Wen ✎ Cai Tu said
Editor ✎ Financial Chart said
Speaking of Ma Yun and Ma Huateng, these two Internet giants, in China, no one must know that there is no one who knows, no one does not know the existence, after all, the rapid development of the Internet has undergone earth-shaking changes for the lives of our people.
In fact, in addition to today's Internet giants and many private entrepreneurs, there are also many hermit families in China, these families are extremely low-key, but they have countless wealth, creating glorious achievements that are admired by the world, and even have a very important influence on China's political and business circles.
Today I will introduce these three families in detail.
The third place - the Liu family
As the most famous rich family in the mainland, the four Liu brothers in Sichuan are on the list.
The four Liu brothers were born in Chengguan Town, Xinjin County, Sichuan Province, the eldest Liu Yongyan, the second Liu Yongxing, the third Liu Yongmei, and the fourth Liu Yonghao. Taken together, it is the deep hope of their parents for them - "words and deeds are beautiful".
When the brothers were young, the family conditions were not good, but even if life was difficult, the parents did not give up the education of their four sons.
- Liu Yongyan, studied at Chengdu Institute of Telecommunications Engineering, and worked in the computer room of a state-owned unit after graduation;
- Liu Yongxing, graduated from teachers' college, and then successfully entered the Xinjin County Education Bureau;
- Liu Yongmei, who attended Sichuan Agricultural College, was assigned to Xinjin County as an agricultural technician after graduation;
- Liu Yonghao, graduated from Sichuan Provincial Electric University, was later assigned to teach in a middle school.
In that era, the four brothers had a very good job, which was an "iron rice bowl", and it was certain that they would be able to work until retirement without accident.
Fast forward to 1979, China entered a period of rapid economic development, the fate of many people changed at this moment, many young people have responded to the call to go to the sea to start a business.
In this environment, the four brothers are not willing to live a life so plainly, under a fierce ideological struggle, they decided to resign together and go to the sea to start a business!
In 1982, four people who quit their jobs sold their years of savings and valuable things, and barely scraped together 1,000 yuan as a start-up fund.
After a detailed investigation, the four finally decided to use the 1,000 yuan to build a breeding plant specializing in quail breeding, and named it "Hope".
Although the four brothers studied very well, none of them were good at breeding, so they could only read books and grope for their own learning, and finally successfully found a new set of techniques for breeding and breeding quails.
Since China's agriculture was not developed at that time, they used their original scientific breeding methods and soon earned the first pot of gold. For the next 6 years, they continued to farm quail, expanding the scale again and again, and earning their first 10 million.
At this time, it was not yet the nineties, and the existence of millions of yuan households was rare, and there were very few such multi-millionaires. Their achievements have been amazing, and it is conceivable.
After earning money by farming quail, the four brothers were not satisfied, and after a series of studies, they focused their careers on the feed market.
The four brothers found that because of the reform and opening up, rural families have become richer, every household has begun to raise pigs, pigs want to be fat and strong, they need to eat more feed, and at that time most of the feed needs to be imported.
In the face of this situation, the four brothers were a little angry, such a huge market, so in vain occupied by foreign companies, earning money that we Chinese. So without stopping, directly invested heavily in the establishment of China's own feed brand, using the new pig feed developed by the company, and soon made a name for the Xinjin Hope Feed Factory.
Xinjin Hope Feed Factory
With the business getting bigger and bigger, the four brothers set up the Liu Group, and according to their respective advantages, responsible for the various departments of the group, the boss Liu Yongyan mainly studied the development of the field of science and technology, Liu Yongxing and Liu Yonghao were responsible for the development planning of their branches, and Liu Yongmei was responsible for the steady use of existing industries.
In 1999, the net assets of the feed factory exceeded 1 billion yuan, from 1000 yuan in 1982 to 1 billion yuan in 1999, it took only 17 years for the four liu brothers to create an industry miracle that ordinary people could not imagine.
Finally, as the group grew larger, the four brothers decided to split up in order to develop better in their areas of expertise. Adhering to the principle of fairness and justice, one person received 25% of the shares of the feed factory, and then according to their respective contributions to the development of the group, the group was split, and the "hope" was used as their subsequent brand to continue to start a business.
As a real scientific and technological talent, Liu Yongyan founded the Hope Group; Liu Yongxing founded the Oriental Hope Group; Liu Yongmei founded the West China Hope Group; and Liu Yonghao founded the New Hope Group.
From the names of their respective groups, we can also see that although the four brothers have separated, their hearts are still closely linked, and they all put "hope" in their hearts and continue to pass on the original idea.
After the separation, in addition to the initial feed industry, they also involved in a number of fields, such as finance, real estate, aluminum and electricity, etc., and are also regular customers on the Forbes list and Hurun list.
In 2001, the youngest brother Liu Yonghao became the richest man in China, and in 2008, the second brother Liu Yongxing became the richest man in China, according to statistics, the total assets of the four brothers were at least 200 billion yuan.
To say that the four Liu brothers are most admired by everyone, it is that they have never been blinded by the monstrous wealth, and there are no various conflicts of interest in dog blood.
There are too many examples of mutual calculation between relatives after this success, and even some people will fight each other for money and status, but the four Liu brothers have always set their sights on the vast world outside, and they work together to develop the family business better, shining in their own areas of expertise, which is very admirable.
Second place - Bao Yugang family
Speaking of Li Ka-shing, everyone is certainly not unfamiliar, this by selling plastic flowers to obtain a million family wealth, and even many times known as the richest Chinese, but what everyone does not know is that before Li Ka-shing's development, the position of the richest Chinese belonged to the "world ship king" Bao Yugang.
Bao Yugang
Although bao Yugang has long since died today, his family still continues the scenery of his life, and his 500 billion inheritance is divided among his four daughters, who are not interested in the family business, but the four sons-in-law have taken his career to a higher level.
There is even a saying in Hong Kong: Under the Taiping Mountain, the city is the city of the Li family, and the port is the port of the Bao family. It's Li Ka-shing and Bao Yugang.
In 1918, Bao Yugang was born as Bao Zheng's 29th-generation grandson, and his father Bao Zhaolong was an ordinary businessman in Ningbo. Although the name of Bao Zheng's descendants sounded quite powerful, it was of little use in that turbulent and chaotic era.
Bao Zhaolong
For the sake of his son's future, but also to avoid the chaos of war, when Bao Yugang was a teenager, he was sent by his father to Shanghai Zhongxing Academy to study, and then he was admitted to Wusong Merchant Marine College.
"Commercial revitalization, must borrow the navigation industry, the development of the navigation industry, rely on talents", this is the original intention of the establishment of Wusong Merchant Marine College, but also because of the systematic study here, for Bao Yugang to devote himself to the navigation industry, and created a solid foundation for his own world.
In 1940, Bao Zhaolong went to Shanghai to open a silver trumpet, and originally wanted to arrange for Bao Yugang to return to his son to inherit his father's business and take up a post in the silver trumpet. But Bao Yugang was not willing to live this life according to his father's plan, so he quietly entered the Shanghai Bank.
When he first came to the bank, Bao Yugang was only a small teller, but with his own efforts to make progress, he was promoted to deputy general manager of the Bank of Shanghai in just 7 years.
At that time, he was not yet 30 years old, as a rising star in the financial industry, many people thought that Bao Yugang would always develop in the financial industry, but what people never expected was that at the end of 1948, Bao Yugang actually chose to leave Shanghai and go to Hong Kong to start a new journey of life.
At the beginning, he and his friends jointly opened a Chinese company, mainly engaged in import and export trade. Gradually, Bao Yugang found that Hong Kong, as a free port not subject to customs jurisdiction, ships are loading and unloading goods uninterruptedly every day, and the business opportunities in the maritime transport industry are much greater than import and export trade, so he made up his mind to develop the shipping industry.
After the decision was made, Bao Yugang found his father Bao Zhaolong to discuss the matter, but he was opposed by his father, after all, the investment in the development of the shipping industry was too large, and there were risks, and once it failed, the loss was heavy.
But Bao Yugang believed that this was the best time to develop the shipping industry, and finally under his persuasion, his father finally agreed to his idea and gave a large amount of money as support.
After scraping together $770,000, Mr. Bao bought an old cargo ship that had been in use for 28 years, with a displacement of 8,200 tons and powered by burning coal.
Bao Yugang named the ship "Jin'an" as the beginning of his sailing journey.
Jin An
At that time, most shippers would choose short-term charters in order to be able to profit from dynamic price fluctuations, after all, they would run once to settle the money, so that the money would come quickly. But Bao Yugang believes that this way of chartering ships is not a long-term solution, due to lack of trust, everyone can not find a partner who can cooperate for a long time.
So he did the opposite, directly chose the long-term lease method, the ship for 3 years, 5 years or even 10 years to rent to others to use, although in the face of his rent method, many peers are not optimistic, thinking that this layman will lose money.
But Bao Yugang has his own plans, he knows that only long-term rental, in order to harvest long-term partners, but also to open their own reputation, and partners to establish a relationship of trust, this is the most basic business.
Although short-term rentals come quickly, the waiting time between each lease is too long, and the loss of interest is not a small amount of free time added up.
But long-term leasing is different, both to ensure stable income, as well as a large amount of liquidity can buy more ships, in this way, Bao Yugang soon has his own fleet, and free up more time to systematically learn how to run the shipping business.
In the second year of Bao Yu's initial shipping business, the Suez Canal was forced to close its port due to the Egyptian war, which made shipping costs continue to rise. Being a short-term shipper makes a lot of money.
But the good times did not last long, and by the second half of 1957, the shipping industry had become more and more depressed, rental prices had fallen to the lowest point in history, and the short-term rental shippers were miserable and could only lose money.
And Bao Yugang because of the long-term rental contract signed with the partner, even if the industry depression, did not affect him in the slightest, at this time the peers had to admit that Bao Yugang is also a far-sighted, capable person in the shipping industry.
In this way, Bao Yugang's career has become bigger and bigger, and many partners have established long-term trust relationships, and even because of the good reputation in the industry, Japanese shipping merchants are even willing to let Bao Yugang drive the ship away first, and then slowly pay later.
In 1978, Bao Yugang's shipping career reached its peak, directly sitting on the throne of China's richest man, and the following year, with 202 shipping ships, Bao Yugang was known as the first of the "world's top ten ship kings".
Such a high net worth, naturally will be coveted by many women, but in the face of external temptations, Bao Yugang has never had the slightest heart, for him, the most important woman will always be his beloved wife Huang Xiuying.
Bao Yugang and his wife Huang Xiuying
In order to reassure his wife, he would report to her in time whatever he did, and in those decades, he had never had a scandal with any woman.
Other rich people are very puzzled by this, why has Bao Yugang never thought about young and beautiful women?
To this, Bao Yugang replied: "I already have five women in my family, where is the time to worry about other women?" ”
The five women in Bao Yugang's mouth, in addition to his wife Huang Xiuying, there are also their four Qianjin, namely the eldest daughter Bao Baoqing, the second daughter Bao Bao Rong, the third female Bao Bao Li and the fourth female Bao Peihui.
When the four daughters reached the age of starting a family, they all married to four different countries, because there were no sons, and the four daughters were not interested in the shipping business, so Bao Yugang's company was basically managed and operated by 4 sons-in-law.
Bao Yugang was the richest man this year, because of the news of his relatives, so he decided to return to China to find relatives, when he learned that the country was in urgent need of foreign exchange, he directly donated 20 million US dollars of foreign exchange.
Due to the huge amount, no staff dared to accept it, and in the end, Deng Gong made a decision, which accepted Bao Yugang's donation. At this time, although Bao Yugang joined the British nationality, for him, it was only for the convenience of business, in his mind, he will always be a Chinese.
Later, in order to promote the development of China's shipbuilding industry, Bao Yugang took out another 100 million US dollars to purchase ships from China, making great contributions to China's shipbuilding industry.
In 1985, due to physical reasons, Bao Yugang, after some deliberation, handed over the main business to his son-in-law Wu Guangzheng, while his property was divided equally among his four daughters.
Although there is no son to inherit his career, Bao Yugang does not feel regrets, whether it is the love of his daughters or the trust of his sons-in-law, it can show Bao Yugang's broad heart.
The first place - the Rong family
When it comes to the most mysterious and arrogant family in China, the Rong family is the well-deserved first. They have made indelible contributions to the economic development of our country, and even Chairman Mao has said: "The Rong family is the first household of the Chinese national capitalists, and they are the only ones in the world who can really be called a consortium." ”
Rong family chart
In fact, as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, Rong Desheng, the founder of the Rong family, was already the richest businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, monopolizing the textile industry and flour industry of the Qing Dynasty, and then his sons and grandsons also broke the rumor of "rich but not more than three generations" and developed the Rong family more and more powerful.
Rong Desheng, born in 1875 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was one of the 72 disciples of Confucius, and Rong Desheng, who had studied private school since childhood, went to Shanghai Qianzhuang as an apprentice at the age of 15 and opened his own money house from scratch.
Rong Desheng
Relying on accumulation, by 1901, the 26-year-old Rong Desheng and his brother Rong Zongjing opened a flour factory, and after earning the first pot of gold, they set foot in the textile industry, and by 1915, they had opened 9 textile factories across the country.
In the next 8 years, Rong Desheng's flour business became bigger and bigger, occupying nearly 30% of the country's share, relying on flour and textile factories, Rong Desheng and his brother became one of the largest capitalist industrialists in China at that time.
With the outbreak of war, in a patriotic spirit, Rong Desheng did not agree to Japan's acquisition requirements, but stubbornly held on until the victory of the War of Resistance, and established Tianyuan Industry, Tianyuan Hemp Textile Factory and Open Source Machine Factory in Wuxi.
In 1952, at the age of 77, Rong Desheng died of illness, and his estate was taken over by his fourth son, Rong Yiren.
Rong Yiren, born in Wuxi in 1916, at the time of his birth, the Rong family was already a well-known rich family in the country.
Rong
Because of his family's wealth, Rong Yiren received a good education from an early age, graduating from the History Department of St. John's University in Shanghai, which was one of the most famous in the country at that time, and many children of political celebrities studied here.
In the year of Rong Yiren's graduation, coinciding with the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Shanghai lost its former glory and became dilapidated under the continuous baptism of fire, and the Rong family's industry was constantly shrinking because of the war.
In the face of this situation, his uncle Rong Zongjing decided to go to Hong Kong to take refuge in order to avoid being coerced by the Japanese army, but because of physical reasons, he died of a recurrence of the old disease within two years, because of the death of Rong Zongjing, the family burden fell on his father Rong Desheng.
In order to share his father's worries, Rong Yiren began to assist his father in running his own industry, from the very beginning as an assistant manager in Wuxi Maoxin Flour Company, step by step, steady and steady, to the manager, and then to the chairman, almost all the positions have been understood.
The world only sees the infinite scenery of being the head of the Rong family, but they don't know how much effort and pressure to bear behind this.
At that time, the Nationalist government was under the rule of the Kuomintang, and the people did not even know where the future of China was. In order to resist the onslaught of the Communist Party, the Kuomintang will always use some kind of unwarranted excuse to plunder private enterprises, and as the proud family of the rich side, it is naturally impossible to be spared.
As for chiang ching-kuo's charge of arranging for the Rong family, "the loss of the northeast was because the army ate the moldy and rotten flour provided by the Rong family and diarrhea", this statement is really ridiculous, but it does not prevent them from sanctioning the Rong family and convicting Rong Yiren.
Fortunately, the Communists liberated Shanghai in time, Chiang Ching-kuo fled in a hurry, and Rong Yiren escaped the disaster.
According to his recollection, at that time, the Communists made great sacrifices to liberate Shanghai, but even after occupying Shanghai, they still treated the people without committing any crimes, did not disturb the people or housing, and just slept on the streets waiting for instructions.
PLA soldiers sleeping on the streets
This made Rong Yiren see the side of the Communist Party's single-mindedness for the people, which greatly touched his heart, and it was from that time that he made up his mind to resolutely support the Communist Party and advance and retreat with our Party.
Because of the turmoil, many entrepreneurs have decided to transfer assets and take refuge abroad, and Rong Yiren originally planned to send his children to Hong Kong, but at the moment when he saw the Communist Party entering Shanghai, Rong Yiren's heart completely settled.
He decided to stay in China, not to move the factory, not to leave, not only not to leave, but also to bring back all his relatives.
At this time, Rong Desheng had reached the age of ancient rarity, and rong Yiren was responsible for the affairs of the Rong family, although he was not very old, he was the head of the largest flour mill and textile enterprise in the country at that time.
With the help of the government, the Rong family successfully survived the trauma of the war and got back on their feet. In response to the call of the state, rongjia, as a local leader, actively responded to the social transformation plan held by Shanghai industry and commerce.
It took the lead in handing over all the project books of Rongshi enterprises to the government, fully assisted the government in checking the accounts, counting materials, and took the lead in proposing to carry out "public-private partnership" of Rongshi enterprises.
Rong Yiren believes from the bottom of his heart that this kind of change is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and with his support, other private enterprises have also responded, playing an important role in the revitalization and development of China's industry and commerce.
Even when Chairman Mao personally inspected the Rong's textile factory, when he saw Chairman Mao, Rong Yiren was so excited that he couldn't even speak, and after Chairman Mao saw him, he said kindly: "Don't you let me have time to come and see? Chairman Mao, after seeing all the account materials of Rong Yiren's enterprise handed over by Rong Yiren, praised him as a "completely law-abiding household."
Later, in the 1980s, in order to be able to develop the Rong family even more, Rong Yiren went from China to the world, exploring different fields with his men, until his death in 2005, at the age of 89.
Rong Zhijian, as rong Yiren's successor, took over the family responsibility from his father in 1987 and led the company to start a new chapter.
Rong Zhijian
As the old saying goes, "no more than three generations of wealth", the Rong family has gone through more than 120 years and is still brilliant.
epilogue
Some people may not know much about these three rich and mysterious families, but the story behind them is worth pondering, why they can always occupy a place in the long river of history, and why many seemingly brilliant families have become silent with the wheel of history?
Nowadays, it seems that they are all fixed in the dark, and the reason why they can be long-term is that they do not argue, are down-to-earth and steady, honesty-based, and in the face of the country's great righteousness, they can give up their own interests for the sake of the country and the people, so as to obtain a broader world of development.