"The French Open is slow but not leaking." Anyone who breaks the bottom line of the law will be punished by law. Just like Zhou Zhengyi, the richest man in Shanghai, even though he has huge wealth, he will be punished by law when he touches the legal bottom line.
Zhou Zhengyi 196 1 was born in Shanghai. Although he was born in Shanghai, Zhou Zhengyi was as poor as most families at that time. The whole family lives on Zhou's meager salary. Zhou Zhengyi has five brothers and sisters. He is the youngest in the family, but in such a poor family, he doesn't get more care.
Zhou Zhengyi doesn't like studying. He has no talent for learning. He just dropped out of school before graduating from high school, and went out to work at a young age to earn money to subsidize his family. At the same time, it also made him see the society very early and accumulated some life experiences.
Zhou Zhengyi is not a mediocre man. He doesn't want to live in slums all his life. He is determined to change the status quo of poverty. 1978, Zhou Zhengyi opened a small wonton shop and started a business. Starting a business is not easy, but this wonton restaurant is his great first step.
With his efforts, the business of this wonton shop is also good. In the process of starting a business, Zhou Zhengyi met the most important person in his life, that is, his wife Mao Yuping. Mao Yuping is very smart and well connected. At that time, she was a typical image of a strong woman. Zhou Zhengyi's early rise was largely due to Mao Yuping.
In the 1980s, Zhou Zhengyi and his wife, Mao Yuping, had a small commodity business for a while. Soon after, the husband and wife went to Hong Kong and Japan respectively. Mao Yuping went to Hong Kong to work, and Zhou Zhengyi made small commodity transactions in Japan in the name of studying abroad. 1989, Zhou Zhengyi returned to Shanghai after studying in Japan.
From 65438 to 0994, Mr. and Mrs. Zhou Mao jointly founded the first couple's shop "Amao Stews". Because they pay attention to service and the quality of dishes is also very high, which attracts many upper-class people in Shanghai, makes them earn their first bucket of gold, and also accumulates a broad network of contacts for the husband and wife.
The husband and wife clearly realize that the speed of accumulating capital through business is limited. So Zhou Zhengyi began to invest heavily, plunged into the stock market, invested in real estate and acquired uncompleted residential flats. It coincided with the blowout period of China real estate at that time. In just a few years, Zhou Zhengyi accumulated hundreds of millions of wealth.
Entering the 2nd/kloc-0th century, Zhou Zhengyi has accumulated a lot of wealth. With money, Zhou Zhengyi does not "hide anything" like some rich people, but shows his wealth in a high profile. This also led to the theft of Zhou Zhengyi's home, and the cash was stolen as high as HK$ 654.38+3,000.
Zhou and Mao were extravagant, buying millions of luxury houses, millions of luxury cars, jewels and jade, and limited watches. The most exaggerated one was that Zhou Zhengyi bought a 900-square-meter single-family house at No.81Perkins Road, Jardine's Hill at a purchase price of HK$ 86 million. This purchase price far exceeds the previous owner's purchase price at the peak of 1997, which made the real estate industry stunned.
From then on, Zhou Zhengyi's title of "the richest man in Shanghai" began to rise. 2002 was the most glorious year in Zhou Zhengyi. June 5438 +2002 10, Zhou Zhengyi bought more than two-thirds of the shares of Rong Ying Group, invested tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and changed its name to Shanghai Commercial, with his wife Mao Yuping as the chairman of the board of directors.
In May, 2002, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government divided a large piece of idle old area land into eight pieces, and signed eight transfer contracts with Zhou Zhengyi for the eight pieces of state-owned land, which was then called "East Eight Pieces". In June, 2002, Zhou Zhengyi acquired China Unicom through a huge loan from the bank, renamed it Shanghai Real Estate, and became the chairman of the board.
In September, 2002, the Emperor Watch Jewelry Store in Shanghai Meilong Town Square opened, and Zhou Zhengyi was authorized to represent the Emperor Watch Jewelry Store in the mainland of Hong Kong Emperor Group. In this year, Zhengyi had unlimited scenery and became an all-powerful figure in Shanghai for a while. His name is also well known to Shanghai people.
Influenced by the economic situation at that time, Zhou Zhengyi's career began to appear crisis. First, the share price of Shanghai Real Estate, with Zhou Zhengyi as the chairman, plummeted, and then the share price of Shanghai Commercial, with his wife Mao Yuping as the chairman, also fell sharply.
The stock price fluctuated too much, and Zhou Zhengyi was investigated by the regulatory authorities. Soon after, Zhou Zhengyi's two listed companies in Hongkong also suspended trading, which caused an uproar at that time.
When Zhou Zhengyi's career gradually began to decline, his unfair means of acquiring wealth in his early years were gradually exposed. Relevant departments began to intervene in the investigation. During the investigation, many illegal acts of Zhou Zhengyi were exposed, and they were punished by relevant laws.
In 2004, Zhou Zhengyi was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for several crimes. He didn't really realize how serious his mistake was at that time. He just thinks he can do anything with money. Accustomed to a high-quality life, he can't stand the prison environment, especially in the sultry summer. So he somehow installed air conditioning in every cell of the prison.
It sounds amazing, but this is what Zhou Zhengyi did in prison. After he got out of prison, he didn't learn the lesson from the last prison and continued to make a comeback by improper means. Of course, he was punished by the law again. In 2007, Zhou Zhengyi was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 16 years for taking bribes and falsely issuing special VAT invoices.
/kloc-in the past six years, China's economy has developed very rapidly, especially in the real estate industry. Although Zhou Zhengyi made many mistakes, he was still a lucky man. /kloc-During 0/6 years, the housing price in Shanghai has increased several times, but Zhou Zhengyi did nothing during his imprisonment, and made a net profit of 3 billion only by appreciating the real estate he bought before his imprisonment. It's really amazing.
Although Zhou Zhengyi is courageous and talented in business, he is not down to earth. Instead, I was blinded by desire, took shortcuts and took side roads to get ill-gotten gains. Finally, he was punished by law.
Business is an ocean of opportunities, which can make you rich overnight or poor. It can make you down-to-earth and gain wealth through hard work and wisdom. It will also make you mad, get ill-gotten gains through crooked ways, and finally be punished.