However, from the first day he met Zhou Dedao, Xu Xincheng also knew another very important thing, that is, they were people from two completely different worlds.

The two live in a dormitory, still bunk beds, the two go to class together, often sit together during class, go to the canteen to eat together after class, and often talk about life and the future together. Although the two have been very close from the beginning and soon became good friends who talk about everything, he knows very well that there is still a big difference between the two, and in the final analysis, the two still belong to two completely different worlds.

He comes from an 8th-tier city and is a penniless young man from a small town, while he grew up in Guangzhou, a first-tier city, and is a wealthy second generation with a solid family.

Xu Xincheng's mind is still very clear, in the past, they lived two completely different lives, and now, it is impossible for him to live the same life as him.

It is impossible for him to be like Zhou Dedao, who sleeps until half past seven on weekdays and until ten o'clock on weekends and holidays; reads novels in class, plays games and TV dramas at night; is careless in studying; only seeks to pass exams; spends money like water pushing sand; and travels all over the world during holidays.

And, every day, he doesn't have to worry about the future.

He only sleeps until six o'clock every day, and he has to get up early to study on weekends and holidays, he must concentrate on class for fear of missing a word from the teacher, study until eleven o'clock at night, concentrate on studying, strive to be excellent in every subject during exams, find a way to find some part-time jobs and earn some pocket money, be careful when spending money, save as much as he can, and go back to his hometown during vacations, and can only continue to earn pocket money part-time, and can only continue to study.

Every day, he is worried about the future, every day, he is constantly improving himself, every day, he is preparing for the future.

However, despite this, the two still became good friends, and Zhou Dedao's desire to become close friends with him was obviously much stronger than him.

This incident puzzled him for a while, and he thought to himself that perhaps, it was precisely because the two of them came from two different worlds, and because of the great difference in their life circumstances, that there was greater complementarity and greater compatibility.

As the friendship between the two deepened, he gradually understood the deeper reason.

In the second half of the semester of freshman year, late one Saturday night, Zhou Dedao invited him to supper, he drank too much, and said drunkly: "Xincheng, you have a lot of advantages that I don't have, and you have a lot of positive energy, I need a good friend and brother like you very much, otherwise, I'm afraid that I will continue to fall, maybe one day I will degenerate into a gentleman who people despise." ”

Later, from several late-night long conversations with Zhou Dedao and several in-depth exchanges with his father, Xu Xincheng learned that he was not a rich second generation since he was a child, he also had a hard life when he was a child, and, more importantly, his conduct was greatly influenced by his father.

After graduating from high school, he came to Guangzhou alone, starting from an ordinary construction worker, becoming a master three years later, a small package foreman three years later, and a big bag foreman three years later, and founded a small construction company, and after three years of hard work, the company developed to a scale of 260 people.

Because their project quality is excellent and the price is reasonable, they can often bid for the bid, and often have projects, but like the vast majority of weak small construction companies, Party A often defaults on their project payments, while Zhou Dashan is very moral, always pays wages to workers on time, and even does not hesitate to borrow money everywhere for this.

Before Zhou Dedao was fifteen years old, their family's life had always been good and bad, and when he was fifteen years old, it was the hardest time for their family.

In order to pay the wages of the workers before the Spring Festival, Zhou Dashan borrowed money everywhere, but it was still far from enough, and he sold the house he had just bought in Guangzhou, but the money was still not enough, and he actually sold the five-story house he had built in his hometown.

During the Spring Festival that year, when they returned to their hometown for the New Year, they spent it in an ancestral house that had been abandoned for nearly ten years, and the house had long been dilapidated and had become a dilapidated house.

However, God finally has an eye, that is, from the Spring Festival of that year, his father finally came to work and his career began to take off.

In those two years, when the central authorities were making great efforts to solve the major social problem of arrears of wages for peasant workers, the news of Zhou Dashan borrowing money to sell houses to pay wages to the workers spread rapidly from their hometowns, and soon spread to the province, and then to the central authorities.

Zhou Dashan sits on a four-legged wooden bench that is about to fall apart, and behind him is his ancestral home, with red-tiled roofs overgrown with weeds, gray brick walls, mottled and dilapidated black wooden doors, creaky windows, and potholes on the concrete floor.

The reporter asked, "Have you ever regretted it?"

He said with a wry smile: "The only thing I regret now is that the house was sold too quickly and did not sell at a good price, otherwise, I could have given my 260 brothers a bigger Spring Festival red envelope." ”

"What are you most worried about right now?"

He replied with a sad face: "What I am most worried about now is that after the start of the New Year, I don't have the money to give everyone a red envelope for starting work." In previous years, I would give everyone a red envelope of 100 yuan to start work. This year, I couldn't even give out red envelopes of 10 yuan per person. ”

This touching picture and his touching words were on CCTV news the next day.

From the day after the news was broadcast, the local township leaders, town leaders, county leaders, city leaders, and even provincial leaders took turns to visit his house to greet the New Year, greet him with warmth, give him New Year's gifts, and also awarded him all kinds of honorary certificates and pennants.

The bosses of the three Party A companies that owed him money for the project were forced to call him personally on the second day of the Lunar New Year to greet him, and at the same time expressed his sincere apologies and promised to pay him the full amount of the arrears before the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.

After the start of the new year, in order to create an honest and trustworthy corporate image of respecting construction workers, hundreds of enterprises took the initiative to invite his company to participate in the project bidding, and his good reputation attracted tens of thousands of construction workers to his company to apply.

As a result, his company has grown rapidly in just a few years and has now grown into a large private construction company with more than 3,000 workers.

Zhou Dashan only studied in high school, but he was very studious, especially like ancient Chinese culture, especially Taoist and Confucian culture, and also liked to study on his own, and developed a set of his own philosophy of life, "Taoist philosophy". What he has always adhered to in his life is the way of life and work that he has summed up by himself.

After Zhou Dedao's introduction and arrangement, Xu Xincheng met with him seven times.

Zhou Dashan likes the mature and stable Xu Xincheng very much, and Xu Xincheng admires him very much, and every time they meet, the two talk happily.

When the two talked, he almost didn't leave the word "Tao" in three sentences. When we met for the first time, he said: "My life creed is: follow the path of virtue and promote virtue." Cultivate oneself with the Tao and govern the business together. ”

This is a life creed that combines Taoism and Confucianism, and Xu Xincheng found it very interesting, even when he had a very good impression of the entrepreneur in front of him who only had a high degree of Chinese.

Later, he learned that in addition to naming his son "Dedao", his company name was also "Dedao", and took the eight words "Respect Virtue and Virtue" as the company's first creed. In addition, he named his daughter "Demei".

His most common words are: "Be a man first, do things second, be kind, and do things authentically." ”

Zhou Dedao's words that he often advises are: "Make more friends with righteous men and gentlemen who walk on the right path, and don't make friends with fox friends and dogs who walk on the evil path." ”

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Zhou Dedao was obviously greatly influenced by his father, but the problem is that he was born to be a very fun-loving person, and he was born to be the kind of person who takes happiness as the first meaning of life, so he can't completely implement his father's "Taoist philosophy".

However, he combined his fun-loving nature and developed his own philosophy of life, which he called the "Philosophy of Happiness".

Zhou Dedao often popularized his "happy philosophy" to his classmates and friends, and he often said: "Be kind, do things authentically, and be thoughtful, only in this way can you be happy, and everyone can be happy."

Later, everyone simply called him "thoughtful" and used Happy as his English name.

Zhou Dedao was very happy to accept the two titles given to him by everyone.

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