Ha Hong San and little-known legends: As a cousin of Bruce Lee, when he went to school, he "sold out"

The 98 years of the life of casino king Ha Hong San have experienced many glory and bitterness, and also contain interesting aspects that the public rarely hears about.

Ha Hong San is related to martial arts legend Bruce Lee

Everyone knows that the Ha family is the most powerful and wealthy in Hong Kong and Macau. But it turns out, Ha Hong San also has relatives with Bruce Lee. Ha Hong San's grandfather - Ha Khai Phuc - is the younger brother of the merchant Ha Dong, who laid the foundation for the business empire of this powerful family in Macau.

Ha Dong and Ha Khai Phuc also have a younger half-brother - Ha Khai Duong. He has 12 wives and more than 30 children, including his adopted daughter Ha Ai Du (Grace Lee) - Bruce's mother. Therefore, Bruce Lee is the adopted grandson of the Ha family and the cousin of Ha Hong San. Is it possible that in a crowded place, the legendary characters are more or less related to each other?

Used to "team the notebook" when going to school

Born in Hong Kong into a multi-ethnic lineage including Jews, Dutch, English and Chinese, Ha Hong San possesses a rare handsome appearance with perfect five senses. In addition, he inherited the family's outstanding wisdom.

However, before the great success, Ha Hong San used to almost win at Queen's College High School. This is the school that has produced many geniuses for the land of Hong Kong, but almost "lost" the intelligent student named Ha. He had very bad results in the first two years of school, "if not last, then last" - according to the casino king.

But when the family business struggled, Ha Hong San practiced, became the top student in the school and won consecutive scholarships from then until he enrolled in the University of Hong Kong. He majored in science at this prestigious school from 1939 to 1941.

Get rich before the age of 24 through smuggling, then "reform evil" to become a billionaire

If there is a film that fully recounts Ha Hong San's life, it will surely attract the audience from beginning to end, with the climax appearing right from the teenage life. According to SCMP, it is no coincidence that Ha Hong San is assigned the nickname "godfather" or "casino king". He resembles the character Vito Corleone from Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" novel, who started out making money smuggling.

The New York Times reported that when Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, he went to Macau. Here, the 24-year-old makes money by smuggling goods and luxury goods between Macau and mainland China. Later, Ha Hong San used the profits to set up a company in the construction industry, which became a fortune thanks to the economic boom in post-war Hong Kong. Next, Mr. Ha cooperated with business friend Henry Fok, won an exclusive casino business license in Macau since 1961, starting the road to build a fortune up to millions of billions of dong.

Ha Hong San loves dancing very much

Ha Hong San is passionate about dancing all her life, very good at waltz, cha cha cha and tango. In 1988, he met dancer Luong An Ky right on the dance floor at an upscale party at a casino in Lisbon (Macau).

After that, the two became husband and wife, even though they were never recognized by law. Currently, Luong An Ky is considered a powerful "private wife" of the late SJM Holdings chairman Ha Hong San. At the same time, she is also a real estate billionaire holding about $ 3.2 billion.

License plate "number 1 Hong Kong"

Ha Hong San is the richest man in Asia and owns many luxury cars, but his favorite car is a Rolls-Royce Phantom. The car itself is worth about 7 million Hong Kong dollars (more than 21 billion dong), with the registration number plate "HK 1" worth somewhere around 100 million Hong Kong dollars (more than 300 billion dong).

The concept of money earned must be kept carefully

Since the 1950s, Ha Hong San started to enter the real estate industry and earned his first bargains. He pursues a strategy of "distinguishing inside and outside", that is, buying and selling real estate in Hong Kong continuously to make a profit. Meanwhile, foreign real estate investors, on the contrary, invest in a more long-term way.

That flexible strategy has helped his real estate business maintain steady growth in rapid time. At the age of 37, Ha Hong San became a rare millionaire in the Hong Kong and Macau areas. He always remembered his uncle's advice: "If you earn money, you must keep it carefully". The business strategy of "distinguishing inside and outside" helps him to always hold the victory in his hand, protect himself and his family's assets. That helps him avoid repeating his father's mistakes in the past. Since the 1960s, Ha Hong San started to win the right to open a casino in Macau. After that, he gradually dominated the gambling industry here for more than 50 years.

The mind never begs the bank

Getting rich started in the real estate industry, billionaire Ha Hong San once revealed his secret: "As an entrepreneur, you must take advantage of financial support from the bank. Real estate business without It's impossible to rely on banks."

He emphasized that he is very trustworthy when operating in the real estate industry, bank debt is always prepaid. Therefore, he won the trust of big banks, always approved for loans up to 70 or 80%.

When encroaching on the gambling industry and gradually dominating it, Ha Hong San also has very diverse investment categories in the world such as real estate, electronic industry, hotel services. When investing in real estate abroad, Ha Hong San applies the strategy of "people who give up, we take". As a result, he earned great bargains.

Ha Hong San is considered to be a person with a very assertive personality, respecting gratitude, a powerful and most famous "gaming king" in the history of the casino industry in Macau. His life has always been a legend mentioned by the people of Macau, Hong Kong and Asia forever.

Even if you have money, you can't "buy" your last wish in life

On his 70th birthday, Ha Hong San publicly stated that his future goal is to live to 150 years old. Not only saying, to fulfill the wish to live a long life, Ha Hong San did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy valuable supplements.

He paid a fortune to get top quality Truffles with excellent anti-aging properties. The best known purchase was in 2009, when he bought 800g of Truffle Mushrooms for 250,000 USD (nearly 5.8 billion VND at current exchange rates). Later, when realizing that modern technology could not make people live to 150 years old, Ha Hong San changed his opinion on his 80th birthday that just living to 120 years old is enough. But, at the end of 2009, Ha Hong San unfortunately fell at home and suffered a stroke due to a head injury. Many people believe that, without this accident, Ha Hong San would have lived to the age of 120 as desired.

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