The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

The sun rises and it's a new day.

After getting up from his room, Chen Pingsheng finished washing up.

She opened her walk-in closet and picked out a fitted blue shirt.

He didn't really care what brand it was.

Anyway, it was his wife who bought it, and it probably cost more than 10,000 yuan per piece.

The belt has a gold Hermès H buckle.

He definitely wouldn't wear a tie, and as for watches, after swiping through a row, he still chose the Patek Philippe that Big Paw had bought with him for 1760 million.

This watch is a classic and will never go out of style.

You might say it's expensive, but many celebrities who love watches own watches worth over ten million.

The most expensive piece in this series is worth 200 million.

The second most expensive one is around 70 million.

Patek Philippe truly deserves its title as the king of watches.

People in the upper echelons of society almost all own a Patek Philippe, with prices ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

A watch is a man's accessory; it reveals his taste the moment he raises his wrist.

A watch is not a tool for showing off.

Because people in the same circle all wear them, and there are usually many pieces available.

If you try to show off in lower social circles, it will make you look tasteless and others think you lack taste.

It's just embarrassing.

Song Yanxi also got up and stretched.

In two more months, the first batch of students from Shuiyun Academy will graduate.

Half of them will go to Shanghai, and the other half will stay in Beijing.

By June, all 32 Shuiyunjian locations invested in by the company in Shanghai will open simultaneously.

Currently, only two flagship stores are open.

It has to be said that Shuiyunjian is incredibly profitable.

There are 25 stores in Beijing, plus a super flagship store, with an investment of over 50 million.

Its annual profit could wipe out 95% of listed companies.

It has reached over one billion.

As long as the economy doesn't decline and the real estate industry continues its extravagant practices, high-end luxury wellness industries like Shuiyunjian will continue to make money.

It will basically not change much.

If we add the profits from Shanghai, the annual profit would be around two billion.

That's incredibly exaggerated.

Song Yanxi fed the little chubby girl breakfast before going to work, while Chen Pingsheng took the big kid to an international school.

She's in the second semester of third grade now, and while her grades are still not great, she has a wide range of other interests.

Especially his Mantis Boxing and Erhu playing skills, which were quite famous at school.

No wonder they started learning from a young age.

She stopped cheating during exams, mainly because there were too few people in the class and the classroom was huge.

Once the positions are separated, you can't see each other even if you want to.

Chen An'an goes to school full of energy every day and comes home looking radiant.

When I asked her about her grades...

I tilted my head and thought for a long time about what the teacher talked about today.

Then I forgot.

With such a miraculous constitution, Chen Pingsheng couldn't be bothered to worry about her grades.

Top-notch teachers have also worked hard on her, and the facts prove that the only one who can be changed is the teacher herself.

Chen An'an still prefers to carry that yellow backpack that's bigger than her, which is quite exaggerated.

Little Fatty is different; apart from liking to sleep with her little teddy bear, everything seems to be normal for her.

Next month is her second birthday, so we'll definitely have to throw her a big celebration and invite some relatives from our hometown to come to Beijing for a few days.

Tencent Entertainment, Headquarters Building.

It stands tall on the Second Ring Road of Beijing.

Chen Pingsheng parked the Phantom in his designated parking space, got out of the car and greeted Chen Bufan, then asked him if he was getting used to being a security guard there.

Chen Bufan was still smiling foolishly. He scratched his head, actually quite enjoying his security guard job.

He only has to stand for six hours a day, and he always greets everyone with a smile.

Chen Pingsheng patted him on the shoulder and then went upstairs to get back to work.

Zhang Tao came over today. Tengsheng Fruit hasn't distributed dividends for more than half a year; all the profits have been used to develop its own fruit industrial park.

In addition to investing 50 million yuan in Ningxia to build a watermelon industrial park, it also invested 100 million yuan in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to build a seedless melon industrial park.

Later, it was extended to industrial parks for various fruit varieties, including apples, cantaloupes, and vineyards in Shaanxi.

In one year, 600 million yuan was invested in fruit cultivation.

Eight major fruit plantations were built, and twelve major fruit varieties were popularized.

Tengsheng Fruits was also the group's earliest entrepreneurial project, and now it is able to expand its business across the country on its own.

Zhang Tao's early decision to abandon Tengsheng Fresh and focus on developing fruit has proven to be a very correct one.

Times have changed. Nowadays, especially for those in traditional industries, the competition is incredibly fierce.

In the fruit industry, you can find two or three large fruit stores at the entrance of any residential community.

On a street with decent foot traffic, seven or eight shops would often pop up at once.

If he doesn't focus and put all his energy into making good fruit, he might be eliminated at any time.

This era is far too superficial.

Of all the fruit industry tycoons Zhang Tao knows, half of them spent their money building houses after they got rich.

The other half are either investing in this or that. Their main business is gradually falling behind in the competition.

"Old Chen, the fruit industry is fiercely competitive. Luckily, we started our own industrial park early. In the future, the competition in this industry will mainly focus on one aspect: price, price, and more price."

The fact that prices have been raised three times in a row shows that the essence of fruit will ultimately come back to this.

To put it simply, all the fruits are sourced from the same wholesale market.

Your apples are no tastier than mine.

In an industry with such severe homogenization, the competition will inevitably boil down to price.

Zhang Tao's statement does not include those small fruit shops.

He was referring to fruit stores that have become the number one brand in a region or area.

Only those that are qualified to be competitors of Tengsheng Fruit.

Chen Pingsheng hasn't paid attention to the fruit industry for a long time; frankly, it's not difficult to make money in this industry.

But it's unlikely that we'll come up with an industry tycoon.

The entry barrier is too low, and the competition is too fierce.

Fruit shops still mainly operate within a 500-meter radius of their store.

It's simply impossible to create a nationwide fruit brand.

Even with its current scale, Tengsheng Fruits only covers major cities around Beijing.

It would be very difficult to develop further.

If we can safeguard this foundation, then we can consider it a great success.

Zhang Tao himself was already financially independent after spending 600 million yuan to develop eight major fruit industrial parks.

Costs have decreased further.

Holding onto the northern market, with Beijing at its core, would already be quite an achievement.

They can easily earn seven or eight hundred million a year.

He can also earn tens of millions of yuan every year from Tengsheng Fruit.

What else do you want?

Zhang Tao then brought up Gao Hu, asking, "That guy Gao Hu called and said he found a girlfriend who doesn't covet his money. Did he ask you to go check her out?"

"Shouted."

Chen Pingsheng showed him the message, "It was sent to me yesterday. They've been dating for two months, and the girl is still renting a place. He asked me to go take a look, and if it's a good match, he'll tell her and we'll get married."

Zhang Tao sighed, "Among our old brothers, this guy is the only one who isn't married. Zhang Qian is about to give birth, and I'm really afraid that if I go this time, he might mess things up again."

"You're afraid that girl is faking it, aren't you?"

Chen Pingsheng actually had the same idea. Gao Hu was about the same age as them, both in their thirties.

If you're saying that he's not after his money, then what is he after if he's looking for such a beautiful girl in her twenties?
Does he not shower in the summer?
Chen Pingsheng still decided to go and take a look, but Zhang Tao was too lazy to go.

Regardless, he still hoped that Gao Hu could get married soon.

In reality, it's quite normal for women to approach them for their money when they've reached this point.

Zhang Tao's own wife is a recent college graduate from a prestigious university.

And she's quite pretty.

You tell me, if he didn't have the resources to pursue a woman like that, which are worth hundreds of millions a year from Tengsheng Fruits, why would anyone marry him?

Even after they got married, his wife still lived a frugal and down-to-earth life.

In two years, she gave birth to a big, healthy son for him.

My wife is pregnant again.

To put it bluntly, it's normal for women to be materialistic; what's scary are those materialistic women who can't recognize their own worth.

Like a thirty-year-old unmarried woman, who is extremely ugly.

The kind of woman who demands a BMW and an annual salary of 500,000 yuan before she'll marry is a clear sign of moral decay.

You are a graduate of a prestigious university, and you were even considered a campus beauty during your time there.

If you're not materialistic with this kind of woman, you're a fool.

Zhang Tao's wife is like that, but of course, marrying this kind of wife also carries risks.

If her career fails, or if her family's investments fail and she runs out of money, she will leave without hesitation.

Therefore, a poor man should not marry a beautiful woman.

That makes perfect sense.

Zhang Tao didn't understand Gao Hu's mentality; he insisted on finding someone who wasn't after his money.

Is it ridiculous for a middle-aged person to still be trying to find true love?

Their biggest advantage at this age is their stable and mature careers!

He just couldn't understand why someone would abandon their greatest strength to find a girlfriend.

Just like when Zhang Tao was pursuing his wife, the girl didn't want to date someone ten years older than her.

what's the result?
He drives a BMW worth one million yuan and lives in the best neighborhood in Beijing.

Their income remains stable at over ten million.

After thinking about it all night, I decided to give it a try.

Then they naturally got married.

Now she's living a happier life than anyone else, and at every class reunion, she's always the most radiant one.

This is what love is like when two people are ten years apart.

He is mature and stable, and will not cause her too many financial worries.

After spending the morning at headquarters, Chen Pingsheng took a plane to Guangdong in the afternoon.

Compared to those ordinary matters, his brother's lifelong happiness was clearly more important.

He also wanted to see the "Boy Sheep" show in Guangdong during this trip.

(End of this chapter)