A scholar once summed it up by saying: "Everyone knows Chu Shijian , but few people know Wu Shengming ."
Chu Shijian’s life experience is like a novel with ups and downs of the plot.
Just when you thought his misfortune was finally over and happiness blossomed, his unlucky days began again.
Under his operation, everything from sugar factories to Yuxi Tobacco Factory came back to life.
He once allowed him to run the current Hongtashan Group with great success.
But at the age of 67, his life fell into the darkest moment: he was arrested and imprisoned, and his daughter committed suicide.
htmlAfter the 174-year-old was released on medical parole, he took over the mountain and planted oranges. Many people commented: You are so old, why are you still messing around?
just made him famous, and the high-quality Chucheng was born.
This also allowed Chu Shijian to rise again and become a well-known entrepreneur.
Chu Shijian's rare experience showed his extraordinary reverse business .
However, he is not the only person who has had such an experience.
Wu Shengming is a rich woman whose experience is almost exactly the same as Chu Shijian’s.
Like Chu Shijian, Wu Shengming was once a rich man and went to jail, experienced her husband's cheating, her daughter's suicide, and was sentenced to death at the age of 53. When everyone thought that this would be the end of her life, Wu Shengming started a business again at the age of 74, using only Earned tens of millions of dollars in just 7 years.
Therefore, she is also called the female version of "Chu Shijian". Today we walk into Wu Shengming's legendary life and see how she survived in difficult situations time and time again.
01 The rough childhood of a businessman’s daughter
Wu Shengming’s original name was Wu Enna. She was born in 1933 in a Zhejiang merchant family.
As the daughter of a businessman, she should have been loved by thousands of people, but she had almost no childhood to speak of.
A romantic father spends all his time messing around with women.
Her mother, who could not bear the humiliation and was unwilling to endure it, chose to "treat the other person his own way" when Wu Shengming was 2 years old - she ran away with an officer and was never heard from again.
In order to cover up the scandal, her father held a funeral for his deceased wife and then went to Shanghai to be romantic.
Just like this, she was left to her grandparents because her father did not care for her and her mother did not love her.
Fortunately, her grandparents loved her very much, never restricted her behavior, and allowed her to liberate her nature.
She doesn't like to read or play with children of the same age. Instead, she likes to go to her own drugstore and rice store just to see how adults do business.
Perhaps the seeds of business were planted at this time. If
grows up like this, there is nothing wrong with it.
When she was 12 years old, her father came back with his stepmother.
As soon as the stepmother came, he kicked her away and arranged for her to marry the county magistrate's son and become a "child bride."
She never expected that her father, whom she had not seen for many years, would give her this "big gift" as soon as they met.
Fortunately, her grandfather cared about her and gave the county magistrate 30 acres of land and 3,000 yuan before agreeing to wait until she was 16 before getting married.
With his intelligence and talent, Wu Shengming had a decent life at the county magistrate's house.
Although her mother-in-law treats him well, Wu Shengming always feels that important matters in marriage should begin with love and loyalty.
Without the beginning of love, there is no emotion.
So three days before her wedding, she secretly bought a train ticket to Shanghai with the money given by her grandfather under the pretense of buying something.
After escaping from marriage, she thought that by escaping from the clutches of the devil, she could fully control her own destiny. Unfortunately, Wu Shengming underestimated the arrangement of fate.
In order to make a living, she changed her name without authorization from Wu Enna to Wu Shengming, lied about her age and claimed to be 18, and asked the local military for help.
A kind-hearted officer took her in and asked her to be a nanny and do some simple daily tasks.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. She had only worked for a year. As soon as she had established herself in Shanghai, the officer was about to leave Shanghai.
Wu Shengming had to find another way out.
02 Fighting mandarin ducks, moving to the shopping mall
There is no one in Shanghai. Just when Wu Shengming was worried about what to do next, he suddenly remembered that there was an uncle in Xi'an who was a soldier. Maybe it would be a wise move to join him.
With the vague impression and vague address, Wu Shengming inquired all the way, and she actually found this uncle.
At this time, his uncle was already a political commissar. He arranged life for Wu Shengming and also provided for her to go to school.
Wu Shengming, who went back to school, lived a carefree time.
She began to like reading and spent a lot of time immersed in books every day. When she was fascinated by reading, she would even hold the book while walking.
One day, while walking and holding a book, she became obsessed with reading and accidentally bumped into someone.
This collision sparked the spark of love.
The person she bumped into was named Yu Ping, a military doctor.
A young girl met an elegant military doctor. The moment their eyes touched, her heart beat faster and her face turned red to her ears.
bumped into each other in surprise, one blushed, the other brightened her eyes, they both quickly backed away, she left shyly, he followed her with his eyes, and love was quietly planted.
Although Yu Ping is 12 years older than her, the two get along surprisingly well.
However, his uncle looked down upon Yu Ping and intended to assign Wu Shengming to the guard Xiao Yang, so he transferred him to Jiangsu based on his position and staged a drama of beating mandarin ducks.
Wu Shengming, who was unwilling to make friends with Xiao Yang and was disobedient, was eventually kicked out of the military camp.
Lost his stable place to stay, Wu Shengming had no choice but to return to his hometown in Zhejiang from Xi'an.
She opened a grocery store, doing business while waiting for Yu Ping to come to her. Perhaps it was due to human interference, but she still couldn't wait for any news from Yu Ping.
Faced with the love he was looking forward to and the lover who couldn't wait for a long time, Wu Shengming turned grief into strength and devoted himself to his career.
However, after working in this business for several years, she found that there was not much room for development in grocery stores and was ready to find another way.
At this time, a regular customer revealed the news that Xining was undergoing construction.
It’s the right time to sleep on a pillow.
Wu Shengming, who is quick-thinking, thinks this is an opportunity (there will definitely be many outsiders going there to develop), so he might as well open a restaurant in the past and specialize in Shanghainese cuisine. He happened to have learned it back then, so it should be pretty good.
03 He made a mistake and went to jail, his family was ruined and his family was destroyed.
The opportunity cannot be missed, and it will never come back.
Wu Shengming seriously sold off all his properties in Zhejiang and turned around to start a business in Xining.
The hotel business is indeed as she expected and is booming.
It is worth mentioning that before her business became bigger and stronger, another love affair came quietly.
Not long after Wu Shengming returned to Zhejiang to do business, he met Zhang Siyuan, a young apprentice from the repair shop opposite.
She was 21 years old and Zhang Siyuan was 14 years old.
learned that Zhang Siyuan lost her father when she was young, and her experience was similar to her own. As a sister, she could not help but care about him.
Zhang Siyuan from Zhien Illustrated often came to her shop to help, and would secretly look at her when he was moving heavy objects.
Over time, Zhang Siyuan began to admire this sister who loved him so much, and on Wu Shengming's 28th birthday, he brought a brand new bicycle to propose to her.
But Wu Shengming couldn't accept the relationship between sister and brother, not to mention that Yu Ping still lived in her heart, so she rejected Zhang Siyuan.
Zhang Siyuan, whose proposal failed, has no intention of giving up.
He stayed by Wu Shengming's side to greet him, constantly created surprises, and proposed marriage again and again.
It is said that a strong woman is afraid of pestering her husband. Even Wu Shengming, a strong woman, could not withstand such a sweet attack.
Zhang Siyuan's persistence and affection finally moved Wu Shengming. On his 31st birthday, Wu Shengming agreed to Zhang Siyuan's proposal.
is happy in love, and the business is going smoothly.
After getting married, Wu Shengming did not stop, but led her husband to do it vigorously.
successfully opened restaurants in Xining and Zhengzhou successively. The business was booming and life was prosperous. The only downside to
is the kids.
In those years, she was busy with business and did not pay attention to her health. Wu Shengming had four miscarriages before finally giving birth to her daughter at the age of 42.
Facing his hard-won daughter, Wu Shengming wanted to give her the best of everything.
So she worked hard and made a lot of money. Taking advantage of the trend of reform and opening up, Wu Shengming bought many new gadgets from the south at low prices and sold them in the northern market at high prices.
went in and out like this. She became a middleman and earned a considerable income from the price difference.
The products purchased from the south range from small toys to large cloth and electrical appliances.
In just a few years, Wu Shengming made millions.
When people make more money, their ambitions become greater, and hidden dangers follow.
Because his business was growing, his personality was somewhat strong, and he didn't care enough about his family, so his husband cheated on her as a nanny behind her back.
She didn't make a fuss when she found out. As long as her husband didn't divorce her, she was willing to turn a blind eye or close one eye, just so that her daughter could have a complete family.
Now that her husband has an affair, she cannot take care of her family, so she plans to take full advantage of her career.
She was no longer satisfied with selling fabrics, so she opened a clothing factory. Process the fabric into fashionable suits and dresses, which can be sold at higher prices and generate greater profits.
And the things she sells as a middleman are becoming more and more high-end, including chemicals, building materials, and machinery.
At this time, her net worth was tens of millions, her business was almost all over the country, and her reputation spread throughout Shanghai.
The then mayor of Shanghai would shake hands with her cordially and make friends with her when he saw her. He once said with a smile: "I heard that you are the eldest sister of Shanghai Bund. You are very capable!"
As the saying goes, a big tree attracts the wind, and she floated.
She held a grand party for her daughter's tenth birthday and invited more than 500 teachers and students from the school.
Not only that, he also listened to his daughter and gave red envelopes worth 20 yuan each to classmates whose families were in bad circumstances.
This luxurious birthday party cost a total of 200,000 yuan.
You must know that at that time, there were only a handful of households with 10,000 yuan. A child spent 200,000 yuan on his 10th birthday, which is enough to show how arrogant Wu Shengming was.
Perhaps at this time, she had been targeted, or perhaps she did not understand the law, and in short she was hit with a gun.
In 1985, Wu Shengming smoothed the relationship, obtained approval to import high-end cars, and imported 48 cars in one go.
This transaction directly made her a profit of millions.
When she repeated her old tricks and smuggled high-end cloth worth 5 million, she was taken away by the police.
In the end, Wu Shengming was sentenced to death for speculation and suspended execution. This year, she was 53 years old.
Blessings never come in pairs, and misfortunes never come singly. Being in jail is just the starting point, not the end, of Wu Shengming's misfortune.
04 Double Whammy Nirvana Rebirth
After Wu Shengming was imprisoned, her husband, who had been having an affair for a long time, eloped with the nanny, and her daughter could not accept the fact that her mother was sentenced and eventually committed suicide.
At this point, Wu Shengming’s family was ruined.
But everything is far from over.
While in prison, Wu Shengming still had one belief: to reform well, strive for a reduced sentence, be released from prison as soon as possible, and raise his daughter.
Relying on this belief, she constantly comforted her daughter, asking her to take care of herself, and lied to her that she would be released from prison soon.
In prison, Wu Shengming actively reformed. He was always the first to wake up, the last to sleep, and the one who overfulfilled the task every day. Therefore, he has won the title of "Active Labor Element" many times.
Because of his good behavior in prison, Wu Shengming's suspended death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and later the sentence was commuted from life imprisonment to 18 years fixed-term imprisonment .
However, before she was released from prison, the sad news came that her daughter had committed suicide.
It turns out that her daughter somehow learned that she was sentenced to life imprisonment. Unable to accept this fact, she chose to commit suicide.
The day her daughter committed suicide happened to be her 16th birthday.
Upon learning that his daughter had committed suicide, Wu Shengming's faith collapsed and he refused to eat or drink. He once wanted to take his own life.
Just when she secretly hid the blade and prepared to commit suicide by cutting her wrists, the warden brought her her daughter's suicide note.
In her suicide note, her daughter hoped that Wu Shengming would live a good life. If possible, it would be best to build a nursing home to care for more elderly people while taking care of herself.
Looking at her daughter's suicide note, Wu Shengming gained the motivation to live again. She regarded building a nursing home as her daughter's wish. Her daughter's wish was not fulfilled, so she could not fall.
So she continued to actively transform.
When I miss my daughter, I write down stories about my daughter. These stories were eventually compiled into a book, "Prison Road."
In 2003, 70-year-old Wu Shengming was finally released from prison.
What can she do when she is released from prison in her seventies and has nothing left?
The relevant departments in Zhengzhou City considered her performance in prison and her actual situation, and arranged for her a small apartment of 18 square meters and a job cleaning public toilets.
The richest woman who was once all-powerful is now reduced to a toilet sweeper. The gap is so huge that ordinary people cannot bear it.
But Wu Shengming accepted it calmly, and was also thinking about how to do a good job in this job, earn more money, and prepare to fulfill his daughter's last wish.
A year later, Wu Shengming's work was recognized and he was named "the best cleaner in Zhengzhou City".
Now her legendary experience was exposed and she became an internet celebrity.
People were moved by her persistence in fulfilling her daughter's wish and expressed their intention to donate money to her, but some people also extended black hands to her.
A man named Zhang Jingqiang defrauded her of 970,000 yuan under the pretense of partnering with her to open a vineyard, half of which she borrowed.
Perhaps she was afraid that she would not have enough time, and was anxious to fulfill her daughter's wish. She suddenly said this.
It is natural to pay back debts. Fortunately, the land we acquired is still there, so we can concentrate on growing grapes to pay off debts.
In this way, 74-year-old Wu Shengming started his own business again.
While planting vineyards, she received poverty alleviation funds from the World Federation of Women. With this money, she raised chickens in the vineyard.
After doing better and better, she expanded production, expanded the vineyard, and increased the number of chickens.
Later, a farm was built to provide one-stop service for eating, picking, and playing.
She even established a technology development company and an agricultural company.
finally earned tens of millions of dollars in seven years under her reasonable management.
htmlWhen she was 181 years old, she finally had enough funds to build a nursing home.
Wu Shengming, who was alone, put all his energy into fulfilling his daughter's wish.
Now 89 years old, she has built more than 30 free nursing homes across the country.
In addition, she also established a charity foundation to help more elderly people and people in need in compliance with her daughter's last wish.
05 Conclusion
is difficult to pass, but passed.
Relying on her business skills, Wu Shengming dominated the business world and once became the richest woman in Shanghai.
However, he fell heavily at the top and was imprisoned. His family was ruined and his life was ruined.
Especially the only daughter committed suicide. She gave birth to a white-haired woman and a black-haired woman. No one told her about her grief. How can there be a word of bitterness?
If he hadn't come all the way and developed a high adversity quotient, Wu Shengming would have been unable to withstand the blow and would have been over it.
There is no hurdle in life that cannot be passed. For her, many setbacks have become stepping stones.
I couldn’t help but think of the news I saw some time ago. A 52-year-old aunt told reporters in a square in Yubei District:
My 25-year-old daughter who graduated from college changed three jobs in one year, and each of them was It was her boss who said something to her, such as "I feel like your progress is very slow" and "Why can't you do this well?", etc., so she quit her job.
There is also a program on " Love Defense " that specializes in mediating the affairs of a newlywed couple.
The wife complained that her husband was not clean, and the husband couldn't stand it, so he smashed things, including his computer, mobile phone, and valuables. In the end, they quarreled and wanted a divorce.
The reason for the above people and things is simply that the parties have no outstanding advantages and cannot accept their own shortcomings.
So I felt sorry for myself, and the worse I got in the workplace, the worse I got in life.
If they can be like Wu Shengming and Chu Shijian, who have high adversity quotient, can withstand blows, are not afraid of pressure, and are not afraid of setbacks, they will probably not do too badly in this life.
Text: Ah Qi
