Chapter 35: Club Circle (Favorites & Recommendations!)
"IUYCEC? What is that, haven't you heard of? Is it a club at school?"
When Qi Zheng heard that a club invited Tian Yuwei to join, he didn't care. In the United States, clubs are as common as commissaries on the streets, and it is embarrassing to say that you have been to the United States if you don't join a few clubs when you study in the United States.
Tian Yuwei shook his head, "The Evis Club, which means the International Young Chinese Elite United Club, is a global, non-political, independent, and non-profit organization established and operated by elites of Chinese descent in Europe and the United States under the age of 30. There are branches in many schools across the United States, and it is also one of the largest student organizations in New York. ”
From Tian Yuwei's words, Qi Zheng learned three definite news: first, the Evis Club invited Tian Yuwei to join; second, the reunion of the Evis Club will be held in a hotel near the academy; and third, Tian Yuwei also invited him to participate.
As the name of IUYCEC says, it belongs to the elite club, which gathers people who are extremely accomplished in wisdom, wealth, and technology among the young generation of European and American Chinese. The barrier to entry in this circle is very high, you may not be successful now, but you will be a CEO in the future, a corporate executive, some high-level talents, and a successful person in the future.
The people who join this club may be the rich second generation, the children of official families, or the scholarly families, but they are all people who are likely to control a lot of social resources in the future. Tian Yuwei was recommended to join the club when he first entered the school, which is already a very good proof of the problem.
Qi Zheng estimated, and more importantly, Tian Yuwei looked beautiful. After all, having a very talented woman joining the club is undoubtedly an improvement to the overall quality and image of the club.
"Are you sure this isn't a white-eyed wolf?" Qi Zheng didn't have much affection for this kind of "elitist" club.
He felt that he was basically the kind of person who was humble on the outside but proud in his bones.
Of course, the second generation of gentlemen and the rich, and even these people with deep and sharp thoughts are not necessarily arrogant, but there must be a kind of superiority and indifference.
And this feeling of being high up is exactly what he, a person with the soul of a small person in his previous life, feels very ethereal and difficult to capture.
"Recommended by senior sister, I think this club is more motivated......" Tian Yuwei asked lightly, "You don't want me to go in?"
Qi Zheng is just a personal sense, but he doesn't have to ask Tian Yuwei to echo him, and then prevent Tian Yuwei from doing what he wants to do. This is not protection, but a kind of selfishness.
Thinking about it carefully, with Tian Yuwei's identity and ability, it seems natural that she was absorbed into these groups.
"You can do whatever you want, I'm okay with that. Qi Zheng spread his hands.
"I'm not sure, but it's up to you. Tian Yuwei smiled slightly.
She will consider this club, also because of Qi Zheng.
Now that they are coming to her, if she enters, she will naturally be able to meet more interesting people, and then Qi Zheng will also be able to contact these people.
Now Qi Zheng has successfully started his own business and has his own funds. In this club, his thoughts, his ideas, can find people who have similar ideas to him, and he can exchange resources with them to go further.
But if Qi Zheng is not interested in him, Tian Yuwei is not a person who is keen to join certain organizations and thus join certain classes. Sometimes her heart is big, but sometimes it's small, so small that she can be satisfied with two people supporting each other to live in peace.
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Nov. 25 evening, Mind Hotel, New York.
Many young men and women wearing bright dresses and bright costumes are staggered, and most of the women present are dressed fashionably and trendy, because the weather is relatively cold, some of them are covered with coats, wearing underpants and black stockings, and their thin legs are very dazzling, which makes others envious.
In this case, Tian Yuwei, who was dressed in a little black dress, with bright pupils, a slender body, and white legs like jade, naturally became the focus of discussion in the audience.
It seems that Tian Yuwei knows many people, and her circle has grown stronger and stronger after she went abroad, and she has friends in the club, so it is not by chance that she was invited to join.
Many people even looked at Qi Zheng who Tian Yuwei was holding from a distance, as if they were guessing what kind of sacredness this was, and they seemed to know that the two had a close relationship.
Qi Zheng immediately grasped a certain hostility towards him in the eyes of a few boys who looked very kind, and it was interesting in his heart, it seems that Miss Tian is here, and she has admirers very much.
The buffet here is quite sumptuous, with high ceiling lamps, very casual sofas, men and women sitting in the lounge, and the way men and women socialize is like a cocktail venue, you can come and go to meet different social interactions, or you can get together in a circle of people to discuss certain opinions.
All in all, quite free and magnificent.
Someone came to greet the two, and Tian Yuwei accompanied them to introduce them one by one, sometimes smiling lightly, sometimes with bright eyes and bright teeth, which made the boys who came to speak excited. And she just turned a blind eye, but she was glad that Qi Zheng began to integrate into this environment.
Qi Zheng thought, this is the superiority of these high clubs, everyone no matter what they think in their hearts, but the affinity they show can get closer to you in various ways without being obtrusive.
This is not only a social ability, but also an important factor when these people come out of the ivory tower in the outside world.
Is there a circle of entrepreneurs?
Under the circumstance that China's circle culture is prevalent, there is no doubt that the circle generally exists around the entrepreneur, and even his children, the second and third generations of heirs.
In fact, the situation is similar all over the world, and in the interpersonal network of Europe and the United States, the relationship between alumni and alumni is particularly interesting. When you have a certain kind of pedigree from a prestigious school, you naturally join the utilitarian network of the elite school club, and you will have some important social resources in your hands.
"I don't care who you are, I care more about who you're with. This is a mantra of Ningbo businessmen. Entrepreneurs are like pearls, circled into necklaces by various circles. Through one "circle" after another, they achieve the purpose of cultivating contacts, expanding business opportunities or philanthropy.
The most typical example is that after the poisoned milk incident a few years later, in the face of the crisis of Mengniu, Lao Niu "hit it off" with COFCO in order to prevent hostile takeovers by overseas institutions.
In this process, the name Huaxia Entrepreneur Club frequently appeared in the public's field of vision, reaching an unprecedented height.
After Lao Niu sent out a letter of 10,000 words, the members of this club took action, with money and strength, and gave support from different angles, human, material and financial resources, and successfully pulled Mengniu out of the quagmire.
The impact on China's economy cannot be underestimated as the entrepreneur club, which gathered 31 of China's most influential business leaders, economists, and diplomats, such as Ali's Lao Ma, Geely's Lao Li, and Vanke's Lao Wang. Because its members have huge wealth in their hands, and they have senior and high-quality resources across industries.
Think about it, what does it mean for such a group to form an alliance?
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At the end of 2001, when the "Jianghu" alliance of the Huaxia Entrepreneur Club had not yet been established, it was in a foreign country.
Qi Zheng felt a "club" culture of the younger generation in New York, the most densely populated concentration of Chinese in the Western Hemisphere.
Tian Yuwei is also in the inspection period of the Ewais Club, and Qi Zheng, who has always had no good impression of this kind of club, has to admit that the circle formed by the top club is very energetic.
This is like the factions in political officialdom, and there is a clear distinction between the factions of entrepreneurs.
Whether it is the Shanghai Gang, the Beijing Gang, the Zhejiang Gang, the Ning Gang, and other gangs in China that are divided according to the geographical scope, or the major alumni associations and famous school clubs in Europe and the United States according to alumni and clubs, they all gather factions, interest groups, and indispensable circles for entrepreneurs to grow.
Any superior is doing everything possible to close the distance between each other in various ways, in anticipation of forming an alliance.
It takes a team to start a business, and it takes a circle to grow a business - to get resources from it, and all kinds of relationships are an indispensable part of the business field.
Why do many people who have made achievements in government and enterprises want their children to contact, socialize, and even combine with their children at the same level?
Here's why.
Of course, this does not mean that those in high positions must gather in a circle for the sake of interests and resources.
Entrepreneurs, especially successful entrepreneurs, always bear greater loneliness and loneliness behind the glamour, although these loneliness make them more creative and enduring, and can fight their way out of loneliness and dance with the times.
Sometimes they are very tired, and sometimes they are emotionally vulnerable. But he couldn't be released, he was surrounded only by subordinates, not colleagues. This kind of "lonely person" position is so awkward that a person often can't tell what the motives of the people around him are for approaching him.
Will the subordinate who dares to fight have colluded with his opponent in private, will this housekeeper who has served him for more than ten years secretly make a profit, and how many of those men and women who are close to their children are not here for money and power?
There are too many business strongmen who can't bear the loneliness, and in the face of a few achievements and flaws, passively or actively put themselves in the dazzling spotlight, or in the colorless party, to find the thrill of the moment when the moth fights the fire...... The result is often fame and failure, and profit is also lost, or even broken.
The loneliness at the top of the pyramid makes it urgent for them to find a place for people like them to hang out, to find someone who is their equal, so as to obtain equal requirements for friendship and friends to talk to equally.
So in this regard, entrepreneurs have their own circle, which can be said to be more necessary, even sad.
But these are not too impactful and tempting for Qi Zheng, and he seems relatively indifferent.
He is a reborn, or a "superpower".
A prophetic prescience has brought Qi Zheng the power to develop three-dimensional resources in time and space, he can gain insight into the development of time and space, and the source of his resource acquisition channel is not a circle of contacts, but only his own grasp of the pulse of the times.
He was even able to create resources, ignore outside pressures, and hold himself up.
This in itself is a strong strength that surpasses many of the upper echelons.
But those present don't understand. Therefore, Qi Zheng's indifferent performance is a bit dazzling in the eyes of some people.
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