When it comes to business tycoons, many people's first impression is that they are rich and have no difference, but in fact, most people only see the surface scenery.
As the saying goes, shopping malls are like battlefields, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything, and even go to jail...
Left: Zhang Wenzhong, Middle: Chu Shijian, Right: Sun Hongbin
For example, Sun Hongbin, the founder of the Green Cole department, Gu Yanjun, and the fast broadcast Wang Xin, they were all business wizards, but they all accidentally became prisoners.
In fact, there is a big guy who is more inspirational, she is known as the female version of Chu Shijian, 19 years old to escape marriage, 30 years old to have a millionaire, more than 50 years old to become a millionaire sister, 53 years old to prison, 60 years old widowed, 73 years old against the wind into a rich man, she is Wu Shengming.
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Wu Shengming was born in 1933 and grew up in a well-off family.
The Wu family is a famous local merchant family in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, although born rich, but Wu Shengming was not happy when he was a child, due to Wu's father's temperament, Wu's mother finally remarried to Taiwan when she was two years old.
Teenage Wu Shengming
After Wu's mother remarried, Wu's father also went to Shanghai in the Ten Mile Ocean Field and lived a drunken and dreamy life, leaving only Wu Shengming and his younger siblings to live with their grandfather and grandmother.
When he was a child, Wu Shengming showed a precocious wisdom that was different from others, and when other children were still playing around, Wu Shengming liked to stay in the shop to watch how his buddies and grandfathers were doing business and doing business.
The hearing of the Shangjia family made Wu Sheng secretly sprout in his heart the seeds of business when he grew up.
Wu Shengming in his youth
At the age of 16, dissatisfied with the marriage arranged by his family, Wu Shengming secretly escaped to Shanghai with 2,000 yuan.
When Wu Shengming arrived in Shanghai, he was unaccompanied and helpless, and soon spent all the money he brought from his family. In order to make a living, Wu Shengming found a job as a nanny who did chores for others.
Tossing and turning
Although the nanny work can feed and feed, but after all, it is not a long-term solution, wu Shengming, who is not here, went to his uncle who was an officer in Xi'an.
It was also at her uncle's place that she met her first love, Yu Ping, but because of her uncle's obstruction, the relationship ended without a problem.
Disheartened, Wu Shengming returned to Shaoxing to open a small shop, and his mind was laid out on doing business until he met Zhang Siyuan.
Zhang Siyuan is a primary school apprentice opposite Wu Shengming's shop, Zhang Siyuan grew up poor, his father died early, Wu Shengming cherished this boy with a sad life, so he took extra care of him.
Over time, Zhang Siyuan fell in love with Wu Shengming and proposed to Wu Shengming, wu Shengming refused without thinking about it, but gradually the neighbors spread the rumor that Wu Shengming "old cows eat tender grass".
Wu Shengming accepted Zhang Siyuan in a huff, and after the two got married, they sold the small shop and went to Xi'an to work hard.
Due to the fatigue of business, Wu Shengming was pregnant several times and unfortunately miscarried, until the age of 42, there was a beautiful and lovely daughter, Wu Shengming named this child Yanzi.
Wu Shengming and daughter
Wu Shengming loved this daughter in every way, and on Yanzi's 10th birthday, she also invited more than 500 people from the whole school to attend her birthday party.
For the birthday party alone and the money to buy clothes for his children, Wu Shengming spent nearly 200,000 yuan. Talking about this, Wu Shengming said that it was false not to be distressed, but she was willing to eat for her daughter.
Cute
In 1977, when the reform and opening up was in full swing, many people responded to the call to go to the sea to do business, and Wu Shengming was no exception, relying on his keen business intuition, Wu Shengming opened a trading company.
At that time, radios and indeed good cloth were still scarce, and Wu Shengming could get several times the profit by selling them in Xining, Xi'an and other places.
By 1984, Wu Shengming's business had spread throughout Zhejiang, Henan, Sichuan and other places, and his assets were as high as 10 million yuan.
Wu Shengming in the glory days
At her peak, even the mayor of Shanghai personally received her, and in Shanghai at that time, many people called Wu Shengming "the big sister of Shanghai Beach".
Just when Wu Shengming crossed the mall, there was a terrible crisis in the family, because Wu Shengming traveled to two places all year round, the husband and wife were separated from each other and less, and her husband Zhang Siyuan sneaked together with the little nanny at home.
Even the mother-in-law couldn't help but knock on the side to remind her: "You are working hard to earn money outside alone, but the family is enjoyed by others for you." After Wu Shengming knew, he decisively dismissed the little nanny.
But Zhang Siyuan seemed to have an iron heart, he rented a house for the little nanny outside, and the two continued to communicate. Wu Shengming could no longer control it, and for the sake of her daughter, she had to choose to be patient.
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Heaven wants to destroy him, and he will first drive him crazy.
Sometimes desire is like a ferocious beast, and once it is not properly controlled, it is easy to go the wrong way.
The unfavorable career has also made Wu Shengming's ambitions bigger and bigger, and the indifference of legal awareness, coupled with the expansion of self-confidence, has made Wu Shengming embark on the "crooked door and evil way".
In the summer of 1985, Wu Shengming took the back door to get a plan for 48 high-end cars, and at the same time obtained cloth worth up to six million through illegal means.
Relying on the smuggling of cars and the sale of cloth, Wu Shengming earned 20 million yuan in that era when "ten thousand yuan households" were rare.
Not long after, the East Window incident occurred, Wu Shengming's company was investigated, and in 1986, the 53-year-old Wu Shengming was sentenced to a suspended death sentence for smuggling and was imprisoned in Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison.
Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison
Soon after entering prison, Wu Shengming received a divorce request from her husband Zhang Siyuan.
The husband who had proposed marriage twice, but had cheated on the nanny for a long time, not only took advantage of Wu Shengming's imprisonment to run to the little nanny's hometown of Anhui.
He also spent 100,000 or 200,000 yuan to build a house for the little nanny's family, and bought a bicycle and a watch for the little nanny's brother to get married.
Because Wu Shengming was in prison at the time, the two could not divorce, Zhang Siyuan eloped with the little nanny to Anhui, and his daughter Yanzi was also sent to the uncle's house in the countryside.
On her 16th birthday, Yanzi invited several classmates to dance and play at home to celebrate, and was seen by her uncle who came home, who was angry and scolded.
Yanzi argued with him and said, "If my mother were at home, she would definitely give me a birthday party at the restaurant, and there would be a special place to dance." ”
After hearing this, my uncle was even more angry, and said without saying a word, "Your mother came back to celebrate your birthday, and your mother was sentenced to a suspended death sentence, which is indefinite and will never come back." ”
When her uncle said these words in front of her classmates, Yanzi broke down and cried, and she called her father to pick her up and take her home, but his father refused.
His father ignored him, his mother had no hope of getting out of prison, and the desperate Yanzi could not bear to commit suicide.
Wu Shengming tells about a bumpy life
Two years later, when 60-year-old Wu Shengming received news of his daughter's suicide from the correctional officer, Wu Shengming was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and his head was blank.
She could not accept the sad fact that she had lost everything, and now that even her only spiritual pillar daughter was gone, what was the point of her life.
Wu Shengming could no longer bear it, and she had lost all hope, and she was determined to take this life.
On a stormy night, she took advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention, and secretly stuffed the blade into her pocket in an attempt to cut her wrist and commit suicide.
Fortunately, the prison director stopped her in time, and the prison director told Wu Shengming's daughter's last wish and patiently advised her.
In order to fulfill her daughter's last wish to let her help more people, in order to one day be able to go to her daughter's grave and say: Mother is back...
Wu Shengming regained hope and actively reformed, not only won 9 opportunities to reduce his sentence, but also wrote his first autobiographical novel "Prison Road" in prison, using his own story to warn the world.
The book was later adapted into the TV series The Criminal and the Daughter.
When the drama premiered in prison that year, the prison inmates and correctional staff cried together, and tens of thousands of viewers also burst into tears after watching the drama and wrote letters to encourage Wu Shengming.
In 2003, wu Shengming, 72 years old, finally got out of prison and returned to Zhengzhou, where she was registered, where the local street and police station specially arranged a toilet sweeping job for her.
Sweep public toilets for life
From a multi-millionaire sister to a prisoner of the order, to cleaning the toilet, Wu Shengming, who fell from the peak to the bottom, did not complain about himself.
She gets up at five o'clock every day, although she lives in a room of more than ten square meters, with a meager income of only 400 yuan per month, she still loves life and loves work.
She will buy flowers and birds to decorate the toilet environment, in order to keep the air fresh, Wu Shengming will also buy a bottle of flower lotion for 2 yuan to spray the public toilet.
It was this attitude of excellence that soon Wu Shengming was named an excellent street cleaner.
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But the income from being a cleaner alone could not fulfill her daughter's last wishes.
In 2005, Wu Shengming raised 900,000 yuan to open a vineyard with others, and as a result, the partners absconded with money, leaving Wu Shengming alone to carry all the debts.
Ordinary people experience such a series of blows, may have long been in a slump, but Wu Shengming did not, not accepting defeat she thus opened her second venture.
It turns out that gold shines wherever it goes, and smart and hard-working people can make a career wherever they go.
In just five years, Wu Shengming not only revitalized the vineyard, but also built it into a famous local sightseeing and tourism ecological orchard, with a net profit of more than 6 million yuan; at the same time, Wu Shengming also founded a number of companies.
In 2010, Wu Shengming was also hired as the dean of an elderly apartment in Xi'an, in order to better fulfill his daughter's wishes, Wu Shengming handed over the company to others to take care of, and devoted himself to public welfare undertakings.
She not only runs her own nursing home and establishes a charitable fund, but also helps children with congenital heart disease and sponsors children in some poor areas to go to school.
In 2016, the ex-husband found Wu Shengming and wanted to remarry, but Wu Shengming refused, looking at the elderly and uncared for ex-husband in front of him, the kind Wu Shengming took Zhang Siyuan into the nursing home regardless of the previous suspicions.
Wu Shengming at work
Today, the 89-year-old Wu Shengming has long been worth tens of millions, and her current business industries cover nursing homes, agriculture, food, chain chat bars, restaurants, etc., and this fashionable old lady does not seem to want to stop here, she also follows the trend and plays self-media live broadcasts.
At present, she has 2.75 million fans on Douyin, the number of fans has killed many Internet celebrities, and some of the short videos she has shot are also positive and philosophical content, and many young people are deeply impressed by this kind and wise old lady.
The strong save themselves, the saints cross people, there is no simple success in life, and suffering is also an innate gift in life.
As Wu Shengming said in a video, "If suffering is a kind of wealth, then I am already rich enough to rival the country." "Suffering is not terrible, what is terrible is that before suffering comes, we lose the courage to face life.
Although Wu Shengming's legendary life is full of ups and downs, she tells us with her persistence and perseverance: there are too many ups and downs in life, life, old age, illness and death, love and resentment, we can't change the past, but we can work hard for the present.
As long as you want to do it, it will never be too late.
May you be brave enough to move forward and live the way you want to be.
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【Author |.】 Xi Ruo】
Edit | Sangzi】
【Typography | Van Gogh】
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