In 2019, there was a kidnapping case in Canada that caused a sensation in the circle of international students.
A rich second generation was targeted by gangsters because he flaunted his wealth on the Internet and was kidnapped in his garage.
Compared with the kidnapping case itself, people pay more attention to the identity of this rich second-generation father.
After his father's identity was exposed, countless netizens were dumbfounded, they didn't expect this industry to make money so much.
Lu Wanzhen was tied
In 2019, in the garage of an apartment in Canada, the lights were dim.
A cool Ferrari came in from outside the garage and parked in one spot.
Then, Lu Wanzhen, a young international student, got off the bus with a female friend he had just met, and was about to go home together when an accident happened.
Three masked men suddenly burst out of the darkness, controlled Lu Wanzhen with stun guns, forcibly dragged him into a truck and drove away.
Their swiftness and ferocity of their movements frightened the female friends on the side.
It took a while for her to come to her senses and call the police.
The local police immediately launched an investigation after receiving the report, but due to the scarcity of local surveillance, they could not find the trace of the truck for a long time.
Little by little, time passed.
Soon, the matter spread throughout the local Chinese community, and the local consulate also knew about it.
Seeing that the kidnapped students could not be rescued for a long time, the consulate coordinated with the local police.
Under the coordination of the consulate, the pressure on the local police has increased greatly, so a large number of additional personnel have been dispatched to set up a search and arrest.
Three days passed quickly.
During these three days, the local police still failed to find any trace of the kidnappers.
However, feeling the high-pressure pursuit of the local police, the three kidnappers were also afraid.
So on the third day, the kidnappers directly found a remote place and threw Lu Wanzhen off the road.
After Lu Wanzhen was left behind, he went to a nearby house to ask for help and asked them to help him call the police.
When the family first opened the door and saw Lu Wanzhen, because he had only eaten once in the past three days and was not neatly dressed, they thought he was a homeless man.
It wasn't until Lu Wanzhen opened his mouth that they knew that this was a kidnapped victim.
Not long after, the local police came and picked up Lu Wanzhen.
The person was found, and the kidnappers continued to arrest him.
In the end, under the strong attack of the Canadian police, there were three kidnappers, and they only caught one.
The man was a Somali immigrant who had served as a child in the Somali Scouts.
According to the kidnappers who were arrested, the reason why they kidnapped Lu Wanzhen was because they saw him showing off his wealth on the Internet.
Lu Wanzhen is a particularly high-profile person, he often posts some photos of himself and luxury cars on his social networks, such as Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Land Rover, luxury cars are changed one after another.
Although luxury cars in Canada are much cheaper than those in China, they are not affordable for ordinary people in Canada.
So when they saw that Lu Wanzhen was so rich on the Internet, they couldn't suppress their greed and chose to take risks.
In the three days that Lu Wanzhen was kidnapped by them, Lu Wanzhen also tried to save himself.
He once told the kidnappers that his father was very rich and could ask the family to give them a ransom of 1 million Canadian dollars, or 5 million yuan.
The kidnappers were thrilled by the ransom he offered, but before they could get the money, they were so frightened by the police's nets that they lost them.
Lu Wanzhen's father, Lu Wenrong
When the news first came out, many people only paid attention to the news itself and Lu Wanzhen's behavior of showing off his wealth.
But then somehow, Lu Wanzhen's father's identity was exposed.
Once exposed, it caused an uproar on the Internet.
Because, Lu Wanzhen's father's identity is too special.
Lu Wanzhen's father is called Lu Wenrong, who is the head of Hainan Yuchan Palace, the president of the Hainan Taoist Association, and the vice president of the China Taoist Association.
Linked to Lu Wanzhen's flaunting of wealth in Canada, and then linked to his father's identity, many netizens were deeply shocked, and they were shocked by the money made in this industry, otherwise how could they have the money to send their children to study abroad, and the children still have the money to buy so many luxury cars?
And this is not over, after this matter was exposed, Lu Wanzhen's former classmates in China also stood up and disclosed some details.
They said Mr. Lu had boasted to them that his family had an entire apartment building in Shanghai.
Every inch of land in Shanghai is expensive, and a suite starts at millions, and Lu Wanzhen actually said that his family has a whole building.
When his classmates heard him say this, they all thought that he was bragging too much, and no one believed him.
It wasn't until so many years had passed and they knew the identity of Lu Wanzhen's father that they knew that what Lu Wanzhen said was true.
The details disclosed by this classmate shocked netizens again.
What followed was the questioning of the Lu family's wealth.
In the face of doubts, Lu Wenrong also gave an explanation to the media.
According to Lu Wenrong, the Jade Toad Palace is not public property, but the private property of him and his family.
Before he became a Taoist priest, he was already a wealthy businessman.
In the 90s, he went to Africa with a delegation from Hainan.
In Africa, Lu Wenrong found that there are many animal resources in Africa, so he plans to buy a batch of animals and return to China to build a zoo.
It was at that time that he met a black guy who had studied for a doctorate in China.
During the conversation between the two, they talked about the word "Lao Tzu".
Lu Wenrong was only a carpenter with a low level of education before he started business, and when he first heard the black brother say the word Lao Tzu, he still thought that the black brother was very vulgar and impolite.
Later, the black brother saw that he really didn't understand, so he explained to him, and the black brother said that Lao Tzu was actually Li Er, the founder of Taoism.
In his words, the black brother has a lot of respect for Lao Tzu's thoughts.
A foreigner knows more about Chinese culture than he is a Chinese, which makes Lu Wenrong's heart deeply stimulated.
So after returning to China, he made up for the knowledge of Taoism and Taoism, and was slowly attracted by the culture of Taoism and Taoism.
When selecting land to build a zoo in China, Lu Wenrong listened to the local people in Anding County say that Wenbi Peak was very spiritual, and it was the retreat of Bai Yuchan, one of the five ancestors of the Taoist Quanzhen Southern Sect.
At that time, Lu Wenrong had already begun to come into contact with Taoist culture, so after hearing the news, he was very interested in Wen Bifeng.
At the price of a few thousand yuan a mu at that time, he spent 10 million yuan to buy a large amount of land in Wenbi Peak.
In 2002, Lu Wenrong, who was wealthy, spent 50 million yuan to build the Jade Toad Palace on this land, making it a famous scenic spot in Hainan Province.
And he himself also changed from a businessman to a Taoist priest, and with the gradual rise of his status, he became the president of the Taoist Association in Hainan and the vice president of the China Taoist Association.
However, this is what he said in 2019, and in an interview with People's Daily Online in 2017, he said that the fund for the construction of the Yuchan Palace Scenic Area was 375 million yuan.
We don't know exactly how much it was spent.
But we can know that no matter what the case is, his original net worth must have exceeded 100 million.
And the investment is huge, and the benefits are also huge.
After the completion of the Jade Toad Palace, it attracts many tourists every year.
We don't know the specific income, but the Jade Toad Palace held a ceremony in 2015, and the ticket revenue of that ceremony alone exceeded 100 million yuan.
The income of just one ceremony is so high, how high the income of the Jade Toad Palace is, we can know if we think about it.
And from what Lu Wenrong said, we can also extract two important information.
First, the land of the Jade Toad Palace is his, and the Taoist temple was built by him.
Second, he was very rich in his own right, and he was a Taoist priest who became a monk halfway.
In his case, even if he is not engaged in Taoism, in fact, he wants to provide his son with such a rich life, and he is capable of doing it.
After all, he was able to take out 10 million in the 90s, and 50 million in 02, which is indeed not low.
Resources:
Time Magazine - The rich second generation showed off his wealth and was tied up and electrocuted, and his father opened the Taoist Temple and earned hundreds of millions of dollars a year
Towards the Jade Toad Palace - "Health Professor" magazine interviewed Lu Wenrong, vice president of the China Taoist Association
Beijing News - The father of the kidnapped student in Canada is the president of the Hainan Taoist Association: the faction to which he belongs is "marriageable and meaty"