A lean camel is bigger than a horse. These old people from the previous dynasty still have rich family assets.

This family fortune is enough for them to live a good life, and even if they don't work, they have money to live on.

Three years as a clean magistrate, ten thousand silver coins.

It can be seen how much money officials make. Even honest officials are like this, let alone corrupt officials.

Heshen, a corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, embezzled more money than the national treasury.

He is truly wealthy enough to rival a country.

As long as there is an official in one of these people's families, the money he earns is enough for the family to live on for a lifetime.

If there was a little extra income, the family would be able to spend it all in three lifetimes.

Why do so many people want to become officials and study hard for decades?

This is the only way for you to stand out, gain fame, and bring honor to your family.

You can also make a profit and earn money.

If officials are not greedy, what are they doing as officials?

There are many ways to force you to be greedy. Others do this. If you don’t do this, others are afraid that you will report them, and they will find ways to kill you.

For your own safety, you have no choice but to go along with them.

Also, sugar-coated bullets are really hard to refuse.

The sugar-coated bullets are really delicious.

You refused once, refused twice, can you refuse three times?

There will always be a time when you can't hold on anymore. We are all ordinary people and cannot do what saints do.

Some are greedy from top to bottom, some are greedy a lot, and some are greedy less.

The law does not punish everyone. You can't punish everyone from top to bottom.

These are all officials in the court. Although those who are not officials have certain family assets, they are not as good as these people.

They are all descendants of the Eight Banners, and some of those with rich family backgrounds rely on their ancestral property.

Some people who have no family background have to think of other ways. They change their appearance and even their surnames.

They live the same life as ordinary people, go to work when they should, and work when they should, and they have abandoned their previous lives.

No longer a royal aristocrat, he became an ordinary person.

Becoming an ordinary person and living an ordinary life is also a new beginning for them.

There are now more than 200,000 Eight Banners descendants, and many of them have directly become workers.

Not every descendant of the Eight Banners has enough money. Although they are all descendants of the Eight Banners, there is still a gap between them and real aristocrats.

Their lives are the same as those of ordinary people, except that they have the identity of Eight Banners disciples, and everything else is the same as ordinary people.

With so many people, more than 200,000, it is impossible for every one of them to be a royal aristocrat, and there are not so many positions.

After the liberation of New China, these people lost their final identities and they were all Manchus.

These people find jobs and earn money on their own, and no one cares about them.

Their lives were not easy in the past. They were not aristocrats and had no way to make money. The people others wanted to please were those with status.

They belong to the lower class and no one cares about them.

Their income is not as good as that of an eunuch, who has the opportunity to gain benefits in the palace.

Especially the rewards from some imperial concubines, one can also gain a lot of benefits.

If they exchange these things for money, it would be enough for them to live for a long time.

What's more, it was very chaotic at the end, and we were able to salvage some things from the palace because others had already robbed the entire palace.

From the emperor and empress to the eunuchs and palace maids, everyone moved their things away.

Everything in the palace is good stuff, collected over the years by various dynasties, and any one of them is a priceless treasure.

Any two of these things would be enough to last you a long time.

These old people from the previous dynasty, those with family assets still live their previous lives, while those without family assets can only work to earn money.

Some people still think about their previous life, but they don’t have as much assets and will soon be out of money.

However, their identities as members of the previous dynasty prevented them from living an ordinary life like others.

These people still fantasize about their previous lives, and the final outcomes are not very good.

If they live frugally, they can still live their whole lives, but they still have old lifestyle habits and cannot change them at all.

What's more, many people have the habit of smoking opium.

These opium poisons are so deep that you can't change them just because you want to.

Even if you have some assets, you can't withstand their turmoil.

The family fortune was soon squandered, they had no money left to buy opium, and their health was also damaged.

They can't stand any more trouble and can't even live a peaceful life.

Moreover, these people are not welcome at all.

All the bad things I did in the past were my own fault.

No one sympathizes with them, these people are useless.

These people all have a certain foundation. They cannot afford to smoke opium without money. At least their lives were good before.

Zhang Weiguo had always wanted to find a few descendants of the previous dynasty who did not know how to work at all, and in order to make a living, they could only sell their previous property.

Those who have small yellow croaker sell small yellow croaker, and those who have large yellow croaker sell large yellow croaker.

If you don’t have these, sell antiques.

Anyway, as long as it is something that can be sold for money, they all want to sell it for money.

Moreover, they have requirements for life. They don’t want to live an ordinary life at all. They still want the luxurious life they had in the past.

All I want is to eat delicious food and eat delicious food every day. If you want such a life, you need money.

They all went to the pigeon market and bought delicious fish and meat at high prices.

In order to maintain their previous life, they could only sell antiques.

What Zhang Weiguo was interested in were their antiques. It would be better to sell them to Zhang Weiguo than to sell them to others.

Zhang Weiguo didn't know when they would go to the pigeon market. If they wanted to sell something, they would mostly go to the pigeon market.

The black market is too chaotic, and they are worried about being robbed when they go to sell things on the black market.

The black market is not a place where you can be judged. No matter who you are, it doesn't matter who you are.

It mainly depends on whether it benefits you or not, and they will grab it if they say so.

Don't worry about anything else.

These people used to have a group of subordinates, and everything was done by others. Now they do it themselves, and many problems have arisen.

They don’t dare to hire subordinates now. Even if they have money, the policy does not allow it.

Not to mention these people, even the big capitalists would not dare to do this.

These big capitalists don’t feel anything now, but when the liquidation comes in two years, none of them will be able to escape.

The more carefree your life was before, the more miserable your life became afterwards.

Few of these people survived.

Even for a capitalist like Lou Bancheng, if he had not had strong connections, received the news in advance, and donated all his property, his end would not have been good.

Although the ending was relatively good, the family was forced to leave their hometown. Who would be willing to do this unless it was the very end?