Legend of Xiangjiang Tycoon

In early June, the annual meeting of the Wharf Board of Directors. At the meeting, New Wall insisted that the directors introduce their recent major arrangements.

Bao Yugang told the truth about his overseas travel arrangements: first, he went to Paris to attend the International Tanker Conference. He was the chairman of the association and had to be there. Then he went to Frankfurt to attend the meeting of the banking industry. He was the director of HSBC and the chairman of Global Shipping. He had to go; the third trip was to London, where he received a sincere invitation from the Chinese community in London to attend the Dragon Boat Festival on the Dragon Boat Festival, and he had to go to support him; finally, he flew to Mexico to meet with President Paolo.

This trip will take at least 10 days. At the end of the meeting, New Bi held Bao Shi's hand firmly and said, "I wish you a happy journey!"

Before Pao's departure, Jardine Matheson had already made preparations for the acquisition: Landmark issued new shares in exchange for Wharf shares in the hands of Pearson Securities; sold a property in the United Kingdom, and the cash was transferred back to Hong Kong; Sold to Carrian Group for HK$980 million in cash.

Both sides are competing for Wharf stocks. Wharf stocks, which have always been undervalued, instantly became the darling of investors. The stock price rose all the way. It was only around HK$50 at the beginning of the year, and it rose to HK$70 in the summer. By the time of the Wharf Annual Meeting, Pao owned 35 million shares.

Bao Yugang flew to Paris as scheduled to preside over the International Tanker Conference.

The core members of Jardine Matheson immediately held a secret meeting. Before the meeting, a director said. "

Mr. Bao is probably taking a walk on the Avenue de la Château de la Lisé where there are clouds of beauties, right? Everyone laughed happily. Only New Bijian's face was tense. He knew very well that Bao's opponent was very unusual. Bao's almost started from scratch and created the world's largest fleet.

Now that the overlord of the sea comes ashore, even if he does not occupy the land, he will make several big holes in the land.

After that, things were very simple. Li Zhiwen seized the opportunity and sold the shares of the Wharf he acquired to Bao Yugang. Li Zhiwen got the funds and Bao Yugang got the shares. Everyone was happy.

And because of this, Li Zhiwen and Bao Yugang have a deep friendship, and only then have a series of cooperation.

Finally, it was Huo Yingdong.

Looking at Huo Yingdong's life, the turning point is probably at the age of 30.

Before the age of 30, "misfortunes do not come singly, and good fortune will come."

The Hong Kong media first compared Huo Yingdong with heroes in an article "Huo Yingdong Heroes on Water and Land", the article said that Huo Yingdong "This person, in the 20th century today, can be prosperous at one time. Today, he is actually one of the most famous industrialists in Hong Kong, which should be considered an anomaly.”

Most of the rich people claim to be from poor backgrounds and started from scratch. Why does Huo Yingdong "should be considered an anomaly"?

Huo Yingdong, who was born in a boat household, is one of the inferiors among Hong Kong residents. Not to mention the rich people look down on him. Even the humble enough people in the cage house and shantytown can sneer at him.

Now, who would dare to underestimate Huo Yingdong? He owns more than 60 companies in real estate, construction, shipping, tourism, gaming, restaurants, hotels, and department stores.

The article "Huo Yingdong Heroes on Water and Land" states: "A general has no seed, and a man should be self-improvement.

Another sentence is: Heroes don't ask where they come from, it's human effort. These two sentences are suitable for Huo Yingdong to say. "

Huo Yingdong suffered the most hardships among the many wealthy people from humble backgrounds, and is more legendary.

Huo Yingdong's grandfather, Huo Dahu, once owned a large sailboat. The family lived on the boat and traveled to and from Hong Kong and Macau for transportation.

When Huo Yingdong was born, the galleon was gone, and the family was crowded on a 6-foot-long dinghy.

The source of life, relying on his father to charter boats to transport goods, he is very busy until late, except for paying the boat rental, there is little interest, and the family life is extremely difficult.

Another type of boaters, relying on fishing for a living. At present, there are still a small number of boat owners in Hong Kong, and most of them have lived on mechanical boats. In addition, many fishermen and boat people live on the shore, and the boats are only work boats.

Hong Kong people taunt Yato as "water-flowing firewood" and "Danjiazai", which means that Yatou is like a piece of firewood or an egg shell on the water, drifting and tossing with the wind and waves.

Boaters are synonymous with poverty and danger. According to Huo Yingdong's recollection, their family was so poor that they couldn't even wear shoes, and they were barefoot no matter how hot it was in winter or when they went ashore on the boat.

It's only one of the reasons why people say it's hard to stand on a boat with shoes on. In fact, the boaters still like shoes when they go ashore, no matter how comfortable they are, because with a pair of black feet, people on the shore will laugh at "Danjiazi abandons eggs and goes ashore".

Perhaps for this reason, Huo Yingdong's father went ashore wearing new shoes for the first time in his life during the Spring Festival. him on

The big stalls fill their stomachs, take off their new shoes, and eat hor fun while sitting on a bench.

After eating, I left with my feet on the ground and returned to the boat, only to find that I didn't put back my precious shoes - it can be seen that I have never been in the habit of wearing shoes.

Inland water people are in the river. The water in Hong Kong is the sea. There is no wind and three feet of waves at sea, and the family boat, which is as small as a firewood stick and as fragile as an eggshell, can withstand the wind and waves, and the tragedy of the boat capsizes and kills people from time to time.

One year in a typhoon, Huo Yingdong's two young brothers capsized and fell into the water, and were buried at the bottom of the sea. With Huo Yingdong's sister's mother in his arms, they were rescued by his father and uncle together and survived.

Not long after, the uncle, who was familiar with water, was also swallowed by the wind and waves. His father escaped from shipwrecks several times, but when Huo Yingdong was seven years old, his father was killed by a disease.

The water was dangerous and the cigarettes were unstoppable, Huo Yingdong became the only male of the Huo family. Mother Huo gritted her teeth, abandoned the boat and landed, and took her family to live in a crumbling tenement building in Wanchai.

The tenement building was overcrowded, with fifty families living on the first floor, each occupying a space as small as a bird cage. Hong Kong calls this kind of house a cage house. The cage house belongs to the inferior family of the people on the shore.

Huo Yingdong's family of four, in addition to his mother, has a 9-year-old sister and a 5-year-old sister. Huo Yingdong is 7 years old. At that time, people often suffered from lung disease, which was regarded as an incurable disease.

In that Tang building, half of the people were suffering from tuberculosis, and the coughing sound came and went, and when the night was quiet, the sound was extremely frightening and miserable. Huo Yingdong recalled this incident with great surprise: our family was lucky enough to be safe, probably auspicious people.

Huo's mother is a strong woman. She took up the small business left by her husband. She bravely negotiated with the cargo ship moored in the open sea and took over all the coal barge work.

Then it is distributed to the sampan owner to transfer to the coal bunker on the shore, and Huo's mother earns a small commission from it.

Huo's mother was illiterate, but she was quite far-sighted. She felt the embarrassment of lack of culture and fully supported her son's study.

Huo Yingdong's father was still there when he was "enlightened", and he was studying the "Sailboat Yixue", which was sponsored by wealthy shipowners and was free of tuition.

Yixue is on a boat, drifting with the boat, and his whereabouts are uncertain. When Huo Yingdong went to school, he often couldn't even find the "school".

The monthly tuition fee of Queen's College is five Hong Kong dollars, which is quite expensive in the eyes of the poor. At that time, a clerk's monthly salary was around five Hong Kong dollars, and he had to support a family. Huo's mother's good intentions can be seen.

Huo Yingdong knew that tuition was hard to come by, and he was angry to study, and his grades were always among the best. He studied many literary works in school, such as "Robinson Crusoe", "Treasure Island", etc. These novels about the adventures of drifting at sea had a great influence on Huo Yingdong after he entered the world.

Entering high school, the monthly tuition fee is ten Hong Kong dollars, which is even more a heavy burden for the Huo family. Huo's mother worked as a coal barge broker, and also bought a small steamer Xinghe in partnership with several boat owners. She said to Huo Yingdong, "I'm working hard, just so that you can study."

In addition to taking classes, Huo Yingdong also helped his mother keep accounts and deliver bills. Mother gave Huo Yingdong 1 cent every day. My mother arranged it like this. The tram goes to and from Liuxian, and there is a simple lunch for four cents.

Huo Yingdong saves money on the tram and runs from Wan Chai to Hollywood Road every day to go to school. The money saved is used to buy books.

Huo Yingdong said: "At that time, I was very attentive in my studies, and I was always unwilling to lag behind. Occasionally, when my grades fell below the third place, I felt flushed."

Huo Yingdong was in the third year of middle school. Huo's mother hoped that her son would go to university, honor his ancestors, and comfort his dead husband.

The Pacific War broke out. The HSBC Bank hoisted the sun flag high, and the Japanese army posted safety notices everywhere to promote "coexistence and common prosperity".

On the one hand, the "enemy property" was seized, and the ships were shipped to Japan and Taiwan.

The small steamer purchased by Huo’s mother and her partner was requisitioned, and the Huo family’s source of life was cut off abruptly. No freighter was parked outside. Look for work.

Huo Yingdong's first job was to work as a marine engineer on a ferry. Ferries are coal-fired, and mariners are coal shovelers. Huo Yingdong was eighteen years old, but he was very thin.

After working for two months, I didn't improve my strength and skills, so I was fired.

Huo Yingdong's second job was to pay a ten-yuan Japanese military ticket as a deposit before he was allowed to work as a riveter at Taikoo Dockyard.

The dock has been taken over by the Japanese to repair Japanese ships or transports. Although Huo Yingdong came from a bitter background, he was full of bookishness and had a taste of "if you can't succeed in writing, you can't do in martial arts".

The rivets were burning red, and the furnace worker threw them in the air. Huo Yingdong was not the kind of person who was short-sighted and could not catch it.

When the Japanese master saw this, he punched him. Two people are required to work together to strike the rivet.

Heat hit the rivets. Huo Yingdong was tired and dazzled, and often "collapsed the target" and hit the iron pincers, causing the master to go numb.

The rivet cooled halfway through and froze in the rivet eye.

The master screamed in anger and threatened to kick Huo Yingdong off the dock. The foreman arranged for Huo Yingdong to be the riveter of the air cannon. Huo Yingdong swung the air cannon and the motor rang, as if he was holding a fierce tiger. He was stunned and didn't know what was going on.

The foreman was furious. Huo Yingdong couldn't understand Japanese, but he understood that he smashed the job he bought with a 10-yuan military ticket.

In the summer of 1942, the Japanese army expanded Kai Tak Airport. Huo Yingdong was recruited to work as a laborer, transporting rocks and loading and unloading materials.

The daily wage is 7.5 cents, and each person is provided with 6 taels of brown rice per day. After deducting 2 cents, he actually gets 5.5 cents. Huo Yingdong is in the developmental stage, and he is engaged in heavy physical work. How can he satisfy his hunger at 6 or 2 meters? Huo Ying said, "Even after dinner, my stomach is only 1/10 full."

Huo Yingdong's fourth job is still at Kai Tak Airport. After he was healed, he went to the foreman who arranged him to work at the beginning. The foreman moved with compassion and arranged for him to be a car mechanic to make up for the loss of his disability. Huo Yingdong thought that the time had come and he had learned the technology of car repairing. , travel the world without fear.

After the apprenticeship, I followed him to learn how to repair an airport cargo truck. The master can drive, but he doesn't know how to repair a car if he doesn't know how to drive.

Huo Yingdong always wanted to feel the steering wheel, thinking that even if he didn't learn to repair a car, learning to drive would be a good thing.

One day, trucks lined up. Huo Yingdong felt itchy, so he climbed up and started one of them, rumbling and rumbling, like flying through the clouds, it was really wonderful.

Suddenly a truck sprinted diagonally, Huo Yingdong didn't understand what was going on, and slammed into it, smashing his hard-won fourth job into pieces.

A few days later, Huo Yingdong found a fifth job and entered the Taikoo Sugar Factory as a laboratory student. The reason why he was so lucky was that the graduation diploma from the Queen's College saved him. At that time, there were very few commoners who read such a high degree, and Huo Yingdong was considered a small intellectual.

What really needs to be careful and precise laboratory work, Huo Yingdong also shows that he was born in a coolie, rough, clumsy, and often breaks glassware. The Japanese chemist is a good gentleman, and he did nothing to Huo Yingdong when he criticized him a few times.

Huo Yingdong's status is low, but his heart is higher than the sky. Seeing so many bottles and cans in the laboratory, he fantasizes about being an inventor. Coincidentally, another apprentice is also very ambitious, and the two discussed using sulfuric acid to make hydrogen.

Hydrogen can't be seen or touched, the only way is to see if it will burn. Huo Yingdong struck a match, while another apprentice watched.

The hydrogen mixed with the oxygen in the air, and with a loud bang, Huo Yingdong escaped with broken glass and blood.

The alarm sounded in an instant, thinking that the British ultimatum had planted a bomb, and the Japanese firefighters and military police rushed to the scene.

Only the Japanese chemist understood what good things the two Chinese tests were born out of. He pretended that it was an accident caused by the aging of the utensils, which saved the two perpetrators from martial law.

But these two laboratory students could not stay, and the laboratory technician angrily told Huo Yingdong and the two to open the way.

The fifth job, in exchange for a face of blood. Fortunately, no scars were left behind.

Friends all say that Huo Yingdong is a bad guy, he dies on horseback and capsizes while traveling. Mother Huo also thinks so, saying that if her son is angry, maggots will grow in the salt shaker.

Mother Huo taught her son to be down-to-earth. Those "scientific things" are too dangerous. Therefore, Huo Yingdong's sixth job is very realistic.

It was easy to do mileage, but in the past, the owner of the rice shop used to hire savvy countrymen to do mileage.

During the Japanese occupation, the rice shop was abolished, and the grain co-ordination was implemented. The military government controlled the grain depot and the granary.

As soon as Huo Yingdong got started, he found that playing mile was not so easy. He weighs the coolies, and only after the weights are finished can the coolies carry them out and put them on the racks, or load them into ships, or transport them to the distribution point. Rice is a pack of 180 jin, more or less.

The coolies either didn't come, or they came in a bunch, and there was a long queue. Huo Yingdong was sweating profusely. These coolies were quick and rude, and loudly **** their fathers and mothers. Huo Yingdong became more and more in a hurry.

Huo's mother came to see her son's work, and was very dissatisfied. When she was finishing work, she said to her son, "If I were the boss, I would immediately quit you and replace it with cleverness!"

This is the end of the sixth job. Because Huo Muli was the main brake, Huo Yingdong finally made no mistakes, it was a good start.

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