Among them, the Song family can be said to be the first of the four families. It is said that the Song family was originally the Song sisters. When the two sisters were in power, the development of the Song family showed a thriving trend, which can be said to be a storm in Suzhou. The Song family is still very influential and even dominant in Suzhou.
In addition to the Song family, followed by the Shen family, there is also the surname Peng, who is said to be very famous in ancient times, such as the imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty, but later for some reasons, there was a situation of falling in the middle.
The richest man in ancient Suzhou
Hundreds of years ago, there was a noble family in Suzhou, Jiangsu. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, wars broke out in various places and people were displaced. People from the Bayesian family in Jinhua, Zhejiang moved to Suzhou. The first person who moved his family to Wu was Belantang, who used to be a herbalist and a quack doctor in Jinhua.
After moving to Suzhou, he still sells herbs for a living. After the hard work of several generations of Bei family, the family business has improved by the generation of the sixth descendant, Beiqian Valley. By the generation of his son Bei Muting, under the management of the family business of Bei Muting, the Bei family had made rapid progress and became one of the four richest people in Suzhou.
During the Qianlong period, there was a saying in Suzhou that "Nanhao was rich", which meant that the four richest people in the city all lived in Nanhao Street. The four richest people mentioned by people refer to the four families of Bei, Bi, Mao and Ge.
Since then, the position of the Bayesian family in Suzhou has increased day by day, becoming a famous local aristocrat. The 13th Runsheng and Beibei were called "the king of pigments" and "financial tycoons" respectively. They spent huge sums of money to restore a new lion forest for the whole people to enjoy.