The business empire of the wealthy grandfather
Cai Wanchun, an ordinary Taiwanese farmer, has the ambition to change his fate. In the 1930s, he came to Taipei as a 14-year-old boy and wanted to get rich through his own efforts.
At first, Cai Wanchun could only make a living by doing small business, but he was resourceful and soon took firm steps on the road to accumulating wealth. First he became the manager of a cosmetics company, and later he founded his own food company, and the business is booming.
After several years of hard work, Cai Wanchun is already a well-off family.
In the 1960s, when the Taiwanese authorities advocated a savings movement, Tsai Wanchun keenly seized the opportunity. He served as chairman of a credit union in Taipei, where he vigorously promoted the savings business.
Under his active operation, the number of depositors has surged, and the number of deposits of members has reached a record high. This aroused great attention from the Taiwan leaders, and Chiang Kai-shek even personally came to the agency to open an account and make a deposit to show his support.
Taking advantage of this shareholder wind, Cai Wanchun was ambitious, and with the support of politicians, he founded Cathay Pacific Group and opened his own financial kingdom. In just a few years, Cathay Pacific Group has become a well-known financial giant in Taiwan, with a comprehensive range of insurance, banking and real estate businesses, and a large scale, occupying the top position in the industry.
In this way, Cai Wanchun, who originally had nothing, built his own business empire in just over 30 years and was known as the pioneer of Taiwan's financial industry.
However, his career was abruptly cut short at the height of his life when in 1977, in the prime of life, he suffered a stroke and had to hand over the empire to his four sons.
This opened the beginning of the rise and fall of the Cai family in a hundred years.
The ten-letter storm almost collapsed the family business
In 1977, Cai Wanchun divided the business empire he founded among his four sons. The second son, Cai Chenzhou, inherited a large credit cooperative called "Shixin".
This Shixin has an extraordinary family history - more than 20 years ago, it was when Cai Wanchun served as the chairman of the society that developed a small society into one of the best in Taipei with a forward-looking vision.
For a time, Shixin became the most dazzling pearl in Cai's financial kingdom. Taking over Shixin was a great opportunity for Cai Chenzhou, allowing him to take charge of a huge flow of funds and network resources. However, the good times did not last long, and he fell into depravity due to greed, and repeatedly embezzled the funds of Shixin for his own personal gain.
Over time, this covert financial operation was finally detected by the regulatory authorities. As soon as the news was exposed, people flocked to Shixin to withdraw money, and Shixin quickly fell to the brink of collapse.
The bankruptcy storm of Shixin Credit Cooperatives swept across Taiwan in a short period of time, shaking the foundation of Taiwan's financial industry. Many businesses have also been affected by it and are in crisis.
Even other financial companies of the Cai family, such as Cai Chennan's Cathay Trust, have also suffered a serious rupture of the capital chain, and people have come to withdraw deposits, and the scene was out of control for a while.
The Shixin Storm almost brought down the Cai family's financial kingdom. Afterwards, Cai Chenzhou was severely punished, and the huge waves it stirred up also broke the relationship between the Cai family. Cai Wanchun, as the founder of Shixin, was even more humiliated, and died depressed in his later years.
Cai Chenzhou was greedy for a while, and he almost buried the Cai family's century-old foundation, which is regrettable.
The business kingdom of the two richest uncles
The storm of ten letters almost destroyed the Cai family's financial empire, and Cai Wanchun was exhausted and grief-stricken. However, when the Cai family was frustrated, Cai Wanchun's two younger brothers, Cai Wanlin and Cai Wancai, were silently developing their careers, and they founded Cathay Life Insurance and Fubon Group respectively, and later became the two most powerful financial groups in Taiwan.
Cai Wanlin and Cai Wancai both started from the bottom and started from scratch. They have worked hard to learn Xi from the successes of their predecessors and reflect on the lessons of their failures, and have occupied a place in Taiwan's financial industry with a steady and steady strategy.
Cathay Life and Fubon Group have followed each other and achieved thriving performance, and the two became the richest men in Taiwan from 1980 to 1990.
Unlike Cai Chenzhou, the two brothers inherited the industrial spirit of the Cai family and served the real economy, so they achieved such outstanding achievements. When Shixin was on the verge of bankruptcy, Cai Chenzhou hoped that the two brothers could help him pay off his astronomical debts.
However, in the face of a protracted financial crisis, the two could only shake their heads helplessly and choose to give in.
This turmoil made the Cai family brothers, who were once inseparable, drift apart. Cai Wanchun's vein declined, Cai Wanlin and Cai Wancai's two branches reached their peak, and the three brothers finally formed a gap due to differences in ideas and ways of doing things.
However, Cai Wanlin and Cai Wancai have indeed created their own business empire with their own hands, and the success they have achieved is admirable.
The unique gateway of the Risheng Group
Faced with the ups and downs of the family, Guan Ying's father Chen Guohe chose to find another way. He did not rely on the marriage relationship of his wife's Cai family to survive, but had the courage to innovate and came to Japan to start his own business.
At first, Chen Guohe was still a small fuss when doing business in Japan. He first made a living in import and export trade, and later founded a shipping company. In a foreign business world that requires great perseverance to survive, Chen Guohe has honed extraordinary resilience and wisdom.
In the early 80s, he returned to Taiwan with these valuable entrepreneurial experiences and recognized the trend and opportunities of the times. Chen Guohe resolutely devoted himself to the financial industry that was about to take off, and founded "Risheng Leasing Company" to provide targeted financial solutions, and soon broke out in the industry.
The iron-clad Chen Guohe then established Risheng Securities and officially embarked on the journey of establishing his own financial empire. After the start-up, Risheng Securities seized the opportunity of the rapid rise of Taiwan's stock market, developed rapidly, and became the largest securities company in Taiwan in one fell swoop.
With its strong strength, under the careful management of Chen Guohe, Risheng Group has become a first-class financial group in Taiwan, and its business involves securities, futures, banking and other fields. Chen Guohe was not satisfied with the status quo because he was born in a wealthy family, but had the courage to stand on his own, and eventually succeeded in creating his own business empire.
The non-mainstream life of a rebellious daughter
Guan Ying is the daughter of Risheng Group, who grew up in a top-notch environment since she was a child. The aura of the wealthy circle allowed her to receive the best educational resources, and many people thought that she would follow the expectations of the family and live a refined and relaxed high life.
However, Guan Ying has a stubborn personality and is unwilling to be defined by the world. She resolutely chose to enter the entertainment industry for development, which was an unprecedented move in the upper class society at that time.
Kwan Yingbin has won many performance opportunities with her strength and charm, and her most famous masterpiece is the TV series "The Wedding Dress of Heaven". In front of the camera, she behaved very cheerful and generous, and there was no distance from ordinary actors, which was very different from the daughter in people's impressions.
When she is working, she never puts on a shelf, and lives in the guest house provided by the crew like other actors, and eats boxed lunches of the same dish.
Not only that, Guan Ying also published the book "On the Flu", which exposed the inside story of high society, and bluntly criticized the shortcomings in reality. She has always rebelled against the world's vision in her own way, and has the courage to show her true side, not distorting herself because of the family background she was born into.
Guan Ying's words and deeds were non-mainstream at the time. However, it is her insistence on personality and uniqueness that allows Guan Ying to live her rebellious life, not defined and framed by any powerful force.
She interprets her story with sincerity and courage.
A century of ups and downs
In just one century, the Cai family has experienced earth-shattering changes. The ancestor of the original mountain, who had nothing, created a commercial kingdom; Then the family business was on the verge of extinction due to internal greed; In the end, a younger brother who came from behind took over the banner of decline and re-established himself as a financial giant.
The ups and downs of nearly a century reflect the vagaries of power and wealth. Cai Wanchun worked hard when he started his business, but he lost his hard work overnight; Cai Chenzhou inherited the prosperous ancestral business, and greed made it come to naught; Cai Wanlin and Cai Wancai rose up again to create a new business legend.
Families have also changed from unity to estrangement. At first, the siblings started their businesses side by side, but later they drifted apart due to disagreements. Past success does not mean eternal glory, and failure does not mean that there is no turnaround.
The changeable fate is unpredictable, and only by sticking to the right path can we not lose our direction in the torrent of the times. Power and money come and go without a trace, and morality and integrity are the foundation of the business. This is the enlightenment given to us by the Cai family's century-old history of ups and downs. The rise and fall of the family and the country, but in the blink of an eye; The ups and downs of the mood are all based on a thought.
We must cherish the present, maintain independent thinking, and always be good and sunny in our hearts, no matter how the external changes are.
Conclusion
Guan Ying was born in a wealthy family, but she was not shackled by the family and insisted on taking her own path. She is unwilling to be bound by the world's eyes, and she gives it a go to enter the entertainment industry and bravely shows her true side.
In her, we see persistence in self and loyalty to the heart. This is exactly the quality you need in turbulent times.
The rise and fall of the Cai family in the past hundred years makes people see the emptiness of power and wealth. The vicissitudes of the country and the mountains and rivers are broken, and the moral lamp is our return.
In the face of life, each of us has the freedom to choose. The external successes and failures will eventually pass, but the inner sunshine and hope can always be with you. Cultivating a kind and courageous heart is the meaning of our life.
Thanksgiving, we still have dreams and passions. Some people are born only once, and we have to live out the meaning of it. Only by maintaining independent thinking, not following the crowd, and insisting on oneself can we continue to thrive.
In this story, we see lives with different destinies. But their common spirit is the courage to pursue their inner voice. In the face of the hustle and bustle of the floating world, we need peace of mind even more.
Live gracefully, learn Xi faithfully, and appreciate the beauty of life with gratitude, so that we can live our own light and heat.
This is the enlightenment of the history of Guan Ying and the Cai family to our times. Don't forget the original intention, you have to always. I'm grateful that we still have a choice, and that someone is willing to listen to their own voice.