The 2022 Hurun Global Real Estate Entrepreneur List has a huge oolong, and a person who relies on his wife has won the fourth position on the list, and this person is Wu Guangzheng.
Speaking of him, many people may say how capable he is, but now it seems that his greatest ability is to choose a wife.
Wu Guangzheng can have so many assets, mainly relying on the family property inherited by his wife, which includes 15,645 houses, which is an unimaginable result in Hong Kong, where every inch of land is valuable.
And these houses can bring Wu Guangzheng 30 billion rental income every year, which means that even if Wu Guangzheng lies down and does nothing, he can get wealth that ordinary people can't get in a few lifetimes.
Compared with the name of his father-in-law's world ship king, Wu Guangzheng's title is a bit unacceptable, he is known as Hong Kong's number one charterer, and we don't know how much meaning such a title has.
Let's take a look at how Wu Guang relied on his wife to eat this bowl of rice.
Wu Guangzheng's ancestral home is Cixi, Ningbo, and he followed his father to Hong Kong at a very young age.
After having such a family background, Wu Shaolin, as a father, wanted Wu Guangzheng to continue his father's path, so he was very attentive to education and sent him to the United States to study.
At that time, according to his father's wishes, Wu Guangzheng chose architecture, but soon after arriving in the United States, Wu Guangzheng was quickly attracted by the outside world, and gradually lost interest in his father's architecture major, and turned his attention to finance, which could make quick money.
In order to achieve something here, Wu Guangzheng ignored his father's ideas and adjusted his major to business administration.
Unexpectedly, such a small move took him on another path in his future life, and after coming to Columbia University, Wu Guangzheng quickly met a girl, that is, Bao Beirong, the daughter of the current ship king Bao Yugang.
After in-depth communication, Bao Beirong found that the boy in front of him was actually from Zhejiang, which added a lot of goodwill to Bao Beirong.
As for Bao Yugang, who is far away on the other side of the ocean, after learning that his second daughter had a boyfriend, he did not object, as long as his daughter does not choose a foreign husband like his eldest daughter.
Then everything is okay to say, so in this context, Wu Guangzheng has initially obtained the admission qualification of the wealthy family.
However, the change soon came, and Bao Yugang did not want his daughter to live overseas.
Therefore, he was very determined to ask his daughter to return to Hong Kong, but at this time, Wu Guangzheng already had a job at the Bank of America, and after weighing the pros and cons, he resolutely decided to return to China and reunite with his girlfriend.
After returning to China, Wu Guangzheng met his father-in-law, but the other party did not raise any objections, as the father of his daughter, Bao Yugang supported his daughter Bao Rong's idea.
So in this context, Wu Guangzheng and Bao Beirong held a wedding in 1973, which can be regarded as officially entering a wealthy family.
Of course, there is a reason for some people to succeed, and the study experience in the United States also brought a lot of financial knowledge to Wu Guangzheng, and after joining Bao Yugang's group, Wu Guangzheng quickly showed his talent in the economic field.
After an inspection of Hong Kong, Wu Guangzheng suggested that his father-in-law, Bao Yugang, enter the real estate industry.
He believes that this is the future of the profiteering industry, at this time Li Ka-shing and other early real estate tycoons have also emerged, after Wu Guangzheng's statement of pros and cons, Bao Yugang agreed to Wu Guangzheng's plan.
At this time, their first target is naturally the Wharf of the wharf, whoever can control here, then whoever can control the lifeblood of Bao Yugang's ship king, so Wu Guangzheng is bound to win this place.
But at this time, there are two problems here, one is that Jardine Matheson, as a big owner, will not sit still.
Second, at that time, Li Ka-shing was also eyeing this piece of fat, and had already taken out 100 billion funds to win a large number of Wharf bulk shares, and it was difficult for Wu Guangzheng to intervene as a latecomer at this time.
But who would have thought that the balance of fate seemed to have been tilting in favor of Wu Guangzheng, and when Jardine Matheson and Li Ka-shing were fighting, the external environment of Jardine Matheson was not good, so he gave in to Li Ka-shing through the bank's middleman.
After the two sides negotiated certain conditions, Li Ka-shing, who also had problems with funds, agreed to withdraw, and in order to land safely, Li Ka-shing found Wu Guangzheng to sell the shares, and the entry of the 100 billion shares also gave Wu Guangzheng the admission ticket to Wharf!
In this way, Wu Guangzheng officially became a director of Wharf, but the 20% stake obviously could not realize the ambitions of Wu Guangzheng and his father-in-law Bao Yugang, so they launched an attack on Jardine Matheson's equity.
In 1980, the two sides directly tore apart their faces and began to play a formal game.
Jardine Matheson was the first to strike, wanting to squeeze Wu Guangzheng out of Wharf's inner circle.
As soon as the stock market opened, Wharf shares Jardine Matheson bid 100 yuan per share, you must know that the normal stock price is 77 yuan, this operation soon also brought results to Jardine Matheson, the market of bulk shares were quickly acquired by Jardine Matheson, once Jardine Matheson Holdings reached 49%.
At this time, although Bao Yugang was not in Hong Kong, the entire group was also running under the operation of Wu Guangzheng, and he used the 2.2 billion funds given by the bank to quickly start a tug-of-war with Jardine Matheson, and Jardine Matheson bid 100.
Wu Guangzheng directly raised the price to 105 yuan, and finally the two also held 49%, this time the business war has entered a white-hot stage, and the slightest carelessness may be in the Wharf gloomily.
However, after Bao Yugang returned to Hong Kong, Wu Guangzheng, who received sufficient financial support, had an absolute advantage, and in the face of such a situation, Jardine Matheson finally chose to give it all the shares in his hand to Wu Guangzheng with 100.05 yuan.
So far, Wu Guangzheng's name is in Hong Kong.
It may also be because of this that the father-in-law Bao Yugang appreciated this son-in-law more and more, and in the process of distributing property later, because of this relationship, the second daughter family represented by Wu Guangzheng got all the controlling stakes in Wharf and nearly half of the controlling stake in the family.
Here you can also see how much Bao Yugang prefers it.
However, Bao Yugang doesn't seem to trust these sons-in-law, and he stipulates that his daughter has absolute control over the assets he left behind.
And the son-in-law only has the right to operate, but no matter what, Wu Guangzheng finally gained fame and fortune, and I believe he is also satisfied with this result!
Information sources:
Bao Yugang's descendants Wu Guangzheng and Bao Beirong became the richest people in Ningbo with a wealth of 45 billion yuan.zheshang.zheshang.com [Citation date:2018-03-23]
Forbes Announces Hong Kong Rich List, Lee Shau Kee Surpasses Li Ka-shing Top.Forbes [Citation Date:2020-02-7]