As a well-known Hong Kong and Macau entrepreneur, Stanley Ho's life is full of brilliant and eye-catching stories, attracting the attention of countless people.
Although he has passed away, he is still the talk of the people after dinner, because his story cannot be told for three days and three nights.
The family waited a full year for him to be buried, and that year he died unwell.
While there was talk of a possible feng shui connection, another piece of news diverted attention: Stanley Ho was just trying to avoid repeating the mistakes of Li Ka-shing's wife.
Does this mean that there is an unknown close relationship between Zhuang Yueming and Li Ka-shing, as rumored to be?
Stanley Ho once changed his fate with only 10 yuan in his hand, but he never imagined that his last time was in the hospital bed, witnessing his relatives falling into irreconcilable disputes over property.
Even if it costs 800,000 yuan a day to use a shot of medicine to prolong life, no amount of money can resist the fact of aging, and you can only wait for death to come.
When his life came to an end, the strife of this huge family also drew an end for a while.
thought that the matter was over and he could leave this world with peace of mind, but he didn't expect this matter to drag on for a whole year.
This situation has become commonplace for the noble family, after all, these wealthy people have a unique view of it.
It is widely believed that this is a common feng shui problem, and they are accustomed to the belief that in order to have a good child, they deliberately ask a master to tell fortunes, find an auspicious place and timing, and then arrange everything before the funeral.
When everyone was about to end everything, the issue of Li Ka-shing's ex-wife was suddenly involved, and some people even believed that Stanley Ho's burial a year later was also to avoid her experience.
Savor the incident of Zhuang Yueming and Li Ka-shing's ex-wife, which is really thought-provoking.
As the richest man in Hong Kong, Li Ka-shing did his best to give his married couple the best funeral.
Inside the coffin are countless gold, silver, jewelry, and valuable items.
The cemetery and coffins are very well chosen, and there are 24-hour bodyguard patrols.
Even so, it still does not eliminate the long-standing covetousness of some people. In 2006, a group of experienced robbers directly robbed Zhuang Yueming's grave.
The bodyguard didn't even complete the task of guarding the tomb and was caught off guard, so that the thieves successfully stole his money and finally fell to the ground unable to get up.
Fortunately, Li Ka-shing had the foresight to spend a huge amount of money to customize an unusually strong coffin for Zhuang Yueming, so he failed to let the thieves succeed.
Although the valuables inside were not lost, the incident caused Li Ka-shing to lose his temper and shocked the entire wealthy community.
He immediately began to look for a treasure suitable for his beloved wife, so as to restore her peace. This incident has also alerted many wealthy people.
Since everyone has a lot of money, no one wants to imagine what they will face when they die.
Therefore, the Ho family took this into account when Stanley Ho died, and they decided to spend a year preparing for it, trying to preserve his body as much as possible, even if it was a high price, as long as it could ensure that the body would not rot and stink.
They hired dozens of highly capable bodyguards who watched over the funeral day and night after the funeral.
After all, the deceased "gambling king" was a highly respected figure, so the funeral items must be extremely rich compared to Zhuang Yueming.
Wealthy people do pay attention to this, but looking back at Stanley Ho's life, they do have good reasons to do so.
Stanley Ho was born in 1921, and now it is no exaggeration to call him the real rich second generation.
At that time, China was still in the old social stage, and the distinction between people and their concubines was very serious.
Not only was he born in the most prominent family in Hong Kong, but he was also the eldest son born to his wife, and it can be said that he was loved countless times, making many people envious.
However, this happy time did not last long, and Stanley Ho's family soon fell into poverty, when he was only 13 years old.
Maybe other rich second generations are often idle and do not seek progress, and when they encounter this situation, they complain and cry, but this is not the case with Stanley Ho.
When he learned that his father had exhausted his family's savings because of his failure, and even fled to Vietnam for refuge alone, he resolutely stood up and stood in front of his mother and younger siblings, and the burden of the whole family fell on his shoulders.
During the war-torn years, he not only had to work to make ends meet, but also studied hard to make a stable living. Although he eventually succeeded in getting into a first-class university in Hong Kong, he could not escape the effects of the war.
In order to protect himself, he had no choice but to take his family to Macau for refuge, and at that time he only had a meager 10 yuan on him.
Perhaps even he did not expect that the 10 yuan would change his fate in the future, so that his descendants could enjoy glory and wealth.
In order to get an education, Stanley Ho worked hard to learn English, which made it useful when he needed it most.
In order to show his outstanding talents in his work, he taught himself Japanese, which impressed his superiors and eventually became the company's right-hand man. After several years of continuous struggle here, he successfully amassed a fortune of more than 1 million.
At that time, the communication company could be said to have really made a lot of money.
It was at that time that he met Lai Den, a well-known lawyer in Hong Kong, an experience that not only propelled his career, but also won the favor of a beautiful woman.
Naturally, Li Deng also helped in the process of his acquaintance with his wife, Lai Wanhua.
One is a young genius with a career pursuit, and the other is a beautiful woman, and the two of them quickly spark like dry firewood, and finally come together.
As a celebrity, Li Wanhua has many excellent suitors around her, but she is deeply attracted by Stanley Ho's sincerity, so they came together like this.
After receiving the help of the Li family, his career is also soaring, and he even decided to return to Hong Kong with Lai Wanhua to create a new situation for himself.
After marriage, Lai Wanhua respected her husband's wishes and stayed at home to be a virtuous helper.
It is precisely because of her dedication to her family that Stanley Ho has since become a fish in water in the business field and has become a veritable "gambling king".
Since Stanley Ho founded the Macau Water and Fire Company in 1947, his life has been like being pressed the accelerator button, and he can't stop at all.
He saw that his industry was booming, so he set foot in foreign companies, real estate and other fields with excellent prospects.
Although these achievements have made him a lot of money, his ambitions have swelled over the years as he has accumulated wealth.
He had the highlight of his life in 1961, the year that coincided with the legalization of Macau's gaming industry.
After seeing this, Stanley Ho didn't hesitate to decide to get a piece of the action in this competitive gambling industry.
Therefore, he did not hesitate to mediate in multiple relationships, and finally got the support of the ** department, and did not hesitate to put all the family assets he had accumulated over the years into it.
It was through this adventure that he successfully pocketed the lucrative cake of Macau's gaming industry, thus becoming a well-deserved gambling king.
In just a few short years, he invested huge sums of money in the establishment of the Grand Hotel de Portugal, attracting many wealthy gamblers to try their luck.
Every year, Macau** needs to rely on tax revenue to maintain its operation, and this tax is mainly the casino business. As a result, he ranked No. 6 on the Forbes list and is worth a whopping $500 billion.
However, with both identity and status, how could he be satisfied with just having a woman?
After Stanley Ho obtained hundreds of millions of assets, his business became busier and busier, and he could no longer find time to take care of his wife Lai Wanhua.
When Li Wanhua was sick and bedridden, he didn't care, and even poured salt on her wounds. At the same time, he married his second wife, Lan Qiongying, and asked her to handle household chores instead of Li Wanhua.
Stanley Ho's fascination with beauty was just beginning, and Lan Qiongying did not attract him, but prompted him to start taking concubines.
As long as Stanley Ho wishes, no one can escape becoming his wife. The second wife has appeared, and the third wife and the fourth wife will come one after another.
Over the years, his wives have given birth to 13 children. In order to compete for the family property, these women resorted to various means in the hope of gaining more wealth in order to plan for themselves and their children.
Ordinary people can't imagine the grievances between wealthy families, and Stanley Ho's descendants tried their best to fight for property, and everyone suffered misfortune.
As the eldest son, Ho Youguang was valued by Stanley Ho because of his equal status with his father, and was selected as the future heir.
Because of this preference, he died young, and died in a car accident with his wife.
In order to investigate the truth of the car accident, He Youguang's sister He Chaoying also suffered from neuropathy and became a crazy person.
In the end, due to a car accident, Li Wanhua lost the right to be the master of the house and was manipulated by other wives.
Even Stanley Ho, who is so good at scheming, was not spared, and actually fell at the house of the fourth wife, Liang Anqi, causing his physical condition to deteriorate, and he could only rely on 800,000 yuan per dose of medicine to maintain.
Finally, this struggle between the giants was also shown in front of everyone.
Until his death, the family was still unhappy with the distribution of property, and everyone wanted to fight for more as much as they could.
Stanley Ho admitted in person in front of ** that he was forced to make a decision on the division of property, and he also had to sue the second and third rooms.
Every family has its own problems that are difficult to face, and it is not easy!
The dust settled because of the death of the gambling king, and the matter was finally closed.
However, it must be admitted that Stanley Ho also left this world in a very beautiful posture after his death, and his family also gave him full respect and hoped that he would be well in the other world.