After eating and drinking tea, everyone finally started talking about the main content.

This time, Brother Ma gathered everyone, the purpose is actually very simple, he wants to get a more professional club.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a club that gathers people who are of the same status as him and are more like-minded, and everyone communicates with each other, and then provides some help to each other when necessary. That is, the future famous Jiangnan Association, if nothing else, the Jiangnan Association will be established next year, that is, in 2006.

In fact, at first, Brother Ma wanted to join the Huaxia Entrepreneur Club, and in fact he also joined. But how to say it, there are too many big bulls in there, and today's big brother is not the big brother who "never touches money" later, he is now a relatively famous newcomer, but he is engaged in the Internet of Things career, and he is not the top in China, so the big bulls in the Chinese Entrepreneur Club actually don't look down on him. After all, everyone is in business, you are a young man who started on the Internet, and you can't rank the nouns in terms of seniority, what qualifications do you have to sit with these big people?

As a result, of course, Brother Da Ma was not satisfied.

I want to say here that if you are not satisfied, you are not satisfied, but he himself did not quit the Huaxia Entrepreneur Club, and he did not tear his face and say nonsense like "don't bully the poor youth", he just rarely goes to the club's party, and now he wants to engage in his own Jiangnan Club, looking like he is fighting against the court.

Zhou Fangyuan was on the sidelines to listen to Brother Ma's plan.

In fact, it coincides with some of his plans, he also wants to make a club, but he won't do anything about this and that, it's meaningless, because if you don't make it big, it's better not to do it, but once you get big, because of the attention of the high-level, one will close down and rectify something, basically just make trouble for yourself. His ideal reunion would be to get together casually and have a chat, just like today. The so-called club he made in Beitong was actually mainly prepared for the third uncle, and he was at most a nominal host, just providing a venue and picking himself up as much as possible.

Some similar clubs in China have also invited him, anyway, as long as he is invited, he will join if he feels that there is no problem, people have invited, you don't join this is not to give face, anyway, don't expect him to provide any substantive help, or it is mutual benefit or something, anyway, it is complicated to say, in fact, Zhou Fangyuan is not very willing to go too deep into this kind of industry, he has so far now, basically wandering outside the mainstream circle, anyway, he has become a golden body, and the distant group has a strong ability to absorb money, he doesn't need to please a certain group of people to ask for help or convenience or something。

Speaking of these similar gatherings, in fact, there are quite a few in China, of course, the most famous, there are only a few.

The first to recommend the Taishan Club, which is a circle where the bigwigs in the real sense of the country gather, President Liu Chuanzhi, Chairman Duan Yongji.

Taishan Industrial Research Institute, that is, Taishan Society, was established in 1993, because the inaugural meeting was held in Dalu Province, it was named "Taishan", which is a non-independent legal entity supervised by the domestic private science and technology industrialists association. It is composed of CEOs or chairmen of well-known and influential enterprises in China, and only develops 1 member unit every year, including 15 member units, including Legend Holdings, Sitong Group, Oceanwide Group, Yuanda Group, Fosun Group, Giant Group, etc., and Liu Mouren, president of Legend Holdings, is the chairman and Duan Yongji is the chairman. The Taishan Society is one of the most well-known and mysterious large-scale chambers of commerce in China, and some people even rank it alongside the United States Skull and Bones Association.

Is there any benefit to joining Tarzan? Yes, of course.

For example, in the 90s of the last century, when Mr. Shi was facing the unfinished Giant Building and Giant Computer was sued for illegally pre-installing Microsoft software, Taishan Club, especially Duan Yongji, who was also a member, reached out to Shi Yuzhu to support his comeback by relying on Brain Platinum. At the end of 2003, Duan Yongji's Sitong Group acquired Brain Platinum for 1.2 billion yuan. Later, in 2007, after Shi Yuzhu made a comeback, he came to Beijing to invite friends to organize a symposium. At the symposium, titled "Overcoming Setbacks and Moving to Success", Shi Yuzhu said that when he was at a low point, "Taishan" gave him great spiritual help and experience in starting a new business, "This is an important condition for me to be able to make a comeback." ”

1995, 1996 and 1997 were the most difficult times for Shi Yuzhu, but even so, Shi Yuzhu still participated in the regular meetings of the Taishan Association every year. In addition, Taishan Club has a rule: if members of the formal meeting have difficulties and cannot participate, they need to pay a leave fee of 10,000 yuan. In 2007, Shi Yuzhu was unable to attend the Taishan Club meeting due to the preparation for the company's listing on the NASDAQ in the United States, and he sent someone to send 10,000 yuan for leave.

In Zhou Fangyuan's previous life before his rebirth, in 2013, the treasure island media "Next Magazine" reported that the 16 members of the mainland super-rich club "Taishan Club" celebrated the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Taishan Club on Treasure Island under the leadership of Liu Chuanzhi, the president and founder of Lenovo Group, a global computer leader. At that time, the Baodao media were also taken aback by the energy of this mysterious organization: the members of the Taishan Society, all of whom were among the top 100 richest people in the mainland, had total business assets several times more than the total budget of the local government of Baodao, and had a wealth of more than 2 trillion soft sister coins.

The Taishan Club behind Shi Yuzhu and Liu Chuanzhi and others is famous, but it is rarely reported.

The main reason is that the members have agreed from the beginning: no recording, no recording, no inviting local leaders, and no external publicity. According to Liu Chuanzhi, Taishan will not talk about any business operation and industry situation at the meeting, but only talk about the general situation of the country, "Taishan Society" regular gatherings, it is said that those who cannot arrive, need to ask for leave, a fine of 200,000 yuan. According to Liu Chuanzhi, Brother Da Ma has been fined the most! In fact, it can be seen from here that Brother Da Ma is not very keen on this kind of thing, but when you reach a certain height, there are many things that you can't avoid.

200,000 is nothing, but if you don't participate in the event all the time, what will other bosses think, and over time, you will lose your own face. But even so, Brother Ma still didn't go, and even if he was fined, he didn't participate in the event much, why, he was still unhappy. It's very simple, it's all old seniority, Brother Ma is such a newcomer, he is not a top existence in the Internet circle, and it's normal to be despised or something. If it was Brother Ma in the past, he might have endured more, but now that Ali is basically stable, Brother Ma is gradually reluctant to look at the faces of those people.

Taishan Club is the top rich businessman gathering in China, but there are still gatherings of the same level, such as the Big D Club.

The "Big D Club" is such a wealthy organization - the core members are Zheng Yutong of the "shark gall" New World, and Zhang Songqiao, chairman of Zhongyu Land of "Chongqing Li Ka-shing". Lau Luen-hung, Chairman of Chinese Estates, Ho Chu-kwok, Chairman of Sing Tao News Group, Yip Tak-chuen, Executive Director of Cheung Kong Asset, Yeung Shou-shing, Chairman of Emperor Group, Cheung Song-kiu, Chairman of China Chongqing Land, and the richest man Xu Jiayin, who everyone is familiar with.

In March 2008, Evergrande Real Estate issued an announcement on the website of the Hong Kong Island Stock Exchange, announcing the failure of the listing. Previously, Evergrande had 37 projects across the country, and at that time, there were 33 projects under construction of 9.06 million square meters, with a funding gap of 12 billion to 15 billion yuan. That was the most difficult period for Xu Jiayin, that is, the time when Xu Jiayin asked Wang Shi for help but could not. In the end, it was Zheng Yutong who rescued Xu Jiayin. Evergrande's prospectus disclosed that in June 2008, Zheng Yutong bought a 3.9% stake in Evergrande through its Chow Tai Fook, spending about US$150 million, and Zheng Yutong's investment also led to investment institutions such as the Kuwait Investment Authority, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, which jointly spent US$506 million to invest in Evergrande, solving Evergrande's coal burning emergency.

And the friendship between Zheng Yutong and Xu Jiayin is said to have been hoeed out by "Hoe Big D".

At that time, Xu Jiayin was in a hurry to move the rescue soldiers to Hong Kong, and in order to gain Zheng Yutong's trust, he had to have dinner with Zheng once a week and went to Zheng's house to play cards. He played hoe D with Zheng Yutong, played landlord fight with Zheng Kar-chun, and sometimes played late at night with a big card addiction.

In addition, the interests of the members of the entire "Big D Society" are extremely firmly bound. In April 2008, Cheng Yu-tung's Chow Tai Fook Group signed a joint development agreement with two subsidiaries of Evergrande to jointly develop projects in Foshan and Jiangcheng. Chow Tai Fook Group provided a 10-year loan of RMB483 million and a 6-year loan of RMB272 million to a subsidiary of Evergrande. After deducting costs, the benefits will be shared by Chow Tai Fook and Evergrande in a ratio of 6:4.

In addition, in 2010, Evergrande received a "blood transfusion" of 600 million US dollars from Liu Luanxiong, one of the members of the Big D Club. In 2015, Evergrande spent 33.9 billion yuan to take over nine projects under Zheng Yutong in eight major cities in the mainland. In addition, in 2015, Xu Jiayin also took over more than 20 billion yuan of real estate assets such as Liu Luanxiong and Zhang Songqiao, members of the "Big D Club". In December 2015, Evergrande issued US$1.5 billion in perpetual convertible securities, and the members of the Big D Club once again cheered. Cheng Yu-Tung subscribed US$900 million through New World and Chow Tai Fook subscribed US$330 million with another independent investor. Zhang Songqiao's Zhongyu Land subscribed for the remaining $170 million and so on.

Unlike the Taishan Society, the big D will be more philistine and practical, of course, the forced grid will inevitably decline a little, and it will not be like the Taishan Society.

Further back, there is the Huaxia Alumni Association.

In March 2013, a bus appeared in Lin'an and was called the "most valuable bus" in history, when Brother Da Ma sat in the position of the conductor, and Li Yanhong, Gu Yongqiang, Liu Yonghao, Wang Jianlin, Feng Lun, Guo Guangchang, Li Dongsheng and other bigwigs were seated. Netizens also joked: "Master driver, don't be nervous." "In fact, this is just an ordinary gathering of the Huaxia Alumni Association. The Huaxia Alumni Association is a low-key and slightly mysterious organization made up of bigwigs who have studied in the CEO classes of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and China Europe Business School, and they meet twice a year, led by a classmate. It is rumored that students who cannot attend the event will be fined, and all the money will go to the Huaxia Charity Foundation.

In fact, in the vast network of interpersonal relationships, the relationship between "alumni" and "alumni" is particularly interesting and 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. Therefore, after joining the Huaxia Alumni Association, every member of the Huaxia Alumni Association has more senior and high-quality resources across industries.

The most typical example is that after the melamine incident, in the face of the crisis of Mengniu, Niu Gensheng issued a letter of 10,000 words at the alumni reunion, in order to prevent hostile takeovers by overseas institutions, Liu Chuanzhi convened the board of directors of Legend Holdings overnight, and within 48 hours, 200 million yuan was transferred to the account of the Lao Niu Foundation. After hearing the news, Yu Minhong of New Oriental didn't say a word, and quickly sent 50 million yuan. Jiang Nanchun, chairman of Focus Media, also prepared 50 million yuan for the Lao Niu Foundation. Fu Chengyu, general manager of CNOOC, called, and CNOOC prepared 250 million yuan, and at the same time sent people to the company to understand the situation, when it needs to be taken and when it is needed.

Tian Suning, Da Ma, Guo Guangchang, Yu Feng, Wang Yusuo, etc. have all called, and they can reach out to help anytime and anywhere. Hong Kong's Ou Yaping contacted Wang Bing and other Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business students in China to buy Mengniu shares to support and increase the stock price. It can be seen that the top students in China control the development of the country's market economy to a certain extent.

This point is not much different from the alumni association in the United States.

As mentioned earlier, some of the admissions policies of the University of the United States have many admission places from their parents. The parents of these students are students, and when they become famous, they donate money to the school and participate in various activities, so that their children can easily enter school. In the future, when these children grow up, they will be more likely to succeed, and they will pass on the alumni relationship from generation to generation, just like their parents.

Finally, there is the Huaxia Entrepreneur Club. The club was established in 2006 with Liu Chuanzhi as its chairman, and its members include Wang Shi, Ma Weihua, Da Malaysia, Guo Guangchang, Wang Jianlin, Niu Gensheng, Zhu Xinli, Yu Minhong, Li Shufu, Li Dongsheng, Feng Lun and others. It's a circle with a lot of activity. Entrepreneurs often get together to "go crazy", and Malaysia has also complained and complained, and Yu Minhong drank too much and stood on the table and sang, which are all common scenes in the club. Emotional venting and emotional support can be satisfied in this circle.

Of course, it is not easy to become a member of the circle, and it must be unanimously approved by the existing board members. In other words, entrepreneurs who want to join must have a good reputation, and even one person in the circle who opposes it cannot pass.

So the power of this club is also very strong, but it's a pity that Brother Da Ma is still not very valued in this club, of course, no one is really stupid enough to despise him, even if he thinks so in his heart, he can't do it on his face, it's too ugly, and he has no bearing at all. But then again, there is no need to despise you on the surface, as long as the behavior reveals a little bit of this meaning, everyone is a smart person, who can not feel it. Brother Ma wants to get the Jiangnan Club, in the final analysis, because he is not happy in other clubs.

No matter what, he is also a boss in size, and Ali's development is also benign, but because he is too young, he can't fit in. So since this is the case, it is better to take it out and do it alone, he gathered Zhou Fangyuan and his group together, because everyone knew each other in Weimo, and they should be the most supportive of him.