When it comes to Li Ka-shing, the richest man in China, everyone must be very familiar with it. So today we are going to talk about three benefactors of Li Ka-shing's life.
The first benefactor is Li Ka-shing's wife, Zhuang Yueming, who is actually a cousin of Li Ka-shing, and Li Ka-shing's uncle is Zhuang Yueming's father. When Li Ka-shing and Zhuang Yueming were together, in fact, Zhuang Jing'an, Li Ka-shing's uncle, was very opposed, and Li Ka-shing's mother was also very opposed at that time, and the reason for the opposition was that the first two people were relatives. The second is that at that time, Zhuang Jing'an was already the king of Hong Kong's watches, and the wealth of the bookmakers was already the level of Hong Kong's top richest people.
Li Ka-shing's family experienced war at that time, exiled to Hong Kong, when Li Ka-shing did not study, Li Ka-shing learned English was taught to him by Zhuang Yueming, and later Li Ka-shing in order to be with Zhuang Yueming, he was angry and strong, so that he finally succeeded, which is equivalent to saying that if there is no Zhuang Yueming, Li Ka-shing does not have the motivation to start a business.
Zhuang Yueming grew up with Li Ka-shing, she taught Li Ka-shing Cantonese and English, so that Li Ka-shing can better integrate into the city of Hong Kong, the most important thing is that Zhuang Yueming is the life goal of young Li Ka-shing. Zhuang Yueming's love and encouragement are the driving force for Li Ka-shing's hard work. Later, Zhuang Yueming and Li Ka-shing married, and the two people loved each other for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, on New Year's Day in 1990, Zhuang Yueming died of a heart attack at home.
Li Ka-shing's second benefactor was naturally his uncle Zhuang Jing'an. When Li Ka-shing was very young, he fled to Hong Kong with his mother and his father's family. At that time, there was war in the interior, and Li Ka-shing's family had to leave their hometown. He was also relatively lucky, because he already had an uncle who had established himself in Hong Kong. Zhuang Jing'an, who was running a watch shop and a watch factory in Hong Kong at that time, had already achieved great success and accumulated a certain wealth.
After the Lee family fled to Hong Kong, all of them were picked up by Zhuang Jing'an. Zhuang Jing'an not only gave up his house to Li Ka-shing's family to live in, but also often received them and gave them some money, rice, oil and the like. Later, when Li Ka-shing grew up, Zhuang Jing'an asked Li Ka-shing to go to his watch shop as an apprentice and learn a craft.
When he was twenty-two years old, Li Ka-shing decided to start a business, when the first venture fund was also from zhuang Jing'an's funding, and later in the process of entrepreneurship, Zhuang Jing'an's help to Li Ka-shing was also very large, so if there was no Zhuang Jing'an, Li Ka-shing would definitely not be able to achieve later achievements.
Li Ka-shing's father died when he was 14 years old, and for Li Ka-shing, his uncle Zhuang Jing'an was equal to half a father. Many of Li Ka-shing's principles were taught by Zhuang Jing'an, and after Li Ka-shing started his business, Zhuang Jing'an also helped a lot. In fact, if there is no Zhuang Jing'an's tutelage, then there will definitely be no later Li Ka-shing. For example, after the death of Li Ka-shing's father, Zhuang Jing'an did not directly let Li Ka-shing work in his own company, but let Li Ka-shing go outside to work for several years, and then let Li Ka-shing work in his company after li ka-shing matured. It can be said that Zhuang Jing'an is the first teacher of Li Ka-shing's life. Of course, after Zhuang Jing'an and Zhuang Yueming, Li Ka-shing still could not reach the level of the top rich.
The most crucial thing is Li Ka-shing's third benefactor, Pao Yugang, who is the key help of Pao Yugang, which has made Li Ka-shing jump from an ordinary rich man to a top rich man in Hong Kong.
Fast forward to 1978, when Li Ka-shing decided to acquire Jardine Matheson & Co.,D.'s Wharf. Jardine Matheson & Co. had two flagship companies, one was Landmark and the other was Wharf, which at the time had a large number of abandoned parking lots and abandoned docks in Hong Kong, all of which were extremely valuable assets. However, at this time, the valuation of Wharf in the capital market fell all the way, and Li Ka-shing decided to take the opportunity to bottom out.
However, Li Ka-shing did not expect that his move would attract a counterattack from Jardine Matheson & Co., which found HSBC, and the two joined forces to snipe Li Ka-shing's acquisition.
In the end, Li Ka-shing's acquisition encountered strong resistance, at this time Li Ka-shing did not have the strength to fight with HSBC, so at this time, Li Ka-shing found the world ship king Bao Yugang at that time, Bao Yugang was originally a director of HSBC, and Pao Yugang's wealth at that time was already the world's top level, and was listed by the Western media as one of the world's top ten richest people.
So at this time, Li Ka-shing and Pao Yugang met and reached an agreement, Li Ka-shing transferred the Wharf shares in his hand to Pao Yugang, let Pao Yugang confront Jardine Matheson & Co., and then at the same time, Pao Yugang matched and transferred the hutchison Whampoa shares held by HSBC to Li Ka-shing, and finally Pao Yugang, HSBC, and Li Ka-shing reached a very important agreement, li Ka-shing only used 30 million US dollars to control the Hutchison Whampoa Company with a market value of 6 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Li Ka-shing was only a second-rate rich man in Hong Kong at the time, and he ventured to acquire Wharf with a small and broad plan, hoping to acquire Wharf's properties at a small cost, and then demolish them and develop them into residential and commercial properties. Li Ka-shing thought that no one knew about his operation, who knew that in the end it was still developed by Yi, and Jardine matheson also found HSBC, a big financier, to help.
Li Ka-shing knew he could offend Jardine, but not HSBC. At that time, Li Ka-shing was under great pressure, and if the acquisition failed, it would not only fail, but even affect his other businesses. At this time, it was fortunate that Pao Yugang came to the aid, and Pao Yugang not only acquired all the Wharf shares in Li Ka-shing's hands, allowing Li Ka-shing to earn more than 50 million yuan, but also helped Li Ka-shing acquire Hutchison Whampoa from HSBC.
With the help of Pao, HSBC agreed to have Li Ka-shing pay a US$30 million order to acquire a 20% stake in Hutchison Whampoa, achieving the purpose of controlling Hutchison Whampoa.
At that time, Hutchison Whampoa had a market capitalization of 6 billion yuan and owned a large number of properties, and Li Ka-shing's goal was to acquire these properties to develop real estate. Eventually, with the help of Pao Yugang, Li Ka-shing successfully controlled Hutchison Whampoa, and later he achieved great success by demolishing the old property of Hutchison Whampoa to develop a housing village, earning more than 20 billion yuan in just a few years, laying the foundation for Li Ka-shing's position as the richest Chinese.
Therefore, if Li Ka-shing did not have Zhuang Yueming, Zhuang Jing'an and Bao Yugang, his life would definitely not be able to achieve this achievement.