In the traditional Chinese culture that advocates mediocrity and low-profile, why does Shi Chong dare to show off his wealth with impunity?

Why did Shi Chong dare to flaunt his wealth with impunity in the traditional Chinese culture that advocates mediocrity and low profile?

Talking about Shi Chong this person, or quite a legend, as the only one in history who dared to fight with the emperor, he was actually by means of robbery blatant accumulation of unlawful interests, the ridiculous ultimately do not give up a beauty of the end of the tribe, it is true that "heavenly justice is not bad" ah!

Shih Chong's despicable way of getting rich

Shih Chong was born in a great man, his father Shih Bao is the founding father of the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is recorded that Shi Chong was very smart since he was a child, so when his rich merchant father Shi Chong divided his property, he didn't give Shi Chong anything. Because he was confident that Shi Chong would become a tycoon in the future, he simply looked down on his property. But to be honest, the old man really said, naturally, this is also the old man in the Yuwen Middle School influence, relying on his father's relationship, coupled with his own self-righteousness, Shi Chong quickly gained military status, and then use their real identity, quickly into the first bucket of gold in life, how to come?

That is to say, he robbed merchants with impunity, thus quickly accumulating a shocking wealth. To ask why he was able to gain wealth through such robberies, there is only one reason, and that is that he lived his daily life as a high-ranking official in the Han Dynasty, where politics and metallurgy were gray, and they were the king's law.

After obtaining the first bucket of gold on the road of life, Shi Chong did not rush to indulge. Instead, he took it to invest in projects. What did he do? Of course, he bribed the top senior officials, so Shi Chong served in turn as the governor of Xuzhou, Weiweiwei and other positions. Later, he attached himself to the eunuch Jia Jing and came to the imperial capital Luoyang as an official.

Rampant showing off

As the saying goes, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is not crooked, and the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, Sima Yan, was himself an extravagant man. Though he did some things in his early days, in his middle and late years, his level of weakness and incompetence was no less than that of all the fallen kings in history. So someone like Shi Chong came out. When Shi Chong became an official in Luoyang, he enjoyed luxury while blatantly plundering wealth. He built an ultra-luxurious official residence in Luoyang and surrounded himself with thousands of beautiful concubines, each of whom wore splendid and overwhelming jewelry.

In other words, once Emperor Wu of Jin went to Shi Chong's house, and in order to better display the emperor's true identity, he deliberately wore clothes made of fire-raccoon cloth from foreign tribute, wanting to show off in front of Shi Chong. I didn't expect Shi Chong didn't give any face. He deliberately wore his usual clothes, but assigned more than 50 servants around him to come out to greet Emperor Jin Wu in dress pants made of fire raccoon shirt, which made Emperor Jin Wu lose face.

In other words, there was also a rich merchant named Wang Kai in Luoyang at that time. He was the maternal uncle of Jin Wu Emperor Sima Yan. He usually liked to show off his wealth. Therefore, they were caught. It is important to know that Wang Kai was behind the fight for wealth with Shi Chong, but he had the personal support of Emperor Wu of Jin. It is known that even so, Wang Kai often lost.

On one occasion, Emperor Wu of Jin took out a coral tree from his vault, which was a tribute from the north of Serbia, and gave it to Wang Kai to fight with Shi Chong for wealth. The tree was two feet long, brightly colored and very valuable. Wang Kai Yang Yang was very happy, think success, special banquet Shi Chong and a large number of high-ranking officials to go home to appreciate, unexpectedly Shi Chong took a handful of iron, when our face smashed the coral tree!

After that, Shi Chong ordered people to move a bunch of coral trees from home, of which there are five or six coral trees three or four feet high, exquisite quality. Then he said to Wang Kai: You can choose one at will, and this is what I paid for. Wang Kai was so anxious that he was speechless.

Murdered for plotting rebellion

After the outbreak of the Eight Kings' Rebellion, King Sima Lun of Zhao came to power. After Shi Chong's backstage management Jia, Jia Jing and others were killed and Shi Chong was removed from his post. There is no past power, only unlimited wealth. At that time, Shi Chong without power was equivalent to a fat sheep being slaughtered. At that time, Sima Lun's favorite minister Sun Xiu saw Shi Chong's favorite concubine Lv Zhu and wanted to take it, but he didn't know that Shi Chong was decisively unwilling to do so. Naturally, Shi Chong was also worried about King Zhao's camp and annoyed his favorites, so he approached Pan An to discuss urging the King of Ru Nan, Sima Yun, to rebel. Only for the matter to come to light quickly and be arrested by Sun Xiu's soldiers, then repulsed and razed to three clans.

I heard that Shi Chong was already drinking and having fun with his beauty queen, Green Pearl, when he was being hunted down at that time. After learning of the bad news, he said to Lvzhu: I am punished because of you. Lvzhu cried and said: I will die before the king, not let the outlaws succeed! No wonder Shi Chong is addicted to green beads, really a martyr.