The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chen Lu wasn't joking.

Having become a father himself, he naturally understands the extent to which parents are willing to do for their children.

Moreover, helping such a child gives him a great sense of accomplishment.

No matter what, he still has ten million in living expenses every month, and he doesn't squander it; most of it is used for investment.

You can make a little money, no matter how much.

His world used to be a world of the rich, where no one lacked money.

What they pursue is not just making more money, but also, more importantly, fame and power.

Later, after he joined the human resources department, he discovered that beneath the world of the wealthy, there were so many ordinary people who were overjoyed by an ordinary job.

These people are busy every day, and their happiness is very simple.

Find a suitable woman to be your wife, buy yourself a car you love, and pay off a small house.

This is the happiness of ordinary people, and it is also the reality for most people.

Let's set aside those who are struggling to make a living.

There are also mothers like Zhang Qing, who came from poverty and worked hard all their lives, only to be struck by hardship once again.

Fate is like a merciless hand; just when she was trying to live a better life, it bent her back again and lowered the little head she had managed to lift up.

Given this, could he take the initiative to help these people?
Many people, including Chang Dalin, have joked with him, saying that he is the chosen one.

You were born with a father who was incredibly wealthy and a mother who doted on you.

With parents like these, Chen Lu is destined to never experience any major disasters in his life.

They will not be crushed by so-called money.

He also needs to find meaning in his life, and find a chance to make his father proud.

Even if this opportunity isn't particularly remarkable or significant, it at least proves that he's not a completely useless piece of trash.

Chen Lu never harbored any delusional thoughts about surpassing his father.

He just wanted a chance to make his father truly proud of him, even just once.

"Chen Lu, you...you really want to cover all my child's medical expenses?"

"Well...believe it or not, this money means nothing to me."

Chen Lu said, "I'll call my family, and they'll send someone to pick up your child tonight. Don't worry, they are the best doctors in the world, and they will definitely be able to cure your child."

What he said was absolutely true. With his father's current wealth and power, he would dare to snatch a life from the clutches of Yama, the King of Hell, even if death came.

Moreover, this is just a child with congenital leukemia.

Just because ordinary hospitals can't help them doesn't mean that these ultra-wealthy people can't either.

Chen Lu was at least 90% certain that his family would be able to fully recover the child within six months.

Otherwise, Uncle Changfu, whose health had completely collapsed, would probably have had a hard time surviving the next year or two.

Zhang Qing was extremely grateful.

On the other side, the third brother, Zhao Kai, stared at him as if he had seen a ghost.

The two decided not to bother Zhang Qing any longer.

The house is too small; there's not even a place to sit down. How long can they stay there?

"Fourth brother, what's going on with your family? Doesn't your dad run a barbecue restaurant in the urban village? How come I get the feeling that your family has an endless amount of money?"

"The barbecue restaurant is just a hobby of my dad's for a while. You don't need to guess his real identity. As for my family's money, we do have a lot. Anyway, helping Zhang Qing's child is very easy."

"Good heavens." Zhao Kai was dumbfounded. "Such a bottomless pit, and you describe it in one sentence. Fourth brother, your family is really rich. Tell me, was your dad a village chief in Guangdong?"

The "Guangdong village chief" was a joke circulating in their class, referring to a rich kid showing off in front of another classmate.

My dad's assets exceed 100 million.

My dad has nothing, except that he was once a village chief in Guangdong.

The rich kid was dumbfounded and left without saying a word.

You can figure out the meaning of this yourself; what nonsense about assets exceeding 100 million.

Fart is not.

Chen Lu shook his head, "My dad was never a village chief, but my grandfather was, though not in Guangdong but in our hometown."

“Well, your family has actually produced a village chief.”

Zhao Kai suddenly understood why his family was so rich; it turned out they were third-generation villagers.

It's obvious he misunderstood.

That evening, Chen Lu arranged for a driver to take Zhang Qing and her daughter to their top-tier private hospital.

Enjoy the best medical care available to the wealthy.

Under such treatment, there's no such thing as being exhausted, but there are still some concerns.

Congenital diseases like this cannot be cured in a short time, no matter how good the medical treatment is; they require a period of recuperation.

Just wait patiently.

Zhang Qing also breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Back home, Chen Lu discussed his next steps with his wife, Su Xiaoxi. After visiting Zhang Qing today, he seemed to have already decided where to go next.

“Xiao Xi, I have two ideas now. One is to go to the Dream Foundation to get a closer look at those grassroots entrepreneurs, and the other is to go to the family charity to learn about what my father has been doing all these years.”

Su Xiaoxi sat in the study, with a Chinese cypress tree placed in front of her.

Juniperus chinensis is known as the king of bonsai, and its price varies depending on factors such as age and shape.

The one in front of her was a gift from An'an.

It's not expensive, only 1.8 million.

Su Xiaoxi really likes this juniper tree. Whenever she encounters troubles at work, looking at it can help her relax a lot.

"Your father's charitable organizations, especially Tengnong Breeding, are the largest. They have already built agricultural universities in twelve provinces and have eighteen agricultural and breeding research institutes across the country, benefiting nearly ten million people and reaching hundreds of counties and thousands of villages."

After a pause, Su Xiaoxi continued, "When I first married you, Sister An'an took me on a tour of the whole country. According to your eldest sister, the greatest thing your father did was not the Tengying Group and Tengfei Group that he has now established, but Tengnong Breeding, which has always aimed to help farmers, develop new rural areas, and attempt to enrich millions of backward rural families through large-scale capital means."

"Compared to the Tengnong breeding business your father runs, what your eldest sister is doing now is utterly insignificant."

"These are your own sister's exact words."

Su Xiaoxi didn't mean to discourage Chen Lu; she was simply telling him a fact: charity wasn't as simple as he thought. Tengnong Breeding was established around 2015, and after ten years of exploration and investing nearly 100 billion yuan, it finally found some avenues for success.

To reach the break-even point.

His father put in just as much effort as Tengying Group and Tengfei Group into this project.

The reason it is not well-known is mainly because it is not suitable for promotion.

It has benefited so many people that perhaps only on the day he dies will Tengnong Livestock bestow upon him the highest honor of his life.

This honor far surpasses the two giant conglomerates he has now founded.

At the beginning, no one thought he could succeed in doing this; in fact, some even considered it wishful thinking.

Even so, Chen Lu's father silently persisted for more than 20 years.

It has grown to the point where it has become the most important agricultural project in the entire society, bar none.

He also made several important statements, influencing the direction of agricultural policies.

If Chen Lu simply thinks that charity is easy, then he is sorely mistaken.

Charity that only gives out and never takes in is destined to be like a fish out of water, unable to survive for long.

The best form of charity is, like his father, teaching people how to fish.

Tengnong's aquaculture scale and complexity are even much larger than the current Tengying Group and Tengfei Group.

It houses the world's best agricultural experts.

In China, nearly half of those who aspire to achieve great success in agriculture are involved in Tengnong Livestock Farming.

Over the past two decades, Chen Pingsheng has allocated no less than 400 billion yuan to this project.

It also leveraged countless resources within the group, which is how we got to where we are today.

What Su Xiaoxi wanted to remind Chen Lu was that the path of charity is not simple.

With his father's success as a precedent, it's unlikely he can prove himself in this area.

Chen Lu lay completely flat on the sofa. "My father is indeed a bit too amazing. As his son, I didn't even know he had put so much effort into this."

There are actually many things you don't know.

Su Xiaoxi said, "Sister An'an once told me that her biggest dream when she was a child was to do good deeds everywhere and help those in need. Later, your father took her on many journeys, which made her gradually understand that if you want to do good deeds, you must first have the ability to create. Only in this way can you do what you like as you please."

"Haven't you noticed yet? With so many businesses and groups under An'an's control, she can generate at least 30 billion yuan in net profit every year. Where does all this money go?"

"Didn't you even ask your dear older sister?"

"Where are you going?"

Chen Lu shook his head, "My sister has more money than she can spend, and I don't like asking her these things."

"Your sister took all her money to build roads and schools in mountainous and underdeveloped rural areas, and to establish rural health clinics and elderly care centers."

Su Xiaoxi said helplessly, "Chen Lu, your sister is actually very great. Over the years, she has always adhered to the best of kindness in her heart and has never publicized it to the outside world. Every year, she takes time to visit the villages she has built."

"It turns out that my sister is the real philanthropist."

Chen Lu asked curiously, "What about my second sister? Knowing her personality, she definitely wouldn't do anything good. If she had money, she would have spent it all over the world."

"You're wrong again."

Su Xiaoxi shook her head. "I spent a long time in Hong Kong with your second sister. She is indeed amazing, the kind of person with an overflowing talent. Ordinary people simply cannot learn her capital operation methods. Although your second sister does not do any grassroots charity work, she is particularly supportive of those domestic technology companies."

"Especially for new enterprises that focus on research and development and have craftsmanship, your second sister invests no less than 20 billion yuan in this area every year. She truly believes in the power of science and technology to strengthen the country, and she also uses the money in her hands to support these new enterprises and help them get through the most difficult period of financial difficulties."

"You don't know your second sister very well. She may seem a bit flamboyant and immature on the surface, but she has always been the smartest one in your family. She also has her own vision and persistence. When she invests in new companies, she only has one requirement: she doesn't ask for any return within ten years. She only asks that they can stick to their original intentions and stay true to themselves."

After Su Xiaoxi finished speaking, Chen Lu felt helpless again.

"I've known my second sister is smart since she was little. No matter how much she slept in class when she was a child, she always got first place in exams. She's the same when she grew up. She seems very unserious and plays all year round, but she doesn't neglect her studies at all. She's like the kind of super-achievers that you and I saw when we were young. They clearly don't study as much as we do, and they're not necessarily as attentive in class as we are."

"But she does better than us in exams. I just didn't expect her to be so serious about making an effort for her country and her family."

"Your father raised both of your older sisters very well."

Su Xiaoxi sighed, "Compared to them, you are indeed under a lot of pressure. Actually, I am too, but I just don't express it to outsiders. Chen Lu, you should also learn not to easily tell outsiders about your thoughts, especially your colleagues in the company. Don't forget, to them, your status is unapproachable."

“If you only speak in your current position as an HR person in the human resources department, it doesn’t matter. But when they find out that you are the chairman’s son, the heir of both the Tengying Group and the Tengfei Group, and the sole heir of the richest family in the country, won’t many people carefully recall every word you have said?”

"If this happens, won't many people think you are weak, or even wait for the day your father leaves to specifically target you?"

Chen Lu suddenly realized that if his father were alive, no one would dare to mess with him.

With what Chen Pingsheng has accumulated over the past few decades, which family would dare to target him?
But his father is almost sixty years old.

He will eventually leave this world. When that day comes, will many people with ulterior motives emerge and try to deal with him, the only legitimate heir of the family?
Chen Lu thought it was very possible, and those who dared to come to deal with it were all beings at the top of the food chain in this world.

These people know just by thinking about it that when they do make a move, it will be earth-shattering.

Anyone who dares to come after him is after his family's trillion-dollar fortune.

People who are capable of such thoughts are definitely not simple; they are all extremely shrewd individuals.

Perhaps sensing his worry, Su Xiaoxi reminded him again: "Actually, you don't need to worry too much. Not to mention that your father can hold on for at least several decades, even with your two older sisters around, they won't allow anyone to bully you. But you need to understand that no matter which path you want to take or where you want to go, you should first have the ability to create."

She's absolutely right about that; it's when someone lacks even the most basic creative ability.

Don't expect him to accomplish anything earth-shattering.

He couldn't even manage the most basic act of saving money.

A trillion is not the same as a billion. When wealth reaches this level, only a few big players will be eyeing it.

His parents were able to hold on because they had no shortcomings in any aspect.

Chen Lu, on the other hand, has already achieved impeccable success.

He was just a young child, slowly walking around while carrying a mountain of gold.

Even wealthy families have their own troubles.

Su Xiaoxi only hoped that Chen Lu could grow up quickly. She didn't expect him to be a towering figure, but at least he should be like her father's son.

It shouldn't be like this now, feeling lost, hesitant, conflicted, and experiencing all sorts of emotions.

The most basic quality of a great person is to have a strong will and to firmly believe that what they are doing is right.

Only in this way can we move forward without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)