On October 15, 2008, when Wang Yongqing went to the United States to handle the company's business, he died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 91. Because he never left a will before his death, after his death, his wife and 9 children fought a series of lawsuits for the distribution of the inheritance, which caused major television stations and newspapers in Taiwan to report on it and make a sensation.
Dafang Guo Yuelan has no children, but she is the wife of Wang Yongqing Ming media, according to the provisions of Taiwan's Marriage Law, half of the property can be divided equally nearly 30 billion Taiwan dollars, the second and third rooms are not satisfied, believing that according to Taiwan's pre-1985 regulations on de facto marriage, the two of them should also enjoy part of the right to spouses, and can jointly divide the property in the name of their spouses with Guo Yuelan.
The eldest son, Wang Wenyang, because he is the "heir" under Guo Yuelan's name, he strongly supports his aunt Guo Yuelan as the "only legal spouse" who can share the most property, for this reason, the three rooms Li Baozhu and her daughters also angrily reprimanded Wang Wenyang through lawyers for "six relatives do not recognize".
After that, after a series of lawsuits and property analysis and mediation, the final plan was that Guo Yuelan, the wife of the big house, obtained the formosa plastics shares worth 14.9 billion Taiwan dollars at the time, the second wife Yang Jiao and the third house wife Li Baozhu divided the other 14.9 billion yuan equally, and the remaining 29.8 billion Taiwan dollars of shares were counted as Wang Yongqing's inheritance, and after deducting tens of billions of inheritance taxes, Guo Yuelan, Yang Jiao, Li Baozhu and 9 children were divided equally among 12 people, each of whom could receive 1.24 billion Taiwan dollars.
In November 2008, a 52-year-old man named Luo Wenyuan filed a complaint with the Taipei court, asking for a DNA test with Wang Yongqing's family, saying that he and his sister Luo Xuezhen and sister Luo Xueying were wang Yongqing's children born out of wedlock, demanding to "recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors" and inherit the inheritance.
Since then, the three sisters and brothers of Luo Shi have fought a lawsuit for 12 years, and although they have won many lawsuits and have been confirmed by the court as Wang Yongqing's biological children, their half-siblings have collectively appealed for a new trial (equivalent to the retrial system in the mainland), not allowing them to be surnamed "Wang" or "recognizing their ancestors and returning to their ancestors".
Among the three children standing outside the door of Taiwan's richest man, the eldest Luo Xuezhen is now 68 years old, and the youngest Luo Xueying is seriously ill and dying, talking about this long road of recognition, Luo Wenyuan was sad and tearful, sighing that the little sister did not know whether she could live to the day when she changed her surname to "Wang".
1. The mother of the Luo brothers and sisters lives in the same street as the big house and the second room, and has lived together for six years and has not been able to enter the door
Wang Yongqing is the son of a tea farmer, when he was a teenager, he was very ambitious, when he was 16 years old, he borrowed 200 yuan from others to set up a rice shop, he was smart, hardworking, diligent, and went all out for the rice shop business, after each purchase, he picked up the stones and debris in the rice overnight, and delivered to the door, the quality and service were much higher than others, and soon made a big business, from the beginning of selling 12 buckets a day to later selling more than 100 buckets of rice per day, 1943, Wang Yongqing used the money accumulated from ten years of rice sales to return to his hometown to buy 50 acres of land, which changed the family's economic difficulties.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Yongqing switched to a timber business and made a profit of 50 million yuan, settling his family in a new house on Chengde Road in Taipei.
Wang Yongqing's wife, Guo Yuelan, had no children for 13 years after marriage, and in 1946, Wang Yongqing married a 19-year-old Yang Jiao, a female worker in a rice shop.
According to Yang Jiao's later recollections, Wang Yongqing once saved her adoptive father's life, when he proposed to her, he did not mention his marriage history, after Yang Jiao agreed, Wang Yongqing said that he had a family and promised to divorce as soon as possible, but his divorce request was strongly opposed by his father Wang Changgeng, and finally, the meek Yang Jiao agreed to be Wang Yongqing's second wife, and gave birth to the chang queen Guiyun in 1947.
Wang Yongqing and Yang Jiao
After giving birth to her daughter, Yang Jiao entered the door of the Wang family and lived with Guo Yuelan, the big house, and was insulted by Guo Yuelan many times, but Yang Jiao sympathized with Guo Yuelan's situation, always went against the grain, and got along for a long time, and she and Guo Yuelan actually formed a deep friendship.
When Wang Yongqing founded a wood factory and a plastic factory, taipei's home often had guests in the door, workers also ate at home, and had to cook three or four tables of rice every day, Guo Yuelan and Yang Jiao worked tirelessly and worked together, getting up at dawn every day and busy in the kitchen, full of hope to support Wang Yongqing's career development through their own hard work.
In 1949, Yang Jiao gave birth to her second daughter Wang Xueling, and in 1951 she gave birth to her eldest son Wang Wenyang, Guo Yuelan loved Wang Wenyang, who looked like a tiger, and listed him as her "heir" in her name, as if she were her own child, in 2010, after the end of Wang Yongqing's inheritance lawsuit, she immediately transferred the Formosa Plastics stock worth 15.7 billion yuan to Wang Wenyang's three children.
In 1952, Wang Yongqing met the birth mother of Luo's brother Lin Mingzhu, Lin Mingzhu was 17 years old at the time, working as a waiter in Taipei's Beitou Hot Spring Hotel, in order to entertain guests, Wang Yongqing often came to Beitou Hot Spring to consume, vacation, and Lin Mingzhu gradually became acquainted and fell in love, after a period of time, he let Lin Mingzhu quit his job and become his lover.
In order to facilitate the two to meet, Wang Yongqing rented a house for Lin Mingzhu not far from his home, at that time, everyone in the business field knew that Lin Mingzhu was his "three-room" wife, if she did not gamble to leave, Li Baozhu who entered the door could only be regarded as a "four-room", according to Luo Wenyuan's sister and brother recalled, in the early 50s, Lin Mingzhu's residence and Wang Yongqing's big room and the house where the second room lived were on the same street, only a few house numbers.
Lin Mingzhu
In 1954, Lin Mingzhu gave birth to the eldest daughter Luo Xuezhen, in 1956 gave birth to a son Luo Wenyuan, seeing the children born one after another, Wang Yongqing was very happy, let Lin Mingzhu's daughter and Yang Jiao's daughter use the "snow" character name, so that her son also uses the "Wen" character on the family tree like Wang Wenyang and others, every day after work, he will first visit Lin Mingzhu here, and then return to his home to eat and rest.
But after living together for many years, Wang Yongqing never had the intention of marrying her home, not only that, in April 1957, Wang Yongqing met the popular dancer Li Baozhu in the night show of the "Black Beauty Hotel" on Boai Road in Taipei, and fell in love with Li Baozhu, and in August of that year, he and Li Baozhu publicly arranged a wedding banquet and married Li Baozhu as a third-room wife.
At that time, the marriage in Taiwan had not yet implemented the registration system, and the requirements for the identification of marriage were "two witnesses and public ceremony", but it was such a simple procedure, but Wang Yongqing had been dragging on for Lin Mingzhu, who had three children and failed to "turn right".
On the contrary, he knew Li Baozhu, who had a history of marriage and a daughter, for only 4 months, so he held a grand wedding banquet, and took Li Baozhu to Hong Kong to register and marry as the "three rooms", which made Lin Mingzhu, who was pregnant again, sad and heartbroken.
2. The three children changed their surnames, and after more than 50 years, they fought a lawsuit to "recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors"
In 1958, after giving birth to the youngest daughter Luo Xueying, the stimulated Lin Mingzhu and Wang Yongqing constantly quarreled, the relationship was completely broken, and soon, Lin Mingzhu was angry and moved away from the Chengde Road mansion arranged by Wang Yongqing for her, raising three children alone, Wang Yongqing came to her residence many times to visit the children, and sent people to send living expenses.
However, at this time, Wang Yongqing wholeheartedly loved Li Baozhu, who had just married into the door, and not only did not care about Lin Mingzhu, but also had cold feelings for his wife Guo Yuelan and his second wife Yang Jiao.
Wang Yongqing and Li Baozhu
In 1959, after Li Baozhu gave birth to Wang Yongqing's eldest daughter Wang Ruihua, the center of gravity of Wang Yongqing's feelings completely shifted to Li Baozhu, and since then, Li Baozhu has been with Wang Yongqing for a long time, not only carefully taking care of his life and living, but also showing his face outside, helping Wang Yongqing take care of business as "Mrs. Dongza", and is revered as the "Third Lady", Lin Mingzhu can rarely see Wang Yongqing in addition to occasionally getting some living expenses.
Wang Yongqing, Li Baozhu and their four daughters accompanied Wang Yongqing's mother on a tour of the stadium
In 1960, Wang Yongqing's formosa plastics business became increasingly prosperous, becoming one of the top two plastic factories in Taiwan, but Lin Mingzhu, who was frustrated in the love scene, did not linger on this rich life, nor hoped that her children could get the property of the Wang family, and a few months later, she took her three children to Kaohsiung to live, far away from Wang Yongqing.
At that time, someone introduced a Kaohsiung civil servant Luo Jingqi to her, in order to avoid being said to be "unmarried and having children", 25-year-old Lin Mingzhu married Luo Jingqi with Wang Yongqing's three children, and let the children follow their stepfather's surname Luo, and later gave birth to several children.
During this period, the Luo family and Wang Yongqing did not break off contact, every winter and summer vacation, Lin Mingzhu would take the three of them to Taipei, let the three sisters and brothers meet with Wang Yongqing, Luo Wenyuan said, this short opportunity to get along is the most cherished moment for their three sisters and brothers.
Luo Wenyuan looked like Wang Yongqing when he was young, as if carved out of a mold, Yang Jiao, Li Baozhu and others already knew of his existence, but they avoided talking about the unmarried children outside the Wang family.
Wang Yongqing, Luo Wenyuan, Wang Wenyang
In 1970, Luo Jingqi and Lin Mingzhu returned to Taipei with a large family to settle down, and in 1975, the family moved to Beitou, not far from their home is Formosa Plastics' Beitou Guandu Fiber Processing Factory (the predecessor of the Three Gorges Factory), with a spectacular scale and many employees, making the Luo siblings very proud of their father.
At that time, Wang Yongqing's Formosa Plastics Building had been completed, and the shares of Formosa Plastics and South Asia Formosa Plastics had been listed successively, becoming the "richest man in Taiwan", and Lin Mingzhu, who was very optimistic about the prospects of Formosa Plastics, specially took out 2.5 million yuan of savings to buy Formosa Plastics shares, and registered all the shares in Luo Wenyuan's name.
In 2004, after the death of Lin Mingzhu, the stock under Luo Wenyuan's name rose to more than 80 million Taiwan dollars, but he also had a dispute with his stepfather Luo Jingqi, Luo Jingqi said that the money he bought the stock was from him, Luo Wenyuan did not recognize, he believes that over the years, Wang Yongqing has also continuously sent people to give them three sisters and brothers living expenses, Lin Mingzhu is not without financial ability.
After that, Luo Jingqi, who was seriously ill, specially wrote a letter to Wang Yongqing, saying that Lin Mingzhu had died, and Wang Yongqing should give an explanation to their three sisters and brothers to confirm that they were the flesh and bones of the Wang family, but Wang Yongqing did not reply to the letter in time to deal with it, but put the letter into his important information folder, and later used it in court as evidence of Luo's three sisters and brothers.
Shortly after writing the letter, Luo Jingqi also died of illness, and in October 2008, after hearing the news of Wang Yongqing's death, the three sisters and brothers of Luo Shi wanted to attend the funeral of their biological father, but Wang Yongqing's queen Guiyun came to them specifically, repeatedly telling them not to participate in Wang Yongqing's farewell ceremony, but to pay respects to the remains privately.
Family portrait photo of Mrs. Wang Yongqing's wife in the third room
Sure enough, after the burial of Wang Yongqing, the second and third rooms and their children each fought a inheritance lawsuit, turning a blind eye to the embarrassing three sisters and brothers of Luo Shi.
Unwilling to be left out in the cold, on November 28, 2008, he not only took the Wang family to court, but also shouted through the media, asking wang Yongqing's other children to test their DNA to determine blood relations.
At this time, it was exactly 50 years since Lin Mingzhu took his three children to run away, and over the years, even if Wang Yongqing was alive, Lin Mingzhu did not want the Luo family brothers and sisters to "recognize their ancestors and return to the ancestors", but in the face of the large inheritance left behind by Wang Yongqing, the three sisters and brothers of the Luo family did not have the resolute determination of their mothers, but fought a long lawsuit for property.
3. After 14 years of acknowledgment, it has not been able to "return to the sect" and divide the property
For Luo Wenyuan's shouting, at first, the Wang family's rooms were cold treatment, no one came forward to respond, the big house wife Guo Yuelan did not recognize that Luo's three sisters and brothers were Wang Yongqing's flesh and bones, and the second room and the third house women refused to test DNA with Luo's sisters and brothers.
However, a month later, Wang Wenyang, the eldest son of the second house, suddenly changed his attitude and publicly declared to the media: "It should be true." He also claimed that if the Luo brothers and sisters were really Wang Yongqing's flesh and bones, he would take care of him as the eldest son, and "if he should give it to others, he will give it to others."
Wang Wenyang and Luo Wenyuan
As the sole heir of Guo Yuelan, he can get a large share of Wang Yongqing's property and get Taiwan plastics stock worth 15 billion Taiwan dollars, and the 1.24 billion Taiwan dollars inherited from his father is irrelevant to him, and if the Luo brothers and sisters can join the team of the inheritance, the property obtained by the four daughters of the three houses Li Baozhu will be diluted.
As the eldest son, Wang Wenyang was expelled from the Desu Group, and the management of Formosa Plastics fell into the hands of several daughters of Li Baozhu of the Three Houses, Wang Wenyang had been grumpy for many years, and in order to fight back against the three house women, he began to take the initiative to release kindness to the three sisters and brothers of Luo.
After the first instance trial, in the courtroom of the Taipei District Court, Lin Zhaoxun, The nephew of Lin Mingzhu, testified:
"When I was in junior high school, I lived with my aunt, when Wang Yongqing interacted with my aunt, visited once or twice a month, and gave ginseng and gold nuggets when I gave birth to a child, Wang not only bought a house for my aunt, but also continued to support them with living expenses."
Wang Yongqing's secretary Tu Ailing also confirmed that in the thirty years before Wang Yongqing's death, he met with Luo Wenyuan almost every year, and every time he arranged it through her, Luo Xueying also took a photo with Wang Yongqing in the office, she said:
"The chairman died, and they (The three sisters and brothers of Luo Shi) also assisted in the visit of the remains through the manager Yang Zhaolin, which ordinary people are not allowed to see."
In April 2011, the Taipei District Court held in the first instance that, based on the existing evidence, Wang Yongqing had continued to take care of the three Luo brothers and their birth mother Lin Mingzhu for many years, and also met with the three sisters and brothers from time to time, which could be regarded as Wang Yongqing claiming three people, and the Wang family refused to verify the DNA without reason, which could reverse the establishment of the parent-child relationship, so the three sisters and brothers were ruled in favor.
After hearing the verdict, Wang Wenyang generously said: "Luo Wenyuan is more like his father than himself. He also happily told the media: "I have known their sister and brother since I was a child, and if he is not (the flesh and blood of the Wang family), I will feel very strange." ”
However, the next day, his little brother, Wang Wenxiang, the second son of the second room, retorted to the eldest brother through the media: "I don't think it's quite like that." ”
After the first-instance judgment came out, Wang Yongqing's third wife and children changed their methods to prevent Luo's brothers and sisters from recognizing their relatives, and they appealed to the Taipei High Court collectively, holding that even if Luo Wenyuan's three sisters and brothers were Wang Yongqing's own flesh and bones, they were adopted by Luo Jingqi as early as 50 years ago, and there was an adoption relationship with Luo Jingqi, and they could no longer return to the Wang family to "recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors" and could not become Wang Yongqing's children in the legal sense.
On December 3, 2013, after several fierce arguments and evidence, the three sisters and brothers of Luo Shi won the second-instance trial, and the Taipei High Court held that Wang Yongqing and Lin Mingzhu had no intention of letting others adopt children before they died, and ruled that the three sisters and brothers were Wang Yongqing's biological children.
The Wang family was unwilling to accept this verdict, and they appealed again to the "Supreme Court" in Taipei, and soon, the "Supreme Court" of Taipei held that Luo Jingqi had raised the third sister and brother since childhood for nearly 50 years, and could not be found to have no adoption relationship, revoked the first and second instance judgments, and sent the case back to "more trial", so that the recognition of the three sisters and brothers of Luo Shi became far away.
In February 2014, the angry Luo Wenyuan's three siblings, contrary to their previous low-key harmony, published an article on the Internet through lawyers entitled "Although We Are Humble, We Don't Allow You to Trample on", angrily denouncing the flesh and bones of the second room and the third room for "looking at people with their nostrils" and "thinking that they are righteous", only the eldest son of the nine siblings, Wang Wenyang, is willing to reconcile with them, and the other eight siblings obstruct in every way, wanting to nail the third sister and brother as sinners on the "cross" of "accepting adoption", at the end of the article, Luo Wenyuan blamed the second and third rooms for not being qualified to prevent them from being surnamed "Wang". They said that their sister and brother just wanted to call Wang Yongqing a "daddy" and be able to look up in society.
For his declaration of war article, the second and third house women responded through lawyers that although Luo's three sisters and brothers were Wang Yongqing's flesh and bones, Luo Jingqi had raised them for 50 years after all, and as long as they admitted that they were Luo's adopted children, everything else was easy to talk about.
Although the scenes on both sides are beautifully spoken, the clear-eyed people know at a glance that the core issue is still the legacy.
Wang Yongqing's assets in Taiwan are only 60 billion Taiwan dollars (nearly 2 billion US dollars), but overseas assets are as high as 8.1 billion US dollars, which is the most worrying problem for the two-bedroom and three-house women, if the three sisters and brothers of Luo Shi are qualified as heirs, they can each share at least NT$10 billion in net worth.
Because the litigation situation was unfavorable to the Luo siblings, the three luo brothers and sisters had to reach a reconciliation with all the children of Wang Yongqing in order to "recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors." For this reason, Luo Wenyuan later called on the eldest sister Wang Guiyun to "raise his noble hand" and asked her to take the lead in abandoning the appeal, so that the three of them could change their surname to Wang at the household affairs office, and begged that their younger sister Luo Xueying had been lying ill for many years, "I don't know if I can survive until the day when I change my surname to Wang", after which the Luo brothers and sisters reached a settlement with Wang Wenyang and obtained a small amount of property.
In fact, when Wang Yongqing was alive, he regarded the inheritance of property by his children very lightly, he put most of his property in the 5 trust funds in the United States, is to continue to donate to the charity in various parts of China through the way of trust, to repay the society, not to leave for the children, so until the age of 91, he did not leave any will on the distribution of property, the trust fund only set up an administrator, did not set up any beneficiaries, in his heart, he had long believed that this money is social wealth and should benefit China.
And for Luo Wenyuan's son, Wang Yongqing has always felt that he is not the material for business, Luo Wenyuan got a master's degree in business administration and an accountant in the United States when he was young, and when he returned to Taiwan, he was more than 30 years old, working at Formosa Plastics South Asia Company, Wang Yongqing said to him very disapprovingly: "You really know (Hokkien, referring to nothing), I have 20 million US dollars in property at your age, but you receive a salary of 40,000 or 50,000 Taiwan dollars. ”
When Wang Yongqing was old, he also suggested to Luo Wenyuan many times that he liked literature and simply abandoned business and literature to do some cultural undertakings. Therefore, after Wang Yongqing's death, Luo Wenyuan obeyed his father's wishes, quit his job, and returned to his hometown in Xindian to fight a lawsuit while writing a novel.
Behind Wang Yongqing, the inheritance lawsuits that have been disturbed one after another have been fought for more than ten years, and they have not ended so far, I am afraid that he did not expect it before his death, and it is also very contrary to his original intention.
Reference article sources: Taiwan's Lianhe Pao, China News Network