The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Su Xiaoxi is pregnant, and she's been pregnant for several months now.

It would be a lie to say she wasn't worried if Chen Lu went to sea to play with Chang Dalin and the others.

The main reason is that Chang Dalin has a terrible reputation; he's among the worst of his peers.

He was unruly abroad, and even more so after returning to China. He's gotten several school beauties pregnant.

These women all wanted to gain status through their children, but Chang Dalin was also smart. He knew that he was the only son in his family, and once he had a child, his parents' resources would definitely be tilted towards his child.

Even now, Chen Lu can still inherit countless businesses from his family and receive hundreds of billions in dividends every year without doing anything.

His wife, Su Xiaoxi, also has a vast amount of Hong Kong assets given to him by Chen Lu's father.

Although such inheritance rights seem unimaginable, compared to his two older sisters, what Chen Lu inherited is completely unworthy of his status as the only son in the family.

His eldest sister, Chen An'an, inherited a fortune of over a trillion yuan just from Tengfei AI Mobile.

Not to mention that Chen An'an also owns so many large businesses.

Although Chen Lu's second sister doesn't have a technology group as valuable as Tengfei AI Phone, she does have Tengyou Media, which has a market value of over 700 billion.

Most importantly, his second sister makes a fortune every year by engaging in capital investments.

Compared to her two older sisters, Chen Luzhen was utterly unremarkable and had no redeeming qualities.

Although he was a bit ordinary, he was, after all, the only son in the family. If it weren't for his two older sisters taking their children's surnames, that is, moving them to the Chen family name, he would have been even more successful.

Chen Lu now possesses something at least ten times better than he does now.

Chang Dalin believes that as long as he has no children, whether it is Chang Fu or Yang Qian, all future assets can only be left to him.

There is no one competing with him for it.

The second generation is actually very clever in these matters, having already planned their future succession path.

It's a pity that while his idea was indeed clever, there were women with even more brilliant ideas than him.

If a woman Chang Dalin sets his sights on becomes pregnant, he will offer three million yuan to have her aborted.

Will they send someone over to personally watch over the child?

To be honest, this is adding bad luck to the family, which is extremely undesirable in Guangdong, where people are very superstitious about feng shui.

An ordinary, beautiful woman who was pregnant with his child went abroad overnight the moment she found out she was pregnant.

And went to find Yang Qian immediately.

Chang Dalin's bad reputation stems not only from his promiscuous behavior with women, but more importantly from his extremely irresponsible attitude.

Yang Qian secretly sent the woman to a villa abroad to be raised, and she would not reveal any information about her until she was born.

She had received a call from Chen Pingsheng. No matter how many people there are in the world, she would only listen to Old Chen.

There was no way around it; over the years, Chen Pingsheng had excelled in everything he did, from his personal conduct and handling of marital relationships to raising his children.

They were all beings they looked up to.

Since he said that Chang Dalin is beyond saving, then that's probably the case.

Yang Qian's feelings about how Chang Dalin became the way he is now stem from a great deal of emotional distress.

The blame is mostly on Changfu, but there's nothing that can be done about it.

All she can do is protect three generations and minimize the killings she commits.

He even went so far as to arrange for someone to secretly return to China and stay by Chang Dalin's side in case another woman became pregnant.

She would also take these women abroad as soon as possible.

With her current abilities, doing these things would be too easy for her.

She had some idea of ​​what Chang Dalin was thinking; he simply wanted to inherit all of the family's assets.

He definitely didn't want any other heirs in the family until at least the age of thirty.

Even their own son is the same.

With Chen Pingsheng's past help, their generation, if not all of them, will definitely become wealthy families, and becoming super-rich is a certainty.

The affairs of wealthy families are naturally not as simple as those of ordinary families.

Chen Pingsheng called her for two reasons. First, he didn't want to see Chen Lu continuing to mess around with Chang Dalin.

Secondly, it was out of genuine concern for their family. They had finally been born into a wealthy family, but due to Chang Dalin's selfish desires, these children were repeatedly killed in the embryonic stage.

If his family doesn't encounter any misfortunes in the future, it will be a blessing accumulated over eighteen generations.

Only then can these acts of killing be offset.

In fact, Changfu has already started to have problems. His health deteriorated in his fifties, and now he has a host of ailments.

His only son was raised to be completely out of control.

Yang Qian, who believes in Buddhism and accumulates blessings every day, can only do what she can while abroad.

Chen Pingsheng set a strict rule for his family: abortion was absolutely forbidden.

How much good fortune must one accumulate to be born into a family like theirs?

The chance of encountering such an event is one in a billion; one must have accumulated immense good fortune in their past life to do so.

Ordinary people don't believe in cause and effect because they don't have the means to do so.

Every house Chen Pingsheng lived in, including the design of the group's headquarters, required top feng shui masters to be consulted at great expense to assess its feng shui.

For example, the house in the urban village where he lives now is a place with great fortune.

Three top feng shui masters came to survey the site.

According to them, this place has been inhabited by a family that has accumulated good deeds for at least five generations.

Further up, there might be ancient schools for the blind, places of great merit.

In short, this is an excellent feng shui residential site.

Chen Pingsheng spent at least 300 million yuan to find such a good location.

Later, a feng shui master was invited to use the Zhou Tian Yi Pan (a feng shui compass) to adjust the surrounding area, completely transforming it into a blessed home.

Even a family so blessed would not dare to incur the sin of killing their own child.

The better a child is born into a good family, the more good fortune they will have.

Chen Pingsheng strongly suspects that Chen Lu used up all his luck in reincarnation, which is why everything he did afterward was mediocre.

If Chang Dalin continues to play around like this for a few more years, Chen Pingsheng seriously suspects that his father, Chang Fu, will face a major disaster within the next three years.

Things that are ethereal and intangible cannot be spoken of, much less reminded of.

All he could do was tell Yang Qian to be careful on her end.

Not only him, but Gao Hu was the same way back then.

Gao Hu was born into a decent family and had a smooth life thereafter.

After following him, he eventually became the president of a listed company, and his life can be described as one of great success.

However, the things he did later ruined his own fortune.

They play around everywhere and don't even want to have children.

After his peak, he fell from grace, went bankrupt, was cheated, and even resorted to selling fried rice and other dishes at a street stall.

They also incurred debts of over a billion yuan.

If it weren't for him, Gao Hu would never have had the slightest chance to rise again in his life.

This is the law of cause and effect, the karmic retribution.

Unpredictable, yet impossible to completely disbelieve.

To cultivate a family that accumulates blessings for a hundred years, it requires the joint efforts of three generations.

To break up such a century-old family, all you need to do is have another scoundrel like Chang Dalin in the family.

That's why Chen Pingsheng set such strict family rules.

No direct relatives of the Chen family are allowed to disrupt this.

He still went to see Su Xiaoxi, and he even had someone match Su Xiaoxi's birth chart with Chen Lu's.

If Chen Lu used up all his luck in his birth, then Su Xiaoxi's life was destined to be full of hardship in the first half, but a life of great wealth and honor in the second half.

But she still faces a major hurdle in her life, a very serious one. Once she overcomes it, her life will be absolutely fulfilling.

If you can't get through it, you'll most likely end up alone in the second half of your life.

Chen Pingsheng felt that this so-called hurdle would most likely be related to his marriage with Chen Lu.

Because of her status as the only daughter-in-law of the Chen family, with him around, Su Xiaoxi is unlikely to encounter any major obstacles.

The children in the Chen family won't encounter any major problems at birth.

The only thing that could leave her alone for the rest of her life was her marriage to Chen Lu.

Su Xiaoxi is still very idealistic. Even when she was pregnant, she worked diligently to learn how to manage Hong Kong Teng Hui Capital.

She was also doing just as well in her studies. Chen Pingsheng felt that his decision to make Su Xiaoxi his daughter-in-law was the right one.

In her daily life, Su Xiaoxi was somewhat indulgent towards Chen Lu because of her gratitude.

Perhaps she doesn't dare to really interfere, after all, the gap between the two families is too big, and her family status is definitely that of the weaker party.

This is the downside of a huge gap in social status: if the wife doesn't dare to control her husband, the husband will inevitably have another woman outside the marriage sooner or later.

Chen Pingsheng asked her, "Xiao Xi, after your child is born, why don't you take her to Hong Kong and take care of her for a few years?"

Teng Hui Capital is located in Hong Kong, and Su Xiaoxi will definitely go there to fully inherit this business after graduation.

Besides, he spent over 10 billion to buy her a headquarters building in Hong Kong, and over 3 billion to buy her a top-tier luxury mansion on Barker Road.

Su Xiaoxi can not only work there, but also enjoy life to the fullest.

Shenzhen and Hong Kong are just across the river from each other, which is very convenient.

"Father, I will. Thank you for bringing Chen Lu back."

“I can call him once, but I can’t call him every time. He still needs to be restrained by you, his wife. All I can do is treat each of you fairly.”

The meaning of this statement is very clear: as long as Chen Lu makes a mistake, no matter what Su Xiaoxi does, he will treat her the same way.

And there will be no bias.

For a father to do this much is already quite remarkable.

After he left, Su Xiaoxi touched her belly and murmured, "Baby, you really have a wonderful grandfather. After you are born, I will take care of you for a few years, and then you will live with your grandfather. Your grandfather is a very good person. He is a truly wise man. With such a grandfather, you will definitely be happier than your mother in the future."

……

After leaving, Chen Pingsheng went to Erpiya's place.

Er Ya Tou is the kind of person who is born with exceptional luck; her talent and birth are both top-tier.

Her resolve to leave her father and keep her son was exceptionally firm, and she did not waver in the slightest even when the super-achieving rich second-generation proposed to marry into the family.

In Erpiya's mind, she always believed that people born like them should never be bound by marriage.

She has loved freedom since birth, and even more so now.

It's hard to say that someone who can maintain this princess-like mentality even after growing up isn't extremely pampered by her family.

"Er Ya, you seem to be having a lot of fun every day!"

"Of course, where am I unhappy?"

Although Er Ya also ran away with the baby, it didn't affect her at all. "Dad, after my child is born, I'll take her abroad and fly helicopters every day to be a city hunter."

"You've raised her to be just as wild as you, haven't you?"

"Would I call that wild?"

Chen Xinyi snorted and said, "I'm obviously just trying to understand the true meaning of life too early, so I can be happy and enjoy life to the fullest sooner."

"It's up to you, but you have to take her home and raise her after she turns three."

Chen Pingsheng didn't pay much attention to Er Yatou when she was very young, letting her do whatever she wanted, as long as she didn't go astray in the general direction.

Now her child is the same.

“I just came from Xiao Xi’s place. She’s still learning how to manage Hong Kong Teng Hui Capital. If you have time, please teach her more. Your talent in this area has always been unmatched. The only regret is that you were born too lazy.”

“Dad… I work almost five hours a day and only get ten days off a month, and you still say I’m lazy? You’re not even a beast of burden to do this job.”

Erpiya said, "Su Xiaoxi has a good talent. She just didn't have a good foundation in the past. Fortunately, you personally guided her for two years during her university years. Otherwise, with her foundation, even if you gave her another twenty years, she still wouldn't be able to manage a capital investment group with assets of nearly 50 billion."

"Dad, are you planning to give up on your son and focus all your efforts on cultivating your daughter-in-law?"

In Erpiya's eyes, Chen Lu's talent was as ugly as shit.

She and her sister were both trained by their father. She started her own business in elementary school, while her sister started in junior high school.

In the first few years, I encountered many setbacks due to my young age.

But you should know that when she was five years old, she was able to earn two or three hundred million yuan a year by relying on her short video account.

21 years later, new regulations were introduced for short videos, at which point minors were no longer allowed to do live streaming.

She is no exception.

Later, he started a huge milk tea business, and a series of other entrepreneurial ideas that sounded outrageous.

Then, in junior high school, I went to Wall Street for several years of investment and training.

She was already earning billions a year through investments when she was in high school.

Chen Lu has been by his father's side for so many years, and the energy and resources he has invested are probably better than those of her and her older sister An'an.

Even so, Chen Lu still doesn't have a single notable achievement.

According to her father's standards of training, even an ordinary person who has followed him for so many years should have started as a business genius or elite.

But Chen Luzhen remained unremarkable throughout.

This talent is as ugly as shit.

Even Su Xiaoxi was able to earn tens of billions during her university years thanks to her father's years of training and funding.

Chen Lu's best achievement is still breaking even, the kind of break-even where he invests tens of billions of yuan a year.

With this amount of capital, the annual interest alone would be at least one billion.

Anyway, Erpiya really disliked her younger brother's talent.

I thought my older sister's grades were bad enough, but I never expected she had an even less talented younger brother.

I'm the only smart one in my family.

Thinking about her made him laugh out loud. Chen Pingsheng didn't know what she was laughing at and was very confused.

Erpiya is extremely talented, but she speaks very directly and doesn't mince words at all.

Her principle is very simple: rather than making myself unhappy, I'd rather give you a good dressing down.

She was born with the script of being the second princess, and that's even more true now.

I promise I won't let myself suffer any mistreatment.

Anyone who dares to upset her will be verbally abused until they question their very existence.

You wouldn't even dare to refute that.

Even if a top-performing second-generation student proposes marriage to her on the condition that she become his son-in-law.

You must be the child's biological father and raise it together.

Erpiya could just say, "Are you stupid? With my family's conditions, and I'm not without a younger brother, why would I need you to marry into my family?"
The best father is the one who's dead and never speaks out.

Just those two sentences were enough to make someone question their existence.

To preserve her child's talent, she only chooses academic high-achievers as the father, and once the child is born, she immediately tells the father to get as far away as possible.

This behavior was not well understood by Chen Pingsheng.

But in this day and age, many second-generation rich kids either leave their fathers or stay with their children.

Either the mother leaves and the child stays.

The child must be present, but the child's father or mother is not necessarily included.

Advanced ideas in the new century.

Let's not even talk about that; there are quite a few cases of couples getting married together these days.

Chen Pingsheng didn't care about any of that; he only required Erpiya to complete the quota of three children.

In families like theirs, there is no such thing as a child lacking paternal or maternal love.

Many children from extremely wealthy families even transfer this maternal love to the nanny who raised them.

Chen Pingsheng has three descendants: An'an, Erpiya, and Chen Lu.

According to his plan, he wanted no fewer than nine children across three generations, while An'an and her family's minimum target was three.

When a family reaches a certain size, it must increase the number of offspring.

In ancient times, this was also called having many descendants, which was a good sign for a family with good fortune.

Only with more children can the best talents be selected and nurtured to inherit the family business.

For a child like Changfu, the choice is singular.

It would be a lie to say he doesn't regret it.

If there are nine people in three generations, by the fourth generation, the family will truly be full of descendants, and the family will flourish.

He not only wants to complete this step, but also to complete the decision to partially shift his family's influence into the political and business spheres.

In another twenty years, at least half of the Chen family will be able to move into government service.

The best outcome is one where politics and business are inseparable, with half being business and half being politics.

(End of this chapter)