Big boss's jail time

Uncle Liang, an entrepreneur friend, was jailed for three years for economic crimes. He was released years ago and invited everyone to get together.

Not as decadent as he imagined, he was beaming, laughing and chatting about the anecdotes he met inside.

Finally, let's sum up:

1, it was too frivolous before, and now there is a lesson;

2. Making a lot of friends may help your career.

The wife listened, a little worried, and asked:

"What friends can I make there?"

The buddy glared and said, "What friend? Do business like me ... "

There's nothing wrong with this guy's words. If you know a thing or two about the business history of China, you will find that entrepreneurs are really a high-risk industry. Forget the nobody. Only those "the richest man" and "the king" who have achieved great success ended up in prison, and they can't be counted with a few hands:

, Chu, Mou, Lan Shili, Gu, Huang Guangyu,,, Huang Hongsheng, Sun Dawu, Zhao Xinxian. ...

20 14 when yang LAN interviewed Wang Jianlin and asked what it was like to be elected the richest man, Lao Wang said with a serious face:

The rich list is a pig killing list. ......

At that time, Huang Guangyu, once the richest man, had been in prison for six years.

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20 15 stock market crash just stabilized, and stock god Li Daxiao began to unilaterally announce:

The bull market is coming again.

This sentence was repeated for six years.

Also in that year, the rumor that "Huang Guangyu is going to be released from prison" began to spread, often accompanied by changes in Gome's share price and news from the media.

This sentence has been repeated for six years, but it is always hit by the official.

According to the criminal law, prisoners who have served more than half of their sentences can apply for early release from prison.

Huang Guangyu's sentence ranges from 2008 165438+ 10/7 to 2022/65438+ 10/6. In other words, Huang Guangyu was only eligible to apply in 20 15 years, which is far from Qianshan's "early release from prison".

However, under this policy, Huang Guangyu still got a 10 month commutation.

In this way, on February 202 16 1 day, Huang Ba was really released from prison.

In fact, prison life in Boss Huang is not miserable. After two years in prison, he was sent to the prison hospital as a nurse to take care of "sick prisoners" because of his good performance.

Based on the Hong Kong movies you have seen, you should know that this job is quite good.

A year later, Boss Huang was transferred to the greenhouse, responsible for flower maintenance and shrub pruning in the prison.

I have been dealing with flowers and trees for a long time, and my sentiment has also been cultivated. Boss Huang's dormant talent for calligraphy began to emerge.

Because of his frequent participation in calligraphy and painting exhibitions organized by the prison authorities, Boss Huang won the title of "model of reform", which earned him many "scores", which were linked to the commutation period. After the effective points reach a certain amount, he can apply for a corresponding commutation.

/kloc-this is how the 0/0 month commutation period came about.

Boss Huang not only learned many skills such as nursing, gardening and calligraphy, but also mastered the business empire outside.

Gome was almost "seized power" by Chen Xiao at one time, and it was the mastermind in prison who finally made Gome be labeled as "yellow".

This kind of remote operation technique is hard for ordinary people to imagine.

Before going to prison, Huang Guangyu bought Yongle Electric and hired Chen Xiao, the founder of Yongle, as the president of Gome.

In order to take care of Chen Xiao's mentality, Boss Huang was generous and bought two identical Maybach, one for each person;

The area and decoration of their office are exactly the same, and even the Huang family often delivers meals to Chen Xiao:

He is from Shanghai and doesn't adapt to the taste of the north. ......

These descriptions from the Huang family have laid a lot of subtext for Chen Xiao's ingratitude.

But Chen Xiao didn't have much real power at that time. Gome positioned him as:

Coordinate the personnel relations of various departments and contribute their own industry experience.

Until June 5438+065438+ 10, 2008, Huang Guangyu and Du Fu were taken away by the police on suspicion of insider trading.

Huang Guangyu delivered the whole Gome to Chen Xiao, who became the chairman of the board of directors.

In fact, this is helpless. At this time, Gome was riddled with holes, and only Chen Xiao personally managed large enterprises. There is no more suitable candidate than him.

However, Huang Guangyu was also very thoughtful and immediately put forward to let his sister enter the board of directors and become the president.

Unexpectedly, the management headed by Chen Xiao rejected this proposal. What makes Huang Guangyu feel even more difficult is that Chen Xiao introduced Bain Capital and became the second largest shareholder of Gome, which directly threatened Huang's position as the first largest shareholder.

Jia Zhu, general manager of Bain Capital, has a good personal relationship with Chen Xiao, which makes the Huang family think that Chen Xiao has the heart of "rebellion".

Objectively speaking, the above two things can make sense from the business logic. Huang Guangyu directly arranges his sister who is not in the bureau to be the president, which is unacceptable to the executives who have worked hard in Gome for many years.

At that time, Gome's capital chain was broken, so it was reasonable for Chen Xiao to find familiar investors to join.

However, the power struggle has never been meaningful. As long as you make threats, you are the enemy. This dark forest law has never changed.

Then Huang Jia and Chen Xiao waged a three-year war, and Huang Guangyu fully demonstrated his long-sleeved dancing ability in prison.

He constantly sent personal letters, while guiding public opinion and attacking Chen Xiao from a moral point of view; On the one hand, let his family and friends buy back Gome's shares in the secondary market as the largest shareholder.

More importantly, through continuous consultations, the Huang family finally reached a consensus with institutional investors including Bain Capital, and those who originally supported Chen Xiao also publicly expressed their neutrality.

Finally, Chen Xiao left sadly.

We don't know how Huang Jia completed this series of extremely difficult operations. We only know that in the business world, interests are the only bargaining chip to reach a consensus.

At this point, Huang Guangyu finally got back the control of Gome, and all this was done in prison.

We often use "dancing in chains" to describe the difficulty of managing large enterprises, and Huang Guangyu realized this proverb with his actions.

Huang Guangyu has always been known for being overbearing. On August 20 10, when he learned that he was sentenced, he wrote an apology letter and a thank-you letter, apologizing for the negative impact he had brought to the society and thanking the employees for their efforts.

At the end of the letter wrote:

I believe I have a new beginning. ...

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In March 2009, in the warm and cold spring, Huang Guangyu was still trying to earn points in Qincheng Prison in Beijing. 1000 kilometers away, an old man was browsing the newspaper in Hongshan Prison Square in Wuhan.

He read, while feeling:

"Being a * * * of a big country is really tiring!"

Several passing prisoners laughed.

This old man is the famous former richest man.

Mou Lao has been in prison three times, the first time was in 1975, when Mou was just a nobody and worked as a contract worker in a glass factory.

At that time, the Cultural Revolution was in full swing, and Mou wrote a book. Where is China going? The article, criticizing the Cultural Revolution, did not expect to be popular.

In addition, Mou's father was a banker. Mou was sentenced to death for counter-revolutionary crimes and was rehabilitated five years later.

From then on, he stepped into the ups and downs of business and opened a Sino-German store, claiming to be "the experimental field of China's economic system reform".

However, there were many pits in the "experimental field" at that time, and Mou was "profiteering" carelessly. 1983 was imprisoned again.

However, during the year of imprisonment, Mou not only didn't lose heart, but also felt that he could do much in the business world.

After he was released from prison, he established the Nande Economic Group. Canned Aircraft, One Billion Manzhouli and Blasting Hole in Himalaya are all representative works at that time.

From these shocking projects, it is not difficult to see Mou's inflated ambition.

1994, Mou and Russia jointly operated satellite business, and opened a letter of credit in the Bank of China to prepare huge expenses.

Later, the payment was not paid, and the risk of L/C guarantee was thunderous. At the turn of the Millennium, Mou was finally sentenced to life imprisonment for "letter of credit fraud", which was later reduced to 18 years.

It is said that at first, Mou had the opportunity to apply for medical parole, provided that he had to "plead guilty", but Mou refused.

Also rejected by Mou was braised pork, a meat lover who became a vegetarian because of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in prison.

According to his cellmate's reaction:

"In order to ensure a good body after being released from prison, the daily exercise in prison is amazing.

No matter how cold it is, I insist on taking a cold bath, doing homemade gymnastics and running around the basketball court almost without interruption. "

The cellmate also said:

In fact, Mou is not as strong as he looks. Once I got off the phone with my son, I saw him lying in bed secretly crying.

In 20 16, 74-year-old Mou was released from prison, and his weight has dropped from 180 kg to 140 kg.

However, both his wives left him, and 264 houses in Mentougou have been auctioned by the court.

The office building of Nande Group has also become a little sheep hot pot restaurant, which was in ruins during the demolition.

With the support of his friends, he set up two new companies with the main development direction of "developing Manzhouli, developing chips and anti-aging technology".

However, industry insiders say that these three directions are not very reliable, because they all need the highest-end technology and huge capital, not just a few ideas and courage.

In fact, Mou has really made no achievements in recent years. His main source of income is probably the speech fee for attending some activities.

The media seems to have forgotten him, and only a couplet he wrote when he was released from prison occasionally appeared in some chicken soup articles:

Life can be over 100 years old, why not be crazy and be a teenager again?

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In 2006, Mou, who was still in prison, learned of a friend's visit.

The newcomer is thin and smart. His name is Wang Shi.

Wang Shi also brought a man with slightly more hair than himself and introduced him to Mou Lao.

"This is Lan Shili, Manager Lan."

Mou listened to Lan Shili's family history, with a complicated expression and no answer.

Three years later, Lan Shili became Mou's cellmate. Lao Mou was upstairs and he was downstairs.

Lan Shili and Mou do have many similarities. Both of them have been arrested three times, all related to airplanes.

He was born in 1960 (also known as' 66). He graduated from technical secondary school and became a civil servant, holding an iron rice bowl.

At the age of 30, I went to work in Hainan provincial government for a year, and after I came back, my life began to turn upside down.

199 1 established Dongxing company in Wuhan, and its main business was to sell electronic consumables from Shenzhen to Wuhan.

Later, I earned some money and opened two luxury hotels in Wuhan, namely the East Palace and the West Palace.

Lan Shili said that he also earned the first bucket of gold in his life.

In fact, consumables and restaurants can't make much money. What really makes Lan Shili rich is smuggling high-end cars.

Due to internal contradictions, some employees reported this matter, and Lan Shili lost his freedom for the first time: he was locked up for 27 days.

At the same time, "the social atmosphere has improved", the business of the hotel is not good, the old customers can't eat any more, and the IOUs can't be cashed. Lan Shili almost lost everything.

Depressed Lan Shili went to an experienced fortune teller and drew two signatures:

One is the next sign, which says "It's like a bird's nest where dragons are trapped";

One is a sign that says "Clear the dark clouds and see the sun".

According to Lan Shili's understanding, this implies that his business should "walk on multiple legs".

After several years of dormancy, Lan Shili developed Dongxing into a local company with ten major industries such as real estate, tourism and advertising, and its wealth also increased dramatically.

In 2004, the state allowed private enterprises to enter the civil aviation industry, and East Star was approved to buy 20 Airbus aircraft.

At this time, Lan Shili was valued at 2 billion, ranking among the Forbes list and becoming the richest man in Hubei.

This guy is also quite interesting. Other rich people are trying not to make the list. When a reporter asked him how he felt about the list, he said:

"Forbes calculated that my value was less ..."

The fact is that Lan Shili is not as rich as the outside world thinks. A plane worth 654.38+02 billion yuan, the down payment is only 654.38+08 billion yuan, which is still highly leveraged.

At that time, many businesses in East Star were short of money, and sometimes they had to borrow usury to turn around. Ma, vice president of East Star, recalled:

"When I wrote the bidding report for the establishment of East Star Airlines, I had not paid my employees for three months."

Sure enough, in 2009, East Star Airlines broke its capital chain and declared bankruptcy.

The following year, Lan Shili was also sentenced to four years' imprisonment in the first instance for evading the payment of taxes owed.

However, Lan Shili also reduced his sentence through three months' points.

During the Spring Festival of 20 13, he arranged 15 programs in the prison, one of which was called "Hongshan Prison is a Big Stage", which was rated as a classic by the prison authorities, and Lan Shili also won the special prize.

On August 20 13, Lan Shili was released from prison and later became a Singapore citizen, and announced that he would acquire Thailand Eastern Airlines Limited.

A company named Xinjiang Maiqule participated in the acquisition. However, the story surprised everyone.

2017165438+10. First, Lan Shili released information, revealing that Maiquer cashed in domestic assets and defrauded billions of assets through this acquisition.

At the same time, Maiquer Group reported that it was defrauded by Lan Shili's contract, amounting to 350 million yuan.

In a word, the whole plot is confusing, more complicated than Mulholland Road, but in the end Lan Shili becomes one of the parties to the tragedy.

He fled to Singapore, was wanted all over the world, and has not been heard from since.

Time flies. In 2007, Lan Shili, the richest man in Hubei, attended an entrepreneur salon and had a small activity during the dinner. The host asked everyone to write down their epitaph, and Lan Shili wrote:

I am glad that I have never done anything I regret in my life.

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In 2007, Li Tuchun did something that he regretted for the rest of his life.

He registered a holding company named "Prince Milk" in Cayman Islands and signed harsh gambling agreements with three foreign investment banks.

The general content is: after three years, if the performance growth of Taizi Milk fails to exceed 50%, he will lose 6 1.6% equity of Taizi Milk.

It was this gambling agreement that became the fuse for Li Tuchun to lose the Prince's milk in the future.

However, at that time, Li Tuchun didn't know how dangerous the capital was, and it was still in the realm of "how bold people are and how productive the land is". Li Tuchun often tells others about his life:

When I was born, I had a tooth in my mouth. The old man felt unlucky and had to pull it out, but guess what?

No matter how hard the adults try, they can't break my mouth.

Therefore, I am destined to oppose heaven, earth and people in my life.

1996, he drank a bottle of lactic acid bacteria beverage and found it delicious, so he set up "Taizi Milk Company" in his hometown of Zhuzhou.

This guy is really a marketing expert, claiming that he is the 46th generation descendant of Li Shimin.

Marketing has always been the primary productive force in FMCG industry, and Taizi Milk soon opened the market in Zhuzhou.

Before everyone came to their senses, Li Tuchun made another big move. In the prime-time advertising bidding of CCTV, he smashed 88.88 million yuan and won the championship in one fell swoop.

Hearing this sentence, several executives accompanying Li Tuchun kept shaking their legs and couldn't stand up at the end of the meeting.

Because the annual revenue of Taizi Milk is only 5 million, even the 200,000 yuan tickets they bid for CCTV are borrowed.

But this time, Li Tuchun won. Soon after they returned to Zhuzhou, orders flew like snowflakes, and many vendors had to climb relationships to get goods.

Taizi Milk has also started a crazy expansion model, and established a distribution network in 29 provinces, 300 cities and 3,000 counties.

From 1997 to 2007, the annual sales of Taizi milk jumped from 5 million to 2 billion.

At the peak, the market share of Taizi milk reached 76.2%, making it the undisputed leader in the lactic acid bacteria industry.

At that time, the headquarters building of Taizi Milk had been completed, with Tiananmen Square on the left and the White House on the right. It is a combination of Chinese and western styles and is extremely luxurious.

It is against this background that Li Tuchun, who is arrogant, signed gambling agreements with three major investment banks, and declared that the annual income in 10 will exceed 10 billion.

What is this concept? The annual sales of fragrant fluttering milk tea around the earth for three times is only 2 billion. In this way, the prince's milk will circle the earth 150 times.

In fact, this goal is not Li Tuchun's self-appreciation. His real idea should be that only by blowing up the target can we introduce more capital, then expand production capacity and finally solve all problems.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to borrow 500 million yuan from banks such as Citigroup for unlimited joint liability.

However, in 2008, just as Taizi Milk was about to go public, a financial crisis broke out, which not only ran aground, but also led to the withdrawal of investment institutions and bank dunning.

That year, the melamine crisis broke out in China, and the sales of Prince's milk plummeted. At that time, investors conducted asset accounting on Taizi milk and found that Taizi milk had total assets of 2.8 billion and liabilities as high as 2.6 billion.

In this way, Taizi Milk will either close down or its equity will fall into the hands of foreign investors. Considering the people's livelihood, Zhuzhou government decided to trust Taizi Dairy and put Wendibo in charge.

The so-called trusteeship refers to the change of management right under the condition of unchanged ownership, that is to say, Prince Milk is still in Li Tuchun, but it is temporarily managed by the government.

However, when Wendibo entered the office, Li Tuchun found that the other party wanted to treat Prince Edward's milk as bankruptcy, so that the ownership of Prince Edward's milk was under Wendibo's control.

Therefore, Li Tuchun wrote a lot of materials to the city leaders and the public, listing the management problems of Wendibo, and the contradiction between them began to escalate.

Just as the needle pointed to Maimang, the accident happened. 20 10 On June 2nd, Li Tuchun was arrested by Zhuzhou City Procuratorate on the charge of "suspected illegal fund-raising".

What happened two years ago suddenly appeared at this moment, which really makes people daydream.

Li Tuchun was in jail and decided to larger foe. He let his family break the news:

During her tenure, Wendibo signed an advertising fee of 1 1.5 million with an advertising company, and inserted 2000 seconds of plot placement advertisements in the TV series Meteor Shower.

In fact, the value of this advertisement is only 2 million;

The important thing is that these advertisements are not done at all;

More importantly, the owner of this advertising company is Wendy Bo's classmate.

This well-documented tip-off letter did not change the fate of the bankruptcy liquidation of Taizi Milk. When Li Tuchun in prison heard that Taizi Milk was finally acquired by Hualian and Sanyuan, she burst into tears.

However, no one can guess the taste of the next chocolate. Just as Li Tuchun was in great pain, the news that Wendibo was detained came.

Later, Wendibo was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment, while Li Tuchun was released without charge after being detained for 15 months.

Since then, the story of Prince milk and Li Tuchun has disappeared from public view.

Until six months ago, 60-year-old Li Tuchun suddenly appeared on a live broadcast platform to promote his new fast food restaurant. He also told the story of his teeth and how he was fearless in the past.

However, 10 years ago, he was hiding in the detention center. When all his struggles failed, he tried to commit suicide and wrote a suicide note to the students of Tsinghua EMBA. One of the words is:

"I demand that entrepreneurs who have been stigmatized and treated unfairly for a long time in our generation can be appeased after death."

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Many years ago, I attended an entrepreneur private board meeting, and everyone received the same question:

What is the happiest thing that has ever happened to you?

A chairman wrote this story:

One rainy night, my door was knocked down, and several policemen stood in front of me and said:

"Maradona, you were arrested for economic problems. Please come with us. "

I was surprised, but said quietly:

"I am looking for an old horse. He lives across the hall. "

Then, I went back to the warm bed.

Entrepreneurs present will laugh.

I think this is probably a joke he saw on the Internet, but it's easy to explain. For some people, the happiest idiom is not "cheerful", "colorful" and "smooth sailing", but "a false alarm".

Therefore, when you envy the wealth of those business tycoons, you should not only understand that it is just a survivor prejudice.

You should also understand that in an era of rapid transformation, adventurers often wander in the gray area, need to deal with complex political and business games, and face tricks, betrayal and injustice.

And these are not what ordinary people can face. Whether it is worth it or not, everyone has his own choice and answer.

I just want to say that for most people, it is not the magnificent scenes that maintain peace and happiness, but the daily leftovers: sleeping children, girlfriends' afternoon tea, the wind through poplars and pigeons flying across the sky. ......

It is these trivial things that make us happy and worried, supporting the weight of the moment.

As Cai Gentan wrote:

Put down the reed flowers, lie in the snow and clouds, and save a nest of night wind;

In the bamboo cup, sing the wind and play the moon and stay away from the world of mortals.