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Chapter 552 0540 [Is Old Master Chen Newly Crowned China's Richest Man?]

"Mr. Lei, the launch date for the new generation flagship phone with HarmonyOS has been set, and it's only two days away from our release date."

"Any more specific information?"

"The new HarmonyOS phone is called 'HarmonyOS Yaoguang', and it is the second model in the Seven Stars series."

"understood."

Both Xiaomi and HarmonyOS's new phones are scheduled to launch in October this year.

However, Xiaomi released its new phone back in August, and at that time they couldn't even produce a decent engineering sample. It was a pure PowerPoint presentation!

Xiaomi finally released a feature phone in September, but mass production and market launch will have to wait until October.

HarmonyOS, on the other hand, is much more conservative. Even after the engineering prototypes were built, they weren't released. The official launch event for the new device was scheduled for October, and it would go on sale two weeks later.

The reason why Xiaomi and HarmonyOS's new phones are released so close together is because they are equipped with Qualcomm's APQ8064 chip.

In order to wait for high-performance chips, the release date was later than Apple's.

In fact, HarmonyOS released a new phone called "HarmonyOS Shining" two months ago, which uses the Qualcomm MSM8960 chip.

The "HarmonyOS Shining" is not a flagship phone, priced at 3288 yuan, and Chen Guiliang didn't even attend the launch event in person. However, its CPU performance even surpasses that of last year's "HarmonyOS Tian Shu PRO".

The pace of mobile phone hardware development in this era is similar to that of new energy vehicles. New products emerge every three to five months, and last year's high-end flagship phones are not even as good as this year's mid-range models.

The earliest HarmonyOS A1 and A2 processors have now dropped to below 1500 yuan. Various components that were in short supply back then can now be purchased at low prices, and even the OEM costs have decreased.

Chen Guiliang kept a close eye on the situation in the United States. After reviewing a set of game data from the past two weeks, he began memorizing the various parameters of "Hongmeng Yaoguang".

You don't necessarily have to memorize it all, but you must be very familiar with it.

"Wow, this light switch is really useful, the response speed is so fast!" Tao Xue said, playing on her phone in Chen Guiliang's office.

Chen Guiliang asked, "Do you really want to come to work?"

Tao Xue said, "I'm bored, so I'm looking for a job. I've earned quite a bit from novel copyrights and royalties. I'm not coming to your company for the salary; I just want to interact with more people. Don't worry, I'm just an intern; I won't be too flashy."

Chen Guiliang asked, "Which department would you like to intern in?"

Tao Xue said, "I'll go to the game development department to learn how to be a game literature planner."

Chen Guiliang said, "The company is currently developing a mobile game called 'Shan Hai Hui Juan'. Each character in it has a story, so why don't you go and create stories with them?"

"This is a perfect match for my major," Tao Xue said happily, continuing to play on her phone.

Suddenly, Tao Xue stared at her phone screen for a long time before finally saying, "Senior, you've become the richest man in China! My brother just sent me a WeChat message."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Guiliang's phone beeped with text messages and WeChat notifications.

Immediately afterwards, the phone rang.

Chen Guiliang didn't have time to check his text messages and WeChat messages, so he answered the phone without thinking.

"Xiao Chen, you've become the richest man in China! I didn't even know; a friend told me." Bian Jingsong's tone was extremely excited.

Chen Guiliang asked, "What list?"

Bian Jinsong said, "The Hurun Report."

The Hurun Rich List and the Forbes Rich List are released at different times each year, depending on whether their statistical work has been completed.

After finishing my call with Bian Jingsong, another call came in, probably to congratulate me again.

The text messages and WeChat messages were also congratulatory.

While making the phone call, Chen Guiliang searched for the newly released Hurun Rich List on his computer.

First place: Chen Guiliang. 820 billion yuan.

Second place: Lao Zong. 800 billion yuan.

Third place: Lao Wang. 650 billion yuan.

Fourth place: Li Yanhong. 510 billion yuan.

After hanging up the third call, Chen Guiliang couldn't help but mutter, "How the hell did Hurun come up with this figure? How come I didn't know I had 820 billion?"

The asset statistics of the Hurun Rich List are indeed confusing. For example, this year, Lao Zong's assets on the Hurun list are 800 billion yuan, but his assets on the Forbes list are only 630 billion yuan.

The difference in assets of the same billionaire across the two lists is equivalent to that of Jack Ma.

In the following days, Chen Guiliang received a large number of invitations, asking him to participate in all sorts of interviews, events, and programs.

Even the Southern Clique, which has always been at odds with Chen Guiliang, has had several newspapers giving him positive coverage.

Even Hong Kong and Taiwan newspapers joined in the fun.

The news headlines were more and more exciting than the last.

The Hurun Report magazine, which had been somewhat sluggish in recent years, has received tremendous attention as a result, and its sales have soared in a short period of time.

Clearly, Rupert Hoogewerf achieved his goal; this was exactly the effect he wanted.

Chen Guiliang declined interviews, while Hu Run appeared on numerous television programs, and when faced with criticism, he stated, "While our statistics are not entirely accurate, we have indeed significantly underestimated Mr. Chen Guiliang's assets in the past..."

"The value of Weibo and WeChat has been severely underestimated, and ByteDance has shown no signs of spinning them off for an IPO..."

"Take the seemingly insignificant ZBJ.com for example. Mr. Chen Guiliang casually invested in it, and before its Series B funding last year, it was already valued at $5500 million. Now, its valuation may have reached $8000 million, or even close to $1 million." "Mr. Chen Guiliang has invested in many projects like this, which is difficult to reflect solely in ByteDance's stock price. The most famous, of course, is JD.com..."

"And then there's Youke, whose revenue this year is very likely to exceed 150 billion yuan. We can't just look at its online game revenue; Youke has many other businesses as well..."

Rupert Hoogewerf's explanation was very logical and the listeners found it quite reasonable.

However, it is difficult to collect specific data because Youke does not publish financial reports. People can only estimate the figures by looking at the game revenue of companies like Tencent.

Every day when Chen Guiliang goes out or returns home by car, he can see people who look like paparazzi standing outside the community.

This neighborhood is really uninhabitable, but the new villa I bought won't be ready until next year at the earliest.

Yang Shuo quickly drove the car into the underground parking garage, then carefully escorted Chen Guiliang into the elevator, hiding a steel ruler in his sleeve.

Even the security guards at the community gate have strengthened registration and supervision.

Back home, lying on the living room sofa, Chen Guiliang casually turned on the TV, closed his eyes, and tried to doze off while listening to the sound.

Bian Guanyue said, "How about we rent a villa first?"

“Okay.” Chen Guiliang readily agreed with the suggestion.

He lay down for a while, then sat up and posted on Weibo: "Next week is the 'HarmonyOS·Yaoguang' launch event. I hope everyone can pay attention. This is the second star in the Seven Stars series. Yaoguang symbolizes dawn and rebirth, and the power of change!"

Soon a bunch of comments appeared, but the tone was a bit off.

"Wow, my husband finally updated his Weibo."

"Honey, honey, I want to have your babies."

"Mr. Chen, do you like men? I don't think gender is an issue."

"Honey, honey, do you like ladyboys? They just came back from Thailand."

"Damn, this comment section is driving me crazy."

"Honey, if you're worried about not being able to spend all 820 billion, I can help you relieve your worries."

"..."

Chen Guiliang, the newly crowned richest man, is perhaps too young to be called "Father Chen" by anyone, and has inexplicably become the nation's husband.

Chen Guiliang couldn't help but reply uniformly: "Can you please stop calling me 'husband'? With such promiscuity, doesn't my Hongmeng Ancestor have any dignity?"

"Hahaha, 'promiscuous' can be used like this? It feels like Old Master Chen has been ruined by a bunch of 'Ruhua' (a derogatory term for women who are promiscuous)."

"You people are disgusting, always calling me 'husband.' Old Master Chen, I'm different from them. Do you still need a leg accessory?"

"Honey, don't pay attention to those bad women. They don't know anything and they're just shouting nonsense."

"..."

Chen Guiliang glanced at the comments, threw his phone aside, and completely gave up the struggle.

Bian Guanyue was quite engrossed in browsing Weibo. Her boyfriend was being called "husband" by countless people, and far from being angry, she was rather proud.

Before things had even calmed down, Secretary-General Wang of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce called again to congratulate Chen Guiliang and urged him to attend the leadership transition meeting in two weeks.

The gist of the statement is that Chen Guiliang should be elected as the vice chairman of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce.

There are more than 20 vice chairmen, and Chen Guiliang could have been a candidate for one long ago, but he kept making excuses and often didn't attend meetings. This time, however, he can't refuse to be elected during the reshuffle (which takes five years).

"Nothing else has changed, except for the title of the richest man, which seems to make everything different," Chen Guiliang couldn't help but sigh.

Bian Guanyue laughed and said, "It's not just you, even my dad's status is different now. He called yesterday and said that many bosses he didn't know invited him to dinner. He was quite happy at first, but now he has closed his doors to guests."

Chen Guiliang said, "Reporters have already gone to my hometown. Some distributors have even contacted my father, willing to sell his products. But they must use my father's photo as the trademark and indicate that he is Chen Guiliang's father."

Bian Guanyue asked curiously, "Dad agreed?"

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "My dad has a strong sense of pride. He's willing to accept my help, but he won't do it if I use his name to sell things."

My dad wouldn't do it, but executives from companies like Youke and ByteDance would!
Both companies are taking the opportunity to launch celebratory events for multiple products, especially Youke's games. Even "Three Kingdoms Kill" is working overtime to create a "Rich Man" series of skins.

However, instead of directly mentioning the title of "richest man in the world," they held a "richest man in the world" event in the game.

Moreover, those event planners are incredibly audacious, daring to make fun of their own bosses.

For example, the NPCs in "My Own Swordsman" have had their dialogue added for events.

Tong Xiangyu said to the players who hadn't left the starting village yet, "I heard there's a man in the capital named Chen Guiliang who became the richest man in the Ming Dynasty through business..."

During the dialogue, players can choose to reply with either, "He's probably a dishonest businessman" or "He definitely runs his business with integrity."

Most players, when talking to NPCs, will choose "He's probably a ruthless merchant".

The account that bullied Chen Guiliang had long since left the beginner's area.

Even Zhubajie.com, which Chen Guiliang hadn't paid attention to for several years, put up a banner ad on its homepage to celebrate shareholder Mr. Chen becoming the richest man.

Everyone's taking this opportunity to make money and gain traffic!
I definitely made a profit.

The launch event for the new HarmonyOS phone also saw a surge in attention, forcing a last-minute change of venue to increase the number of invited attendees by 200.

Because so many people actively requested to attend the press conference!
Especially reporters, because Chen Guiliang declined all interviews, and tabloids all wanted to come to the mobile phone launch event to join in the fun.

(End of this chapter)