The richest woman was sentenced to death, and she became a multimillionaire after sweeping toilets
She was Wu Shengming, the richest woman in Shanghai in the 80s, after experiencing the dilemma of wealth dissipation, the death of relatives, and the deception of her wealth, she resolutely chose to stand up again with her determination and tenacity to fight against the water.
She once had a luxurious life of fine clothes and food, and the birthday banquet of 200,000 yuan showed the pride of spending a lot of money. But life is like a play, and she has also been in prison, lonely and helpless.
However, at the age of 81, with her tenacious belief and advanced vision, she once again became a multimillionaire and achieved the legendary life of the richest woman of a generation. Born in a solid family in Shengzhou City, Zhejiang Province, she has lived a carefree life since she was a child, and her family's assets are all over the street, including pharmacies, rice grains, cloth, pawnshops, etc., and she could have enjoyed a lifetime of glory and wealth.
But she was not satisfied with the status quo, but chose to create her own wealth and legend through her own efforts.
Wu Shengming has used his unique genes and environmental impact to help his family manage business since he was a child, and has accumulated profound business talents. However, her father was a typical gentleman, and her mother was married far away from Taiwan, so she could not fulfill her responsibility to raise her.
When she was 12 years old, her father married her to the son of the county magistrate, and she was forced to become a child bride and endure all kinds of pressure from her "mother-in-law's" family. But at the age of 16, she realized that she could no longer waste her life like this, so she calmly told her mother-in-law that she was going to go shopping on the street and seize the opportunity to escape.
Clever and clever, she resolutely opposes arranged marriages and decides to flee her hometown and bravely pursue her life.
In 1950, Wu Shengming got on a train alone and headed to the bustling metropolis of Shanghai. Despite the excitement of Shanghai, there is no place for her there.
So she used the needlework and simple cooking skills she learned as a child to become a nanny for the military wife's family, and after saving enough money for the car, she went to Xi'an to visit her uncle of the officers.
However, the officer's uncle liked it"Mess around with mandarin ducks", which made Wu Shengming realize that he could not live the life he wanted by relying on others. So, she went to Shaoxing, Zhejiang alone, and opened a small shop with meager funds.
In 1953, with her brilliant business acumen and unique business talents, she quickly developed a small grocery store into a large shopping mall, completing the original accumulation of capital.
She and her husband traveled between Xi'an and Shanghai, developing from small restaurants to large shopping malls, involving many ** fields, business is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are more and more funds in hand.
In 1977, Wu Shengming was not willing to be a business opportunity in a city in Shanghai, she went to Guangdong and other places, a large number of low-cost purchases of radios, high-quality fabrics and other in-demand goods, and then sold to Xining, Xi'an, Zhengzhou and other places, in the era of material shortage, Wu Shengming easily accumulated up to 10 million wealth by virtue of this way of hand-over-trading.
In 1984, Wu Shengming, who was proud of the spring breeze, had opened his own companies in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Zhengzhou, Henan, Nanchong, Sichuan and other places, and his business covered all regions of the country.
Her mansions are located in Shanghai and Shenzhen, and she owns several luxury sports cars. She became the richest woman in Shanghai, worth more than 20 million yuan.
In Wu Shengming's year, she did not hesitate to spend 200,000 yuan to hold a 10th birthday party for her beloved daughter Zhang Yan, which was very luxurious, and even attracted the praise of the mayor of Shanghai at the time: "I heard that you are the eldest sister of Shanghai Tang, your ability is really strong." ”
However, behind all this brilliance, a huge crisis is quietly approaching. In 1985, Wu Shengming obtained an approval for the import of vehicle spare parts through the operation of the relationship, which became the beginning of her illegal enrichment.
The mid-life crisis of "broken families and dead people" is quietly approaching. Wu Shengming used the approval to purchase a large number of luxury cars and motorcycles in Japan, dismantled various parts and components through customs, and then reassembled them in China.
These brand-new and rare luxury sedans were snapped up as soon as they landed, bringing her millions of dollars each time. The high profits made Wu Shengming fall into blindness, so she began to avoid tariffs and engage in smuggling activities.
From car smuggling to overseas high-end fabrics, Wu Shengming's business vision is constantly changing. She took advantage of the private operation of the foreign trade company to successfully obtain overseas high-grade fabrics from Fujian Province and put them into production.
However, the good fortune did not last long, and a few months later, she was reported for smuggling millions for money. The police quickly intervened, and on November 1, 1986, Wu Shengming was convicted of speculation, contract fraud, and other crimes because of the huge amount of money involved, sentenced to death, and all his property was confiscated.
However, Wu Shengming actively cooperated with the investigation, returned the stolen money, pleaded guilty in a good manner, and appealed within the specified time, and the final verdict was changed to life imprisonment.
Wu Shengming, 53, has seen his life turned upside down because of a verdict by the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court. Wu Shengming's childhood was not happy, when she was 2 years old, her father was amorous and forced her mother to remarry to Taiwan, Wu Shengming was raised by his grandparents since he was a child, helping to take care of the family's business, and accumulating rich business experience.
At the age of 16, she ran away from her hometown after an arranged marriage, only to meet her first love in Xi'an. Her first love is called Yu Ping, who is 12 years older than her and is from Jiaozhou, Shandong.
However, the officer's uncle was bent on marrying her to his orderlies, so he transferred his first love to a foreign country, intercepted the correspondence between the two, and finally broke up the pair of mandarin ducks and let them each go to their own fate.
Wu Shengming deeply realized on the road of love: happiness in life will not come on our own, we need to strive for it ourselves. After she married Zhang Siyuan, a store partner who was 5 years younger than herself, the two opened a restaurant in Shanghai and business was booming.
However, her busy life made her neglect herself, which eventually led to a miscarriage. Later, although she gave birth to a son and a daughter, she suffered the blow of losing her daughter and her son becoming seriously ill, which filled her heart with despair.
However, after many attempts, she finally ushered in the birth of her daughter Zhang Yan, which made her understand the relationship between hardships and happiness in life.
In 1988, Wu Shengming, a prisoner, had been in prison for two years, and her husband, who pursued her, ruthlessly took all his family property and eloped with his nanny to Anhui after receiving her sweet words.
Six years later, in 1991, Wu Shengming's favorite daughter, Zhang Yan, committed suicide by swallowing pesticides after learning that her mother had been sentenced to life imprisonment. This news made Wu Shengming's heart twist, and she lost her living pillar, and she even tried to commit suicide by cutting her wrists with a sewing machine blade, but in the end she was unsuccessful in prison.
At this time, the prison director at that time found Wu Shengming and told her Zhang Yan's last words when she was dying: "Mom, when I drank the poison, I already regretted it.
When you come out in the future, don't do things that are harmful to society, and do what is good for society as much as possible. ”
While serving his sentence, Wu Shengming received a letter from his daughter, in which the exhortation gave him the courage to live. He began to behave actively in prison, fighting for reform, hoping to get his sentence commuted as soon as possible.
His daughter's words rekindled his confidence in life. Eventually, he received several commutations in Shanghai Women's Prison for his good behavior. During his sentence, Wu Shengming also wrote a 50,000-word autobiography ** "Prison Road", and his heart-wrenching words made the prison prison prison speechless for a long time.
The prison's decision to put Wu Shengming's article in the prison's internal publication** moved many people. The first page reads: Daughter looks at your mother, you left the world for me, and I will continue your life.
The love and expectation of his daughter became Wu Shengming's motivation in captivity, and it also made him go on firmly.
Huang Yun, a female playwright from Shanghai TV's TV drama production center, was deeply moved by Wu Shengming's story and decided to use it as a prototype to create a series called "The Criminal and the Daughter".
When the show first aired in prison, it struck a strong chord with correctional and inmates, who wept bitterly. Wu Shengming, a legendary woman, finally regained her freedom on July 28, 2003, when she was in her late teens after 18 years in prison.
She was assigned to Minggong Road in Zhengzhou City and started a job cleaning public toilets with a monthly salary of 400 yuan. Despite her simple life, Wu Shengming's cottage still makes her feel warm and safe.
Although Wu Shengming's job is only to clean public toilets, she devotes herself to it with all her passion. Every morning at 5 a.m., she begins meticulously cleaning, doing her best to create a clean and comfortable environment that even makes it a pleasure for people who use the toilet on the side of the road.
In 2004, her hard work was recognized by her street as an excellent cleaner. Subsequently, reporters and TV stations interviewed her one after another, making her a celebrity overnight and receiving help and support from all walks of life.
In between his work in the public toilet, Wu Shengming spent more than a year writing a 200,000-word autobiographical novel**, warning the world with his own personal experience to be wary of whether his behavior is going in the wrong direction.
Wu Shengming, a legendary life story, has attracted the attention of countless people. On October 16, 2004, Zhang Jingqiang, a businessman from Shanghai, expressed his intention to cooperate with Wu Shengming through a friend's introduction, hoping that she could take a stake in an organic grape plantation in Yangling, Shaanxi.
Accompanied by Zhang Jingqiang, Wu Shengming visited the vineyard on the spot, and she not only invested all her savings, but also borrowed money from everywhere to invest all the 970,000 yuan raised.
For this project, she even moved to Yangling to manage organic viticulture herself. However, in September 2005, Zhang Jingqiang suddenly disappeared and lost contact.
Wu Shengming, who was anxious, had to go to the police station to report the case, and then she knew that Zhang Jingqiang had already run away with the money and was missing.
When Wu Shengming's world seemed to fall, she was not defeated by a short period of frustration and depression. She kept her daughter's advice in mind, regained her strength strongly, chose to start all over again, and continued to fight.
For an ordinary person, such a blow may be disheartened and devastating, but Wu Shengming is not an ordinary person. Not willing to be deceived, she wrote a letter about the cause and effect of the incident and her future plans for this vineyard and sent it to ***
Everyone thinks that Wu Shengming is whimsical, how can anyone accept it, how can anyone solve it? However, a few weeks later, something unexpected happened, an interest-free start-up subsidy of 100,000 yuan, which rescued Wu Shengming from the predicament.
Wu Shengming started with 100,000 yuan and actively devoted himself to the vineyard business, building the vineyard into a multi-functional orchard and integrating tourism. Wu Shengming developed gradually according to the plan, and successfully applied for 1.2 million yuan of poverty alleviation funds.
In 2005, the President of the World Women's Federation provided Wu Shengming with poverty alleviation funds for the grape planting project. She continued to learn viticultural techniques and worked diligently. The orchard grew in size and the business was doing well, and Wu Shengming finally paid off all the arrears and made a profit, successfully reviving his business.
After years of hard work, Wu Shengming has transformed from a lonely old lady who has just been released from prison to the owner of Yangling Hongyang Fruit Industry Technology Development Co., Ltd., Wu Mama Xingnong Science and Technology Development *** Yangling Health Chicken Breeder Farm, Wu Mama Chain Chat Bar, Restaurant and other companies.
Although she is already wealthy, she always remembers her daughter's instructions: to be a person who is beneficial to society. Therefore, Wu Shengming handed over all his assets to professional managers to take care of, and returned to Xi'an to create a nursing home to provide help and care for those lonely and widowed elderly people, and contribute to the society with practical actions.
If I hadn't experienced the trough of being cheated, I probably wouldn't have been so determined to support the nursing home industry with a tenacious heart. Anything that seems bad can become a major turning point in our lives, leading us down a different path. ”
This is Wu Shengming's memories and feelings about that experience in an interview with "A Date with Luyu".
Wu Shengming, a woman who ran away at the low point of her life, but after the precipitation of time and the tempering of the years, she has stood up again and become a person who helps others and is enthusiastic about public welfare.
Zhang Jingqiang, her predecessor, has been in Penglai Prison in Shandong, while Wu Shengming chose forgiveness and settled her ex-husband in a nursing home to take care of her, reflecting her generosity and kindness.
At the same time, the "Fifth Large-scale Public Welfare Event for Helping Poor Children with Congenital Heart Disease" initiated by Wu Shengming is also her memory and practice of her daughter's last wish. Her enthusiasm for public welfare not only helped others, but also gave her peace of mind and comfort.
Today's Wu Shengming is no longer the controversial woman she used to be, she has a kind face, fashionable appearance, and is active on the mainstream social platforms that young people love to use.
Although the past has passed, Wu Shengming's life story is still worth savoring and thinking about, because she taught us that no matter what we have experienced, we should remain kind, generous and love for life.
Wu Shengming, the richest woman in the past, became a prisoner overnight. However, she was not defeated by the loss of her huge fortune, but with her tenacious will and unyielding spirit, she became a multimillionaire again.
Her story is full of ups and downs and twists and turns, but all of them are made possible by her strong heart. Wu Shengming used his own life experience to interpret Nietzsche's famous words: "Whoever can't kill me will make me stronger." ”
Beneath her gentle exterior lies a resilient soul, a heart that never gives up. In the desperate situation of life, she still maintained her firm determination and the courage to start over, which deserves the admiration and learning of all of us.