This big customer was Zhou Zhengyi, the famous "richest man" in Shanghai at that time.
Legendary family history
Zhou Zhengyi, who was born in poverty, didn't read much. He has only received primary education. From the age of 17, he went out to work, opened a wonton shop, worked as a porter in a factory, sold hair tonic and foreign currency, and went to Japan to search for gold in the name of studying abroad. Later, in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, he never let go of his dream of riches and honour, and kept looking for opportunities for promotion and wealth.
Soaring into the sky, creating a billion-dollar empire.
Everyone loves wealth, but Zhou Zhengyi's love and pursuit of wealth is obviously higher than ordinary people. His life is full of learning. His wife, friends and people around him are all his help.
It is said that Zhou Zhengyi's first chance came from women. During his stay in Japan, he saved a wealthy Hong Kong woman in a coffee shop, and then the Hong Kong woman provided 6 million Hong Kong dollars to support him to open a thriving restaurant in Shanghai.
The truth of the rumor is unknown, but the key to Zhou Zhengyi's wealth is really inseparable from his wife Mao Yuping. A weekly magazine in Hong Kong commented: "Amao is a person who can eat and do all-round business.
On the contrary, Zhou Zhengyi is just a gangster in Shanghai, a dangerous young man fighting in the street. From 65438 to 0994, Zhou Zhengyi and Mao Yuping opened the famous Amao stew. This is a five-story luxury restaurant featuring stewed dishes. Business is booming, and all kinds of luxury cars are often parked in front of the door. High-end hotels have opened business and political friendship for Mr. and Mrs. Zhou Zhengyi, and woven an important network for their future development.
Those who are diligent in catering and can occupy a place in the catering industry are extremely attentive or have excellent taste. Entrepreneurship is a narrow escape. It reflects the great success of Zhou Zhengyi's husband and wife in managing Amao stew.
It's hard for most people to get this far. If Zhou Zhengyi stops here, he won't be the richest man in Shanghai, but he can become a small boss with an annual income of one million and a good life. A gambler won't leave with a little gold and silver he won. He regards life as a gamble and decides to win it to the end. In fact, he also did it.
Since then, Zhou Zhengyi has accumulated huge wealth by virtue of two things. One is finance. 1995, many state-owned enterprises went public one after another, and distributed corresponding shares to many employees as wages and dividends. Zhou Zhengyi bought everything, and his assets expanded dozens of times. 1997 during the Asian financial crisis, Hong Kong stocks were depressed, and Zhou Zhengyi bought a large number of blue chips. Since then, the stock market has rebounded, and it is said that Zhou Zhengyi has made hundreds of millions of profits.
From 65438 to 0997, Zhou Zhengyi established Shanghai Nongkai Development (Group) Co., Ltd., and through the registration, acquisition and custody of companies and enterprises, more than 80 affiliated companies were established successively, which was used as a platform for stock market arbitrage and earned more than 8 billion yuan in four years. The second is real estate. Hong Kong's property market is very depressed due to the influence of 1997 stock market.
Zhou Zhengyi marched into Shanghai-Hong Kong real estate in a big way, and constantly won uncompleted residential flats from bank loans and then sold them. One of the biggest handwriting is "Jing 'an International Community". This is a plot of nearly 6.5438+0.8 million square meters that he won in Jing 'an District, Shanghai in 2002. It was the largest real estate development project in Shanghai at that time.
Subsequently, Zhou Zhengyi built a long capital chain between the financial market and the real estate industry, that is, purchased uncompleted residential flats with bank mortgage loans, cashed in by listed companies, and transferred risks to the banking system, thus building its own capital empire.
The scenery is gone, and the bloodthirsty capital has fallen.
In 2003, China's financial system began to be severely rectified, and the relevant departments of Shanghai issued regulations that real estate developers must pay the full amount in one lump sum when purchasing land. Compared with the previous installment payment, the capital chain pressure of real estate developers is undoubtedly enormous.
Zhou Zhengyi's banker friend, Liu Jinbao, the president of the Hongkong Branch of the Bank of China, was investigated for providing loans of up to 265,438+billion yuan to Zhou Zhengyi for this illegal operation. In September of the same year, Zhou Zhengyi was jailed.
If we put Liu Jinbao's resume and Zhou Zhengyi's rich history together, we will find that the nodes of the two are very close. It is said that Liu Jinbao and Zhou Zhengyi's wife Mao Yuping have an extraordinary friendship, but the truth is unknown. However, since his trip to Liu Jinbao, Zhou Zhengyi's wealth has doubled rapidly. With his understanding of capital and the right to lend, Liu Jinbao has helped Zhou Zhengyi realize capital operation. Funds depend on banks and projects depend on officials, which has since become the core concept of Zhou Zhengyi's huge wealth.