When it comes to Shanghai Beach, there is no lack of legends among the feasting and feasting, the good and the bad. Many people took advantage of the east wind of reform and opening up, formed alliances with power and accompanied by money, and performed a fantastic and graceful life of benefit. Shanghai's richest man, Zhou Zhengyi, nicknamed "The Devil", is one of them. Zhou Zhengyi came from an ordinary working-class family in Shanghai. He took over from his father and went to work in a factory. However, he was soon fired because he was not doing his job properly. Everyone in his family thinks he is a loser because he spends all his time wandering the streets. It can be said that Zhou Zhengyi earned his first pot of gold by smuggling Zhangguang 101 shampoo to Japan.

And Zhou Zhengyi truly became the richest man because of one woman, Mao Yuping, whom she met in Hong Kong. The two then opened a restaurant in Shanghai, behind the city government, called Amao Stewed Products. It mainly catered to municipal officials, especially senior officials from the Bank of Shanghai. It was called the "public relations canteen" of the Shanghai banking industry by Shanghainese. In addition to making friends with high-ranking officials, Mao Yuping also helped Zhou Zhengyi get through the black and white circles of Shanghai and became a prominent person in Shanghai. In the mid-1990s, he began to enter the real estate industry and the stock market.

With the banking resources they have accumulated over the past few years, they have obtained many bank loans and mastered many ways to make money. Through their powerful political and business resources, the two of them have taken control of a large number of unfinished buildings in Shanghai, and can easily earn double the investment amount by selling them. Furthermore, at that time, employees of state-owned enterprises basically held stocks of some unlisted companies. Zhou Zhengyi adopted the method of accepting snakes and swallowing elephants and purchased a large number of employees' stocks at a price of less than 10 yuan. stock. Once the stocks of these companies were listed, the price of the stocks in their hands quickly increased more than 10 times. For example, Gree's stock price increased from 2 yuan to more than 20 yuan. Zhou Zhengyi made a lot of money.

After that, Zhou Zheng and Yi Mao Yuping began to join the Hong Kong business community. They used the HK$2.1 billion loan line of the Hong Kong Branch of the Bank of China at the time to acquire and merge many well-known enterprises in Hong Kong, and then gave up after the financial crisis in Hong Kong. He resold it and made a huge profit, directly becoming the fantasy legend of the richest man in Shanghai.