In 2002, an old lady named Qiu Biyun died at the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital at the age of 93.
You know, her identity is not simple, she is Li Ka-shing's mother-in-law.
Qiu Biyun came from a humble background, and when she married Zhuang Jingan, Zhuang Jingan had not yet made a fortune;
After marriage, she accompanied her husband to start a business in Hong Kong, but did not expect the business to grow bigger and bigger, and her husband later became a famous watch king in Hong Kong. Today, the net worth of the bookmaker is also tens of billions.
Qiu Biyun gave birth to only one daughter, Zhuang Yueming, who broke through all kinds of resistance and insisted on marrying his cousin --- Li Ka-shing.
Qiu Biyun comes from a humble background, is not a wealthy family, and she has not given birth to a son, but she can be said to be the richest woman in Hong Kong.
Why do you say that? And listen to what I will tell you below.
Zhuang Mingyue was born in 1932, at this time, her mother Qiu Biyun was 23 years old, and her father Zhuang Jingan was 24 years old.
According to available information, in 1935, because of the spread of domestic artillery, 27-year-old Zhuang Jingan took his family to Hong Kong to make a living.
When he first arrived in Hong Kong, he and his wife Qiu Biyun made cloth straps at home and sold them to watch shops in Hong Kong, where orders flew like snowflakes because of their high quality and low price.
While in the watch strap business, Sho Jingan found that selling watches was particularly profitable. So, together with his wife Qiu Biyun, he founded Hong Kong Zhongnan Watch Co., Ltd., specializing in the watch business. After that, the business of Zhuang Jingan became bigger and bigger, becoming the king of watches in Hong Kong.
When she first arrived in Hong Kong, Zhuang Mingyue was only 2 years old, and before that, her father, Zhuang Jingan, had developed in Guangzhou.
Shojingan
A native of Teochew, Zhuang Jingan was born in 1908.
He studied privately at home for several years, equivalent to a primary school degree, and as a teenager, he went to Guangzhou as an apprentice to earn a living at a silver trumpet. (It should be introduced by acquaintances, and the silver number recruitment at that time needed to know the roots)
Zhuang Jingan was very clever and diligent, and after a few years, he was appreciated by his boss and promoted him to manager. He later dabbled in trade.
In 1935, in order to escape the war, he took the savings from many years of work and went to Hong Kong with his family.
Troubled times have brought pain to many people, but they have also brought opportunities to others. If it were not forced to go to Hong Kong, Zhuang Jingan might not have a future fortune.
At the right time, stepping into the watch industry is an opportunity for Zhuang Jingan to open the road to wealth.
Since the 50s, Zhuang Jingan began to assemble Swiss watches for sale, a decision that played a very important role in his future fortune.
Five years later, Zhuang Jingan obtained the distribution rights of brands such as Swiss Ledu watches, and since then his business has grown in size.
In 1976, when the quartz clock was born, Zhuang Jingan set up a number of factories in Hong Kong, and also built the Zhongnan Building, and overseas orders poured in to him at this time.
In the mid-80s, Zhuang Jingan opened factories in the mainland.
In addition to the watch business, Zhuang Jingan also got involved in clothing wholesale and trading business in the 60s of the last century. At that time, the business in this area was also very profitable.
In the 90s, the Zhuang family began to act as agents for overseas clothing and footwear brands, including Clarks, Josef Seibel, ECCO, etc., and they began to establish retail outlets.
The bookmaker apparel business is operated by HKU Retail. The company went public in Hong Kong in 2013.
In addition, the bookmaker also founded Zhongnan Chuangfa Company, which is a company in the field of electronics, which masters the core technologies such as touch panel and metal injection molding, and is in a leading position in the industry.
The bookmaker's Zhongnan Watch Company has not been listed, which makes it difficult for the outside world to know how much wealth the bookmaker has in total.
However, according to the estimates of relevant people, the wealth of the Zhuangjingan family should exceed 10 billion.
Zhuang Yueming was her parents' first child and her mother's only child, and after she was born, her mother did not give birth again.
According to the information that can be found, Zhuang Jingan later married the second room, called Huang Huijun, this second wife is very capable of giving birth, and gave birth to 6 children to Zhuang Jingan in one breath: three sons and three daughters.
In which year Huang Huijun married Zhuang Jingan, there is no way to find relevant information, but he should have married after making his fortune in Hong Kong's watch business.
In those days, it was common for rich people to marry their aunts.
There is very little information about the second wife Huang Huijun on the Internet, and the bookmaker is too low-key in this regard.
Zhuang Jingan is still a person who values affection, although Qiu Biyun did not give birth to a son, but her position as the eldest wife has always been very stable, and everyone in the family respects her very much.
The second wife of Zhuang Jingan has never appeared in front of the media, so the outside world once thought that Zhuang Jingan's three sons were born to Qiu Biyun.
Zhuang Yueming is the only child of Dafang, so Zhuang Jingan has high hopes for her and has allowed her to receive a high-quality education from an early age.
Zhuang Yueming attended a high-level academy, which at that time, only rich children could enter and go to school.
Zhuang Yueming was later admitted to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and after graduating from university, she went to Japan to study. She speaks English and Japanese very fluently.
For business management, Zhuang Yueming has been familiar with business management since she was a child, her vision is extremely broad, and she is also very professional in business administration.
When Zhuang Yueming first met Li Ka-shing, she was only 7 years old, which is the age of innocence.
One day, wearing small leather shoes and carrying a school bag, she jumped home from school, and as soon as she entered the living room, she saw a big boy dressed in rustic clothes standing in her home. This big boy is Li Ka-shing.
In 1939, due to the war in the mainland, Li Ka-shing's parents brought him to Hong Kong to make a living. I just arrived in Hong Kong and had nowhere to stay, so I stayed at my uncle Zhuang Jingan's house.
Zhuang Yueming looked at this cousin curiously:
I saw that he was relatively thin and small, and the clothes he wore were also very old, which formed a sharp contrast with the brand new and beautiful school uniform worn by Zhuang Yueming.
The mother saw her come home and said to her, "Call your cousin, this is your cousin, he is 4 years older." ”
Zhuang Yueming was only 2 years old when she left the mainland, and she definitely didn't remember what happened before she was 2 years old, so this was the first time she saw her cousin.
After that, the cousin's family lived in Zhuang Yueming's house.
Li Ka-shing soon entered a school in Hong Kong, but his English could hardly understand what the teacher said.
At this time, Zhuang Yueming acted as Li Ka-shing's little teacher, teaching him English.
Zhuang Yueming is studying in the Anglo-Chinese Girls' School run by the church, and the teachers use English in class, so her English is very fluent.
Anglo-Chinese Girls' School, Hong Kong
When Li Ka-shing was 15 years old, his father died of illness.
At that time, Zhuang Jingan offered to sponsor Li Ka-shing to continue his education, but Li Ka-shing refused, and he decided to take on the responsibility of supporting his family. Because he is the eldest son.
Li Ka-shing has a younger brother and a sister, and his mother has been a housewife for many years, and under these circumstances, the self-reliant Li Ka-shing decided to give up the opportunity to go to school to his younger siblings.
He declines his uncle's kindness and decides to go out to work and earn money to support the crumbling home.
Li Ka-shing was only 15 years old at the time, and after he dropped out of school, he went to a tea house as a running hall, where he worked for a year, tasted the warmth and coldness of the world, and saw all kinds of faces.
He decided to work hard and became an apprentice and shop assistant in his uncle's watch company.
After working for two years in his uncle's company, he decided to go out and look for opportunities on his own.
At the age of 18, Li Ka-shing left his uncle's company to work as a salesman in a hardware store, and began to walk the streets to sell the company's products.
Two years later, at the age of 20, Li Ka-shing was promoted to manager of the company by his boss, but he soon jumped ship to a plastic company.
At that time, the plastic industry was a new industry, and plastic products were very popular in Hong Kong. Li Ka-shing feels that there are opportunities in this emerging industry. Just like my uncle chose to start a business in the watch industry.
At the plastic company, his performance quickly became a sales champion. Li Ka-shing was not only in charge of sales, he also figured out the entire production process of the plastic factory, after which he decided to go it alone.
In the summer of 1950, Li Ka-shing founded the Yangtze River Plastic Factory with 50,000 yuan:
Of which 7,000 yuan is the savings of these years of work,
The other 43,000 yuan was borrowed from my uncle's family.
Li Ka-shing earned his first 1 million yuan by making plastic flowers.
Changjiang Plastic Factory
He sold fashionable and realistic plastic flowers to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, becoming the world's largest plastic flower manufacturer at that time, and made a lot of money in just a few years.
Later, when the plastic factory did not have enough buildings, Li Ka-shing saw opportunities in the real estate industry in the process of searching for a new factory.
The above is Li Ka-shing's part-time job and entrepreneurial road, he worked for others for 7 years before starting his own business. The money he earns from his part-time job is not easy to be responsible for the living expenses and tuition fees of his mother and younger siblings.
Li Ka-shing was only 22 years old when he started his business, but he walked very smoothly, as if he had an auspicious star shining high.
When Li Ka-shing was busy starting a business, Zhuang Yueming had been studying, and he was in his 20s.
Hong Kong in the 60s
She has never been in love, and her family introduced her boyfriend, and she did not want to meet.
Later, I learned that she had a sweetheart, and this person was her cousin Li Ka-shing. There has long been a secret affection between her and Li Ka-shing.
In those days, it was not uncommon for cousins to get married. But the problem is that Li Ka-shing is too different from Zhuang Yueming, both in terms of education and family background.
Although Li Ka-shing started a business at the age of 22 and became a boss and made some money, it was only at the level of a small rich, and compared with the bookmaker, it was still very different.
Especially in terms of education, Li Ka-shing did not graduate from high school, while Zhuang Yueming is a high-achieving student at the University of Hong Kong and studied at a famous university in Japan. Proper returnees, high-ranking intellectuals.
Zhuang Yueming's parents did not agree to the marriage at first.
Qiu Biyun, as the eldest wife, only has such an only daughter, and she must be very cautious about her daughter's marriage. I definitely hope that my daughter will find a family with the right door, so that there will be protection in the future.
However, Zhuang Yueming was very persistent, and she dragged on until she was 30 years old and was still single, which was very anxious for Zhuang Jingan and Qiu Biyun, and had to agree to her marriage with Li Ka-shing.
In 1963, Li Ka-shing married Zhuang Yueming. At this time, Li Ka-shing was 35 years old and Zhuang Yueming was 34 years old.
At this time, Li Ka-shing has been in business for more than ten years and has accumulated a certain amount of wealth, and he also specially purchased a villa as a wedding room to show his sincerity and show Zhuang Jingan:
Cousin Zhuang Yueming marries herself and will not suffer hardship.
After Zhuang Yueming got married, in addition to taking care of her two sons, she also actively assisted Li Ka-shing's business.
She is very fluent in English and Japanese, which has been very helpful for Li Ka-shing's company to expand its overseas business.
She often accompanies Li Ka-shing to various events.
When Li Ka-shing went abroad to talk business, she was Li Ka-shing's translator.
Four years after marrying Zhuang Yueming, in 1967, Li Ka-shing took advantage of the plummeting land prices in Hong Kong and bought land in large quantities. In 1971, Li Ka-shing founded Cheung Kong Real Estate Company and officially entered the real estate industry. Behind this, it is estimated that there is also a credit for Zhuang Yueming.
It was not until the 80s that Zhuang Yueming faded from Li Ka-shing's company and returned to his family.
But on the afternoon of New Year's Day in 1990, the news of Zhuang Yueming's sudden death at home shocked the whole city.
You know, on the first day, she also accompanied Li Ka-shing to attend the New Year's party held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
The housekeeper said that Zhuang Yueming had a heart attack and took the wrong medicine, which led to a heart attack and died suddenly.
When Zhuang Yueming died, the saddest was his youngest son Li Zekai, who had always had a deep relationship with his mother.
Li Ka-shing's family
In fact, the sadder person should be Zhuang Yueming's mother, she only has Zhuang Yueming, this daughter, but she didn't expect the white-haired person to send the black-haired person.
At this time, Qiu Biyun was 80 years old and Zhuang Jingan was 81 years old.
Chuang Jingan died in Hong Kong in 1995 at the age of 87.
Zhuang Jingan has no regrets in his life, started from scratch, became a Hong Kong watch tycoon, and earned a net worth of hundreds of millions,
In terms of children, the second wife gave birth to three sons and three daughters to him, so there is no regret.
The only regret is that the eldest daughter was only 57 years old and died young.
However, after Zhuang Yueming died, Li Zekai often visited his grandmother and would accompany her to eat once a week. Sometimes, Li Ka-shing will also participate, so Qiu Biyun's old age is not lonely.
The two grandsons are very good, both graduated from the world-famous --- Stanford University, and they will inherit huge family fortunes in the future.
Li Ka-shing was first promoted to the throne of the richest Chinese in 1999, and then became the richest Chinese for more than ten consecutive years.
The son-in-law is so rich, he must be generous to his mother-in-law.
Therefore, although Qiu Biyun has no son, her old age is also very rich, and there is no need to worry about anything. She can afford to stay in the most expensive hospital in Hong Kong, and she is usually checked regularly by top private doctors.
Qiu Biyun only gave birth to Zhuang Yueming, a daughter, but as the eldest wife, her status in the Zhuang family has always been very high.
Although the second wife gave birth to three sons to Zhuang Jingan, Zhuang Jingan is a person who pays great attention to affection, and he respects Qiu Biyun's original status at home. In this way, the staff of the second room also respected her very much.
It can be seen that Qiu Biyun is very lucky, she met a good husband, who not only earned billions of family wealth by himself, but also cherished his heart and righteousness, and did not abandon his wife who was.
Qiu Biyun's only regret is that her daughter Zhuang Yueming died a little early.
Having boys and girls, in fact, is sometimes not in your control. Qiu Biyun did not give birth to a son, but won the respect of her husband and the second room, she not only lived very rich, but also had a very high status in the family, and her son-in-law later became the richest Chinese man, it can be said that she is the most rich and noble woman.
Qiu Biyun originally came from a humble background, when he married Zhuang Jingan, he was still a migrant worker with a small income, but after marriage, she actively assisted her husband in starting a business, and since then the wealth has rolled in.
Her only daughter had to marry her cousin, but she didn't expect that this son-in-law would later become the richest man in China.
In 2002, Qiu Biyun's health deteriorated and she was admitted to Hong Kong's most expensive hospital, ---- Sanatorium and Hospital for treatment, where Li Ka-shing and his two sons visited almost every day.
Qiu Biyun's funeral was also handled with Li Ka-shing's help.
When the old lady finally left, she was very decent, calmly and richly lived her life.
The family is so rich, but she is unusually low-key, and she does not compete with the second room for anything (the rivers and mountains laid down by Zhuang Jingan were handed over to the three sons of the second room before her death)
She is calm and does not fight. Unlike that Gong Ruxin, in order to compete for family property, he did not hesitate to confront his father-in-law many times.
She doesn't need to fight, the family property that her two grandchildren want to inherit is I don't know how many times that of the dealer!
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