Zhou Shanren, who had been lying in the intensive care unit for half a month, woke up. This was a mixed blessing for the precarious Zhou family.
When Zhou Shanren regained consciousness, he walked through the glass door of the ward and did not see his children and grandchildren. Instead, he saw the Zhou family's old housekeeper, who had served for many years, guarding the door of the ward. He felt mixed emotions.
Over the years, I have worked hard day and night for the development of my family, but what is the result? Now there is not a single child or grandchild by my bedside.
Zhou Shanren had a strong feeling that Zou Chuang was responsible for the loss of so much of his goods, and Huo Qiqi was also a suspect. He should not have plotted against Huo Qiqi to enrich his family's descendants, and he suffered retribution.
Zhou Shanren looked at the housekeeper who had followed him for many years, anxiously waiting for the result outside the door. He felt that in his life, he had not completely failed in making friends and that there was still someone loyal to him.
Butler Zhou Da saw Zhou Shanren awake through the glass of the ward and his eyes filled with tears. During this period, Zhou Shanren was in a coma and hospitalized. The Zhou family's business was suppressed by various forces. The stock price of Zhou's company plummeted. Huo Qiqi and Zou Chuang acquired many of the company's stocks. Several young masters of the Zhou family were constantly fighting for the family property.
With the doctor's consent, Zhou Da came to Zhou Shanren's bedside.
Zhou Shanren listened to Zhou Da's report silently and appeared very calm. Zhou Shanren felt that since God wanted him to live, he should live well for himself in the future. He had been to the gates of hell once, and he should see many things clearly and let go.
"Mr. Zhou, after you go out, arrange for the company's financial department to take inventory of all the assets of the Zhou family. After the financial department completes the inventory, contact Lawyer Wu to come to me. I have something to tell him." Since Zhou Shanren had just woken up, his mental state was not very good. After he struggled to finish his arrangements in one breath, he fell into a deep sleep again.
Zhou Da has been following Zhou Shanren since he was 18 years old. It has been almost 40 years. He is not bragging, he is definitely the person in the entire Zhou family who understands Zhou Shanren's thoughts best. After hearing Zhou Shanren's series of arrangements, he knew that his master was planning to split the family.
The finance department of Zhou's company was puzzled by Zhou Shanren's sudden order to conduct an asset inventory. Hadn't the chairman been in a coma and hospitalized? Could it be that he was just waking up and was already auditing the accounts?
Although there were doubts, they had to pay attention to the work that needed to be done, so the finance department of Zhou's company took inventory of the Zhou family's assets three days later.
Butler Zhou Da took a thick stack of documents and went to find the company's legal counsel, Lawyer Wu.
After hearing Zhou Da's description, Lawyer Wu came to the hospital with a list of all the Zhou family's assets.
At this time, Zhou Shanren had been transferred to the exclusive VIP ward.
"Mr. Zhou, you have just recovered a little, you should rest more." Lawyer Wu said sincerely.
"Lawyer Wu, thank you for your hard work over the years. I have something to tell you, so I asked Mr. Zhou to let you come over."
"Mr. Zhou, I just left in a hurry. Butler Zhou just told me to bring a list of assets to find you in the ward after you wake up. Now that I'm here, Mr. Zhou, is there anything you want me to do?" Lawyer Wu, as the Zhou family's exclusive lawyer, has been helping the Zhou family deal with legal issues over the years.
"Lawyer Wu, I asked you to come here. You can probably guess what I mean. I have three sons, and the youngest is already in his 30s. As they say, when a tree grows tall, it branches out, and when the sons grow up, the family branches out. I have decided to divide the family assets so that everyone can live their own lives." Zhou Shanren said with great determination.
"Then Mr. Zhou, how do you want to distribute it?" Lawyer Wu actually didn't want the Zhou family to split up. Once the family split up, the Zhou family would no longer have a place among the four major families in Hong Kong.
Zhou Shanren gave the distribution plan that he had drafted long ago to Lawyer Wu. Lawyer Wu took a look at it and looked at Zhou Shanren in confusion.
The Zhou family's 21 billion in cash was divided into 7 parts. Zhou Shanren gave up all his properties in Hong Kong and took 4 parts of the cash, totaling 12 billion. The remaining 9 billion was divided equally among his three sons, 3 billion for each son.
Half of the Zhou family's real estate, company shares, company stocks and other assets in Hong Kong were divided among the eldest son, one quarter among the second son, and one quarter among the third son.
The reason why Zhou Shanren made such a distribution was entirely because he felt that he owed his eldest son. The eldest son of the Zhou family was the child born to him and his ex-wife. When he was three years old, his biological mother passed away and he had no mother to take care of him since he was a child. In his early years, Zhou Shanren had basically no time to care about the growth of his eldest son because of his business. Therefore, in the distribution of Zhou family assets, he favored his eldest son.
After reading it, Lawyer Wu confirmed again and again that this was Zhou Shanren's true intention, and then left with the distribution plan.
Zhou Shanren didn't have time to care about what his sons thought. He asked his housekeeper Zhou Da to make some arrangements. If Zhou Da was willing to continue to follow him, he would go to Country F with him to retire. Zhou Shanren still had some assets there, so he didn't have to worry about running out of money in the future.
Zhou Da was injured when he was young and was unable to have children, so he never married or had children in his life. Naturally, he was willing to live abroad with Zhou Shanren.
The impact of the Zhou family's split was too great. Even though the Zhou family's strength among the four major families was second only to Zou Jia, the Zhou family could not conceal the news of the split.
On the second day after the Zhou family split, Hong Kong newspapers reported: the Zhou family split war began, Zhou Shanren gave up power and retired, and the Zhou family fell out of the ranks of the four major families.
As the turmoil over the Zhou family's division grew bigger and bigger, a rumor spread from somewhere that the Zhou family had suffered such a huge change because Zhou Shanren wanted to join forces with Wu Shan to suppress and assassinate Huo Qiqi. As a result, Huo Qiqi was alive and well, Wu Shan was sent to prison, and the Zhou family fell apart.
The Qian family's bankruptcy, Wu Shan's arrest, and the Zhou family's division are all related to Huo Qiqi.
In a short time, Huo Qiqi's deterrent power spread among the upper class of Hong Kong.
Zou family, Zou Chuang admires his third uncle Zou Huai's foresight. If his third uncle had not been by his side to remind him all these years, the Zou family would not have developed to such a scale.
Wu Chuan was not as calm as Zou Chuang. He was very panicked. Although he did not accept the cooperation proposal from the three people last time, he was always thinking about how to rescue his brother and how to deal with Huo Qiqi.
The Qian family and the Zhou family both suffered great losses in dealing with Huo Qiqi. If I insist on dealing with Huo Qiqi, can I really get away with it?
Wuchuan can’t afford to gamble now, and neither can the Wu family.
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