In 2013, Wang Jianlin's 101-year-old father passed away. Knowing this bad news, Wang Jianlin, the eldest son, was saddened, and he was very emotional in his heart that his father could not be by his side well before his death.
Seeing her son so sad, her mother Qin Jialan pulled her son aside and said to Wang Jianlin: Your father is very relieved to go, there is no regret, with such a filial son as you, your father is very content, don't be sad.
Hearing his mother's persuasion, Wang Jianlin kept flashing the picture of getting along with his father in his mind, thinking about his father's 100th birthday, and he sang happily and celebrated his father's birthday, and only one year ago, his father left him and left this big family.
What kind of person is Wang Jianlin's father, and how did he raise a son like Wang Jianlin?
Military family
The reason why Wang Jianlin's career is so successful is naturally inseparable from his family's education.
Wang Jianlin was born in 1954, in fact, Wang Jianlin's birth was not easy, because his father Wang Yiquan was a soldier and chose to join the military to reimburse the state at the age of 21.
At the age of marriage and children, Wang Yiquan, who missed the opportunity, did not really settle down until after New China. Therefore, although Wang Jianlin is the eldest son, he was born when Wang Yiquan was 42 years old.
For this son, Wang Yiquan has high expectations, since Wang Jianlin grew up under his father's military education, people in that era were very simple.
Therefore, although Wang Jianlin is a second-generation army, he has never been spoiled, and Wang Jianlin, who is not squeamish at all, can stand on the bench and help his mother brush the dishes when he is eight years old.
In 1969, 15-year-old Wang Jianlin, unable to continue his education because of the special years, took the initiative to propose to his parents to work in a unit under the Forestry Bureau.
Wang Jianlin, who had just entered society, wanted to show himself, but after arriving at the unit, Wang Jianlin found that the heavy work was not a big tribulation, but there was only one person in this forest area, and this sense of loneliness made the lively Wang Jianlin unacceptable.
So, after only one year in the forestry bureau, he returned to his hometown to sign up for the army. After arriving at the army, Wang Jianlin found that this was the most suitable place for him.
Wang Jianlin performed very well in the army, and in the second year he went to the border defense as a scout, and in only six years, he achieved the position of platoon commander and got the opportunity to go to a military academy for further study.
Wang Jianlin who was urged to get married
In 1986, Wang Jianlin, who had been a soldier for fifteen years, chose to change careers. He was then assigned to Xigang District, Dalian as the director of the office. When they received the news that their son had changed jobs, Wang Yiquan and his wife, who were far away in their hometown in Sichuan, were very happy.
Because Wang Jianlin is the eldest son, he is 32 years old, because he has not had time to get married in the army, he has become an older young man. So my parents in my hometown are very worried.
In fact, according to Wang Jianlin's age at that time, if he had not entered the army, he might have given birth to several children long ago. Now 32 years old and unsettled, Wang Yiquan feels that the marriage of his eldest son is imminent.
So, he wrote a letter to Wang Jianlin, and Wang Yiquan smashed the letter and wrote: Son, you have reached the age of marriage, your peers have already solved major life events, how about you take a family leave and come back on a blind date?
Seeing that his parents were anxious about their marriage, in fact, Wang Jianlin also had ideas, but Wang Jianlin was not willing to find a partner in his hometown of Sichuan.
Wang Jianlin knows very well that he is currently working in Dalian, and if he finds a daughter-in-law in Sichuan, it is not a matter of long-term separation between the two places, which is the main reason why Wang Jianlin has not taken advantage of his annual leave to find a partner when he was in the army.
Seeing that his marriage was imminent, Wang Jianlin dragged his colleagues to help him find it. Unexpectedly, my colleagues were particularly reliable, and the next spring, I found a partner for Wang Jianlin.
In 1987, a colleague found Wang Jianlin and told him: There is a good girl named Lin Ning, you go and meet him. The girl is from Nanjing and her father is a soldier, so the family lives in Dalian. You are all military families, you can definitely talk.
Hearing that Lin Ning was also a child of a military family, Wang Jianlin felt very favorable. After making an appointment for the meeting place, Wang Jianlin had a good impression of Lin Ning when he met for the first time.
Lin Ning is three years younger than Wang Jianlin, the two have no generation gap, and they are both children of military families, they have a common topic, and Lin Ning is beautiful, but there is no squeamishness of other girls, the first time they met, Wang Jianlin had the idea of being settled.
Because both parties were more satisfied, it didn't take long for the two to get married. In the second year of marriage, he gave birth to his son Wang Sicong.
Career start
In 1989, when Wang Jianlin's son was 1 year old, Wang Jianlin was appointed as the general manager of the housing development department of Xigang District, mainly responsible for housing development and transformation, and worked in this position for three years, which also laid a solid foundation for the future establishment of Wanda.
In 1992, the Western Go Residential Development Company was restructured and transformed into Dalian Wanda Real Estate Group, and Wang Jianlin continued to serve as the general manager of Shunlian, and since then, he has started his own business map.
Since the restructuring of the company, Wang Jianlin has become more vocal, led his team to do several large projects in a row, and quickly gained a foothold in the local area.
In just two years, Wang Jianlin has made a lot of achievements, catching up with Wang Jianlin in good times, it is the spring breeze that is proud, seeing that her husband's career is developing vigorously, in order not to hinder her husband, Lin Ning made the idea of resigning from public office and starting a business.
In fact, Lin Ning made this decision at that time, in addition to Wang Jianlin's career, on the other hand, there was also his son Wang Sicong, who was six years old at the time and was about to go to primary school, so he didn't need Lin Ning to keep an eye on it every day.
And Lin Ning, in addition to being beautiful, is actually a very business-minded person, the decision to resign was not suddenly made in his head, not long after Lin Ning resigned, a company called Lin Shi Investment was born, and the boss was Lin Ning.
As the owner of an investment company, Lin Ning has a very sharp vision and covers a wide range of businesses. It can be regarded as Wang Jianlin's virtuous inner helper.
Encounter a crisis
In 1995, Wang Jianlin, who had been smooth sailing, encountered a major matter related to life and death. At that time, a project of the company was about to reach the critical moment of handing over the house, but because the capital problem was rotten, the people below could not solve this problem, so it was reported to Wang Jianlin.
Looking at the information given to him by his subordinates, Wang Jianlin's brows furrowed. Because the data shows that the project involves more than 6,000 demolition households, because the pre-development assessment is not sufficient, now the house is demolished, the project is cold, if the house cannot be handed over on time, the scene cannot be controlled at all.
But for such a huge project, raising funds to quickly resume work is not a simple matter. At that time, Wang Jianlin thought of a way to take out a loan from the bank.
However, the amount is huge, and it is still cash, and the risk coefficient without collateral is too high, so it is impossible for the bank to approve. Even the governor, in order to avoid Wang Jianlin, estimated that the security guards would monitor Wang Jianlin and turn him away once Wang Jianlin came to the bank.
Because the cash gap is so big, Wang Jianlin has no way to fill this hole. So for nearly ten consecutive days, Wang Jianlin almost never slept. Even if I forced myself to sleep, my mind was full of pictures of demolition households looking for themselves, and I was suddenly awakened.
In the end, Wang Jianlin reached his physical limit and fainted and planted in the office. Fortunately, the assistant found out in time and sent Wang Jianlin to the hospital.
Knowing that Wang Jianlin was anxious about himself like this because of the money, Lin Ning felt very unpleasant after listening to it, and forced Wang Jianlin to be hospitalized in the hospital, until the doctor agreed to go home, and then let Wang Jianlin go back.
Finally, with the help of many companies, Wang Jianlin finally got the cash turnover and solved the problem of unfinished buildings, Wang Jianlin also deliberately ran to sign a contract.
Watching the demolition and relocation households holding the contract and happily planning their new home, Wang Jianlin's heart was completely settled! Later, after this matter was known by his parents, Wang Yiquan looked at his son with distress in his eyes.
Who knew that Wang Jianlin said to his parents: This matter has passed, and I didn't say it at the time, just thinking about this bit of suffering, compared with the offense you suffered back then, it is far worse!
A small goal of 100 million
Since the unfinished building incident, Wang Jianlin has encountered various crises, and whenever he encounters a lawsuit, Wang Jianlin will think of the original unfinished building and encourage himself in his heart, which are all small problems and can definitely be solved.
In addition to his strong ability to solve things, Wang Jianlin is also a very ambitious real estate developer. At the beginning, Wang Jianlin said: First set a small goal of 100 million.
Hearing Wang Jianlin's words, many people sighed, is 100 million only a small goal in Wang Jianlin's eyes? Does poverty limit imagination or does there be a will?
In fact, Wang Jianlin talked about money quite a lot.
For example, when Wang Sicong returned to China after studying, Wang Jianlin's idea at that time was to let his son directly enter the company and start from the grassroots level, but Wang Sicong did not think so, not only did not plan to go to work in the company, but also proposed the idea of going out and breaking in.
After learning of his son's idea, Wang Jianlin did not refuse his son's proposal, but waved his hand and came to a gentleman's agreement with Wang Sicong.
This gentleman's agreement is also very simple, Wang Jianlin gave his son three chances, 500 million each time, if the three times the business failed, then honestly go home to inherit the family property.
In addition to letting his son give it a go, there are also younger brothers in his hometown.
Since the success of Wang Jianlin's career, Wang Jianlin has repeatedly proposed to bring his parents to Dalian to raise. For his son's proposal, the second elder was not very interested.
Therefore, Wang Jianlin will buy a lot of gifts for his parents every New Year's Festival, and he will call him every now and then. Seeing his son so filial, Wang Yiquan is very proud, but looking at the few children who are often with him, he lives very ordinarily.
Therefore, every time Wang Yiquan saw Wang Jianlin, he hesitated, and finally said to Wang Jianlin tactfully: You have an interest now, can you pull a few younger brothers?
Hearing his father's request, Wang Jianlin was actually very resistant in his heart. Because Wang Jianlin wants to build an international group, he can't mix too much personal feelings, otherwise it will become a family workshop, which is destined to not last long.
However, Wang Jianlin is not good at refusing his father's request, after all, his father is so old, it is common for people to want several children to have a good future.
So Wang Jianlin said to his father: In this way, I personally took out 10 billion, and they can do whatever they want.
Hearing his son say this, Wang Yiquan also felt that this idea was good, not only to help his son, but also to make his son have a skill. It is not difficult to see from this that Wang Jianlin is indeed a person with principles and courage.
It is precisely because of this persistence that in 2016, Wang Jianlin topped the list of China's richest people with assets of 170 billion, becoming a veritable richest man in China.
Filial piety to the son
It is said that if you have money, you will become bad, and it will not work at all when it comes to Wang Jianlin. Coming from a military background, coupled with the upbringing of a military father, Wang Jianlin is very loyal to marriage.
No matter where he went, he treated his wife with great respect. This may be the way to live in a successful world. In addition to being responsible for the family, Wang Jianlin is a very filial son.
Since childhood, he helped his parents work, and when he had money, he always thought of taking his parents with him, although his parents refused, Wang Jianlin was not discouraged, did he take his wife and children back to his hometown, so that his parents could enjoy the joy of their children and grandchildren around their knees.
Every time it comes to the festival, Wang Jianlin pays more attention to the sense of ceremony, even if his parents are not short of money now, Wang Jianlin is also a variety of gifts, in addition to gifts, on his father's 100th birthday, Wang Jianlin also personally sang a song for his father to express his filial piety.
For his eldest son, Wang Yiquan is one hundred and twenty relieved. Wang Yiquan, who has no troubles, lived to be 101 years old, and in the world, he has a long life.
In 2013, Wang Jianlin went back to see his father for the last time, looking at his deceased father, Wang Jianlin had mixed feelings, thinking of the Long March story his father taught him when he was a child.
Wang Jianlin felt that he had not done enough, and he blamed himself very much, he was usually too busy with work and did not properly honor his parents. Who knew that her mother Qin Jialan said to her son: Your father has no regrets, you are so filial, he is relieved before leaving.
After his father left, Wang Jianlin again proposed to take his mother back to Dalian for retirement. It's just that my mother has lived in Sichuan all her life and is unwilling to leave her hometown. Seeing that his mother insisted on doing so, Wang Jianlin did not force it.
During the Spring Festival in 2021, Wang Jianlin returned to his hometown to visit relatives. Who knew that my mother took out a passbook from her pocket: My eldest grandson is not young, it's time to start a family, when I and your father didn't spend money, what you gave was stored here, left for Sicong to marry his daughter-in-law.
Hearing his mother say this, Wang Jianlin had mixed feelings. Now Wang Sicong is 34 years old, although his scandalous girlfriends have changed one after another, but he has never had the idea of starting a family.
Not to mention grandparents, even Wang Jianlin, his own father, couldn't help but be anxious. However, marriage events cannot be rushed.