Yuan Jindao is the 20th generation grandson of Yuan Shimeng. He has a wife and two concubines, wife Mu, concubine Fu and concubine Yang, and has eight children.
As Yuan Shimeng's "overall system", Yuan Jindao is "behind the door".
There are many local "celebrities" in Yuan Shimeng's descendants, including magistrate, general, inspector, magistrate, juren and hereditary thousand households, leaving many traces in local chronicles and folklore.
Yuan Jindao, Yuan's "celebrity", should be the biggest "celebrity".
Yuan Jindao studied poetry hard since childhood. As a teenager, he dreamed of "being carefree and being a good man" and shouldered the "heavy responsibility" of "revitalizing his family business" and "honoring his ancestors". When I was young, I began to hate "the test of fame and fortune" and "changing my way". I am determined to set up an industry, revitalize the local economy, "become a business by longitude and latitude" and benefit my hometown. Yuan Jindao did two great things in his life, called "Tao".
The first major event: Yuan Jindao started with the simplest folk goods, and within a few years, it formed large-scale production in the local area. In the following decades, Yuan Jindao spared no effort to rapidly expand his Yuan family business. We have established copper factory, money factory, paper factory, iron factory, pot factory, silverware factory, indigo factory, incense candle factory, abacus factory, joint-stock factory, casserole factory, bamboo stick factory, mushroom factory, chopsticks factory, bowl factory, shoulder pole factory and loquat hoe factory by using the mineral resources of Simian Mountain in Jiangjin, Sichuan. * * * There are 48 workshops. Yuan's products were widely used by the people at that time, which not only greatly met the needs of local people's life and production, but also were sold as far away as southern Sichuan, Yuzhong and even Yunnan, as far as the government, counties and townships.
Sanchahe, Yuan Jindao's hometown, is known as nine ditches and eighteen forks, surrounded by mountains, with deep valleys and rugged roads. Although the natural conditions are superior and the natural resources are abundant, the terrain is blocked and there are many obstacles. It is conceivable that it is difficult to build so many industrial workshops and form a certain product production scale and product category in the deep ditch and dangerous flow.
The second major event: Yuan Jindao "failed to raise money, but spent a lot of money", raised funds by himself, hired craftsmen to cut cliffs, cut obstacles and remove dangers, and carried out large-scale road construction projects. * * * The nearly 100-mile-wide stone road paved by Machi for the People's Bank of China was dug up, which basically became the channel at the junction of Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou, making Sancha River a distribution center for product transportation and commodity exchange.
Northern Guizhou has been called "solitary land" since ancient times. "It's not sunny for three days, and the ground is not three feet flat." The endless mountains block the traffic to the outside world and are poor because of occlusion. It is also conceivable that the difficulty of paving the road is one step, three shakes, and one step, three slips, on the rugged and muddy road with great slope.
In northern Guizhou, where modern handicraft industry was almost zero and commodity circulation was extremely stagnant, Yuan Jindao laid the foundation for the development of modern capitalist national industry and commodity circulation in this area with his amazing perseverance and superhuman courage and his own financial investment.
Therefore, Yuan Jindao was well-deserved called "the first person in Guizhou industry" by later generations.
In Yuan Jindao's life, there were two other great events called "Paradox".
One is to make money privately. In order to meet the needs of expanding production and circulation, Yuan Jindao melted copper and coins in a very secret place. Although he gained capital and strength, he ensured and expanded production and circulation at that time. However, private money was cut according to law, and the court sent an imperial envoy named Xue to ask, and Yuan Jindao met him frankly. After he was sent to Beijing, he was miraculously pardoned by Emperor Jiaqing himself and was named "Zheng".
The second is to build a shrine. In his untimely years, Yuan Jindao became famous for his outstanding achievements. His descendants handed him down from generation to generation, and he is immortal. He chiseled stones and built a shrine on a cliff more than 100 meters high, which was called "Looking at Sendai". This grotto, which is listed as a provincial key cultural relic protection unit by Guizhou Provincial People's Government, is a three-Buddhist temple. The West Cave is a shrine for Yuan Jindao and his wife and concubines.
Yuan Jindao's "the integration of temples and shrines and the worship of human beings and gods" is extremely rare in the history of China. Yuan Jindao brewed "Yuan's Home Brewing", which is recorded in local chronicles, with few folklore.
Because, the brewing of "Yuan's home brew" and its subsequent inheritance and storage are almost all carried out in a "secret" state.
The reason is that there are at least three popular versions, and the most credible version is as follows:
Yuan Jindao has never touched alcohol in his life, and he is very jealous of alcohol. His family and all the workshop guys, all drunkards, were severely criticized, which far exceeded the punishment for other "mistakes".
Due to an accidental and specific reason, Yuan Jindao, a middle-aged man, began to make his own wine strangely, and with his character of "doing things to the extreme" and the guidance of experts around him, after more than ten years, he brewed "Yuan's home brew" with high taste and unique quality.
Yuan Jindao didn't want outsiders to know that he was making wine, so he built Yuan Jia Shao Fang in a cave that most people didn't expect at that time. After drinking the wine, it is strictly forbidden for "Yuan Family Brewing" to be consumed only by family members and workshop staff, and it is not allowed to be exported. When Yuan Jindao died, he left a legacy to future generations: one person in each generation must inherit Yuan's brewing technology and make a cellar, but he must hide in a cave and not be known to others.
As a result, "Yuan's Home Brewing" has been brewed and stored for more than 200 years, but few people know it.
History has dusted off almost all the industrial products used by Yuan Jindao in those years, and only "Yuan Family Brewing" has been winding forward in the gap between two centuries. ...
As for how Yuan Jindao found a natural cave where he could brew and store liquor, there is no textual research. However, Yuan Jindao's "secret brewing" has inadvertently achieved an unprecedented "masterpiece" in the history of China liquor brewing, and Yuan Jindao himself has also been given a belated title: "the first person to brew liquor in China".