He started with 300 yuan, became the richest man in Forbes in Chinese mainland, and was once known as "China's first fallen master", sitting on a mountain of gold, but was imprisoned for repeatedly touching the red line of the law.
He is also a patriotic businessman, full of enthusiasm and dedication to the country, once exchanged 500 truckloads of canned food from the Soviet Union for 4 planes, and threatened to blow up the Himalayas in order to open up the southwest transportation channel!
This is the protagonist of the story we are going to talk about today: "Fallen Master" Mu Zhong.
What kind of experience has created such a contradictory and unruly hardcore richest man?
The people around Mu Zhong said that he was a stubborn temper that nine cows couldn't hold. In 1999, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for economic fraud, and everyone felt unworthy for him, and the former richest man had to spend the rest of his life in prison!
Mu Zhong pleaded guilty, but still did not admit defeat, in his first year in prison, he vowed to get out of this iron cage, and his fellow inmates were nervous about him, even if you get out, I'm afraid there won't be a few days to live! After all, Mu Zhong was 58 years old at the time.
Before Mu Zhong was imprisoned, his wife and children hid abroad, putting his life and death on the line.
What is surprising is that 16 years later, Mu Zhong really came out, and in these 16 years, his sister-in-law Xia Zongwei never abandoned him, and finally accompanied him to the last journey of his life.
This complicated relationship has to start when he went to Moscow to buy an airplane.
At that time, Mu Zhong's business was very large, and his Nande Group had hundreds of employees, and it was unrealistic for him to manage such a large stall alone. Fortunately, Mu Zhong's wife, Xia Zongqiongniang, Ding Wang, nine aunts, eight aunts and so on, all called over to help, and they barely supported themselves.
Before going to Moscow, Mu Zhong lacked an accompanying secretary, but several secretaries in the company wore many hats, and they couldn't get out of it, so Xia Zongqiong asked his sister Xia Zongwei to help, but what he didn't expect was that this busy man gave away his marriage!
At that time, Mu Zhong had not met this sister-in-law a few times, and only knew that she was clever, but her personality was very jumpy, and she made many mistakes at work, so his wife scolded her several times in front of him.
Because the matter of buying an airplane is very important, after arriving there, Mu Zhong taught him over and over again, for fear that something would go wrong with this little girl.
But what he didn't expect was that when the negotiations reached an impasse, it was this sister-in-law who came up with an idea and helped him solve a big problem.
After having those planes, Mu Zhong's business empire completely took off, he is indeed a person who has two brushes in business, has a very strategic vision, dares to be the first, and has created many classic business cases, in the mind of young Xia Zongwei, this Jeff is omnipotent.
Mu Zhong and Xia Zongqiong are a husband and wife in distress, when he was doing the "down" business, his wife was in charge of the company's finances, and he was reminded many times to transform in time and not to play the marginal ball of the policy, but Mu Zhong did not listen to her advice, and was finally sentenced to one year in prison.
Xia Zongqiong, as the company's finance, is naturally inseparable, and the two "share weal and woe" in prison, and discuss working together to fight again after being released from prison, in order to make a comeback.
When Xia Zongqiong met Mu Zhong, he was at the first low point in his life. At that time, Mu Zhong was sentenced to four years in prison for making some inappropriate remarks, which was also the first time he was imprisoned.
There is no doubt that Mu Zhong is not a peaceful person. He and Xia Zongqiong are both married for the second time, and his wife is called Zhou Jieqiong. Zhou Jieqiong was resolutely opposed to him engaging in "inverted fighting", at that time their family was relatively wealthy, and the two also had children, but Mu Zhong finally paid the price for his straightforward nature.
At that time, Zhou Jieqiong was an ideal good wife and mother, Mu Zhong was in prison for more than 3 years, she took her children to stay in the empty room, but I didn't expect that Mu Zhong still went his own way after being released from prison, and he still had to make a living from speculation. Zhou Jieqiong couldn't stand this kind of worrying days, and finally chose to divorce.
In the year after the second imprisonment, Mu Zhong and his second wife Xia Zongqiong sparked a spark of love in prison, and Xia Zongqiong had not yet divorced at that time. After being released from prison, she abandoned her husband and got together with Mu Zhong for the sake of Mu Zhong.
In the next ten years, Mu Zhong was able to develop and grow the Nande Group, and Xia Zongqiong played an important role, which was a virtuous helper who could go down to the kitchen and the hall, but when the Nande Group developed to a bottleneck stage, there were more and more differences between the two sides.
Xia Zongqiong is a person who is a little rich, and in her opinion, the company is strong enough, and it is very risky to continue to develop, and it may also be counterattacked. And Mu Zhong is not only a crazy idealist, but also has a patriotic heart.
For example, he did not hesitate to buy an airplane, which was indeed very advanced, but the main reason why he paid such a big price was for the country.
Xia Zongqiong insisted on his own point of view, because Mu Zhong had already extended his tentacles beyond the economic category, he was just a businessman without any political background, and it was really irrational to rashly touch those uncontrollable things.
In 1996, Mu Zhong and Xia Zongqiong have begun to separate, and there are rumors that the two have secretly divorced, but for the stability of the company, they have not made it public.
Three years later, Mu Zhong was imprisoned again, and Xia Zongqiong took her children, sold her shares, and secretly immigrated to Germany, which confirmed her previous conjecture.
Husband and wife were originally birds of the same forest, and they flew separately when disaster came. Some people also said that Xia Zongqiong's departure was because she had already discovered that her husband was having an affair with her sister.
But no matter what, Mu Zhong was sentenced to life, his assets have all been frozen, and he is in his 50s, Xia Zongqiong is a very correct choice to go abroad with his children. In this regard, Mu Zhong is completely understandable, he is also afraid that his wife will be implicated, their youngest child is less than ten years old, if both parents go in, it is equivalent to an orphan.
However, Xia Zongwei's indefatigability towards him was something that no one expected. In fact, the two were not the kind of dirty relationship that outsiders imagined before, Xia Zongwei has always been in love with his brother-in-law, but he didn't dare to go beyond it, and the relationship between Mu Zhong and Xia Zongqiong in the tribulation is still very deep.
At the beginning, after seeing Xia Zongwei busy with himself, he kept seeking an appeal, but the appeal failed, and he tried his best to seek a commutation of his sentence. Even Mu Zhong didn't think there was much hope for it, but she persevered.
Many people are persuading Xia Zongwei, saying that this old man has been completely wasted, even if he goes out in the future, he will be half of his body in the ground, and he has nothing now, it is really not worth paying so much for him.
Xia Zongwei doesn't care so much, she started from a novice in the workplace, that is, her brother-in-law grew up with her step by step, and she also cared for her in life, and now her brother-in-law is in trouble, and her sister has gone abroad again, if she doesn't work hard to appeal, there is really no one to help her.
In the first few years after Mu Zhong was imprisoned, Xia Zongwei completely gave up his job, but fortunately, her brother-in-law treated her well before, leaving some savings, she ran back and forth between Beijing and Wuhan every week, and when she came out of prison to visit the prison, she ran to the court, and then went to the police station, all she did was to reduce Mu Zhong's pain and let him get the opportunity to reduce his sentence as much as possible.
And after Mu Zhong experienced three prison sentences, he finally came to his senses. It's just that this awakening came too late, and with the help and encouragement of his sister-in-law, he regained his strength, learned legal knowledge in prison, and strengthened his biggest shortcoming.
Many people say that Mu Zhong has a good background. His ancestors were landlords for several generations, passed to his father Mu Pinsan's generation, and the family still had a very rich family property, Mu Pinsan was not only the president of the Wanxian Chamber of Commerce, but also the president of the Sichuan Salt Industry Bank, and had great influence in the local area.
However, Mu Zhong's life when he was young was not as people imagined, although his father was a capitalist, but he had a strong sense of family and country, Mu Zhong was also influenced by his father, and always wanted to do a vigorous career to serve the motherland.
It's a pity that he was born in an era of war, which was dark, and the common people couldn't see hope at all.
In 1926, the British government concocted the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" tragedy and carried out a three-hour indiscriminate bombardment of Wanxian, and those rich landowners and capitalists were busy transferring assets, and even took the initiative to move closer to the British, hoping to obtain asylum. Only Mu Pinsan stood up, responded to the call of Zhu De and Chen Yi, and led the workers and peasants to rise up and resist, and was an out-and-out red businessman.
The tiger father has no dog son, under the influence of Mu Pinsan, Mu Zhong has been jealous and hateful since he was a child, but he also inherited his father's shortcomings, such as being too straight and even a little conceited. Originally, his father expected him to be able to study, but Mu Zhong did not grasp the opportunity in the end, and after his name fell to Sun Shan, he was assigned to work in a glass factory.
Mu is very smart, no matter what he learns, he will learn it as soon as he learns, and he soon climbed to a management position, and later was introduced to his first wife Zhou Jieqiong, and his life was quite happy.
But Mu Zhong was not satisfied with this comfortable life, and later the factory was not profitable, and his wages could not be paid. Mu Zhong began to make a living by speculation, which was expressly forbidden at the time.
Mu was reported several times, and later all his belongings were confiscated and he was locked up and educated for half a month. After coming out, not only did Mou Zhong not learn a lesson, he wrote two articles and sent them to the newspaper in an unruly manner, these two articles had a lot of sentences criticizing the government, in the 70s, it was very irrational to do this kind of thing, as a result, Mou Zhong was sentenced to 4 years in prison, and his family was scattered.
In April 1982, Mu was released from prison, at this time the outside world has changed, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blows all over the country, Mu Zhong completely let go of himself, began to start his first business, and his friends co-founded the "Wanxian City Sino-German Store", launched the country's first case of "replacement card", which can be said to be the first case of after-sales service in our country.
Later, Mu Zhong used middlemen to make the difference, and seized the business opportunity to make a fortune. However, in the process, he suffered the second Waterloo of his life, because he played the marginal ball of the policy, which affected the economic order of the policy, and was sentenced to one year in prison.
After being released from prison this time, his life took off completely, using the Sino-Soviet trade route to build his business empire, and even appeared on the Forbes rich list, and was named one of the world's top ten news figures by Time magazine in the United States.
In 1994, Mu took out 5 billion yuan in one go, just to boost private enterprises in Shaanxi, which was the most high-spirited time for Mou.
Originally, with his net worth and background at that time, he had been developing steadily for more than ten years, and he could even sit firmly in the position of the richest man in China. But Mu Zhong did not follow the usual path, he once wanted to scatter his family wealth, just to buy an aircraft carrier in the United States and donate it to the country. Later, he also wanted to blow up the Himalayas and "divert water from the south to the north" to bring 201.7 billion cubic meters of water to the Yellow River.
What made him fall off the altar was because he joined forces with Russia to develop a satellite project, and was finally sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal fund-raising and other crimes.
Later, with the unremitting efforts of his sister-in-law, in 2016, Mu Zhong was released from prison early with a commutation. After going through so many ups and downs, this controversial former richest man finally washed his lead and returned to life, but his life was wonderful enough!