The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chapter 586 A Shocked Gaze
"I'm shocked that I can actually afford a house in Shanghai one day."

"I'm genuinely shocked, but just wondering, are you eligible to buy a house? Have you worked at Tencent for more than three years?"

"……No!"

That one cruel sentence struck countless people.

The internet exploded, as if everyone had joined in the frenzy.

When asked, they all said they could afford it; when asked again, they said they weren't even eligible to buy a house.

These stringent requirements are simply unacceptable; no matter how much they want to buy, they can only look on with envy at the mere 12,000 yuan price tag.

But jokes aside, Tencent Group has had its share of news over the years. Overall, while there have been both good and bad aspects, it has consistently been ranked as one of the best companies in terms of employee welfare.

This prompted countless netizens to investigate further, including the student union of a certain university.

They even held several special discussion meetings to demonstrate how much positive impact Tencent's housing allocation has had on the entire society, including the current job market.

As their boss said, capital is never the original sin; the sin lies with those bosses who have achieved success and fame, taking all the credit for the ultimate achievements of the group and the company on their own shoulders.

No matter how charitable they are to outsiders, they are always described as stingy and even exploitative towards their employees.

A company is not a company owned by one person, but a company owned by a group of people.

When it was still small, it required countless nights of hard work from its employees and even the boss.

Let it grow from weak to strong.

And once it becomes powerful, the company's responsibility should be to protect the employees who have dedicated themselves to it and devoted their youth to it.

Instead of just having the boss keep a mistress for a minor celebrity and engage in fake charity work to boost his reputation.

It can be said that Tengying Group was the first to achieve this, and after its success, it not only provided high salaries and benefits.

It also provides an excellent sanctuary for employees' future security.

Countless people online are calling for more bosses like this.

There should be more companies with such a conscience, even if their bosses live a luxurious life, except for those mindless trolls online who might comment on why their boss drives a Rolls-Royce.

Almost none of the remaining normal people objected.

You could fly a plane and they wouldn't be jealous of these kinds of people in the slightest.

The news spread like wildfire, sweeping across the entire internet, including major shopping malls.

In a sense, this also represents an invisible shift in the government's attitude towards private enterprises and entrepreneurs.

It could even be said that the authorities are deliberately promoting this behavior. The idea that the rich should help the poor is no joke, and it requires countless conscientious enterprises, including entrepreneurs with a true sense of social responsibility, to accomplish this together.

It is not one person's responsibility, but the responsibility of the entire society.

It's not a big deal that people can't buy a house in Tengying, but they all flock to search for Tengying Group's affiliated companies.

If you don't search, you don't know.

Tencent Video Group is just a general term for its business, which includes entertainment, short videos, short dramas, catering, milk tea, fruit, department stores, snacks, and more.

They all have their listed companies.

In addition, there are reputable technology companies like Tengfei New Energy, as well as eight global R&D centers.

Together with the largest lithium iron phosphate battery manufacturer in the country, it has over 100,000 high-end R&D talents, including top engineers.

It also provides more than 3 billion yuan in project research and development funding to top domestic research universities every year, and has established a dream fund in Guangdong to support young people's entrepreneurship.

He also runs Tengnong Livestock, one of the largest agricultural support enterprises in China, if not the largest.

It has helped more than one million rural households obtain stable incomes that are no less than those of urban residents.

Most importantly, it has also launched a new generation of rural revitalization programs. It has already connected with local governments in three major provinces, channeling funds and projects to thousands of rural households.

You wouldn't believe it until you looked it up; once you did, all I could do was silently shed three seconds of tears.

This agricultural support company has been operating for over five years and has invested more than 20 billion yuan.

They only found out now after specifically searching online.

In fact, many people's parents knew about it, but it's a pity that rural people don't have internet access and don't know how to express their gratitude to Tengnong Breeding.

It has truly ensured that hundreds of thousands of elderly people in rural areas have a secure old age.

"I'm so upset, I can't believe I only realized how good it is today."

“Our family knew about it a long time ago. I even mentioned it online back then, but unfortunately their boss is too low-key and didn’t bother to publicize it.”

"I've been doing good deeds for so many years without any publicity, I'm really going to cry."

"We desperately need companies with such a conscience. No matter what, we all share the responsibility if such companies go bankrupt."

"No problem. If companies like this can't survive, our generation has a responsibility."

"From now on, I will only use their products in any industry that Tengying Group enters."

"Starting with me, I will only drink their milk tea from now on."

"I only watch their movies."

"Then I'll only drink their coffee..."

The unexpected happened so quickly: a wave of retaliatory consumption swept in, and the entire Tencent Group's revenue experienced explosive growth.

As a result, its stock price also began to soar.

Even the long-dormant Boiling Sheep rises up in rebellion.

The stock price experienced a defiant surge, but it's just that the employees have extremely high salaries, not that there's no business.

If such a company goes bankrupt because of its employees' income, then who would dare to pay their employees like that in the future?

Those customers who go out to spend money will spend a few dollars more, even if they just order fried rice with eggs.

It was as if they were afraid the business would fail.

To be honest, Boiling Sheep only has low profits, it doesn't lose money.

In addition, it has a good father, so Chen Pingsheng would never let it go bankrupt. Even if it loses 200 million yuan every year, he would not let Fei Yangyang go bankrupt.

Because there are at least 60,000 grassroots employees here, who have been with Boiling Sheep for at least five years.

Many people find partners, get married, have children, and start families in this place.

For these 60,000 people, Boiling Sheep is not a business at all, but a home they rely on for survival.

Even for the sake of these tens of thousands of families, Chen Pingsheng would not allow it to close down.

This explains why, despite the low stock price of "Boiling Sheep," the employees remain unaffected.

They were truly fortunate to have a good father, even after Gao Hu left with so many people.

Chen Pingsheng will not change his original intention in running the business, from simply making money at the beginning to now wanting everyone to have a home to live on.

He spent a full eight years in this process.

While it's not about establishing principles for the world, it's still very necessary to establish principles for the people in one's own company.

And it was something he could do himself, which was very important to him.

(End of this chapter)