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<p>Wu Bingjian (<a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">Chinese</a>: 伍秉鑑; 1769 – 4 September 1843), trading as "Houqua" and better known in the West as "Howqua" or "Howqua II", was a <a href="/facts/Hong_(business)/n0fRsq1M">hong</a> merchant in the <a href="/facts/Thirteen_Factories/PzWRNDv8">Thirteen Factories</a>, head of the <i><a href="/facts/Ewo_(hong)/FNr0STIA">E-wo hong</a></i> and leader of the Canton <a href="/facts/Cohong/TDhvcM0d">Cohong</a>. He was once the richest man in the world. </p>