The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chapter 792 Returning Disappointed
Like Song Wu before her, Chen Qi could only leave disappointed.

This is not Chen Pingsheng's fault. Compared to what Song Chaoqun did before, Hu Qilin's actions can only be described as even more heinous.

Under such circumstances, it's natural that you won't get a good result.

As usual, Chen Pingsheng took Xiao Jiye out to play. He didn't even glance at Hu Qilin, which showed how disappointed he was in him.

Xiao Jiye is about to start kindergarten, and Chen Pingsheng is going to increase his efforts in his upbringing.

They even invited education experts and went to great lengths to specially arrange for some of Xiao Jiye's neighbors to live with him.

Like the equally smart, cute, and studious Xiao Zilin, and Duanmu Bao, who is about the same age as him and is also very sensible.

As the old saying goes, Mencius' mother moved three times to find the right environment for her son.

Near Zhu Zhechi, near the ink is black.

The influence of a good neighbor is just as significant as that of a teacher.

Among the children in the urban village, let alone those the same age as Xiao Jiye, even those a few years older than him, none were as sensible and intelligent as him.

Children in urban villages, like those in rural areas, are generally raised in a free-range manner.

The so-called "free-range parenting" means that parents have no planning and only provide some corporal punishment when their children make mistakes.

They simply don't know how to properly guide their children as they grow up, or how to best cultivate their children's character.

Everything should be left to nature. Children will only grow up quickly after they have experienced setbacks and hardships in society.

However, the price of such growth is often extremely cruel.

Xiao Jiye is different; his future has already been set in a certain direction, and everything is being guided in that direction.

It doesn't need to be too deliberate. All you need is a grandfather with upright values ​​and exceptional wisdom, a group of good neighbors, and Liu Qingqing, a poor graduate from Tsinghua or Peking University who has been living in the house and defying fate, to be his teacher.

Only with such a configuration can a qualified successor be truly cultivated.

This shows just how difficult it is for a poor family to produce a successful child.

After the rooftop swimming pool was built, Xiao Jiye no longer needed to sneak off to his mother's villa to swim; he could happily paddle around at home all by himself.

I was so happy.

Kids are so easily satisfied, and it's so easy for them to be happy.

At the end of August, Chen Pingsheng took him to register for kindergarten, and An'an came along too.

Kindergartens today are not like they used to be. In the past, you had to go to great lengths to secure a spot at a good kindergarten.

Now all you have to do is pay money, and the amount of money determines the level of responsibility of the kindergarten teacher.

Despite more than a decade of development, the number of newborns continues to decline steadily.

The decline varies from year to year, and many people believe that as long as the population decreases, welfare benefits in all aspects will improve accordingly.

Even the degree of involution will be greatly reduced; it's just wishful thinking.

China's rapid development in the 1990s was largely due to its population welfare system.

After all, no one in the world is more hardworking or willing to work overtime than the Chinese, and they don't even have labor unions.

In places where incomes were so low as to be negligible, that's how the world's factory came to be.

Further development will see the real estate sector boost domestic demand and improve infrastructure and the living environment.

Without real estate, cities couldn't be built so beautifully, and rural areas wouldn't be covered with roads everywhere.

Then comes the internet, which is all about information warfare. In essence, it's just about transferring money from one industry to another.

It's still a domestic demand-driven economy.

It wasn't until the country vigorously supported new energy and allocated a large amount of resources to the technology sector in an effort to achieve industrial upgrading that things changed.

This is true global competition.

To become truly developed, one must have achievements in global trade, including in the technology sector. The long-term effects of a declining birth rate will definitely outweigh the benefits.

At least that's how Chen Pingsheng sees it.

But there's nothing we can do about it. Young people are facing increasing pressure in life, and they are afraid to have children or can't afford to have them. These are problems that have been facing us for the past ten years or so.

The kindergarten that Xiao Jiye attends costs more than 50,000 yuan a year just for tuition.

If you add in all the other miscellaneous fees, it will easily cost at least 80,000 a year.

And this isn't even a well-known kindergarten; it's just one of the better kindergartens in their area.

To live in a top-tier city like this, even if a couple only has one child, they would face considerable pressure if they didn't have a total annual income of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan.

If you want your child to attend the best schools and win at the so-called starting line, a million-dollar annual salary is just a threshold fee.

They also want to enroll in all sorts of extracurricular classes, which is a bottomless pit.

Countless young and beautiful mothers are swayed by the idea of ​​"giving their children a head start in life."

They did countless absurd things.

To this day, Chen Pingsheng still remembers a young mother who wanted her child to attend a good primary school.

Would you willingly become the principal's mistress, the kind who comes at his beck and call and goes at his beck and call?

I wonder if her child will suffer psychological trauma when they grow up.

Moreover, this is not an isolated case at all.

Attending such a kindergarten is only a low-end option for Xiao Jiye; it doesn't match his true status at all.

But compared to children in urban villages, this is the best treatment he could receive.

The tuition fee of over 50,000 yuan a year is not something that an average family can afford.

Some kindergartens offer 24-hour care, which is what's known as boarding school.

If parents don't have time to take care of their children, they'll just leave them at kindergarten.

After Xiao Jiye starts kindergarten, he will definitely make many new friends.

And he now has more time during the day.

Chen Pingsheng still plans to add some burden to himself, spending more time on his agricultural projects, including his son Chen Lu, in addition to taking care of his children.

We can't let his only son work in the human resources department for too long.

That would be so unbecoming of his status.

Once Chen Lu adapted, he quickly became close with his colleagues.

He likes his current job and finds it quite fulfilling to help interns, including recent college graduates.

This sense of accomplishment is what Chen Lu has always lacked, which is why he likes it.

Chen Pingsheng arrived to find his son in a dashing manner, riding a small electric scooter, completely shattering his reputation as a person with connections within the group.

When Chen Lu came downstairs to see his father, he was accompanied by a female colleague.

The girl liked him quite a bit, but Chen Lu also told her directly that he was already married.

As for the reason for liking him, it's actually very simple: it's not because of his outstanding work ability, but simply because he wears a watch worth over a million dollars.

It's that simple.

Shenzhen is a bustling place, mostly filled with migrant workers wandering around.

The boss only sits in the office enjoying air conditioning or in various high-end places.

There are retired old men like Chen Pingsheng who ride around on a small electric scooter.

(End of this chapter)