Bao Yugang, a descendant of Bao Zheng, became the world's ship king from scratch and donated huge sums of money to support the development of the mainland many times.

"Kaifeng has Abao Qingtian, selfless and loyal."

This is an episode of the TV series Bao Qingtian, which eulogizes the selfless character of Bao Zheng, a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty. In addition to his achievements in official career, Bao Zheng is a great dutiful son.

Bao Zheng was born in 999 AD, and passed the examination in 1027. He was appointed judge of Dali and magistrate of Jianchang County. Considering his parents' advanced age, in order to take care of them conveniently, Bao Zheng asked to find a job near Hefei. The superior also realized Bao Zheng's difficulties and approved his request, so he was granted the national tax supervision instead. But his parents didn't want him to leave, so Bao Zheng decided to quit his job and go home to support his parents.

A few years later, his parents died one after another, and Bao Zheng built a hut beside his parents' grave to mourn for him. He didn't want to leave until the wake expired. His elders and neighbors came to encourage him many times, and then Bao Zheng went out to be an official.

In this way, things will naturally not be bad. After becoming an official, Bao Zheng was honest and clean, enforced the law impartially, and became a famous minister in the history of China, which has been passed down through the ages.

19 18, Bao Yugang, the 29th grandson of Bao Zheng, was born in Ningbo and became the world-famous "king of ships". Bao Yugang's great success in his career mainly depends on his personal talent and quality. His superhuman talent and character were cultivated from childhood, which is inseparable from his father's teaching.

Bao Yugang's father, Bao Zhaolong, is amiable, fair and decent, and is the descendant of Bao Zheng, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty. Bao Yugang's personality is very similar to that of his father.

When Bao Yugang was very young, his father repeatedly warned them: "A person's reputation and credit are the most important and basic things in life. People live in the world, and ill-gotten gains are never desirable. " To this end, my father told them many times the story of Bao Yugang's great-grandfather.

Bao Yugang's great-grandfather practiced medicine to support his family in his early years. Later, in order to make my family live a better life, I transformed into a silk business. Once he went out to do business and stayed in a hotel. The next day, he went to pick up his luggage with the hired porter. It was not until he checked into another hotel that he found that a bag of luggage was not his own.

So he quickly asked the porter, "How did you take other people's luggage?" The porter quickly explained, "I didn't know it wasn't yours." This baggage was left in the guest room at that time. "

In order to find the owner of the lost luggage, Bao Yugang's great-grandfather opened the luggage and found a money order with 5200 taels of silver in it, but he couldn't find the address. In order to return the owner, he decided to go back to the original hotel, but he waited there for three days and no one came to pick it up. So, I had to leave a notice on the wall of the hotel, leave my address, and collect the lost property before leaving.

The next year, when the owner checked into the hotel again, he found the notice on the wall unbelievable, but he decided to send someone to investigate and found the lost luggage. When the owner came to collect it, he offered two hundred and twenty pieces of silver as a reward, which was rejected by Bao Yugang's great-grandfather.

He refused: "These things are not mine. Of course I can't take them. This is the foundation of being a man. How can I thank you again? "

Seeing that the other party was so honest and kept his promise, the owner was moved by the other party. Owners engaged in timber business, the scale is still relatively large. When he saw that the Bao family was not rich, he invited his great-grandfather to run the timber business together. After more than ten years of hard work, the Bao family gradually became rich, built a new house and was born in it.

Father Bao Zhaolong told Bao Yugang the innocent story of his great-grandfather, which left a deep impression on him. His father taught him how to grow up, which he will never forget.

Bao Yugang's father, Bao Zhaolong, is engaged in business and his family conditions are relatively good, so Bao Yugang can also receive a better education. When Bao Yugang 13 years old, his father sent him to Shanghai to study. He was interested in the sea since he was a child and chose to study at Wusong Merchant Marine College.

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he moved to Chongqing and worked in a bank. Because of his efforts, he became the manager of Chongqing branch from an ordinary clerk. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Shanghai. Before he was 30, he became a banking manager in Shanghai, and later he was promoted to deputy general manager.

This experience in the financial industry has enabled him to accumulate a wealth of financial knowledge and see a variety of business practices, which is of great help to his future career development.

At the beginning of 1949, the artillery fire of the liberation war approached Shanghai, and many rich people in Shanghai packed their bags and moved overseas and to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Bao Yugang also resigned as the deputy general manager of the bank, and then went to Hongkong with his father's accumulated 654.38 million yuan.

After some planning, the father and son rented an office to start import and export trade, engaged in the trade of mainland native products, and the business was passable. From 65438 to 0955, the import and export trade was blocked, and Bao Zhaolong prepared to transform into real estate, but Bao Yugang and his father had different ideas.

When I was a child, my father often took Bao Yugang to the seaside to see the sea. Bao Yugang was deeply impressed by the merchant ships coming and going at sea. From then on, Bao Yugang decided to engage in shipping when he grew up. Bao Yugang went to Shanghai to study at the age of 13, and he chose shipbuilding, which coincides with his childhood dream.

At first, Bao Yugang's family didn't understand why he chose to engage in shipping, because Hong Kong's shipping industry was very developed, and Bao Yugang was a layman and knew little about the shipping industry. In order to realize his dream, Bao Yugang persuaded his family, collected and studied knowledge about ships and shipping everywhere, and carefully studied books about shipping and ships.

Later, with the support of his father and the help of his friends, he raised $700,000 to buy a second-hand cargo ship burning coal from England, and his global shipping company set sail.

Although the old ship bought back has a history of 28 years, and the displacement is only 8,200 tons, when he boarded the deck of this ship, he was extremely happy. He groped around and looked around, just like a father looking at his newborn son. At this moment, he has made up his mind: he must be a real world ship king.

At that time, most international and Hongkong shipping magnates adopted the short rent model, which not only charged high fees, but also raised the rental price at any time. However, Bao Yugang chose a different way from them, that is, long-term lease. He signed a lease term of three years, five years or longer with the user of the ship, and the lessor paid the rent monthly. In this way, although the rental price is lower, long-term orders can be locked.

In Bao Yugang's view, in order to develop steadily, one is to reduce risks, and the other is to establish the credibility of the industry. Rent the boat to a shipping company for operation, and the monthly income will be stable, which will undoubtedly minimize your risk. Through long-term lease, we have gradually established credibility in the industry, so that more and more customers will come.

In the second year of Bao Yugang's involvement in the shipping industry, the Suez Canal was closed due to the Middle East war, which led to a sharp increase in shipping costs. After that, the second-hand boat he bought earned him money to buy seven new boats.

In 1960s, Bao Yugang keenly observed that with the development of oil fields in the Middle East, the oil transportation industry would occupy an important position in the global shipping industry. So, he quickly invested in building a large oil tanker, which made him a big profit because he was one step ahead.

1977, the fleet size of Bao Yugang has reached13.47 million tons, which is 7.53 million tons more than the second-ranked Japanese ship, the Japanese ship, the onassis, and the Greek ship. By the early 1980s, Bao Yugang's fleet had reached 20 million tons, making it a veritable "king of ships in the world".

When Bao Yugang became the "king of the world's ships", he keenly observed that the world shipping industry was about to fall into recession, so he made a decision that surprised many people, that is, he sold most of the ships and began to abandon the ship and transform to other industries.

Bao Yugang won a 49% stake in Wharf, a British investment company, in the First World War. In World War II, he took a 34% stake in the British company Defeng for HK$ 2.5 billion. 1986 Acquired 4.5% equity of Standard Chartered Bank/kloc-0. After the acquisition of the above assets, Bao Yugang's influence in Hong Kong and the international business community can be described as overwhelming.

Although Bao Yugang has hundreds of millions of assets in Hong Kong, he has not forgotten his father's teaching: "After all, you should care about your hometown." He is very filial to his father, so naturally he dare not neglect his father's entrustment. The spring breeze of reform and opening up has given Bao Yugang the opportunity to serve the motherland and hometown.

So he wrote a letter to the mainland authorities, saying that he would come back to visit relatives, because he learned that his cousin Lu Xuzhang was the director of the National Tourism Administration, which gave him a reason to visit relatives. This letter was quickly sent to Deng Xiaoping, and Deng Xiaoping immediately instructed Liao Chengzhi to send an invitation letter: Welcome Mr. and Mrs. Bao Yugang to come back to visit relatives.

1978165438+10. In October, Bao Yugang, who had been away from the mainland for 30 years, finally came back to see how much the motherland has changed in the past 30 years. When they arrived in Beijing, they encountered an embarrassing thing, that is, they did not find a decent hotel. Therefore, Bao Yugang immediately decided to donate $100000 to the motherland to build modern tourist hotels and introduce international advanced hotel management methods.

He told this wish to Lu Xuzhang, the cousin of the then director of the National Tourism Administration, and said that after the hotel was completed, the property rights and management rights would be owned by the state. He only has one request, that is, the hotel should be named after his father-Zhaolong Hotel.

Bao Yugang named it Zhaolong Hotel, which is also a filial piety to his father. We know that Bao Zheng is very filial to his parents. In order to support his parents, he would rather resign. As the 29th generation grandson of Bao Zheng, he naturally inherited the excellent quality of the Bao family.

But we have helped other countries before and generally do not accept "foreign aid". At present, I don't know what to do with this $6.5438+million aid fund. Therefore, after Lu Xuzhang asked Deng Xiaoping for instructions, Deng Xiaoping decided to receive the donation in person, and built Zhaolong Hotel near Changhong Bridge in the East Third Ring Road.

To Bao Yugang's surprise, on the day when Zhaolong Hotel was completed, Deng Xiaoping personally attended the opening ceremony and wrote the name of the hotel.

Since Bao Yugang came back to visit relatives for the first time, he has made generous donations to the mainland and his hometown. In addition to donating Zhaolong Hotel, he also donated $654.38+0 billion to build a large Zhaolong library with advanced facilities in Shanghai Jiaotong University.

1984, Deng Xiaoping instructed to mobilize Ningbo gangs from all over the country to build Ningbo, which deeply touched a group of overseas Ningbo gangs, including Bao Yugang, and inspired their enthusiasm to come back and support the construction of their hometown.

1On October 28th, the Bao Yugang family returned to their hometown of Ningbo, where they had been away for more than 30 years. When he learned that there were no universities in Ningbo, he said, "The area of Ningbo is 10 times that of Hong Kong, and the population is similar to that of Hong Kong, but there is no comprehensive university yet. How can we do this when the whole country is marching towards the four modernizations? " So he immediately decided to donate 20 million dollars to establish Ningbo University.

Driven by Bao Yugang and others, a large number of overseas "Ningbo Gang" people returned to China to build their hometown, which promoted the development of Ningbo.

Bao Yugang not only invested in the construction of its hometown, but also actively promoted the return of Hong Kong. Bao Yugang not only has frequent high-level contacts with the mainland, but also maintains a good personal relationship with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Every time she goes to London, she will have lunch and chat with Iron Lady.

198 1 year, Bao Yugang once again brought her family to visit Mrs. Thatcher at Downing Street 10, and brought her two mysterious gifts: one was skipping rope to bring them closer, and Mrs. Thatcher was really amused when she opened this gift; Another gift was that Bao Yugang ordered two ships at the British shipyard, which was good news for the sluggish British shipbuilding industry at that time, which undoubtedly expressed his sincerity to Margaret Thatcher.

Bao Yugang conveniently and sincerely suggested that Margaret Thatcher could participate in the tailoring of this ship and another sister ship built in Shanghai, and approach China in an unofficial way to feel the fruits of China's reform and opening up. After that, Bao Yugang quickly passed the news to China, and China sent a formal invitation to Margaret Thatcher, thus facilitating the formal contact between the two countries. Since then, Bao Yugang has frequently traveled between Hong Kong and Beijing, making great contributions to the smooth return of Hong Kong.

1987, Bai Yugang announced his retirement. His company was managed by four sons-in-law, and he had more time to care about the construction in the mainland. However, just as he was preparing to do more for his motherland, he died suddenly at the age of 73 on September 23rd of 199 1.

As the grandson of Bao Zheng's 29th generation, Bao Yugang not only inherited Bao Zheng's fine virtues such as integrity, selflessness and filial piety, but also carried forward these fine traditions. He deserves to be the admirable king of ships in the world and the pioneer of China.