Rebirth of the Age of Wealth

Chapter 649 Final Chapter—Retirement

If you don't take into account this nonsense from Forbes, Li Weidong and his family are quite happy having fun in Hong Kong Island.

Especially when the children are having fun, they play happily without feeling tired at all. They get up early every morning and play outside for a whole day before coming back.

He also has a special interest in going to sea on a yacht. It seems to be every boy's dream to ride the wind and waves on the endless sea.

Li Weidong looked at the children standing on the plywood on the bow of the boat, laughing in the wind with their hands open, and there was a hint of youthfulness in his heart.

Liu Jinhui stood next to Li Weidong and looked at these children, with a smile on her face full of satisfaction.

Then she looked at Li Weidong standing next to her, her eyes full of tenderness. She had been married to Li Weidong in a daze, and it had been many years.

But until now, Liu Jinhui doesn't dare to say that she has seen through Li Weidong. Sometimes he is silly and cute, and sometimes he is extremely profound. He seems to have countless secrets hidden in his heart.

Although Liu Jinhui didn't understand Li Weidong's heart, after having known each other for so many years, she was certain that Li Weidong was impeccable with both this family and her.

Isn’t there anything unsatisfactory about this?

"There are flowers on my face?" Li Weidong asked curiously.

"There are waves!"

"No wonder, people say that what you think in the world is what you think. It seems that you have a wave of excitement in your heart!" Li Weidong deliberately emphasized the tone of the wave.

"How old are you, can you be a little decent?" Liu Jinhui said with a disgusting gesture.

"What you said is wrong. What did I say? Why can't it be done right?" Li Weidong argued.

"I'm too lazy to tell you!" Liu Jinhui said helplessly. Maybe this is Li Weidong's unique function, he can always make things go wrong intentionally or unintentionally.

"Does the announcement released by Forbes yesterday have something to do with you?" Liu Jinhui paused and asked.

"What announcement?" Li Weidong was a little curious. He only knew that Forbes magazine issued a statement, but didn't this happen a few days ago? Why was there something happening yesterday?

"There was supposed to be a special edition at the beginning of the month to publish the world's richest list, but now it has to be postponed to the middle of the month!" Liu Jinhui looked at Li Weidong and said.

Li Weidong was confused. He really didn't know about this matter and didn't pay much attention to it.

As for whether it has anything to do with him, that's even less clear. Moreover, their special issue, unlike the regular issue, does not have a fixed date, and it is normal for it to be postponed.

However, there is a high probability that it has something to do with Li Weidong. If the original journal has been printed or typeset, the impact will definitely be there.

"I don't know!" Li Weidong shook his head and said: "This is a special issue, what impact will it have if it is postponed or not?"

"I read the comments online this morning, and some people said that they offended people they shouldn't have offended, so they postponed it!" Liu Jinhuiming said.

"How can you miss me so much? Am I so stingy? You let me down so much?" Li Weidong argued.

Liu Jinhui knew from the look on Li Weidong that this matter probably had something to do with him. This style of speaking was too much like an unreasonable quarrel.

Besides, whether Li Weidong is stingy or not depends on something. Sometimes Li Weidong is indeed stingy.

Forbes just postponed it, not not publishing it. A week after Li Weidong returned to Qizhou, Forbes magazine was still published around the world.

There are several lists released by Forbes this time, and China's rich list is specially listed separately, which seems to indicate that China has become an important part of the rich list.

And this time is different from last year. Last year's China Rich List was compiled by a young man named Hurun, who just borrowed the name from Forbes.

According to their introduction, this time Forbes personally sent a team to conduct a half-year survey, analyze and compare the data, and come up with the results.

Its authoritativeness is much better than last year's. After all, judging from the current situation, last year's rankings in China were simply a joke. If they continue to cooperate with Yeluzi's Hurun, they will simply destroy their brand.

There is no doubt that Li Weidong has become the richest man in the world. Of course, even the absence of these investigations does not seem to affect this result.

Based solely on the stocks of various listed companies held by Ribos Holdings and its subsidiaries, this highly public information has established Li Weidong's status as the richest man.

In addition, Forbes seemed to sense Li Weidong's hostility towards them. Li Weidong's introduction was full of unstinting praise.

It's just that Li Weidong simply smiled when he saw these. These were meaningless to him, and he hoped that his name would never appear on such a list.

It's just that his wish is destined to be disappointed. For a period of time in the future, his name will always be listed at the first place, and the three words Li Weidong are so dazzling.

But many years later, Li Weidong's name suddenly disappeared from this rich list.

There are rumors that Forbes magazine was acquired by a company controlled by Li Weidong, and as the big boss, Li Weidong is unwilling to list his name anymore.

There are also rumors that Forbes magazine believes that no one can surpass Li Weidong's wealth in his lifetime, and it is meaningless to rank him on this list and list his wealth.

And it will only embarrass the top rich people, because the combined wealth of several of them is not as much as Li Weidong's.

Under pressure from most of the top tycoons, including Li Weidong, Forbes magazine had to compromise and hide Li Weidong's name.

It's just that the first position on the rich list is always empty, and the rankings start from second place every year. Of course, these are things for a later time.

One year after Li Weidong topped the list of richest people, his villa complex in Nanshan was finally completed and decorated, and his family moved from the downtown area to the suburbs.

And his original office in the courtyard was moved to the villa, which widened the distance from the company in terms of space, and seemed to be delegating power to a certain extent.

Shortly after the move, an internal encrypted email was sent from Li Weidong's office through the company's independent intranet for the company's vice president, subsidiary presidents and above.

No one except the person involved knew the specific content of this email. Even when some senior executives later resigned or retired from the company for various reasons, they remained silent on the content of the email, as if it had never happened.

In fact, the email was automatically deleted from the intranet after the executives read it, and there was no trace of the email even on the company's server.

So much later that no one knew the specific content of the letter, but this letter caused many subsidiaries to adjust the company's strategic development direction in a short period of time.

Some people speculate that this is Li Weidong revealing his forward-looking strategic vision to company executives and pointing out the way forward for each company.

Later, it was also proved that the strategic directions formulated by these companies have indeed grasped the pulse of the times, and they are basically the vanguard of their industries and the leaders in industry development.

At the same time, this email was also regarded within the company as one of the signs that Li Weidong would no longer be involved in the company's specific affairs.

Shortly after this incident, there were huge changes in the management of Xinsheng Holdings.

The number of board members has more than tripled, from the original four to thirteen, and these newly added directors include company veterans and senior presidents from large multinational companies.

The composition of the board of directors is so complex, and their outlook on life and values ​​vary widely, so it is destined to be unstable.

Correspondingly, the number of members of the Board of Supervisors has also doubled. Although the members of the Board of Supervisors are relatively low-key, they have also played an increasing role in supervision, forming strong supervision over the company.

These seemed to be intentional actions by Li Weidong. After that, although Li Weidong still served as the chairman of the company, it was obvious that he began to live in seclusion and his daily appearances became less and less frequent.

Except for the monthly company meeting, Li Weidong is rarely seen.

Company executives come to report on their work less and less, but Li Weidong is more enthusiastic about his old subordinates and friends who come to reminisce.

During this period, whether it was Li Weidong's deliberate indulgence or the conflict of interests of the company's executives, there were many power struggles, and later many personnel adjustments were made.

However, the number of people on the company's board of directors has remained unchanged. Whenever someone quits, a more suitable person will take over.

Fortunately, these struggles have been carried out within the head office under Li Weidong's intentional control. The executives of each subsidiary understood clearly and did not participate in it, and focused on laying out the company's development strategy. They also knew that everything else was false, and they could only

Only when the company develops can it benefit.

After a period of running-in, the company's management finally reached a balance of power and learned balance and compromise. Stability became the mainstream, and Li Weidong became more leisurely.

Two years later, with the stability of the company's personnel, the company's development has also moved forward steadily, maintaining a high growth rate every year, and all businesses are being developed in an orderly manner.

By this time, Li Weidong rarely attended the company's regular meetings, only attending the board meeting held once every quarter, or sending congratulatory letters to all the company's employees on festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, which became more of a spiritual symbol of the company.

Li Weidong made another high-profile appearance in front of everyone at the opening ceremony of the company's headquarters building.

After more than six years of construction, Xinsheng Building was finally completed and put into use. This is a very important event for Xinsheng Holdings.

The ceremony that day was very grand. Not only did many levels of leaders participate, but according to the statistics of the good people, there were thousands of celebrities and rich people participating in the ceremony. There were as many as a hundred people on the world's richest list.

Their combined assets rank among the top ten countries in the world in terms of output value.

At the opening ceremony of Xinsheng Building, Li Weidong delivered a passionate speech. This was the first time Li Weidong spoke in public in recent years.

The participants listened carefully and wanted to find some useful words from Li Weidong's words, and the media even conducted a live text broadcast online.

The day after the ceremony, the chairman and presidents of the subsidiaries who came to attend the ceremony gathered in the huge auditorium of Xinsheng Building and held a major meeting.

At this meeting, Li Weidong first reviewed the history of more than ten years from the early days of entrepreneurship to today, and talked about Song Guofeng, who first cooperated with him.

The first extra money of 100 yuan earned from Song Guofeng, the two went to Hailan Pao to sell clothes and cans. They were also shot. At that time, they thought they were going to die, but in the end they survived.

, I want to thank the gods and Buddhas all over the sky.

Everyone in the audience laughed kindly after hearing this, but Song Guofeng, who laughed the happiest, smiled with tears in his eyes.

It seems that sixteen or seventeen years have passed since this happened, but Song Guofeng never expected that that meeting at that time would change his life.

Then Li Weidong mentioned Chen Gu's brothers who were still little ruffians at the time.

Everyone at the meeting laughed again. The current real estate giant, foreign trade king, home furnishing king, and catering king have been packaged and become an inspirational example of hard work and hard work to change destiny. I did not expect that there is such a history.

Even their younger brother has become a giant in the industry, making people envious and envious. At the same time, they also admire Li Weidong's ability to turn decay into magic.

Li Weidong talked about his resignation from the machinery factory and started a business with a group of brothers. He also talked about how the machine tools and equipment recovered as scrap from Soviet Russia were sold as second-hand equipment.

They talked about how to deceive Zheng Sijing and Zou Yi, who are now the company's directors, presidents and senior executives, talked about how to cut leeks in foreign stock markets, and talked about how to invest in the United States.

He talked about how he accumulated his assets step by step to reach this level.

Finally, he would like to sincerely thank his friends who have followed him along the way and their contributions to this society.

After all, no matter how forward-looking Li Weidong is, many things still need someone to do it concretely.

The companies founded by these friends with the support of Li Weidong are diverse and cover almost all industries.

The development of these companies seems to have also driven the development of the entire domestic industry, and has even become closer to the international leading level in innovation and use in some fields.

Li Weidong has reason to believe that as long as no major changes occur, it will only be a matter of time before we reach the world's leading level.

And this is what Li Weidong is most proud of. Facts have proved that his existence still has some effect. At least under his leadership, many unnecessary twists and turns have been overcome.

At the end of the meeting, Li Weidong said that the company has gradually grown into a modern international company after experiencing exploration and stress testing in recent years.

The company's organizational structure has been improved, the management system has been basically formed, the supervision system has been established, and most of the company's employees identify with the corporate culture and values.

Therefore, Li Weidong finally announced that he would no longer serve as the chairman of the company and start his retirement life on his 40th birthday in a few days.

This announcement did not seem to surprise those present. After all, Li Weidong has actually stopped being involved in the company's specific affairs in the past few years.

But everyone present at the meeting still couldn't accept Li Weidong's resignation as chairman of the company, and seemed to have suddenly lost their spiritual support and reliance.

Finally, at the joint request of all senior executives, Li Weidong still assumed the position of chairman of the company's board of directors, and the board of directors will also implement a rotating chairman system.

Then a helicopter took off from the roof of Xinsheng Building and flew towards the villa in the southern mountainous area.

After several years of renovation, the villas there have been integrated with the surrounding mountains, achieving a harmonious coexistence between man and nature. It is like a landscape painting of a paradise!

Thanks to all readers for their companionship and support along the way, "Rebirth in the Era of Creating Wealth" is over!

The first book I signed, I just made up two million words. There is excitement, pain, regret, and a little bit of pride. But all this has become a thing of the past. We will meet again in the future. I hope there will be less regrets then.

, be more proud!

Thanks again to all readers for their company, and sincerely say: You have worked hard!

(End of chapter)