TVB’s currently popular drama "Dajangyuan" in the early Republic of China is based on the grievances of the Dajangyuan family in the 1930s. To tell the truth, this kind of drama is a masterpiece of TVB, because TVB is best at shooting this kind of big family. TV series, not to mention that TVB is an overhead creation in terms of material selection. In fact, seeing a soy sauce-based work like "Dajiangyuan" can easily connect people with the Hong Kong sauce kingdom, the Lee Kam Sang family.
The rankings announced by Forbes in 2019
cannot say that the story of TVB's "Dajiangyuan" is entirely based on the history of the Li Jinshang family, but the presentation in some details is still a reference, which is equivalent to reflecting the development of the Li Jinshang family. Today, Lee Kum Kee is the largest sauce kingdom in Hong Kong. The third generation of the family’s head, Lee Wenda, has promoted the family industry in these years. On the list of Hong Kong's richest people published by Forbes in 2019, the 89-year-old Lee Wenda paid $17.1 billion. His net worth ranked third, second only to Li Ka-shing and Li Zhaoji. It can be said that it took a year to double his net worth, breaking into the top three from the previous top ten, and Liu Luanxiong was behind him. superb.
Left: Li Hui, middle right: Li Wenda
For the sauce brand of Lee Kum Kee, I believe that even if you have not tasted it, you must have heard of it. This is now the first of the four major sauce garden families in Hong Kong-the other three sauce garden families are Tongzhen soy sauce , Amoy, Bazhen. Lee Kum Kee, the founder of Lee Kum Kee, founded Lee Kum Kee in 1888. The second-generation successor was Lee Kum Kee’s son, Lee Siu Nam, who brought Lee Kum Kee to Hong Kong for development. It was not until the third-generation successor, Lee Man Tat, that it truly highlighted the charm and value of this brand and brought the whole family The industry has flourished. And now the 89-year-old Li Wenda has actually retired (still the chairman of the group), although his name is still calculated on the Forbes ranking, and the fourth-generation heir Li Huizhong is in charge of the family industry, which means that It is Li Huizhong who can make Li Wenda's net worth, ranking, and status within a year as if riding a rocket. This basically breaks the saying that the rich is less than three generations.
Part of the genealogy of the Lee Kum Kee family
In TVB’s "Dajiangyuan", there are a total of four masters who contribute to Dajiangyuan. According to the plot method of TVB's big family drama, the more the home is, the more the role of contention and division of families will be. But let’s not say that this is TVB’s customary method. In fact, even large families of wealthy people cannot escape this fate. Including the Li Jinshang family has also experienced two separate family history, which is even more impressive. "Dajiangyuan" is connected with the development of the Li Jinshang family in the plot.
Li Jinshang’s family did experience two family divisions during the fortune, but when he came to Li Wenda’s generation, he learned the lesson of family division and formulated a family constitution to avoid disputes. . The first separation was in 1967. Due to environmental factors, Li Jinshang’s eldest son and second son proposed to separate and emigrate. At that time, Li Zhaonan, who was Li Jinshang’s third son, let go and agreed to separate the two brothers. , And supported his son Li Wenda's acquisition of the shares of his two elder brothers. Of course, this is also the way that Li Wenda can control Li Kum Kee with one hand in the future, avoiding the troubles caused by the father's generation for property contention.
and the second division of the family appeared in Li Wenda’s generation. Lee Kum Kee, whose development was already on track in 1986, has already become famous in the market, and at the same time it has caused discord between him and his brothers, because Li Wenda wanted to build The new plant was opposed by his younger brother Li Wenle, so he proposed to split the family. In the end, the brothers broke up and Li Wenda bought all the shares of his brother. Although the crisis in the industry was resolved, Li Wenda was also very distressed.
Li Wenda
Li Wenda learned from the pain, in order to avoid the phenomenon of separation of families, so the family constitution was formulated. First, set up a family committee, with seven people in charge of ownership and management. The chairperson rotates in rotation. A meeting is held regularly every three months to report on business progress. If there is a dispute, it must be voted on the spot, otherwise it will be invalid; and for future generations In terms of education, Li Wenda also has his own set of rules. He has set the rules not to allow his children to divorce, have extramarital affairs, or marry late, otherwise he will be kicked out of the family committee and removed from office; and starting from the fifth generation, he mustAfter three years of training outside, he can only return to work in the family industry. Relying on these three family constitutions, the family has never had disputes over property for so many years. It is hard to say in the future, at least such things were avoided when Li Wenda was alive.
mentioned earlier that the 89-year-old Li Wenda has retired from the line of fire and retains the chairmanship of the group. The real leader of Lee Kum Kee is his third son, Li Huizhong. Li Huizhong is the fourth-generation heir of the Li Jinshang family. If Li Wenda made Lee Kum Kee flourish, then it was Li Huizhong who pushed the entire family industry to a new high. The reason why Li Wenda was able to rank on the Hong Kong Rich List published by Forbes in 2019 The third position, followed by Li Ka-shing and Li Zhaoji, Li Huizhong definitely contributed.
Li Huizhong
pay close attention to Forbes' introduction to Li Wenda involves the two industries of oyster sauce and real estate, indicating that his industry also involves real estate. However, it is understood that Li Wenda’s profitable industry is not oyster sauce and real estate, but the direct selling company Infinitus. This industry was founded by Li Huizhong and headquartered in Guangzhou. The profits made by Infinitus every year are very lucrative, only in 2017. Infinitus' operating income is as high as $4 billion. After Li Huizhong made money through Infinitus, he bought properties all over the world. In the past six years, he spent 30 billion in buying properties in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London for rent collection. So in 2019, Li Wenda’s Assets have soared. From the top ten in 2018, it reached the top three in one fell swoop, leaving Liu Luanxiong behind and becoming a dark horse on the rich list.
Forbes real-time ranking in 2020
It is also worth mentioning that Lee Kum Kee has not been listed so far, which also makes Lee Wen Tak the only one of the four richest people in Hong Kong that has no listed company. Non-listing has become the common philosophy of the Li Jinshang family. Of course, they have their own reasons and their own business methods. The focus is that non-listed industries can skyrocket and continue to let Li Wenda sit firmly in the position of the four richest in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong rich list for 2020 has not yet been announced, and from Forbes' real-time (February 1) rich ranking, it can be seen that Li Wenda's net worth has shrunk from before, only 15.2 billion US dollars, but still ranked in the Hong Kong rich list It can be seen that Li Huizhong, the fourth-generation successor of Lee Kum Kee, is indeed very good at keeping his career. I believe that the future Lee Kum Kee will only flourish in his hands.
PS: The pictures are all from the Internet
