China's richest man was imprisoned three times, and he waited hardYear.
On September 1, 2000, a tall former chairman of the South German Group, Mou Zhong, was imprisoned in Wuhan's Hongshan Prison, known as the "Qincheng of Hubei", on suspicion of fraud.
Although we can't be sure whether it's a scam or not, let's talk about Mu Zhong's love story with him today. After he was imprisoned, his wife divorced him, but his *** waited for him for a full eighteen years, and this love story touched countless people.
Mu Zhong was born in Wanxian County, Sichuan Province in 1941, and he was already in school when he was a teenager. He loves to read extracurricular books, is knowledgeable, eloquent, and imaginative, and is highly regarded in the school for his leadership and action.
He has a tenacious personality and is indomitable, especially his maverick, who always dares to try things that others dare not think. The school teachers also appreciated him, believing that if he could improve his bombastic personality, he would be able to become a great figure.
When he was a student, he also had a dream of becoming a journalist, and he hoped to become a famous journalist. However, to achieve this dream, he must first be admitted to university and obtain a diploma.
However, his academic career was full of challenges and difficulties, and it was not smooth sailing.
In 1959, he failed the college entrance examination, and Mu Zhong was unwilling to fail, so he went to participate in the Spring Festival college class special recruitment of Wuhan Zhongnan Industrial Construction Design Institute to study design. However, the good times did not last long, and he was forced to drop out of school due to household registration problems.
Later, he heard that there was an art school in Xinjiang that might recruit students, so he traveled thousands of miles to it. However, when I arrived, I found that the institution had been closed for many years. Unable to realize his dream, he could only return to Wanxian in frustration and work as a boiler worker in a local glass factory.
However, this did not stop him, and he still insisted on pursuing his dream. In his spare time, he developed a strong interest in philosophy and politics, and constantly improved himself by reading works such as *** thought.
In 1974, he was sentenced to four years in prison for co-authoring a book that violated the law, his first time in prison. Although he experienced many setbacks, he always stood up for his beliefs and showed strong willpower and persistent pursuit of his dreams.
In prison, Mu Zhong met a group of all kinds of people, giving him the opportunity to learn business knowledge, which gave him a new understanding of life. When he was released from prison at the age of 39, it was in 1979 when China's reform and opening up and the country began to pay attention to the development of the private economy.
At this time, his first wife, Du Zonglian, generously sold the only sewing machine in the family and raised 300 yuan, which helped him realize his dream of starting a business. Du Zonglian is his wife in distress, an ordinary female worker from a garment factory in Wanxian County.
She is not highly educated, and usually works in factories to earn a meager income, and also has to take care of children and the elderly. She and Mu Zhong were introduced to each other and married, and she is a typical traditional housewife who has always supported her husband's career despite the difficult living conditions.
Because of Du Zonglian's selfless dedication and support, Mu Zhong had the courage to persevere in prison. He knew that Du Zonglian was his driving force**, and after he was released from prison, he decided to seize the opportunity of reform and opening up and use his wisdom to start a business.
However, due to his imprisonment, none of his friends were willing to lend him money. However, Du Zonglian understood that she should support his career, so she sold her only sewing machine in exchange for the funds to start a business.
In 1982, Mu Zhong took the 300 yuan his wife got and opened a local "Wanxian City Sino-German Store" with his friends to sell small household appliances. He knew that only by making a difference in the business field could he repay his wife's kindness.
In the end, Mu Zhong's first venture was successful. In the process of doing business, Mu Zhong gave full play to his innovative spirit and business acumen. He saw that the electrical appliances were high at that time, but there was no after-sales service, so he took the lead in launching the "three guarantees" policy, that is, repair, return, and replacement.
In this way, customers get quality assurance when buying electrical appliances, and the number of repeat customers increases, and the sales volume naturally increases.
The Road to Wealth The Road to Fortune is in the spotlight for its shrewd business acumen. By earning the price difference, he accumulated a net profit of 80,000 yuan in a year, and in the 80s, 10,000 households were very rich, which was already a sky-high price.
His business was very influential in the local area and could be said to have become famous in one fell swoop. However, his quick get-riches aroused the jealousy of those around him. In 1983, someone seized his handle and anonymously reported him on the charge of "speculation", which put him in prison.
However, Mu is an indomitable person. He didn't give up in prison, but used this time to constantly think about how to make money quickly and efficiently. His writing is very good and well-read, which gives him a very valuable resource.
While in prison, he wrote a large number of excellent articles, especially of the political type, in which he systematically expounded his theory of the business operation model, that is, "with very little investment, with the help of modern information systems and financial derivatives, to complete projects with huge investments, to borrow the term 'karate' in competitive sports".
Despite spending a long time in prison, Mou's theories eventually caught the attention of the authorities. In August 1984, he was rehabilitated and released.
After being released from prison, he planned to use his "karate" theory to start a refrigerator business. In order to make the business run smoothly, he went through the industrial and commercial tax registration procedures and obtained the business license, and then passed the loan application at the Municipal Agricultural Bank and received 2.5 million yuan of entrepreneurial capital support.
However, as their wealth grew, the lives of Mu Zhong and Du Zonglian began to change. Although they are no longer poor petty workers, Du Zonglian hopes to live a simple and peaceful life, while Mu Zhong is eager to use capital to generate capital and continue to make a fortune.
However, due to being often busy with business and business, there is little time to go home throughout the year, which makes Du Zonglian feel unbearable. Eventually, she filed for divorce.
Du Zonglian and Mu Zhong had been married for many years, and gave him support and companionship when Mu Zhong was lost. Although the two had a deep relationship with each other, Mu Zhong realized that their ideas did not coincide and they could not pursue their ideals together.
In order for Du Zonglian to be able to live the life she wants, Mu Zhong made the decision to divorce. Despite the loss of his bad wife, Mu Zhong did not give up his business dreams and still persevered in fighting for his ideals.
However, Mu Zhong is a person who knows how to be grateful, and he is always grateful for Du Zonglian's help during his difficult times. Therefore, even though they have divorced, Mu Zhong still tries his best to give financial support and support to his ex-wife and parents-in-law.
These actions show Mou's sincerity and respect for Du Zonglian. After that, Mu Zhong met his second wife, Xia Zongqiong, an employee from Sichuan, who developed a relationship with Mu Zhong because of his work relationship.
The two came together as a matter of course. Although Mu Zhong's encounter with Xia Zongqiong is related to Du Zonglian's departure, the relationship between the two is not based on Du Zonglian's departure, but based on their feelings and common life ideals.
Mu Zhong's second wife, Xia Zongqiong, was more educated than his first wife, Du Zonglian. In their married life, Xia Zongqiong not only took care of Mu Zhong in life, but also gave advice and help to his career.
She not only supported Mou's entrepreneurial ideas, but especially his fabulous entrepreneurial plans. Therefore, with Xia Zongqiong's support, Mu Zhong can devote himself to his career.
In 1989, during a train trip in Beijing, Mu Zhong overheard a conversation with a Henan man and learned that the Soviet Union was facing disintegration, and he was very poor from top to bottom, and even wanted to sell the country's plane.
He sees the problem of the lack of modernization of Chinese aircraft, which is a business opportunity. So, he decided to do the military-industrial business of the USSR and China. Through his own efforts, he eventually reached the pinnacle of wealth.
With the consent of the person in charge of Sichuan Airlines, he made a deal with the Soviet Union and exchanged 500 truckloads of material for four Soviet planes.
In an aircraft transaction worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, Mu Zhong only exchanged 500 truckloads of commodities and earned a profit of 100 million. This made him a billionaire, rich overnight, and a hot business wizard when my country only had a GDP of 400 billion at that time.
In 1995, Forbes released the 1994 list of the world's richest people, and Mou ranked fourth on the list of the richest people in Chinese mainland. So, he upgraded the Sino-German company to the South German Investment Group, and came up with many ideas that seemed unbelievable to others.
Mou's business empire dreams of transcending the Earth, which has triggered a lot of different reactions. Some people think that he has the potential to create a new business myth, and others think that he has been reduced to **.
In any case, his fame has brought more development opportunities for the company, but it has also brought him a lot of trouble. In Mu Zhong's second marriage, his wife Xia Zongqiong was initially very happy and thought that she had chosen the right man.
However, she gradually discovers that Mou's business practices are somewhat uncontrollable, and she worries that this will cause her trouble. Although she had repeatedly persuaded Mu Zhong to restrain himself, he did not listen.
In the end, Xia Zongqiong chose to divorce and take her children to live in Germany so as not to be affected.
Xia Zongqiong's foresight was once again tested, and when Mu Zhong was immersed in his business empire, his pride and conceit prevented him from listening to anyone's advice.
Finally, in 1999, he was arrested by the public security authorities on suspicion of credit fraud, and this was his third time in prison. While in prison, the Nande group he founded began to disintegrate, and his wife and children were cold to him, and few people came to visit him.
However, the only person who kept in touch with him was Xia Zongwei, the sister of his second wife, Xia Zongqiong, who was sentenced to one year and six months in prison for him. Xia Zongwei is the youngest child of the Xia family, with a 20-year difference between him and Mu Zhong.
As a relative of Mu Zhong, she was recommended as a secretary when her sister Xia Zongqiong was the vice chairman of the Nande Group, and because she spoke fluent Russian, she often accompanied her brother-in-law to study abroad and admired him very much.
Mu Zhong's *** Xia Zongwei, after Mu Zhong's divorce from his ex-wife, has always taken care of him, and has always been by his side when he is in prison in the Nande Group.
Their relationship deepens in difficult circumstances and eventually develops into lovers. After Xia Zongwei was released from prison, he did not give up helping Mu Zhong and worked hard for his case. Although Mou Zhong insisted that he was innocent, Xia Zongwei understood that a confession was the only way to change the sentence, so she kept visiting Mou Zhong and preparing the materials and formalities needed for him to get out of prison.
With the support and encouragement of Xia Zongwei, Mu Zhong regained his confidence and actively faced his life in prison. In prison, he actively cooperated with the labor reform, obeyed discipline, and insisted on writing appeal materials.
Eventually, due to his good behavior and serious attitude in admitting his mistakes, his sentence was commuted from life imprisonment to 18 years in prison. On September 27, 2016, Mu Zhong finally walked out of prison.
He was greeted by *** Xia Zongwei, who never gave up. In an interview, Xia Zongwei said that the reason why she has always supported Mu Zhong is because he is a very good person with ideas.
Despite being in her seventies, she could not leave him alone to face difficulties. After all, if she had left him alone earlier, she wouldn't have had to wait until today.
For Xia Zongwei, her trust and support for her brother-in-law Mu Zhong is unwavering. Mou also said that he plans to reinvigorate the SÜD group and continue to struggle.
Although he is in his old age, he still personally wrote the article "On the Struggle to Build Manchuria into an Economic Center City in Northeast Asia", hoping to start again and continue to promote the Manzhouli project.
Putting aside the moral factor, Xia Zongwei's feelings for Mu Zhong are indeed admirable. From the age of 22 to 52, Xia Zongwei accompanied Mu Zhong through his eighteen years in prison, comforting him and supporting him every day and night, and always maintaining his affection for him.
This relationship proves that love is not just a simple firewood, rice, oil and salt, but a kind of unwavering waiting, mutual trust and unconditional trust.
Although we are not sure whether the aged Mu Zhong will be able to realize his dream of rising again, his spirit and enthusiasm for the cause of unremitting struggle are indeed worthy of our deep admiration.
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