On September 17, 2012, at The memorial service for Wang Guoyuelan in Taipei, her 61-year-old adopted son, Wang Wenyang, chairman of Hongren Group, took the podium and said unceremoniously in front of the senior leaders of Formosa Plastics Group and many relatives and children of Wang Yongqing:
"The selfless lifelong dedication of the big mother, and the desire to live with the husband who has been married for 73 years, is her wish, but also her right." However, those who have benefited the most, but also the most unfounded, will not let the last wish of the big mother come true! ”
Speaking of this, Wang Wenyang looked directly at Li Baozhu, the third wife of Wang Yongqing, who was sitting in the audience, and her four daughters next to her, and angrily criticized:
"I am convinced that my father must also be deeply saddened by this!" I know that for this injustice, the reaction of the aunt will be typical of dignity and grace. She will elevate it and make this farewell a quiet reflection and a celebration of all god-given blessings. ”
After public criticism, Wang Wenyang came to Guo Yuelanling and bowed deeply, saying very remorsefully:
"Big Mom! Wen Yang is really sorry for you! Wen Yang tried his best, please forgive Wen Yang! ”
93-year-old Guo Yuelan, the wife of Taiwan's richest man Wang Yongqing, was ruthlessly abandoned by her husband after 13 years of marriage, although she retained the identity of Wang Yongqing's official wife for the rest of her life, but for the rest of her life, she could only spend a long time chanting alone next to the green lantern ancient Buddha.
In 2008, after Wang Yongqing died suddenly of a heart attack in the United States, without leaving any will, Guo Yuelan shared nearly half of Wang Yongqing's property in Taiwan as his wife.
However, the huge wealth has no meaning to the 89-year-old Guo Yuelan, and before she died, she left most of her property to Wang Yongqing's eldest son, and other assets were equally distributed to Wang Yongqing's second and third house daughters, which was her gift to Wang Yongqing's children.
But even so, Mrs. Li Baozhu of the Third Room and her daughters, who have taken charge of the core power of Formosa Plastics, firmly disagreed with Guo Yuelan and Wang Yongqing's burial, and Wang Wenyang could only complain for Guo Yuelan at the memorial meeting.
In the end, Guo Yuelan, known as the "mother of Formosa Plastics", was buried next to the tomb of Wang Wenyang's wife, completing her life of both glory and grievance.
1. When he was a child, he came to the Wang family as a child bridesmaid, and when he was 27 years old, his husband married the second house
Guo Yuelan was born in 1919, she is a native of Taipei County, the family is not far from wang Yongqing's village, at that time, the ordinary people in Taiwan life is very difficult, the rural families with many children often send their daughters out very early as child brides, Wang Yongqing has three younger sisters, all of whom were given to others by his father Wang Changgeng as a child bride, and in order to have more children and more grandchildren, Wang Changgeng welcomed Guo Yuelan, who was only a few years old, from a neighboring village into the door and gave Wang Yongqing a child bride.
In 1933, Wang Yongqing's father Wang Changgeng was seriously ill, and in order to give his father Chong Xi, 16-year-old Wang Yongqing and 14-year-old Guo Yuelan held a wedding.
At this time, Wang Yongqing has been opening a rice shop for five years, the business is booming, but he can't take care of the family at all, because the father-in-law is not in good health, Wang Yongqing has many brothers, Guo Yuelan has undertaken most of the housework, and like those traditional country women in the past, she is silent, hard-working, and does more than she says.
After getting married, Guo Yuelan has not had children, which has left her with a heart disease.
In 1943, Wang Yongqing concealed his married identity, and proposed marriage to the 19-year-old Yang Jiao, a female worker who came to help the store, and after Yang Jiao established a relationship with him, Wang Yongqing told her that he had married his wife in the countryside, but he had not had children for many years after marriage, so he wanted to marry Yang Jiao, Wang Yongqing said that he would immediately go home to go through divorce procedures with Guo Yuelan and give half of his property to the original match.
Wang Yongqing and Yang Jiao
Yang Jiao also came from a poor peasant family, and was taken to someone else's family as an adopted daughter from an early age, and because of her family's poverty, she had to go out to work at a young age.
At that time, it happened that her adoptive father was suffering from malaria and dying of illness, and Yang Jiao felt helpless, relying on the boss Wang Yongqing to help her run before and after running, and asked a doctor to cure her adoptive father's illness.
Remembering Wang Yongqing's grace to save his father, and at that time, Wang Yongqing's rice shop was prosperous and looked like another talent, Yang Jiao did not have no admiration for him, so she agreed to the marriage and urged Wang Yongqing to go home to go through the divorce procedures.
As a weak woman who has neither culture nor the ability to survive independently, Guo Yuelan heard such a thing, of course, like five thunderbolts, she did not know where she could go back after the divorce, her mother's family did not want her for a long time, as a childless and childless divorced woman, she had nowhere to live.
Fortunately, her hard work over the years has been seen by her in-laws and mother-in-law, and Gonggong Chang geng resolutely does not allow Wang Yongqing to divorce, does not allow his son to turn his back on his wife, and believes that it is not Guo Yuelan's fault that she did not have children. Relying on the protection of her in-laws, Guo Yuelan kept her identity as a "big house".
Yang Jiao was inseparable from Wang Yongqing, who took good care of her, and after dragging it out for a while, she finally agreed to go to the Wang family as a "second room". At this time, Wang Yongqing was no longer what he used to be, in 1943, he ended the rice shop business, turned to the development of the timber business, and in just a few years, earned NT$50 million, becoming a well-known rich man in Taipei.
After entering the door, Guo Yuelan's attitude towards Yang Jiao was not friendly, and she was both hostile and repulsive to the woman who had taken her place, and her attitude did not change after Yang Jiao gave birth to her eldest daughter Wang Guiyun and second daughter Wang Xueling.
According to Yang Jiao's later recollection:
"I understand her pain, her husband has other women, she has no children under her knees, and although she often insults me and treats me badly, I always feel sorry and it becomes a deep friendship." 」
2. Become sisters with the second house, and regard the eldest son of the second house as their own
Soon, Yang Jiao also tasted Guo Yuelan's pain.
In 1951, Yang Jiao gave birth to her eldest son, Wang Wenyang, and the arrival of her son eased her relationship with Guo Yuelan.
According to the old rules, Wang Wenyang was claimed to be under Guo Yuelan's name and became a "concubine", and in this way, Guo Yuelan had a titular son, and she was very fond of Wang Wenyang, who was very fond of the tiger-headed Wang Wenyang, and regarded him as her own child.
According to Wang Wenyang later recalled in a commemorative article:
"Although Wang Yuelan is unable to have children, she is very important in our family and in our lives. She had a particularly close relationship with my grandfather Wang Changgeng and my mother, Yang Jiao, and regarded my mother as a family member and took her into her own home. We both live in the same house, and my father and aunt are the parents. She raised me as an adult and treated me as if I were her own.
Since marrying his father, his aunt has helped him build a business kingdom and has made a significant contribution to his father's business success. Wang Yuelan and my mother often cooked for my father's employees to boost morale. When my father was entertaining at home, they also spared no effort to arrange food for the guests. She did so out of love and loyalty to her father. ”
In 1952, Wang Yongqing met the new Huan Huan Lin Mingzhu who was a waiter at the Beitou Hot Spring Hotel while on vacation, Lin Mingzhu was only 17 years old, although he did not officially enter the door, he gave birth to three children for Wang Yongqing.
Luo Wenyuan, Luo Xuezhen, Luo Xueying
Wang Yongqing settled Lin Mingzhu mother and son in a house not far from his home, the two houses are in the same alley, only a few house numbers, the surrounding businessmen all know that Lin Mingzhu mother and son are Wang Yongqing's outer room, after work, Wang Yongqing often goes to the Lin family to visit the children for a while, and then returns to Guo Yuelan and Yang Jiao' side, just like this, Yang Jiao is not embarrassed to be neighbors with Wang Yongqing's outer room and three unmarried children for several years.
Yang Jiao's personality is stoic, coupled with the pity of the same disease as Guo Yuelan, the two have become good sisters with deep love and righteousness.
However, as the traditional women who completely rely on marriage to support their lives in the past, they have no good way but to pretend to be deaf and dumb, neither recognizing the children in the outer room, nor agreeing to let Lin Mingzhu enter the door.
In 1954, Lin Mingzhu gave birth to the eldest daughter Luo Xuezhen, in 1956 gave birth to a son Luo Wenyuan, and in 1958, Lin Mingzhu and Yang Jiao gave birth to daughters Luo Xueying and Wang Xuehong respectively.
After staying up outside the Wang family gate for a few years, the young and simple Lin Mingzhu saw that he had not been able to turn right, and his heart was very unhappy, and in 1957, Wang Yongqing met the 23-year-old Li Baozhu in a nightclub, and he was no longer as enthusiastic about her as before, Lin Mingzhu gambled with three children to marry a civil servant surnamed Luo, and it was more than fifty years after wang Yongqing's death that the three children surnamed Luo "recognized their ancestors and returned to the ancestors" and started a legacy lawsuit.
At the end of the 1950s, Wang Yongqing had become Taiwan's "god of management", he was both rich and affectionate, and his relationship with Li Baozhu developed vigorously.
In 1960, Wang Yongqing and his family, the second from the right in the back row was Wang Guo Yuehua, and the first on the right in the middle row was Yang Jiao
Li Baozhu was born in the dust, when she was young, she was a wine escort lady in the "Black Beauty Hotel" nightclub on Boai Road in Taipei, she looked sweet, her personality was lively, empathetic, she was a celebrity in the night show, and after meeting Wang Yongqing, she soon let the 43-year-old Wang Yongqing fall deeply into love, bent on marrying her as a third room.
For Wang Yongqing's repeated tricks and provoking trouble, Guo Yuelan of course refused to agree, so reasonable, he should not marry again, Taiwan is a monogamous society, and his family has both the wife of the Ming media and the five children born to Yang Jiao, of course, should not be openly in and out of Li Baozhu, besides, Li Baozhu already has a daughter, the age is not small, obviously the escort girl wants to find a home.
But Li Baozhu has a lot of social experience, people and all aspects, the means are far from the young Lin Mingzhu, the good-tempered Yang Jiao can be compared, she first impressed Wang Yongqing with her own deep love and righteousness, at that time, Wang Yongqing encountered difficulties in operation, Li Baozhu took out all his jewelry savings to help Wang Yongqing through the difficulties, which made Wang Yongqing, who had never tasted love, grateful and regarded her as the love of his life.
Wang Yongqing and Li Baozhu
And for Wang Yongqing's mother, Wang Zhanxiang, Li Baozhu also spent a lot of effort.
The Wang family is originally from Fujian, Wang Yongqing's mother likes to listen to song and play, eat Minnan cuisine, Li Baozhu invited a cooking master, specifically to ask him how to make authentic Minnan cuisine, and bought a lot of Yang Lihua song and play video tapes, painstakingly learn to sing Zai opera, often accompany Wang Yongqing's mother to the theater to listen to the play, just like this, she touched the heart of her mother-in-law a little bit, and finally was allowed to enter the door, becoming the "third lady" around wang Yongqing, in 1959, she gave birth to a daughter Wang Ruihua for Wang Yongqing.
Li Baozhu accompanied Wang Zhan Xiang to the stadium, next to her four daughters
Wang Yongqing also regarded the eldest daughter born to Li Baozhu and her ex-husband as his own child, changed his daughter's name to Wang Ruiji, and when she became an adult, arranged for Formosa Plastics to work, and later sent to the United States to stand alone.
And Li Baozhu, who is good at dancing with long sleeves, is even more painstaking in order to monopolize Wang Yongqing, usually she cares for Wang Yongqing, is considerate, and always wary of him and other women.
In 1965, the second room Yang Jiao was pregnant with her young son Wang Wenxiang, and Wang Yongqing was very happy to hear the news that she was pregnant, but a few days later, he suddenly became very unhappy, and even impatiently said to Yang Jiao: "The woman outside asked, if she loves her, why is her wife still pregnant?"
Yang Jiao was disappointed, and since then she has often washed her face with tears, feeling that she has no value in this family, in 1975, she took her nine-and-a-half-year-old son to the United States, with 3,000 US dollars of savings began to work hard, and even helped international students cook, no matter how Wang Yongqing called her back, she did not return to Wang Yongqing's side.
Family portrait of three wives at the same time
Squeezed out Yang Jiao and Lin Mingzhu, Li Baozhu is not satisfied, at this time, Wang Yongqing has become taiwan's richest man, the attention of the people, she wants is the official name of the richest wife, and Although Wang Yongqing and Guo Yuelan have long lost love, but in the eyes of outsiders, Guo Yuelan is the "Formosa Plastics Mother".
Li Baozhu
However, unlike Yang Jiao and Lin Mingzhu, over the years, Guo Yuelan has been dead in her heart and has no intention of fighting with people, but has retreated to the ashram and chanted the sutras and chanted the Buddha all day, so that Li Baozhu has no way to wrestle at all.
3. Become Wang Wenyang's "house fighting" hero, and the 30 billion yuan inheritance has caused many disputes
Wang Wenyang was Wang Yongqing's eldest son, but due to his mother's fall out of favor, his eldest son seems to have been unvalued by his father. Despite his excellent academic performance, he successively received a doctorate in chemical engineering and a master's degree in business administration from Imperial College London, Wang Yongqing still had no intention of making him his successor.
Wang Yongqing because of his development experience, wang Wenyang believes that Wang Wenyang will only "talk on paper", has been letting him in the grassroots as a section chief, production team leader, business department manager, in 1989, nearly 40 years old Wang Wenyang was able to enter the general management office of Formosa Plastics Group.
In 1995, due to the "Lu Annie Incident", the 45-year-old Wang Wenyang was suddenly fired by Wang Yongqing and completely expelled from the Plastic Group, which made him extremely sad.
In contrast, Li Baozhu's five daughters (four born to Wang Yongqing) all entered Formosa Plastics, and Wang Ruihua and Wang Ruiyu became members of the "Formosa Plastics Decision-Making Group", which has become a three-room world.
Before his death, Guo Yuelan, who had already suffered from Alzheimer's disease
In order to return to power at Formosa Plastics, the exiled "crown prince" Wang Wenyang remembered Guo Yuelan, the "lady of the palace".
At Wang Yongqing's funeral in October 2008, Wang Wenyang pushed Guo Yuelan's wheelchair and walked into the venue with a resolute expression, leaving a deep impression on the reporters.
According to data released at the time, in addition to wang Yongqing's $8.1 billion in overseas assets managed by the U.S. Trust Fund, which could not be distributed to relatives, his total taiwan assets were worth about NT$60 billion.
And because Wang Yongqing did not leave a will when he died, Guo Yuelan became the biggest beneficiary, she can not only officially share half of the property as a wife, but also share the remaining half of Wang Yongqing's estate with Wang Yongqing's 9 children.
Wang Wenyang also cleverly found that Guo Yuelan was the "Wang Bomb" in his hands, and she endured until the end, preserving the identity of the "right wife" and also saving the most property of Formosa Plastics for his "dry son".
At that time, except for Wang Wenyang, the second house women and the three house women did not agree to this distribution method, and the other 8 children demanded that Wang Yongqing's property be divided equally, and the second house wife and the third house wife all believed that they were also Wang Yongqing's wives and had the same rights as Guo Yuelan.
Three wives attending Wang Yongqing's memorial service
In September 2009, the lawyers found by Sanfang even put forward the idea that "Li Baozhu and Wang Yongqing had registered their marriage in Hong Kong".
It turned out that on August 7, 1957, Wang Yongqing and Li Baozhu had held a public wedding banquet in the Taipei Hotel, when Taiwan's marriage system required monogamy, but it was not a registration system, as long as both men and women had a wedding banquet under the witness of relatives and friends, even if it was a formal marriage, some rich people took advantage of this loophole to implement polygamy.
And Li Baozhu still feels uneasy, after a few years, and then took advantage of Wang Yongqing's opportunity to go to Hong Kong on a business trip, pulled him to the Hong Kong Marriage Registry to register for marriage, Hong Kong allows people from any country to register for marriage there, in this way, Li Baozhu became the only woman who had registered a marriage with Wang Yongqing, but Hong Kong registration requires an unmarried certificate, so in a sense, this registration is also problematic.
Both Yang Jiao and Li Baozhu asked lawyers to sue the Taipei court, demanding that their legal wives be recognized, but the court did not support them. According to the provisions of Taiwan's pre-1985 civil law, the court held that although they and Wang Yongqing had a de facto marriage, they could only exercise part of their spouse rights when dividing up property, and Guo Yuelan had the status of a legal spouse.
However, in order to prevent the property from falling into the hands of Guo Yuelan's family, Wang's parents intervened in the matter, and Wang Wenyang expressed a compromise on behalf of Guo Yuelan.
In the end, 15 billion of Wang Yongqing's 60 billion assets belonged to Guo Yuelan, the other 15 billion was divided equally between Yang Jiao and Li Baozhu, and the remaining 30 billion, the three wives and nine children each received 1 billion, and the rest paid inheritance tax. Due to the rise in the price of Formosa Plastics stock, Before her death, Guo Yuelan's 16 billion had doubled to 30 billion.
Although sitting on NT$30 billion, she became the richest woman in Taiwan, but the 89-year-old Guo Yuelan's life has not changed much, for wealth, she and Wang Yongqing are very light,In February 2010, she authorized Wang Wenyang to transfer the then NT$15.7 billion of Formosa plastics shares to Wang Wenyang's three children and his girlfriend Lu Annie, and the rest of the money was divided equally between Wang Yongqing and 8 other children, and her only request was to be buried with her husband Wang Yongqing, who had been married for more than 70 years.
And even this little wish, she could not achieve in the end.
After Guo Yuelan's death, Wang Wenyang originally wanted to fulfill her wish and take someone to the "Changyong Memorial Fuyuan" where Wang Yongqing was buried to investigate the cemetery, and wanted to bury her next to Wang Yongqing, while Li Baozhu's second daughter, Wang Ruiyu, deputy general manager of Formosa Plastics, raised objections, saying: "How to deal with the family cemetery, as early as last March, a family agreement was reached, and now suddenly proposed for a joint burial, is it difficult to destroy the cemetery and disturb the father's long sleep?" ”
Wang Yongqing Cemetery
Some people also found a feng shui master, pointing out that Wang Yongqing Cemetery was his own personal cemetery when it was originally planned, it was a single-cave design, and the three ladies would be buried in another family cemetery, saying that "there was no joint burial plan at the beginning, so there was no more acupuncture points, and now if you want to bury the big house with DongZuo (Wang Yongqing), it is necessary to dig up the ground to destroy the cemetery, which is a big taboo." ”
Whether it is feng shui or family agreement, it is obvious that this represents Li Baozhu's meaning, and Guo Yuelan, who has no children and no daughters behind her, has no competent people to complete her wishes, and even Wang Wenyang, who inherited her most inheritance, finally compromised and agreed to bury Guo Yuelan next to his ex-wife's cemetery.
In the end, only an acquaintance next to Guo Yuelan issued a heartfelt sigh and said: "Before she was born, under Wang Yongqing's aura, as an original match without a voice, now gone, or lying there alone..."
It is the past era and the culture that have given her such a role, although her husband Zeng Gui is the richest man in Taiwan, although she herself once became the richest woman in Taiwan, guo Yuelan is still just a woman without a voice, unable to really dominate her life.
Source: Huashang Taoluo, Time Magazine, etc