the management of the reprimand to drive away, but Zhang Rongchu stopped, "These things they need, let them take it, as long as we in the construction of a little less waste is good."
Linghu, after chapter Rongchu several years of hard construction, before the liberation, finally jumped into the city of Huzhou is very famous as a big economic town.
Three Shens of Zhudun
Shen Yinmo (1883-1971), formerly known as Junmo, Chinese character, No. Qiuming, a native of Zhudun Village, Linghu Town, Wuxing (now Huzhou), was a famous modern poet, calligrapher, educator, and advocate of vernacular poetry during the New Culture Movement.
He joined the school at the age of five, started practicing calligraphy at the age of eight, and was able to write fanfares for people at the age of fifteen. He studied at the Jiaxing Normal School, and in 1905, he went to Japan with his family historian Shen Shiyuan and his brother Shen Janshi to study abroad.
In 1912, he was appointed to teach at Peking University. One day during his tenure at Peking University, a friend joked with him: "You are an introverted person who is famous for being honest and often silent, in that case, why do you need to bring more than one mouthful?" Meaning that, Shen Junmo's name has "silent", and "Jun" word below a "mouth", unnamed redundant. Who knows that the speaker has no intention, but the listener has an intention. Shen Jun Mo was very agreeable to this. From then on, he changed his name to Shen Yinmo.
In the history of modern Chinese literature, Shen Yinmo is one of the poets who actively advocated vernacular poetry during the New Culture Movement and made a great impact. Among them, Moonlight Night was called the first prose poem that "possessed the virtues of new poetry". Shen Yinmo, along with Hu Shi and Liu Bannong, was the first to try new poetry in the New Youth, and is known as the "Big Three" of the New Culture Movement.
Shen Yimo (1885-1947), a native of Zhudun, Linghu Township, Wuxing (present-day Huzhou City), was a famous contemporary scholar.
He was the younger brother of Shen Yinmo. In 1905, he went to Japan to study with Yinmo, joined the League of Alliance, and studied phonetics with Zhang Taiyan in Tokyo. In 1912, he came to Beijing and became a professor at Tsinghua University and Fu Jen University, and served in the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University's National History Compilation Office. Shen was an active participant in the May Fourth New Culture Movement. At that time, Peking University, which was the base camp of the New Culture Movement, called him "Three Shens and Two Horses" together with his brother, Shen Shiyuan (the chief administrator), Shen Yinmo, and two other professors surnamed Ma. Between 1917 and 1919, he published more than a dozen new poems in the magazine New Youth, and was one of the early advocates of new poetry in China. His six manuscripts of new poems, which were later compiled into Liu Bannong's Early Vernacular Poetry Manuscripts, were photocopied and published, and have been handed down to the present day.
Republic of China 36 years (1947) on August 2, Shen Gan Shi died of cerebral hemorrhage, his writings include "the evolution of the ancient language in exegesis and its elucidation", "Duan Yan Zhai Miscellaneous Writings" and so on. Also compiled a wide rhyme acoustics, is China's most complete study of Chinese character morphology to date.
Shen Mai Shi (1891-1986) name Zu De, No. Kuan Zhai, to the word line, Wuxing (now Huzhou City) Linghu Town, Zhudun village, a famous contemporary painters and calligraphers.
Shen Maishi studied painting with his mother in his early years, then entered Shanghai Aurora University to study literature, and received a bachelor's degree, and then went to Japan in 1905 to study. After returning to Japan, he took up a number of positions. However, he was dissatisfied with the corruption of the government at that time and resigned in anger. Until the liberation to sell paintings to make a living, had cooperated with Shen Yinmo calligraphy and painting exhibition three times, in the calligraphy and painting industry has a good reputation.
Shen Maishi is loyal to the party and the people, the pursuit of calligraphy and painting art is also tireless. Shen Maishi painting from the family. His painting style pale and moist, the brushwork is majestic, to landscape flowers famous. Shen Maishi liked to travel to famous mountains and rivers in his life, and advocated the fusion of various schools of law, combined with the experience of life, to improve the meaning of his works. His works are a combination of poetry, calligraphy and painting, and are highly respected by the art world. He edited and printed Shen Maishi Collection of Paintings and Haishulou Collection of Paintings, and wrote Monte Wang in the Painter's Series. Also long at calligraphy, good at poetry.
During his lifetime, Mr. Shen Maishi also for his hometown of Linghu "Linghu Middle School", "Linghu Park", as well as under the aang "pine and snow theater", "Xi'an Middle School", "Xi'an Township Center Primary School", "Xi'an Home for the Elderly".
Yang Guang rising water
Yang Guang rising water was born in 1900, his ancestral home is Linghu, was the Chinese Consul General in the Philippines. His ancestors opened Yang Wanfeng Silk House in Linghu (the former site is still in Beiqiaobang Road).
Yang Guang rising was admitted to Tsinghua Higher Education Department (the predecessor of Tsinghua University) at the age of 16. He obtained his bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree in foreign countries, and was appointed as the Consul General of China in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, in the fall of 1938, in the midst of the crisis. During his term of office, he actively propagandized the anti-Japanese salvation of the country and collected donations from overseas Chinese to support the war effort. on December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War broke out, and Manila was in critical condition. In order to cover the local Chinese and consulate property, decisively rejected the allied forces to persuade them to withdraw from Manila arrangements, vowed: "as a diplomat, should be responsible for the protection of foreigners, not before the order, never AWOL." One side of the plan to deal with the situation, the other side of the evacuation of civilian personnel, there were a number of U.S. printed by the U.S. currency stranded in Manila port customs, in order not to be plundered by the Japanese, and resolutely put to the torch.
In the morning of January 2, 1942, Manila was occupied by the Japanese. On that day, the Japanese vice-consul in Manila, Jitaro Kihara, claimed that Japan does not recognize the Chongqing government, nor does it recognize the status of Yang Guang rising and other people as diplomats. Yang Guang rising was blackmailed to gather the overseas Chinese leaders in the Philippines, which Yang Guang rising refused on the spot. Yang and seven other diplomats were imprisoned by the Japanese army. Although they were tortured, they never gave in. The Japanese military police commander, Ota, severely rebuked Yang Guang rising. Commander Ota became infuriated, and on April 17, 1942, Yang Guang rising and other 8 diplomats were secretly shot in Yishan, the overseas Chinese in the Philippines. The enemy did not hit Yang Guang rising's vitals, but Yang Guang rising pointed his finger at his heart and died with a sense of righteousness. He was only 43 years old when he died.
In 1945, Yang Guang rising and other 8 diplomats were buried in Nanjing Yuhuatai. 1948, Filipino compatriots to commemorate the martyrs of Yang Guang rising, in the Philippines, the Chinese mountain of a monument engraved with the words "loyalty into the Zhi", and there is a named after him, "rising of light road" and rising of light elementary school. "On December 2, 1989, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the State Council issued a certificate of Yang Guang rising of revolutionary martyrs, and restored the martyrs' tomb and the martyrs' memorial hall in Nanjing Juhuatai Park. A new park was built in the town of Linghu, named as rising of water park.