Text: A review.
Two days ago, there was a hot search that Boss Zong was hospitalized, and before this hot search, his family was also popular twice, one was the "milk sister" who had been sucking AD calcium milk at night in the village, and the other was buying a luxury house in the United States in a low-key manner.
It is not new for Chinese bosses, especially Zhejiang bosses, to buy houses in the United States, and Boss Chen has not all become big landlords.
The Jack family also has a lot of land and forests, and when Mr. Ma, who built rockets, wanted to get rid of the California mansion, he took over Mr. Ding, who was famous for raising pigs.
In contrast, the house bought by the boss Zong's family is already cheap, 55% lower than the original price.
It's a mansion owned by the Hilton family in Bel Air, one of Los Angeles' top neighborhoods, and the owners Rick and Casey are the granddaughters and granddaughters of Hilton founders.
Rick is the co-founder of a well-known luxury real estate agency in Beverly Hills, and his wife is a former member of the reality show Beverly Wife.
The house was bought and invested by the couple in 2015 for $9.3 million, just a few steps away from their home.
After buying it, it took 6 years to demolish and rebuild the old one, and it was completed and listed in September 2021 with a price tag of $55 million, but what happened at that time I know, everyone is busy saving their lives, how can they have the time and energy to look at the house.
In this way, the listing price went all the way down, seeing that Los Angeles was going to open a mansion tax, and the loan interest rate was also very high, and after it dropped to $39.5 million last year and was not sold, they gritted their teeth and lowered it again, and finally at the beginning of 2024, that is, when our vast number of treasures were experiencing a stock market crash, they were sold for $25 million.
I feel that this ** is quite cost-effective (you are inflated), more than 100 million yuan to buy such a large piece of land, you look at Jack's daughter-in-law (article link: The wife of a well-known rich man bought a house overseas again) bought a store in Po County, more than 200 million places with big nostrils, isn't it?
Coincidentally, the buyer of the shophouse in Po County is the former richest man in the mainland, a well-known chopper family, and the buyer of the luxury house in Los Angeles is the former richest man in the mainland, a well-known AD calcium milk family, and the two bosses are from Hangzhou.
Anyway, Hangzhou is still a good place, and we also went to Nanyang from there to work, and the two richest people bless me to buy it as soon as possible.
Whether a house in a foreign country is luxurious or not mainly depends on the number of bathrooms, and this 3-story mansion of Boss Zong's family has 8 bedrooms and 16 bathrooms.
The entrance hall is extra-long and has an off-white checkerboard stone floor
The den is fully walnut paneled with a black marble fireplace
The kitchen is also more distinctive, painted in denim blue, very California West style:
The master bedroom is located in the wing of the main building and is equipped with a showroom closet and marble bathroom
There is also a wet bar, wine room and catering kitchen in the basement
There's also a rectangular pool and spa in the backyard, complete with lounges, guest suites, and kitchens, so why not sleep and eat in place after a swim?
We don't understand the logic of this design, and someone has someone to popularize science for us.
In fact, this is not his family's first American property, in San Marino, Los Angeles, they also have a manor-style home, which is relatively modest.
According to netizens, from 1997 to 2008, their family of three lived there, and some neighbors played mahjong with the boss of Zong.
In addition, the eldest lady Lily also bought a suite in Hong Kong in 2016, located at 9 Queen's Road Central, and the purchase price was HK$44 million at that time, which should have doubled or tripled now.
To tell the truth, rich people are very taboo about their real estate information being made public, but we are not relevant departments and do not engage in gray industry, and there is no malicious intention, as long as their property is rightfully obtained, no matter where they buy a house, they all express envy and blessings.
We don't hate the rich, the main thing is how to become rich like them, after all, the boss of the sect has a good reputation among the people, and he has indeed suffered a lot.
Boss Zong was born in Hangzhou in 1945, he is 80 years old this year, and his ancestor is Zong Ze, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, it doesn't matter if you don't know him, you just need to know that he unearthed Yue Fei.
In the following hundred years, his family lived in Hangzhou, and the family also had many big officials, such as his grandfather, who was appreciated by the young marshal and his father, and served as the deputy chief of finance of the Northeast Army.
His uncle and father were college classmates, his grandmother was Gege of the former Qing Dynasty, and his grandfather was the director of the Beijing Post Office, but his parents died early, leaving only the brother and sister to rely on each other.
Before liberation, Zong's father worked at the Nanjing Post Office, and in 49 years, the red flag was planted in Nanjing's ** house, and he was unemployed.
I went back to my hometown in Hangzhou to engage in logistics business, and also opened a school, the most well-known initiative is to open a Qiushi junior high school, but because of the black history of working in the Guomin Party, everything was yellow in the end.
Zong's mother did not have a job when she first arrived in Hangzhou, but she was soon admitted to the two-year night school of Hangzhou Normal School, and was admitted to the teacher editor of the Culture and Education Bureau, and was arranged to teach in a primary school in Shangcheng District.
Zong family brothers and sisters In 1961, Boss Zong graduated from junior high school, and he wanted to enter a normal school, because there was also a living allowance and scholarship for room and board, which could greatly reduce the burden on the family.
But when he ran in high spirits, he was poured cold water on the head, because the rigid standard of the normal school was that the family composition must be poor and middle peasants.
His ancestors were all old bureaucrats, and his grandfather and father also worked for the Pot People's Party, and they knew that they would not be able to pass the political trial with their eyes closed.
In this way, he said goodbye to his student career at the age of 16, learned auto repair from a car factory master, sold popcorn with his younger brother, and spent 14 years on farms in Zhoushan and Shaoxing, planting tea, cutting rice, feeding pigs, and doing everything.
It wasn't until the age of 33 that because of policy care, he replaced his old mother and entered the school-run carton factory as a supply and marketing clerk.
The former richest man who sold school books in the early days
In 1987, the 42-year-old boss Zong relied on a borrowed 140,000 yuan to contract the distribution department of a school-run enterprise in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, and started by selling popsicles on three wheels.
The gears of fate began to rattle, and no one could have imagined that more than 20 years later, he would become the richest man in China.
In 2010, at the age of 65, he topped the Hurun Global 100 list for the first time, and in 2012, at the age of 67, he once again became the richest man in China on the Forbes list with a net worth of US$10 billion.
Obviously famous for being rich, but Boss Zong is out of the circle by frugality, and some people have calculated that the personal expenses of the richest man do not exceed 50,000 yuan a year.
This number makes me feel guilty, not to mention anything else, just ** Li Huohuo lost more than 50,000 yuan.
He neither plays golf, nor does he play yachting, nor does he collect famous paintings and jewelry, he does not have a private jet, and in his early years, he took economy class on business trips, and then his waist was too crowded and uncomfortable, so he changed to business class, and as for the hotel, he did not choose, it was enough to sleep and take a bath.
He doesn't pay much attention to diet, Michelin doesn't understand anything at all, fermented bean curd and pickles are the favorites, when he was in Hangzhou, three meals a day were solved in the company canteen;
If it is not a business banquet in Hangzhou, a box lunch can be sent away, and it is not as particular as the average employee.
Why is this so? He said that because the money was earned by his own hard work, he was used to living a luxurious life, which was very uncomfortable.
He didn't have time to enjoy it, for fear that once he was comfortable, the business would collapse, and he didn't dare to touch something too weird.
He has given up a lot of his private life for decades, he has never taken care of his daughter's schooling, and the company's headquarters is a few miles away from West Lake, so he has never been to play once;
On holidays, I either go on a business trip or work as usual, and I work until late at night, and I sleep in the office when I am sleepy and tired.
He said that he had a lot of ideals when he was a child, but later he was slowly revised by social reality, and it became that he seized whatever opportunity he had, just like Xu Sanduo in "Soldier Assault", taking every opportunity as a lifesaver and firmly grasping it in his hands.
Because he was born in an era when he couldn't find a way out, his family composition also decided that he had no chance with the mainstream, so he could only work hard and find a way out on his own.
I don't know if it was influenced by the environment when he was a child, but after he started a successful business, he didn't like to make deep friendships with other bosses, and he didn't like to participate in various clubs.
He thinks that it is inappropriate for some entrepreneurs to join forces and fight for their own right to speak, and will let ** have ideas, just put forward your opinions directly, what are you doing in small groups?
Who's within, who's within, and who's within, do you hear that?
Someone asked him what he thought of the gap between the rich and the poor, and he said that when he lived in the United States, he found that there were very few people there who hated the rich, why?
Because most of the people's living standards are not bad, they have houses and cars, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing.
He thinks this is very good, there are many people in our country whose basic life has not been well solved, and some people deliberately exaggerate the hatred of the rich, so the poor people think that you rich are not kind to the rich.
The rich are very insecure when they have money, and they want to go abroad for fear of being suppressed, which is actually not good for China's economic development.
As a baby who ate with AD calcium milk when I was a child, I admired the boss of Zong, in the early years, capital was rampant, and cats and dogs came to play capital, because the money came quickly, and it didn't have to work so hard.
But he is really honest in industry, it is no exaggeration to say that he is a leader in industry, with him, everyone will feel that he still has to do industry in a down-to-earth manner, so that he can be the richest man.
On this point, we also have to wish him a long and healthy life, after all, there are few entrepreneurs who can not make quick money and not run away, he is here, the benchmark is there!