The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Shanghai remains the same bustling and dazzling metropolis it always was.

Chen Pingsheng still took his own private plane, and it was already December when he landed.

The temperature in Guangdong is fine; a light jacket is enough. But it's definitely not enough in the south.

He already had to wear a very thick down jacket, and he wasn't the only one going back this time.

The younger sister, Chen Qi, and the older sister, Chen Yao, will all be going back to fulfill their filial duties for two years.

My father only has two years left. If we don't go back now, I'm afraid we'll never have the chance again.

As for their businesses outside of marriage, they are already very stable.

Chen Pingsheng organized a family meeting at home, calling on all three generations of his family members to return to the countryside every three months.

When people get old, their only thought is probably about the younger generation.

Song Yanxi was busy with the health industry, but now she has to put it all aside.

On the 5th, the family landed in Shacheng by private plane and then took a private car back to Wangcai Village.

Times have changed. In the past few decades, everyone flocked to the city.

After the land reform in rural areas, most of the elderly have returned to their villages, and the younger generation only comes back once a year during festivals.

Life in the countryside is very leisurely. If it weren't for his parents getting old, Chen Pingsheng probably wouldn't have returned to his hometown for a long time.

He doesn't have much to do now. He spends his days at home taking care of Chen Jiye, and occasionally playing chess and fishing with his elderly father.

When you have free time, you can play cards like the elderly people in the countryside to pass the time.

I only check the group's information in the afternoon or evening.

Time flies, and it's already the second year since I returned to the village.

Chen Jianjun does not accept the kind of surgery that requires blood and organ transplants in Hong Kong. Like his grandfather, he wants to grow old naturally and return to his roots.

When he left, the entire Chen family had to return to their hometown, and the scene was quite grand.

There was no parking space for miles around, and helicopters were everywhere.

This time is different from the past; it is her own biological father who is leaving, her closest relative.

My father lived an ordinary life, but the only thing he was most passionate about was the years he served as the village head in his hometown.

Since becoming the village chief, Chen Pingsheng has donated over a billion yuan to his hometown every year to build schools, hospitals, and develop large shopping malls in the countryside.

Even now, Wangxiang's development is entirely due to his father's time in office.

On the day he left, almost all the elderly people in the village came.

I have few regrets about the last two years of my life. I enjoyed the company of my family for two years and had Chen Jiye playing with me all the time.

The little guy is two and a half years old now, chubby and very cute.

Erpiya has had two boyfriends in the past two years, but she has no plans to get married at all.

Chen Lu is already a junior in college, and there haven't been many changes in his family over the years.

It's still that same ultra-luxury home.

However, the younger generation is also growing rapidly. Xiao Ya has become a full-fledged director, and Xiao Le's next step is to become a deputy director.

Many second-generation relatives from collateral branches are also working hard within the system.

More than twenty years have passed, and the Chen family is no longer the nouveau riche family with all sorts of problems.

Thus, a new aristocratic family with strict family precepts and an ancestral hall was formed.

Now all descendants of the Chen family can benefit from the family foundation's support.

They also have clear standards when it comes to choosing a marriage partner.

Four types of people you should avoid: internet celebrities, stars, parents who gamble, and unfilial individuals.

No matter who it is, anyone who is associated with these four things will never be allowed to enter the Chen family's home.

In addition to strictly controlling one's spouse, family education is also extremely rigorous, requiring not only children to learn but also parents to learn.

All these years later, Chen Pingsheng is still pushing forward with his family's century-long plan.

He hoped that after his death, the Chen family would truly become an aristocratic family.

My father has passed away, and my mother, Peng Ying, is also in poor health. Rural medical care is still far from adequate.

Besides, they can't stay in the countryside forever. Being able to accompany their father for two years in his later years is already the greatest act of filial piety.

We must return to the city next.

It's already 2036, ten years since Chen Pingsheng officially retired. In these ten years, he has completely faded from the public eye of the group.

Like an ordinary elderly person in the countryside, he enjoys this simple life.

On New Year's Day in 36, he officially returned to Shenzhen with his family.

The pedestrians under the traffic light are probably him and his wife, Song Yanxi.

From childhood sweethearts to now, with graying temples, the two have lived most of their lives together.

The bookstores outside the university are still as popular as ever, attracting a large number of students every day.

Chen Lu, who is now a junior in college, is already twenty years old and has two more years of college left.

As for his childhood sweetheart, Su Xiaoxi, to be honest, she's much more capable than him.

In the past two years, Su Xiaoxi has invested a total of about 20 billion yuan, and she has received a net profit of more than 3 billion yuan.

The group received over seven billion in profits, and she personally received one month's income from that. Any subsequent increases would not go to her.

She's undoubtedly the heroine with the best luck, even more so than the earliest An An and Er Pi Ya.

It turns out that people who have suffered a lot since childhood, given a chance to develop, can be far more capable than most second-generation rich kids.

Ordinary people just suffer and don't have the opportunity to enjoy the resources of the wealthy. Once they do have the chance, they are far better off than those young masters and princesses who have been used to a life of luxury since childhood.

Simply put, children from wealthy families have far too many opportunities.

There's so much of it that we don't really appreciate it.

It's different for poor people; once they have an opportunity, they'll risk their lives to seize it.

That's the difference.

Erpiya is so talented, yet she refuses to manage the family's busy business because she dislikes being diligent.

Even if Chen Lu had learned half of his father's knowledge, because of his naturally easygoing and unambitious personality, he would still be considered mediocre.

Compared to Su Xiaoxi's repeated successes in investment, Chen Lu took at least 30 billion yuan from his family to invest during his two years of university.

In the end, it resulted in neither profit nor loss.

Chen Lu was quite satisfied; at least he wasn't losing money no matter what he did anymore.

To be honest, if those 30 billion yuan were used for lending and commercial loans, they could make at least 5 to 6 billion yuan in profit over two years.

For large sums of money, not making a profit is equivalent to losing money.

Chen Pingsheng was quite troubled by Chen Lu's education.

Logically speaking, he has already put in a lot of effort to cultivate him, and he accompanied him for three years overseas.

He accompanied Chen Lu throughout his two years of university, going to great lengths to cultivate him, yet he still saw no hope that Chen Lu would inherit the family's technology business.

Over the past five years, the amount of energy and money he has invested in Chen Lu is beyond what outsiders can imagine.

Even so, they still couldn't train him.

He can only be considered a super-rich second-generation heir with sound values, no bad habits, and stable emotions.

It's still a little short of being considered excellent.

Not only was he anxious, but his wife, Michelle Song, was even more anxious, given that Soaring AI already had a market value of 600 billion US dollars.

Tengfei New Energy Vehicles has already exceeded 300 billion US dollars, plus the batteries from Tengde Times.

These three technology groups have yet to select a suitable successor.

With Chen Lu's current situation, it's estimated that even if he spends another twenty years, he still won't reach the position of CEO.

Two years later, An'an is now the vice president of Tengfei AI Mobile.

She was able to rise so quickly because of her hard work and achievements.

Everyone approved of her, which is why they unanimously pushed her forward.

"Old Chen, our only son won't just be able to lie around and enjoy the company's dividends from now on, will he?"

This is a pretty good option for Chen Lu.

But Song Yanxi, who had been competitive for most of her life, was extremely dissatisfied.

How can this be worthy of my parents' all-out efforts in raising me?

"That's most likely the case."

(End of this chapter)