Caroline's mother was born in 1902 and has lived to be 100 years old this year. It's just that her health has always been good, but she didn't expect to leave them just like that.

Since Yannick's death in '88, she has been living in Wolfsburg and rarely travels out.

Her death is not a tragedy, but may be more of a relief for her.

As the last elder of Zhou Nan to pass away, her death subsequently attracted many media reports.

Even if there is no relationship with Zhou Nan, the Hoffmann family, as the richest family in Germany, the death of Caroline's mother is also eye-catching.

In addition to owning 40 percent of Volkswagen's shares in Germany, the Hoffmann family also owns 26 percent of Bayer's shares, and even if Zhou Nan occupies half of them, their assets alone exceed $50 billion.

In addition, they have a stake in more than 200 companies and companies, and their assets are second only to the Jonas family.

Leon, who was not interested in women when he was young, became extremely romantic when he became an adult.

Although he married only one wife, Melissa, he had four children and eleven illegitimate children. Over the years, those illegitimate children have caused a lot of scandals in order to fight for family property.

For this matter, Zhou Nan also had to help him wipe his ass and set up a Hoffman family fund, firmly controlling the control of the foundation in the hands of the members of the local family, and the side members have the right to dividends.

Now the eleven illegitimate children have taken care of nine of them, and one person has taken 100 million and is no longer entangled. There are only two illegitimate children with outstanding abilities, and they have not given up yet, and they still want to get the inheritance.

Even Zhou Nan felt a headache, because these two illegitimate children were also Leon's children after all, and their abilities were really good.

On June 16, the Hoffmanns held a semi-public funeral ceremony, and Caroline's mother was buried next to Yannick's grave in the public cemetery in Wolfsburg.

The funeral was attended by all the Hoffman and Jonas families, but it was Leon's illegitimate sons who stood out the most.

Most of these illegitimate children are also in their twenties and thirties, and some have the next generation, so it has also become a huge group.

Around their every move, the media can write a whole bunch of eye-catching lace articles.

After the funeral ceremony, everyone did not leave that night, but under the auspices of Zhou Nan, the distribution plan of Caroline's mother's estate was read out.

Although Caroline's mother has never created any business, there are many assets allocated to her name in the past few decades.

Before German legislation established a high inheritance tax, many foreign assets were transferred to Switzerland, as there was no inheritance tax in Switzerland.

Although these assets are not much, they represent the attitude of Caroline's mother, especially those illegitimate children, who are particularly concerned.

In fact, Zhou Nan already knew about this will, because this will was written under the witness of Zhou Nan and his eldest sister Vera in the family.

The shares and fixed assets will still be controlled by the Caroline Foundation, but because Caroline's mother has not reinvested in the next two decades. So she has nearly five billion dollars in cash in her name in a private bank in Zhounan, Switzerland, not counting those jewelry, works of art.

Due to the large number of children and grandchildren, in Zhou Nan's generation, about half of the inheritance was divided into five parts, Zhou Nan and Vera, Claudio one for each person, and Leon for two shares.

The other half of the estate is divided into nearly 100 shares, whether it is the third generation or the fourth generation, everyone has a share.

This will is generally fair, only Leon has one more in the second generation, and then there is one more in the third generation, Erin, the granddaughter who has been with Caroline's mother, and then inherited some of her old clothes and jewelry alone.

No one argued with her about this, because she was by Caroline's mother's side for the last ten years.

As for old clothes, Westerners do not have the taboos of Easterners. Often a piece of clothing has been passed down for several generations, especially expensive clothes such as wedding dresses and dresses, which have been passed down for hundreds of years in Zhou Nan's eldest daughter-in-law's family, and dozens of people have worn them.

Unexpectedly, Caroline's mother's treatment of them equally gave those Leon's illegitimate children another hope.

Because just Caroline's mother's inheritance is distributed to everyone, there are millions of dollars, and with the illegitimate child of the child, two people can share more than 10 million, which is not a small amount of money.

Shortly after the funeral, several illegitimate children bred together to continue fighting for the inheritance.

Zhou Nan was also made lose his temper by this kind of thing, and he couldn't wait to let Leon directly go to court with them.

He also has no temper with this younger brother. He's a great engineer, a playboy, a perfect lover, but not a shrewd leader.

If the Hoffman family hadn't always had Zhou Nan and Vera to help them, they would not have developed to this point today.

Vera's Jaggee family is now in her hands, and O'Ely has been dead for more than a decade.

Since the 90s, she has owned 50% of Basel Pharma and 3% of Bayer's shares, and she has always been the richest woman in the world.

After entering the 90s, the rapid expansion of Volkswagen also led to two crises, and it was she and Zhou Nan who helped Leon calm down the crisis.

Now I have to worry about his amorous accounts, and the two of them are really tired.

Melissa thought about it, although her wealth was not as good as that of Vera, but it was not a lot at all.

Many of the Jonas family's investments, as long as she has spare money, will always follow a little light. Coupled with the huge family fortune she inherited, she personally didn't care about the Hoffman family's property at all.

But she has to fight for her children.

In addition, she has been watched by Zhou Nan since she was a child, and several of her children have also grown up on Jonas Farm, no matter what, Zhou Nan still prefers these four children.

In 2003, the family property turmoil still went to court.

Now that he has gone to court, Zhou Nan disregarded his face and appointed a large team of lawyers to enter the stage of family property litigation.

It wasn't until 2005 that the matter finally came to an end.

Except for the two children who did not ask for 100 million yuan in compensation, the remaining nine all lost the lawsuit and had to pay high litigation costs.

And these two children, Zhou Nan officially included them in the list of future inheritances after consulting Melissa and her four children.

As for the Jonas family, they have no such concerns. Eight children, except for the eldest daughter, who has no intention of engaging in business because of some historical problems, has been accompanying Zhou Nan and several old people on the farm, and the other seven children are in charge of their own stalls.

The Jonas family's property will not be distributed for at least two generations, and the owners control different realms, but the ownership is all under the management of the Jonas Foundation.

Just the annual dividends and dividends, they can't spend all their money, and they don't have the idea of dividing these family properties.

Just like the eldest son Arthur, the main asset under management is HSBC, but 45% of the shares of HSBC held by the Jonas family are placed in the name of the Jonas Foundation.

And the Jonas Foundation cannot directly interfere in Arthur's decision-making, and can only revoke Arthur's power through the Jonas Family Assembly.

Therefore, although Jonas II manages the Foundation, he cannot interfere with any of the actions of the eldest brother, on the contrary, if the second does not do it right, the remaining six siblings can still remove him from power.

The assets of the Jonas family are stabilized through such a family assembly, a private foundation of Jonas, cross-holding, and the balance of the family.

In 2008, the worst crisis in history erupted.

In this crisis, the funds controlled by the Jonas family did not intervene in any way, nor did they take advantage of the fire.

In 2009, when the U.S. economy hit rock bottom, financial institutions such as the Jonas Foundation, the Jonas Private Investment Fund, the Bank of South China, and HSBC provided as much as $120 billion in financial assistance and more than $200 billion in bottom-buying investments to European and American countries.

This has also made many financial institutions under Zhou Nan's name have been praised by countries around the world, and various countries have awarded various medals to Zhou Nan.

Zhou Nan doesn't care about these anymore, there is a room in his house that is specially equipped with these medals.

If it weren't for his eldest daughter Xue Lin helping him manage it, he wouldn't have figured out how many medals he had.

Xue Lin is Zhou Nan's eldest daughter, because she is the first daughter, Zhou Nan was also spoiled to the bone at the beginning, and she developed a somewhat pampered silly and sweet character.

When she grew up, Zhou Nan was reluctant to marry her and found Etinny's youngest son Elaine as her husband.

The two of them are also childhood sweethearts, and they have a good relationship.

But the bad thing is that the relationship is too good.

Elaine was skiing in 91 when he hit a tree and died on the spot because he didn't brake.

Then Xue Lin closed herself off and never came out until now.

She hides in the farm, rarely even goes out, and only likes to play with the children. All the children also loved this great aunt, except for her own two children.

In fact, the children have the same mind as Zhou Nan, they all hate iron and steel, and think that their mother is too weak.

However, she has such a character, and she can't change it if she wants to.

The financial crisis of 2008 was also the stage for the official debut of the third generation of the Jonas family.

The 23-year-old eldest grandson, Zhou Zongbi, graduated from the Department of Finance of the University of South China and did not choose to continue his studies, but chose to work in an investment fund.

Although Nishi Liwei wanted him to start from the bottom, his little son-in-law, who was in charge of the investment foundation, did not listen to him and directly let him work by his side.

In 2009, investment funds invested $50 billion in the United States and the mainland, investing in stocks of high-tech and established industrial groups.

Loew made a good show, and the third Zongbi was also well known to the world.

Of course, Zhou Nan handled this matter single-handedly, and he still has ten years of historical experience, of course, to bring his grandchildren in the last time.

The eldest grandson was a little arrogant when he was a child, and he had no one in his eyes, but now he has matured. In his opinion, this grandson was even better than his own sons when they were younger.

But before he could finish rejoicing that his grandson was starting to come out, Marita fell in an accident and suffered an intracerebral hemorrhage.

Since 2002, Zhou Nan has been paying attention to the bodies of the two women.

He was most worried about Audrey, because in the original history, Audrey died of cecal cancer in the nineties.

But in this life, Audrey did not experience the famine of World War II, had no history of being addicted to smoking, and with long-term cultivation, her body has always been good.

Marita passed away in 2002 in history, but her health has always been good, and all indicators are normal during the annual physical examination.

No one thought that an inadvertent fall would cause a massive hemorrhage in the brain.

Before the person has been taken to the hospital, he is already dead. Zhou Nan could detect that although she still had a trace of breathing, her body organs were beginning to collapse.

The convoy did not enter the hospital and returned directly to Jonas Farm. I don't want to operate on her on the operating table at the end, she loves beauty all her life, and she can't open her head to operate on her at the last moment.

As soon as she got home, she stopped breathing.

The saddest cry is Audrey, she and Marita are lifelong friends and lifelong rivals, Marita's departure has made her lose a part of her life.

After calling Arthur and asking him to come back and preside over the overall situation, Zhou Nan fell ill for the first time in decades.

For decades, Zhou Nan had become accustomed to watching familiar people die, and he thought that he would not care about anyone's death, but he was wrong.

Marita and him, and Audrey, the three of them have lived together for decades, just like a whole, no matter who they leave, life is not complete.

Zhou Nan thought that he would not shed tears anymore, but he cried like a child.

In accordance with Marita's prior wishes, the funeral was not held in England. But Jonas Farm will be on the slopes down the hill and outside the Stocko and Helder houses, narrowing the protective net.

Their cemetery will be open to the public for a month to make it easier for the British people to mourn.

After lying in bed for five days, it was not until Eliza came from England that Zhou Nan was able to stand up.

In Zhou Nan's study, two old men who were one hundred and seventy years old together sat face to face, and decades of grievances and hatred seemed to have dissipated.

Philip, who has been active all his life, couldn't help but ask Audrey curiously. "What do you think they're going to talk about?"

Audrey smiled indifferently: "It's all over, how many more years can we live?" ”

Of course, the two of them were not the only ones who were curious, but the children and grandchildren were also curious, but no one knew what they were talking about.

Marita's funeral was a bit simpler than a royal funeral, but no one cared. Her choice to be buried in Switzerland rather than her family's Georgechurch cemetery is what everyone is most concerned about.

The third daughter-in-law, Chen Shiya, originally wanted to test it and make a movie about their experience, but when she saw Zhou Nan's heartbroken appearance, she didn't dare to mention it.

For a month, Marita's cemetery hosted hundreds of thousands of British and Swiss people, and the hillside was developed into a circular road that was crowded with people every day.

A month later, the cemetery was resealed, and Zhou Nan had the opportunity to go to the grave again to remember.

Yes, he felt that he was getting old, and he liked to miss the old things more and more.

(Tomorrow's finale...... ）