At 23:00 on November 20, 2022, Qatar lit the flame and the World Cup football match opened as scheduled.
With the holding of the World Cup, Qatar, a Middle Eastern country with inhumanity, has gradually become the focus of world attention, and the most inhuman thing is that Qatar has invested $220 billion for the World Cup.
Although Qatar, as the host, lost the first game, this did not affect Qatar's trenches, after all, this money for Qatar is sprinkling.
You must know that Qatar is located in the oil-filled Middle East, and its per capita GDP is the first in the world, reaching $50,000.
And the reason why Qatar became like this is all inseparable from a legendary figure - Qatar's Queen Mother Moza, speaking of Moza, this person is known as "Middle East Wu Zetian", "Modern Zhen Huan", life can be described as a legend.
Figure 丨Moza
Daughter of former prisoners
In the early days, small and barren Qatar was not a country until 1971, when it was truly independent.
The leader of Qatar at that time was Khalifa, but in fact, in the earliest days, in terms of national affairs and economic affairs, these state decisions were in the hands of his cousin.
Khalifa was just the leader of a tribe, but no one expected that as his most trusted cousin, Khalifa, he had been plotting for a long time to oust his cousin while everyone was undefended.
He himself has transformed into Qatar's supreme leader.
The reason why Khalifa wants to do such a "risking the world" is not because of his high desire for the so-called throne, what he is really interested in is the oil and gas resources in the Qatari region.
Figure 丨Qatar
Don't underestimate Qatar, which has a land area of only 11,500 square kilometers, but its natural gas resources and oil resources can be regarded as the top few in the global ranking.
And Khalifa at that time, it was precisely because of the unique conditions of Qatar that it launched a coup d'état at all costs.
In Khalifa's view, as long as he becomes the supreme leader, he can naturally enjoy these resource wealth exclusively.
But his actions caused dissatisfaction among a large number of people in other tribes, and one of the tribal leaders protested, Moza's father.
Moza's father put forward the saying that "resources should be available to all citizens", but in Khalifa's view, these people and these ideas were against themselves, so Khalifa casually placed a trumped-up charge on them and put them all in prison.
Figure 丨Qatar
In this way, Moza's father was thrown into prison, and the tribe he led was exiled to Kuwait by Khalifa, including Moza, who was only 12 years old, and her mother.
After that, Moza and his mother lived a life of dependence.
During her time in Kuwait, she was so tired of watching that no one wanted to be associated with the daughter of a criminal, and Moza had already seen this, she was alone, and she completed her studies like this.
Until many years later, the Moza family ended their exile, and the eighteen-year-old Moza was successfully admitted to Qatar University, a leading university in Qatar, with excellent grades.
Figure 丨Moza
The second princess of the Qatari royal family
It was during college that she met a man who would change her life's destiny, Hamad was Khalifa's eldest son, crown prince of Qatar, and future heir to the throne.
Once, during a visit to Qatar University, Hamad accidentally saw Moza, and it was this coincidental encounter that made Hamad fall in love with Moza at first sight.
Whether it was Moza's unusual temperament or her appearance, Hamad was immediately fascinated by her, and then launched a strong pursuit, and at the same time, Hamad also expressed to his father Khalifa that he must marry Moza.
For fathers, it is a joy to see their son marry his wife, but as the royal family of Qatar, not everyone can enter the royal family casually.
So Khalifa secretly began to conduct a detailed background investigation of Moza. What Khalifa didn't expect was that the girl her son wanted to marry was actually the daughter of her political opponent.
Figure 丨Hamad
In that case, as the daughter of a former prisoner, Khalifa could not have made her a member of the royal family no matter what.
In fact, Hamad already had a wife at that time, but there was no so-called emotional basis between him and this wife, and the reason why they could come together was entirely because of the political marriage.
This has never been a happy thing for Hamad, and this time he finally met a woman who made Hamad fall in love at first sight, and he said that he would marry Moza home.
It's just that Khalifa, who has understood Moza's background at this time, must firmly oppose this marriage if he says anything, otherwise once he agrees to this marriage, in Khalifa's view, what is the face of the royal family.
Hamad is not an incompetent prince, on the contrary, he is very ambitious, Western-educated, he is a brilliant military wizard, he in the capacity of Qatari crown prince, threatened Khalifa, even if he gave up the status of crown prince, he will marry Moza.
Figure 丨Moza
In this way, Khalifa could not resist his son's insistence and chose to compromise, and at the same time, he also put forward corresponding conditions.
That is, Moza's maiden family will not be allowed to appear at the wedding ceremony, and as Hamad's first wife, Moza's mother will take the place of Moza's mother at the wedding, and Moza will bow down to him.
In this way, Moza successfully entered the royal family of Qatar and became Khalifa's daughter-in-law, but for Khalifa, he would not admit to having such a daughter-in-law and sneered at her many times.
"As a person, you must put yourself in the right position, and don't touch it easily if it's not yours."
At the same time, Hamad's Grand Princess also spoke out against Moza: "The royal family is not a place for you, you should accompany your father in prison." ”
In the face of these aggressive words, Moza did not feel inferior, she has been like this since she was a child, she has long been accustomed to it, she responded generously: "The palace is the most suitable place for me to stay." After that, Moza did prove himself with actions.
Moza and Hamad
Obsessed with business development
In Qatar, there is an important industry is pearl collection, pearl mining is considered to be Qatar's traditional industry, because at that time, there was no discovery of a large amount of oil and gas resources, so pearl mining is one of the lifeblood of Qatar.
As people's requirements for the quality of pearls become higher and higher, many times, many merchants will pursue full-grained pearls, but few people pay attention to low-quality, low-grade pearls.
Moza smelled a business opportunity, and she did the opposite, buying a lot of low-quality pearls, processing these low-grade pearls, and attaching them to cheap daily necessities.
After such a toss, she did not expect that the sales of local daily necessities have greatly improved, and since then, Qatar's pearl processing industry has also had a new development direction.
In 1979, Moza obtained a natural black pearl, which was assessed to be worth about $700,000, and after Khalifa learned of it, he asked his daughter-in-law for the black pearl, and said that the pearl was national and did not belong to individuals.
Figure 丨Black pearl
It's a pity that Moza ignored him, but "deliberately" declared that he sold the black pearl abroad, and Moza decided that his father-in-law would definitely fall for her scheme.
Sure enough, Khalifa could not tolerate the treasure belonging to his own country, but he was sold to a foreign country, so he endured the unhappiness in his heart and spent $1 million to buy this black pearl from his daughter-in-law, whom he hated.
This crucial $1 million is a stepping stone on Moza's commercial path.
With $1 million, she invested the money in pearl farming, slowly opening the way to wealth, and gradually gaining her own voice in the country of Qatar.
As the king's Khalifa, seeing his daughter-in-law so shrewd and powerful, he was naturally very worried, and he had to admit that his daughter-in-law had caused a certain growth in the entire country's economy.
In 1985, Haffali asked his son Hamad to marry a third wife for political marriage.
Moza and Hamad
Although Hamad was really reluctant to marry a woman he didn't like, this time he also put forward a condition, that is, after he married a third wife, the royal family wanted Moza to assume the role of chairman of the royal family's family affairs.
Behind this identity, it means that Mozarai is fully responsible for the investment and financial management of the royal family.
The reason why Hamad strongly requested Moza to take this position was because he really liked Moza as a woman only among the three wives.
Because Moza did not marry back for so-called political reasons, and he also made such a request to reassure Moza and show his loyalty to her.
In this way, Haffali could only agree to this condition in the end, and after this quid pro quo, Moza also really ushered in her highlight moment, and she had replaced the position of the Grand Princess.
Although nominally speaking, she is still the second princess of the crown prince of Qatar, in the entire royal family of Qatar, no one sees her as the "daughter of a criminal" in the past.
Figure 丨Moza
Husband and wife business politics win-win
In subsequent overseas visits, Hamad only took Moza alone, perhaps from the family background, Moza did not have the background of the other two princesses.
But she has business acumen that the other two princesses do not have, and Moza's innate temperament is also incomparable to others.
In Qatar, a country where men are inferior, the social status of women was still very low, especially in the 80s, and women were not allowed to show their heads outside.
What's more, it was stipulated that women were not allowed to travel outside the car, but Moza single-handedly changed this situation and directly attended various public places.
At the same time, after serving as the royal family's chairman, Moza also began to carry out business projects, and she founded the first private investment group of the Qatari royal family since ancient times, and she herself was the president.
Figure 丨Moza
If the $1 million he received from Khalifa was just a small test, that's where Moza began to truly run his own business empire.
Hamad on the side looked at his wife and made a dazzling achievement in business, although he was also happy for his wife, but often depressed.
Because because of his father's exclusion at every turn, although he has unlimited ambitions for this country, but because of his father, he cannot let go of his hands and feet, and seeing that his wife has achieved something, he still has no achievements in politics.
So after discussion, the husband and wife did not wait for the natural succession, but prepared to carry out a "coup" in advance.
In 1995, a godsend opportunity came, this year Haffali went on vacation to another country, and when he finally went on vacation, Hamad and Moza, who had already prepared, first froze his assets and deployed the corresponding armed forces.
In this way, the couple staged a bloodless coup that smoothly ousted Hafali, and Hamad became the new king of Qatar.
Moza and Hamad
After the successful coup, Moza immediately released his father from prison, and the father and daughter, who had not been seen for 18 years, were finally reunited.
At the same time, Moza at this time, after so many years of baptism in the royal family, is no longer the second princess who first entered the royal family, but the real queen of Qatar.
If the purpose of entering the royal family is to save her father, but after so many years of operation, what she wants to do is to "rescue" the entire country and lead the country out of the backward situation, and the reason why the couple coup d'état is also to make Qatar better reform.
Because Hamad was educated in the West, he knew that his country needed a change to develop.
And if his father Haffali did not step down, then many of his good visions for the country would not be realized, so the couple decided to take the throne early.
Figure 丨Moza
Start a new era
Since taking office, Hamad has lived up to expectations of the people, achieving what he initially called free education and free health care, aiming to make Qatar a high-welfare state.
But behind this high-welfare state, it is necessary to rely on huge financial support, and at this time, Moza plays an important role.
At the suggestion of his wife, Hamad set up a national investment authority, and Moza began to make money for the entire country.
Because at that time, the whole of Qatar relied on the export of oil and natural gas in exchange for huge income, but whether it is oil or natural gas, it is a non-renewable resource, sooner or later, these resources will be exploited.
So early on, Moza suggested to her husband: "After using oil and gas to obtain dollars, you should invest in long-term cycle returns."
Moza and Hamad
In this way, in the future, the day when the oil and gas is exhausted, the people of the country can still be guaranteed to continue to enjoy long-term welfare. ”
It was in this context that Hamad also established the Investment Bureau, under the sole responsibility of Moza, and carried out large-scale overseas investments, and her results were amazing.
In 1997, when the entire British property market was not rising, Moza took a long-term view, spending a full $15.8 billion to acquire a large number of properties, and an additional $900 million to buy the Olympic Village in London.
And today, it turns out how wise her choice was, so much so that today, a steady stream of wealth flows into the Qatari royal family.
At the same time, not only in real estate, but also many well-known brands that we usually know, in fact, there are shadows of the Qatari royal family behind them.
Figure 丨Qatar
For example, Moza bought Valentino in Italy for 1 billion, and took out another 1.9 billion to buy the Manchester City football team that we all know.
Indeed, at the time, these projects were not favored by everyone, but the potential of these projects was unleashed infinitely, which once again proved that Moza had an amazing and long-term business vision.
Because many of the projects she has invested in, looking back today, have become an important source of income for Qatar, even comparable to the economic value brought by oil and natural gas resources.
On the other side, Hamad, as the king of Qatar, did not disappoint everyone, and worked hard to make Qatar, a small projectile country, achieve a lot of amazing results.
In 2006, it hosted the Doha Asian Games, as well as the 2011 Asian Cup, and also won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, which is the World Football Tournament being held in Qatar these days.
Figure 丨Gymnasium
And today's Qatar is no longer the Qatar of the past, first of all, in terms of unemployment, it has been greatly reduced, according to statistics, even the lowest income earners have already lived in good houses and driven cars.
Not only that, in the entire country, the whole people enjoy free medical care, education and other resource benefits, and all of this, the Qatari people know that Moza is attributed to Moza, so Moza is very loved by the Qatari people.
In 2013, Hamad abdicated, and it is worth mentioning that he did not let the eldest son of the eldest princess inherit the throne, as is the tradition.
Instead, he passed the throne to him and Moza's children, who became what we call the Queen Mother, contributing to Qatar behind the scenes.
Moza's background may not be good, whether it is in terms of family circumstances or in the patriarchal Middle Eastern society, it is a congenital disadvantage for her.
Figure 丨Moza and family
But Moza did not bow to fate, she relied on her kindness and knowledge, from the daughter of the criminal to the current "Queen Mother", she walked out step by step.
From the bottom of the pyramid to the top of the pyramid, her spirit is what we should learn, do not bow to fate, have the courage to rely on yourself, and break out of your own sky.