In the chairman's office on the 49th floor of Shenzhen Pengnian Hotel, a smiling elder is warmly receiving guests. The elder was very happy to see the hometown guests from afar, and he felt a bottle of good wine with great interest, and the two of them talked while eating a plate of peanuts and rice with a thick Xiang tone.
The elderly pour a little bit of wine each time, and then carefully place the bottle next to them. The guest was not at all happy, he smiled and said, "With such a little drink, I can't stop drinking." The elder generously moved the bottle to him.
Although this elder was already a rare man, he was full of red light and spirit, and he was a rich man at first glance. Don't look at him drinking and so slamming the door, but he is not soft at doing good deeds, he donated all the tens of billions of assets he left behind with his hard work and thrift, leaving no cents for his descendants, he is Yu Pengnian, the first person in China's "naked donation".
Lianyuan is located in central Hunan, where Huxiang culture and Meishan culture meet. The majestic Dragon Mountain and the rolling water have bred the feelings of home and country that Lianyuan people are worried about the world and have the courage to take responsibility.
Yu Pengnian, whose real name is Peng Lishan, was born in 1923 in a three-story wooden house on the Banks of the Lanxi Bridge on the Lianshui River, where his father ran a printing and dyeing shop.
In 1919, before Li Shan was born, Lianyuan was flooded, and his parents and four older brothers and sisters were washed away by the water, only their parents were rescued by the boatman, and the house was reduced to rubble. During the Peng family's most difficult time, the villagers helped rebuild their home, and Peng's father was able to continue to run a small business.
His parents often nagged Xiao Lishan about this past, educating him not to forget the kindness of the villagers. Before the parents died of illness, they called their children to the front one by one, and told them that in the future, when there is a job, they must do more good deeds and repay the villagers. Perhaps at this time, the seeds of helping others have been silently planted in Xiao Lishan's heart.
Peng Lishan has been knowledgeable since childhood and has excellent academics. He attended private schools, attended new schools, and in 1942 went to Changsha to study business administration. Li Shan then followed her father to various places to do small business, but in the war years, the father and son were tired and struggled all day, and they almost died in the gunfire. Peng Lishan once described this period of time in a calligraphy: "The shopping mall is like a battlefield, from north to south, from east to west, defeated Dangyang, Benxiakou, lost Xinye, walking Fancheng, there is no place to live." ”
In the winter of 1954, after setting up stalls and pulling rickshaws, the Hunan handsome guy had just established himself in Shanghai, standing heroically in a suit and leather, and a disaster fell from the sky.
Four years later, Peng Lishan was forced to leave his hometown. With the help of friends, he did not tell any of his family, and after several twists and turns, he detoured through Macau to Hong Kong, the pearl of the Orient that quietly rose after the war.
Peng Lishan has not heard from her for many years, leaving a broken home. The eldest son lives with her aunt who is a primary school teacher, his wife Xiao Zhiyuan takes his younger son around to make a living, and she has to go to Changsha to work as a nanny for people from a large family, and her life is extremely difficult.
Peng Lishan decided to start over after coming to Hong Kong, and he changed his name to Yu Pengnian. At this time, he is 36 years old, and he has to work hard to live a life for himself, for his wife and children in his hometown.
Standing on the streets of unfamiliar Hong Kong, peng Lishan, who was once Peng Lishan, now has empty sleeves and only a crumpled change of clothes in her torn bag. He was unaccompanied, spoke a thick Hunan dialect, and talked to the locals like chickens and ducks, and could not find a job at all.
His stomach was already grumbling with hunger, and Yu Pengnian saw that there was free porridge to drink at the entrance of the church, and he did not care about Sven sweeping the floor, and swallowed and drank a belly round. Receiving the grace of dripping water should be repaid by the spring, which is Yu Pengnian's usual personality, which is also a reason for him to do charity in the future!
In this way, drinking porridge during the day and sleeping on the street at night, Yu Pengnian tried to learn Cantonese from some simple conversations with others. Soon, with a few similar Cantonese words, Yu Pengnian found a job cleaning toilets in hotels. And among them, the heartache of being beaten and imprisoned on the street is also a basket, and it is tears to say it!
Yu Pengnian cherishes his hard-won work very much, he goes to work early, although the urinal is full of gas, but he polishes it every day. "Only those who can do small things can do great things", "Only those who can bend down can stand up straight." Yu Pengnian often used such words to encourage himself.
A year later, Yu Pengnian's Cantonese was very smooth, and he began to try to find opportunities for ascension. He swept the streets, moved bricks at construction sites, and worked as a newspaper printer. He worked diligently, saved money, and often dealt with two white steamed buns and a bowl of boiled water. Even if he saves, he has to spend a millimeter to buy two newspapers every day, he is not willing to become a multitude of sentient beings, he is always looking for business opportunities, he wants to get ahead.
His experience as a journalist adds to his experience as a real estate owner. In the early 1960s, taiwanese real estate emerged, and he followed the boss into the Taiwanese market. After a period of training, the boss let him organize his own company to operate in a separate way and profits were equally divided. He traveled back and forth to Xinmatai and worked hard, and Yu Pengnian, who was middle-aged, finally won the first pot of gold.
Yu Pengnian is definitely a good man, after having money, tall, mighty, handsome and handsome, single, he did not seek pleasure in the world of flowers and flowers. He himself once said that he was a workaholic, and when he had time to find a girlfriend, he not only did not have a little wife, he did not even have a girlfriend.
Yu Pengnian used to fashion his wife and children in his hometown, and now he finally has a small achievement to announce the good news to his family. He wrote to relatives in his hometown and inquired about the whereabouts of his wife and children. At this time, the people of Guanzhuang Village knew that "Peng Lishan, who had been missing for many years, was still alive." Since then, mother and son often receive clothes, cans, and rice sent from overseas, and Xiao Zhiyuan is very generous and often shares these very precious things with everyone at that time.
Yu Pengnian's business career has also experienced ups and downs, and in the 1967 Hong Kong stock market crash, he lost 20 million Hong Kong dollars in blood, almost overnight. He never dared to touch the stock, nor did he allow employees to play with the stock, and was immediately fired when he found out. He returned to the familiar real estate industry, waiting for an opportunity.
In 1973, a generation of kung fu superstar Bruce Lee died of illness, leaving behind a mansion in Kowloon Tong. Hong Kong people believe in feng shui, such a murderous house naturally does not dare to buy, the house price fell again and again. 50-year-old Yu Pengnian does not believe in evil, perhaps Hunan people do not believe in evil, he finally bought the mansion at a price of 990,000 cabbage, and then renovated it, rented it to an unknown foreigner to live, and the annual rent is nearly one million. Seven years later, the mansion was bought by emigrants for a whopping 97 million.
In 1975, Yu Pengnian shot again, he bought the mansion left by the death of a noblewoman for 2.5 million, this time also forced, by 2016 this house has appreciated to 200 million yuan.
Yu Pengnian's extraordinary courage has made him a legend in Hong Kong's business community, and people believe that he has a hard life and can withstand the anger of Kowloon Tong. The "Great Immortal" in the field of physiognomy is even more bizarre, saying that Yu Pengnian's heavenly court is full of square circles, and he is born with great wealth and great nobility. Suddenly, business leaders competed to cooperate with him. Coincidentally, all the merchants who worked with him made a lot of money. Gradually, the idea that Yu Pengnian is the god of wealth in Hong Kong did not go away. In just a few years, he has spanned many industries such as real estate, hotel services, film and television entertainment, tourism development, etc., and his business has spread all over the world, becoming a rich man.
The rich do not return to their hometown, such as the night of the dress. Of course, Yu Pengnian did not come back to show off his wealth, he was a father and fellow villager who missed his hometown, and he was repaying his kindness to his hometown.
In 1982, when Yu Peng was 60 years old, he returned to his hometown after nearly three decades of absence. The young left home and returned to the old man, the township voice did not change the sideburns, the playmates of the year are still here, and they remember touching crabs when they were children. Yu Pengnian feasted more than 30 seats and personally invited relatives to gather together. At that time, shortly after the reform and opening up, the local government attached great importance to this banquet with "overseas relations", and the visitors had to register their identities one by one, and many people did not dare to come for fear of causing trouble.
The relatives who have met in several dreams are in front of them, and the excitement of the wanderer who is working overseas is not to say. At the same time, decades later, "it was still the same", and the poverty in his hometown also shocked him, and he began to donate money to do good in the mainland.
Of course, Yu Pengnian's move was not a whim, before that, "he could not see the poor people's life is sad" he has been doing good deeds in Hong Kong for many years.
He sent red envelopes to the villagers, and the 500 yuan red envelope was distributed for three consecutive days. He donated money to build the school, and Lishan Middle School became the most luxurious building in the area. He donated to build a bus fleet, and in the 1980s, Lianyuan County was connected to the bus, which became a new thing in the country. According to statistics, from the 1980s to the early 1990s alone, Yu Pengnian donated more than 47 million yuan in Hunan.
Yu Pengnian also had "tidbits" on good deeds, that year he drove to Changsha for the first time, and accidentally saw that the ambulance he had donated in front of him was driving, and that time he spent 2 million yuan to buy 10 luxury ambulances. He followed all the way, and the ambulance stopped, which was full of people and had no ambulance equipment at all. Yu Pengnian was furious, and he immediately wrote a letter to the leader, counting the difficulties of his earning money, and the deep love of overseas wanderers for their hometown...
In the spring of 2003, Yu Pengnian suffered from cataracts and spent more than 20,000 yuan to cure. He thought from this, he had money to cure, what about those poor brothers who had no money? His path to philanthropy has since opened up a new direction. On November 24 of that year, the "Bright Action" of free cataract treatment was launched in the Great Hall of the People. Today, the mobile treatment vehicle printed with the words "Restore the light and don't need money, hurry up and find Yu Pengnian" has traveled to more than 20 provinces and regions across the country, providing free treatment for hundreds of thousands of patients.
Yu Pengnian learned a lesson, he not only paid money, but also personally visited the front line of medical treatment, the choice of treatment objects, the details of the surgical process were personally asked, only to see the whole process to be assured, only the patient's signature counted. In an interview, his thick Xiang tone "I am relieved" was repeated several times, and his loving heart can be learned day by day.
Many old people who saw the light again took his hand and said happily that they could see their grandson again, and some old people were even so excited that they knelt down on the spot. Yu Pengnian saw that this matter had an effect, felt very comfortable, felt a sense of accomplishment than doing anything, and slept soundly at night.
In 2000, Shenzhen's landmark Pengnian Hotel was officially opened. Unlike some people who dare to do a hundred yuan with a dollar, the funds of this building are all taken out by Yu Pengnian with real money and silver, and there is no bank loan and interest. He said that peng nian hotel is a hen that lays eggs, never mortgaged and sold, all the eggs are used for good deeds, so peng nian hotel became the world's first charity hotel.
In 2010, at the China Charity Dinner under Bill Gates and Buffy, Yu Pengnian announced on the spot that all the assets totaling 9.3 billion Hong Kong dollars would be entrusted to the bank for custody, and after a hundred years, all of them would be used for charity. He also said on different occasions that he would earn enough ten billion in his lifetime and donate enough ten billion. According to the estimation of Hurun, the founder of the Hurun Report, the current value of Yu Pengnian's property has already exceeded 10 billion yuan, and Peng Lao's wish has been realized.
Yu Pengnian has a mantra: My son is weaker than me, what do you do with the money? My son is stronger than me, what do you do with the money? He once said to his son that leaving money for you may harm you, and it is better to leave a reputation for you.
Behind such a generous donation, Yu Pengnian is very "cutting the door" for himself. His clothes were patched up and changed and changed, and the waist of his pants was small, so he took a piece from the leg of his pants and sewed it on it. He eats bitter melons and vegetables every day, and the staff is reluctant to eat with him, and a bird fades out of his mouth.
Most rich people will build a deep mansion compound in their hometown, which seems to stand out from the crowd. But Yu Pengnian's ancestral house fell into disrepair, covered with moss and dilapidated. However, the books in the back of Lishan Middle School are loud and vibrant.
The pendulum stopped at 1:37 a.m., everything was no longer revived, the noble soul suddenly drifted away, and in the early morning of May 2, 2015, Yu Pengnian passed away in Shenzhen.
Funded people from all over the country, people from hometowns, and many admirers rushed to send Mr. Lao on his last journey. A man, tearful, said his mother was the beneficiary of Operation Light and was now coming to thank him for the last time.
A hometown representative said that when he was in changsha for college, the Lishan Special Line greatly facilitated the travel of these students, we lost a kind elder who loved and great virtue, and the people of Hunan will always be proud of Mr. Peng Nian.
On behalf of the family, Peng Zhibing, the grandson of Yu Pengnian's grandson and the guardian of Yu Pengnian Trust, said that he would 100% follow the old man's will and donate all his property to the society, and no relative would inherit the old man's property.
Changsha Lishan special line is still busy, changsha railway station lantern fountain is still gushing, Lianyuan Lishan Middle School "a hundred years of tree people Lishan first" slogan is still hanging high, printed with the words "restore the light no money, hurry to find Yu Pengnian" the words of the mobile medical vehicle is still shuttled, but the cataract patients who have been funded to see the light again do not know who to report the good news to.
Before the old man's death, the old man had built a cemetery, and his wife and eldest son had already laid rest here. Originally, they were buried together, but in the end, only a crown tomb was built in their hometown for remembrance. According to his last wishes, Peng Lao was buried in Dapeng, Shenzhen, because his beloved cause was in Shenzhen, and the most important project had not yet been completed in Shenzhen, and he was forever separated from his hometown of Shanshui, who had been blessed by him.
Yu Pengnian, with his lack of enthusiasm, went from cleaner to billionaire. He had tasted hunger, knew the sufferings of the poor, and had been favored by others, so he gave everything he could to give back to society when he had the ability.
He was generous and generous, spending every cent of his hard-earned money where it was most needed. He fulfilled his wish that "it is a shame for a man to die in wealth, and I do not want to die in shame", and he went away with a smile of glory.
The best way to commemorate Mr. Peng lao is to learn from him and emulate him, although we can't donate as naked as he did, donating hundreds of millions of tens of millions, but as long as we provide help to others within our ability, this is also a kind of charity.
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