Speaking of the Huo family in Hong Kong, they are known as the red-topped wealthy family, but they don’t like to be on the hot search every now and then. Among the many children and nephews who have branches and leaves, there are two public figures who are related to the entertainment industry. Everyone is relatively familiar with Huo Qishan and Huo Qigang .
Ho Qigang, the grandchild of Huo Qigang, married the diving queen Guo Jingjing , and is very happy now; while Huo Qishan is like a romantic young man, and his most well-known ex-girlfriend is Zhang Ziyi.
△Hawa Qishan and Zhang Ziyi were really invincible and beautiful
However, in terms of the ups and downs in life and the courage to hit the country with bare hands, the two brothers must bow their heads and call out "Grandpa" in front of their grandfather Ho Ying-dong.
Today's Hong Kong is a half-mountain mansion with a vast land and a deep water wading on the other hand. It is a large-scale conflict complex, but it was desolate at the beginning of its opening.
It was not until June 7, 1841 that this small island took the first step: from the fishing and farmers society to the shining Xiangjiang portal.
△The earliest street developed after Hong Kong became a colony
After nearly half a century of rushing in the wave of entrepreneurship, the four major families in Hong Kong gradually formed a foregone conclusion, and the representatives of them were also pushed to the forefront, namely Li Ka-shing , Guo Desheng, Li Ka-ki , and Cheng Yu-tung .
However, when it comes to the most prestigious and proficient in the rich circle, these four people are not as good as the head of the Huo family, and are known as "model Hong Kong people". red-top businessman Mr. Ho Ying-tung.
So, today we will talk about Mr. Huo and his first half of his life as a legendary film and television drama.
---------01. People who cannot get ashore--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are many opinions about the ancestors of this group of water drifters. Some say they are descendants of Fan Li and Xi Shi, and some say they are descendants of Qin Shihuang's eight hundred boys and women...
△The boat that the dan people rely on for their lives
However, there is something undeniable that the dan people have had extremely low social status for a long time, and their bones are full of the "destiny" of wandering and wandering.
At that time, they were not allowed to intermarry with residents on the shore, and could not study and take the exam for fame. What's even more absurd is that they were not allowed to wear shoes to go ashore.
It was not until 1729 that all the dan people who were able to live on land were allowed to go ashore, and these refugees who lived on boats were finally settled.
1841, Hong Kong, with a vast harbor and deep waters, officially became a British colony. At this time, more than 2,000 people were left nearby, including Ho Ying-Tong's ancestors.
But where is Ho Ying-tung's ancestral home and when did the ancestors of the Huo family come to Hong Kong, these two questions about belonging have never been solved.
Later, Ho Ying-tung, who became famous, invited a linguist to talk to him, asking the other party to determine where his accent came from, and the scholar gave a vague landmark: Panyu .
Later, the Huo family became prosperous. Huo Yingdong invested in the overhaul of the ancestral tomb, dug out a stone tablet from it, and wrote the vague words "Panyu". Only then did Huo Yingdong confirm that his family's hometown was Panyu, Guangdong.
As we all know, Hong Kong is a small island born from a dream. It can make adventurers turn over overnight and make them lose their lives. Compared with the Gambling King family, the ancestors of the Huo family may be just a trend in the great era.
△The first one on the right is Ho Ying-tung
However, Ho Ying-tung, who became a red-top businessman in the future, acted as the eye of himself and the Huo family to some extent.
On May 10, 1923, Ho Ying-tung, a descendant of the Danmin, was born in Hong Kong. At that time, the Danmin people who were still engaged in water transportation had a nickname: Boat House.
Ho Ying-tung is ranked fourth in the family, with two brothers and one sister. Originally, the Huo family had long set naming rules, "Good and prosperous, and good fortune, and good luck and prosperity."
△Young Ho Ying-tung
However, Ho Ying-tung's father Huo Yaorong broke this rule. At first, Ho Ying-tung had an alias, Guan Tai, and took the good intention of his promising official career.
is a very luxurious dream for the Huo family who have wandered on the water. If they can have a prosperous career, it will definitely be a great success.
There are no servants and nannies around when they were young, nor do they have villa properties all over Hong Kong and Kowloon. Ho Ying-Tong's origin is not as good as the rich man Ho Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-Hong-H
No matter at any time, in which direction the wind blows, the wandering and helpless little citizens are always the easiest to fall into poverty because of this.
days later, no matter who will write about Ho Ying-tung, who has a net worth of hundreds of billions, from which tricky perspective, this childhood poverty has a unified imprint: Ho Ying-tung, before the age of six, has never worn shoes.
In 1930, Ho Ying-tung was seven years old, and the family of boaters suffered heavy damage. First, his two sons fell into the sea due to a storm disaster and drowned. Huo's father, who was suffering from lymphoma, was stimulated. After he was seriously ill, he had no way to seek medical treatment and eventually passed away within the year.
After Huo Yaorong's death, Huo's mother took Ho Ying-tung and her two daughters to live ashore, completely abandoned the boat that the boaters depended on for their living, and lived in the slum stone canal street in Wan Chai.
△Today's Shishuiqu Street, Hong Kong
Here, the son of the gangster who had been floating on the water finally came ashore again, even though this time it was full of sadness of abandoning the family and stolen the business.
---------02. Five Hundred Ways to Make a Livelihood for Out of School Young People---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At that time, Ho Ying-tung's consciousness began to emerge. He changed his original name " Huo Guantai " to the current "Hot Ying-tung", which means "standing in the east of the world with a strong support", which can be said to be quite planned.
After studying at Huangren Academy for several years, Ho Ying-tung has not yet escaped from the shadow of poverty. He is still a poor scholar and can even be said to have no signs of success. He has to run home to help his mother make miscellaneous accounts in his spare time.
"This kind of stressful life often makes me exhausted and even neurasthenia; but this is a good exercise for me. Even if I have a lot of hardships and heavy work after leaving society, I can face it calmly."
All of these things make Ho Ying-Tong most often say when he recalls his campus life in the future: exhausted.
In 1941, three young people in Huangren Academy were forced to interrupt their studies. At this moment, they still don’t know that they will become famous figures in Xiangjiang in the future.
△Ultimate photo of Huangren Academy
At this moment, the fate of the three dropouts, Ho Ying-tung, Ho Hong-Sheng and Zhang Ailing, had a strange intersection, but soon the three out-of-school young people went their separate ways. There was no reason, they were all helpless people under the clouds of war.
After the outbreak of the war, Hong Kong society during the Japanese occupation period was barbaric and disorderly. The small boat "Xinghe" bought by Ho Ying-tung's mother and others was requisitioned by the Japanese army. At that time, 18-year-old Ho Ying-tung lost the boat and had to do odd jobs everywhere to make a living.
Before the liberation of Hong Kong, Ho Ying-tung was a true-minded king of working. He worked four jobs, but each one did not go smoothly. He was fired three times and blown up the laboratory of the Swire Sugar Factory once. In the end, Ho Ying-tung was cut off one finger before putting an end to his working career.
△Hawa Yingdong loved playing football in middle school, and still liked sports after he became famous
1942, Huo's mother pawned the only gold necklace and joined hands with the other 13 familiar people to open a grocery store in Gooseneck Bridge, Wanchai. Originally, the registered name of the shop was "Youhe", but in the end, because the word "youru" was too sloppy.
sells all the complicated things in the store, clothes, jewelry, daily necessities... After a while of turnover, the business is still possible, and Ho Ying-dong and his son have achieved a period of stability.
In 1945, Hong Kong was restored, and at this time, Ho Ying-tung got the multiple-choice questions that fate gave him again.
Seeing that Hong Kong Island urgently needed to revitalize its water freight business after the war, the Huo family and his son combined to sell the grocery store and recovered HK$7,000.
Ho Ying-tung then used the money to buy a small cargo ship, re-engage his father's old business, and started a waterway business. However, there was another choice before him at that time.
That is to work as an office clerk at Pacific Foreign Business (engages in cross-border trade). He is a white-collar worker today. He earns HK$300 a month and is able to support his family and rank seniority. He can live a small life in troubled times.
However, Ho Ying-tung, who was unwilling to be ordinary, went against the current and chose the former that seemed bumpy but extremely correct: first do freight, and then look for other opportunities. During the three years between
1945 and 1948, Ho Ying-tung, who was about to come, only believed in one sentence: wealth and honor are in danger.
At that time, he only had one business, which was to acquire shipwrecks during wartime and various materials left over, and then make a profit of the difference. Hong Kong's fallen father Ho Ying-tung made a full 22,000 Hong Kong dollars, accelerating the completion of the original capital accumulation.
Afterwards, when Ho Ying-tung recalled the most adventurous and romantic years in his life, he said with regret, "If I were more courageous and had more funds, I could make more."
△Hot Ho and former Hong Kong Chief Executive
Just as Hoot Ho was getting richer and was about to become a middle-class person with a small wealth, Shiyun once again gave him a generous gift to him, who was good at judging the situation.
If Ho Ying-tung had two multiple-choice questions in his first half of his life, the first time was a career choice, and he took this opportunity to join the tide of entrepreneurship, then this time the choice was unpopular, which allowed his social status to rise completely.
has transformed from an ordinary businessman, and Ho Ying-tung, who bets on everything, has become the most famous of many wealthy people in Hong Kong: a red-topped businessman.
As for how Ho Ying-tung chooses, how to move up step by step, and how to create a legend of a big family, we will talk about it later!
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