One
In 1942, 14-year-old Li Ka-shing was almost "sentenced to death" by a fortune teller!
At that time, Li Ka-shing's family fled to Hong Kong to escape the war and fled to the rich businessman's uncle Zhuang Jing'an. Who knows, not long after, Hong Kong was also invaded by the Japanese army, and the Li Ka-shing family under the fence was even more unpopular, and was temporarily arranged in a dilapidated warehouse to live like a year.
Only his cousin Zhuang Yueming did not dislike Li Ka-shing, and even taught him to learn English, shining a warm ray of sunshine into his bleak life.
The leaky house was raining overnight, and Li Ka-shing's father also fell ill. When poverty and illness are compounded, what is even more disturbing is that a fortune teller saw Li Ka-shing, who was "blind and blind" and skinny, and concluded that he would "be difficult to become a great instrument" in the future!
Despite this, his seriously ill father still pinned his hopes in life on Li Ka-shing, and in order to let him go to school, he was not even willing to spend the money for medical treatment and life, and finally became terminally ill...
A year later, before his father died, he took Li Ka-shing's hand and told him: "It is better to seek others than to seek oneself, to eat bitterly, to be a superior person; when you are frustrated, do not be discouraged, and when you are proud, do not forget your form", so he left his family old and young and died.
After his father's death, Li Ka-shing also dropped out of school without suspense. Entering the society, Li Ka-shing seems to have been tested by the fortune teller's prophecy, what is not working...
With strong self-esteem, he would rather go out and run into a wall than ask for a job from his uncle Zhuang Jing'an, who is the "King of Watches". Finally, I found a job as a waiter in a tea house.
However, such a simple matter of serving tea and pouring water also made him dry up.
Two
Li Ka-shing cherishes this job, gets up earlier than the chicken every day, sleeps later than the dog, works more than 15 hours continuously, does a simple job of serving tea and pouring water, and earns little.
At that time, Li Ka-shing's greatest pleasure was to take time to listen to the three teachings and nine streams of the tea house chatting and talking about the mountain.
Once, he was so absorbed in hearing people talk that he forgot to add tea to the tea guests. At the urging of the guests, he panicked and accidentally poured boiling water on the customer's body...
Li Ka-shing learned to observe the color of the speech and apologize in time, fortunately, at that time, the people's customs were simple, and the customer was also very generous, otherwise Li Ka-shing must suffer a little, or he would be fired.
After a year as a runner, 16-year-old Li Ka-shing was finally promoted. But the professional ceiling of the teahouse work is very low, you can see the head at a glance, even if you work for another hundred years, it is "difficult to become a big instrument", and when you think of the fortune teller's words, you feel like a man on your back, so you pat your ass and leave.
In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally. After the war, Hong Kong's economy recovered rapidly, and the watch business of uncle Zhuang Jing'an became bigger and bigger, and it just needed some reliable manpower.
Under the influence of the three teachings and nine streams of the teahouse, Li Ka-shing, who has been polished by society, has become much more sleek, and finally willing to go to his uncle's watch shop as an apprentice.
After all, compared to pouring tea and pouring water, this is a technical job. What's more, working here, you can also have more opportunities for communication with your cousin Zhuang Yueming.
After a year of work, Li Ka-shing's watch repair technology improved by leaps and bounds, becoming an expert, and was soon assigned to another watch shop as a clerk, responsible for marketing work.
However, it didn't take long for Li Ka-shing, who had just been reused, to resign!
Three
Just when Li Ka-shing and his cousin Zhuang Yueming's relationship gradually became better and better, and his English was getting better and better, he also felt more and more strongly the humiliation under the fence, even if he did a good job, he could not get rid of the fate of "difficult to become a great instrument" and wanted to get ahead more strongly.
Perhaps in the maintenance and marketing of watches, Li Ka-shing discovered some trade secrets, suddenly opened up the second pulse of Ren Dou, had "super powers", he resigned, and chose another way: to work as a salesman in a hardware factory.
With the diligence of extraordinary people and the summary of thinking beyond ordinary people, Li Ka-shing further understood the market demand and found a way to sell in the process of walking the streets and chatting with the old lady, and finally had some achievements and began to change his life against the sky.
But what he did not expect was that the performance had just improved, and plastic products were like a spring breeze overnight, quickly squeezing the market, making him face challenges.
Li Ka-shing sought new changes, and soon jumped ship again, entering the emerging plastic field, in order to sell plastic spraying kettles, he could even run to the door of others, and help gardeners water flowers with their own plastic pots when everyone went to work to go to the company...
With this diligence and cleverness, Li Ka-shing impressed many customers, won a large number of orders, left other salesmen far behind, and became the general manager of the plastic factory at less than 20 years old.
After being the general manager for a period of time, Li Ka-shing was not satisfied, even if he was the general manager, he was just a "hit worker", and it was bound to be "difficult to become a big instrument" after living under the people for a long time, so he made a crazy decision.
Four
Li Ka-shing, 22, saved up $6,500 and jumped ship to become his own boss, who founded the Yangtze River Plastic Factory in Shau Kei Wan.
The reason why it was given such a name is because "the Yangtze River does not choose a thin stream, so it can be mighty." This also shows Li Ka-shing's entrepreneurial ambitions, and from the beginning he was running to do big things!
However, just after setting up the factory, Li Ka-shing suffered a major setback. Due to the use of obsolete machines, lay employees, there are great problems in product quality, resulting in word-of-mouth collapse, narrower and narrower sales, almost going out of business...
When Li Ka-shing was in a hurry, the two women gave him the most crucial help.
One day, her mother Zhuang Biqin let Li Ka-shing brew a pot of kung fu tea, and while drinking tea, she told Li Ka-shing the story of two monks, which made him feel enlightened and experienced the truth of integrity. From grasping quality and integrity to making products, we quickly reversed the image of the product.
With the strong support of his cousin Zhuang Yueming, Li Ka-shing got the lending bank, material merchant, seller and employee respectively, and finally breathed out, and production and operation were on the right track...
However, due to the profitability, the Hong Kong plastic industry rushed to the top and set up factories one after another, so a large number of homogeneous products emerged, disorderly competition led to a significant reduction in the profit margin of the industry, and Li Ka-shing's plastic factories that had just started to improve fell into a dilemma again...
In 1957, under the guidance of his cousin Zhuang Yueming, Li Ka-shing's years of hard-earned English finally came in handy and became a key for him to change his life against the sky.
Five
Late that night that year, when 29-year-old Li Ka-shing was flipping through the English version of plastic magazine, he suddenly saw a news that an Italian company had developed plastic flowers made of plastic raw materials and was about to be put into batch production and would be introduced to the European and American markets.
Li Ka-shing felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity, and he had to be one step ahead of others to enter the game, so he could not wait to fly to Italy to investigate.
However, once understood, Li Ka-shing found that the patent fee for the production of this plastic flower was very high, and the shrewd Li Ka-shing, in order to get the technology, pretended to be a worker and mixed into the local plastic flower factory to work, and met a large number of technicians, and went undercover to steal the plastic flower production process.
After returning to Hong Kong, he recruited talents on a large scale, carried out technical research, and finally produced cheap and high-quality plastic flowers. It not only monopolized the plastic flower market in Hong Kong, but also successfully occupied the European and American markets.
Batches of plastic flowers bloomed in Li Ka-shing's factory, opening up a bright spring for him, and finally, at the age of 30, Li Ka-shing became the world-famous "plastic flower king", with an annual turnover of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, considerable profits, and became a veritable millionaire.
Just when Li Ka-shing was triumphant, another feng shui master appeared in front of him...
Six
Li Ka-shing, who stepped into hong Kong's rich circle, soon met Chen Bo, a feng shui master who is quite famous in the circle.
Chen Bo asked Li Ka-shing about his dream of wealth in this life.
At that time, Li Ka-shing, who only had a million in his purse, said, thirty million, with so much money, you will be satisfied.
Who knows, Chen Bohaha laughed, looked at Li Ka-shing's full heavenly court, and said that he was destined to have a bad treasury, thirty million is only a dime, and he will become the richest man in the future!
Li Ka-shing, who had been frightened by the fortune teller's words since he was a child, listened to Chen Bo's words and was very useful, and his ambitions swelled sharply. Seeing that Fok Ying Tung and He Hongshen were making a lot of money in real estate, Li Ka-shing was not willing to be a man, so he quickly stepped in and made a lot of money.
In 1963, the 35-year-old Li Ka-shing naturally married his 31-year-old cousin Zhuang Yueming into the family, because she had always been a fragrant feast after returning from studying abroad, rejecting the blind dates of countless rich men, just waiting to become Li Ka-shing's bride.
In order to make the family business smooth, Li Ka-shing also bought a separate garden house with excellent feng shui on Deep Water Bay Road as a love nest. With Zhuang Yueming's godson, Li Ka-shing is even more invincible in the mall.
In 1967, the Leftists in Hong Kong triggered the "June 7 Riots", the situation was turbulent, and many rich people sold their industries and left Hong Kong to hide...
The real estate industry was in mourning, and Li Ka-shing relied on his judgment of current politics to do the opposite, seized the opportunity, adopted the strategy of "people abandoning me to take, taking advantage of the low absorption", boldly took a shot, and bought a large number of land and old houses.
Soon, after the storm passed, Hong Kong's economy was rapidly revived, and Li Ka-shing made a lot of money and became a dark horse in the real estate industry.
In 1972, when Li Ka-shing was booming in the Hong Kong stock market, riding a bull to go public, Cheung Kong Industrial was listed in less than 24 hours, the valuation rose by more than 100 times, the subscription amount exceeded the issuance amount by 65 times, the wealth expanded rapidly, and the 30 million he had dreamed of could not satisfy his appetite...
After tasting the sweetness of the stock market, Li Ka-shing listed Cheung Kong Industrial in London, England, and Vancouver, Canada, respectively, and rushed all the way in the capital market. With the blessing of capital, Li Ka-shing has only taken 5 years to become one of the "Five Tiger Generals" of Hong Kong real estate.
In order to realize the dream that Chen Bo gave him, Li Ka-shing did another big thing that was famous for a while.
Seven
In 1978, Li Ka-shing, who was playing well in the capital market, aimed his blood basin at Wharf and quietly acquired 20 million shares of his shares.
Wharf, as an important asset of the Jardine Department, one of the four ocean banks in Hong Kong, is a mouth-watering piece of fat. As the stock price continues to rise, Li Ka-shing wants to rely on his own funds to become the major shareholder of more than 51% of his holdings by buying a large number of shares, and achieve the goal of swallowing the elephant and temporarily stalemate...
Just when the media was speculating about the acquisition war between Li Ka-shing and Jardine Matheson & Co., the ship's king Bao Yugang was preparing to abandon the ship and land, and also stared at Wharf. After some tumultuous operations, Li Ka-shing transferred all the shares of Wharf in his hand to Bao Yugang one after another, making a profit of tens of millions, and bought 22.4% of hutchison Whampoa's shares with his backhand, successfully entering the board.
The two joined forces to launch a classic battle for the Chinese to acquire foreigners' assets, which was rumored to be a business talk for a while, so that the long-colonized Hong Kong people began to raise their eyebrows...
After this battle, Li Ka-shing gained fame and fortune, became an outstanding representative of Hong Kong's business community, was invited to participate in the National Day ceremony, and climbed the Great Wall for the first time.
Li Ka-shing, who had finally become a great instrument, stood on the Great Wall, his heart was surging and he shouted that he wanted to do something for the country. As soon as he turned around, he put his tentacles into the real estate business that had not yet started in the mainland...
After Li Ka-shing joined the board of directors of Hutchison Whampoa, he continued to work hard and quietly acquired a large number of his shares, and by 1980, he had become the majority shareholder of 39.6% of the shares, becoming chairman of his board of directors.
In this way, Li Ka-shing used less than HK$700 million in assets to successfully control Hutchison Whampoa, which has assets of more than 6 billion yuan, and is one step closer to the throne of the richest man said by the feng shui master.
Later, Li Ka-shing followed suit, acquiring Hong Kong Electric Light Company, the second largest power company in Hong Kong, and his wealth increased sharply.
In 1986, the 58-year-old Li Ka-shing became The richest man in Hong Kong, as feng shui master Chen Bo had predicted.
However, his mother Zhuang Biqin could not enjoy the fucking "superior blessing" of the richest man and died.
The richest man li took the opportunity to make a big article on feng shui...
Eight
Li Ka-shing, in the name of his mother's chaodu, donated HK$2.1 million in the name of his mother", "Li Zhuang Biqin's Good Daughter", to build the Guo Temple in Kaiyuan Town, Chaozhou City, and his fortunes have been like a rainbow since then.
As a predator in the capital market, Li Ka-shing opened his "blood basin and mouth" and bought his power, communications, oil and other related industries in Britain and Canada, and became rich enough to rival the country.
In 1989, Li Ka-shing was awarded the CBE Title and Medal by the Queen of the United Kingdom, and his fame and fortune were both rewarded and a bit fluttering.
On the last day of that year, Li Ka-shing and his wife Zhuang Yueming joyfully attended the New Year's banquet held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. At the banquet, Li Shoufu and his wife laughed and envied others...
However, that night, after the New Year's bell rang, Zhuang Yueming, who had been teaching her husband and son, suddenly and mysteriously died, leaving her life forever at the age of 58, leaving behind one mystery after another...
There are rumors of good deeds that night, the elated Li Shoufu, against the agreement with his wife Zhuang Yueming, brought 18-year-old Li Jiaxin into the house, causing a tragedy. Of course, this is all legend, and Li Chaoren can't say a word, so no one can know the truth.
In order to express the pain of losing his wife, Li Ka-shing held a funeral for Zhuang Yueming and vowed not to marry again.
Since then, the "Zhuang YueMing Building", which is controversial in feng shui, has also been built at the University of Hong Kong to commemorate his deceased wife. Later, Zhuang Yueming's tomb was destroyed, and the feng shui master Cai Boli said, "When the lady passed away, she died a very tragic death, and after the tomb robbers destroyed it, it was even more tragic." ”
Li Ka-shing was shocked in his heart, and immediately spent 2 million yuan to ask Cai Boli to repair the feng shui of his deceased wife's grave, which can be described as "unique with heart".
Not only that, anecdotal rumors, Cai Boli and other feng shui masters also helped him plan the feng shui of the Changshi Center, in the real estate competition, the use of feng shui repeatedly broke the problem, so that Li Chaoren in the competition to cut through thorns, go forward ...
That year, Li Ka-shing, who improved feng shui, was met separately by the 85-year-old chief designer, who invited the elderly to Hong Kong to have a look, further establishing his image as a "patriotic businessman".
Then, in 1992, the 31-year-old Zhou Kaixuan took a fancy to a piece of land on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, and after the plate was laid down, he set up a dinner party and invited Li Ka-shing.
Seeing Zhou Kaixuan, the 64-year-old Li Ka-shing only took 5 minutes to agree to participate in the project, and soon, he also turned this "mysterious strong woman" who was 33 years younger than him into his "confidant with a red face", and since then he has been in and out of the pair...
"Oriental Plaza" became Li Ka-shing's first business card to enter the mainland real estate development, and then it was even smoother, and the "great innovation" of "pool area" was deeply implanted in the genes of mainland real estate...
However, at this moment, Li Ka-shing's royal feng shui master Chen Bo fell ill...
Nine
That year, the feng shui master Chen Bo was infected with lung disease because he leaked too many heavenly opportunities, and when Yang Shoucheng learned about it, he immediately arranged for him to be hospitalized, and then the richest man, Li Ka-shing, who arrived after arriving, felt that the hospital grade was not enough, and transferred him to the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital for treatment, repaying his kindness.
But Chen Bo did not calculate that a catastrophe had already befallen the richest man...
In 1996, when Zhang Ziqiang, the "gangster of the century", saw that the newspaper was impressively publishing the wealth of Hong Kong's top ten richest people, he suddenly had an idea and decided to make some articles on the richest man, Li Ka-shing.
After some in-depth investigation, Zhang Ziqiang found that the 68-year-old Li Chaoren was completely invulnerable, so he turned the target of the kidnapping to his eldest son Li Zeju...
Sure enough, Zhang Ziqiang successfully kidnapped Li Zeju on his way to and from work, and directly asked the richest man for 2 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Li Chaoren used the "deposit" of 40 million yuan in cash to move Zhang Ziqiang, who came to negotiate. As soon as the other party was excited, he discounted the ransom by 50% and reduced it to 1 billion.
If you want to send, not far from the eight, Zhang Ziqiang also simply gave a deposit of 40 million yuan and made a discount, becoming 38 million, and finally took 1.038 billion yuan.
After spending money to eliminate the disaster, Li Chaoren redeemed his son, not only did not call the police, but also did not reveal a word to the outside world, so Zhang Ziqiang was even more rampant, and he took action against the second richest man, Guo Bingxiang...
During the SARS epidemic in 2003, Chen Bo fell ill again during his cultivation in Qingcheng Mountain, Yang Shoucheng, Li Ka-shing and others used special relationships, and they were stunned to use the international SOS ambulance plane to take Chen Bo to Hong Kong for medical treatment, and Li Chaoren once again took Chen Bo to the Sanatorium and Hospital, spending tens of millions of yuan, but still failed to save Chen Bo's life.
On his deathbed, he told Yang Shoucheng that he had leaked too many heavenly opportunities...
Since then, the mission of watching feng shui for Liang Luoshi and his grandson Li Changzhi has fallen to masters such as Cai Boli, but no matter how he looks at feng shui, Liang Luoshi still has not been able to enter the house, and Li Chaoren wants to see his grandson has also become very luxurious.
No matter how you look at feng shui, you can't change his true color of becoming a "melon of Huangtai", and you can't change the people's evaluation of his style.
Li Ka-shing, who has been influenced by fortune telling all his life, is 94 years old, and although he is still rich, he should also go back and read well and make up for the lesson of "terrain Kun, gentlemen carry things with virtue". If you wait until the coffin is final, I am afraid that it will be too late!
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