6f646李嘉无A distinguished family, his grandfather was a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, and his father was just the principal of an elementary school. His family background can only be said to be ordinary, and he is a true grassroots man.
A grassroots man has been able to occupy the position of the richest man in Hong Kong for 40 years, which shows that this man is definitely not in the pool.
In 1940, Li Ka-shing and his family went to Hong Kong, when he was only 12 years old.
The reason why they had to leave their homes is because Japan bombed Chaozhou, Li Ka-shing’s home was destroyed, and Li’s father lost his income. In desperation, his father had no choice but to smash his wife’s youngsters and staggered all the way to Hong Kong. , Went to Zhuang Jing'an.
Zhuang Jing'an is the younger brother of Li Ka-shing’s mother, Zhuang Biqin, and Li Ka-shing’s uncle.
He is the chairman of Hong Kong Zhongnan Watch Company. Prior to this, Hong Kong did not have a watch industry. Zhuang Jing'an can be said to be the originator of Hong Kong's watch, and later became the famous watch king in Southeast Asia.
Childhood sweethearts are most likely to give birth to love.
Zhuang Jingan’s palm pearl, Zhuang Yueming, was only 8 years old when she met Li Ka-shing, and she was still a lively, bright and kind-hearted daughter.
She doesn’t dislike the poor and loves the rich. On the contrary, she likes Li Ka-shing’s elegant atmosphere. She listened to him recite many ancient poems and listened to the stories in "A Dream of Red Mansions". He asked her to teach herself Cantonese and tuition. English, the two children get closer and closer.
Back then, Zhuang Jingan borrowed a small house for the Li family to live in, and occasionally came to visit them, but the help was limited to this. Li's father thought that his wife and brother would give him a job and give him a bite of food. Unexpectedly, Zhuang Jing'an didn't say a word, after all, favors belong to favors and business belongs to business.
For this reason, Li's father was dissatisfied, but he had the nobility of a literati. Even if he was looking for a job, he didn't ask for help from Zhuang Jingan. It should be a very difficult time. Therefore, his father only came to Hong Kong for just three years, and he became tired and ill. He had a high fever again and again and he had to insist on going to work. Finally, he died of illness in 1943, and the pillar of the Li family fell.
We don’t know if Li Ka-shing ever blamed this uncle for this. Maybe he can’t take care of it and it’s too late to blame, because survival is his first priority.
Li Ka-shing has a history, and few people should know it. Everyone said that after his father died, Li Ka-shing went to work in his uncle's company.
Actually, like Li's father, Li Ka-shing is also quite stubborn.
He dropped out of school before he was 15 years old, and it is difficult to find a good job in Hong Kong. His mother hoped to take him to ask for help from his uncle, but Li Ka-shing felt that Zhuang Jingan knew that the Li family was so difficult, and did not even mention it, which meant that they were not willing to help at all, so he insisted on finding a job by himself, the first job. It is to go to the teahouse to be a running hall.
A person with strong ability, even if it is just a running hall, is better than others. Li Ka-shing is the strong man. The teahouse is a place where three teachers and nine students gather. While working diligently, he learns the skills of observing words and acting on the basis of ideas. He also listened to many businessmen’s business talks.
In 1944, Li Ka-shing only worked in the teahouse for a year before he was promoted to the first classmate. The boss and the guests liked him, but he was soberly aware that this job had achieved the "ceiling" and wanted to have other To do this, we must find another way.
Unlike Li's father, Li Ka-shing can bend and stretch.
He took the initiative to propose to Zhuang Jing'an that he wanted to go to his company to be an apprenticeship in timepieces, just to master a technique and make a living. Perhaps Zhuang Jingan felt a little guilty when seeing his sister's life, so he agreed to Li Ka-shing's request, but Zhuang Jingan did not let anyone know that Li Ka-shing was his nephew.
Li Ka-shing canA miscellaneous apprentice will become the richest Chinese in the future. This is probably something Zhuang Jingan hadn't predicted.
Of course, there is one more thing that Zhuang Jingan did not predict. It was during this period that his daughter Zhuang Yueming gradually fell in love with Li Ka-shing and developed to the point where he did not marry.
In 1947, Zhuang Jing'an knew what his 15-year-old daughter wanted, and was furious and resolutely opposed, including Li Ka-shing’s mother who also disagreed, because the two families are really far apart and they are close relatives. Seriously, this can be considered incest.
Ordinary families can't accept it, let alone the high-class family that values fame and face. If it spread out, it was a family scandal.
Although Hong Kong’s economy recovered at that time, Zhuang Jingan saw Li Ka-shing’s talent and ability and decided to reuse him when opening a new factory, but because his uncle resolutely opposed him and his cousin, Li Ka-shing simply believed that it was just because he was poor. So he decided to leave Zhongnan Watch Company and work as a salesman in a hardware factory.
This stubborn and strong guy must prove to his uncle: He is worthy of Zhuang Yueming.
I have to say that Li Ka-shing can be called a sales prodigy, and his business talent is so explosive that he can always leave his peers far behind. Later, when Li Ka-shing was promoting hardware products, he found that plastic products were likely to gradually replace them, so he decided to quit and went to a plastic factory as a salesperson.
It is said that there is a 7-fold gap between his sales performance and the second-ranked salesperson. In just one year, the boss promoted Li Ka-shing to become the general manager of the company.
At that time, Li Ka-shing was only 20 years old. It is no wonder that Zhuang Yueming likes this cousin so much. He is indeed young and promising.
From this point of view, Li Ka-shing is more X than the gambling king, Hongshen Ho. He has no family endorsement, and no connections with a wealthy father-in-law. He really relies on his bare hands to fight the world.
However, Zhuang Jing'an still firmly opposes her daughter's relationship.
In 1950, Li Ka-shing started his own business and opened a plastic factory. The name of the factory is "Yangtze River", which means "the Yangtze River does not choose the small stream, so it can be vast."
There are different opinions about Li Ka-shing's venture capital.
The most widely circulated version is that Li Ka-shing himself has 7,000 yuan in savings, and Zhuang Jing'an borrowed 40,000 yuan from him. Later, Li Ka-shing personally denied this statement. He said that his uncle did not provide money to help him, but he borrowed it from other relatives and friends.
The editor thinks Li Ka-shing's denial is not very convincing. The Li family has no relatives in Hong Kong, but Zhuang Jing'an is a wealthy relative. If it weren't for the entrepreneurial fund from Zhuang Jing'an, who would give him so much money?
However, the editor can also understand why Li Ka-shing refused to admit that his uncle paid to help him, all for his own reputation:
- The rich generation loves to emphasize that they are self-made;
- In the patriarchal context, the family history of men can be related to anyone, but not to the wife's family.
Of course, Zhuang Jingan gave the money not only because Li Ka-shing was his nephew, but also because of his daughter Zhuang Yueming. He didn't want the relationship with his daughter to be too stale, so he supported Li Ka-shing while introducing other young talents to his daughter.
However, the father underestimated his daughter's determination.
During Li Ka-shing's establishment of the factory, Zhuang Yueming was studying at the University of Hong Kong. The two of them are still you and me. The cousin has always encouraged and supported the cousin, and the cousin has also worked hard to prove that he is worthy of the cousin.
Zhuang Yueming, who is usually gentle and docile, can make trouble to the point of breaking off relations with his family and marrying Li Ka-shing. It’s really hard to imagine how much Zhuang Yueming paid for this relationship. I only know that many modern wealthy families have countless ways to prevent their children from getting married, such as sending abroad to study, and economic sanctions. 99.99% will succeed.
The remaining 0.01% failure case is probably Zhuang Jing'an.
After graduating from the University of Hong Kong, Zhuang Yueming is already in her twenties. At that time, she was definitely a late-married old leftover woman. Her father introduced her to countless wealthy young masters. She couldn't even look down on them. Only Li Ka-shing was pretending to be full. Zhuang Jingan couldn't help but sent her to Meiji University in Japan to continue her studies. I hope that the two young people will not see each other for a few years, and the relationship will fade.
However, this method also failed. All obstacles are the catalyst for this love. The more imprisoned, the more crazy it grows.
In 1957, Li Ka-shing had been in business for 7 years, and he did not make a fortune. He was just a small boss. It can be seen that even if he admits that Zhuang Jing'an gave the 43,000, it will never erase Li Ka-shing's own ability.
encountered a bottleneck in his career. Li Ka-shing found a business opportunity while flipping through a foreign industry magazine. The Italian side made very beautiful plastic flowers, lifelike, and Hong Kong had not seen this kind of plastic. product.
Li Ka-shing, who is already the boss, has done something "not on the stage". He went to Milan to start a black job, stole the patented technology of others, and after returning to Hong Kong, through his own improvement, he made a highly cost-effective plastic flower.
At the end of 1958, Li Ka-shing really earned the first pot of gold in his life. A steady stream of orders and tens of millions of sales came. Therefore, Li Ka-shing also gained the reputation of Hong Kong's "Plastic Flower King".
This year, although Li Ka-shing has not yet become a super rich man, he is definitely a rich man. It stands to reason that if Zhuang Jingan just thinks he is poor, he should be relieved. But why did Li Ka-shing and Zhuang Yueming not get married until 1963?
Everyone believes that the main reason for Zhuang Jingan’s opposition is that the father is worried that his daughter will have a bad life by marrying a poor boy.
The editor thinks that this is just a rhetoric of Zhuang Jing'an. The main reason is close relatives, so the bookmaker will insist on opposing Li Ka-shing for so many years when Li Ka-shing is no longer a poor boy.
In the end, Zhuang Jing'an compromised, not because Li Ka-shing was rich, but because Zhuang Yueming was already 31 years old.
Think about it. In those days, a high-class lady who was still not married at the age of 31 would receive many rumors and rumors. Zhuang Jingan’s circle might have spread the affair between his daughter and his nephew. Every time, if Zhuang Yueming doesn't marry Li Ka-shing, who else can he marry? Could it be that Zhuang Jing'an really keeps her palm pearl from marrying forever?
So Zhuang Jing'an was not moved by the love between Li Ka-shing and Zhuang Yueming, but the two young people forced him to have this choice.
When he got married, Li Ka-shing spent 630,000 yuan to buy a luxury house in Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong, as a wedding room for him and his wife. Don't underestimate the 630,000 in 1963. Now the market value of this house is more than 2 billion.
2nd year, Zhuang Yueming after marriage He gave birth to the eldest son Li Zeju. In 1966, the two gave birth to their second son, Li Zekai. But Zhuang Yueming is not as rumored by the outside world. After giving birth to a baby, he immediately retires at home, peace of mind and husband and child.
In 1972, Li Ka-shing’s "Yangtze River Industrial" went public. Zhuang Yueming was the company’s executive director and one of the core figures of the company’s decision-making. However, in front of the public, Zhuang Yueming always kept a low profile and did not accept media interviews. So foreigners think that this is just another poor stupid woman who helped her husband, but didn't help herself.
In fact, Li Ka-shing has made many shocking decisions, and there is the credit of Zhuang Yueming behind them.
This is a fact that Li Ka-shing personally confessed to the media——
"Yueming is well educated, and has provided me with advice and advice on many occasions in my career after marriage, and has given me great help.help. Not only that, she always handles family matters properly. I don't have to worry about family matters at all, which allows me to have more energy to deal with various problems at work. ”
Entering the 1980s, Li Ka-shing’s career is flourishing.
After 1979, he became the largest "landlord" in Hong Kong and became the richest man in Hong Kong. At this time, Zhuang Yueming gradually retired and put more energy on the two On the education of my son.
Until Zhuang Yueming passed away in 1990, the impression of outsiders was that of piano and song, and deep affection. Li Ka-shing can be said to be a clear stream in the rich circle of scandals.
But Zhuang Yueming’s death broke this tranquility because she died so suddenly.
The day before her death, Zhuang Yueming also accompanied her husband Li Ka-shing to the Grand Hyatt Hotel to attend the welcome dinner, but the next afternoon, Li The family announced Zhuang Yueming’s death, and it is rumored that Zhuang Yueming died in Xu Hedao’s solitary home, not in the Li family mansion in Deep Water Bay. In those years, Zhuang Yueming’s health was not very good and it was not easy to walk. In a wheelchair, how could the couple return home after attending the party with their husband? It is indeed strange.
Since then, there have been more and more rumors about the Li family, and some people even picked it up because Li Ka-shing was outside. Zhuang Yueming’s pink confidantes were constantly in pain, so she agreed that Li Ka-shing could "make a show" as long as she didn’t bring the woman home. Li Ka-shing did not follow the agreement. After he and Zhuang Yueming attended the welcome dinner, he brought the pink confidant back home. Leading to Zhuang Yueming’s suicide.
There are rumors claiming that the woman Li Ka-shing brought home on the evening of December 31, 1989 was actually Li Kaxin...OMG. You know at that time, Li Kaxin was with Ni Zhen (Zhou Huimin’s current husband) Fall in love.
In short, the original death of the richest man was filled with fog. Together with the Zhuang Yueming Building built by Li Ka-shing to commemorate his deceased wife, it is also rumored that his Feng Shui design has a "soul soul".
The next meeting will focus on Zhuang Yueming Building. Feng Shui said, stay tuned......
