The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Life on the island was uneventful.

Chen Pingsheng lived a leisurely life, spending his time wandering around, looking at things here and sitting there, except for important meetings.

Meanwhile, An An has already given a speech at Zhejiang University.

Because of the special nature of the speech, and because each person also received a bonus of 50,000 yuan.

She needs to apply to school leaders or her advisor in advance to be eligible to attend each of her lectures.

The standards for attending lectures are entirely based on university performance, with credits being a very important indicator.

Every university she visited was met with loud cheers.

In late April, as the May Day holiday approached, the stock prices of Tencent Holdings Limited surged across the board due to Chen Pingsheng's return to the business world.

As for An An, her speech also topped the trending searches for a month.

It hasn't calmed down yet.

Zhejiang University, University Auditorium.

To better meet students' needs for listening to lectures, the school has increased the number of seats in the auditorium to two thousand.

People were crammed together, shoulder to shoulder.

An An's influence is still significant; her financial power has an even greater impact.

She's so rich that she doesn't care whether you add a thousand or two thousand seats.

She has already promoted her father's keynote speech at twelve universities.

When she finishes Zhejiang University, she will return to Shanghai, which is also her father's real stronghold.

"Mr. An, a total of 36 universities in Shanghai have extended invitations to you to give lectures. Which ones would you like to accept?"

"Let's choose according to the criteria. After all, Shanghai is where I've lived for ten years. Just pick the eight most influential ones."

An'an is almost thirty; time really flies.

By the time this domestic university lecture tour comes to a complete end, she will be heading to the Economic Research Island.

She will spend a year or two on the island, and then learn from her father up close for a while.

Time flies, and it's already the end of April.

With the May Day holiday approaching, the Bund in Shanghai is packed with tourists, and An'an hasn't had a proper stroll along the Bund in a long time.

She is now extremely famous, and many people recognize her. This is the downside of fame, as it can affect her private life to some extent.

An An received an invitation to a college reunion, which was initiated by her two best college friends.

It has been seven or eight years since they graduated, and these former classmates have not reunited for many years.

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Chen Lu also took a holiday during the May Day holiday, and this time he took the initiative to go to Hong Kong to accompany Su Xiaoxi.

Because of An An's speech, Su Xiaoxi is now quite famous, but she has never made an appearance, and there are very few photos of her online.

It's very difficult to find specific information about her.

Chen Lu spent the May Day holiday happily with her.

Life at home, despite its luxurious lifestyle, remains as peaceful and leisurely as ever.

……

Time passes silently, always slipping away unnoticed.

An An's speech lasted until mid-June, and the number of college students wanting to apply for jobs at Tengying Group set a new record.

Two more years passed in this uproar, and Zhang Wanyi and Chu Qiuyan retired at the same time, stepping down as president of Yuanmeng Foundation and chairman of Tengyou Media.

On July 1, 2040, he officially went to the Economic Research Island to serve as the vice dean.

Both of them will dedicate the rest of their lives to Tencent Pictures Group and other industries.

Chen Pingsheng, who has been on the island for two and a half years, will be sixty years old in two more years.

Su Xiaoxi's second child had just been born, and the little brat had completely taken over Chen Youcai's life. Just like when she was a child, she had never known what poverty was.

She now wants to have a second child, preferably a younger sister for Chen Youcai.

Of the three generations, the most sensible one is still Xiao Jiye.

He has already finished first grade and will be starting second grade in September.

Xiao Jiye has been living on Jingyan Island for the past two years and has never gone down there.

Both their academic performance and character have been cultivated to be extremely good.

He will only leave Jingyan Island when he starts junior high school.

As for Xiao Wuyou and Chen Youcai, they did not come to Jingyan Island. Su Xiaoxi wanted to raise the child herself, and Erpiya also liked Chen Youcai very much and was reluctant to let him leave her side for a long time.

Chen Pingsheng couldn't force him; as the grandfather, he ultimately couldn't personally take care of these three generations of children anymore.

After Chu Qiuyan and Zhang Wanyi had settled in on the island, he left.

No one knew where he went, and Chen Pingsheng did not report his trip to anyone.

More than two years have passed, and those things on the internet have long since disappeared. Apart from having a few more gray hairs at his temples, he hasn't changed at all.

Over the past two years, he has invested more than 30 billion yuan in technical training academies for talent diversion.

It has also supported many basic industries such as food delivery and traditional catering.

Even now, he can't figure out exactly how much money he spent on the island over the past two years.

This time, he went down to the island to see for himself how well the industries he had supported were developing.
The first thing Chen Pingsheng did after leaving the island was to visit his son, Chen Lu, at the Dream Foundation.

Chen Lu spent a total of three years at the Dream Fund, rising from a junior market researcher to a junior leader in the marketing department.

He also manages dozens of people under his command. As for his brother Zhao Kai, he got married last year, and his wife is now pregnant.

Family pressure forced him to work countless times harder than Chen Lu, and with a mortgage on his mortgage, he rose through the ranks even faster than Chen Lu over the course of a few years.

Chen Pingsheng came without notifying anyone. He just squatted outside the company waiting for someone, like an ordinary retired old man.

Chen Lu came down quickly, still dressed in a neat white shirt, looking like a real estate agent.

"Dad, why don't you go inside and wait for me?"

"I don't want to go in."

Chen Pingsheng asked him, "You've been here for almost three years now, and I haven't asked you how you feel or what your plans are for the future."

"I have some plans, and I will leave in August."

"Okay... You're on your own. Dad just wanted to come and see you."

"Dad...is Grandma leaving?"

"Yes, your grandmother is almost ninety years old. She has been relying on top-notch medical care to prolong her life all these years. She also wants to return to her roots and go back to Wangcai Village."

Peng Ying has to undergo major surgery every two years, and it's already quite an achievement that she's made it this far.

Humans will eventually grow old and return to the world.

It was clear that his mother, Peng Ying, was getting closer and closer to that day.

Chen Pingsheng also wanted to return to his hometown to spend his mother's final days with her and ensure that she had no regrets when she passed away.

Peng Ying is leaving soon, and Liu Fen will be leaving soon too; their generation is almost all gone.

Those born in the 1950s and 60s also lived during a period of explosive population growth in China.

It wasn't until the 1980s, when the government introduced the one-child policy, that this excessive birth rate was completely curbed.

Now, most of this group of people have left, and the birth rate of newborns is far lower than the population outflow.

This has led to a decline in the population base every year.

(End of this chapter)