The business tycoons we are familiar with include Li Ka-shing, Ma Yun and Dong Mingzhu, all of whom are outstanding in their respective fields.
Zhou Zhengyi is also a successful man, but the difference is that he accidentally took the wrong road at the fork in his life and was jailed.
After becoming a businessman, his life has undergone earth-shaking changes. He lived an excellent life, but it was very hot in the prison, so he installed air conditioning in the whole prison.
Maybe you will think, what kind of "legend" Zhou Zhengyi is, we should start with his family history.
196 1 Born in Yangpu District, Shanghai, his family was not generally poor. * * * There are five children who dropped out of school before finishing primary school.
But fate favors him. Although he is not well educated, he is very talented in language.
When he was older, he worked as an administrator in his father's factory. After a few years, he had a little wealth.
However, he deeply knows that it is difficult to become a rich man only by step-by-step efforts, so he started his own business as a minor in 1978, but he also has an elite business mind.
At this time, he first opened a small wonton shop in Yangpu District, which was a small boss and the business was still very good.
With a certain amount of funds, he began to go to Japan to do parallel business in the name of studying abroad. At this time, a woman was molested, and Zhou Zhengyi came to rescue her, so he met Mao Yuping.
Mao Yuping is not only outstanding in appearance, but also smart and well-connected. In order to thank Zhou Zhengyi for his kindness, Mao Yuping lavished HK$ 6 million to do business with Zhou Zhengyi, and since then, the two have also gone hand in hand.
Inspired by Mao Yuping, Zhou Zhengyi's fate was rewritten immediately. Three years later, Zhou Zhengyi returned to Shanghai and began to do decoration and building materials business. It is said that he signed a list of nearly 10 million at that time.
In addition, he also opened a "Amao Stews" restaurant, which was the top hotel in Shanghai at that time, and all the people who came here for consumption were elites. At this time, he made a lot of money and his circle of friends was expanding. After all, many hands make light work.
At this time, Zhou Zhengyi really began to dig his brains, not only bought a villa, but also a fashionable Ferrari, and his career was in full swing.
Not satisfied with the status quo, Zhou Zhengyi began to set foot in the financial industry, not to mention stock trading and futures.
During the period of 1997, under the influence of the financial turmoil, the Hong Kong stock market fell into a downturn, and he even bought a number of industrial groups at low prices. After the stock market recovered, he made a fortune.
After seeing so many commercial interests, Zhou Zhengyi still failed to resist the temptation of money. In 2003, he was arrested on suspicion of falsely reporting registered capital and manipulating the price of securities and futures trading, and began to spend three years in prison.
But now in Zhou Zhengyi, I am used to being addicted to money. There is no air conditioner in the prison. It's too hot, so I installed air conditioners all over the prison.
Of course, money makes things easier. While serving his sentence, he also bribed the relevant person in charge of the prison and got the opportunity to reduce his sentence. He was released from prison in May 2006.
However, only five months later, the procuratorate obtained relevant evidence of Zhou Zhengyi's taking bribes and falsely issuing VAT invoices. He was arrested and imprisoned again and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of 16 years.
From now on, Zhou Zhengyi will be released from prison soon. I wonder if his years in prison have brought him down.
He changed from a poor boy to a businessman and succeeded, but he still lost himself in the face of money and ended up like this. Presumably, if he can't be moved by money, he is still one of the best business tycoons.
At this point, I also expect him to create more glory after he is released from prison.