The 30-episode TV series "Flowers" has finally been broadcast. I know that many people haven't started watching it yet, so this article is about the story outside the drama of "Flowers", and has nothing to do with the plot.
First of all, compared with the original work, the TV series "Flowers" has changed a lot, and part of the content comes from "Shanghai Fu", "Savage Growth", "Red Men and Green Women in *", and "Joys and Sorrows in *". Wong Kar-wai has sharpened his sword for three years, and professional film critics have praised "Flowers" as the ceiling of today's TV dramas, "which may become a lonely product for a long time". and compares director Wong Kar-wai with Ang Lee, which shows the strong social influence of "Flowers".
In Shanghai's circle of friends, "Flowers" has become a hot topic. The hot reviews of "Flowers" are flying all over the sky. Everyone can't help but relive the long-lost Shanghainese, jokes, jokes, children's songs, bandits, big show molds, waves, Shanghai style, secret words, and for a while, the streets and alleys are reborn. In addition to English, Shanghainese dialect has been added to the Mandarin spoken by the new Shanghainese.
One of my friends organized a group to have dinner at the Moss Shengyuan Hotel on Huanghe Road, and came back and said that the streets were full of tourists and everyone was a photographer. It was the spot of Zhizhen Garden in "Flowers", and it is now an Internet celebrity. The meals are delicious and not expensive, there are 21 dishes for 1100 yuan, and the business is booming. Some people also went to the Peace Hotel, where the 1,700 yuan "Flowers" was launched. Po's No. 72 UK Suite rose to 162,000 a day, but it was not booked.
By the way, I brought fire to Shanghai food, pork rib rice cake, Ah Bao's supper rice, salted meat vegetable rice, lobster rice... "Flowers" won the hearts of the people and shined, and the red men and green women in the magic capital were overjoyed and fascinated by the flowers.
The illusion of the times at the beginning of "Flowers", the authentic Shanghainese language, some people feel that the taste is wrong and abandon the drama, and some people smell the fragrance and follow the trend. Eating men and women, **love and hatred, the plot is deepening step by step, and some of them have come out of the cage one after another. Conform to the audience's curiosity psychology, drive full power, chase the wind and catch the shadows, and concoct a variety of bizarre versions, some true and false, and some really interesting, which makes people like a fog barrier in the clouds, dazzling, excited, and can't stop. The bullets of all kinds of sailors are flying sideways, and the ground artillery is thundering, which makes my eyelids jump wildly, and my eyes are full of gold stars. No wonder some people say that watching these comments is more enjoyable than watching dramas. Some little-known stories that took place in Shanghai in the 90s have resurfaced.
Do you guess, does Mr. Bao's story have a life prototype?
Someone chased after him and actually dug up a tycoon, and there are many coincidences and similarities in the story of Mr. Zhen and Bao.
They said that the treasure in the TV series "Flowers" does have the shadow of this person. His story is even more legendary than the TV series.
This person was born in 1961 in a shantytown in Shanghai, his parents were both working people, because he did not study well, he did not graduate from high school, so he replaced his father and entered the factory as a worker. But he became a rich man at the age of 27 and the richest man in Shanghai at the age of 41. was imprisoned for 20 years, but he made a net profit of 3 billion in prison. This is Mr. Z, the former richest man in Shanghai.
If you want to say that his business genes come from his mother. His mother was spicy and capable, and opened a small wonton shop, selling tobacco and alcohol.
Although Mr. Z is not good at studying, he is naturally able to speak well and is familiar with the bottom of society. In the 80s, Mr. Z took the lead in the reform and opening up, and the first restaurant he opened was on the Yellow River Road, called Meitong Hotel. The location is good and the business is booming. In 1994, he bought a five-story building on Huanghe Road and opened a big hotel called "Ah Mao Stew", which was the most luxurious hotel in Shanghai at that time. He was also the owner of the first Ferrari in Shanghai, and the car was parked in front of the hotel, which was very public.
His nobleman was his wife, a shrewd woman in Huangpu District, who was worth tens of millions at the time, and her insight and connections helped Mr. Z open the door to wealth. When they came together, their assets had exceeded 40 million. He began to invest in real estate, and the couple made a lot of money in the market.
During the Asian financial crisis in 1997, despite the opposition of his relatives and partners, he boldly bought real estate in Hong Kong, and also bought a large number of blue chips under the name of Li Ka-shing such as Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa. Soon, the housing market soared, his wealth increased exponentially, his business covered agriculture, real estate, highways, and finance, there are four listed companies, one of which reached 5 sales revenue in 2006400 million US dollars, more than 4,000 employees. 41-year-old Mr. Z with 3With a net worth of 200 million US dollars, he became the richest man in Shanghai in 2002.
His fortunes began to reverse in 2003, when Mr. Z was sentenced to three years in prison on suspicion of falsely reporting registered capital and manipulating *** transactions. His listed company plummeted, and the Shanghai land he got was transferred to Li Ka-shing's name.
Unlike ordinary criminals, Mr. Z's first big move in prison was to install air conditioning in every room in the prison. His life was as comfortable as ever, and he was released from prison in 2006 and returned to his company. In 2007, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the crimes of offering bribes to enterprise personnel, false accusations and misappropriation of funds.
Coincidentally, he was imprisoned in 2007, and the financial crisis in 2008 caused the assets of other rich people to shrink significantly, and Mr. Z's assets happened to be frozen and escaped the financial crisis. And the 16 years he was in prison was a period of China's real estate boom, and he hoarded a large number of real estate, which appreciated wildly, and when he was released from prison ahead of schedule in 2021, his assets increased by 3 billion.
The legend is here again. He was just 60 years old when he was released from prison, and he held a birthday party for himself in the most luxurious hotel in Shanghai, which was attended by celebrities and celebrities, and the host of Dragon TV paid homage to the old big brother at the birthday party. Six popular hosts were punished for inappropriate words and deeds...
Another ruthless man in "Flowers", does Qiang always have a life prototype?
Someone dug up Jin Sheng, the old manager of Wanguo**. Do you still remember, Guan Jinsheng, the "financial tycoon" who once dominated the beach?
Guan Jinsheng once started with 35 million yuan, established Wanguo**, and in just 6 years, miraculously gathered billions of yuan in assets, and was known as "China's Godfather". After being defeated in the "327 Treasury Bond Incident", Guan Jinsheng was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Guan Jinsheng was born in 1947 in a small and impoverished mountain village in Qingjiang County, Jiangxi Province. Although his family was poor, he was smart and studious, with excellent grades, and in 1965, Guan Jinsheng graduated from Jiangxi Provincial Key High School and was admitted to the French Department of Shanghai Foreign Chinese College with excellent scores.
After graduating from university, Guan Jinsheng became a class cadre, and after Guan Jinsheng graduated, because of the scarcity of jobs, the French he learned could not find a corresponding job in China, so he was reluctantly assigned to the Shanghai Municipal Government to do administrative work for 9 years.
In 1979, Guan Jinsheng was admitted to his alma mater for a master's degree in French literature. Embarrassingly, after graduating with a master's degree three years later, he still couldn't find a job, so he transferred to Shanghai Trust and Investment Company to work.
In 1983, the U.S.-China International Investment Seminar was held in Shanghai, and Guan Jinsheng, who was fluent in French, was appointed as the secretary general of the conference. After the meeting, he accepted the invitation of the European Union and was appointed by the Shanghai Trust and Investment Company to study at the University of Brussels in Belgium and returned to China with two master's degrees in business management and law.
After the "gold plating" abroad, Guan Jin became a senior talent proficient in the capital market and international investment, and entered the "Revitalization Shanghai Research Association".
In the late 80s of the last century, the "revitalization of Shanghai" was put on the agenda by the state, and the Bund in Shanghai was conceived to become the "Oriental Wall Street". Guan Jinsheng seized the opportunity to create a Chinese market, and his proposal was quickly accepted.
In 1988, 41-year-old Guan Jinsheng founded Wanguo**. It is said that the primitive accumulation of the first ten nations was completed from the inverted treasury bills. "At that time, we all took cash to Henan, Anhui and other places to buy treasury bills, and when we came back, one person sat in a sack, and one sack was worth millions of **, which was transported back by train. ”
At that time, there were only three ** companies in Shanghai: Wanguo, Shenyin and Haitong, among which Wanguo, which was headed by Guan Jinsheng, was the largest. At one time, Wanguo** held 70% of the A shares and almost all of the B shares of China's domestic listed companies.
With the success of Wanguo**, Guan Jinsheng's ambition gradually expanded. He proudly said that he wanted to make Wanguo ** become China's Nomura and Merrill Lynch, "to enter the world's top ten brokerages in 2000"!
He sold treasury bonds in a large amount of overdrafts, and without sufficient margin, he placed more than 100 billion yuan in sell orders, and the price went all the way from 1513 yuan dropped to 147$4. You must know that at that time, the total number of 327 national bonds was only 24 billion.
Guan Jinsheng frantically shorted treasury bonds, which led to the liquidation of all the bulls at the opening of the day, and due to the rush of time, all the bulls were blindfolded, and there was no time to react, which made this fierce long and short strangulation end with the profit of Wanguo**. The bulls, represented by China Economic Development, have suffered huge losses of about 4 billion yuan.
At that time, there was a stunned scene inside and outside the Shanghai Stock Exchange, some people's faces turned white at once, and some even fainted on the spot.
The reversal was not long in coming, though. At 10 o'clock in the evening of the same day, the Shanghai ** Exchange announced after an emergency meeting that all transactions after 16:22:13 on February 23, 1995 were abnormal and invalid, and the redemption price of the "327" product was determined by the membership agreement.
This means that Guan Jinsheng's tail operation harvest instantly came to naught, and Wanguo** lost 5.6 billion yuan and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Soon after, Guan Jinsheng was in Hainan **, charged with ** and misappropriation of more than 40 yuan.
After this battle, the nation**, which had been greatly injured, was also reorganized. In July 1996, Shenyin and Wanguo merged to form Shenyin Wanguo ** Company.
In February 1997, Guan Jinsheng was sentenced to 17 years in prison on charges of bribery and misappropriation of public funds totaling 2.69 million yuan in the years leading up to the establishment of the market.
In 2003, after serving a seven-year sentence in Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai, Guan Jinsheng applied for medical parole and lived in an old house in Shanghai's Xuhui District. Now make a comeback and do private equity**.
It sounds thrilling, and it is similar to the story of Mr. Qiang.
Fortunately, "Flowers" didn't follow these scripts, but it really gave me a lot of knowledge.