On April 3, 2007, Gong Ruxin, the 70-year-old richest woman in Asia and the chairman of the board of directors of Hong Kong Chinachem Group, died of illness, which triggered a major media earthquake in Hong Kong. Why can an ordinary businessman have such a great influence?
This is because her life is quite legendary, and amazing strange things happen to her constantly.
One of the richest women in Asia, with assets of 40 billion, five times that of the Queen of England, only makes money without spending money, and lives more than ordinary people; An elite woman in business who is over 60 years old is called a "witch" by the Hong Kong media because of her puzzling behavior.
Next, let's walk into the legendary life of Gong Ruxin, the richest witch.
The combination of Gong Ruxin and her husband Wang Dehui is a realistic version of Cinderella becoming a princess.
1937, Gong Ruxin was born in Shanghai. Her father is an employee of a paint company, and Wang Dehui, who is three years older than her, has a stable family. Because of business contacts, the two families gradually became familiar with each other, and Gong Ruxin and Wang Dehui became childhood playmates.
Until Wang Dehui 1 1 years old, his father Wang Tingxin and his family went to Hongkong to do business. They had to separate when they were young, and began to write to each other when they grew up.
Encouraged by Wang Dehui, the teenage Gong Ruxin also went to Hongkong to study alone.
It is a fact that how bold people are, how productive they are. A teenage girl went to a strange city alone for a word from a man she hadn't seen for more than ten years. If she hadn't put all her eggs in one basket, she would never have had such a brilliant life later, so I could see at that time that this little girl had extraordinary courage.
After graduation, Gong Ruxin went to work in a company in Wang Dehui, saying that she was working, but actually she did nothing. She just comes for a walk every day, sometimes with her pet dog. She doesn't regard this place as a company at all. Wang Dehui gave her all the food and clothing.
At that time, the Wangs already knew about the existence of Gong Ruxin, thinking that their son was just having fun and didn't take it seriously, but I didn't expect Wang Dehui to be serious and married Gong Ruxin.
Of course the Wangs don't agree. At that time, their family was already a famous big family in Hong Kong, and Gong Ruxin's father had passed away, so it could not bring any help to the business of the Wangs. Moreover, Gong Ruxin's little daughter is too wild-tempered and reserved to come to Hong Kong alone to defect to men as a teenager, so Wang Jiajian has always refused to let her in.
However, Wang Dehui is not a "second-generation ancestor" with no definite view. He has shown his extraordinary business acumen, running the company independently and doing a good job, greatly surpassing the family business.
So in 1955, Wang Dehui married Gong Ruxin, who was only 18 years old, regardless of her family's opposition.
After the marriage, Gong Ruxin knew the gap between herself and Wang Dehui, so she put away her fun and began to learn how to manage company affairs, making up her own shortcomings in English and laying the foundation for becoming a rich man in the future.
1960, Wang Dehui saw the future development of Hong Kong real estate, transformed the chemical company into a real estate company, and established Huamao Group.
The first few years were not smooth. There is no good land in hand, so we can only do some projects left by others. At that time, Wang Dehui's stingy personality also showed incisively and vividly.
Engineers need pencils of different thicknesses. Wang Dehui didn't even want to spend money on an extra pencil, so he let them use one. When the pencil needs to be thick, he grinds off the nib, and when the pencil needs to be thin, he sharpens it again.
This stingy style didn't change until they got rich. On August 15, other companies distributed a box of moon cakes to their employees. The couple cut a moon cake into four pieces and the employees shared them.
This did save them a lot of money, but it also became the most fundamental cause of Wang Dehui's death.
From 65438 to 0967, Hong Kong's housing prices plummeted, the economy was greatly affected, and all walks of life were miserable. However, the shrewd Gong Ruxin predicted the economic situation in advance and tried to persuade Wang Dehui to buy a lot of land at a low price.
A few years later, Hong Kong's economic development entered the fast lane. They made a lot of money by developing real estate with the land they bought at a low price. But at that time, they insisted on not going public, so the outside world did not know their financial situation.
After Gong Ruxin died of illness, the media once counted that in addition to fixed assets, she had 200 buildings to rent, 6,700 parking spaces, a total of 2.547 million square feet of office space to rent, 1.856 million square feet of shopping malls to rent, and the annual rental income was at least 2.3 billion.
However, such rich couples are always stingy and unwilling to hire bodyguards. You know, in Hong Kong in the 1980s, public security was quite poor, and kidnappings were frequent, and rich stars were their prey.
1983, Gong Ruxin and Wang Dehui drive the same car to work. Unexpectedly, on a lonely road, they were suddenly blocked by two cars before and after. Then several masked gangsters jumped out of the car, smashed the window and took Wang Dehui away. They put black sunglasses on Gong Ruxin and told her to take 1 1 ten thousand dollars for redemption.
Wang Ruxin, who was in shock, calmed down without informing anyone or calling the police, and immediately remitted 1 1 ten thousand dollars to them as the kidnappers said.
Four days later, Wang Dehui really came back safely, but after coming back, Wang Dehui not only didn't appreciate Wang Ruxin, but jumped up and down with 1 1 ten thousand dollars because of his love.
However, after the kidnapping, Wang Dehui was so scared that he finally agreed to hire several bodyguards and lived quietly for several years.
But the concept of meanness has long been ingrained. Watching these bodyguards every day is like drinking your own blood. Wang Dehui finally broke down and was fired one after another. Five years later, there were none, and Wang Dehui finally relaxed.
This relaxation and terrible thing happened again. 1990, Wang Dehui was kidnapped again. This time, the kidnapper leader is very clever. It can be seen that he made careful arrangements and designed it seamlessly.
He gathered a lot of people, each responsible for one of the links, and no one knew the whole process of kidnapping, which led the police to finally catch some kidnappers, but they still didn't know the true story.
This time, the kidnapper lion opened his mouth and demanded $654.38 billion, setting a new record in the history of Hong Kong for ransom. Moreover, he can pay 30 million in installments and wait for the next news.
Gong Ruxin obediently paid the money again, but what she didn't expect was that the kidnappers had already pushed people and cars into the sea for fear of leaving evidence because they couldn't drive Mercedes in Wang Dehui.
A generation of rich people disappeared in the world like this, leaving tens of billions of assets and huge family businesses, which also made his family fall apart after his disappearance and was once crazy.
After learning that Wang Dehui had been pushed into the sea with both men and cars, Gong Ruxin was always unwilling to accept it and searched hard for three years.
Suddenly one day, Gong Ruxin, who has always regarded herself as a business elite, suddenly changed her style. In her fifties, she wore two sheephorn braids that were extremely inconsistent with her status. She also put on a festive red sweater, mini skirt and other exotic girl dresses, plus enchanting makeup, the whole person looks particularly strange. The Hong Kong media once thought that she was not in good spirits after being stimulated.
Gong Ruxin, who can't be found anywhere, almost collapsed, so she pinned her hopes on the Feng Shui master who was cheated of 2 billion yuan. The Feng Shui master told her that if she could show people the images when she fell in love with Wang Dehui, she might be able to call him back and let him come back.
Gong Ruxin, who has entered a desperate situation, completely changed her face, regardless of the eyes of outsiders, and even wore this dress on the cover of a magazine.
However, although her image is a bit "crazy", her dedication to work has not changed. As usual, she has a meeting and talks with her partners, and she is still in full swing and capable.
With superhuman's economic mind, investment ability and unique vision in business, under her leadership, Chinachem Group has gradually expanded from pure real estate to entertainment, commerce, investment and other fields, and its valuation has increased by eight times.
1In July 1997, Forbes, the world's authoritative financial magazine, listed the super rich, and Gong Ruxin was among them with a personal asset of 7 billion dollars.
She invested 300 million yuan in real estate management in Britain and earned more than one billion in just two or three years. Before the central government approved the "individual tour", she boldly transformed the hotel industry and decisively built a five-star hotel with some precious land. The super five-star hotel built in Repulse Bay has become another new symbol of Hong Kong.
Not only in Europe, America and Asia, but also in domestic enterprises, she has invested heavily in biotechnology, shipping and finance. There are dozens of projects in the west alone, covering agriculture, tourism, real estate, biochemistry, gold mining and so on.
After Wang Dehui disappeared, because Gong Ruxin inherited her property, all the money was in her hand. Wang Tingxin, her father-in-law, has been treating her badly since her marriage, and she can only get some living expenses every month, which depends on her face. Naturally, she didn't want to.
1999, nine years after Wang Dehui's disappearance, Wang Tingxin declared him legally dead and demanded the division of Wang Dehui's estate. He also produced a will written by Wang Dehui at 1968, which stated that he would leave all his inheritance to his father.
Gong Ruxin was shocked, and she also took out a will, which said that all the inheritance after death would be kept by her wife.
Wang Tingxin and Gong Ruxin fought for the inheritance for eight years, which is the longest civil lawsuit in history. At that time, Gong Ruxin did not hesitate to sacrifice his own life, and invited a Feng Shui master to enhance his luck.
Finally, in 2005, Gong Ruxin won the lawsuit and inherited all her husband's inheritance (of course, this is not the role of Feng Shui, so don't be superstitious), but unfortunately, she died suddenly two years later.
It turns out that Gong Ruxin's health has been bad. Many people said that in order to save money, she was reluctant to see a doctor until she found that cancer was incurable.
However, Xiao Bai thinks that it may not be to save money, but to see through the secular world and not want to heal any more. Otherwise, with her financial resources, even if she is unable to return to heaven, she can spend money to prolong her life as much as possible like a gambling king, but she didn't do so and quietly left with little struggle.
Maybe after Wang Dehui disappeared, her life became meaningless. She took back her husband's things in one breath and was regarded as the "witch" of mental cholera for the rest of her life. She never waited for her husband to come back. She was very tired.
At that time, some people suspected that she planned the kidnapping, because later she showed amazing business talent, and maybe she had been planning for a long time to seize power.
But I think it's just a kind of sustenance for her, because she and her husband are not willing to waste their efforts, and she has developed superhuman ability and talent in generate. She is just a woman and has no children. What does she need so much money for? Just to divert my thoughts from my husband and make myself less painful.
At that time, she came to Hong Kong for him alone. He failed to fulfill his promise to break up with his parents and marry her. He disappeared after being kidnapped. She has been crazy about him for half her life. I am afraid this kind of love will never happen again.
The most embarrassing thing is that Gong Ruxin fought a lawsuit with her father-in-law for eight years when she was alive. After her death, the same happened again.
Chen Zhencong, her feng shui master, exposed her and Gong Ruxin's proper relationship. He made a will to inherit all the property of Gong Ruxin. In order to increase credibility, he shamelessly described the secret of their boudoir.
However, a liar is a liar, and the court finally ruled that his will was forged and was sentenced to 12 years.
Finally, Gong Renxin, Gong Ruxin's younger brother, took over Chinachem Group and Chinachem Charity Fund. However, a bloody story happened on 20 12: our adopted son once bombarded the Gong family, saying that they had made a mess of the charity fund and the Gong family had failed to take care of the Wang family.
What an embarrassing life. Wang Dehui and Gong Ruxin only want to be together when they are alive, but where will you go is too rich. Gong Ruxin had huge wealth all his life, but he never really enjoyed it, but was constantly calculated by people around him.
I can't take anything away from the huge wealth I earned at the risk of my life, and I don't know who will collect it in the future. What's the use of making so much money? Without this wealth, Wang Dehui would not have been tied up and disappeared twice, and Gong Ruxin would not have been crazy for half her life. What a pity!