The Qingliu Huo family, can't escape the infighting and turn their faces?
In January 2011, the gambling king family competition centered on He Hongshen caused a sensation across the country, and even CCTV News once came forward to report on the progress of the case.
Looking at the He family, which is vying for your life and death, many people have sighed one after another: Look at the Huo family, this is the dignity of the giants!
At that time, who did not praise Fok Yingdong's wisdom? If he had not taken precautions and arranged the development of the women in each house, perhaps several house women in the Huo family would also face the situation of "fighting for property when the father dies".
However, everyone's praise for the Huo family was still too early. In fact, not long after the He family property struggle case subsided, from the end of 2011, the Huo family began a long and trivial production drama, until January 11, 2022, the war was burning again.
Some people may ask, didn't it mean that Huo Yingdong had already left a will not to allow the houses to compete?
There is nothing wrong with this, Huo Yingdong is indeed wise to put an end to the women of each house competing for property, but who can think that the Huo family's war for property, there is no second or third room at all, all burned between the children of the long house.
If Huo Yingdong had a spirit in heaven, he would probably be speechless.
To understand this big melon, this production drama that can be called a classic case of infighting among the giants, we have to start slowly from the beginning...
One
Among the many giants in Hong Kong, the Ho family centered on the gambling king Ho Hung-sun and the Fok Ying Tung centered on the Fok Ying Tung are the representatives of the rich family.
From starting from scratch to creating a hundred million family business, Fok Ying Tung's life is wonderful, like Ho Hung-sin, in the era when polygamy was allowed in Hong Kong, he gave himself a beautiful remarriage of two wives after a successful career, according to the old society, that is, to have "one wife and two concubines" and enjoy the blessings of the Qi people.
The three wives gave birth to a total of 13 children to Huo Yingdong, but in addition to his wife Lu Yanni and the three sons and three daughters of the longhouse, the second wife Feng Jianni and the third wife Lin Shuduan and their children rarely appeared in front of the media, and the outside world did not know much about them.
With a huge family business and many children, one of the problems that Fok Yingdong often thinks about is how to avoid the flesh and blood rivalry of his children.
Fok Ying Tung, who has struggled all the way from poverty to a rich man, knows that wealth is not easy to come by, and he has seen more fights between hong Kong's high-class families, and he understands that no matter how big the industry is, it cannot withstand several family infighting, and if the property problem is not solved, the Huo family will sooner or later cause trouble.
Therefore, Huo Yingdong made a decision that he thought was foolproof, and he had made a rule in his early years that the children of the Huo family except the long house should not engage in business, which was equivalent to fundamentally cutting off the possibility of the women of the second and third houses contacting the "power center" and protecting the interests of the long house.
At this point, it is enough to see the position of Mrs. Lu Yanni in Huo Yingdong's heart, and for Huo Yingdong, this is also the only chaff wife who accompanies her out of poverty.
Under this decision of Huo Yingdong, none of the children of the second and third bedrooms of the Huo family really went into business, and most of them chose doctors, lawyers or other professions.
It may sound unfair, but Fok Ying-tung made a will in 1978 to make arrangements for the future livelihood of a large family.
Fok Ying Tung's will states that the wives and 13 children of each house are the beneficiaries of the estate, of which the members of the long house can receive about HK$20 billion, and the members of the second and third houses can get about HK$10 billion;
At the same time, the will instructs the trustee not to distribute the remaining estate for 20 years after Fok Ying Tung's death, but to pay a fixed monthly living expenses to each beneficiary.
Taking the long house as an example, Huo Zhenting and Huo Zhenyu can get a monthly "pocket money" of 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, Huo Zhenyu has received the most "monthly money" due to his father's main business, with 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the rest of the daughters can get 10,000 Hong Kong dollars.
In 2006, Fok Ying Tung died, leaving a legacy of HK$30 billion distributed according to his will made in his early years, because the will is very clear about the property and the future development of each house, so there is no unpleasantness between the long house and the partial house, and the partial house accepts its own fate.
In preventing the competition between the long house and the partial house woman, Huo Yingdong is wise and very far-sighted, he completed a great cause in his lifetime that he thought he had saved the family, but what he did not expect was that although the partial house did not have the ability to compete with the long house, the six children of the long house have since entered the situation of love and killing each other.
Two
The Huo family's longhouse has six children, namely Huo Zhenting, Huo Zhenhuan, huo Zhenyu's three brothers and Huo Liping, Huo Lina and Huo Lili's three sisters, and their mother is Huo Yingdong's main chamber, Lu Yanni.
Among them, the outside world has rumored that Huo Lili is actually a two-room and one vein, so it was not included in the long house for a time in the genetic competition.
Today's Huo family property dispute cases are mainly concentrated between the three brothers in huo's family's house, and the daughters of the Huo family are much more low-key than the daughters of the He Hongshen family, except for the family group photo, the outside world rarely hears of their deeds.
According to Huo Yingdong's vision, the three sons of Changfang each inherited a part of his career and divided the jiangshan he had laid down equally. Among them, Huo Zhenting mainly inherited the sports career, and Huo Qigang was able to catch up with Guo Jingjing that year, and it has to be said that with the help of his father's convenience in sports.
The second son of the longhouse, Huo Zhenhuan, inherited Fok Yingdong's business in the shopping mall, so in the Hong Kong business community, he can always see Fok Zhenhuan's figure, it is said that Fok Yingdong is very optimistic about Fok Zhenhuan's talent in the business field, he has achieved some results in his studies in his early years, he was admitted to Columbia University, his mind is very smart, so Fok Yingdong thinks he has great potential;
Huo Zhenyu, the younger son of Changfang, is relatively low-key compared to his two older brothers, and he inherits Huo Yingdong's development business in Nansha, and his father took him to the business field many times before his death.
On the surface, the three sons of Huo's family house as the children who benefited the most divided their father's inheritance equally, and the property division case of the Huo family, a rich family, should end at this point, but what everyone did not expect was that only five years after Huo Yingdong's death, the long house began to fall into a chicken flying dog jump.
In 2011, Huo Zhenyu, the youngest son of Changfang, filed a complaint against the beneficiaries of the Huo family's inheritance, the first defendant of which was his own second brother Huo Zhenhuan, in addition, his aunt Huo Muqin, the eldest brother Huo Zhenting and his sisters, including members of the Huo family's partial houses, were also involved in the lawsuit.
In the complaint, Huo Zhenyu claimed that the second brother Huo Zhenhuan had secretly embezzled his father's inheritance from everyone, and had monopolized power in the distribution of the inheritance, making a big fuss in the family; in addition, Huo Zhenhuan was also accused of threatening the members of Huo Zhenhuan's family to distribute the inheritance according to his suggestions, otherwise the inheritance would not be divided among them.
As for his aunt Huo Muqin, Huo Zhenyu said that Huo Muqin was old and frail, and he was powerless in the cause of inheritance, which was no different from the nominal executor, so he asked the judge to remove Huo Muqin's status as the executor of the inheritance.
After the news came out, it caused an uproar in the outside world. In the eyes of everyone, the Huo family is the representative of the Qingliu in the Hong Kong giants, when Fok Yingdong died, this family not only did not let the outside world see the joke, but also because of the harmony also once became the object of people's praise, how to live a stable life in a few years, the long house began to infighting?
In this inheritance battle, Huo Zhenyu's spearhead was always pointed at the second brother Huo Zhenhuan, because he was deeply trusted by his father Huo Yingdong and had participated in the distribution of inheritance.
Perhaps for this reason, Huo Zhenhuan caused dissatisfaction among the third brother, who believed that the second brother transferred the deposits of the three bank accounts jointly held with his father Fok Yingdong to his own bank account, and also sold the hk$5 billion equity of the family business "Huo Xingyetang Real Estate" and all the shares of three offshore companies worth HK$700 million, and deposited a total of HK$6.4 billion into his own name.
For his brother's accusations, Huo Zhenhuan refused to admit it, he said that the equity of the family business was bought by himself with real money and silver, completely reasonable and legal, there was no smuggling, in addition, three overseas companies were also delivered by his father Huo Yingdong in 1972, these shares were placed by Huo Yingdong in an envelope at that time, stored in Zurich, only himself and his father can dispose of.
Huo Zhenyu believed that he had been deceived by the second brother, and also believed that the second brother had bought the second and third rooms so that they were willing to sign the inheritance distribution agreement, which Huo Zhenhuan refused to admit.
In addition to the misbehaving of the second brother, Huo Zhenyu also dragged the eldest brother Huo Zhenting into the water, saying that he took the notebook that his father recorded all his property before his death, and demanded that the eldest brother hand it over in court.
In this way, Huo Zhenyu bit all the relatives around him who could "bite", cynically like a child who did not eat satisfactory candy.
Years later, when people look back at the Huo family's first property dispute, they will find that Huo Zhenyu is simply a wayward villain who discredits the family, and the Huo family's reputation for decades has been shattered by him.
The people of the whole country watched the Huo family's family lineage, pointing and lamenting that Huo's parents had a contrarian son, and even Fok Yingdong's former friend, Tung Chee-hwa, the former chief executive of Hong Kong, could not look at it anymore, intervened in the Huo family's property dispute to mediate, and finally reluctantly let the three sons of the long house reach a consensus in 2012.
Because of the intervention of celebrities, the lawsuit could not continue to be fought, Tung Chee-hwa did peacemakers, according to Fok Yingdong's will before his death, after removing the 10 billion Hong Kong dollars for the second and third bedrooms, the 20 billion Hong Kong dollars of property were divided equally among the three brothers, no one could receive more than 6.5 billion Hong Kong dollars of property, in addition, the two daughters Huo Liping and Huo Lina could obtain a minimum of 100 million yuan of property.
For this result, the three sons of the long house and the two daughters all nodded in agreement.
At this point, the first "big war" of the long house was over.
Three
As the saying goes, "once born and two times mature", for Huo Zhenyu, fighting a lawsuit is also the same thing.
Just when outsiders thought that the Huo family dispute over property was over, Huo Zhenyu unexpectedly made a big incident again, and in 2013, he sued his second brother Huo Zhenhuan in court again.
In this regard, Huo Zhenhuan said that he was completely unaware of it in advance, as if it was a "sneak attack on Pearl Harbor" and did not understand why his brother did this.
At that time, when Huo Zhenyu made a big fuss about the property dispute again, it was around the seventh anniversary of Huo Yingdong's death, and coincidentally, the trial time was still the same day as Fok Yingdong's death day, so Huo Zhenhuan expressed his hope to suspend the trial and did not want to deal with family disputes on this special day.
At the center of the second property dispute was still Huo Zhenyu and Huo Zhenhuan, who had been watching Huo Zhenhuan's actions from beginning to end, when he accidentally discovered that Fok Yingdong had symbolically sold his 25% stake in the Nansha project to the Fok Yingdong Foundation for charity through its Yourong company.
At that time, Yourong Company could repurchase shares before June 2007, but after expiration, Yourong Company did not repurchase, so the income generated by this part of the equity was not included in the estate settlement agreement, and it is reported that this part of the property is about HK$3 billion.
After Huo Zhenyu learned about it, he believed that Huo Zhenhuan was deliberately concealing himself and harming his own interests, and this second appeal demanded that the settlement agreement be revoked and the property be redistributed.
In addition to Huo Zhenyu, the two daughters of the longhouse, Huo Lina and Huo Liping, also joined the inheritance dispute, and the two believed that the property distributed to their sons was far more than their own, which was very unfair. Since then, Huo's parents' house has officially fallen into a scuffle.
As an old and good man, Huo Zhenting of course acted as a peacemaker throughout the whole process, and he did not want the family to get into strife, after all, this was not a good thing for anyone's career.
When the Huo family had a dispute over property for the second time, it was around the time of the marriage between Huo Qigang and Guo Jingjing, huo qigang, the head of huo's parents, and it was said that because of the dispute over property, the wedding budget of huo Qigang and Guo Jingjing was reduced by half.
Although Guo Jingjing was not treated badly by the Huo family, under the cloud of competition for production, the atmosphere of Guo Jingjing's first arrival at the Huo family can be imagined, so not long after marrying into the Huo family, Huo Qigang and Guo Jingjing officially moved out of the Huo family's house.
The case was repeatedly shelved, and it was not until 2015 that the court preliminarily ruled that Huo's two daughters and Huo Zhenyu could re-appeal the property dispute.
This time, the three of them riveted enough to win the lawsuit, and each invited a team that they thought was reliable, one was former Secretary for Justice Huang Renlong, who was hired by Huo Zhenhuan, and the other was senior barrister Yu Ruohai, representing Huo Zhenyu, two Hong Kong star lawyers will fight on the same stage in the Huo family property dispute case, and the pleading statements of the two sides are more than 1,000 pages, and it will take 4 or 5 days just to explain the case, which is a big war.
On January 11, 2022, the long-shelved lawsuit officially began and will last for 60 days.
The court required that the five children of the long house must all be present, and these five people also said that they would attend at that time, but Huo Zhenting did not appear that day, and Huo Zhenhuan and Huo Lina appeared in the court on the same day.
In fact, no matter how the Huo family property dispute case develops, the emotional breakdown between the Huo family brothers and sisters is already a fact, no matter who is the ultimate beneficiary, for the Huo family, it seems that it is not a glorious thing.
When Huo Yingdong died in 2006, he had written in his will that 20 years after his death, the family could not be separated, and he originally hoped that the Huo family would be tightly bound to his will through trust, but now it seems that not long after his death, the Huo family has fallen into disintegration.
Nowadays, society is constantly evolving and moving forward, and the old-fashioned big family like the Huo family will only become less and less in the future, and as a product of history, it will eventually disappear in the process of time.
From the perspective of the new era, the disintegration of the big family is actually a normal thing, whether it is because of their own development or property entanglements, everyone will find their own place in the society, it is simply impossible to live in harmony as Huo Yingdong wishes, which is also an aspect that Huo Yingdong did not think carefully before his death.
In addition, a wealthy family like the Huo family actually needs to be cautious when distributing the inheritance, although Fok Yingdong trusts his family members more, and it is understandable that he should be the chief executor of the inheritance.
However, it is obvious that doing so is easy to make other family members feel unfair, and it is even more testing the executor's ability to "carry water" in the distribution of the estate, and, without restricting the power of the executor, it is easy to let the executor have too much freedom in the distribution of property, resulting in unfair distribution of the estate.
After all, being a referee and an athlete is going to happen after all.
Nowadays, it seems that the Huo family's family house, which holds wealth and family rights, has fallen into a chicken feather because of "property", while the second and third houses of the Huo family have harvested a calm because they have long been far away from the center of right and wrong, and now they receive their own family property on a monthly basis, living a life that is not rich and noble, but must be decent and leisurely, which may be called the loss of the East Corner to harvest the mulberry.
In the Huo family's partial room, the more famous are Huo Wenfang and Huo Wenxun in the second room, the former because of smuggling angered Huo Yingdong, long ago disappeared into the ranks of the Huo family, the latter became a very famous doctor, quite accomplished in medicine, is the huo family's descendants of the "quality" of the representative.
Overall, the most exposed is the Huo family's long house, Huo Zhenting's three sons Huo Qigang, Huo Qishan and Huo Qiren needless to say, are often reported by the media, Huo Zhenhuan's daughter and two sons are also reported, and Huo Zhenyu's family is slightly mysterious, and the two sons Huo Qitai and Huo Qizhi rarely appear in the outside world.
In this way, the biggest name of the Huo family today is the Huo Zhenting family, because of Guo Jingjing's reasons, Huo Qigang has also appeared in various sports reports many times, plus Guo Jingjing is deeply loved by her mother-in-law Zhu Lingling and the Huo family's main room Lu Yanni, and it is frequently appearing in the front page headlines of Hong Kong news.
epilogue:
Looking at the current situation of the Huo family, it can only be said that the part of human nature driven by money and desire, whether it is the common people or the rich family, is inevitable, and family affection is particularly fragile under the consideration of interests.
We don't know what the outcome of the Huo family's property struggle will end, but one thing is certain, that is, in this decade-long family infighting, no one will be the winner.
Author: Black Cat