In October 2016, at the funeral of Hong Kong rich man Cheng Yu-tung , many media tried to discover large materials at the funeral with long guns and short cannons.
"Oh?" a paparazzi exclaimed, pointing to the two strange faces beside Cheng Yutong's eldest son and asked: "Who are these two people? Isn't this his son?"
"But these two people look quite similar to him." Someone said subconsciously.
was reminded by this, and a group of people really found that the two strange faces around him were somewhat similar to Cheng Yu-tung's eldest son.
"Is it an illegitimate child? Is it so eager to start a scene of snatching family property at the funeral?"
"Isn't the heir Cheng Yu-tung's eldest grandson? Why did he get involved as a father?"
What's going on?
"Hong Kong Rich Businessman Cheng Yu-tung"
Cheng Yu-tung was born on August 26, 1925 in Shunde, Guangdong. He has a wealthy family and his father is a well-known silk merchant.
Although his parents attached great importance to Cheng Yu-tung's studies and asked him to study since childhood, because of the Anti-Japanese War , Cheng Yu-tung only finished elementary school.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Cheng Yutong came to Macau.
Cheng Yu-tung's father has a good friend in Macau who is in a gold business named Zhou Zhiyuan.
After Cheng Yutong came to Macau, he went to Zhou Zhiyuan's Zhou Dafu Jewelry Gold Store .
The relationship between Cheng Yu-tung and Zhou Zhiyuan is more than just an ordinary boss and subordinate.
Cheng Yu-tung's father and Zhou Zhiyuan have a good relationship. Long before Cheng Yu-tung was born, the two families had already made an engagement for their children.
Another 13 years later, Cheng Yu-tung naturally inherited Chow Tai Fook Jewelry and Gold Store.
Perhaps it inherited his father's business genes, and Cheng Yu-tung is very good at business methods.
After inheriting Zhou Dafu , Cheng Yu-tung keen discovered the gap in the mall.
He proposed the concept of four nine-foot gold, which made his gold store in short supply for a while. Afterwards, in order to be loved by the broader market, Cheng Yu-tung closely monitors the changes in the market.
Cheng Yu-tung collected all the raw materials and processing, and then transported the diamonds back to Hong Kong for sale.
Cheng Yu-tung's keen courage makes his assets grow bigger and bigger like a snowball, and Cheng Yu-tung's family is becoming more and more famous in Hong Kong.
In the late stage, the Cheng Yu-tung family gradually became one of the four major families in Hong Kong. The other three families are Guo Desheng , Li Ka-shing , and Li Ka-shing .
Cheng Yu-tung and his wife Zhou Cuiying are very loving. Although they are married, their lives are very sweet.
After the two got married, Zhou Cuiying gave birth to two boys and two girls for Cheng Yutong. The eldest son was Zheng Jiachun and the second son was Zheng Jiacheng.
People often talk about the saying that wealth cannot last for three generations. In fact, in real life, there are still very few examples of wealth cannot last for three generations.
For families like Cheng Yu-tung, wealth is likely to be concentrated in their hands.
And after Cheng Yu-tung, his heirs have been causing a lot of controversy.
"From an unpopular grandson to an heir"
Cheng Yu-tung has a particularly promising grandson named Zheng Zhigang .
Zheng Zhigang is the child of Cheng Yutong's eldest son. In 1980, Zheng Zhigang, who had a golden spoon in his mouth, was born in this wealthy family.
In our opinion, as the eldest grandson, Zheng Zhigang should be the pride of heaven when he was born and the heart of the family, but this is not the case.
As the head of the family, Cheng Yu-tung actually didn't like his eldest grandson at the beginning.
Cheng Yutong prefers his second son's children, Zheng Zhiheng.
As the saying goes, children who can cry have candy to eat.
Because of the discord between parents, Zheng Zhiheng has lived with his grandfather since he was a child. Over time, Zheng Yutong has liked this grandson who often stays with him.
Zheng Zhiheng can be said to call the wind and rain in front of his grandfather, and he has whatever he wants.
Cheng Yutong's heart is leaning against Zheng Zhiheng, which means that Zheng Zhigang is ignored.
Zheng Zhigang, who has not been liked by Cheng Yutong since childhood, can only get what he wants through his own efforts.
However, everyone can guess the result of such eccentricity.
Zheng Zhiheng, who was held as a pearl in his hand since childhood, gradually became a playboy. He was not doing his job properly and felt that he could get what he wanted without hard work.
, but Zheng Zhigang was not favored since childhood, but because of his hard work and talent, he was admitted to Harvard University.
After Zheng Zhigang graduated, he went from Harvard to Japan to study art and culture courses. After returning from his studies in Japan, he asked his family for a start-up capital with hope.
In Hong Kong, Zheng Zhigang used the money to establish the K11 mall, which linked suicide notes with business.
Zheng Zhigang is like inheriting Cheng Yutong's commercial genes. The K11 mall has gone to profit in less than two years.
In a fiercely competitive place in Hong Kong, although Zheng Zhigang has the halo of the Cheng Yu-tung family, as a fledgling brat, it is also very impressive to be able to achieve this. After the success of
K11 shopping mall in Hong Kong, Zheng Zhigang quickly focused his business attention on the mainland.
He came to many cities in the mainland for inspection, and then the K11 shopping mall was opened in many cities, and the profit was extraordinary.
In 2010, Zheng Zhigang came to Wuhan with confidence and created the K11 Art Village.
Although Art Village is not a profit, its successful operation has also opened the eyes of the industry insiders.
Although Zheng Zhigang has strong abilities, he is very low-key.
As one of the heirs of Zheng Yutong's family, he has attracted much attention from others, but Zheng Zhigang never brings bodyguards when he goes out.
Every time I go to the company, Zheng Zhigang wears the simplest suit, which is no different from other ordinary office workers in the company. The success of
K11 and Zheng Zhigang's actions made Cheng Yu-tung start to face up to his unpopular eldest grandson.
Compared with Zheng Zhiheng, who is mediocre but beloved, Zheng Zhigang can be called a shocking person.
Zheng Zhigang let his grandfather see his value, and it happened that even fate was helping him.
When Zheng Zhiheng was doing something wrong, Zheng Yutong was hospitalized due to an older stroke .
At this time, Cheng Yu-tung chose to hand over his business empire to this steady eldest grandson.
After that, everyone has speculated that Zheng Zhigang should be the heir chosen by Zheng Yutong.
"Winning 100 billion property"
After Zheng Zhigang took over the company from his grandfather, he soon discovered the problems in his own company.
Zheng Zhigang found that when Zheng Yutong was in power, many of the strategies he chose were relatively conservative and could no longer adapt to the current era.
As a young man, Zheng Zhigang has begun to reform the problems existing in his own company.
Cheng Yutong's investment method has been saturated, and for this reason, Cheng Zhigang has decisively sold some of his family's industries.
He has increased his investment in first-tier cities, and Zheng Zhigang's investment can be seen in many mainland cities.
In addition, Zheng Zhigang also spent 10 billion yuan in Hangzhou. He purchased land and planned to invest in a high-end urban complex.
Zheng Zhigang has also built skyscrapers in three cities: Tianjin, Guangzhou and Wuhan, and has also participated in the layout of Greater Bay Area .
With the development of the times, Zheng Zhigang has also noticed the e-commerce platform.
In order to enable Zhou Dafu Jewelry to take the e-commerce path, Zheng Zhigang also reached a cooperation with Liu Qiangdong .
Under Zheng Zhigang's series of operations, Chow Tai Fook's popularity and sales have soared, bringing huge wealth to the family.
Zheng Zhigang's actions have successfully made the family's business smoother, and with Zheng Zhigang's joint operation, he has allowed his family to obtain hundreds of billions of property.
And most importantly, Zheng Zhigang was not complacent because of this.
He has always been a low-key person and often participates in various charity activities.
During the flood in Henan, Zheng Zhigang donated 10 million yuan, and at the beginning of the new crown epidemic, he also donated money and materials.
Zheng Zhigang can be regarded as a qualified heir, but what he did not expect was that his inheritance still had many obstacles.
"The illegitimate child appeared at the funeral"
After Cheng Yu-tung suffered a stroke, his health was getting worse day by day.
At the end of September 2016, Cheng Yu-tung died of illness, but two uninvited guests appeared at Cheng Yu-tung's funeral.
Two children suddenly appeared beside Zheng Yutong's eldest son, Zheng Zhigang's father Zheng Jiachun.
The names of the two children appeared on the family list on Zheng Yutong's obituary, but these two children were not the children of Zheng Zhigang's mother.
It is said that these two children are Zheng Jiachun's illegitimate children, and the child was born to Wang Jieyu.
On such a sensitive occasion, two illegitimate children appeared, and everyone was talking about it.
In fact, as Cheng Yutong's eldest son, Zheng Jiachun has been the prince for decades. He thought it would be a matter of time before he took over the group.
Although Cheng Yu-tung has a son, his youngest son, Zheng Jiacheng, has long been excluded from the ranks of heirs because he is entangled with the Hong Kong Miss.
Zheng Jiachun actually started to contact the family business at the prompting of Cheng Yutong very early.
But Zheng Jiachun obviously failed to inherit his father's business genes, and he always embarrassed his great responsibility.
When Zheng Jiachun was 43 years old, Zheng Yutong decided to retire and travel around the world and enjoy his old age. He fought against Zheng Jiachun.
But Zheng Jiachun did not seize this opportunity.
Because he wanted to prove his heart was too urgent, after having real power, Zheng Jiachun began to acquire frantically.
However, he was not smart about the company's operations. With his rush to achieve success, he actually put the company in debt of 7 billion yuan.
Zheng Jiachun's series of operations almost ruined Cheng Yu-tung's lifelong foundation, and even Chow Tai Fook was almost bankrupt.
Anyone with discerning eyes knows that the company will only collapse for one day under Zheng Jiachun.
Mr. Cheng Yutong was also very angry. In desperation, he had to come out again and then turned the tide and rescued the company.
Cheng Yutong loves and hates the unscrupulous children. After this battle, he no longer dares to hand over the company to his eldest son.
However, Zheng Jiachun was very confident. He felt that his younger brother had long been no longer on the list of successors because of his personal style.
The father has only two sons. Who else can he give to himself if he doesn’t give the company? So no matter how much he messes up and how much the company is in debt, his father will still give the company to himself.
So during this period, Zheng Jiachun began to let himself go, and he and Wang Jieyu got together and gave birth to two sons.
"Heirs Fight"
Zheng Jiachun and Zheng Zhigang's mother are actually not in good condition, but Zheng Zhigang's mother doesn't care about anything else except money and son.
In her opinion, as long as she does not hurt her son and her rich wife, no matter how troubles Zheng Jiachun makes outside, she will turn a blind eye.
However, Wang Jieyu is not a good person.
Before Wang Jieyu met Zheng Jiachun, she actually dated wealthy businessman Liu Luanxiong .
In the early years, under the leadership of Liu Luanxiong, Wang Jieyu went to and from many celebrities to gather. Perhaps it was at that time that Wang Jieyu met Zheng Jiachun.
After breaking up with Liu Luanxiong, Wang Jieyu got along with Zheng Jiachun without stopping.
After becoming Zheng Jiachun's confidante, she has been secretly dating Zheng Jiachun in order not to let Zheng Jiachun fail in inheritance due to character problems.
Wang Jieyu gave birth to two sons in order to get a share of the Zheng family’s property.
Later, his father Cheng Yutong had a stroke. Zheng Jiachun felt that his child had not grown up yet, and he felt that his position as his heir was for sure.
But what I didn’t expect was that Zheng Zhigang was so promising. With his own efforts, everyone was impressed by him.
Everyone was acquiesced in their hearts. After Cheng Yu-tung passed away, it was naturally Zheng Zhigang who inherited the company naturally.
How can this work in the eyes of Zheng Jiachun and Wang Jieyu? How could they be willing to let Zheng Zhigang take the lead naturally?
So, in order to compete with Zheng Zhigang for family property, Zheng Jiachun brought the two illegitimate children to Zheng Yutong's funeral.
illegitimate children also have the right to inherit. The emergence of two illegitimate children has prevented Zheng Zhigang from taking over the company smoothly.
Of course, Zheng Jiachun would not let his two illegitimate children take over the property. After Zheng Yutong's death, Zheng Jiachun became the successor of the family.
However, there are unexpected situations in the world, and good fortune will occur in people. After Zheng Jiachun became the heir, he was suddenly hospitalized due to a stroke.
During this period, only Zheng Zhigang came to help manage the company.
Zheng Zhigang was heartbroken by his father because of his father taking his illegitimate child home at his grandfather’s funeral.
Fortunately, Zheng Zhigang's wings were already full at this time.
Although it is not yet clear who the family’s heir is, most of the two illegitimate sons of Zheng Jiachun cannot match Zheng Zhigang.
On May 12, 2021, Zheng Zhigang was transferred to serve as a non-executive director and appointed as chairman. After accepting the company, Zheng Zhigang's assets instantly became 100 billion.
He holds 50 billion in cash in his hand, and a shop is worth 1.3 billion, let alone other real estate.
Zheng Zhigang not only received recognition from the late Cheng Yutong, but even the company's senior management was convinced by him.
Overall, the Zheng family's companies may still need to rely on Zheng Zhigang in the future.
In 2022, under the leadership of Zheng Zhigang, Chow Tai Fook Jewelry had 5,902 stores. The 43-year-old Zheng Zhigang was very prosperous and held hundreds of billions of assets in his hand.
In November 2022, he also won the Hong Kong Silver Bauhinia Star , becoming the well-deserved first among the four major families in Hong Kong. His future story is probably even more exciting.
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