Chapter 58 Who really knows "Li Ka-shing"?

In any society, there is a natural distance between the poor and the rich. There are too many things planted in this "distance" zone, looking up, envious, jealous, and hating.What attitude do ordinary people in Hong Kong have towards the rich?I can't tell either.Love it or hate it?What does love refer to?Probably because when it comes to the world's richest Chinese, Zhao Qian, Sun Li, and others appear in Hong Kong one by one, and the faces of ordinary citizens also have some brilliance?In addition, after all, the rich have a big family and a big business, support the government's tax revenue, set up various funds, help the poor, and give away rice porridge, so it is much better than poor relatives surrounded by themselves .As for hatred, I heard a small business owner in Hong Kong once commented on their fellow predators: "How can I not hate? The market has been monopolized by their family. The days of us small households are really getting worse. more and more sad."

At the end of 2005, I was suddenly notified that "super rich" Li Ka-shing was willing to accept an exclusive interview with CCTV reporters.Li Ka-shing is known to everyone in Hong Kong, and even in the world, and his personal assets have almost reached 150 billion Hong Kong dollars.At that time, I only had one impression of Li Ka-shing: a rich man, I don’t know what kind of reputation he has in Hong Kong, because it has nothing to do with me. I just heard that Li Ka-shing has basically not accepted any interviews with any media at home and abroad for five consecutive years. No, it was an exception when he was named the first batch of "Chinese philanthropists" in China.Therefore, I had to prepare carefully, read his book, learned about his entrepreneurial story, and spent two weeks thinking about how to interview so as not to disappoint such a rare opportunity.

As a result, when I met Mr. Li, I pointed to a biography of him and said, "I have read this book from beginning to end. Is it true that the difficulties you faced when you started your business were mentioned in the book? Can you tell me more about it?" Is it a little?" Mr. Li bowed, glanced at the "Li Ka-shing Biography" in my hand, and said a little unpredictable: "Oh, this author, I have only met her once, she is very smart." Then Only talk about topics that interest him.What is Li Ka-shing's "topic of interest"?His "third son". "The third son"?

Many people know that Li Ka-shing has only two sons in this life. Where does the "third son" come from?At that time, the outside world didn't know much about it, and I only knew fur.This topic full of suspense was not until half a year later, when Mr. Li made public the idea of ​​the "old three" at his "Cheung Kong Industrial" mid-year performance announcement meeting. So who is "Li Ka-shing's third son"? Simply put, it is his "Li Ka-shing Foundation". After the interview got to the point, he told me: "There was a time when I couldn't sleep at night, worrying about the survival of the 'Li Ka Shing Foundation'. I was not like this when I was young, and sometimes I had to use two alarm clocks to hit the wall (meaning for "I can't wake up"). Then one night I suddenly said to myself: Oh, am I stupid? Why don't I treat the 'Li Ka Shing Foundation' as if I have another child? This way the foundation will still be there even after a hundred years. It will not disappear, and it can also develop healthily, and no one can take away a copper plate from it."

Li Ka-shing fixed a large part of his family business accumulated through hard work throughout his life, and left it to his third "son" like he left an inheritance to his two sons. This is what he wants to accept in an interview. The things you want me to know the most.I didn’t understand it at the time, and I was still asking him questions according to my interview design: Since the establishment of the Li Ka-shing Foundation in 1980, you have donated dozens or even hundreds of dollars to many people, especially those who have no money to see a doctor or study. A hundred million, "Why should the focus be on education and medical care?" Mr. Li immediately interrupted me, not because the content of my question was wrong, but because the word I used, "donate", he didn't like.He said: "Don't say 'donate', I don't want to use this word, because if you say 'donate', others will have a problem of 'receipt', this 'receipt' makes people feel uncomfortable."

Don't let people say "donate" when donating money? People who donate money also have to worry about the feelings of those who receive money? To be honest, I have lived a small half of my life, many years have passed by in poverty, but this is the first time I sincerely admire the "rich". No matter how complicated the Hong Kong society has towards Li Ka-shing or all the "rich people" in Hong Kong represented by Li Ka-shing, after I interviewed Mr. Li, I began to have other expectations for the "rich people". The more people in a society, the better.

In the interview, Mr. Li told me that in his life, he "can't see the hopelessness of patients or disabled people in their own lives." He said to me: "Wealth is rich, rich but not rich is not real rich. Some people have money all their lives. , but others have not received any help from him, what is the meaning of such a life?" In the afternoon of the first day, we talked for more than two hours. We talked about how he was forced to drop out of school at the age of 12. He had to flee to Hong Kong to avoid the war and make a living in the society; Died in despair before his eyes.That's why Mr. Li is willing to take out the money and invest it in schools and hospitals in large sums.Among them, the "hospice care business" is a new business that we talked about in the most detail - Li Ka-shing saw that the current medical technology can not solve the problem of "cancer", his friends, and then more people, have reached the terminal stage of cancer , the pain was unbearable, and the pain was so extreme that Mr. Li said that he was going to cry.Therefore, he proposed to establish a "hospice hospital" in China and implement "hospice service" (also not allowed to be called hospice service). This is to allow as many patients as possible to "go" better in the end, and to improve health. living people can show them a little ordinary love...

In the afternoon of the next day, Mr. Li still had more ideas and called me to his office again.He emphasized over and over again: After all, his ability alone is too small. He hopes to arouse more like-minded people, make China more prosperous and stronger, and let Chinese people live better.The old man even said earnestly: "Yangtze River, you don't know, in the two matters of education and medical care, if someone can work with me to achieve what I want to do, I will pay and he will be famous; I will be behind and he will be in the front." , I am willing. And if you ask me to kneel down to this person in order to help more people in need, I will do it. But in terms of business, even if you can make a lot of money, who will let you do it for this? I bend down, but I may not be willing to..."

Who "really" knows "Li Ka-shing"? Do all the "rich people" in Hong Kong understand the philosophy of "rich and expensive"? It is said that the "Li Ka-shing Biography" that only appears on the market in Hong Kong every month does not know whether the author uses a real name or a pseudonym. There are as many as two dozen types. Don't talk about sitting down with Mr. Li and having a heart-to-heart conversation, like-minded, but the book is published, and the manuscript fee is still earned! Once, a foreign friend revealed to Mr. Li: "I saw another copy of your new "Biography" written by someone at the airport. Do you know about this?"

Mr. Li couldn't laugh or cry. Then his subordinates described it to me: "The foreigner said: 'I don't know? Then why don't you go to court to complain? Don't go through judicial procedures?'" "Go through the judicial process?" Can you make it through?Do you have time to go? It's okay if you don't leave, the author's reputation will definitely be "big noise" once Mr. Li tells him.They might be waiting, eager to go to court with Li Ka-shing! After hearing this, the foreigner can only shrug his shoulders and shake his head inconceivably...