If your family gave you 2 million to spend whatever you wanted, what would you use it for?
Traditionally, if the husband is a billionaire, the wife plays the role of a beautiful wife and mother.
The male protagonist and the female protagonist are inside, a beautiful marriage with quiet years.
However, there is such a woman who is willing to be a full-time wife for 8 years to help her husband start from scratch and earn tens of billions of dollars.
After her husband became the richest man in China, she was unwilling to be mediocre, so she had to go hand in hand with her husband, and asked her husband to borrow 2 million to start a business alone.
She is Li Wei, a good daughter-in-law in Sichuan.
In 3 years, she went from a full-time wife to a rich woman worth tens of billions, and bluntly said, "I am my husband's golden key".
How did Li Wei do it?
Who is her husband, and what is the story between her and him?
Mismatched love
Speaking of Liu Yonghao's name, many people may not be familiar with it.
But when it comes to the mainland's "feed king" and New Hope Group, everyone must be familiar with it.
As China's largest feed producer, New Hope has a market value of $31.6 billion, and Liu Yonghao is at the top of the list.
From a small worker to the boss of the group, Liu Yonghao's family history is legendary.
Information source: China Civil Aviation Network, the link is attached at the end of the article
But behind this legend, the most inseparable woman is his wife Li Wei.
In 1978, 26-year-old Li Wei and Liu Yonghao fell in love and were about to enter the marriage hall.
But in fact, the original intention of this relationship is not favored by everyone.
Liu Yonghao was born in Xinjin, Sichuan, and has been accustomed to a hard life since he was a child, with four or five brothers and sisters in his family.
After graduating from Deyang Mechanical School, he stayed on to become a physics teacher.
Unlike Liu Yonghao, Li Wei is a veritable "eldest lady".
Her father was an engineer, and she graduated from Huayi Medical University in 1978 with honors to become a school doctor.
And the acquaintance of the two is also in the beautiful campus.
After the two fell in love, people around them said that Liu Yonghao was "high climbing" Li Wei.
But as a woman in the new era with knowledge and cultivation, Li Wei likes Liu Yonghao, he is down-to-earth, hard-working.
She firmly believes that following such a man will not make her suffer.
In this way, the two received the certificate in the midst of a lot of opposition, bought a few catties of fruit candy and gave it to their colleagues, and this humble wedding was completed.
Not long after marriage, Li Wei became pregnant, which coincided with Liu Yonghao's application for the University of Electrical Engineering.
In order to reassure her husband to study, she took care of all the housework with a big belly.
Cook for her husband at night without complaint.
Liu Yonghao worked hard during the day and studied hard at night, in order to let her husband eat something nutritious, Li Wei saved up food stamps to cut meat for her husband.
In the early 80s, when mainland commerce was in its infancy, the state proposed "rejuvenating agriculture through science and technology" to encourage farmers to start businesses.
Under the tide of the times, Liu Yonghao seized this opportunity.
He found his three elder brothers and planned to start a business together.
For her husband's entrepreneurship, Li Wei also expressed full support.
In 1982, the four brothers gave up the enviable "iron rice bowl" and planned to return to their hometown in Xinjin to feed the quails.
The four brothers combined to need at least 1,000 yuan of start-up project funds at the beginning of the business, but they only found more than 70 yuan when they searched through their homes.
Looking at her husband who was worried about money, Li Wei ruthlessly sold her valuable Inag watch, which was her dowry.
Sold for 185 yuan, plus the savings scraped together, Liu Yonghao scraped together a few hundred yuan and started a mighty entrepreneurial road.
Be willing to give up
In the early days of the business, it was difficult to do business, and Liu Yonghao buried himself in the farm and selling quails.
In order to let her husband work with confidence, Li Wei took care of the house in order while working, and even took care of cooking for her husband.
Li Wei's family
One day, Liu Yonghao told Li Wei that he always met students and neighbors when he was selling quails.
As a teacher, he inevitably has some face.
But Li Wei comforted him, "In Western society, the measure of a man's success is how much money he can make."
Calm persuasion and encouragement helped Liu Yonghao regain his confidence.
Later, Li Wei thought about it, her husband's identity was indeed a little ugly, so she decided to personally help her husband go to the city to collect the debt.
After more than an hour of travel, Li Wei never said bitter.
He helped his husband collect money in the wind and rain and never delayed.
And these Liu Yonghao are all in his eyes, on his self-made road, Li Wei's obscure efforts have made him go further.
I work during the day, take care of my children, do housework, and help my husband start a business.
Li Wei regards Liu Yonghao as almost all of her life, and she works tirelessly for her husband.
The breeding business is getting better and better, and Liu Yonghao is getting busier and busier.
In order to expand the market, Liu Yonghao rode around on a motorcycle at four o'clock in the morning.
Once Li Wei cooked a meal at home and waited for her husband to come back, waiting left and right until it was close to 12 o'clock, and her husband was still nowhere to be seen.
So he went out to look for it, and at the bridge he saw a few thugs in the distance, and she turned around in fright.
It wasn't until the second half of the night that Liu Yonghao returned home exhausted.
It was this experience that made her decide to quit her job as a doctor and become a stay-at-home wife, helping her husband with all her might.
You must know that Li Wei was already well-known in the local area at that time.
Such a decision was undoubtedly a difficult choice for her, but she was willing to give it up for the sake of her husband.
In 1986, the farm had an annual production of 150,000 quails, and they improved their recipes to expand their farming.
Later, their quails were sold not only all over the country but also abroad.
Liu Yonghao has become a veritable "quail king".
As a child, Liu Yonghao decided to rename the farm "Hope", which was also the predecessor of Hope Group.
In just a few years, Liu Yonghao's career has accelerated, his business territory has expanded, and he has become the richest man in Sichuan.
In 2001, Liu Yonghao ranked first among the 100 richest entrepreneurs in Chinese mainland by Forbes.
Stay-at-home wife, entrepreneur
Until 1996, Li Wei had been a full-time wife for 8 years, and her husband had already become a well-known entrepreneur in the country.
watched her daughter grow up and study abroad, and her husband also had a successful career.
Her inner entrepreneurial spirit is also beginning to move.
She knew that if she continued like this, she would definitely become useless and out of touch with society.
She wanted to change herself and get back into her career.
So she found her husband to express her thoughts, and Liu Yonghao agreed with her as much as Li Wei supported him at the beginning.
Information source: Red Star News, the link is attached at the end of the article
He gave Li Wei 2 million, thinking that if he lost it, he would treat her as pocket money to play.
This time, Li Wei, who has been silent for 8 years, will be in a new position, and her identity will also change from Mrs. Liu to a female entrepreneur.
She acquired a 51% stake in a typesetting center for 2 million yuan and established Sichuan Caidi Printing Co., Ltd.
In the entrepreneurial stage, she did everything herself, went out to run the business to pull orders, and she repaired the broken machine herself.
There is no air conditioning in her office, and she also has to install air conditioning in the workers' factory at a high price.
The pragmatic attitude makes more and more enterprises willing to cooperate with it.
The reputation of the printing company is getting better and better, and the list is getting more and more.
In a short period of time, it has developed into a large-scale printing company integrating design, production and printing.
In less than three years, Li Wei made a lot of money, and she returned the 2 million given by her husband with interest.
I thought that the "pocket money" I gave at the beginning really made my wife change hands and make a profit.
Later, Li Wei expanded her industry territory, and when she went abroad by chance, she discovered a unique flower called "marigold".
After learning about it, I learned that this is a chrysanthemum with high added value, and it is the main raw material for processing natural pigments.
And at that time, there was no precedent for marigold cultivation in China.
After an in-depth investigation, she started her business again and introduced marigold flower seeds to Liangshan.
The reason why the planting base is set in Liangshan is also Li Wei's good intentions.
Information source: Oriental Fortune Network, the link has been attached at the end of the article
The inconvenient transportation and the surrounding mountains make the local area a well-known poor area in Sichuan.
Before Li Wei arrived, they earned only 400 yuan a year by growing corn.
Li Wei gave them flower seeds and invited professional cultivation experts to teach them to plant flowers and take care of them.
Such an unprofitable poverty alleviation project is a muddy water in the eyes of outsiders, but Li Wei is willing to put all his energy into it.
In one year, the mountains of marigolds swayed in the wind, and the annual income of farmers increased to 2,000 yuan.
At this moment, Li Wei knew that everything he did was worth it.
In 2021, Liu Yonghao and Li Wei ranked 182nd on the "Forbes Global Rich List" with $12.1 billion.
In 2022, Li Wei will personally rank 46th on the Hurun Women Entrepreneurs List with 15 billion
In Li Wei's eyes, the relationship between her and her husband is like "a woman is a mountain, a man is water, the mountain stands still, and the water flows according to the mountain".
And they have also created a business legend with themselves.
Resources:
1. Red Star News: "Liu Yonghao's wife Li Wei: proud of her 8-year full-time mother experience to support her husband to give up her dream of being a doctor"
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1639744647617108140&wfr=spider&for=pc
2. China Civil Aviation Network: "Liu Yonghao: There is no new hope without reform and opening up"
http://www.caacnews.com.cn/1/201807/t20180727_1252626_wap.html
3. Oriental Fortune Network: "Counting the Women Behind the 8 Real Estate Tycoons"
https://finance.eastmoney.com/a2/20110518136727847.html
4. Sichuan Satellite TV, "Entrepreneurship is difficult and bittersweet, listen to what people have to say"
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jsARVaJG85zPunexkFCYjA
5. 2022 Hurun Women Entrepreneur List
https://www.hurun.net/zh-CN/Info/Detail?num=3SEEYICBR5GK
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