Kang Youwei, who was in exile, lived a life of escape. Why can he stay in a luxury hotel and travel around the world?

After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, Emperor Guangxu was placed under house arrest by the powerful Empress Dowager Cixi, Kang Youwei's younger brother Kang Renguang was killed, and the "Six Gentlemen of the Reform Movement of 1898" headed by Tan Sitong was taken to the execution ground. However, Kang Youwei fled overseas in the case of genocide by the Qing government.

Kang Youwei, who was in exile, lived a life of escape. Although he was a fugitive, Kang Youwei's life was full of flavor during his 16 years on the run. During these sixteen years, he lived a very interesting life, not only traveling between France, Britain, Germany and other western countries, but also visiting 42 countries.

In the process of traveling around the world, Kang Youwei also lived in luxury houses around the world, eating delicacies and eating big meals, and his life was much more leisurely than that in China. In addition, he is also keen on shopping spree. He not only bought ordinary luxuries, but also bought houses and land, concubines and married six wives.

It stands to reason that Kang Youwei is a fugitive wanted by the Qing government. Without a job, he naturally has no economic income. Why can he live a noble and luxurious life? There are three reasons:

? 1. Kang Youwei is good at playing the signboard of Emperor Guangxu? Part of Kang Youwei's great wealth is to package himself under the signboard of Emperor Guangxu. It can be said that Kang Youwei is a successful marketing and packaging master.

For example, in 1899, Kang Youwei came to Canada from Japan and was later accepted by overseas Chinese working in Canada. At that time, China people did not understand the domestic politics of the Qing Dynasty, and thought that Kang Youwei was a man with lofty ideals who helped Guangxu reform. Kang Youwei also told the Chinese that he went abroad to inspect the politics of western countries.

In this way, in a few days, Kang Youwei's hotel was crowded with people from China, and then he successfully joined the local Chinese organization.

? Kang Youwei also saw that workers working abroad were discriminated against and bullied by foreigners, and he was very wronged. Therefore, Kang Youwei fully incited the national plot of the expatriates, made a speech to the Chinese people by "national heroes" and establishing a strong government to protect the expatriates, and lobbied everyone to donate money to protect Emperor Guangxu and establish a new government to protect the expatriates.

? Moreover, in his speech to Chinese in Canada, Kang Youwei also embellished the political situation in the late Qing Dynasty. For example, officials oppress the people and make them miserable. Then, it was publicized that Emperor Guangxu was a good emperor who was diligent, loved the people and was determined to reform. Unfortunately, it was abolished by Empress Dowager Cixi, an old witch, which made the life of Emperor Guangxu very difficult. He was placed under house arrest by the old witch of Empress Dowager Cixi, and his beloved concubine was killed by Empress Dowager Cixi.

I have to say that Kang Youwei's speaking ability is at its peak, because he has read a lot of poetry books since ancient times, and he has successfully grasped the psychology of the people in China. When talking about the tragic life of Emperor Guangxu, Kang Youwei was also in tears, and the audience was all moved. In the end, he also shouted:

"Five million people abroad are one person, and forty million people at home are one person. Which one can dominate it? " And shouted "May Qixin work hard to save China?"

Translated into modern vernacular, it is to gather the strength of overseas Chinese into a whole and unite, so that we will not be bullied and save the Chinese emperor together!

? In this way, the overseas Chinese were excited by Kang Youwei's speech, and were willing to give generously to help save Dihua and China.

? Moreover, Kang Youwei is also good at forging the imperial edict of Emperor Guangxu, as well as photos of PS himself and Emperor Guangxu, and packaging himself as a great hero to save the country and the people. It is such an image of a great hero that he can market himself, mobilize overseas Chinese to donate money and make big money for himself.

? After that, Kang Youwei continued to give lectures in European countries, so that all China people knew Kang Youwei, the pioneer of the Qing Dynasty reform. In his speech, Kang Youwei is also good at using "moral kidnapping" to ask whether overseas Chinese listeners are from China all day. Are you willing to help China revive?

? In this way, many overseas Chinese listeners don't want to be traitors, so they will donate money to save face, so the money flows into Kang Youwei's pocket.

Second, Kang Youwei, who is smart enough to make money by setting up a royalist society, also knows that making money by telling stories alone is not a long-term way. It is necessary to set up an organization to let his heroic story of saving the country and the people continue to be interpreted. So he set up a royalist society to make money for himself in the name of protecting Emperor Guangxu.

? So, on July 20th, 1899, Kang Youwei established a royalist society in Canada. The royalist society aims to save the emperor, and the yellow race in China has been reformed. The admission fee for joining this royalist society is $2 per person. Later, in just over a month, Kang Youwei bewitched more than one million people to join the royalist society. ?

? Later, Kang Youwei asked himself to organize members to set up branches in the United States, Mexico, South America, Australia and other places, and then charged membership fees, and at the same time called on Chinese to raise money.

? At its peak, Kang Youwei's royalist society, like the MLM organization, had more than 100 branches all over the world, and its membership reached one million at its peak, with a membership fee of two yuan per member. In this way, Kang Youwei has millions of income, not including donations.

After that, Kang Youwei traveled around the world through the branches of the royalist society, and then all the funds were deducted from the financial resources of the royalist society. When Kang Youwei traveled around the world, he stayed in luxury hotels and tasted local food, and his life was very comfortable.

Third, Kang Youwei is good at making money by investing? Kang Youwei also has a business mind, spending all the money of the royalist society on investing in Mexican real estate, American real estate and even financial industry. In this way, Kang Youwei ignored his status as a fugitive of the Qing government and made money for himself under the signboard of Emperor Guangxu, earning a lot of money! Even paid for a beautiful island in Europe and Sweden and built a villa on that island, which was called "Kang Youwei" by Chinese people.

It can be seen that Kang Youwei successfully packaged and marketed himself under the signboard of Emperor Guangxu and lived a luxurious life overseas.