Speaking of the "Macau Gambling King", the first thing that comes to our minds is the name of Ho Hung-sun.
Indeed, in this gambling king who married 4 wives and concubines and gave birth to 17 children, there are many "bright spots".
In fact, there are a total of 6 "gambling kings" in Macao today, each of which has a "legend". The protagonist I want to talk about today is the boss of the galaxy - Lui Chi Ho.
Lui Chi-ho, 92, still hasn't "retired," but he hasn't returned to his family mansion for a long time. Living in his hotel, he often goes out with different beautiful women and does not shy away from the camera. Zhao Jinping, the original partner who has been married to him for 69 years, has been unusually calm about this.
What is it that keeps the couple together in this way? Why is Zhao Jinping so "confident"?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="125" >: Take stock of Macau's 6 "gambling kings". </h1>
Before we begin, let's take stock of the 6 gambling kings in Macau, and then let's talk about Lui Che Woo.
The so-called "gambling king" is simply a person who holds a "gambling license" in Macau and is licensed to operate a gambling business.
▲ He Hongshen and his daughter He Chaoqiong.
Ho Hung Sun has died, but his He family still holds 3 gambling cards. They are HE Chaoqiong's MGM, He Chaofeng's SJM, and He Youlong's Melco. The Ho family still occupies half of Macau's gaming industry.
There are another 3 cards, 1 in sands and 1 in Wynn.
The last 1 card is in the hands of Lui Chi Ho of the Galaxy.
▲ He Hongshen and his son He Youlong.
In fact, Macao issued a total of 3 "genuine cards", and later, each "genuine card" was derived from a "sub-card".
Wynn has been developing tepidly, and the sub-card of He Youlong Melco is the sub-card that He Hongsheng spent 900 million US dollars to buy from Wynn (the sub-card derived from the genuine card held by Wynn).
Today, the old boss of Jinsha has passed away, and the only remaining gambling king of the old generation who is still "alive and well" is Lui Zhihe.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="150" > two: Lui Che Woo's road to prosperity. </h1>
The reason why Lui Chi Ho is not as famous as Ho Hung Sun is related to his low-key personality.
▲ Lui Chi and his parents Lü Jinquan and Li Baoxuan.
Lui Was born on January 17, 1929 to a wealthy family in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province.
His great-grandfather went to the United States to earn a living and settle down, breeding for 3 generations, until Lui Zhihe's father, Lu Jinquan, was here, feeling that he had been wandering outside for many years, and decided to return home with his family. After returning to Guangdong, Lu Jinquan opened a winery with his savings, and the business was not bad.
In 1934, due to the instability of the situation, the Lu family left Jiangmen and moved to Hong Kong with the family.
In that turbulent era, the body was like duckweed, life was like grass, let alone a little "outside the body"?
Not long after, Lui's father was forced to give up his business, and even the family's property "disappeared".
Suddenly from a rich family to a "poor person" who could not even guarantee food and clothing, Lui Zhihe's father became increasingly depressed because he could not withstand the blow.
▲ Lui Zhihe recalled the days when he was in a difficult situation in an interview.
At that time, 13-year-old Lui Zhihe saw his depressed father and proposed that he could go into the food business and let the family make a comeback.
Lui Believes that even in turbulent times, "food" is just needed. In the food business, the cost is not too much, and the income is considerable.
But when Lui Zhihe told his father about this idea, his father smiled bitterly, thinking that he had been doing business for decades and was helpless to the current situation, what ability do you have as a 13-year-old child to "turn the tide"?
Seeing his father's disbelief, Lui Saidhe said:
The reason why the Lu family has been brilliant is not all because my grandfather went to the United States to do business when he was 15 years old? He can, I can do it!
It was this call that impressed my father. So, his father gave him some start-up funds, and he pulled his grandmother together to engage in a wholesale food business, specializing in cooking oil, flour and other necessities of life.
Lui Zhihe made a clear division of labor, he ran the market himself, and let his grandmother be responsible for sales.
▲ Recalling the days when he made a living as a teenager, the old man couldn't help but cry. So when he developed, he began to do charity.
After a while, this small business gradually became better, but Lui Zhihe had higher goals. He found that during that time, everyone was in urgent need of a food that was both full and cost-effective.
After some field investigation, he found that using cheap shahe flour to fry and add syrup to stir, can make a not very tasty but very full food, so he produced and sold this food in large quantities. Because of its good quality and low price, this product is very popular.
And the 16-year-old small boss Lui Chi-ho behind the scenes naturally earns a lot of money.
However, the money came and went quickly, because the situation was turbulent, and the money became a piece of waste paper overnight...
Lui Chee-ho and his four younger sisters in 1948.
For Lui Chi-ho, who was only a teenager at the time, this incident was not a small blow. The first pot of gold that had been earned so hard flew away inexplicably.
However, not long after being depressed, Lui Decided to start again.
Because he knows that "if you are not strong, no one will be strong for you."
Because at that time, "cars" were still new things and were symbols of status, so he learned car repair technology from his uncle, and in the process of learning, he found that the price of car parts fluctuated greatly, and he was keenly aware of the business opportunities in it, so Lui Zhihe opened an auto parts sales company and gradually accumulated capital.
Beginning in the 1960s, Lui Chi-ho, who was just over 30 years old, noticed that the quarry had great potential for development. At that time, Hong Kong was in ruins, whether it was building buildings or building roads, "stone mines" were a necessity.
In 1964, Lui Che Woo, together with his father, invested 160 million yuan in the quarry.
Later, this stone mine business made a lot of money for Lui Zhihe and won him the title of "King of Stone Mines".
In 1977, Lui Che Woo invested in the then unpopular Tsim Sha Dong's first reclaimed land.
Because Lui Zhihe is optimistic about the prospects of tourism, he feels that if a sea-view hotel is built here, it will definitely attract a large number of tourists to come for tourism and leisure.
He built the "Seaview Holiday Hotel" on the wasteland that people remembered, and rode on the east wind of Hong Kong's tourism development and made a lot of money.
Later, Lui Che Woo's Ka Wah Group entered the real estate and hotel industries, diversifying to this day.
However, what is more interesting is Lui Che Woo's identity as a "gambling king".
In 2002, Lui Che Woo's joint venture with The Venetians galaxy entertainment successfully got a "gambling card", and Lui Che Woo became the new gambling king of Macau.
At that time, Macao was the world of the gambling king Ho Hung-sun, and the "latecomers" could get a share of the pie here, and it had to be said that Lui Che Woo had his own business means.
Lui Chi-ho won applause with his low profile and pragmatism, calling Li Ka-shing, who is 1 year older than him, "big brother", and he said that there is only one "gambling king" in Macau, that is, Brother Shen (Ho Hung-sun).
Let it go, don't argue for fame.
In the 2020 Hong Kong Rich List released by Forbes, Lui Che Woo ranked 5th.
This is a huge affirmation of Lui Chi-ho's business talent.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="271" > three: Lui Che Woo's other half. </h1>
After talking about the history of Lui Chi-ho's family, let's talk about Lui's wife, Zhao Jinping.
Lui Zhihe has always been known for his low-key personality, and so has his original wife, Zhao Jinping, and there is not much news about her.
In 1952, at the age of 23, Lui Zhihe married Zhao Jinping.
When they first got married, the relationship between the two was very good, and Zhao Jinping successively gave birth to 3 sons and 2 daughters for Lui Zhihe.
In his career, Zhao Jinping also became Lui's right-hand man. At that time, Lui Zhihe liked to talk about business by playing golf, and he often took Zhao Jinping and invited Li Ka-shing, Guo Bingxiang and others to play together.
Lui Also arranged some important positions for his wife in the company.
In 2002, Lui Che Woo opened a 50-seat feast at the InterContinental Tsim Sha Tsui to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his marriage to Cho Kam Ping.
At that time, he made a declaration of "love" on stage, saying that his feelings for his wife were "unchanged" for fifty years.
But later, Zhao Jinping no longer accompanied Lu Zhihe. She put more energy into her children and career.
▲ Lui Chi-ho secretly meets with beautiful women.
In recent years, Lui Zhihe has basically lived in his hotel for a long time, and there are many young female companions around him.
For example, a few years ago, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, Lui Zhihe appeared at his own Seaview Jiafu Hotel, and took two young girls, 3 of whom laughed and got into the car and left. Lui, on the other hand, sat in the back row with one of the women who also wore hats and looked like they had a good relationship.
After a few days, in the same place and at the same time, Lui Zhihe went out with these 2 beautiful women again. After the 3 people got on the bus together, the car drove to the Happy Valley Jingguang Street Foot Bath Shop, which is popular among Hong Kong's richest people. This shop is a well-known regal foot bath shop, luxurious decoration, full of privacy. As he left, Lui continued to walk side by side with one of the women.
Later, the media found that one of the women with invincible long legs was the popular model Lu Jungong, who had taken photos for many newspapers and magazines.
Catherine is a Hong Kong model. A person who knew her revealed:
She was about thirty years old, when she was a child, her father's business failed, because he had no time to take care of her, so he sent her to Baoliangkah, from small to large she loved material life.
Lu Jungong often posted his affluent life on social platforms. From her photos, the media found that she liked the sport of a rich man, such as golf, and also liked to draw. Among them, the hobby of "playing golf" is very similar to Lui Chi-ho.
In her introduction on social platforms, she wrote:
Make yourself rich, and then make the people around you rich.
In an interview in 2010, Lu Jungong said that she "loves mature and stable men", so it seems that the gambling king Lui Zhihe is more in line with her requirements.
But Lu Zhihe has read countless people, and Lu Jungong seems to be a "love of wealth" that can be seen through at a glance. The "feelings" between the two seem to come to an end soon after.
For example, Lui Chi-ho was photographed appearing with a long-haired woman at a sugar water shop in The West Loop.
According to Hong Kong media reports, at more than 3 p.m. on the same day, someone saw Lui Chi-ho at the door of the century-old shop "Yuan Ji Sugar Water".
A bodyguard came out first, then a long-haired beauty in a white dress, and Lui Zhihe finally stepped out of the storefront.
After the bodyguard and the long-haired beauty had placed Lui Ji-ho, everyone drove away together.
In the end, though, this scandal is a oolong. The so-called object of the scandal is actually Lui Che Woo's secretary.
Previously, this beautiful woman often appeared next to Lui Zhihe as a "secretary".
Judging from this photo taken at the venue, this long-haired beauty's makeup is not thick, her facial features are good, and she is dressed in a simple dress, but it sets off her with a full sense of temperament.
For Lui Chi-ho's "lace news", the original Zhao Jinping has been very calm and responded with "silence".
Why?
Because Zhao Jinping has only one request - no divorce.
As long as you don't divorce, other things can be calmly faced.
Because of Lui's business, it is now basically handed over to 5 children to take care of it.
As long as Lui Chi Ho and Zhao Jinping do not divorce, the future of the 5 children will be stable.
Unlike the He family, where the lu family and the gambling king He Hongshen are located, there has not yet been a dispute over the property, and the 5 children each perform their duties, at least on the surface, it seems to be a very harmonious family.
▲ Gambling king and family.
And Lu Zhihe and the warblers and swallows around him, it is expected that there will be no waves, and Lu Zhihe is 92 years old, and the love between men and women has long been despised. Moreover, most of those so-called scandals are oolong incidents.
As for the "feelings between husband and wife", Lui Zhihe is 92 years old, and for Zhao Jinping, at this age, "family affection" is more "affordable" than "love".
In other words: choosing "the future of children" may be more valuable than "love".
However, there are also people who feel aggrieved for Zhao Jinping, married for 69 years, supported and accompanied all the way, but in the end he did not even return home, and he brought other women in and out.
▲Photographed in the 1960s at Yongya Mountain House.
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